From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #61 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, February 22 2007 Volume 16 : Number 061 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: I'm Just a Girl... [Tom Clark ] Jay Farrar, real ultimate ninja ["natalie jacobs" ] a little bit of John Cale [Jill Brand ] Re: I'm Just a Girl... [Steve Talkowski ] Re: Elvis Costello [Rex ] Re: allmusic.com mention [Rex ] Re: a little bit of John Cale [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Elvis Costello vs. John Cale! Let the death-match begin! [The Great Quail] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #59 [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] for PacMan fans [Jill Brand ] Re: Elvis Costello vs. John Cale! Let the death-match begin! [Rex ] Re: Elvis Costello vs. John Cale! Let the death-match begin! [Rex ] Re: Fellow Fegs ! ["Stacked Crooked" ] Tonight's Final Jeopardy? ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #60 [Rex ] Re: Fellow Fegs ! [Rex ] Re: Fellow Fegs ! ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:04:04 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: I'm Just a Girl... On Feb 21, 2007, at 1:46 PM, Steve Talkowski wrote: >> Any feg lay claim to a major award? Grammy? Oscar? Merit badge? > > I animated on the 1998 Academy Award Winning Best Animated Short > Film "Bunny" > > Wow, it's actually up on youTube: > > http://youtube.com/watch?v=I9aa-xSRvsk > > Music by Tom Waits. So do you get a statue or certificate or something for that? - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:18:36 -0600 From: "natalie jacobs" Subject: Jay Farrar, real ultimate ninja > i must say that i was fairly disappointed with *Sunken Treasure* -- save > for the last few songs, when he brought in other musicians ("Airline To > Heaven" was just about jaw-dropping-ly good). I have the DVD, but I'm afraid to watch it because I'm apparently in it. (I attended the Portland and San Francisco shows, and when we talked to the camera guy afterwards, he assured us there were "lots of audience shots." Gaahhh.) i'm *also* not > overly fond of the new wilco songs they played on tour last autumn. Nor am I. Unless the songs are drastically re-worked, I'm afraid the next album's going to be pretty disappointing. The second Loose Fur album (the side project consisting of Jeff Tweedy, Jim O'Rourke, and Wilco's drummer Glenn Kotche) was a little disappointing too, but still better than the new Wilco stuff. but i am very excited for wilco to tour again. I was lucky enough to see them in San Antonio in October. I'd been thinking of going back to Portland after my apprenticeship here in Austin didn't work out, but I'm glad I stuck around, because the show was great. (I also found a new apprenticeship.) I mean, I had no idea just *how* different they > were going to get, and they've been so often spectacular that I'm loathe > to > complain (and besides which Jay Farrarr hasn't really deeply interested me > for a while), but in the early going, SV was, like, *the* no-nonsense > great > band of its day. I really loved Uncle Tupelo and the first SV album for a long time (the other SV albums are a tad samey for my taste). But I've found lately that I'm getting pretty sick of Jay Farrar's humorless, clench-jawed faux-"working man" shtick. Listening to some of that early Tupelo stuff makes me cringe - this middle-class Midwestern kid singing about how tough it is workin' down in the coal mines. The thing that bugs me about a lot of alt-country - and I think Farrar is one of the folks responsible - is this huge emphasis on "authenticity" and "honesty" when in fact a lot of it isn't authentic or honest at all - it's just as much of a shtick as anything else in show business. Phooey. Give me Neko Case any day. n. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:22:49 -0500 (EST) From: Jill Brand Subject: a little bit of John Cale Tomorrow I will be showing my ESL class a movielet that Jonathan Demme made from Kurt Vonnegut's (no, he is not dead, Eddie Tews) short story "Who Am I This Time", which I had them read this week. John Cale wrote the music. Jill ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:32:00 -0500 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: I'm Just a Girl... On Feb 22, 2007, at 5:04 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > On Feb 21, 2007, at 1:46 PM, Steve Talkowski wrote: > >>> Any feg lay claim to a major award? Grammy? Oscar? Merit badge? >> >> I animated on the 1998 Academy Award Winning Best Animated Short >> Film "Bunny" >> >> Wow, it's actually up on youTube: >> >> http://youtube.com/watch?v=I9aa-xSRvsk >> >> Music by Tom Waits. > > So do you get a statue or certificate or something for that? Only the director, Chris Wedge, came home with an actual Oscar trophy. Though, we all got to take pictures with it. I'll never forget that Oscar night - i had just moved into a new apartment down in the East Village with two fellow Blue Sky-ers and we hosted an Oscar party with about 70 co-workers and friends crammed into our place (we were still in minimal furniture stage) Everyone went ape-shit when it was announced that we had won. Very inspiring and fun to watch our leader accept the award with a touching and down- to-earth acceptance speech. Oh yeah, the snooty, yuppie Wall St. types down the hall finally showed us art-geeks some respect after that weekend. ;) Incidentally, this year's Oscar marks another nomination for a Blue Sky animation director - fellow animator/director Mike Thurmeier, along with Chris Renaud are nominated for Short Film (Animated) for "No Time For Nuts", which was done for the Ice Age 2 DVD release. http://www.oscars.com/nominees/? pn=detail&nominee=NoTimeForNutsShortFilmAnimatedNominee - -Steve (nominated for an Annie award a few years ago for my Quaker "Three Bears" spot: http://homepage.mac.com/stevetalkowski/ myPortfolio/QUAKER_BEARS.htm) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:39:21 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Elvis Costello On 2/22/07, The Great Quail wrote: > > Rex writes, > > > The recently-mentioned John Cale, perhaps? But point well taken > > I do not believe that John Cale is in the same League of Diversity as the > likes of Costello, Bowie, or Zappa. I mean, Costello has done new-wave > punk, > rock and roll, country, blues, New Orleans blues, lounge and easy > listening, > jazz of all kinds, cabaret, musical theater, Irish, classical song cycles; > not to mention having written orchestral music and collaborated with > everyone from Brian Eno to the Brodsky Quartet. I think Cale has done just about damned near all of that-- maybe not literally the Brodsky, but numerous comparable outfits. You might point out that Bob Newirth is no Bacharach, but Bacharach is also no Lou Reed. Pull up Cale's discography and you can practically check off the genres you mention for Costello one by one, honest, and it's made that much more impressive by the fact that Cale doesn't just "dabble" in classical or experimental music; he's a master of those forms and returns to them again and again. If you put Cale's whole recorded output on an iPod on "shuffle", I'd wager it'd come out sounding like a bigger bunch of completely different artists than Bowie's, if only by a hair. Plus, half of what we think of as experimental music in general was invented by Cale & friends long before Costello got started. He's also done a record backed by Little Feat, and there's the small matter of his having, erm, been in the Velvet Undergound. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:45:03 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: allmusic.com mention On 2/22/07, ken ostrander wrote: > > > whenever my daughter requests chocolate for her milk, it sounds a little > too much like "talk shit". For some reason, the 4-year old always says "chocoLOTtay", as in the Spanish pronunciation. We live in LA, I guess is why. Just found out the 6-year old has pneumonia. Kinda freaking out here. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:48:43 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: a little bit of John Cale - -- Jill Brand is rumored to have mumbled on 22. Februar 2007 17:22:49 -0500 regarding a little bit of John Cale: > Tomorrow I will be showing my ESL class a movielet that Jonathan Demme > made from Kurt Vonnegut's (no, he is not dead, Eddie Tews) short story > "Who Am I This Time", which I had them read this week. John Cale wrote > the music. Ah, I was just freaked out by the IMDb makeover! Anyway, interesting, I'd never heard of that. And it's with Susan Sarandon and Christopher Walken! Talking about Jonathan Demme, what did everybody else think about "Heart Of Gold"? It just played here and only for one week, but better late than never. I enjoyed it much more than I had anticipated. For the last few years I'd not been in a real Neil Young phase (a few years back I hardly listened to anything else), but the film brought it all back. Several moments actually brought tears to my eyes. Sebastian ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:59:26 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Jay Farrar, real ultimate ninja On 2/22/07, natalie jacobs wrote: > > But I've found lately that > I'm getting pretty sick of Jay Farrar's humorless, clench-jawed > faux-"working man" shtick. Listening to some of that early Tupelo stuff > makes me cringe - this middle-class Midwestern kid singing about how tough > it is workin' down in the coal mines. The thing that bugs me about a lot > of > alt-country - and I think Farrar is one of the folks responsible - is this > huge emphasis on "authenticity" and "honesty" when in fact a lot of it > isn't > authentic or honest at all - it's just as much of a shtick as anything > else > in show business. I gave it a pass, and grandfather it to this day, because I think he was singing what moved him, non-cynically. The sentiments above could almost exactly be applied to the early Bob Dylan-- and indeed, a lotta subsequent crappy music and be blamed on Dylan in general and those tendencies in particular. But the older work of both artists still holds up for me; I've been ignoring newer Farrar material for a few years, and meanwhile new, good Dylan music is actually intentionally funny, so there is that. Phooey. Give me Neko Case any day. No argument there, although I'm sure there are those who bitch about her faux-authenticity too. I do really feel we're in the third or fourth generation of regnerated spooky-rootsiness... I mean, there's a palpable spark of "authenticity" on FOX CONFESSOR when Garth Hudson plays, but the Band themselves were upstart revivalists when they appeared. I think I'm talking in circles now, though... if not some kind of infinitely diminishing Spiral of Authenticity. It should also be noted that there's more than a bit of showbiz in the oldest of old country and mountain tunes, so the alt-country snobbishness thing is false five ways to Sunday, really. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:08:08 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Elvis Costello vs. John Cale! Let the death-match begin! Rex writes, > Plus, half of what we think of as experimental music in general was invented > by Cale & friends long before Costello got started. Hey now. I am actually a John Cale fan, and a *huge* Velvet Underground fan, so I appreciate your enthusiasm. (Though there's no way I consider Cale to be Costello's equal in terms of *songwriting,* but I can understand it may be a matter of taste.) But to claim that Cale was instrumental in inventing "half" of all "experimental" music is just pure hyperbole. Granted, he played a significant role during a certain critical period of rock development, but it's not like he was around with Varese, Cage, Boulez, Berio, Stockhausen, Ligeti, Xenakis, and so on...or even the Beatles for that matter.... - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:14:27 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #59 > >Anyfeg lay claim to a major award? Grammy? Oscar? Merit badge? > >A guy named Tim Skotak used to work at Fanuc Robotics were I work, he >left in 1992. >His two cousins that lived in LA won multiple Oscars for making >miniature models in the days before they were made obsolete by CGI. I >think they won for The Abyss and maybe one of the Terminators, as they >worked for James Cameron a lot. Interesting note about the the two >Skotak's out in LA, their mom was DC Fontana who wrote numerous scripts >for the original Star Trek series as well as having other duties with >Star Trek. That's the closest I can claim. back to the degrees of separation thing? If so, I can claim knowing Simon O'Connor, who memorably mimed singing to a dead fish in "Heavenly Creatures" (dir. Peter Jackson) As to personal awards and things, I did win what is now known as a Sir Julius Vogel Award (though when I won it it wasn't called that) - see , and was fan guest of honour at a New Zealand national science fiction convention. I can also claim an ISBN - 0-908-63436-6 James - -- James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:51:18 -0500 (EST) From: Jill Brand Subject: for PacMan fans I'm not one, but all the PM people I know went berserk over this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=05Xk02UG7Yc I can't seem to do anything constructive tonight. I'm drinking red wine and surfing youtube. Sad. Jill ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:04:44 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Elvis Costello vs. John Cale! Let the death-match begin! On 2/22/07, The Great Quail wrote: > > Rex writes, > > > Plus, half of what we think of as experimental music in general was > invented > > by Cale & friends long before Costello got started. > > Hey now. I am actually a John Cale fan, and a *huge* Velvet Underground > fan, > so I appreciate your enthusiasm. (Though there's no way I consider Cale to > be Costello's equal in terms of *songwriting,* but I can understand it may > be a matter of taste.) > > But to claim that Cale was instrumental in inventing "half" of all > "experimental" music is just pure hyperbole. Granted, he played a > significant role during a certain critical period of rock development, but > it's not like he was around with Varese, Cage, Boulez, Berio, Stockhausen, > Ligeti, Xenakis, and so on...or even the Beatles for that matter.... Well, okay. It'd've made more sense to talk about the strains of experimental music that've had the most impact on rock and related fields. And even there you've got me on the Beatles. But I still think that Cale's impact on experimental rock noises can't be overstated, and he does seem to be able to exist simultaneous with rock and the "serious music" worlds in a way that few can (Zappa being another exception, of course). I was assuming you didn't know that much about the finer points of the man's non-VU doings, since easily 3/4 of what you cited as genres explored by Costello and not Cale were in fact well-travelled by Cale. (Did Jeffrey make some comment on this that only made it halfway to the list? Apologies if it was all redundant.) > (Though there's no way I consider Cale to > be Costello's equal in terms of *songwriting,* but I can understand it may > be a matter of taste.) Well, I always have to describe Cale's songwriting (lyrically at least) as "underrated", which is not something anyone ever says about Elvis Costello, so obviously your opinion is the norm-- and you're not going to hear me disparaging Costello's songwriting, either, of course. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:19:41 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Elvis Costello vs. John Cale! Let the death-match begin! Re the subject line: No way - I love 'em both! - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:21:59 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #60 >Nope. Didn't we have a thread about Albums Not Including Their Own Title >Track recently? There was briefly a Wikipedia page on this subject (I know, I started it and added quite a bit to it, but it was deemed too "Unencyclopedic", so it was deleted. The full list from that page, which I just happen to have stored, is: *Absolutely Free by Frank Zappa. A track with this name appears on Zappa's album We're Only In It For The Money, released directly after Absolutely Free. *Almost Blue by Elvis Costello. Costello had intended his 1981 album to be a collection of somber ballads of all styles, and titled it after a piano ballad he had written. When he decided to make the album a collection of country covers instead, the song was dropped, although the album's title was retained. The song "Almost Blue" would appear on his next album, Imperial Bedroom. *August and Everything After by Counting Crows. The song "August and Everything After" which named and illustrated the cover for the Crows's first CD in 1993 was never officially recorded by the band and was played live for the first time in Dec 12th, 2003. *Black Earth by Arch Enemy (band). A track called Black Earth was recorded for their second album, Stigmata. *Brain Salad Surgery by Emerson, Lake and Palmer. The song "Brain Salad Surgery" appears on Works Volume 2. *Bring It On by Gomez. The song "Bring It On" appears on the follow-up album Liquid Skin *Born Sandy Devotional by The Triffids. The song "Born Sandy Devotional" appears on In The Pines. *The Colour and the Shape by Foo Fighters. The track was later released as a B-side for "Monkey Wrench". *Colour by Numbers by Culture Club. The track was issued as a B-side. *Cucumber Castle by The Bee Gees. The track was released on the album Bee Gees 1st in 1967 (Cucumber Castle was released in 1970). *Dry by P.J. Harvey. The song "Dry" appears the album Rid of Me. *Especially For You by The Smithereens. A song with that title does appear on their next album, Green Thoughts. *Everything Sucks by Reel Big Fish came out on the following album, Turn the Radio Off. *Fleetwood Mac by Fleetwood Mac. The instrumental track "Fleetwood Mac" was recorded in 1967 but did not feature on the band's eponymous debut album the following year. In 1975 the band released another self-titled album, but the track did not appear on that either. It did appear on a compilation The Original Fleetwood Mac in 1971. *Frances the Mute by The Mars Volta. The song was recorded and later released as a B-side of the "Widow" single. *Frank's Wild Years by Tom Waits. The song, which appeared on the 1983 album Swordfishtrombones, germinated into a play produced in 1986. The album was released in 1987. In 1995, artist Jesse Richards released a film with the same title. *Glittering Prize by Simple Minds. Even though the band's greatest hits album was named after the song "Glittering Prize", that song was not included on the album. *Gossip by Paul Kelly. This was on the original vinyl version of this double album, but was initially left off the album when it was released on CD as a single disc. *Houses of the Holy by Led Zeppelin. The song appeared on the double album Physical Graffiti. *If You Want Blood You've Got It by AC/DC. The song "If You Want Blood (You've Got It)" appeared in the next album, Highway to Hell and a different version appeared later on Volts. *Imperial Bedroom by Elvis Costello. The song "Imperial Bedroom" ended up getting dropped from the album's final running order, though it did appear as the B-side of the "Man Out of Time" single. *The Kids Are Alright by The Who. The song of this title did appear in the retrospective documentary movie (of which this album was the soundtrack), but did not appear on the album. *Last of the Ghetto Astronauts by Matthew Good Band. The song appeared on a previously released demo compilation called 15 Hours on a September Thursday. *Let Go by Avril Lavigne. The song "Let Go" was recorded as a demo, but never officially released. Worth noting is that the original title of the album was Anything But Ordinary, but Lavigne reportedly changed it slightly just before releasing it. *The Life Pursuit by Belle & Sebastian. The song of this title is included on the 2006 CD single "The Blues Are Still Blue". *Losing Streak by Less Than Jake, which was later released on B-Side and Vinyl compilation "Goodbye Blue & White". *Midnite Vultures by Beck. This song was released on one of the album's singles, "Nicotine and Gravy". *North by Elvis Costello. Though some import versions of Costello's 2003 album contained the title track, in the US, it was only available as an exclusive internet download. *One Foot in the Grave by Beck. This song appeared on his album Stereopathic Soul Manure. *Out of the Silent Planet by King's X. This song appears on their second album Gretchen Goes to Nebraska. *The Principal of Evil Made Flesh by Cradle of Filth. The track with this title appeared on the album Bitter Suites to Succubi. *Pump Up The Valuum by NOFX. This song was originally going to be on the album, but got cut, and ended up on 45 or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough to Go on Our Other Records. *Queen Elvis by Robyn Hitchcock. The song was on Hitchcock's album Eye. *Recurring Dream by Crowded House. The song was released as part of the soundtrack of the film Rikky and Pete. *Safe as Milk by Captain Beefheart. The song appeared on the later album Strictly Personal. *Screamadelica by Primal Scream. The song featured instead on the Dixie-Narco EP. *Sheer Heart Attack by Queen. The song was planned for the 1974 album, but was not recorded at the time due to lack of finances. It eventually appeared on the 1977 release, News of the World. *Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins. Released as a B-side of the "Disarm" single. *Swagger by Flogging Molly. Released on their 2002 album Drunken Lullabies. *They Might Be Giants, the self-titled debut album by They Might Be Giants. Their eponymous song appeared on their third album, Flood. *'Til We're Dead by Eskobar. The track appeared in demo form on the album There's Only Now. *True Colours by Split Enz. The song was a B-side, and did not appear on an album until a live version appeared on the 1992 compilation Oddz and Enz. *Turn the Radio Off by Reel Big Fish. This song appeared on their 2005 release, We're Not Happy 'til You're Not Happy. *Waiting for the Sun by the Doors. The album was released in 1968, but the song wouldn't be released until the 1969 album, Morrison Hotel. *World Shut Your Mouth by Julian Cope. The song was on Cope's later album, Saint Julian. Mr MacManus appears several times. Our Robyn appears once. James - -- James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:44:09 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #60 On 2/22/07, grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > > > Mr MacManus appears several times. Our Robyn appears once. Aw, "Black Snake Diamond Rock / Role" is such a near miss... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:42:04 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Elvis Costello vs. John Cale! Let the death-match begin! On 2/22/07, 2fs wrote: > > Re the subject line: No way - I love 'em both! Well, clearly, it'd be a tag team thing... Elvis and John vs. Lou and... I dunno, Nick Lowe or somebody. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:01:17 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #60 On 2/22/07, grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > > > *One Foot in the Grave by Beck. This song appeared on his album > Stereopathic Soul Manure. Should you or anyone else ever put together a similar list of "Most Frequently Misspelled Titles," you might want to include this one: it's actually _Stereopathetic Soul Manure_. (Other nominees: "Entertainmen" by Sam Phillips, and "Having a Wonderful Time, Wish You Were Her" by her ex-spouse T-Bone Burnett) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:11:23 -0800 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Re: Fellow Fegs ! whoa -- thanks for the tip! this is, in my estimation, the first great record of '07. arcade fire, of montreal, bloc party, jesse sykes, ghost-stories, and kristin hersh all have merit ...but i wouldn't call them "great". still haven't listened to the menomena record a second time, however. what am i missing? recently downloaded two more great ones from '06, by the way -- viz., the puppini sisters and golden earring -- further cementing last year's position in the all-time-rock-years hierarchy. i downloaded the former just because i thought the name was pretty cool. i was already in love with it by the time "Heart Of Glass" came on; so that number elevated it into the category of "awe-inspiring". and i've no idea why i downloaded the latter -- i suppose because i enjoy their 1977 live record so much, although i certainly wouldn't have guessed they'd still be as good thirty years later -- but it's got some phenomenal playing on it. i'd add *Santa Monica '72* (which is, in fact, my favourite bowie album) and *Space Oddity*. so he's said. he's also said he wrote "Balloon Man" for the bangles, and "My Wife And My Dead Wife" for sinatra. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:29:23 -0500 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Tonight's Final Jeopardy? Can someone out wst or someone who watched it give me the info on what the Final Jeopardy question and answer were tonight? A response off list is fine. Thanks, Max _________________________________________________________________ Win a Zunemake MSN. your homepage for your chance to win! http://homepage.msn.com/zune?icid=hmetagline ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:36:09 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #60 On 2/22/07, 2fs wrote: > > > Should you or anyone else ever put together a similar list of "Most > Frequently Misspelled Titles," you might want to include this one: it's > actually _Stereopathetic Soul Manure_. > > (Other nominees: "Entertainmen" by Sam Phillips, and "Having a Wonderful > Time, Wish You Were Her" by her ex-spouse T-Bone Burnett) My favorite ever, and indeed one of my favorite album titles, is The Mekons' "The Quality of Mercy Is Not Strnen". - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:48:33 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Fellow Fegs ! On 2/22/07, Stacked Crooked wrote: > > far, it almost reminds me why I ever gave a shit. Hold on, the track with > Barlow on lead vocals just came on, and now it *totally* reminds me why I > ever gave a shit.> > > whoa -- thanks for the tip! this is, in my estimation, the first great > record of '07. It made my coworkers ask me to "turn it down just a little bit", which is, somewhat amazingly, a first, and must mean I liked it pretty well myself. recently downloaded two more great ones from '06, by the way -- viz., the > puppini sisters and golden earring -- further cementing last year's > position in the all-time-rock-years hierarchy. Is that like a new Golden Earring album? Hadn't heard about that. I should tell the g/f about that; she actually has an old demo with GE as her backing band (she made me guess who the band was and I never would've gotten it right)... kinda been wondering about them ever since that. > so he's said. he's also said he wrote "Balloon Man" for the bangles, and > "My Wife And My Dead Wife" for sinatra. Oh oh oh... with my Bangles connection, am I now three degrees from Robyn? Or does "wrote a song for" not count for much, seeing as how I could write a song for McGuinn to sing right now, and I don't think it would make me blood brothers with Gene Clark or anything. Strange coincidence, I was just listening to the Bangles' debut album today, featuring a rather green and pleasant Kimberley Rew composition-- it's hard not to hear "Going Down to Liverpool" without thinking, you know, this is quite a bit better than "Walking On Sunshine". - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:14:34 -0500 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: Fellow Fegs ! Hi Fegs, Rex says: > Oh oh oh... with my Bangles connection, am I now three degrees from Robyn? Last night I remembered that I might be one degree from Robyn (although in my head it's more like ken's zero degrees believe me) as I once went on a date with Deni Bonet's ex-husband / manager. The only thing I was inclined to ask about Robyn was whether he was vegetarian. xo Lauren - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #61 *******************************