From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #130 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, March 30 2007 Volume 16 : Number 130 Today's Subjects: ----------------- boston globe interview [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: Greatest...cultural artifact...EVER!!! [Christopher Gross ] Re: boston globe interview [Rex ] My species' name is "Sleestak" (that means you'd better not fuck with me) ["Stacked Crooked" ] Re: boston globe interview [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Greatest...cultural artifact...EVER!!! [kevin ] Re: Philly Pictures [Rex ] RE: California (All the Way) was Re: Spaceland ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: pix from the Knit ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: yep roc sxsw [2fs ] Re: Philly Pictures [Rex ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:50:45 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: boston globe interview _http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2007/03/30/robyn_hitchcock_ p resents/_ (http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2007/03/30/robyn_hitchcock_ presents/) nice color pic! POP! Robyn Hitchcock presents March 30, 2007 For more than 30 years, Robyn Hitchcock (above) has been writing twisted, unexpected pop songs -- first for the Soft Boys, later for himself. Tonight the 54-year-old plays T.T. the Bear's Place in Cambridge with the Venus 3, a band that includes REM guitarist Peter Buck. The group also played on his most recent album, 2006's "Ole! Tarantula." We spoke with Hitchcock by phone from New York City. GEOFF EDGERS Q This song, "(A Man's Got To Know His Limitations) Briggs," raises a question for me. Who is Briggs? I'm worried about him. A Have you seen that Dirty Harry movie, "Magnum Force"? That's one of the characters. Q Of course. I knew the line. I guess I forgot the lieutenant. You're a fan? A Well, I've seen the film, really by accident. Six times without ever meaning to. I don't watch a great deal of television, but it just sank into my consciousness and took root. I watched it in German. I got people to pirate it, and I just began to find a world there. Q You also do a tribute to Arthur Kane, the late New York Doll. A I saw the movie [the 2005 documentary "New York Doll"] and just thought it was really poignant. It encapsulate s his life like a firefly in a jar , and you see the cycle he went through. On a curve of decadence, falling through a window, finding Jesus, and getting a call from Morrissey to join the reformed Dolls. And going back there and being a rock star again for one moment and bang, two weeks later he's dead of leukemia. Q You've worked with Peter Buck and Gillian Welch, even John Paul Jones from Led Zeppelin. Who have you not worked with that you'd like to work with? A Brian Eno. I first saw him in 1967, when he came to my school. People like him would come in with their blue sunglasses and blow up helium balloons , and we'd write messages on them and send them into the sky. I'm sure he's incredibly expensive, but he's somebody I would love to work with. Q How about Paul McCartney? I'd pay to hear that. A If Paul were to walk in and say, "Let's go," I'm sure I would. But I don't think he does stuff like that. If Ringo Starr walked in and wanted to play drums, I wouldn't say no. Q So in just about everything I read about you, you're compared to Syd Barrett. I like Syd, but he made, what, a few albums and then spent the next 35 years riding his bike and gardening. A He was a really big influence. I don't know how much I sound like him these days, but I love his stuff. I recommend anyone check out those records. I think he's up there with Bob Dylan even though Dylan has produced a life's work._Continued..._ (http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2007/03/30/robyn_hitchcock_ presents?page=2) Q Are there songs you actually get tired of, and sort of beg off playing live ? A We've started doing "Balloon Man" again, but I haven't done it regularly since 15 years, since the end of the Egyptians. "Queen Elvis" I do fairly regularly, but there's no song I do every night. ) Copyright 2007 Globe Newspaper Company. _1_ (http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2007/03/30/robyn_hitchcock_ presents?page=1) _2_ (http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2007/03/30/robyn_hitchcock_ presents?page=2) _Next_ (http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2007/03/30/robyn_hitchcock_ presents?page=2) ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:06:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: Greatest...cultural artifact...EVER!!! On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Stacked Crooked wrote: > . A friend of mine in college had, as a light-switch cover, a picture of Ronald Reagan with the light switch emerging from the Gipper's crotch. This was back in the '80s, of course. - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:15:18 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: Greatest...cultural artifact...EVER!!! Christopher Gross says: > A friend of mine in college had, as a light-switch cover, a picture of > Ronald Reagan with the light switch emerging from the Gipper's crotch. > This was back in the '80s, of course. I had (probably still have) a postcard of Dan Quayle with the light switch where Quayle's nose would be. It doesn't make as much visual sense as the Jesus or Reagan ones, but it's still amusing. xo - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:23:16 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: pix from the Knit Danny Lieberman says: > from both nights, > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/dannyl/sets/72157600035604746/ Robyn's shirts are usually quite lovely, but, ouch, that one ranks with the polka dot shirt. Also, I'm probably hallucinating, but in one of the pictures, Mr. Buck looks to be dangerously close to smiling** (it's true: "I saw Pete smile" is about as likely as "I saw Nick Drake.") xo ** Although maybe he's just happy because he just realized Mr. Tom Clark isn't at the show. - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:34:31 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: boston globe interview On 3/30/07, HwyCDRrev@aol.com wrote: > > Q You've worked with Peter Buck and Gillian Welch, even John Paul Jones > from > Led Zeppelin. Who have you not worked with that you'd like to work with? > A Brian Eno. I first saw him in 1967, when he came to my school. People > like > him would come in with their blue sunglasses and blow up helium balloons > , > and we'd write messages on them and send them into the sky. I'm sure he's > incredibly expensive, but he's somebody I would love to work with. Now that would be cool. I wouldn't have necessarily considered it a good match until I heard the last Paul Simon record with the Eno production... not an intuitive match, but it worked very well. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:39:55 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: My species' name is "Sleestak" (that means you'd better not fuck with me) andy used to do once in a while -- about as much as scott does now, i suppose. now *that's* an endorsement! two former robyn-at-croc opening acts -- damien jurado and brandi carlile -- have become quite highly spoken of; though i personally didn't care for either one of them at the time, and, alas, still don't see what the fuss is about. don't know about that; but there was certainly some dissing going on among the billy bragg fans back in the day. i've got four words for you, motherfucker: "calm", "serene", "peaceful", and... "DANGEROUS!". that's right, baby: if you come to california and *don't* visit the california aqueduct; well, then, you may as well just take that harpoon strapped to your back, shine it up real pretty, turn it sideways, and shoot it straight up your candy ass. why, with such a useful utility, i think we can safely put to rest any lingering questions regarding google's stock price. <> i was gonna say that you don't have to love *The Crane Wife* any more that i don't love *Pet Sounds*, but could still be appreciative if it spurs the new pornos on to even greater heights. but then i remembered that i like *Rubber Soul* much more than i like *Sgt. Pepper*... on the other hand, *Abbey Road* is my all-time favourite album; and if *Sgt. Pepper*, and by extension *Pet Sounds*, were necessary steps on the, uh, road to *Abbey Road*, then i suppose i owe the beach boys quite a debt of gratitude. the dandy warhols and brian jonestown massacre? i was thinking more along the lines of the POAG would be present during the mastering process, and could surreptitiously burn his own copy during lunch-break, or something. but are there so many that the studio head couldn't get 'em all in the room and pound the living shit out of them? my experience (and we may just be talking about different things) is that it's screeners of entire films showing up either slightly before or slightly after the cam-jobs show up (surprisingly, though, no leak of the new tarantino yet); while finished-product DVDs seem to hit usenet about a month before the street date. are you shitting me? that's, like, more than the frickin' super bowl (and shit)! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:47:39 +0000 From: 2and2makes5@comcast.net Subject: Re: My species' name is "Sleestak" (that means you'd better not fuck with me) Damn it Eddie, where's the Sleestak-related content? Enok -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Stacked Crooked" > band members ever doing.> > > andy used to do once in a while -- about as much as scott does now, i > suppose. > > > > > now *that's* an endorsement! two former robyn-at-croc opening acts -- > damien jurado and brandi carlile -- have become quite highly spoken of; > though i personally didn't care for either one of them at the time, and, > alas, still don't see what the fuss is about. > > > everything the band members do, but just don't get Robyn. Statistically, > there have to be a few of those, right?> > > don't know about that; but there was certainly some dissing going on among > the billy bragg fans back in the day. > > > do/places to see in California I'd be grateful> > > i've got four words for you, motherfucker: "calm", "serene", "peaceful", > and... "DANGEROUS!". that's right, baby: if you come to california and > *don't* visit the california aqueduct; well, then, you may as well just > take that harpoon strapped to your back, shine it up real pretty, turn it > sideways, and shoot it straight up your candy ass. > > > Toolbar> > > why, with such a useful utility, i think we can safely put to rest any > lingering questions regarding google's stock price. > > > < pornographers must take up the gauntlet threwn down by *The Crane Wife*.>> > > aversion, I can only say, gawd, I hope not.> > > i was gonna say that you don't have to love *The Crane Wife* any more that > i don't love *Pet Sounds*, but could still be appreciative if it spurs the > new pornos on to even greater heights. but then i remembered that i like > *Rubber Soul* much more than i like *Sgt. Pepper*... on the other hand, > *Abbey Road* is my all-time favourite album; and if *Sgt. Pepper*, and by > extension *Pet Sounds*, were necessary steps on the, uh, road to *Abbey > Road*, then i suppose i owe the beach boys quite a debt of gratitude. > > > forces that don't pertain to any two bands these days.> > > the dandy warhols and brian jonestown massacre? > > > transfer all eight tracks into a sound applications, edit them, and remarry > them to the video. So for "us" (we who control the master tapes and deal > with the labs who do the dubbing) it's pretty easy, but for "civilians" > it'd require a lot of chicanery and payola to do something like that.> > > i was thinking more along the lines of the POAG would be present during the > mastering process, and could surreptitiously burn his own copy during > lunch-break, or something. > > > with which it would be easy to do it fairly invisibly.> > > but are there so many that the studio head couldn't get 'em all in the room > and pound the living shit out of them? > > > are usually trailers or rough footage for some rabid fanbase with a boner > to get a good look at the new CGI version of Optimus Prime or some shit.> > > my experience (and we may just be talking about different things) is that > it's screeners of entire films showing up either slightly before or > slightly after the cam-jobs show up (surprisingly, though, no leak of the > new tarantino yet); while finished-product DVDs seem to hit usenet about a > month before the street date. > > > the Times about it (which ended, no kidding, with the journalist stridently > chastising the show for scaling down its pre- and post-show analysis > programming to a scant 90 minutes a week).> > > are you shitting me? that's, like, more than the frickin' super bowl (and > shit)! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:49:41 -0400 (EDT) From: "Danny Lieberman" Subject: Re: pix from the Knit > Danny Lieberman says: > > from both nights, > > > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/dannyl/sets/72157600035604746/ > > Robyn's shirts are usually quite lovely, but, ouch, that one ranks > with the polka dot shirt. It's the angle that makes it so dramatic. > Also, I'm probably hallucinating, but in one of the pictures, Mr. Buck > looks to be dangerously close to smiling** (it's true: "I saw Pete > smile" is about as likely as "I saw Nick Drake.") A trick of the light - well you said close. Course he was smiling. Should I post more? D. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:50:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: boston globe interview Rex wrote re: Robyn working with Brian Eno: > Now that would be cool. I wouldn't have necessarily considered it > a good match until I heard the last Paul Simon record with the Eno > production... not an intuitive match, but it worked very well. I think Eno is one of those guys (as a producer) who while he has a very definite pallate, is able to find the tones and hues on that pallatte best suited to whoever he's working with so that while it always sounds like a Brian Eno production, it also always sounds like whoever he's working with. "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: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:52:21 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Greatest...cultural artifact...EVER!!! Ya'd think someone would rethink the placement of that switch, in light of all the stories about naughty priests and whatnot. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:06:10 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: My species' name is "Sleestak" (that means you'd better not fuck with me) On 3/30/07, Stacked Crooked wrote: > > > don't know about that; but there was certainly some dissing going on among > the billy bragg fans back in the day. Yeah, that was unfortunate. I liked that double bill, but there were plenty of folks who couldn't get past Billy's politix. To me, Robyn and Billy are rather similar artists, but people seemed to react to it like it was a Gang of Four/Charlie Daniels Band thing. > i was gonna say that you don't have to love *The Crane Wife* any more that > i don't love *Pet Sounds*, but could still be appreciative if it spurs the > new pornos on to even greater heights. That's true, but I just don't see the two bands as that directly linked, clocking each other's creative moves... any more so than any other of the actual good "it" bands (Shins, Arcade Fire, whomever). > > i was thinking more along the lines of the POAG would be present during > the > mastering process, and could surreptitiously burn his own copy during > lunch-break, or something. Ah, I see. Well, when the masters are actually "in play" (being mixed or cut), they're watched fairly hawklikely. It's when they come to rest on an archive shelf and in a database that's visible to tons of people that the hanky panky can more easily happen. > > but are there so many that the studio head couldn't get 'em all in the > room > and pound the living shit out of them? Oh, yeah. Also depends on whether or not anyone knows who the studio head is anymore. > my experience (and we may just be talking about different things) is that > it's screeners of entire films showing up either slightly before or > slightly after the cam-jobs show up Yeah, those are from screeners for the press and other industry insiders. Now on those, sometimes the little "property of" burn-in will actually include minor tweaks on each copy that will make it possible to trace the leak to a particular person. That's when the beatings begin. > > in > the Times about it (which ended, no kidding, with the journalist > stridently > chastising the show for scaling down its pre- and post-show analysis > programming to a scant 90 minutes a week).> > > are you shitting me? that's, like, more than the frickin' super bowl (and > shit)! And shit, indeed. I think the thing was that the columnist assumed that if you were reading the article at all, and especially if you made it to the end, you must care about the show pretty seriously-- the idea being you can't mock him for seeing him in the shitty bar, because you're there to. But aha, too bad for you, Mr. Show-Tracker Columnist Guy, I, who watch the show not at all, read the whole thing and can now spread the truth of your embarrassing addiction allover the feglist! You FAIL! - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:06:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: California (All the Way) was Re: Spaceland Gary Sedgwick wrote: > In fact, if anyone has any recommendations for unmissable things > to do/places to see in California I'd be grateful (I've been to > SF before but quite some time ago). California is kinda big, so this is actually a pretty vague. But 1) Yosemite 2) Tahoe 3) Monterey, even the bloody aquarium 4) Big Sur I'd mention things in the bay area, but after the traffic snarl I was stuck in yesterday, I don't want anyone else coming here. The one day I oversleep and have to drive into the fucking city instead of being able to take BART.... "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss an email again! Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:20:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: California (All the Way) was Re: Spaceland Jeff Dwarf wrote: > Gary Sedgwick wrote: > > In fact, if anyone has any recommendations for unmissable things > > to do/places to see in California I'd be grateful (I've been to > > SF before but quite some time ago). > > California is kinda big, so this is actually a pretty vague. But pretty vague _REQUEST._ I blame Yoko. > 1) Yosemite > 2) Tahoe > 3) Monterey, even the bloody aquarium > 4) Big Sur > > I'd mention things in the bay area, but after the traffic snarl I > was stuck in yesterday, I don't want anyone else coming here. The > one day I oversleep and have to drive into the fucking city > instead of being able to take BART.... "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: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:36:41 +0000 From: "marcus slade" Subject: Philly Pictures Hi there, I have been on this list before, but not for many years, and even then didn't post much. I do keep up sometimes by reading the archives, especially when there is a tour on. I have rejoined just to post a link to some pictures from the Philadelphia show the other day that I took. They are not great, but I was sat near the back (next to the mix board), and the use of lots of back lighting made focusing difficult, but they are ok. http://marcusslade6984.fotopic.net/c1242757.html Did anyone tape this show? I know the last times Robyn and the Minus 5 both played at WCL the shows were taped, and I would love a copy of this show too. Hopefully if it has, it will turn up on Dime! Anyway, Take care and I will go back to lurking in the shadows. Marcus _________________________________________________________________ Solve the Conspiracy and win fantastic prizes. http://www.theconspiracygame.co.uk/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:53:39 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Philly Pictures Do my eyes deceive me, or had Buck finally taken that idotic trucker-mudflap chrome-naked-lady off of his Rickenbacker? http://marcusslade6984.fotopic.net/p39835399.html I swear I think that thing was at least partially responsible for the decline of R.E.M.'s music. If it's gone-- and the dinosaurs are still glued to his amp-- maybe, just maybe.... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:24:02 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: California (All the Way) was Re: Spaceland - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Dwarf Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 2:06 PM To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: California (All the Way) was Re: Spaceland Gary Sedgwick wrote: > > In fact, if anyone has any recommendations for unmissable things to > >do/places to see in California I'd be grateful (I've been to SF before > >but quite some time ago). Jeff wrote: >California is kinda big, so this is actually a pretty vague. But >1) Yosemite >2) Tahoe >3) Monterey, even the bloody aquarium >4) Big Sur Jeff named four great ones. I never made it to Lake Tahoe though when I lived in California, much to my embarrassment. The Napa and Sonoma Valley areas are the next best thing to visiting Tuscany. The drive west from there to Bodega and Bodega Bay is nice. Plus you get to see some familiar buildings that were prominent in Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds". MJ Bachman I ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:37:19 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: California (All the Way) was Re: Spaceland unmissable things >> > to do/places to see in California The Huntington Museum in Pasadena. Seriously. Then there's the awe and mystery of Signal Hill. And nothing quite matches the thrill of driving up to L.A. (and into the smog) from San Diego at night. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:05:00 +0000 From: "marcus slade" Subject: Re: Philly Pictures I saw this too, but I think Peter has more than one Rick (It's a 360, right?). I have seen studio photos and he looked to have 2 or 3 in his rack. Marcus >From: Rex >To: "marcus slade" >CC: fegmaniax@smoe.org >Subject: Re: Philly Pictures >Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:53:39 -0700 > >Do my eyes deceive me, or had Buck finally taken that idotic >trucker-mudflap >chrome-naked-lady off of his Rickenbacker? > >http://marcusslade6984.fotopic.net/p39835399.html > >I swear I think that thing was at least partially responsible for the >decline of R.E.M.'s music. If it's gone-- and the dinosaurs are still >glued >to his amp-- maybe, just maybe.... > >-Rex _________________________________________________________________ Match.com - Click Here To Find Singles In Your Area Today! http://msnuk.match.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:45:10 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: pix from the Knit Danny Lieberman says: > It's the angle that makes it so dramatic. Oh, that's probably exactly what the guy at the shirt store told Robyn when he sold it to him. > Should I post more? Definitely. xo - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:46:28 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: yep roc sxsw On 3/30/07, HwyCDRrev@aol.com wrote: > > > Robyn Hitchcock w/ Peter Buck & Sean Nelson play the Egyptians' hit > "Flesh > Number One (Beetle Dennis)" courtesy of Stereogum > _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8Fko1hzc3Q&eurl_ > (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8Fko1hzc3Q&eurl) = Sean Nelson better watch his back - or Don King's gonna steal his hair. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:48:21 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Philly Pictures On 3/30/07, marcus slade wrote: > I saw this too, but I think Peter has more than one Rick (It's a 360, > right?). I have seen studio photos and he looked to have 2 or 3 in his > rack. Yeah, it's a 360. It's always talked about as if it's one guitar he's always had, but I'm sure he has others. ISTR that his main Rick 12-string is blonde, or MapleGlo or whatver they call it ('course he's using that Epiphone in the V3). I know his original took a lot of abuse in the early days, but nothing was worse than that damn mudflap chick. Ugh. Being one of those dorks who always inspects the band's gear at every show, I'm suddenly realizing that despite R.E.M. being the first concert I ever went to (intentionally) and being up there in my top 5 artists list for most of the time I've had one, and having read up on the nerdy details more than I have with most bands, I've never seen a single one of them up close at a club show like this. So maybe I'll try to get Pete to sign somethin' for me, just to see if I can have my own Tom Clark moment. Thinking of maybe having Robyn sign my GOF poster, since I actually know where it is for once (magnetized to my wall at work). - -Rx ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #130 ********************************