From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #107 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, March 19 2007 Volume 16 : Number 107 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Like you're dying to know what I just got... [kevin ] Robyn Hitchcock & the Nashville Crawdads, 3-18-07 ["Miles Goosens" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #106 [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: Sasquatch Gigolo Service (est. 1982) ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: beatles [craigie* ] RE: Random note ["Bachman, Michael" ] RE: Random note [Sebastian Hagedorn ] RE: Sasquatch Gigolo Service (est. 1982) ["Marc Alberts" ] Re: beatles [2fs ] RE: Like you're dying to know what I just got... [kevin ] Re: movie talk [kevin ] Re: Random note ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] RE: Random note ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: Sasquatch Gigolo Service (est. 1982) [2fs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 19:37:19 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Like you're dying to know what I just got... >Eddie indicates we have a bit to go, but the thread title is general >enough for everyday usage. Bought a book or CD? Tell all the fegs >about it. I scored a copy of "Sufferin' Mind," a collection of insane Norleans blues guy Guitar Slim's mid-50s Vee Jay sides, and whoever mastered the thing should be remanded to Dick Cheney for target practice. It's so toppy I had to roll off pretty much all the high end before it sounded at all decent. Pretty kool otherwise though. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:13:35 -0700 From: "michael wells" Subject: RE: Like you're dying to know what I just got... > Not to discourage any male fegs from posting pictures of their new shoes (and those are quite nice; I'm fond of Sketchers) It's tax return season, so I'm in the market as well. I was thinking about these: http://www.aldenshop.com/DrawOneShoe.asp?CategoryID=38 ...what do you think? Or I could donate the money and fund our local food pantry for a few days. Tough call, but I'm leaning towards the shoes. And though this was cool, though I wonder what the neighbors thought of the 10 x 1000 gallon tanks in his backyard: http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20070315/ts_csm/chydro . Actually, since it's in Jersey no one probably noticed. Hey...a Max Lang sighting! Good times. Larry Tucker, if you're still on list shoot me an email. I see there's a Cat's Cradle show coming up... Actually picked UNLV to advance, Michael ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:19:46 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: Like you're dying to know what I just got... Lauren sez: >Rex says: >>Another one for feglist statisticians, Schroedenberger be damned: what's >>the longest a thread has ever continued without a change in the subject >>line? 'Cuz gmail's showing this one as 37 posts deep. >Eddie indicates we have a bit to go, but the thread title is general >enough for everyday usage. Bought a book or CD? Tell all the fegs >about it. Downloaded a movie? Tell fegs about it. Bought some >shoes? Tell fegs about it and please post a link to jpg. >Not that I condone "gaming the model". ...Depends on which one it is: Linda Evangelista - uh, no... Janice Dickinson - not with Bea Arthur's you-know-what. Tyra Banks - sure thing! (that ain't "fat;" that's just pleasingly curvy). Gisele Bundchen - gotta like that, but Leo and Tom Brady (and his sperm) seem too daunting... Cheryl Tiegs - only if she still has that see-through mesh one-piece from SI way back when. Cindy Crawford - I name-checked her in the title of my first (still-unpublished) novel, so I don't want to queer that potential eventual relationship... Kate Moss - too druggy, too thin, too crazy...sigh, if I were only 20 years younger and stupider... Michael Sweeney Not just riffing to extend the subject line's streak...no, not at all...(and avoiding his attempted-funny habit of slightly altering subject lines, which - -- really, somebody tell him -- usually just isn't that funny) _________________________________________________________________ Live Search Maps  find all the local information you need, right when you need it. http://maps.live.com/?icid=hmtag2&FORM=MGAC01 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:23:30 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: Like you're dying to know what I just got... (pardon me if this already arrived once -- my connection took a dump just as I sent it...) Lauren sez: >Rex says: >>Another one for feglist statisticians, Schroedenberger be damned: what's >>the longest a thread has ever continued without a change in the subject >>line? 'Cuz gmail's showing this one as 37 posts deep. >Eddie indicates we have a bit to go, but the thread title is general >enough for everyday usage. Bought a book or CD? Tell all the fegs >about it. Downloaded a movie? Tell fegs about it. Bought some >shoes? Tell fegs about it and please post a link to jpg. >Not that I condone "gaming the model". ...Depends on which one it is: Linda Evangelista - uh, no... Janice Dickinson - not with Bea Arthur's you-know-what. Tyra Banks - sure thing! (that ain't "fat;" that's just pleasingly curvy). Gisele Bundchen - gotta like that, but Leo and Tom Brady (and his sperm) seem too daunting... Cheryl Tiegs - only if she still has that see-through mesh one-piece from SI way back when. Cindy Crawford - I name-checked her in the title of my first (still-unpublished) novel, so I don't want to queer that potential eventual relationship... Kate Moss - too druggy, too thin, too crazy...sigh, if I were only 20 years younger and stupider... Michael Sweeney Not just riffing to extend the subject line's streak...no, not at all...(and avoiding his attempted-funny habit of slightly altering subject lines, which - -- really, somebody tell him -- usually just isn't that funny) _________________________________________________________________ i'm making a difference. Make every IM count for the cause of your choice. Join Now. http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwme0080000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://im.live.com/messenger/im/home/?source=hmtagline ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:57:52 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: Like you're dying to know what I just got... Michael Sweeney says: > Gisele Bundchen - gotta like that, but Leo and Tom Brady (and his sperm) > seem too daunting... Before I posted "I'm kind of glad that I don't know what you're talking about", I did a search on "Tom Brady's sperm" and google came up with "about 216,000 hits." That is just...wrong. xo - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:32:11 -0700 (PDT) From: ken ostrander Subject: re: erin go braghless >>>> 1. your daughter is dear. >> >> 1. Totally agree with Lauren regarding you daughter Ken! > >Wait - Ken named his daughter Ken? Will you be selling grills next? only after i finish dental school homz. wait, were you talking to me? strange loop. thanks for the kind words. shuggie did very well with the travelling. i really am glad we didn't see any tantrums from the bigger kids whose flights were cancelled. she gets upset when she sees people cry. >> 2. hey, that's my shirt! > >2.Mine too! you've got a shirt which is nice. i wonder if it isn't the most common feg t shirt. or maybe it is the one that gets co-opted most often by significant others. >>> >> Lauren, 1/4 Irish from father's side, ?? from mother's side (involves >> a cover-up by the English on her side!) > >Similar story with the Native Americans in my family... one side >acknowledges and celebrates, the other, not so much. <<< native american and italian get more fanfare (which amounts to talkin loud and sayin nuthin) among my kinfolk than the other muttly bits of my pedigree. ken "reconcile your parents to you by becoming both at once" the kenster np 'dream letter' tim buckley - --------------------------------- Don't be flakey. Get Yahoo! Mail for Mobile and always stay connected to friends. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:41:04 -0600 From: "Miles Goosens" Subject: Robyn Hitchcock & the Nashville Crawdads, 3-18-07 If you bet that tonight's show would feature John Paul Jones playing mandolin on a cover of Talking Heads' "Life During Wartime," you're a winner. The timeline since 1979 has gotten very, very warped somewhere along the way. The band: Robyn Hitchcock - lead vocals, 6-string acoustic Pete Buck - 12-string electric David Rawlings - 6-string acoustic, backing vox Gillian Welch - 6 string acoustic, backing vox, co-lead on * Sean Nelson - backing vox John Paul Jones - mandolin The Robyn attire: Purple floral shirt, purple trousers The blinking: not noticeable at all. I was four rows back, so I had a very good view. The attendance: It wasn't a sellout, but it was probably upwards of 80% full. Lots of enthusiasm. The setlist: Belltown Ramble Adventure Rocket Ship Ole Tarantula Balloon Man Flesh #1 (Beatle Dennis) Tiny Montgomery [Dylan] Lo and Behold [Dylan] / Life During Wartime [Talking Heads] Elvis Presley Blues* [Welch/Rawlings] Queen Elvis Brenda's Iron Sledge Flanagan's Song Copper Kettle [Dylan] Creeped Out A Man's Got To Know His Limitations, Briggs I Wanna Destroy You ====== Look At Miss Ohio* [Welch/Rawlings] (just Robyn, Gil, Dave, but the full band returns for...) Candyman [Grateful Dead] Television Acid Bird (Robyn breaks a string and after the song switches to 12-string acoustic for...) Queen Jane Approximately [Dylan] The good: Enough '80s in the setlist to put a smile on my face, especially when they played "Acid Bird." A good time had by all players. The contrast between the lively GilNDave on the left side of the stage and the immobile Jones/Buck duo on the right side. Robyn completely changing the words of the verses of "Life During Wartime." The Elvis-themed song interlude in mid-set (Elvis was also the preshow music). The lower register of Robyn's voice, whose magnificence really ought to move him to change the arrangements of his older material, much as the former frontman of Mr. Jones' famous former outfit has done with his back catalog. JPJ's picking throughout, but on "Balloon Man" and "Television" especially. The bad: Me having a coughing fit during "Flanagan's Song," the only SPOOKED song I really love. Too many SPOOKED songs, though not as many as I feared. The same instrumentation on every song leading to a strummy saminess no matter how good a time the protagonists were having. Not meeting this Bill MacLehose character - I must not have looked Henry VIII enough, though I considered wearing a tam, chowing down on a turkey leg, and beheading a wife while in line. The Bryan Ferry: Robyn sang, sotto voice almost off-mic, the words to "More Than This" at the end of "Flesh #1 (Beatle Dennis)." Since we both like Bryan Ferry, yeah, I always like this kind of thing. The Buck: Pete Buck could not have been more catatonic. For a goodly number of years, I saw REM as many times as I could, not to mention seeing Buck up close on the Magnificent Seven tour, and Mr. Buck was on all these occasions a good deal more lively. It's like the out-of-work guys who used to replace Politburo members with animatronic substitutes have now perfected the Pete Buck model. This may go a long way toward explaining the last three REM albums. The quotes I managed to write down: * Before "Balloon Man": "The source of everything is country music - and this is no exception." * Introducing "Flesh #1": "A painkiller song." * Explaining "Brenda's Iron Sledge": "What life was like in Britain in 1980, until Spandau Ballet came along." * Dedicating "Briggs": "To the late Karl Rove - here's hoping." * Dedicating "I Wanna Destroy You" "to the present administration" The thing I will explain before you ask me: No, I didn't record it, but I saw people who did, so I suspect it'll show up on the Internets near you somewhere soon. Do I think I wasted my money? No. I'm glad I went. And now I've seen all three surviving members of Led Zeppelin, which is pretty darn cool. Would I rather be seeing the Venus 3 show in Birmingham tomorrow night? Darn skippy. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:47:45 -0700 (PDT) From: ken ostrander Subject: re: beatles * Still not convinced that The Beatles _is_ a Beatles album, despite the title. I think it is a mishmash of two and a half solo albums by people who werent even speaking to one another at the time, bit like the recent Oasis stuff <<< owch. an overstatement and understatement at the same time. the album arose out of the great transmigration with maharishi, the yoko factor, heroin, and the resources for each of them to pursue their own fancy. each of them was expanding as an artist and it shows. sure, it's a mishmash; but also a glorious diverse testiment to their influence and ability. it's also their best selling album. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hey man, what about "Beaucoups of Blues"? :) <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< ringo may yet astound us all. and you know it don't come easy. i started out as a paul fan and went through much of his catalogue. then i was into john. most recently it has been georgie that i've connected with the most. i had a lot of fun making a post fab mix for my brother a few years back. the best thing about the breakup of the beatles was that there was plenty more music coming from them. the albums from '70 and '71 are tops for me; but the later gems like 'double fantasy', 'tug of war', and 'brainwashed' should not be overlooked. >Beyond the obvious choice of "Band on the Run," I also highly recommend the >(mostly) quiet pleasures of 1978's "London Town" i dig that one. i haven't gotten sick of the single yet. and 'morse moose and the gray goose' never fails to amuse me. >>> PS There is a gaping cheeseburger-shaped void in the whole of the above discussion. Personally I like '(Marie's the name of) His Latest Flame' but plenty of other people don't... <<< i like that one better than some of the goofy singles ('return to sender', 'teddy bear', 'good luck charm') from the same period that appealed to me as a kid. swizzle hips preferred fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches to cheeburgers. >> Speaking of the Beatles, I listened to Golden Slumbers today by the >> Beatles which is Paul McCartney at his most maudlin. I was in the mood >> to hear it for some reason. > >Oh, I'd say Paul got plenty more maudlin than that... no doubt. has anyone heard the oratorio? >Actually, that track is a good example of the way the Beatles worked. I do >think the song, in itself, isn't as maudlin as all that: McCartney's vocal >is too intense (chorus particularly) for that. But, more importantly, in >sequence along with the rest of the medley, the overall feel of that track >is, for me, more one of a sort of desperation, a wishing-to-make-it-so in >the face of doubt. Probably that's why the Normal Boring Chord sequence of >the following "Carry That Weight," with its enormous blocky brass chords, >sounds grim rather than pedestrian. You know, not just "you're gonna carry >that weight a long time" but goddammit there's no way you're doing anything >else *but* carrying that weight, and it'll be a good long time and don't >ever think anything different. i don't mind carrying this weight. there is a sense of grieving in the way the lullaby goes into the heavy realization which gives way to the release of the end. the reprise seems out of place though the celebration could be the transmigration. i love the guitar interplay between john and paul and george. try listening to ringo's only drum solo without tapping along. it can't be done. >>>>> ...on at least one such bootleg, it can be clearly heard that Lennon is ABSOLUTELY saying "cranberry sauce" over and over again, and NOT "I buried Paul." Why? Who the fuck knows. But it was cranberry sauce on the boot, and I think it's an edit of that very same take on the official release. <<<<< was it thanksgiving? >>>> I interpreted "survival" as "endurance of a body of work". Otherwise, hell, isn't Pat Boone still alive? So he and Little Richard are still locked in a literal Celebrity Death Match over whose "Tutti Frutti" is superior... <<<< thankfully, the most recent version isn't necessarily the definitive one. still, i'd like to see that wrestlin' match. survival is open to interpretation. there are plenty of folks who've continued to put out material that pales to the brief careers of those who flamed out. and endurance isn't very clear either. are we talking sales, airplay, critical acclaim, or quality of manufacturing? does the fact that 'yesterday' is more widely known than 'a day in the life' mean that it is better? i actually heard 'a day in the life' in the grocery store yesterday. that was a first. >>> * I agree that Paul performs Long Tall Sally as well as Little Richard does. But as Dobie Gray says The original is still the greatest. <<< i think john's 'rock and roll music' blows chuckie's ding-a-ling out of the water. ken "you give me a fucking tuba, i'll get you something out of it." the kenster - --------------------------------- Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:59:26 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #106 Nothing really salient to say except "Welcome to the list, Bill!" 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, 19 Mar 2007 02:37:48 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: Sasquatch Gigolo Service (est. 1982) Stacked Crooked says: > you know, i'm surprised they don't release a DVD of letterman's weatherdude > days. Re: letterman...i rarely watch him anymore, but there's something very comforting about his show. i started watching in college and i took a lot of solace in it. one time there was this dog on stupid pet tricks that chased a flashlight. well, not the flashlight itself but the light from the flashlight wherever it hit. it was crazy stuff. then there was a guy who basically did not sleep and spent his evening painting intricate (obviously) landscapes on i swear the head of pins. i could on for awhile. i adore dave. > "62!!!!!", beginning in > accumulated > seventy-five or so total posts. eddie is the oracle of feglist. give us more records, we will break them. or die trying. maybe throw some edward tufte in there and we can get some killer visuals. or mr. tom clark can break my heart with another venn diagram. xo - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:29:17 +0000 From: craigie* Subject: Re: History Illustrated not really. If dear Adolf *hadn't marched on Moscow, the Allies might not have defeated him on the Western front. IIRC it was partly due to the massive losses on the Russian Campaign that gave the Allies the edge. But - and I should make it clear at this point - my grasp of history is really very poor... c* On 18/03/07, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > > -- "Stewart C. Russell" is rumored to have mumbled on > 18. Mdrz 2007 16:49:54 -0400 regarding Re: History Illustrated: > > > Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > >> > >> http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi > > > > Ah, Tufte - the Hugh Hefner of information design. > > > > Kinda glad it's not well known. It might've made a certain A. Hitler > > think twice. > > But wouldn't that've been better for everyone involved?? > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:27:04 +0000 From: craigie* Subject: Re: beatles On 19/03/07, ken ostrander wrote: > ringo may yet astound us all. and you know it don't come easy. > > i started out as a paul fan and went through much of his catalogue. then > i was into john. most recently it has been georgie that i've connected with > the most. > > I have a demo of It Don't Come Easy by George and still maintain he *gave* the song to Ringo, even if it was inspired (a la Hard Day's Night) by him. Ain't no other way to explain the Hari Krishna chorus on the demo. (it kicks ass too. Great great guitar solo...) c* - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:08:52 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Random note - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Lauren Elizabeth Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2007 12:15 AM To: crustaceans ripped my flesh Subject: Re: Random note Tom Clark says: >> I dig the earlier X as well, but the Dave Alvin penned "4th Of July" >> is one of my favorite songs ever. Especially Dave's solo version. Aimee Mann also wrote a song titled "4th Of July" that appeared on my favorite album of hers, the 1993 album Whatever. MJ Bachman ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:19:26 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: RE: Random note - --On 19. Mdrz 2007 10:08:52 -0400 "Bachman, Michael" wrote: > Aimee Mann also wrote a song titled "4th Of July" that appeared on my > favorite album of hers, the 1993 album Whatever. And it's one of my favorite songs of hers. I saw her in Bonn on the 4th of July 2005 and as I had hoped she *did* play the song :-) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:06:54 -0700 From: "Marc Alberts" Subject: RE: Sasquatch Gigolo Service (est. 1982) Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > Re: letterman...i rarely watch him anymore, but there's something very > comforting about his show. i started watching in college and i took a > lot of solace in it. > > one time there was this dog on stupid pet tricks that chased a > flashlight. well, not the flashlight itself but the light from the > flashlight wherever it hit. it was crazy stuff. > > then there was a guy who basically did not sleep and spent his evening > painting intricate (obviously) landscapes on i swear the head of pins. > > i could on for awhile. > > i adore dave. Dave was iconic during those years. Stupid Pet Tricks was great, but for me the key to greatness was the dropping of things off the fire tower. Once he stopped doing that, the show went downhill. Perhaps he thought the box of light bulbs could never be topped? The funniest moment had to be the catchphrase competition where the three finalists were: "Them bats is smart.... They use radar!"; "I'm a sweet little cupcake...baked by the devil!"; and the twins (who I happened to know at the time) whinging "They pelted us with rocks and garbage." I still use all of those from time to time, twenty years later. My best Letterman memory, though, was when I went with my then-fiancee to see his show being taped in NYC. She was from Indiana as well, and when DL wandered through the audience she blurted that out and he hung out with us for about five minutes just chatting about where she grew up. I think he tried to look down her shirt as well, but I wouldn't blame him for that. Marc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:34:19 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: RE: Random note >> Aimee Mann also wrote a song titled "4th Of July" that appeared on my >> favorite album of hers, the 1993 album Whatever. Never paid much attention to her but I still think "I'm With Stupid" may be the best album title ever. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:40:00 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: beatles On 3/19/07, craigie* wrote: > > On 19/03/07, ken ostrander wrote: > > > > ringo may yet astound us all. and you know it don't come easy. > > > > i started out as a paul fan and went through much of his > catalogue. then > > i was into john. most recently it has been georgie that i've connected > with > > the most. > > > > I have a demo of It Don't Come Easy by George and still maintain he > *gave* > the song to Ringo, even if it was inspired (a la Hard Day's Night) by him. > > Ain't no other way to explain the Hari Krishna chorus on the demo. If it's the demo I've heard, it isn't even really a demo: it's the same track used on the released recording (although the Hare Krishnas are dramatically reduced in the mix: you can still hear them if you listen closely though). Not sure what you mean by "maintain he gave the song to Ringo": since he wrote it, didn't record it himself, and Ringo did, where would there be any argument the other way that you'd have to "maintain" your position against? Or is the song not officially credited to George? That would be odd...since it's clearly one of his songs (you can hear his hand in "Photograph" as well - - but I'm pretty sure he's credited on that one). - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:41:43 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: RE: Like you're dying to know what I just got... >I'm leaning towards the shoes. But as one of my adolescent hereoes suggested, brown shoes don't make it... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:43:04 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: beatles On 3/19/07, ken ostrander wrote: > > > i started out as a paul fan and went through much of his > catalogue. then i was into john. most recently it has been georgie that > i've connected with the most. I almost feel a bit sorry for George. I think in some ways his critical profile as a songwriter would actually be higher if he hadn't been a Beatle. His work from about 1968 through 1974 or so is just top-flight stuff - and a lot of it too. A good argument could be made, though, that he learned on the job - and that therefore if he hadn't have been a Beatle, he might not have pushed his skills to as high a peak as he did. We'll never know...it's all a part of life's rich pageant. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:43:21 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: movie talk >> the cookie, indeed. it is black on one side and white on the other. >> >> although if you rotate it, it is white on one side and black on the other. Not unlike that horrible Star Trek episode with, I think it was, Frank Gorshin. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:47:50 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: Random note Sebastian Hagedorn says: > And it's one of my favorite songs of hers. I saw her in Bonn on the 4th of > July 2005 and as I had hoped she *did* play the song :-) She puts on a great live show. I seem to end up seeing her every time she comes to town, and as a consequence the number of her shows that I've attended is second only to Robyn's. She's very funny between songs (I steal all my jokes from her.) xo - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:47:40 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Random note - -----Original Message----- From: kevin [mailto:kevinstudyvin@earthlink.net] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 11:34 AM To: Sebastian Hagedorn; Bachman, Michael Cc: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: RE: Random note >>> Aimee Mann also wrote a song titled "4th Of July" that appeared on my >>> favorite album of hers, the 1993 album Whatever. >Never paid much attention to her but I still think "I'm With Stupid" may be the best album title ever. The title of which was a back handed slap at her then current label. Cudos to Aimee and her husband Michael Penn for starting their own label. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:50:22 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Sasquatch Gigolo Service (est. 1982) On 3/19/07, Marc Alberts wrote: > > Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > Re: letterman...i rarely watch him anymore, but there's something very > > comforting about his show. i started watching in college and i took a > > lot of solace in it. > i adore dave. > > Dave was iconic during those years. Stupid Pet Tricks was great, but for > me > the key to greatness was the dropping of things off the fire tower. Once > he > stopped doing that, the show went downhill. Perhaps he thought the box of > light bulbs could never be topped? > > The funniest moment had to be the catchphrase competition where the three > finalists were: "Them bats is smart.... They use radar!"; "I'm a sweet > little cupcake...baked by the devil!"; and the twins (who I happened to > know > at the time) whinging "They pelted us with rocks and garbage." I still > use > all of those from time to time, twenty years later. I'd forgotten the first two - but I do remember "they pelted us with rocks and garbage." My fave Dave experience (which is also the name of my new band that does '70s covers in the style of '80s cheese-synth-pop...) was the show where various elements of the show were chosen by acclamation from a multiple choice list: the backdrop, the guest's chair, the music that was played, etc. So that at one point - and I distinctly remember the guest was Jane Pauley - we had a backdrop of an ant farm, the guest sitting in a dentist's chair, and being asked to inhale helium before speaking. It was possibly the most hilariously surreal moment I've seen on network TV. Oh - and to make it funnier, Pauley was having none of it: she wasn't playing along at all. It was really amusing watching her trying to retain a shred of dignity under the circumstances. Poor woman - she really should have realized the only way to do *that* would be to be completely game - hell, stand on her head or something. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #107 ********************************