From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #115 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, March 22 2007 Volume 16 : Number 115 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: In Squid News To-day... ["Stewart C. Russell" ] reap [2fs ] Re: reap ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Reap [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: In Squid News To-day... ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: digital vs film ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: reap ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: reap ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] RE: digital vs film ["Marc Alberts" ] RE: digital vs film ["Marc Alberts" ] RE: digital vs film ["Marc Alberts" ] Re: Atlanta ["Michael Sweeney" ] Letterman Illness/Melman death? ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: In Squid News To-day... [Tom Clark ] Re: Letterman Illness/Melman death? [Tom Clark ] Arbre du Ténéré [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Arbre du Ténéré [Jeff Dwarf ] RE: digital vs film ["Bachman, Michael" ] RE: In Squid News To-day... ["Bachman, Michael" ] my name is "Eddie" and my johnson has an auto-zoom ["Michael Wells" ] RE: All You 'Til Tuesday Fans... ["Bachman, Michael" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:29:49 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: In Squid News To-day... Tom Clark wrote: > > Send me some! This Sudafed PE stuff is bunk. Oh, and if you have any > ether that would be good too. Come to Canada. You can get Codeine over the counter. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:35:10 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: reap Larry "Bud" Melman (Calvert DeForest), 85 - < http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070321/ap_en_tv/obit_larry_bud_melman> - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:38:31 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: reap Tom Clark wrote: > > http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/ The PostScript one's bloody awful. Far longer than it needs to be, and far too intelligible. (I so do not need another project right now ...) Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:49:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Reap Calvert DeForest aka Larry "Bud" Melman "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Finding fabulous fares is fun. Let Yahoo! FareChase search your favorite travel sites to find flight and hotel bargains. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:02:28 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: In Squid News To-day... Tom Clark says: > On the other hand: > "SquidSoap - Training Tomorrow's Great Hand Washers" morphed in my > brain to "SquidSoap - Training Tomorrow's great OCD Sufferers" Moderation in all things. Either extreme is gross. > > > > > * the *real* stuff - BHC (behind-the-counter) > > Send me some! This Sudafed PE stuff is bunk. Oh, and if you have > any ether that would be good too. I believe you just have to go to the counter and ask. There is a limit on how many packages you can get. I had to show my license, which seemed a bit intrusive, but yeah, the PE stuff was not cutting it. Of course, tc, I'd still be happy to send you some. BTW, did anyone see that killer Frontline called "The Meth Epidemic" (..."or something like that.") I believe they stream it on the Frontline site which also has all kinds of good stuff to watch. The best part was when they showed the multi-year police photos of chronic arrestees. Talk about bags under the eyes. Oh, yeah, the Frontline site has a gnarly page on what happens to your teeth if you fail to heed the warnings. xo - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:02:59 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: digital vs film Rob wrote: > > As far as I know, digital SLRs still have a shutter to make the > appropriate noise. Mine certainly does. Most of the shutter noise in an SLR is actually the mirror. The shutter is usually a fairly quiet click. My old Pentacon medium format SLR made a spectacular "KER-SHLUPP!", as it had a vast (non-auto) mirror - no view if not wound on - and a big floppy cloth focal-plane shutter. But nothing quite matches the tiny, perfect tick of a Compur leaf shutter. Stewart (and if I hear another Canon digicam with the bird tweet or dog bark shutter sound ...) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:07:24 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: reap > Nice. Perhaps you've seen the 99 Bottles of Beer in over 1,000 > programming languages: > http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/ Oh, I live for this kind of stuff (sad, I know.) But everyone who knows anything knows Real Programmers Use FORTRAN: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html choice quote: "If you can't do it in Fortran, do it in assembly language. If you can't do it in assembly language, it isn't worth doing." xo - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:59:51 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: reap Tom Clark still says: > Nice. Perhaps you've seen the 99 Bottles of Beer in over 1,000 > programming languages: > http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/ And yes, someone implemented it in Brainfuck: http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-brainfuck-101.html xo - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:30:08 -0700 From: "Marc Alberts" Subject: RE: digital vs film Rex asked: > > Okay, so it's not just me... but the question remains...why why why do > are > all these technologically advanced cameras simply incapable of actually > taking a picture when you press the button that's supposed to make them > do > that? The shittiest computer keyboard prints a character as soon as > you > touch it, so what's the stumbling block here? The shittiest computer keyboard doesn't have to calculate light levels, set exposure and aperture levels, evaluate flash levels, focus the camera, or create an open slot in system memory before typing a character. This delay was common in consumer film point-and-shoot cameras, but it has been transferred over to consumer and even "prosumer" digital cameras. The way to get around it is to half-depress the shutter release button on most models, as they will pre-focus and pre-expose. The only down sides of this are: 1) you have to keep your finger on the button without adding enough pressure to actually take a picture, something which isn't necessarily easy; 2) if you try to do this in real time, you still have the exact same lag, it is just now separated from the actual shutter activation; and 3) if you move at all, odds are your exposure will be off by some amount. The pro level cameras like the Nikon D series can afford, due to size, to put much bigger processors in there to speed up the process. Marc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:40:25 -0700 From: "Marc Alberts" Subject: RE: digital vs film Jeff wrote: > No idea - a major annoyance. I'm not a "photographer" per se (I mean, > all > the tech jargon you folks have been using sailed right over my head), > but I > do know the first thing or two about photography (just not the third, > fourth, etc.), and it is occasionally frustrating trying to figure out > how > to get the camera to do something (or *not* do something, more often). > I > mostly just use it to take pictures of friends and stupid things - but > on > occasion, I've tried to take halfway decent-looking photographs. > Sometimes, > I'll kinda succeed - but it's just not been a big enough deal for me to > invest either time or money in working on my mad photo skillz. This is why I was complaining about the fact that camera manufacturers don't have lenses that really open up--shots with almost infinite depth of field are sometimes what you want, but most of the time for decent looking photos (especially ones that match up with what your eye actually sees--the camera *does* indeed lie in that regard) require that some parts in the foreground and the background not be in focus so as not to distract from the central subject. On a 7mm focal length lens (usually the equivalent to about a 35mm in 35mm film photography), f2.8 puts everything from about 10" out from the lens at the same focal plane. In other words--if your main subject is even a couple feet away, by choosing to focus on it you're guaranteed everything behind it will also be equally clear. To give an example of how this can totally change an image, look at http://www.afterimagegallery.com/bressontaxidrivers.htm and decide if the photo would be as appealing if the car in the background were just as sharp as the guy on the left, or if it would be a distraction. Marc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:01:14 -0700 From: "Marc Alberts" Subject: RE: digital vs film Stewart wrote: > Rob wrote: > > > > As far as I know, digital SLRs still have a shutter to make the > > appropriate noise. Mine certainly does. > > Most of the shutter noise in an SLR is actually the mirror. The shutter > is usually a fairly quiet click. Fairly quiet indeed, but the shutters are metal on all the SLRs I know, which means they do make independent noise from the mirror. The mirror is indeed the noisier part, though. That's one of the reasons I like Leicas and Leica copies--no mirror and silk shutters, which means they are nearly silent. Makes for good candids. > > My old Pentacon medium format SLR made a spectacular "KER-SHLUPP!", as > it had a vast (non-auto) mirror - no view if not wound on - and a big > floppy cloth focal-plane shutter. I have banging around somewhere one of those giant Mamiya 6x7 medium format cameras, and that does the same thing. It's quite satisfying, but not exactly the best sound to have if you're trying to convince someone you didn't just take a photo of 'em ;-) > > But nothing quite matches the tiny, perfect tick of a Compur leaf > shutter. Ah, the Compur. My Rolleiflex M TLR is a thing of beauty in part because of this lovely shutter. Plus, they have those lovely Tessar lenses, which have such a perfect boke--better than Leica glass IMO. Marc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:22:49 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: Atlanta Lauren said: >Wow, he did "Surgery". I'm jealous! With or without anesthesia? Now, I know they're called surgical "theatres," so I wonder what's gonna happen at World Cafe in Philly next week...maybe I should pack scrubs, just in case... Aha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! Or: maybe not... Michael Sweeney I would never like the pope more than I'd expect... _________________________________________________________________ Get a FREE Web site, company branded e-mail and more from Microsoft Office Live! http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/mcrssaub0050001411mrt/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:21:26 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Letterman Illness/Melman death? Am I the only one who thinks that Letterman's current illness might be a case of the blues over the death of Calvert DeForrest? M _________________________________________________________________ 5.5%* 30 year fixed mortgage rate. Good credit refinance. Up to 5 free quotes - *Terms https://www2.nextag.com/goto.jsp?product=100000035&url=%2fst.jsp&tm=y&search=mortgage_text_links_88_h2a5d&s=4056&p=5117&disc=y&vers=910 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:31:30 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: In addition to Robyn More SxSW live stuff here. - - Steve ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:30:10 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: In Squid News To-day... On Mar 21, 2007, at 6:02 PM, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > Tom Clark says: >> Send me some! This Sudafed PE stuff is bunk. Oh, and if you have >> any ether that would be good too. > > I believe you just have to go to the counter and ask. There is a > limit on how many packages you can get. I had to show my license, > which seemed a bit intrusive, but yeah, the PE stuff was not cutting > it. The wife promised to pick up the real stuff tomorrow. I've got to dry myself out pronto, or this shit's gonna fester into a sinus infection. Grr... > > Of course, tc, I'd still be happy to send you some. I do believe that would be a federal offense. > > BTW, did anyone see that killer Frontline called "The Meth Epidemic" > (..."or something like that.") The > best part was when they showed the multi-year police photos of chronic > arrestees. Oh man those are so creepy. There are a few such progressions out there and they always freak me out. http://www.stargazettenews.com/newsextra/drugs/032804_effects.html http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1628/1668/1600/downward-spiral4.jpg - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:11:25 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Letterman Illness/Melman death? On Mar 21, 2007, at 9:21 PM, Maximilian Lang wrote: > Am I the only one who thinks that Letterman's current illness might > be a case of the blues over the death of Calvert DeForrest? I don't think it is related. Dave got sick and cancelled hours before Calvert's death was reported. The recent talk of Dave memories brought back a lot of my own, as I taped his show every night for the first ten years or so it was on. Will it Float? Now I catch it occasionally and always enjoy Dave's offbeat humor. It's Just Plain Big! I guess I'm glad Calvert got such a big break so late in life. This is only an exhibition, not a competition - please, no wagering. I'm sure his retirement years were comfortable thanks to Dave. Flying monkeys is funny! - -tc, (audience member, 7/23/99) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 05:38:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Arbre du Ténéré This may be too famous for me to be surprised to learn about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbre_du_Tiniri "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ It's here! Your new message! Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 05:46:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Arbre du Ténéré Jeff Dwarf wrote: > This may be too famous for me to be surprised to learn about it. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbre_du_Tiniri erg, turned the accented e's into i's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbre_du_T%C3%A9n%C3%A9r%C3%A9 http://tinyurl.com/mtdc2 "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ It's here! Your new message! Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:06:50 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: digital vs film Lauren wrote: >hi fegs, >the sounds of the shutter opening and closing are two of the best sounds in the world*. >but they can't be faked. Which is the exact reason I am hanging on to my Minolta 7000 Maxium and still use it. It may be 20 years old, but is still takes great outdoor photos. MJ Bachman NP of montreal - the sunlandic twins ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:24:02 +0000 From: craigie* Subject: Re: digital vs film which is, of course, what makes Duran Duran's "Girls On Film " so listenable. Apart from the video of course ;-) c* On 21/03/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > hi fegs, > > the sounds of the shutter opening and closing are two of the best > sounds in the world*. > > but they can't be faked. > > xo > > > * this is so true that i don't even know if i stole this from some > other photographer or thought it myself > > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." > > - The Buddha > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:30:41 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: In Squid News To-day... - - Tom Clark wrote: >> >> Send me some! This Sudafed PE stuff is bunk. Oh, and if you have any >> ether that would be good too. Stewart wrote: >Come to Canada. You can get Codeine over the counter. 222's! Those aspirins with Codeine knock the heck out of a hangover. No trip to Windsor, ONT used to be complete without buying some from the drug store along with a case of Labatt's from the Brewers Retail. MJ Bachman ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:26:37 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: All You 'Til Tuesday Fans... Subject: All You 'Til Tuesday Fans... Lauren wrote: >I was listening to "Everything's Different Now" to-day... >Do I misinterpret this: >"You keep saying that you're only human >What you mean is that you think you're the only human here. Still I think that it's just a rumour" No, that's it. So many great lines from Aimee on EDN. Her's a couple of other crackers: "There must be some other door that they are saving behind which my happiness lies..." "So long, I'm sorry darling, I was counting to forever, but never even got to ten" "Why must I take it so hard, when other people get by with either bourbon or God. But my world became this one boy It's the way that I'm made do ya think I enjoy it?" No wonder why some reviewers thought she went over the edge. Especially since they all knew who she was referring to and even named him in "J is for Jules". MJ Bachman ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:23:41 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: digital vs film On 3/21/07, Marc Alberts wrote: > > Rex asked: > > > > Okay, so it's not just me... but the question remains...why why why do > > are > > all these technologically advanced cameras simply incapable of actually > > taking a picture when you press the button that's supposed to make them > > do > > that? The shittiest computer keyboard prints a character as soon as > > you > > touch it, so what's the stumbling block here? > > The shittiest computer keyboard doesn't have to calculate light levels, > set > exposure and aperture levels, evaluate flash levels, focus the camera, or > create an open slot in system memory before typing a character. This > delay > was common in consumer film point-and-shoot cameras, but it has been > transferred over to consumer and even "prosumer" digital cameras. Ah, that's what I get for never having owned (and rarely used) a point-and-shoot in my life. Mystery solved, lameness intact. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:31:34 -0600 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: my name is "Eddie" and my johnson has an auto-zoom Headline: "Don King got a front row seat at Pope Benedict XVI's general audience Wednesday." Those doves they release probably tried to nest in his hair. > I have a little Scarlett Johansson preoccupation. Beats a Phil Spector obsession. How about that creepy new blond Beatles look for the trial? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17648468/ . Bring back the 'fro! Or maybe he can reverse-pageboy that thing with an outward flip. Something. Anything. That is just plain wrong. Whither the next starlet? With whom can I be obsessed, now that everybody is onto Scarlett and Natalie Portman's face is taking on some hard edges? Tom, any help on this? > So many great lines from Aimee The video for "Voices Carry" was playing at the gym last night. I'm being followed by feg topics! So much good new music on the horizon, especially on the indie Americana front. One of my favorites: Paul Curreri has a terrific website to go with a new album THE VELVET RUT, check out http://www.paulcurreri.com . His wife Devon Sproule also has a new disc KEEP YOUR SILVER SHINED with more info at http://www.devonsproule.com . Not newly released but new to me is Arkansas-based Cindy Woolf http://cindywoolf.mayapplerecords.com/ with what I think of as a rootsy, traditional sound. No news is a sure sign the paperboy forgot to come today, Michael ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:16:17 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: All You 'Til Tuesday Fans... That one's a real zinger then, even by Aimee-standards. > So many great lines from Aimee on EDN. > No wonder why some reviewers thought she went over the edge. Especially > since they all knew who she was referring to and even named him in "J is > for Jules". She does write an amazing break-up song. I remember her being interviewed when "I'm With Stupid" was just out and the interviewer asked her whether it was a reference to a relationship or a label; she said "yes" with an inflection that meant "both." And then something like, "I mean, when has it ever not been true?" "I'm With Stupid" took so long to come out that I actually bought the stupid "Melrose Place" CD because it had "That's Just What You Are" as the first cut. Someone mentioned Aimee's record label. I especially liked that whole bit because "Bachelor #2" sort of rode the coattails of the success of "Magnolia" - I had to purchase "Bachelor #2" from her website, but not long after that, I saw it in places like Borders. Since "Magnolia" brought her some modest fame (I mean, Paul Thomas Anderson was saying he wrote the movie around her songs), I could only hope that the record execs that rejected "Bachelor #2" were strangling each other over that. xo - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:30:08 -0400 From: wojbearpig Subject: NEW on DIME: Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 - Atlanta - 3-20-2007 http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=139491&hit=1 - ----- Forwarded message from DIME ----- A new torrent has been uploaded to DIME. Torrent: 139491 Title: Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 - Atlanta - 3-20-2007 Size: 546.61 MB Category: Alternate Uploaded by: Clamhat Description - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 Smith's Olde Bar Atlanta, Georgia 20 March, 2007 Total Running Time: 95:36:840 Band (in order of appearance) - ----------------------------- Robyn Hitchcock Bill Rieflin Peter Buck Scott McCaughey Recording Equipment - ------------------- Sony MZR-30 MiniDisc Sound Professionals Binaural Mics Process - ------- Xfer to PC CoolEdit Pro multi-track to single .wav Normalized to 91%, L/R channels separately Cut, Export to .wav .wav -> .flac, lvl 8 Track Listing - ------------- 01 Intro 02 Surgery 03 Dialog 04 Queen Elvis 05 Dialog 06 Flanagan's Song 07 Dialog 08 Brenda's Iron Sledge 09 Dialog 10 New York Doll 11 Unknown 12 Dialog 13 Ole Tarantula 14 (Mic Adjustments) 15 Sally Was a Legend 16 Chinese Bones 17 Dialog 18 Madonna of the Wasps 19 Dialog 20 Vibrating 21 Dialog 22 Creeped Out 23 Dialog 24 Balloon Man 25 Not Dark Yet (Dylan) 26 Dialog (Disc Swap) 27 Afterlife Encore - ------ 28 Dialog (Intro to Encore) 29 Aw Shit, Man 30 Cigarettes, Coffee, and Booze 31 Eight Miles High 32 Give it to the Soft Boys - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:36:35 -0400 From: FSThomas Subject: RH and the Venus 3 - Atlanta (Uploaded) Fegz and Veggies, I've uploaded the Atlanta gig to Dime and am in the process of uploading it to Archive.org. http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=139491 Track Listing - ------------- Surgery Queen Elvis Flanagan's Song Brenda's Iron Sledge New York Doll Unknown (New Song?) Ole Tarantula Sally Was a Legend Chinese Bones Madonna of the Wasps Vibrating Creeped Out Balloon Man Not Dark Yet (Dylan) Afterlife Encore - ------ Aw Shit, Man Cigarettes, Coffee, and Booze Eight Miles High Give it to the Soft Boys Total running time is about 95:37. - -ferris. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:38:13 +0000 From: craigie* Subject: Re: All You 'Til Tuesday Fans... I hope that Record Company Execs take up strangling each other as an Olympic sport. Problem: What do we do with the eventual winner? c* On 22/03/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > That one's a real zinger then, even by Aimee-standards. > > > So many great lines from Aimee on EDN. > > > No wonder why some reviewers thought she went over the edge. Especially > > since they all knew who she was referring to and even named him in "J is > > for Jules". > > She does write an amazing break-up song. > > I remember her being interviewed when "I'm With Stupid" was just out > and the interviewer asked her whether it was a reference to a > relationship or a label; she said "yes" with an inflection that meant > "both." And then something like, "I mean, when has it ever not been > true?" > > "I'm With Stupid" took so long to come out that I actually bought the > stupid "Melrose Place" CD because it had "That's Just What You Are" as > the first cut. > > Someone mentioned Aimee's record label. I especially liked that whole > bit because "Bachelor #2" sort of rode the coattails of the success of > "Magnolia" - I had to purchase "Bachelor #2" from her website, but not > long after that, I saw it in places like Borders. Since "Magnolia" > brought her some modest fame (I mean, Paul Thomas Anderson was saying > he wrote the movie around her songs), I could only hope that the > record execs that rejected "Bachelor #2" were strangling each other > over that. > > xo > > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." > > - The Buddha > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:48:26 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: All You 'Til Tuesday Fans... Lauren: >That one's a real zinger then, even by Aimee-standards. > > So many great lines from Aimee on EDN. > >No wonder why some reviewers thought she went over the edge. > >Especially since they all knew who she was referring to and even named > >him in "J is for Jules". >She does write an amazing break-up song. Another one, 4th of July from "Whatever". "Oh, Baby, I wonder if - when you get older - someday - you'll wake up and say "My God, I should have told her- what would it take"? But now here I am and the world's gotten colder and she's got the river, down which I sold her". Could've Been Anyone: "Your pattern is different from what it implies - The words may be true, but - I realize. It isn't description, so much as disguise" Lauren again: >"I'm With Stupid" took so long to come out that I actually bought the stupid "Melrose Place" CD because it had "That's Just What You Are" as the first cut. That's makes two of us. Lauren again: >Someone mentioned Aimee's record label. I especially liked that whole bit because "Bachelor #2" sort of rode the coattails of the success of "Magnolia" - I had to purchase "Bachelor #2" from her website, but not long after that, I saw it in places like Borders. Since "Magnolia" brought her some modest fame (I mean, Paul Thomas Anderson was saying he wrote the movie around her songs), I could only hope that the record execs that rejected "Bachelor #2" were strangling each other over that. I even bought the "Bachelor #2" rough demo's from Aimee's website. Aimee used to be my favorite female singer, but as someone mentioned here a year or so ago "She seems to have lost her sense of texture and tempo" after the mediocre Lost In Space and The Forgotten Arm. I concur, as despite many tries, I never warmed up to either album. PT Anderson seems to have disappeared. One bomb with "Punch Drunk Love" and he's no longer the hot commodity in Hollywood anymore. Too bad, as "Hard Eight", "Boogie Nights" and "Magnolia" all had some very nice moments in them. MJ Bachman NP OMD - Organisation ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:18:18 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: RH and the Venus 3 - Atlanta (Uploaded) On Mar 22, 2007, at 9:36 AM, FSThomas wrote: > Afterlife Afterlight? - -tc ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #115 ********************************