From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #117 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, March 23 2007 Volume 16 : Number 117 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #116 ["Scott Butterworth" ] WTF, America? WTF? [Rex ] Re: sasquatch gigolo service (est. 1982) ["David Stovall" ] Re: WTF, America? WTF? [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: sasquatch gigolo service (est. 1982) ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: sasquatch gigolo service (est. 1982) [Tom Clark ] Re: sasquatch gigolo service (est. 1982) ["Bri N" ] Re: shoes, bunnies, and Rush ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: WTF, America? WTF? [Rex ] Re: sasquatch gigolo service (est. 1982) [Rex ] Re: Hoot, hoot! ["vivien lyon" ] Re: sasquatch gigolo service (est. 1982) [Carrie Galbraith ] Not to-night, dear ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: WTF, America? WTF? [kevin ] Re: Not to-night, dear [Tom Clark ] Re: WTF, America? WTF? [2fs ] Re: Philly show ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: RH and the Venus 3 - Atlanta (Uploaded) [oliver ] Re: Not to-night, dear [Rex ] Re: Not to-night, dear ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: Not to-night, dear [2fs ] Re: Not to-night, dear [Rex ] catnip [Dolph Chaney ] Re: catnip [2fs ] Re: WTF, America? WTF? [Rex ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:18:19 -0400 From: "Scott Butterworth" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #116 Did anyone see the Athens show Wednesday night? Robyn was sick in Atlanta, I was wondering how he was doing. Thanks, Scott ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:41:43 -0700 From: Rex Subject: WTF, America? WTF? So, an upgraded bootleg of a 1971 Neil Young show is the SIXTH BEST SELLING RECORD IN THE COUNTRY THIS WEEK? Hell, I'm probably the most ardent Neil fan around here, and I am just astonished by this. What happened to drum up so much enthusiasm for this release? Is it partly a reflection, like "Modern Times" debuting at No. 1, that only older people buy albums any more? Even so, it hasn't been that long since Dylan's "Royal Albert Hall" concert was released, and that's almost certainly the most famous bootleg ever... and I don't remember that hitting the Top 10. Weird era, with so much American Idol, and yet so many massively selling Modest Mouse and Shins records. Did some kind of secret Coexistence Treaty get signed between the practitioners of Fake, Shitty Music and those of Actual, Occasionally Even Good Stuff? In Munich, perhaps? Good news for Neil Young Fans Who Are Also Really Wealthy, the first volume of Neil's Archive Set is supposedly coming out this fall. It covers '63-'71 and comes with 8 CD's, 2 DVD's, a coffee-table book, a filing cabinet, some used guitar strings, a couple of old joints, some of Danny Whitten's ashes and a splinter or two of the True Cross... additional bonus features TBA. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:34:11 -0800 From: "David Stovall" Subject: Re: sasquatch gigolo service (est. 1982) >From: Rex >Supposedly the catnip urge doesn't kick in until later in a cat's life. I >haven't tried it with Exene since she was one or two, but at that point, she >didn't give a rat's ass about it. Guess it varies from cat to cat. My bunch were at least somewhat avidly interested in it within their first year or so. One, Malkovich, will appear literally within ten seconds from anywhere in the house - sometimes comically drowsy-looking and mussed up but always with a forceful "prow?" - when he hears the catnip canister being opened. Otherwise, he's very, very stupid. This is Malkovich: http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l179/da9ve/cats/13-may-malkovich-407.jpg and http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l179/da9ve/cats/20070320-malkovich.jpg d9 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:10:24 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: re: like you're dying to know what i just got... Kevin said: >cf. Michael O'Donoghue, "I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man >who >had no plastic lawn flamingo." God bless Mr. Mike. I still use variations of Mr. Mike's line to his dad, when he called to tell O'Donoghue that his mother had "lost a toe": "Did you look under the fridge?" Michael "Mondo Video" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Mortgage refinance is hot 1) Rates near 30-yr lows 2) Good credit get intro-rate 4.625%* https://www2.nextag.com/goto.jsp?product=100000035&url=%2fst.jsp&tm=y&search=mortgage_text_links_88_h2a5f&s=4056&p=5117&disc=y&vers=743 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:29:48 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: sasquatch gigolo service (est. 1982) - -- David Stovall is rumored to have mumbled on 23. Mdrz 2007 08:34:11 -0800 regarding Re: sasquatch gigolo service (est. 1982): >> From: Rex >> Supposedly the catnip urge doesn't kick in until later in a > cat's life. I >> haven't tried it with Exene since she was one or two, but at > that point, she >> didn't give a rat's ass about it. > > Guess it varies from cat to cat. You know, I'd read the word "catnip" from time to time, but never bothered to look it up and even though it didn't seem to make much sense at times, I always assumed that it meant "cat litter" :-) Anyway, today I *did* look it up and was surprised to find that it's something I wasn't familiar with in real life. According to the German Wikipedia it's a North American phenomenon. It's not entirely clear to me whether that means the cats' reaction is specific to the US and Canada (only 2/3s of all cats seem to respond anyway), whether the right kind of nepeta plant only grows there, or whether people in other regions of the earth just don't get such a kick out of seeing their pets behave that way!? - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:37:48 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: WTF, America? WTF? Rex says: > So, an upgraded bootleg of a 1971 Neil Young show is the SIXTH BEST SELLING > RECORD IN THE COUNTRY THIS WEEK? That just means they're selling it at Starbucks*. xo *not kidding, I looked it up - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:37:44 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: WTF, America? WTF? - -- Rex is rumored to have mumbled on 23. Mdrz 2007 09:41:43 -0700 regarding WTF, America? WTF?: > So, an upgraded bootleg of a 1971 Neil Young show is the SIXTH BEST > SELLING RECORD IN THE COUNTRY THIS WEEK? > > Hell, I'm probably the most ardent Neil fan around here, and I am just > astonished by this. What happened to drum up so much enthusiasm for this > release? Is it partly a reflection, like "Modern Times" debuting at No. > 1, that only older people buy albums any more? That would be my guess. > Weird era, with so much American Idol, and yet so many massively selling > Modest Mouse and Shins records. Did some kind of secret Coexistence > Treaty get signed between the practitioners of Fake, Shitty Music and > those of Actual, Occasionally Even Good Stuff? In Munich, perhaps? OK, so what would that mean? Who's appeasing whom? Given the quality of Eastern European popular music I'd say chances are that the Shins et al. are the ones to invade Poland - the other ones are already there :-) (Not sure if I'm allowed to make jokes about that) > Good news for Neil Young Fans Who Are Also Really Wealthy, the first > volume of Neil's Archive Set is supposedly coming out this fall. I'll seriously consider getting that ... - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:42:53 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: sasquatch gigolo service (est. 1982) David Stovall says: > Otherwise, he's very, very stupid. At least he can get by on his looks. I'm not generally a cat person but he's quite handsome and judging by the 2nd photo, he knows it. xo - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:00:29 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: WTF, America? WTF? >comes with 8 CD's, 2 DVD's, a coffee-table book, a filing cabinet, >some used guitar strings, a couple of old joints, some of Danny Whitten's >ashes and a splinter or two of the True Cross... additional bonus features >TBA. > >-Rex Maybe those "unreleased recordings of Crosby Stills Nash & Young fighting in the dressing room of the Fillmore East" referenced on Zappa's Fillmore East, June 1971 opus? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:02:03 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: sasquatch gigolo service (est. 1982) On Friday, March 23, 2007, at 10:32AM, "Sebastian Hagedorn" wrote: >-- David Stovall is rumored to have mumbled on 23. Mdrz >2007 08:34:11 -0800 regarding Re: sasquatch gigolo service (est. 1982): > >>> From: Rex >>> Supposedly the catnip urge doesn't kick in until later in a >> cat's life. I >>> haven't tried it with Exene since she was one or two, but at >> that point, she >>> didn't give a rat's ass about it. >> >> Guess it varies from cat to cat. > >You know, I'd read the word "catnip" from time to time, but never bothered >to look it up and even though it didn't seem to make much sense at times, I >always assumed that it meant "cat litter" :-) > >Anyway, today I *did* look it up and was surprised to find that it's >something I wasn't familiar with in real life. According to the German >Wikipedia it's a North American phenomenon. It's not entirely clear to me >whether that means the cats' reaction is specific to the US and Canada >(only 2/3s of all cats seem to respond anyway), whether the right kind of >nepeta plant only grows there, or whether people in other regions of the >earth just don't get such a kick out of seeing their pets behave that way!? It might be that it's indiginous to North America*. We've grown catnip and catmint over the years, but between our two (Denis & Brenda) and the other neighborhood cats, the stuff gets trashed within weeks. We'd look out the back window and there they'd be - rolling all over it, eating it, and eventually passing out on top of the plant. Fuckin cat-hippies. *Actually, Wikipedia tells me it grows natively around the northern hemisphere. Party on, Tabby. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:05:25 -0700 From: "Bri N" Subject: Re: sasquatch gigolo service (est. 1982) - -- David Stovall is rumored to have mumbled on 23. Mdrz 2007 08:34:11 -0800 regarding Re: sasquatch gigolo service (est. 1982): >> From: Rex >> Supposedly the catnip urge doesn't kick in until later in a > cat's life. I >> haven't tried it with Exene since she was one or two, but at > that point, she >> didn't give a rat's ass about it. > > Guess it varies from cat to cat. You know, I'd read the word "catnip" from time to time, but never bothered to look it up and even though it didn't seem to make much sense at times, I always assumed that it meant "cat litter" :-) Anyway, today I *did* look it up and was surprised to find that it's something I wasn't familiar with in real life. According to the German Wikipedia it's a North American phenomenon. It's not entirely clear to me whether that means the cats' reaction is specific to the US and Canada (only 2/3s of all cats seem to respond anyway), whether the right kind of nepeta plant only grows there, or whether people in other regions of the earth just don't get such a kick out of seeing their pets behave that way!? - -- Sebastian Hagedorn - --------------------------------------- Nice looking cat Dave9! Strange that catnip is a N. American phenomenon. Everyday's a school day. I have catnip growing wild in my backyard. I dry it and keep it for all year around use. Strange thing is while my cats will eat it fresh (and love it) they won't even bother with it while the herb is still intact on the plant. I wonder why this is? I'm very jealous of my cats on catnip. Why isn't there something so simple that makes human feel this great. Well, maybe pot counts, but I don't think it's quite the same. I guess I'll never know. By the way one of my theories is: If you are good in this life you come back in your next life as a cat with a really good owner. - -Nuppy ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:14:31 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Hoot, hoot! On 3/23/07, michaeljbachman@comcast.net wrote: > > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070322/ap_on_sc/peru_rare_owl > Caught in a "mist-net"? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:15:58 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: shoes, bunnies, and Rush natalie jacobs says: > My friend's husband is a massive Rush fan and insisted on naming their pet > rabbits Bytor and the Snow-Dog. (tc's cat names of Brenda and Denis reminded me to respond to this post.) On first parse*, I read this as children having those names, and I thought, boy, she is a kind wife. * I have a habit when scanning of kind of simultaneously reading from top-to-bottom and bottom-to-top so first parse is often quite inaccurate (but sometimes funnier than actual text.) xo - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:17:04 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: WTF, America? WTF? On 3/23/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > Rex says: > > So, an upgraded bootleg of a 1971 Neil Young show is the SIXTH BEST > SELLING > > RECORD IN THE COUNTRY THIS WEEK? > > That just means they're selling it at Starbucks*. > > xo > > *not kidding, I looked it up Too frighteningly plausible for me to doubt. I guess the next McCartney record is gonna do SRS BSNS. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:11:26 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: sasquatch gigolo service (est. 1982) On 3/23/07, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > > > You know, I'd read the word "catnip" from time to time, but never bothered > to look it up and even though it didn't seem to make much sense at times, > I > always assumed that it meant "cat litter" :-) Conversely, my g/f routinely calls cat litter "cat sand", which I don't remember hearing berfore (as much sense as it does make). But last week I was scanning the over-aisle signs at a drugstore looking for the pet-needs aisle, and indeed, right there under "CAT FOOD" was "CAT SAND". I'd try catnip with Exene again, but honestly she finds enough stuff to behave spastically about on her own (most recently a plastic bag which got attached to her and caused her to rocket around the house "fleeing" it-- looking somewhat like those dragracers that have to deploy a parachute behind them to slow down. Honestly didn't think she was gonna stop, but she finally did, under the bed, panting and refusing to look over her shoulder because it was... still there). - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:40:19 -0800 From: "vivien lyon" Subject: Re: Hoot, hoot! The best thing about this owl (other than it being tiny and having eye-fringe) is the latin name- Xenoglaux! Which literally means "Strange Owl"! V. On 3/23/07, Rex wrote: > > On 3/23/07, michaeljbachman@comcast.net > wrote: > > > > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070322/ap_on_sc/peru_rare_owl > > > > Caught in a "mist-net"? > > -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:12:46 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: sasquatch gigolo service (est. 1982) - -----Original Message----- >From: Tom Clark We've grown catnip and catmint over the years, but between our two (Denis & Brenda) and the other neighborhood cats, the stuff gets trashed within weeks. We'd look out the back window and there they'd be - rolling all over it, eating it, and eventually passing out on top of the plant. Fuckin cat-hippies. I planted it at my place in Oakland for my cat who came to me when he was 7 or 8. He did the same thing - in particular roll on it shamelessly. Then he'd look around glassy-eyed to see if anyone was looking. It was blatant self-gratification and quite out-of-line for Mr. Wong, as he was known. Speaking of native species, I was reading in the encyclopedia (an ancient hand-held book-like object often used to learn about people, places and things before wikipedia) about hummingbirds last eve. A No. Irish friend who was visitng became fascinated by them. I was unaware they are only found in the Western Hemisphere. Put that in your pipe and smoke it! - - c ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:26:24 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: 21st Century Reap Guy on the Internet, 42: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1557531.ece Please. xo - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:31:29 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Not to-night, dear ...or even this century. "Creature that has not had sex for 100m years": http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article1539281.ece xo - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:38:38 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: WTF, America? WTF? >Too frighteningly plausible for me to doubt. > >I guess the next McCartney record is gonna do SRS BSNS. > >-Rex Presumably it won't be long before nobody will be buying CDs except old people (like me) and fetishists/collectors (ditto). Hopefully when the bottom drops out of the music "industry" the speculators & investors who've made such a hash of things will get out and take their money somewhere else...leaving the field to indie labels and neighborhood/boutique retailers and band-operated websites and suchlike goofy obsessives who're too unenlightened to care about anything beyond the actual music. Not quite sure whether it would be a good or bad thing if Starbucks was the biggest force left in the biz. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:44:20 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Not to-night, dear On Friday, March 23, 2007, at 12:34PM, "Lauren Elizabeth" wrote: >...or even this century. > >"Creature that has not had sex for 100m years": >http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article1539281.ece Well just look at it! I wouldn't screw that thing with Bea Arthur's d*ck! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:03:50 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: WTF, America? WTF? On 3/23/07, kevin wrote: > > >Too frighteningly plausible for me to doubt. > > > >I guess the next McCartney record is gonna do SRS BSNS. > > > >-Rex > > Presumably it won't be long before nobody will be buying CDs except old > people (like me) and fetishists/collectors (ditto). I'm inclined to believe that, like a lot of large-voiced prognostications, the claims that no one's going to buy CDs (or whatever other physical media they might make such claims for) will prove rather exaggerated. Currently, CDs offer quite a lot that downloads do not: higher audio quality (not for long); artwork and packaging which not only provide information but give the collection of songs a flavor that a pile of digital files doesn't achieve; and in fact album sequencing which gives shape and context to individual songs. Does your average casual music listener who buys the latest record by whoever won American Idol last year care about any of this? No. Can an industry sustain itself on such casual purchases? Probably not: brand names are useful also to drive sustained careers, not only instant recognition. Are more serious music listeners, who are more inclined to want those sorts of things that CDs currently offer and digital downloads do not, in any danger of disappearing from the face of the earth? Probably not. Of course, the above suggests that a smart online retailer of digital sound files would try to take as many of those benefits as possible: the audio quality is really a bandwidth issue and not likely to remain one for long; the artwork & info issue could be taken care of by including, along with the albums, artwork, credits, etc.; and the album rather than single issue could be addressed by discounting album vs. single prices (which is often done already) to encourage more serious listeners to pick up entire albums rather than "just the hit single" (man we're in a "quote Joe Jackson" mood recently). - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:13:11 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: Philly show I'm not sure what the latest plan was but I have found out more on my end. Unfortunately, my "date" is coming from Lionville so I doubt I'll get there before the opening act. But I would love to at least say hello to folks. xo - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:22:49 -0400 From: oliver Subject: Re: RH and the Venus 3 - Atlanta (Uploaded) On 3/22/07, FSThomas wrote: > Archive.org link for the Atlanta show at Smith's: > > http://www.archive.org/details/Robyn_Hitchcock_and_the_Venus_3-Atlanta-20070320 I'm getting some flac errors on some of these files: 11-RHV3-20070320.flac: testing, 80% complete: ERROR while decoding data 13-RHV3-20070320.flac: testing, 10% complete: ERROR while decoding data 16-RHV3-20070320.flac: testing, 29% complete: ERROR while decoding data 17-RHV3-20070320.flac: ERROR while decoding data 18-RHV3-20070320.flac: ERROR while decoding data 19-RHV3-20070320.flac: testing, 26% complete: ERROR while decoding data 22-RHV3-20070320.flac: testing, 63% complete: ERROR while decoding data 23-RHV3-20070320.flac: testing, 71% complete: ERROR while decoding data 30-RHV3-20070320.flac: testing, 62% complete: ERROR while decoding data 31-RHV3-20070320.flac: testing, 16% complete: ERROR while decoding data Looks like the upload errored out because the file sizes are rather small too. For example: 13) Ole Tarantula 3.1M 18) Madonna of the Wasps 1.9M oliver ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:23:02 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Not to-night, dear On 3/23/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > ...or even this century. > > "Creature that has not had sex for 100m years": > http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article1539281.ece Nifty... rotifera was a whole phylum of which I was unaware. I know they've changed 'em a bit since my high school bio days, but I hadn't really investigated any further than looking at the lists and thinking, hmm, that looks new. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:22:59 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: Not to-night, dear Tom Clark says: > Well just look at it! I wouldn't screw that thing with Bea Arthur's d*ck! I could say it's pretty on the inside. But it's probably not. xo - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:29:03 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Not to-night, dear On 3/23/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > ...or even this century. > > "Creature that has not had sex for 100m years": > http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article1539281.ece Will Morrissey write a song about it? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:33:35 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Not to-night, dear On 3/23/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > Tom Clark says: > > Well just look at it! I wouldn't screw that thing with Bea Arthur's > d*ck! > > I could say it's pretty on the inside. > > But it's probably not. Looks like a lot of them are transparent, so you don't have to speculate: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/phyla/rotifera/rotifera.html - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:42:10 -0500 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: catnip Possibly maybe there is an age link here, as evidenced by the 4 cats in our extended family... Bal (10 years) is a violent drunk and loves the fresh catnip. Missrus (10 years) gets so into it that she ends up with her head covered in damp catnip from all the drooling. Bicky (4 years) and Ari (8 years) just Do. Not. Care. They're all Nancy Reagan style just say no cats. They wear D.A.R.E. buttons on their jean jackets. - -- Dolph p.s.: Malkovich is totally frickin' handsome for a stoner. Maybe like Brad Pitt in "True Romance." >>From: "David Stovall" >> >> >> >From: Rex >> >Supposedly the catnip urge doesn't kick in until later in a >>cat's life. I >> >haven't tried it with Exene since she was one or two, but at >>that point, she >> >didn't give a rat's ass about it. >> >>Guess it varies from cat to cat. My bunch were at least somewhat >>avidly interested in it within their first year or so. One, >>Malkovich, will appear literally within ten seconds from anywhere >>in the house - sometimes comically drowsy-looking and mussed >>up but always with a forceful "prow?" - when he hears the catnip >>canister being opened. >>Otherwise, he's very, very stupid. >>This is Malkovich: >> >>http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l179/da9ve/cats/13-may-malkovich-407.jpg >> >>and >> >>http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l179/da9ve/cats/20070320-malkovich.jpg >> >>d9 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:51:25 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: catnip On 3/23/07, Dolph Chaney wrote: > > Possibly maybe there is an age link here, as evidenced by the 4 cats in > our > extended family... Bal (10 years) is a violent drunk and loves the fresh > catnip. Missrus (10 years) gets so into it that she ends up with her head > covered in damp catnip from all the drooling. Bicky (4 years) and Ari (8 > years) just Do. Not. Care. They're all Nancy Reagan style just say no > cats. They wear D.A.R.E. buttons on their jean jackets. Our former kitty, Spin (d. 2002), was a 'nip-maniac. It was greatly entertaining to watch him roll in in, lick himself, etc. (Somehow - though it hadn't been there before - after he died and we buried him in the backyard, catnip started growing near his grave. Hmm...) Our current kitties, Lumen and Oranj, seem pretty much uninterested in the stuff. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:33:03 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: WTF, America? WTF? On 3/23/07, 2fs wrote: > > I'm inclined to believe that, like a lot of large-voiced prognostications, > the claims that no one's going to buy CDs (or whatever other physical > media > they might make such claims for) will prove rather exaggerated. I'm... not so sure. For my own damned self, compared to, say, three years ago, I buy a lot fewer CD's. Like, almost none, certainly fewer than one a month, as opposed to prolly over a hundred a year in the recent past. In my individual case, there's a confluence of reasons: 1) Downtick in disposible income 2) Discovery of ways to get stuff for free 3) Less time to go brick and mortar shopping 4) Far fewer places to go brick and mortar shopping, what with mass closings of record stores, owing to people already having stoppped buying CD's long before I did 5) The remaining brick and mortar not having as good a selection as half of what you can download... why... in fact... 6) ...there's a lot of stuff available online that they won't sell you IRL even if you want it... out of print material, live stuff, things I've heard of but never come across in a bin, and... hey, I can live off this stuff for years! 7) Artwork for CD's is kind of lame anyway, compared to the even-more outmoded vinyl that I'm old-school enough to prefer anyway; the artwork images are findable online if I need them. 8) Carrying iPod from location to location is easier than porting great gobs of CD's and cannot possibly result in damage to the original media which sits safely at home on a hard drive, whereas jewel cases get cracked, scuffed, the discs themselves scratched... okay, so I'm not meticulous with my stuff when I'm out and about, but... ... and so on. So I'm practically cold turkey physical-media music, reserving my actual purchases new releases for artists I particularly want to make a show of supporting (Yep Roc really gets the lion's share of it currently). But there's a whole bunch of reasons for my vastly declining CD purchasing which don't include preferring singles over albums, and definitely have nothing to do with American Idol. It's more like a fatigued, belated admission that as physical media, with vinyl gone, CD's really weren't that much better than nothing. > and the album rather than single issue could > be addressed by discounting album vs. single prices (which is often done > already) to encourage more serious listeners to pick up entire albums > rather > than "just the hit single" (man we're in a "quote Joe Jackson" mood > recently). What I think is kind of interesting about this is that while the albums are sort of afterthoughts for stuff that's designed to be commercial (American Idol / tweenybopper stuff), hip hop competes easily with pure pop in sales terms, and rappers are every bit as enamored of the album format as rockers, albeit in a bloated, skit-laden iteration. (Not that a lot of rock albums in the CD age don't suffer from similar bloat-- they do, or did.) And tween-pop people trying to reinvent themselves as serious artists (Aguilera, Timberlake) need a whole album to do that, partly because albums are putatively grownup, artistic enterprises that show seriosity just by being made, and partly because you need a whole set of songs and themes and costumed photos and stuff for people to latch onto and write about when they profile the New Artist You've Become. (Which is all the more ironic, since didn't we all mostly agree that the downloading of Timberlakes's album by people who probably wouldn't gave spent money on it was part of what made it end up on so many unexpected Top 10 lists in '06?) Hell, I'm even a guy in a band hoping to get my music heard, so I'm struggling to figure it out from that angle. I'm pretty sure now that that neat dream of "cutting a record", if it happens, is going to take quite a different shape than the one I imagined when I first started playing in bands. Right now I'm happily offering our music free for download, and giving CDR's away at every show, because I'm pretty sure that if the best case scenario comes to pass and my music becomes the engine behind any movements of small green pieces of paper, I no longer expect the paper to be exchanged for metallic-looking plastic discs. - -Rex ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #117 ********************************