From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #108 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 108 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Like you're dying to know what I just got... ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] RE: Random note [Jeff Dwarf ] RE: Like you're dying to know what I just got... ["Michael Wells" ] Attn: Nick Currie fans (0% RH content) ["Aaron L." ] Re: Sasquatch Gigolo Service (est. 1982) [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: beatles [craigie* ] Re: Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye and R.E.M. wanna be your dog at their Rock and Roll HOF Induction Ceremony. [] RE: Random note ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: Like you're dying to know what I just got... [Rex ] no babka? [Jill Brand ] RE: Like you're dying to know what I just got... ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: beatles [Rex ] Re: Random note [Rex ] Re: Like you're dying to know what I just got... ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: Like you're dying to know what I just got... [Rex ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:02:35 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: Like you're dying to know what I just got... kevin says: > But as one of my adolescent hereoes suggested, brown shoes don't make it... i agree about the brown - i tend to like the seal browns and not the walnut browns, but it also depends on what colours you like to wear. they are a handsome pair of shoes. these are nice too, a bit more decorative: http://www.aldenshop.com/DrawOneShoe.asp?CategoryID=36 xo - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:10:25 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: beatles >> > 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. Lennon was always my fave but recently I've been listening to a lot of the early Paul stuff I used to vilify as an angry radical youth. Possibly due to geriatric softening of the brain, or overexposure to Jim O'Rourke ranting about what a genius McCartney is (although taking O'Rourke seriously could be another geriatric symptom), but I'm actually able to enjoy things like Uncle Albert that I never could in the past. Always thought the cover of Ringo's Beaucoups Of Blues was great but have never heard it - any good? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:17:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: RE: Random note "Bachman, Michael" wrote: > 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. And Galaxie 500's "4th of July" is the lead track on This is Our Music. "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ 8:00? 8:25? 8:40? Find a flick in no time with the Yahoo! Search movie showtime shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#news ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:24:28 -0600 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: RE: Like you're dying to know what I just got... > i agree about the brown - i tend to like the seal browns and not the walnut browns, but it also depends on what colours you like to wear. they are a handsome pair of shoes. Certainly more versatile, especially if you work in a field where black Oxfords are not required. You could wear these once to the office and once for play every week with no problem. > these are nice too, a bit more decorative: Black bals are always a good choice, and one of the "big three" (along with brown brogues and a good pair of slip-ons). I'm not one for all the decorative punching, however...give me a cap-toe any day! Constantly overspending for quality shoes and towels, Michael Midwestern fashion is not an oxymoron division ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:27:03 +0000 From: craigie* Subject: Re: Random note I still hope that one day Aimee Mann will get over here in the UK and tour somewhere other than London... I have all her records though... (and to join to other threads, she once appered in Buffy!) c* On 19/03/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > 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 > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:57:55 -0500 From: "Aaron L." Subject: Attn: Nick Currie fans (0% RH content) Fegs, Been working on beefing up my Momus collection. I had collected quite a few of his albums a few years back, but then my car was broken into and all the CD's in it were stolen. I just re-bought _Little Red Songbook_, which has a few bonus tracks I don't remember, but it's missing the controversial, lawsuit-inducing "Walter Carlos." Would there be a _LRS_-owning feg out there who would be willing to make a preferably lossless (FLAC) or high-bitrate MP3 copy of this track for me? I can't find it anywhere. Thanks! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:25:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Sasquatch Gigolo Service (est. 1982) 2fs wrote: > 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. Given that her history with Dave goes back to Indianapolis where she anchored when he did weather, if she said when asked about that show she behaved that way because she and Dave thought that would be funniest, I'd be very tempted to believe her. "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started. http://mobile.yahoo.com/mail ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:32:07 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: European dates for Lou's Berlin tour This should not be missed for those that have a chance to see any of those shows. I read a couple of very positive reviews about his performance in Sydney two months ago. Here's one of them from The Go-Betweens message board: "I went on Saturday and have to say it might just be the best concert I've ever seen. I went in with fairly low expectations - expecting a somber show to match the mood of the album. How wrong I was. The whole presentation was superb - and uplifting. A very theatrical performance, featuring a string and woodwind section, a youth choir etc. Should have been a train wreck - but somehow it all worked. First time I think I've seen the whole audience stand as one at the end of a rock gig - giving a sustained 5 minute ovation. Lou himself in fine form - he was blown away by the reception and seemed quite emotional at the end. The band were beyond excellent. Included Fernando Saunders on bass and the legendary Steve Hunter on guitar - who even reprised the Rock'n'Roll Animal version of Sweet Jane during the encore. And great backing vocals from Anthony of Anthony and the Johnsons (who took the lead on 'Candy Says' during one of the encores)". June 18: Brussels (Forest Nationale) June 20: Amsterdam (Heineken Music Hall) June 23: Paris (Palais de Congress) June 26: Berlin (Tempodrom) June 30, July 1: London (Hammersmith Apollo) July 3: Lyon, France (Grand Theatre Romain de Fourviere) July 6: Rome (Il Parco della Musica) July 8: Arezzo, Italy (Piazza Grande) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:37:15 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock & the Nashville Crawdads, 3-18-07 Miles was awesome enough to call me and give me the highlights before and after... thanks! But even with that warning, there were clearly some surprises here: > 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 Six people onstage, one of them John Paul Jones, and no bass at all? Crazy, man. 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. Let's hope so. For my part, I spent Saturday in Disneyland for my daughter's birthday. And, erm, Space Mountain is now "Rockin' Space Mountain", featuring music by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, making it certainly the first family theme park attraction scored by musical artists who have appeared on record covers with socks hangin' offa their junk. If that sounds like somethin' you've just gotta hit, be warned, it ends in April. Otherwise, she had a pretty good birthday and is totally obsessed with her new Tamagotchi. And I can kinda see why... they've gotten pretty sophisticated in their current V.4incarnation. They can visit their friends via infraret hookups, and fly to Canada, and have careers and stuff. They still poop a lot, though. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:39:51 -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: Monday, March 19, 2007 11:48 AM To: let that be your last battlefield 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 :-) Lauren: >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.) That she does! They do tend to be on short side sometimes though, and I wish she would play more of her older songs from "Whatever" and Til Tuesday's "Everything's Different Now". She doesn't seem to honor her back catalog of songs like Robyn does with his. MJ Bachman ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:35:04 +0000 From: craigie* Subject: Re: beatles I'm sure I checked on my old Apple single and (bizarrely) it credited Starr... hence my outburst... will recheck tonight... But, as regular readers are aware, my memory ain't what it used to be,,, (it used to be a carrier bag) c* On 19/03/07, 2fs wrote: > > 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 > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:45:20 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye and R.E.M. wanna be your dog at their Rock and Roll HOF Induction Ceremony. On 3/18/07, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > michaeljbachman@comcast.net wrote: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb31X1pmrag > > > > Hopefully The Stooges get into the RARHOF next year for real! R.E.M > > totally rocked at this years ceremony! It was great seeing Bill > > Berry back on drums. Now I remember why they were my favorite band > > from 1983-87. > > Buck throwing the monitor was the only part of that on the actual VH1 > broadcast, of course. That looks like an amp, not a monitor... some kind of twin 12 speaker thing, probably not light. No wonder he was so tired at the Nashville show. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:54:31 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Random note C* wrote: >I still hope that one day Aimee Mann will get over here in the UK and tour somewhere other than London... >I have all her records though... >(and to join to other threads, she once appered in Buffy!) She actually lived in the UK for about a year or so around 1993, and became friends with Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford of Squeeze. Tilbrook is on "Whatever". Aimee went almost 4 years without releasing an album do to problems geeting released from Epic and finding a new label. Much of "Whatever" was initially recorded by a late period line up of Til Tuesday that included Jon Brion, but they tracks never saw the light of day. MJ Bachman On 19/03/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > 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 > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:59:59 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Like you're dying to know what I just got... Wow, another good one... first Trek, now Doctor Who: "curse of the fatal death " Shoes: mine are boring, but in shoe-synchronicity, just about every time my bassist and my 9-year-old stepdaughter are in the same room, for some reason they are wearing nearly identical shoes. New music or purchases: none, but my friends just gave me a twofer CD birthday pack: Yoko Ono "Yes, I'm a Witch" and Belinda Carlisle "Voila" (all French standards in French, except for the four on the "Edition Limitee CD Bonus En Anglais". One of these records unfortunately features Cat Power, but just for a wee bit, and I'm overall rather tickled. NP Roky Erickson, "@2 Gone and Number" - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:07:46 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Sasquatch Gigolo Service (est. 1982) On 3/18/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > 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. For me, it was a ticket out of the sticks. In middle and high school in West Virginia, I watched obsessively. It was a ticket to New York, and due to his low-rent self-mockery and guests from the cultural fringe it, it felt like a fairly realistic, non-phonified showbiz broadway version thereof... 'course I was immersed in all kinds of New Yorky film and music lore at the time to. Dunno how I ended up in LA instead. 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. The easy availabilty of laser pointers has resulted in the best cat toy evar. They never get tired of pursuing and assaulting tiny, shimmering red mites, or whatever they imagine thost little dots to be. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:43:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: no babka? Lauren wrote that she had never had a babka. You can't even know the extent of my sympathy for you. And chocolate is the answer. Forget the cinnamon. Jill, a Brooklyn transplant ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:18:39 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Like you're dying to know what I just got... Subject: Re: Like you're dying to know what I just got... Rex: >New music or purchases: none, but my friends just gave me Belinda Carlisle "Voila"(all French standards in French, except >for the four on the "Edition Limitee CD Bonus En Anglais". One of these records unfortunately features Cat Power, but just for a wee bit, and I'm overall rather tickled. I ordered "Voila" over the weekend. It's been, what, over 10 years since her last solo album "A Woman and A Man" was released and she moved to France? So Rex, how's her French sound? Covering songs made famous by Edith Piaf and Francoise Hardy would seem to be a rather daunting task. I wonder how it will go down in her adopted country, or maybe the French think of her as one of their own now? MJ Bachman ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:25:33 +0000 From: craigie* Subject: Re: Random note intersting, I never knew that... Would that be when she was the 'significant other' of Dave Gregory from XTC? I gues the three demos on the "I Should Have Known..." CD single are among the demos of which you speak as well? Still, if she *was* in Swindon, it probably explains why she's reluctant to venture out of London! c* On 19/03/07, Bachman, Michael wrote: > > > C* wrote: > >I still hope that one day Aimee Mann will get over here in the UK and > tour somewhere other than London... > > >I have all her records though... > > >(and to join to other threads, she once appered in Buffy!) > > She actually lived in the UK for about a year or so around 1993, and > became friends with Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford of Squeeze. > Tilbrook is on "Whatever". Aimee went almost 4 years without releasing > an album do to problems geeting released from Epic and finding a new > label. Much of "Whatever" was initially recorded by a late period line > up of Til Tuesday that included Jon Brion, but they tracks never saw the > light of day. > > MJ Bachman > > > On 19/03/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > > > -- > first things first, but not necessarily in that order... > > > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:30:18 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: beatles On 3/19/07, 2fs wrote: > > > > We'll never know...it's all a part of life's rich pageant. That is, of course, punctuated incorrectly (by dint of being punctuated correctly), but I'd never heard about Harrison playing on an R.E.M. record, so what do I know? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:33:31 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Random note On 3/19/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > 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.) Never seen her live, but that's interesting. ISTR that she and Michael Penn actually did a tour where they brought along their comedian pals to do the between-song patter because they thought they were so bad at it. She always seems funny enough in interviews... was it her hubby's deficiency that needed the cover-up? Or did they just do it because they had so many great comedian pals? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:36:50 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: Like you're dying to know what I just got... Michael Wells says: > Black bals are always a good choice, and one of the "big three" (along > with brown brogues and a good pair of slip-ons). I'm not one for all the > decorative punching, however...give me a cap-toe any day! > > Constantly overspending for quality shoes and towels, > > Michael > Midwestern fashion is not an oxymoron division I have to say that surprising this is more exciting than hearing women talk about shoes. And coming from a (I'm assuming) straight man, it's like encountering some rare mythical creature. xo - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:44:47 +0000 From: craigie* Subject: Re: beatles http://www.beatlesagain.com/barchive/idce.html indicates Starr wrote this, but I find that it reeks of Harrison... ... who also virtually single-handedly wrote Octopus' Garden as well, truth be told. c* On 19/03/07, craigie* wrote: > > I'm sure I checked on my old Apple single and (bizarrely) it credited > Starr... hence my outburst... will recheck tonight... > > But, as regular readers are aware, my memory ain't what it used to be,,, > > (it used to be a carrier bag) > > c* > > > On 19/03/07, 2fs wrote: > > > > On 3/19/07, craigie* wrote: > > > > > > On 19/03/07, ken ostrander < blueridgekeno@yahoo.com> 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 > > > > > > -- > first things first, but not necessarily in that order... > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:57:13 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Like you're dying to know what I just got... On 3/19/07, Bachman, Michael wrote: > > I ordered "Voila" over the weekend. It's been, what, over 10 years since > her last solo album "A Woman and A Man" was released and she moved to > France? So Rex, how's her French sound? Haven't spun it yet... will advise. Rather surprisingly it's got some contributions from Eno on it... Covering songs made famous by > Edith Piaf and Francoise Hardy would seem to be a rather daunting task. On the other hand, going toe to toe with Bardot as a vocalist should be a cinch (although if she gets the backing track of "Contact" to sound half as screwy as the original, I'll be impressed). It's almost shocking how many covers of "Bonnie & Clyde" I seem to have accrued without really trying. Almost as many of "Je T'aime Moi Non Plus". This is partially, but far from completely, accounted for by a Gainsbourg tribute album and the two Mick Harvey albums of Serge translations... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:00:34 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: Random note Rex says: > Never seen her live, but that's interesting. ISTR that she and Michael Penn > actually did a tour where they brought along their comedian pals to do the > between-song patter because they thought they were so bad at it. She always > seems funny enough in interviews... was it her hubby's deficiency that > needed the cover-up? Or did they just do it because they had so many great > comedian pals? I saw that show at the Keswick right outside of Philadelphia. She explained the comedian's presence by saying that both she and Michael just don't like to talk between songs so they hired someone to do it for them. I believe the comedian was the opening act for that show. Aimee and Michael alternated songs for their set so I spent the show alternately enjoying Aimee's songs and waiting impatiently for Michael's songs to end. It's been interesting seeing her sort of come out of her shell over the years. I first saw her touring for "Whatever" and back then she was pretty reserved. Over the years, she's gotten more comfortable on stage and now seems happy interacting with the fans. She's quite cynical with a great dry sense of humour. One of the recent shows she was joking about reading a Rolling Stone interview with Tom Cruise. Cruise was challenging the interviewer to ask anything he wanted about scientology as neither Cruise nor the scientologists have *anything* to hide. "Bring it!" said Tom to the interviewer. Aimee was really amused by Tom's ferocity. So during the show, Aimee sort of turned it into an ongoing bit with the "bring it!" catchphrase; the audience was yelling "bring it!" when she would announce the next song. Hmmm, do I have to say you probably had to be there? Michael Penn bugs me for no logical reason. Aimee and Mr. Brion would make a much better pop power couple. xo - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #108 ********************************