From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #145 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, April 12 2007 Volume 16 : Number 145 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: 2rm apt 1/2VU [michaeljbachman@comcast.net] Nick Drake's Family Tree, Featuring Never Before Heard Recordings To Be released [HwyCDRre] RE: and a few more ["Bachman, Michael" ] reap - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (for real this time) [Jill Brand ] Re: Tell Me Morris ["Gene Hopstetter Jr." ] Re: the recent spate of RH press [2fs ] Re: wtf? [kevin ] Re: 2rm apt 1/2VU [2fs ] Re: the recent spate of RH press ["m swedene" ] Re: 23 [kevin ] Re: 2rm apt 1/2VU [kevin ] Re: the recent spate of RH press ["vivien lyon" ] Reap [David Witzany ] Re: the recent spate of RH press [2fs ] Re: Reap [Benjamin Lukoff ] re: 23 [ken ostrander ] re: spoiler [ken ostrander ] re: 23 [Sebastian Hagedorn ] re: spoiler [kevin ] RE: 23 and Twin Peaks ["Bachman, Michael" ] RE: 23 and Twin Peaks [Sebastian Hagedorn ] RE: 23 and Twin Peaks ["Bachman, Michael" ] in green tea news to-day...( < 0.0% rh) ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:40:46 +0000 From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Subject: Re: 2rm apt 1/2VU - -------------- Original message -------------- From: Rex > On 4/11/07, kevin wrote: > > > > \ > > 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. > Rex wrote: > Exactly. That's why I was disappointed when I finally heard "The Blue > Mask"... for all every great song, there was a doth-protest-too-much song. > "Women" particularly, but "My House" as well, and... well, the guitars sound > really good, since Lou hadn't started to pull down the faders on Quine yet. > > Cale's really self-depracating when comparing his lyrics to Lou's (see the > Cale autobiography, cowritten with... erm, Viktor Bockris)... > > Another thing about Lou, he uses the word "gism" in more rhyme schemes than > most people. > I love the imagary of Delmor Schwartz's ghost living in the spare bedroom of Lou's house, so I can't agree with you on "My House". I think it's a beautiful song. MJ Bachman ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:55:38 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Nick Drake's Family Tree, Featuring Never Before Heard Recordings To Be released _http://www.jambase.com/headsup.asp?storyID=10321_ (http://www.jambase.com/headsup.asp?storyID=10321) ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:39:01 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: and a few more >>He lives to be 108. James from NZ wrote: >Little big man? The book maybe as Jack dies in it in the 1950's. In the movie though he is 121 years old, as it was released in 1971 they had to extend his age. Of course, if you read Thomas Berger's Return Of Little Big Man, you know that Jack faked his death after giving his interview, and the book takes up his story after Little Big Horn. MJ Bachman ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:45:00 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: spoiler > She pushes the nun off the cliff. Mr. Wells responded with: >It's got to be "Saving Silverman" - it's the only movie I can recall with a nun and a cliff interacting. On my list of movies to see as well as Powell and Pressbergs "Black Narcissus", also about nuns and they live in a mountainous region, which is why I guessed that. MJ Bachman NP Britta Phillips & Dean Wareham - L'Avventura ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:26:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: reap - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (for real this time) There was an eerie pall in my kitchen this morning. My son Curt, whose final draft of his senior thesis on Vonnegut's machine imagery (it's more complicated than that, but I'm not awake yet) is due tomorrow, picked up the Boston Globe to see that the person who has ruled his life since October had died about 30 hours before his own opus was to be handed in. Let's all hit ourselves in the head with a ball-peen hammer in remembrance. a very stressy Jill ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:12:48 -0400 (EDT) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: the recent spate of RH press Here's another interview (apologies if it's been mentioned already): http://www.livedaily.com/interviews/LiveDaily_Interview_Robyn_Hitchcock-11872.html?t=1 http://tinyurl.com/yp4vvo Excerpt commenting on the current tour: "I'm at the Thor Hotel on Rivington in the lower east side of New York, staring at a great wall of fire escapes by the afternoon sunlight, looking around at all the places where people used to have ashtrays and don't anymore." I like the idea of Robyn at the Thor Hotel. Actually, I just like that there is a Thor Hotel. I imagine the guy from "Adventures in Babysitting" manning the front desk, writing "THOR" on a piece of paper like Chet from Barton Fink. Haven't heard any reports on the Portland show - did any fegs attend? How was Sean Nelson? I seriously considered going (on vacation out here, would have liked to get a taste of Portland nightlife...) but the rental in Oceanside - 2 hours from the city - started Saturday. And yes, the Decemberists' song has been playing in my head nonstop. - Jeanne, inching ever closer to giving up her "east coast" fegsignation ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:23:44 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: 2rm apt 1/2VU On 4/12/07, michaeljbachman@comcast.net wrote: > > > > > I love the imagary of Delmor Schwartz's ghost living in the spare bedroom > of Lou's house, so I can't agree with you on "My House". I think it's a > beautiful song. > > I first heard it after reading the bio, and it struck me as very "look at me, I've matured and become domestic and woodsy and yet by pretending to have my wild-man's mentor ghost around, I can retain some street cred, right?" I wish I'd heard that record before reading so much about it. The title track is certainly a... well, motherfucker, for lack of a better word. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:43:37 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter Jr." Subject: Re: Tell Me Morris > 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. You gotta me kidding, again. I was just in New Orleans, and if I missed the Soft Machine, I'll be pretty pissed. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:45:35 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: the recent spate of RH press On 4/10/07, djini@voicenet.com wrote: > > Here's another interview (apologies if it's been mentioned already): > > > http://www.livedaily.com/interviews/LiveDaily_Interview_Robyn_Hitchcock-11872.html?t=1 > http://tinyurl.com/yp4vvo I might have missed this - but does anyone have more info about the reissues he mentions? Who's putting them out? I should probably buy the damned things...nothing in particular wrong with my late-eighties CDs, but you know, bonus tracks, possible sonic upgrades, shoveling money into Robyn's pockets, that sort of thing. Also, I really am rather amused at the again-voiced frequent assumption that "CDs are disappearing." Problem is, there's nothing really to replace them (online sales don't quite measure up, so far as I've been able to find out), and I just don't see the industry simply giving up on a medium that's far more archivable and, well, product-like. Vinyl was supposed to be dead in the late eighties, too - it's still around, even if as a specialty market. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:47:25 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: wtf? >this is from reuters slideshow "best pictures in the last 24 hours"; >the caption in the slideshow is: >"A woman washes her hands at a specially designed wash basin in a >public toilet in southwest China's Chongqing municipality April 10, >2007. (CHINA)" > >specially designed *for what* ? Good Gawd, bathroom fixtures designed by R. Crumb. I got enuff of a laugh out of that to forget about Kurt V. for about 10 seconds. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:49:49 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: 2rm apt 1/2VU On 4/12/07, Rex wrote: > > > > On 4/12/07, michaeljbachman@comcast.net > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I love the imagary of Delmor Schwartz's ghost living in the spare > > bedroom of Lou's house, so I can't agree with you on "My House". I think > > it's a beautiful song. > > > > > I first heard it after reading the bio, and it struck me as very "look at > me, I've matured and become domestic and woodsy and yet by pretending to > have my wild-man's mentor ghost around, I can retain some street cred, > right?" I wish I'd heard that record before reading so much about it. > I can see that - but I still think it's a wonderful song. On that record, Lou actually tries to sing - and really, does a pretty good job of it (some tracks on NY as well). Reed can occasionally write an actually-pretty song: this is one of them. I try to ignore some of the clumsier lyrical moments ("ghost of pure poetry" say). "Women," however: yeah, quite a bit protesteth-too-much. The title track is certainly a... well, motherfucker, for lack of a better > word. > Indeed. Not as much as "Sex with Your Parents" (derrr...) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:57:10 -0400 From: "m swedene" Subject: Re: the recent spate of RH press On 4/12/07, 2fs wrote: > On 4/10/07, djini@voicenet.com wrote: > > > > Here's another interview (apologies if it's been mentioned already): > > > > > > http://www.livedaily.com/interviews/LiveDaily_Interview_Robyn_Hitchcock-11872.html?t=1 > > http://tinyurl.com/yp4vvo > > > I might have missed this - but does anyone have more info about the reissues > he mentions? Who's putting them out? I should probably buy the damned > things...nothing in particular wrong with my late-eighties CDs, but you > know, bonus tracks, possible sonic upgrades, shoveling money into Robyn's > pockets, that sort of thing. from the interview: "I just put the stuff that was reasonable. There's more of it than I thought. Some of it, I quite like. They were either demos or songs I lost patience with for some reason. I tidied a few of them up. It's quite fun, really. Anyway, the first lot is coming out on Yep Roc, the first package of Robyn Hitchcock solo stuff from the 1980s to 1990s. That's coming out in the fall. Next spring, I hope the Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians stuff from the '80s will come out, also on Yep Roc." I won't quote the Smiths here, as I am awaiting their rumored box set too! Mike ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:06:02 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: 23 >> 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? As Raymond Chandler once said, "When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand." >(They actually have an excuse this time: since a nuke went off and >there's curfew etc., there'd be less traffic, presumably.) Actually I'd expect the freeways to be choked up with crashed and/or abandoned cars (kinda like the way they get here whenever we get an inch of snow). ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:17:45 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: 2rm apt 1/2VU >I love the imagary of Delmor Schwartz's ghost living in the spare bedroom of Lou's house, so I can't agree with you on "My House". I think it's a beautiful song. >MJ Bachman Yah, I have to side with the dissenters on that one, it feels more like Lou trying to impress the grownups to me. The clincher is, when that tune comes to mind it always segues into CSN/Y doing "Our House." My faves are "Underneath the Bottle" (one of Uncle Lou's funniest performances), the Kennedy song and, of course, the title track, already cited here as a mofo or something similar. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:26:00 -0700 From: "vivien lyon" Subject: Re: the recent spate of RH press The Portland show was terrific, and Sean Nelson blew me away by singing one of my favorite Harry Nilsson songs (Gotta Get Up from The Point). His other songs were good too, if not quite my style. Nice voice, funny stage banter, obviously a very sweet guy. RH and the V3 did Brenda's Iron Sledge (or did I dream that?) and a bunch of songs from the new album which I still haven't listened to, and a bunch more songs that I enjoyed but don't remember right now. Robyn seemed very happy, and Peter Buck yet again looked like he was head over heels in love with him. Anyway, Jeme, myself, Jim Davies from Oxford, Michael Keefe (formerly of this list) and Michael Wolfe (list status unknown) were all there. The Doug Fir was a great venue for him, and it was packed. On 4/10/07, djini@voicenet.com wrote: > > > Haven't heard any reports on the Portland show - did any fegs attend? How > was Sean > Nelson? I seriously considered going (on vacation out here, would have > liked to get a > taste of Portland nightlife...) but the rental in Oceanside - 2 hours from > the city - > started Saturday. And yes, the Decemberists' song has been playing in my > head nonstop. > > - Jeanne, inching ever closer to giving up her "east coast" fegsignation ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:09:34 -0500 (CDT) From: David Witzany Subject: Reap Kurt Vonnegut, 84 And so it goes... Dave. David Witzany ...one of nature's witzany@uiuc.edu bounds checkers ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:47:10 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: the recent spate of RH press On 4/12/07, m swedene wrote: > > On 4/12/07, 2fs wrote: > > On 4/10/07, djini@voicenet.com wrote: > > > > > > Here's another interview (apologies if it's been mentioned already): > > > > > > > > > > http://www.livedaily.com/interviews/LiveDaily_Interview_Robyn_Hitchcock-11872.html?t=1 > > > http://tinyurl.com/yp4vvo > > > > > > I might have missed this - but does anyone have more info about the > reissues > > he mentions? > > "I just put the stuff that was reasonable. There's more of it than I > thought. Some of it, I quite like. They were either demos or songs I > lost patience with for some reason. I tidied a few of them up. It's > quite fun, really. Anyway, the first lot is coming out on Yep Roc, the > first package of Robyn Hitchcock solo stuff from the 1980s to 1990s. > That's coming out in the fall. Next spring, I hope the Robyn Hitchcock > and the Egyptians stuff from the '80s will come out, also on Yep Roc." Ah, that'll learn me: see, *read* things first! Thanks, though... I won't quote the Smiths here, as I am awaiting their rumored box set too! If Morrissey has his way, that one will come packaged in Mike Joyce's skull... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:25:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: Reap On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, David Witzany wrote: > Kurt Vonnegut, 84 > > And so it goes... Will they play Nick Lowe at his memorial? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:27:59 -0700 (PDT) From: ken ostrander Subject: re: 23 > 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? ; ) has anyone taken a season's worth and done a twenty four hour 24 marathon? it would probably be easier running all over los angeles with a diaper high on adrenaline and killing people hourly. >>> > 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. <<< but you can blame mcdonald's for making your coffee too hot. too much salt and fat and sugar are your own fault. actually, what are they putting into twinkies anyhow? what if it's soylant green? and what about all of those walls that the kool-aid guy knocked down in the name of thirst? who's liable for those? http://www.snopes.com/legal/twinkie.htm ken "i could be sad but it's only a tad" the kenster np '23' blonde redhead - --------------------------------- Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:30:25 -0700 (PDT) From: ken ostrander Subject: re: spoiler >>(warning: spoilers, spoilers, and more spoilers!) http://snake.phys.lsu.edu/~gclayton/film-endings.html << best as i can tell, though some of them could have multiple answers: sixth sense, crying game, empire strikes back, chinatown, psycho, rosemary's baby, devil's advocate, dogma, sleuth, fight club, who's afraid of virginia woolf?, loneliness of the long distance runner, seven, usual suspects, witness for the prosecution, reversal of fortune, murder on the orient express, casablanca, midnight cowboy, titanic, vertigo, last tango in paris, cook thief wife and her lover, don't look now, manchurian candidate, charly, bridge on the river kwai, jules and jim, saving silverman, thelma and louise, body heat, the passion of the christ, little big man, white heat, pretty in pink, risky business, american gigolo, pretty woman, american beauty, fatal attraction, carrie, planet of the apes, failsafe, simple plan, godfather 2, butch and sundance, reservoir dogs, frankenstein, invasion of the body snatchers, blade runner, wizard of oz, airport, capricorn one, saving private ryan, old yeller, lassie come home, the game, total recall, citizen kane and just to keep it on topic, how about hitchcock tunes that might apply: surfer ghost, man in a woman's shadow, the man with the lightbulb head, queen elvis, you and oblivion, sleeping with your devil mask, serpent at the gates of wisdom, solpadeine, i'm only you, she doesn't exist, mr deadly, then you're dust, belltown ramble, wey wey hep a hole, sometimes a blonde, kingdom of love, railway shoes, authority box, freeze, one long pair of eyes, hear my brane, wading through a ventilator, dwarfbeat, let there be more darkness, strawberry mind, old pervert, idonia, if you were a priest, transparent lover, my wife and my dead wife, when i was dead, young people scream, airscape, sandra's having her brain out, when i was a kid, trash, city of shame, evil guy, linctus house, egyptian cream, lady waters and the hooded one, president, captain dry, innocent boy, executioner, only the stones remain, america, my mind is connected, adventure rocket ship, balloon man, elizabeth jade, furry green atom bowl, flesh cartoons, de chirico street, wild mountain thyme, eerie green storm lantern, somewhere apart, brenda's iron sledge and here's some more spoiled endings: http://www.dangermouse.net/media/spoilers.html - --------------------------------- Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:56:38 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: re: 23 - -- ken ostrander is rumored to have mumbled on 12. April 2007 10:27:59 -0700 regarding re: 23: > has anyone taken a season's worth and done a twenty four hour 24 > marathon? Not exactly, but I got season 1 & 2 together in one DVD box, and I watched all 48 episodes over one weekend. I started Friday afternoon and was finished late Sunday. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:27:15 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: re: spoiler While we're on the subject, recommended further reading: David Thomson's "Suspects" is back in print! http://www.noexit.co.uk/titles.php/itemcode/329 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:28:57 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: 23 and Twin Peaks - -- ken ostrander is rumored to have mumbled on 12. April 2007 10:27:59 -0700 regarding re: 23: >> has anyone taken a season's worth and done a twenty four hour 24 >> marathon? Sebastian came back with: >Not exactly, but I got season 1 & 2 together in one DVD box, and I watched all 48 episodes over one weekend. I started Friday afternoon and was finished late Sunday. I'm currently viewing Twin Peaks Season 2 episodes on DVD after getting the box set last week. I taped a few of the episodes on VHS back in the day, and then saw some of them on Bravo back in 1993, but some of them I haven't seen since 1990/1991. They still pack a powerful punch 16 years after first being aired. MJ Bachman NP Camera Obscura - Let's Get out Of This Country ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:35:28 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: re: 23 actually, what are they putting into twinkies anyhow? what if it's soylant green? Here's some info: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A516836 Polysorbate 60? Hey, that's Zippy's favorite preservative! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:39:31 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: RE: 23 and Twin Peaks - -- "Bachman, Michael" is rumored to have mumbled on 12. April 2007 14:28:57 -0400 regarding RE: 23 and Twin Peaks: > Sebastian came back with: >> Not exactly, but I got season 1 & 2 together in one DVD box, and I > watched all 48 episodes over one weekend. I started Friday afternoon and > was finished late Sunday. Re-reading what I wrote I realized that I lied. I did *not* see both seasons, but only the first one. IIRC I watched season 2 the following weekend ... > I'm currently viewing Twin Peaks Season 2 episodes on DVD after getting > the box set last week. I taped a few of the episodes on VHS back in the > day, and then saw some of them on Bravo back in 1993, but some of them I > haven't seen since 1990/1991. They still pack a powerful punch 16 years > after first being aired. The German release of the second season sucks. I'm holding out for a better deal. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:02:06 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: 23 and Twin Peaks - -----Original Message----- From: Sebastian Hagedorn [mailto:Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de] Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 2:40 PM To: Bachman, Michael Cc: grape flavor of night Subject: RE: 23 and Twin Peaks - -- "Bachman, Michael" is rumored to have mumbled on 12. April 2007 14:28:57 -0400 regarding RE: 23 and Twin Peaks: >> Sebastian came back with: >>> Not exactly, but I got season 1 & 2 together in one DVD box, and I >> watched all 48 episodes over one weekend. I started Friday afternoon >> and was finished late Sunday. >Re-reading what I wrote I realized that I lied. I did *not* see both seasons, but only the first one. IIRC I watched season 2 the following weekend ... >> I'm currently viewing Twin Peaks Season 2 episodes on DVD after >> getting the box set last week. I taped a few of the episodes on VHS >> back in the day, and then saw some of them on Bravo back in 1993, but >> some of them I haven't seen since 1990/1991. They still pack a >> powerful punch 16 years after first being aired. >The German release of the second season sucks. I'm holding out for a better deal. The North America release probably isn't much better. Bare bones features consist of the Log Lady intros and a few interviews. The 5.1 sound and picture are great, no DTS though like Season 1 had. However the extras pale in comparison to the Artisan Season One box extras. MJB ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:03:42 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: 23 kevin says: > Polysorbate 60? Hey, that's Zippy's favorite preservative! what's the deal with zippy? is he dumb or stoned or what? sometimes i'm not too savvy. i used to occasionally buy the comic book at a place that had good record prices (i found a copy of 'runt' there back when it was not easy to find) and it was sort of half record store, half clothing store, half head shop. i liked zippy for the sort of non sequitur, free association style. it was extra funny if i took my allergy medication that day. i had a 'zippy for president' t-shirt. i know i could ask wikipedia these sorts of things but it's more fun to 'ask a feg.' xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:05:40 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: in green tea news to-day...( < 0.0% rh) hi fegs, well since the demise of the trader joes green tea gelato and the green tea mochi "incident", it's been rough. but to-day at whole foods i found pints of green tea gelato by a company called ciao bella and it's rather good. it has white chocolate chip chunks in it which i'd prefer they just skip, but they really are neither here nor there. the whole foods is ridiculously close to me but generally i avoid it for the trader joes that's also ridiculously close. i was talking to the tenant who rented this place before me, and i love to quote him: "i go to whole foods, spend $100 and when i get home, i have nothing to eat." xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:18:06 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: 23 and Twin Peaks MJ says: > The North America release probably isn't much better. Bare bones > features consist of the Log Lady intros and a few interviews. The 5.1 > sound and picture are great, no DTS though like Season 1 had. However > the extras pale in comparison to the Artisan Season One box extras. i think i got the first season the same night i bought my first dvd player. it's got a wonderful cover (wrapped in plastic so to speak.) my mom is horribly thoughtful - she and my dad were on a road trip and she saved the NYT article about the dvd release for me even when she was away (she still saves robyn articles for me as well). as i get older and more like her, i find myself saving things for people in a similar fashion. one of the few curses of being female IMO is the never-ending thoughtfulness. but it's a blessing as well. i'll call it a "mixed curse." after reading the article, i'm rather shocked that i don't remember maddy's murder. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/08/arts/television/08lim.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print here's the article since i think it's a registration site: << April 8, 2007 DVD The Year the Pie and Coffee Ran Out By DENNIS LIM LIKE the homecoming queen who was its resident ghost, "Twin Peaks" died young and left a ravaged but still beautiful corpse. Both demises are now inextricably linked: When David Lynch's hit series revealed who killed Laura Palmer in the fall of 1990, it also committed a kind of symbolic suicide. At least that's how the lore goes. A more complete account of why the show went from pilot to finale in a mere 14 months would factor in the meddlesome dictates of the network, ABC, and the tricky contradictions of a cult phenomenon that briefly achieved mass popularity. (At its height the media hurricane landed Mr. Lynch on the cover of Time and Laura Palmer on the cover of Esquire, a distinctly necrophilic choice for Woman of the Year.) The long-awaited DVD release of the second and final season  in a six-disc set spanning Episodes 8 through 29 and totaling more than 18 hours  is something of an event: an occasion to revive the coffee-and-cherry-pie viewing parties and a challenge to the received wisdom that the show's second half was a prolonged free fall. Responding to the overwhelming public demand for answers, ABC pressured the creators to show their hand. (The notion that a mystery should wrap up in less than a season will seem quaint to audiences who have endured the serial teasing of "Lost.") Viewers learned the identity of Laura's killer in Episode 14, two installments before the crime was solved by the F.B.I. agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) and much earlier than Mr. Lynch and Mark Frost, his writing and producing partner, had intended. The whodunit climaxes in a memorable set piece. While most of the cast gathers at the local biker bar, some reduced to tears as Julee Cruise croons an ethereal serenade, Laura's father, Leland (Ray Wise), becomes possessed again by the straggly-haired demon Bob (Frank Silva) and kills Laura's doppelgdnger cousin, Maddy (Sheryl Lee, who also played Laura). It remains one of the most shockingly violent murders ever shown on network TV. Mr. Lynch, who loves mysteries but is not a fan of resolutions, was ill-prepared for the aftermath. The DVD includes "Log Lady intros," gnomic salutations written by Mr. Lynch and delivered by the actress Catherine E. Coulson before each episode. (They were originally made when the series was rerun on Bravo.) The Log Lady's thoughts on closure, introducing Episode 16, are especially pointed: "There is a depression after an answer is given." Sure enough, the half-dozen or so episodes that followed were dominated by desultory subplots. ABC continued to shuttle the show around the schedule. Only devotees were watching by then, but "Twin Peaks" picked up a second wind in its home stretch. The (literal) chess game between Cooper and his psychotic ex-partner, Windom Earle (Kenneth Welsh), builds toward the Miss Twin Peaks contest and an interdimensional visit to the Red Room, the strobe-lighted site of a cosmic showdown between good and evil  or, in Mr. Lynch's preferred formulation, between love and fear. It's critical boilerplate to say that the best narrative art creates a world. But the world of "Twin Peaks" is a truly rich and commodious one, attentive both to narrative mythology and to character back story, suited equally to the scrutiny of fanzines and dissertations. At its best the show achieved a crazy, cosmic harmony, setting the comforts of the everyday against the terror of the void. The great unifying element is Mr. MacLachlan's superbly unflappable performance, a witty distillation of the Eagle Scout qualities often ascribed to Mr. Lynch (whose cameos as Cooper's hearing-impaired boss provide some of the funniest scenes). The handful of episodes that Mr. Lynch directed are standouts. Notably oblivious to the rules of prime time, they are characterized by longer scenes, stranger moods, more intense emotions  nowhere more apparent than in the chilling cliffhanger finale. Mr. Lynch's latest movie, "Inland Empire," asserts that stories have a life of their own. Viewed that way, the inconclusive last episode is less a source of frustration than a thing of beauty. Its open-endedness fuels the ultimate fan's fantasy: namely that "Twin Peaks," in one of the parallel realities that make up the Lynchian universe, continues to unspool. >> - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #145 ********************************