From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #69 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, February 25 2007 Volume 16 : Number 069 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Oscar time [2fs ] The Cure (0% Minnesota Vikings or Ohio State Football content) RE: allmusic.com mention [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Costello Top 5 [michaeljbachman@comcast.net] Walrus Gumbo ["John Irvine" ] Re: Costello Top 5 ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Black Snake Diamond Role T-Shirt? ["Bri N" ] Re: Walrus Gumbo [2fs ] Re: Oscar time [2fs ] Beyond Belief [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: Costello Top 5 [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #68 [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Fuck me baby, I'm (on) a trolleybus! ["Stewart Russell" ] Re: Costello Top 5 ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Oscar time ["Stewart C. Russell" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:07:18 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Oscar time On 2/24/07, Miles Goosens wrote: > > On 2/24/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > and "Little Miss Sunshine" > > (quite bad but fairly watchable considering how bad I thought it was.) > > I wouldn't go as far as "bad" but I was rather expecting to enjoy > LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE mightily, and only ended up at "it's OK." Good > acting, some interesting things to communicate about family and > relationships, and... I dunno, it didn't move me. It's on my Netflix queue - although I'm hearing decidedly mixed things about it. Ah well - "okay" is okay. Last Netflix movie watched - _Batman: The Movie_ (1966) - amusingly, since I could swear someone here just quoted the punchline to that genius scene with the enormous bomb ("Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb"). I blame Sufjan Stevens. I'm pretty sure it's okay to blame Sufjan for just about everything. (Actually, I rather like his stuff - but speaking of "getting blowjobs from the press," geez...) > Just watched on DVD and enjoyed thoroughly: 2006's pair of magician > movies, THE ILLUSIONIST and THE PRESTIGE. More synchronicity (only this time, with lutes!): I just ran into some reference elsewhere to these and so put them on the NfxQ (my new abbreviation that'll catch on bigtime with crazy text-messaging kids cuz I'm way influential in that demographic, or so I hear). Speaking of lutes, I did hear a version of "I Want You Back" (Jackson 5) arranged for 9 ukuleles the other night... > > have to say that Penelope Cruz blew me away in > > "Volver" and I am thankful for directors such as Almodovar who will > > keep actresses like Ms. Cruz acting their butts off until 70 at least. > > You do know that Ms. Cruz is acting a prosthetic butt off in VOLVER, > right? I'm sure it's being sold on eBay as we speak (probably to Andy H. - injoke for Miles...) > that David Lynch movie that didn't fucking run here > > INLAND EMPIRE is coming here in early March Same here (in Milwaukee). As per my usual lameness, I probably won't see it in theaters...and instead will wait for it to show up on my - yep, that's right, my NfxQ. > > Lynch-related thing likely to happen in 2007 is the release of Season > Two of TWIN PEAKS on DVD. Everyone remembers the sluggish start of > that season, and I could live a happy life without ever seeing Ben > Horne's seemingly endless Civil War reenactment again, but few seem to > remember how good the second half of the season was, when Lynch/Frost > retook the reigns more tightly. Yep. I ordered my copy the day I saw it was coming out. That way, I don't even have to put it on my - oh never mind. > > Scariest TWIN PEAKS moment: Nothing to do with BOB. It was James' > falsetto singing voice. Easily. I sincerely hope that everyone involved with the show regarded the horrifying puppy-love bit surrounding that voice's yawling as an insanely bad parody. God I hope so anyway. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 20:58:47 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: The Cure (0% Minnesota Vikings or Ohio State Football content) RE: allmusic.com mention Marc Alberts wrote: > Miles wrote: > > Jeff Dwarf: > > > But the > > > things The Cure are probably best known for now -- which is > > > oddly enough their creative peak AFAIC, though more in spite > > > of it being the commercial peak as well than because of it > > > (and there's no _Faith_ in the middle dragging the period > > > down) -- are mostly from the two albums after _Standing on a > > > Beach,_ I don't think that holds for them at this point (and > > > technically, the CD is _Staring at the Sea,_ not _Standing on > > > a Beach._) I think it should be _Disintegration_, though > > > _Kiss Me3_ would be a fine choice too. > > > > OK, the Cure's commercial peak is absolutely that HEAD ON THE > > DOOR through WISH period, and I actually have less of a problem > > thinking of it as their artistic peak than I did when I read > > this paragraph the first time - it's all very fine stuff. > > I think this is a correct assessment for my tastes. I absolutely > love HotD, and following that with KM3 and Disintegration in that > order means I have to extend my peak period back farther than Jeff > would do. I always think of HOTD with The Top and Japanese Whispers more than with KM3, Disintegration, and Wish, even though Simon, Porl, and Boris are along for the ride. Probably because (A) it's a flat-out pop record, whereas KM3-Wish stuff is more varied, (B) Standing on a beach is inbetween them, and (C) the rest of the band didn't help write the music like they did on the later stuff. I actually kinda like the unhingedness that hangs over The Top more than the tidiness of HOTD, but both are damn fine pop records. > > But FAITH "dragging the [earlier] period down"? Whaaaaaaa? > > That's the best one. This isn't even a case of me sticking up > > for an underdog like DecAy or bucking the trend (ex: my > > longstanding opinion that ARMED FORCES' songs are top-notch but > > those studio versions are dullsville). I don't dislike Faith at all, though it's probably my least pre-Jason Cooper Cure album (not that Jason Cooper is necessarily to blame for the problems on WMS or BF, but why couldn't they have gotten Loz from Ride or someone who didn't have to spend so much time growing into the damn job). There are some really good songs -- "The Holy Hour," "Faith," "Primary" -- but it sags a bit towards the middle, and _Seventeen Seconds_ does better meloncholy better and _Pornography_ does psychotic rage better. > > It's maybe the most Cure-y of Cure albums, but since you > > like the Cure, that's not going to be the problem. > I think I'd call The Top the most Cure-y of Cure albums. But maybe > that's just me. See, given that The Cure at their best is the great tention between their big-fat-pop-side and their artier tendencies, even though I love Disintegration best, I would say that KM is the Cure-iest Cure record -- you have big fat popsongs ("Just Like Heaven, "Catch"), denser art-rock with the occasional middle-eastern to south asian influx ("Icing Sugar," "If Only Tonight We Could Sleep"), some pure unmitagated venom and hatred ("The Kiss, "Shiver and Shake"), and even the best of their occasional, erm, funk tunes ("Hot! Hot! Hot!"). Plus they did the initial recording in a middle or a winery, and Lol's sitting around not doing a fucking thing but using up valuable oxygen and alcohol. "I believe in the marketplace of ideas even if the other guy doesn't have any." -- Keith Olbermann "So this is what it's come to, these millions of years of evolution, warfare, community-building, women dying in childbirth with hope because their children might achieve more: a video on the Internet of a cat watching a video of a cat on the Internet." -- "Sylvar" . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 07:55:17 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: Oscar time "Lauren Elizabeth" wrote: >Other than "Babel", off the top of my head, others I would like a >chance to see are "Children of Men", All I have to say about "Children of Men" is (as I pointedly recall an old girlfriend raving me toward "Amadeus" some 20 years ago) run, don't walk to this film!!! It was fabulous, affecting, and should have been nominated for Best Picture. I really liked "The Departed" (and hope Scorsese wins Best Director) but I absolutely adored (in a sadder than sad way) "Children of Men." ...Plus, Michael Caine does a kind of "John Lennon as a 65-yr-old hippie burnout" acting riff that could've been nominated for Best Supporting Actor, too... (In honor of my favorite Madness song), My name is Michael Caine...er, I mean Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Find what you need at prices youll love. Compare products and save at MSN. Shopping. http://shopping.msn.com/default/shp/?ptnrid=37,ptnrdata=24102&tcode=T001MSN20A0701 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:28:13 +0000 From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Subject: Re: Costello Top 5 - -------------- Original message -------------- From: Rex > On 2/24/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > > > > > My ultimate fall album is "The Days of Wine and Roses" by The Dream > > Syndicate. I pull it out every year like clockwork. It's mostly for > > "Halloween" (I can not say how much I love that song) but the entire > > album has got a dark, forboding sound to it that reminds of the short > > days and the cold air. "It's my favourite time of year." Then > > usually "The Medicine Show" gets pulled from the dusty corners as > > well. Rex came back with: > Great record... one of my Halloween mix discs has "Halloween" on it with a > lot of spooky sound fx flown in during the instrumental breaks, and a few > years later the song sound kind of odd without them! I did the same thing > with Cale's "Paris 1919", actually, because the happy chirpy birds in the > break are not emphatically scary... but add some creepy wind and wolf noises > and creaks and stuff off your old, digitized Horror Sounds of the Night > cassette and they start to sound pretty freaky. Since we have been talking about the Bangles for a couple of days, I guess we have now moved on to another Paisley Underground group, The Dream Syndicate. Count me in as a big fan of "The Days Of Wine and Roses" as well! I like "The Medicine Show" somewhat less, but it's still a very solid album. "Halloween" is a favorite song of mine as well. I vote for The Rain Parade as the next PU band up for discussion! MJ Bachman ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:33:25 -0500 From: "John Irvine" Subject: Walrus Gumbo Jeff said: '"I Am the Walrus" has a very dark, murky,foreboding sound...yet nearly every chord in the song is a *major* chord. I think one reason it has that effect is that the scale spelled out by the different chords is itself a minor scale (more or less). A very curious song.' Here's a fantastic musicological analysis of Beatles songs written by one Alan W. Polluck - http://www.recmusicbeatles.com/public/files/awp/awp.html Here's his take on "I Am The Walrus"- http://www.recmusicbeatles.com/public/files/awp/iatw.html Hours of fun to be had there. I'd love to see a similar tome on Costello's (or Robyn's, or Lloyds') work. - -John ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:36:39 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Costello Top 5 Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > Oh, I love EBTG. I've never heard "Idlewild" though. I thought > Idlewild was a band (are they named after the album perhaps?) They are a band (Scottish, too). Despite being the loudest thing I've ever heard, singer Roddy Woomble is a sensitive sort, and named the band after a place in Anne of Green Gables. At first I thought they'd named the band after the original name for JFK airport. Oh, and can I just say that Vancouver rocks? Spent the last five days here. Despite the rain, it's a fun city. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 06:26:49 -0800 From: "Bri N" Subject: Black Snake Diamond Role T-Shirt? Tom Clark- Boston, April 1 1989: My "Black Snake Diamond Role" shirt and green army jacket w/ fegMania! pin. Robyn and Morris signed the only thing I could find in my wallet - the back of a Dr.'s appointment card. Andy and Pete Buck would've signed too, but, well, you know: http://denisvengeance.com/robyn/PeterBuckHatesMe.html - ------------ Heh heh.. I laugh everytime you post that link. There was a BSDR T-shirt? I've never seen that one. I'd like too. I made my own in 1988 I think. Good lord I've got tons of fegmail. I've been locked in my basement mixing all weekend, except for friday night when I went to see a Pink Floyd cover band that does all there songs polka style. Polka Floyd. They were amazing! Even more amazing, this was the 1st night Jeff Nelson ever heard Dark Side Of The Moon, and of course he heard it polka style! Well back in the dungeon for me, - -Nuppy ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:53:14 -0800 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Interim Report from the Broomewars Truth Commission now available c'mon, fegs: where's the love for michelle macadorey??? i'm not even sure i *knew* about them!!! but i see the entire discography is seeding away -- only i'm not in the swarm yet, 'cause i'm too busy downloading *Logan's Run*!!! oh, is that the "classic albums" series? the one for *Dark Side Of The Moon* was endlessly fascinating, *Nevermind*'s a little less so. wouldn't "Lloyd's-of-London's" be more appropriate? well, i'm a fuckin' hyphen *fiend* these days. doesn't matter!!! the entire discography is healthily seeded!!! <*raises hand* I'm still here> decent. deeecent. oh, snap: i thought the sumbitch had already left!!! i generally think of michael as a "former" feg -- but perhaps "dormant" would be more appropriate??? tee-hee. don't forget *Ram It Down*!!! yeah, do you still have that webpage that says "It's raining babies"??? if so, i think you should change it to: "IT'S RAINING BABIES, MOTHERFUCKERS!!!". *Aeroplane Flies High* and *Aeroplane Over The Sea* are the only ones that come to mind!!! oh, snap: i either didn't remember or never knew that you'd been to quebec city!!! but what do you think of *Kicking Television*??? if you don't like that, then, truly you have lost the scent. curious, though: what's your favourite band now? (i'll put a sawbuck on the new pornographers just because miles has such impeccable taste!!!) dack gave it 1 out of 10!!! huhn. can't really imagine petty handling the vocals on that number!!! (that's my mom's favourite song, by the way!!!) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 14:43:50 -0500 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: Oscar time Hi Fegs, Miles Goosens says: > I wouldn't go as far as "bad" but I was rather expecting to enjoy > LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE mightily, and only ended up at "it's OK." Good > acting, some interesting things to communicate about family and > relationships, and... I dunno, it didn't move me. It bothered me probably more than it should have. I felt like the filmmakers were making such an effort to make a "quirky" film. Perhaps they imagined it unusual and fresh, but to me it seemed the epitome of everything wrong with whatever movie last won at Sundance. And, uh, what exactly was Grandpa teaching the kid behind closed doors? > I blame Sufjan Stevens. I feel like I should know who that is. > Just watched on DVD and enjoyed thoroughly: 2006's pair of magician > movies, THE ILLUSIONIST and THE PRESTIGE. Probably until I see "The Illusionist" I will get it mixed up with "The Fountain." Speaking of which, I am still pissed off at Darren Aronofsky for "Requiem for a Dream." God, I hated that movie and people talk about it like it was God's gift to...shit I don't even know but they act like it was quite brilliant at whatever they thought it was brilliant about. > And lest I be seen as knocking big-time Oscar nominees, THE DEPARTED > kicked seven kinds of ass and if Marty wins for it, even out of > guilt/pity, at least he's winning for a damn fine movie instead of > mixed bags like GANGS OF NEW YORK (first two hours were actually > pretty darn good, mind you) or THE AVIATOR. I love Martin Scorsese although I have to say, I am eternally more charmed by his actual self than his movies. I have a huge amount of respect for his movies, but they generally aren't my thing (I'm the one who didn't "Goodfellas.") Although my Mom just rented "After Hours" and we had fun watching up - it held up fairly well. Speaking of Marty, Netflix and perhaps your local video store has a tremendous 2-DVD documentary by him about his love of Italian film called "My Voyage to Italy." It was one of the best things I've seen this year. They aired it quite awhile back on I think on A&E and I came in on the middle of it and couldn't stop watching. > INLAND EMPIRE is coming here in early March, shown in the same theatre > that Robyn will be playing on 3/18. I will have to look around to see if it will play in Philadelphia. I like seeing Lynch movies in the theatre. > Scariest TWIN PEAKS moment: Nothing to do with BOB. It was James' > falsetto singing voice. Easily. I must have blocked that out. James was sooooooooooooooooo annoying. xo Lauren - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 14:27:46 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Walrus Gumbo On 2/25/07, John Irvine wrote: > > Jeff said: > '"I Am the Walrus" has a very dark, murky,foreboding sound...yet > nearly every chord in the song is a *major* chord. I think one reason > it has that effect is that the scale spelled out by the different > chords is itself a minor scale (more or less). A very curious song.' > > Here's a fantastic musicological analysis of Beatles songs written by > one Alan W. Polluck - > http://www.recmusicbeatles.com/public/files/awp/awp.html > Here's his take on "I Am The Walrus"- > http://www.recmusicbeatles.com/public/files/awp/iatw.html > > Hours of fun to be had there. I'd love to see a similar tome on > Costello's (or Robyn's, or Lloyds') work. I was almost going to link to that - that's one I've read many times over. I agree - someone like Costello would work well with that treatment. Or XTC (if only so I can finally figure out some of those chords - I think Andy secretly grew a sixth finger at one point). You mean Lloyd Cole, right? ;=) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 14:38:14 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Oscar time On 2/25/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > > > > I blame Sufjan Stevens. > > I feel like I should know who that is. Normally I'd just say "google is your friend" - but here, it's so much more complex than mere googling could reveal. Shortish version: Stevens is a folkish but quirky musician who was hugely a critical favorite in 2005. His albums are full of homemade orchestrations, chirpy background singing, and sometimes precious lyrics - but (for me at least) they're often quite affecting. He's put out two albums "based on" states (Michigan and Illinois - - he's got more releases than that, though) and claimed at one point that he was going to write an album on each state in the US (for those of us ignorant of US geography, that leaves *48* to go...). Naturally, there's a backlash - and in that, he's far too twee, too pretentious, and too sorta wacky-christian-hippie or something. I'm probably not explaining this well...but Miles' line (which he's used before, I think) is one of those jokes that's about two inches wide but several miles deep: you really need to subtext to get the humor. Part of it, even, is realizing that if you truly get the joke, you know way more than you should about what hipster critics are babbling about... (I"d say the 2006 version of Stevens is quite possibly The Decemberists... Now I'll hear from people who love one and despise the other, offended that I'd even think of comparing them...even though I'm actually comparing their critical reception rather than their music...) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:34:00 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Beyond Belief >vivien lyon says: > > Beyond Belief is the song that made me a Costello fan. I still think it's > > one of the best songs in his catalog, or any, really. > >It's really a stunning song. I've heard it so very many times and it >continues to be a really exciting song to me. That's a weird word for >a song, but that's the one I think of. > >I know for (perhaps a) fact that there are some musicians on the list >and maybe they would be kind enough to step in and help. "Beyond >Belief" has always struck me as having an unusual structure. I think >it has something to do with a strange verse-chorus-verse structure or >perhaps lack there of. One of my skills is some sort of intuition >about patterns but if I don't have the proper language, it's more like >"one of these things is not like the other" and that's the extent of >it. Another EC song that stands out as unique is "Tokyo Storm >Warning" which has kind of a circular or maybe spiral structure to me. Heh. You somehow manage to mention my two favourite EC songs... The "odd structure" of Beyond Belief is its *lack* of structure - at least in a traditional song sense. It is a narrative flow rather than a traditional verse-chorus. You cannot even tell where the lines end and start. I also love the chord change at "crocodile tears" and the subtle changes of treatment on the vocals (Listen to the change between "nervous tick..." and "...in a very fashionable", for instance). The lyrics, are, of course, sublime. BTW, Costello is one of the least mentioned influences on Dunedin music, but in an odd way - he didn't influence the music of the Dunedin sound very much, but for a while three local bands all had names derived from his songs (Sneaky Feelings being the best known, but also Mystery Dance and Bone Orchard). 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: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:37:45 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: Costello Top 5 >This one's a little less odd structurally - if I recall, it's primarily that >the verses are very long. It's a ranter in the long tradition of Dylan's >"Subterranean Homesick Blues" - there are several songs that clearly use >that as a structural (and lyrical) template - though naturally I can't think >of them right now. (There's a Chuck Berry track that's sort of an antecedent >to the Dylan song...can anyone think of which one? Damn me and my not >wanting to do research on a snowy Saturday morning...) "You can't catch me", perhaps? The one that John Lennon got sued over for his nicking of bits of it for "Come Together"? A wonderful song of that ilk is the wordy but hilarious "Get out of London" by one-hit wonders Interferon. (Threw a party for my friends so they wouldn't be lonely, but they wouldn't let me in, said "It's membership only") 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: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:47:56 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #68 >The "minor chord=sad" thing is reasonably true, if rather simplified. Well, it's true to most western cultures. Doesn't work worldwide. There's also a sternness to them and more "weight". For *real* sadness, a minor 6th is even more effective. >I don't even wanna tell you how recently I learned what "All Mod Cons" >really meant. Mortifying. yeah, but that's such a brilliant pun. The real estate jargon mixed with the idea of conning at being mod. What's up with the list lately - so busy, so interesting, so many posts...! 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: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 18:23:41 -0500 From: "Stewart Russell" Subject: Fuck me baby, I'm (on) a trolleybus! Can I just say that this is the first time I have been on a trolleybus, and this is very probably the first fegpost made from a trolleybus? Stewart (on Robson St) - -- http://scruss.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:39:31 -0600 From: "Miles Goosens" Subject: Re: Costello Top 5 James: > A wonderful song of that ilk is the wordy but hilarious "Get out of > London" by one-hit wonders Interferon. (Threw a party for my friends > so they wouldn't be lonely, but they wouldn't let me in, said "It's > membership only") I love Interferon alum Simon F's GUN (US title) / GUN CONTROL (everywhere else, and some different mixes) to no end, though it's probably going to be One of Those LPs That Will Never Be on CD. It has a killer contemporaneous cover of the Hoodoo Gurus' "I Want You Back," boffo original "A Million Miles From Happiness" (which never fails to wow recipients of my gargantuan Best of 1985 compilation), and a bunch of other entertaining songs. I keep hoping some boutique label will do some sort of two-disc deluxe thing that would have the Interferon stuff and the GUN/GUN CONTROL stuff and GUN's associated 7" and 12" tracks. Follow-up NEVER NEVER LAND (which was on CD) is worth fishing out of the <$1 bins, but the F Machine album isn't. Unless there's some sort of eBay market for it now or something. livin' proof that the end is near, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 19:52:32 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Costello Top 5 grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > > A wonderful song of that ilk is the wordy but hilarious "Get out of > London" by one-hit wonders Interferon. C'mon now, everybody knows that "Steamhammer Sam" was a bigger hit for Intaferon [sic] than Get Out of London and Baby Pain. So they're a 2.5 hit wonder! Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 20:22:46 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Oscar time Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > And, uh, what exactly was Grandpa teaching the kid behind closed > doors? It was a bit icky, yes, but nowhere near as icky as the rest of the Junior Pageant scene. The ending was a little dance-movie formulaic "we lost but we won". >> I blame Sufjan Stevens. > > I feel like I should know who that is. Have you been in hiding for the last two years? Stewart ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #69 *******************************