From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #110 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 110 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Like you're dying to know what I just got... [2fs ] Re: CoverReCover [wuz Re: beatles] [Jeff Dwarf ] RE: Like you're dying to know what I just got... ["Marc Alberts" ] Re: Like you're dying to know what I just got... [Rex ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #108 [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] swapping covers [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: Like you're dying to know what I just got... [djini@voicenet.com] Re: Like you're dying to know what I just got... ["Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Like you're dying to know what I just got... On 3/19/07, Rex wrote: > > 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. That would be an absolutely killing Jeopardy category: Bass Players Who Dress Like Nine-Year-Old Girls. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:11:52 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: For Eb . ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:12:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: CoverReCover [wuz Re: beatles] Rex wrote: > On 3/19/07, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > Dinosaur Jr "A Little Respect"/Erasure "Puke + Cry" > > Oh shit! With that one right there, I've received the best > birthday present I'm gonna get today. Thank you. I actually thought of that a long time ago, though which Dino song it is varies with my mood ("Severed Lips" and "Freak Scene" being most prominant amongst them). Aqua Teen: the Movie opens on my birthday this year, so call this one of those pay it forward things. "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ We won't tell. Get more on shows you hate to love (and love to hate): Yahoo! TV's Guilty Pleasures list. http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/265 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:20:52 -0700 From: "Marc Alberts" Subject: RE: Like you're dying to know what I just got... Stewart wrote: > Shoes? None new, probably replace these blundstones soon. I bought a pair of Ecco boots for winter (haven't bought any since), and man did they work well. When I switched back to my comfy running shoes, I missed the weight. I'm one of those guys who doesn't have a D width, so shoes are actually a big deal for me. I normally can't find anything that fits without going to Allen Edmonds. Of course, if you can afford them one should spend the extra money because they are clearly worth every cent. > > Toy? Panasonic Lumix LX2 10 megapixel camera. Nice. Unusually for a > compact, it can shoot raw. I bought this same camera (the silver one, not the black one--kind of wish I had that choice to do over again) literally the day it came out using my work connections to get an employee purchase deal. Now, I have shot professionally previously and have about a dozen cameras I still keep of various sorts, but I had avoided digital because I just love film and I'm a camera luddite (my favorite camera is literally 50 years old). I bought the Lumix because it had a Leica lens, because it could do RAW, and because it could do full manual. On the con side, it is a bit larger than a lot of other digital PnS cameras and it has that annoying delay before shooting that you don't get shooting with a film rangefinder. On the plus side, it makes extremely good pictures and the viewscreen on the back is probably the best in the industry. One big, big, big con to this and all other similar format cameras (other than the Leica M8, which has many other cons but not this one): why the hell has the industry assumed that a maximum aperture of f2.8 is acceptable for a camera that has the rest of the specs? Trying to use these cameras as a replacement for a Leica M3 with a Nokton just won't cut it because they are designed for the lowest common denominator of photographers who only like photos where everything is equally in focus and that limits the end photos more than any sort of format issues like the RAW question could limit you. Marc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:27:04 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Like you're dying to know what I just got... On 3/19/07, 2fs wrote: > > > Sing like Sean Connery? I wasn't aware of Mr. Connery's vocal stylings. Oh, god, he "sang" "In My Life" on that George Martin "farewell record", the one with Jim Carrey and all the other actors covering Beatles tunes. Connery singing "In My Life" sounded exactly like someone imitating Connery singing "In My Life". You know, I bet you actually heard it at the time and then paid big bucks for some sort of procedure to wall off the part of your mind that remembers. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:27:18 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Like you're dying to know what I just got... On 3/19/07, Rex wrote: > > > > I mentioned this before and it probably came off as a joke, but a friend > of > mine is gay black Rush fan... hardcore Rush fan, in fact. That may sound > like a "why, some of my best friends are..." remark on all three counts, > but > it's the honest troof. So was _Hemispheres_ the record he bought first? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:30:34 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Like you're dying to know what I just got... On Mar 19, 2007, at 2:04 PM, 2fs wrote: > That would be an absolutely killing Jeopardy category: Bass Players > Who > Dress Like Nine-Year-Old Girls. The guy from Weezer? Flea? On Mar 19, 2007, at 1:58 PM, 2fs wrote: > > Sing like Sean Connery? I wasn't aware of Mr. Connery's vocal > stylings. Well Trebek, after last night your mother is!!! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:31:35 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Like you're dying to know what I just got... On 3/19/07, 2fs wrote: > > That would be an absolutely killing Jeopardy category: Bass Players Who > Dress Like Nine-Year-Old Girls. Hee. Every time it's happened, it's been sensible footwear for both parties somehow... variations on the Converse theme, of which both individuals have a fair amount. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:35:07 -0500 From: "natalie jacobs" Subject: shoes, bunnies, and Rush > I believe so. She made the rounds, Jules Sheer, Jon Brion and Dave > Gregory before finding and marrying Michael Penn. > Peter Wolf was also rumored to be in there at some point. Apparently she broke Dave Gregory's heart, for which I can never forgive her. (The fact that I never cared for her music to start with makes that vendetta considerably easier.) > > There's nothing wrong with discussing quality footwear; good shoes, > someone to snuggle with and a warm place to shit are three the things > EVERYBODY in life needs. Danskos, man. It's all about the Danskos. There's a place here in Austin that often has Danskos on sale for $80 (usual price is $120 or so), and I've got two pairs, and I love them to death. They look great AND they're super comfortable. I cannot speak too highly of them. I've also been jonesing for a pair of lace-up boots ("period-correct for the Civil War re-enactor") from the awesomest clothing website ever, http://plainlydressed.com. Yes, it's a website that sells handmade Amish and Mennonite clothing. Since the Amish aren't supposed to use computers, I'm not sure how this all works, but I sure dig those boots. I know what you mean; I once saw this chick at a Rush show that was > *smoking* hot, knew all the words and stood the whole show air drumming. My friend's husband is a massive Rush fan and insisted on naming their pet rabbits Bytor and the Snow-Dog. My friend was stunned that I recognized where the names came from - "a female Rush fan??" - but I hastily explained that I only knew the names because of the Feglist. I'm not a freak of nature! Well, not *that* much of a freak of nature, anyway. anomalously, n. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:46:37 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Like you're dying to know what I just got... On 3/19/07, Marc Alberts wrote: > > Now, I have shot > professionally previously and have about a dozen cameras I still keep of > various sorts, but I had avoided digital because I just love film and I'm > a > camera luddite (my favorite camera is literally 50 years old). I bought > the > Lumix because it had a Leica lens, because it could do RAW, and because it > could do full manual. As a semi-avid manual luddite myself, and also being pretty damned poor, I just don't like digital cameras. But as a parent, my main question about them is why, when every other device that's digital does shit faster than its analog analogue, does every digital camera I've ever been handed take somewhere in the neighborhood of 2-5 seconds to actually take a photo after you press the button? 'Cuz kids get bored and look away every time. Yes, you can keep deleting the pictures of them looking to the side, but the only thing you can replace them with is... more picture of the same kids looking to the side, with even more bored expressions. - -Rex One big, big, big con to this and all other similar format cameras (other > than the Leica M8, which has many other cons but not this one): why the > hell has the industry assumed that a maximum aperture of f2.8 is > acceptable > for a camera that has the rest of the specs? WTF? Didn't know that. Well, grrrrr on your behalf. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:49:11 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: My name is "Brittany Spears", and my spasticism is becoming rather becoming (if I may say so) with robyn on vocals? that's pretty neat, if so. eighty percent of german casualties were suffered on the eastern front. but part of that was intentional (i.e., owing to the allies' delaying of the implementation of "overlord"). for me, it was chris elliott (especially in his marv albert guise) and larry "bud" melman. a while back the republicans had a summer picnic event here which was attended by newt gingrich -- with whom one could have one's picture taken for $20. a friend of mine put on an "i'm with stupid" t-shirt and went and paid his $20 to have the picture taken; which picture i later saw with my own eyes. it was pretty damned funny. do you really think he'd rather the former than the latter? i know you don't posit it as an either/or choice, but, c'mon: you *really* don't need to feel sorry for any member of the beatles (except maybe pete best). . probably not the quality you're looking for; but it's there for the taking. i remember an "episode" in which they interrupted an outdoor-taping of the *Today* show with some or other sophomoric antics, and pauley looked *seriously* pissed. if she was play-acting, she was doing a *helluva* job. but then not too terribly long after that, she was on the show with him, yukking it up about the old days. so my guess is that she was probably genuinely not very happy about it at the time, but is able to look back and laugh. and pete buck plays bass during minus 5 gigs. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:01:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: My name is "Brittany Spears", and my spasticism is becoming rather becoming (if I may say so) Stacked Crooked wrote: > 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.> > > i remember an "episode" in which they interrupted an outdoor-taping > of the *Today* show with some or other sophomoric antics, and > pauley looked *seriously* pissed. Yeah, but that's Dave fucking with _HER_ show, not her being part of a gag on his. That incident was what drove Bryant Gumbel to not appear with Letterman for years (i.e. until his career needed the boost), so it did some good. > if she was play-acting, she was doing a *helluva* job. but then > not too terribly long after that, she was on the show with him, > yukking it up about the old days. so my guess is that she was > probably genuinely not very happy about it at the time, but is > able to look back and laugh. "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:04:18 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: My name is "Brittany Spears", and my spasticism is becoming rather becoming (if I may say so) On 3/19/07, Stacked Crooked wrote: > > > Crazy, man.> > > and pete buck plays bass during minus 5 gigs. Yah, and Gil 'n' Dave often play all their own shiz... isn't Gil's drumming audible on "Spooked" (obviously a question for the list at large... Eddie, I'm sorry for even mentioning that album in your thread). Robyn Hitchcock and the New Main Street Singers? The New Feggy Minstrels? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:15:16 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: My name is "Brittany Spears", and my spasticism is becoming rather becoming (if I may say so) Oh, and re: the subject heading, I remember early in Britney's career seeing her name occasionally rendered "Brittany Spheres", which, if you can get past the boob joke and put a definite article in front of it, really looks like an artist that belonged on that Best of Prog list, with some album title about dryads of the cosmos etc. - -Retc. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:44:22 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #107 > >> 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. Hey - who you callin' a strange loop? > >I'm leaning towards the shoes. > >But as one of my adolescent hereoes suggested, brown shoes don't make it... > strangely, in the digest, this one followed a post about George Harrison. Anyone else here want a short haired girl who sometimes wears it twice as long? 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 18:06:24 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Your Friendly Rush update For 99 cents, you can own the new Rush single, "Far Cry," over at iTunes. - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:50:26 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #108 > > >> 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. I also seem to recall a song of that title from back when U2 were interesting. > 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! black slip-ons. I *hate* laces. 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: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:10:01 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: swapping covers >"Your challenge-if you choose to accept it-is to find two performers >that you would like to see do covers of each other's signature songs. > Or, alternatively, who would you like to see do a duet together, and >what song would you like to see them do?" Jethro Tull covering "Airscape" and Robyn Hitchcock covering "Living in the past" would be quite fun. David Kilgour covering "Baby's on fire" (or better yet, either "Backwater" or "Burning airlines...") and Eno covering "Here come the cars". XTC covering "Heavenly pop hit" and the Chills covering "Senses working overtime". Patti Smith covering "Red right hand" and Nick Cave covering "Dancing Barefoot" (I'd like to hear Tom Waits cover RRH as well) The last reminds me of a short-lived UK television programme - whose title eludes me, unfortunately - which was a sort of three-way "Unplugged", with three performers playing their own and each others songs. ISTR That Cave and John Cale were on the same episode, leading to a great Nick Cave cover of "Hallelujah". 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 16:48:37 -0400 (EDT) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Re: Like you're dying to know what I just got... Lauren wrote: >>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. Retail therapy, baby! Last weekend I bought books at Borders, and then trotted right down the street and got more at Barnes & Noble. They weren't things I could get at my fave little hole-in-the-wall bookstore (without special ordering) so the guilt level is relatively low. Let's see: Ford's The Good Soldier, a collection of Gogol's short stories, a cute little graphic novel called Bizenghast, vol 2 (OK, now that one my bookstore buddy could have sold me. But really, he already sees a healthy percentage of my paycheck - shut up, conscience!) Ahem. Sorry. Then I went to the mall to get stockings for a certain upcoming musical event so that I will be prepared to groove the night away. I *almost* bought The Bird and The Bee CD, but I already feel like WXPN's bitch (they've been selling it HARD for the last couple of weeks). Has anyone else heard it? Is it fun all the way through? Finally, today I bought a cheapo barrister-style bookcase to protect the more precious books from my paper-gnawing cats. It's unassembled, so I anticipate some swearing and drinking tonight, after I drag the damn thing upstairs. I just got my tax return, can't you tell?! Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:48:22 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Like you're dying to know what I just got... Christopher Gross wrote: > > I knew a real, honest-to-god female Rush fan back in college ... My sister was. I suspect she no longer has the denim vest on which she carefully embroidered the 2112 logo. She's a sometime singer in a xtian prog band (!), and is now a devoted folkie: . Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:01:03 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Like you're dying to know what I just got... 2fs wrote: > > Sing like Sean Connery? I wasn't aware of Mr. Connery's vocal stylings. Well, she kind of shingsh like thish, which I'm shure I'll get shick of, eventually. > Uh...I was under the impression that Facebook, rather like Logan's Run, just > obliterated your existence thereon once you turned 25 or so. Why, no - ever since they opened it up to non .edu addresses, everyone's there. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:09:37 -0700 From: "Marc Alberts" Subject: RE: Like you're dying to know what I just got... Rex wrote: > As a semi-avid manual luddite myself, and also being pretty damned > poor, I > just don't like digital cameras. But as a parent, my main question > about > them is why, when every other device that's digital does shit faster > than > its analog analogue, does every digital camera I've ever been handed > take > somewhere in the neighborhood of 2-5 seconds to actually take a photo > after > you press the button? No idea as to the whys, but until you get to the top of the line professional digital SLRs this is true. Very frustrating, too. I think Henri Cartier-Bresson is spinning in his grave at the thought of all those people out there taking photos of blinks and casually tossing them away. > 'Cuz kids get bored and look away every time. > Yes, > you can keep deleting the pictures of them looking to the side, but the > only > thing you can replace them with is... more picture of the same kids > looking > to the side, with even more bored expressions. I think this is one of the major reasons why all the best digital photographers are old fogeys that learned during the manual and film days. The desire for immediate gratification and the impulse to delete that which isn't perfect is combined in digital cameras into almost the perfect medium for *not* learning how to make photographs. And of course, if the picture isn't perfect it must be the camera's fault, which plays right into what the camera companies want you to think. > > One big, big, big con to this and all other similar format cameras > (other > > than the Leica M8, which has many other cons but not this one): why > the > > hell has the industry assumed that a maximum aperture of f2.8 is > > acceptable > > for a camera that has the rest of the specs? > > > WTF? Didn't know that. Well, grrrrr on your behalf. I don't get it. It should be relatively easy to make a lens that can at least do f1.8 if not f1.4 on a digital body--you just need to be willing to sacrifice zoom (another feature that seems useful but makes learning how to make photos more difficult). So the only cameras that can shoot with a fairly open aperture are those with removable lenses like SLRs and the Leica (a digital rangefinder that is way too big to be a solid candids camera even though it probably has the best lenses for the job ever made). It really sucks--I want a rangefinder for a few things rangefinders do really well, like candids, but you can't do that digitally with a camera the size of a brick or a lens that slow. A whole school of photography is going to die unless Voigtlander or Konica or Leica get off their butts and finally make a decent digital rangefinder. Marc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:22:07 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Like you're dying to know what I just got... Marc Alberts wrote: > > I bought this same camera (the silver one, not the black one--kind of wish I > had that choice to do over again) I have the black one. It's quite pretty. > ... it has that annoying delay before shooting that you don't get shooting > with a film rangefinder. are you forgetting about the wind-on and focus delay, not to mention the bloody irritating film-rewind-and-change bit every 20-36 frames? I used to shoot rangefinders (Bessa-R, with Nokton and Super-Wide Heliar - - fun!), but I can currently see no advantage to film. > why the > hell has the industry assumed that a maximum aperture of f2.8 is acceptable > for a camera that has the rest of the specs? 'cos with smaller sensors you get the same DOF with a slower lens? Since the number of people who want these features is vanishingly small, and since a sub f/2 lens is pretty big (and rather hard to make well), the cost would be high. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:23:43 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Like you're dying to know what I just got... On 3/19/07, Marc Alberts wrote: > > > brick or a lens that slow. A whole school of photography is going to die > unless Voigtlander or Konica or Leica get off their butts and finally make > a > decent digital rangefinder. Oh, that's just market forces at work... (ducks under a bridge with the rest of the trolls...) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:32:07 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Like you're dying to know what I just got... Marc Alberts wrote: > > No idea as to the whys, but until you get to the top of the line > professional digital SLRs this is true. Not really. My three year old D70 is pretty bloody instantaneous. The Lumix has a slight delay, fractionally more than my older Sony P100. My ancient Fujifilm (1.3 megapixel! w00t!) is a couple of seconds. The hip photoblogger kids these days use prefocus (just like old rangefinder fogeys) to grab quick shots. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:33:56 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: Like you're dying to know what I just got... Rex says: > As a semi-avid manual luddite myself, and also being pretty damned poor, I > just don't like digital cameras. Buy much film lately? xo Lauren, Nikon F2 with 50mm lens, F1.4 (neglected) - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:32:16 -0700 From: "michael wells" Subject: RE: Like you're dying to know what I just got... Tom: > Those are nice and all, but I can't for the life of me think of a time or place where I would wear such fancy footwear, or a tie. Coffin perhaps? Oh, good heavens no...there's no need to wear shoes in a coffin. You want to make an impression on the way out, but not necessarily look good doing it. I'm leaving instructions to have an open casket with me wearing only a brocade g-string. Then the lights go down, magnesium flares go off, Buck Dharma leaps over the casket blasting the opening chords of "Hot Rails to Hell" while cage dancers rise out of the floor on either side of the casket. Trust me; they'll be talking about THAT one for a month of Sundays. Screw having your ashes scattered. It's your last chance, so make it memorable. (unless you've made prior arrangements to come back and haunt someone, that is) Kevin: > If memory serves that was originally "loose shoes." And a tight, um, snuggle. You are correct sir! Heh, heh, heh. You win a loose pair of shoes! Remember, paraphrasing is sometimes the better half of good taste. > I later saw Oswalt open for Kristin Hersh (who also has gotten funnier and more engaging in her stage patter over time). Huh? Stage patter? I admit the giant head shimmy is pretty funny, but she's never had a much of a stage personality in the shows I've seen (admittedly, I try to avoid them). Lauren: > Now there's no reason to go making up stories, Mr. Wells. No shit, it's true. She hath known the music that dare not speak its name. Viv: > I went to law school with a guy whose personal philosophy was organized around a concept he called "the ten-year shoe." I like it! Could be "The Last Theory," or "Life is like a leather upper." And did you ever kiss him? Or was he a heel? Barbara: > "Your challenge-if you choose to accept it-is to find two performers that you would like to see do covers of each other's signature songs. Right off the bat I can remember thinking ACDC should do Heart's "Barracuda" and the ladies could cover "Whole Lot of Rosie." Of course, that was back when Heart killed on stage and still had Carmassi on the kit. Gnat: > My friend's husband is a massive Rush fan and insisted on naming their pet rabbits Bytor and the Snow-Dog. If one is white and fluffy, it's a natural. Uh, your friend isn't Gene, is it? Cause that's something he would do, and he's right down the road from you. Quail: > For 99 cents, you can own the new Rush single, "Far Cry," over at iTunes. Or you can stream it into CoolEdit and...never mind. Speaking of Gene, his comment on this new song was something to the effect of having his head smashed in like a pumpkin the day after Halloween. Which I thought was a *little* strong, but I like it. The comment, that is. And the song. Song comment. Whatever. It does fucking ROCK. Michael ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #110 ********************************