From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #143 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, April 11 2007 Volume 16 : Number 143 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Tell Me Morris [kevin ] Re: 2rm apt 1/2VU [kevin ] Re: like you're dying to know what i just got... [kevin ] Re: spoiler ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: spoiler [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Flesh and blood ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: Flesh and blood [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: spoiler [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: like you're dying to know what i just got... ["Michael Sweeney" ] Re: spoiler ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] RE: like you're dying to know what i just got... ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: Spiders and Squids (was Flesh and Blood) [Carrie Galbraith ] Re: spoiler [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: spoiler [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: 23 [Benjamin Lukoff ] RE: spoiler ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: Flesh and blood ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: like you're dying to know what i just got... ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: spoiler [FSThomas ] Re: spoiler [2fs ] Re: 23 [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: 23 [Steve Talkowski ] Re: spoiler [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: 23 [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: Spiders and Squids (was Flesh and Blood) [Tom Clark ] Oops [Carrie Galbraith ] Re: 23 [2fs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:18:06 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Tell Me Morris >And is it true that the original Soft Machine have reformed and been >playing in New Orleans? And will they be appearing at the Sydfest? > You gotta be kidding - the original original Softs, with Kevin Ayers and everything? I can't see it happening. Might be fun tho. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:38:11 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: 2rm apt 1/2VU >"galloping out of the darkness just like furniture" This line is best illuminated by groping your way across an unfamiliar room in the middle of the night and whacking your shins on a series of tables, chairs, etc. I've (almost) always found Cale to be good for a laugh. I think the difference between him and Lou as lyricists is that Cale's writing comes from a fascination with language as a communication system, while Reed, regardless of the heights of brilliance he's capable of, on some level always feels like a guy with something to prove. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:42:48 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: like you're dying to know what i just got... >I think the problem with Magic and Loss is that after "What's Good" >(including the intro bit which is a separate track on the album, but >not on _Until the End of the World_), the rest of the album is fairly redundant. "Gassed & Stoked" is pretty fun though. I've always wondered whether the resemblance between the album title and Cale's "Magic And Lies" was purely coincidental... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:47:57 -0500 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: RE: like you're dying to know what i just got... Stewart: > * Hudson Bay blankets - incredibly expensive, but you'll want to pet 'em all day. Lauren, how about a caribou hunting jacket instead? http://tinyurl.com/2juyfh - I bet that bad boy would keep out the Philadelphia chill. Jeff: > I think the problem with Magic and Loss the rest of the album is fairly redundant. Musical or lyrical? I think the latter is intentional, a bunch of different songs about the same thing cobbled together without much of a story arc. "Gassed and Stoked" is probably my fave LR song of recent years though. Cragie: > Actually, jus about *any* part of Balloon Man would work as a ringtone...especially the guitar breaks... Certainly much better than "Television" which Cingular is proffering. For our Euro band: are there are feg haunts in Paris? We'll be over in the fall and I'm always up for that sort of thing. Michael ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:57:33 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: All Lou, all the time I just learned about Lou's new meditation music CD (aka the anti-Metal Machine). Has anybody heard it? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:50:14 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: spoiler This is reminding me of a NYT piece that used to hang in the office: (warning: spoilers, spoilers, and more spoilers!) http://snake.phys.lsu.edu/~gclayton/film-endings.html xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:08:00 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: spoiler - -- Lauren Elizabeth is rumored to have mumbled on 11. April 2007 12:50:14 -0400 regarding Re: spoiler: > This is reminding me of a NYT piece that used to hang in the office: > > (warning: spoilers, spoilers, and more spoilers!) > http://snake.phys.lsu.edu/~gclayton/film-endings.html That's very very cool! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:04:43 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Flesh and blood Hi Fegs, Thanks to vivien and all who recommended the Battlestar Galatica series. I'm just about at the end of season one and really enjoying it. I have to say that bit when Kara found the Cylon plane and had to figure out how to fly it was about the coolest thing I've seen in a long time. xo P.S. Wasn't there a show last night? Were the SF Fegs absorbed into the RH collective subconsciousness? - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:12:25 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Flesh and blood - -- Lauren Elizabeth is rumored to have mumbled on 11. April 2007 14:04:43 -0400 regarding Flesh and blood: > I have to say that bit when Kara found the Cylon plane and had to > figure out how to fly it was about the coolest thing I've seen in a > long time. You ain't seen nothing yet ;-) - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:13:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: spoiler Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > This is reminding me of a NYT piece that used to hang in the > office: > > (warning: spoilers, spoilers, and more spoilers!) > http://snake.phys.lsu.edu/~gclayton/film-endings.html So, which are these from (some of them seem like they could be a lot of movies; I mean, who hasn't ended a movie with a stabbing dwarf): She's her sister and her mother. Michael Caine is Inspector Doppler. He stops running just before the finish line -- and smirks. The blonde did it. The person you think did it, did it. He dies in the freezing water. She shoots him on the balcony. She cuts off his genitals. The dwarf stabs him. She drives them off the bridge. She pushes the nun off the cliff. She wasn't really dead. He wasn't really dead. He lives to be 108. He gets into Princeton. The president nukes New York. The money goes up in flames. The mob gets him. They never left planet Earth. The gigolo gets the model. "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games. http://games.yahoo.com/games/front ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:23:20 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: like you're dying to know what i just got... Lauren sez: >Michael Sweeney says: >> or the 11 minute ecstasy of the 3-part "Street Hassle" suite >well mr. sweeney, you've kind of gone nuclear once you pull that one out. I'm still of a mind that that song -- including the head-whippingly impactful, "where the hell did that come from?" Springsteen cameo (esp. since it was during his now-often-forgotten (but 3 long years)legal exile between "Run" and "Darkness") -- is one of the benchmarks of the rock n' roll era...and a rather less-known one at that...(perhaps not less-known in OUR music savvy quarters, but...I'd say it's fairly unknown even among the heavy-FM-listeners-of-the-past-30-years set). But...then again, of course, YMMV (your mildly-obsessional-devotion-to-"Street Hassle" may vary)... Michael Sweeney Not even mentioning the string arrangement...or the perfectly harsh "Hey that c---'s not breathing" line...or the sweeping "Love has gone away" chorus...or... _________________________________________________________________ Need a break? Find your escape route with Live Search Maps. http://maps.live.com/?icid=hmtag3 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:31:41 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: spoiler - -- Jeff Dwarf is rumored to have mumbled on 11. April 2007 11:13:13 -0700 regarding Re: spoiler: > She's her sister and her mother. Chinatown > The dwarf stabs him. Don't Look Now > They never left planet Earth. Planet Of The Apes > The gigolo gets the model. Maybe "American Gigolo"? I've seen it, but don't remember much. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:38:24 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: spoiler Jeff Dwarf says: > So, which are these from (some of them seem like they could be a lot > of movies; I mean, who hasn't ended a movie with a stabbing dwarf): we used to discuss this while making coffee and tea in the office kitchen. of course, it didn't help that the staff was mathematicians and other assorted science dorks. some i will have to think harder, but... > She's her sister and her mother. chinatown. > She shoots him on the balcony. last tango in paris. > The dwarf stabs him. don't look now (in my top 5) > She drives them off the bridge. jules and jim. > He lives to be 108. little big man? > He gets into Princeton. that first big tom cruise movie with the guy who has the big party; i forget the name. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:44:14 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: like you're dying to know what i just got... - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Michael Sweeney Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 2:23 PM To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: Re: like you're dying to know what i just got... Lauren sez: >>Michael Sweeney says: >>> or the 11 minute ecstasy of the 3-part "Street Hassle" suite >>well mr. sweeney, you've kind of gone nuclear once you pull that one out. Michael Sweeney came back with: >I'm still of a mind that that song -- including the head-whippingly impactful, "where the hell did that come from?" >Springsteen cameo (esp. since it was during his now-often-forgotten (but 3 long years)legal exile between "Run" and "Darkness") -- is one of the benchmarks of the rock n' roll era...and a rather less-known one at that...(perhaps not less-known in OUR music savvy quarters, but...I'd say it's fairly unknown even among the heavy-FM-listeners-of-the-past-30-years set). >But...then again, of course, YMMV (your mildly-obsessional-devotion-to-"Street Hassle" may vary)... Speaking of "Street Hassle", I hope that's the next Lou Reed cd reissue. I have a vinyl copy, but that's it. It certainly was an anomaly considering all the Peter Frampton, Bob Seger, and southern rawk that was norm in 1976. MJ Bachman NP Freddie Hubbard - Here To Stay ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:45:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: spoiler Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > > They never left planet Earth. > > Planet Of The Apes Except PotA was already covered by the Statue of Liberty sticking out on the beach, though I guess they could have used two different ones for the same movie. "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for earth-friendly autos? Browse Top Cars by "Green Rating" at Yahoo! Autos' Green Center. http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:46:06 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: Spiders and Squids (was Flesh and Blood) - -----Original Message----- >From: Lauren Elizabeth >P.S. Wasn't there a show last night? Were the SF Fegs absorbed into >the RH collective subconsciousness? Indeed there was Lauren! And a mighty fine evening was witnessed by several of the Bay Area Fegs, myself included! Of course I don't have the set list (Tom?) but one of the things that struck me is how much fun they seemed to be having. Robyn jumping up and down on stage and bouncing around, nearly dancing, grinning a lot, just having a great time. They rocked, quite simply. Almost too loud for the venue - they could easily played a larger place and have filled it with sound. They were tight. And Robyn's voice is the best I've heard it in years. Things that stand out: The range, in time, of the selection of songs. A real cross section of everything Robyn. And what was the song they played and then Robyn said it was too slow so they played it again faster, and then he said it was too fast...? And the whole ramble about the river Styx and the 55 cents American and 11 cents Canadian that you need to cross the river and get in the door at Slims. And Cynthia Mask, surprisingly. Oh, and that great rendition of See Emily Play! All in all a great show! - - c ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:51:25 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Flesh and blood On Apr 11, 2007, at 11:04 AM, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > P.S. Wasn't there a show last night? Were the SF Fegs absorbed into > the RH collective subconsciousness? Waiting for the afterglow to wear off before writing about it... - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:54:18 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: spoiler - -- Lauren Elizabeth is rumored to have mumbled on 11. April 2007 14:38:24 -0400 regarding Re: spoiler: >> The dwarf stabs him. > don't look now (in my top 5) I like it a lot, but it will always be connected to one of the most embarrassing situations I've been in. One of the times I've seen it was on TV way back when I was in school. German TV cuts more violence but less sex than US TV, so the version didn't show much of the stabbing but all of the sex. Would've been fine with me, but I was at a friend's and we were watching it together with his *mother*! In addition to that, it was a protestant household and they both were really bothered by the sex scenes ... the whole thing made me feel *very* uncomfortable. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:55:33 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: spoiler - -- Jeff Dwarf is rumored to have mumbled on 11. April 2007 11:45:03 -0700 regarding Re: spoiler: > Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: >> > They never left planet Earth. >> >> Planet Of The Apes > > Except PotA was already covered by the Statue of Liberty sticking out > on the beach, Yeah, I noticed that too, but ... > though I guess they could have used two different ones > for the same movie. ... that was my guess. Is there another movie where either one would fit? - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:00:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: 23 On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > it turns out (thanks or no thanks to wikipedia), kool-aid got a bum > > rap and it was actually *flavor-aid*. so maybe he just needs to > > reform and set the record straight. > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavor_Aid > > I think you're hard pressed to blame the beverage maker either way. > You might as well blame Hostess for George Moscone and Harvey Milk > being murdered. "Outlaw Kool-Aid and only outlaws will have Kool-Aid" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:04:28 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: spoiler >She pushes the nun off the cliff. Black Narcissus Strickly a guess on my part. >He dies in the freezing water. Leo in Titanic >The blonde did it. A number of film noir movies could apply here, not to mention a whole host of porno movies. >The president nukes New York. Fail Safe MJ Bachman NP Daveid Bowie - Station To Station - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Dwarf Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 2:13 PM To: a sweet little cupcake...baked by the devil! Subject: Re: spoiler Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > This is reminding me of a NYT piece that used to hang in the > office: > > (warning: spoilers, spoilers, and more spoilers!) > http://snake.phys.lsu.edu/~gclayton/film-endings.html So, which are these from (some of them seem like they could be a lot of movies; I mean, who hasn't ended a movie with a stabbing dwarf): She's her sister and her mother. Michael Caine is Inspector Doppler. He stops running just before the finish line -- and smirks. The blonde did it. The person you think did it, did it. He dies in the freezing water. She shoots him on the balcony. She cuts off his genitals. The dwarf stabs him. She drives them off the bridge. She pushes the nun off the cliff. She wasn't really dead. He wasn't really dead. He lives to be 108. He gets into Princeton. The president nukes New York. The money goes up in flames. The mob gets him. They never left planet Earth. The gigolo gets the model. "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ________________________________________________________________________ ____________ Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games. http://games.yahoo.com/games/front ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:47:07 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: Flesh and blood Tom Clark says: > Waiting for the afterglow to wear off before writing about it... afterglow, hmmm. did something, uh, ....happen with mr. buck? xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:57:40 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: like you're dying to know what i just got... Michael Wells says: > Lauren, how about a caribou hunting jacket instead? > http://tinyurl.com/2juyfh - I bet that bad boy would keep out the > Philadelphia chill. you're not kidding. btw, i hope little knut doesn't have internet access (mama!) xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:14:23 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Another man done gone This one's got me a little teary. http://music.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2050234,00.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:39:59 -0400 From: FSThomas Subject: Re: spoiler His mom has him hypnotized. The Manchurian Candidate? He turns back into a half-wit. Awakenings? - -f. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:09:48 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: spoiler On 4/11/07, FSThomas wrote: > > His mom has him hypnotized. > The Manchurian Candidate? Most likely... He turns back into a half-wit. > Awakenings? I'd say _Flowers for Algernon_... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:20:56 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: 23 - -- kevin is rumored to have mumbled on 10. April 2007 16:12:47 -0700 regarding Re: 23: > I seem to recall a made-for-TV movie in which the part of the Rev. Jim > was played by Powers Boothe, currently distinguishing himself as the > nutbar warmonger vee-pee on 24. He's so great in roles like that! His Cy Tolliver on Deadwood is even more devious. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:36:05 -0400 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: 23 Speaking of 24 - was anyone else all "WTF?!" at the end of Monday's episode? In the span of one minute, little Ricky Schroder finds Jack in the warehouse, "Damn, Jack, wtf?" after seeing all the carnage, then Jack IMMEDIATELY gets a call from the Chinese guy from 2 seasons ago. How'd they know to call at the exact moment when the last of the missing nukes were found? Were they in cahoots with the Russians? It's like, part A "Find the Nukes" is suddenly over, then *BAM* part B "Audrey's still alive but there's only a few episodes left so we'll have another cliffhanger for next season" begins. I suppose since Kim Raver's other show, "The Nine" was cancelled, she's now able to be re-written back into 24... The funny thing about 24 (which, yes - i'm totally hooked on but really getting tired of its predictable, formulaic structure) is, how could any one person remain sane after going thru a full day pretty much killing someone every hour? When does he sleep, eat or pee? During commercial breaks? ; ) - -Steve On Apr 11, 2007, at 5:20 PM, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > -- kevin is rumored to have mumbled > on 10. April 2007 16:12:47 -0700 regarding Re: 23: > >> I seem to recall a made-for-TV movie in which the part of the Rev. >> Jim >> was played by Powers Boothe, currently distinguishing himself as the >> nutbar warmonger vee-pee on 24. > > He's so great in roles like that! His Cy Tolliver on Deadwood is > even more devious. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:49:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: spoiler FSThomas wrote: > His mom has him hypnotized. > The Manchurian Candidate? I think so, though it should be HAD him hypnotized > He turns back into a half-wit. > Awakenings? Flowers for Algernon. "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396546091 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:50:33 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: 23 - -- Steve Talkowski is rumored to have mumbled on 11. April 2007 17:36:05 -0400 regarding Re: 23: > Speaking of 24 - was anyone else all "WTF?!" at the end of Monday's > episode? Isn't that par for the course? > In the span of one minute, little Ricky Schroder finds Jack in the > warehouse, "Damn, Jack, wtf?" after seeing all the carnage, then Jack > IMMEDIATELY gets a call from the Chinese guy from 2 seasons ago. How'd > they know to call at the exact moment when the last of the missing nukes > were found? Were they in cahoots with the Russians? When Joss Whedon was asked how fast the Serenity could fly he answered: at the speed of plot ... > It's like, part A "Find the Nukes" is suddenly over, then *BAM* part B > "Audrey's still alive but there's only a few episodes left so we'll have > another cliffhanger for next season" begins. I suppose since Kim > Raver's other show, "The Nine" was cancelled, she's now able to be > re-written back into 24... I didn't know about that background. I *know* that season one was written as it unfolded, because they didn't even know if they would have an entire season. I also know that they had the entire outline for season two in advance. I don't know how they worked it for the subsequent seasons. > The funny thing about 24 (which, yes - i'm totally hooked on but really > getting tired of its predictable, formulaic structure) is, how could any > one person remain sane after going thru a full day pretty much killing > someone every hour? When does he sleep, eat or pee? During commercial > breaks? ; ) It just doesn't make any sense at all, but who cares? There are other shows I have given up on for that reason, and at one point I *had* given up on 24 as well, but in the end it's still entertaining enough to make me keep watching it. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:59:44 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Spiders and Squids (was Flesh and Blood) On Apr 11, 2007, at 11:46 AM, Carrie Galbraith wrote: > -----Original Message----- >> From: Lauren Elizabeth > >> P.S. Wasn't there a show last night? Were the SF Fegs absorbed into >> the RH collective subconsciousness? > > Indeed there was Lauren! And a mighty fine evening was witnessed by > several of the Bay Area Fegs, myself included! > > Of course I don't have the set list (Tom?) but one of the things > that struck me is how much fun they seemed to be having. Robyn > jumping up and down on stage and bouncing around, nearly dancing, > grinning a lot, just having a great time. They rocked, quite > simply. Almost too loud for the venue - they could easily played a > larger place and have filled it with sound. They were tight. And > Robyn's voice is the best I've heard it in years. > > Things that stand out: The range, in time, of the selection of > songs. A real cross section of everything Robyn. And what was the > song they played and then Robyn said it was too slow so they played > it again faster, and then he said it was too fast...? And the > whole ramble about the river Styx and the 55 cents American and 11 > cents Canadian that you need to cross the river and get in the door > at Slims. And Cynthia Mask, surprisingly. Oh, and that great > rendition of See Emily Play! > > All in all a great show! Absolutely great show. I don't have a setlist either, but a few standouts for me include Kingdom Of Love, Authority Box, Brenda's Iron Sledge(!), See Emily Play, Madonna Of The Wasps, and of course the two versions of City Of Shame. Also, while I didn't really care for Sean Nelson's opening set (a little too Rufus Wainright-ey), he did a great job adding vocal enhancements to Robyn and Scott. And of course a great contingent of Bay Area Fegs, who are cooler than any other geographically grouped subset of this list. There, I said it. Bring it on. On Apr 11, 2007, at 12:47 PM, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > Tom Clark says: >> Waiting for the afterglow to wear off before writing about it... > > afterglow, hmmm. did something, uh, ....happen with mr. buck? Oh geez, I fucked that up big time. I handed him my business card with the url to my Peter Buck Hates Me story and asked him to check it out. I've since updated the story with the horrendous transgression: http://denisvengeance.com/robyn/PeterBuckHatesMe.html - -tc, doomed as doomed can be, I must say. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:17:21 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Oops "We're professionals - Do not try this at home" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:41:31 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: 23 On 4/11/07, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > > -- Steve Talkowski is rumored to have mumbled on > 11. April 2007 17:36:05 -0400 regarding Re: 23: > > > Speaking of 24 - was anyone else all "WTF?!" at the end of Monday's > > episode? > > Isn't that par for the course? I loved the fact that the writers suddenly decided not one, but two (!), sneaky fakeouts were in order in the episode. > In the span of one minute, little Ricky Schroder finds Jack in the > > warehouse, "Damn, Jack, wtf?" after seeing all the carnage, then Jack > > IMMEDIATELY gets a call from the Chinese guy from 2 seasons ago. How'd > > they know to call at the exact moment when the last of the missing nukes > > were found? Were they in cahoots with the Russians? Really, after the first season or so, they'd pretty much dispensed with worrying overmuch about the niceties of the "24-hour" thing: it's now just a device to keep things moving quickly. Temporal anomalies abound (not the X-Files kind), and if you're looking for unrealistic moments, the show's chockfull o' them. Chief of which, of course, is how the hell do you get from any one point in LA to any *other* point in LA always within a few minutes? (They actually have an excuse this time: since a nuke went off and there's curfew etc., there'd be less traffic, presumably.) As a great philosopher once said, "Just repeat to yourself: it's just a show; I should really just relax." - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #143 ********************************