From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #169 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, April 20 2007 Volume 16 : Number 169 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: "we're in luck, we're not there" [2fs ] Re: "we're in luck, we're not there" ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] oopsy-doodle [2fs ] Re: oopsy-doodle ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: oopsy-doodle [2fs ] Re: like you're dying to know what i just got... ["Michael Sweeney" ] Re: Gays, guns, and guts made the Feglist free... ["Michael Sweeney" ] Re: oopsy-doodle [Tom Clark ] Re: oopsy-doodle [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Can somebody please change the subject? [Tom Clark ] Guitar Icon Quiz [Tom Clark ] Re: "we're in luck, we're not there" [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: Machismo Festapalooza [The Great Quail ] Re: [FSThomas ] RE: Can somebody please change the subject? ["Marc Alberts" ] reply to a random post a short while back [cph@saa.net] Q.E.H. "Games For May" Tickets On Sale Now [Tony Blackman ] RE: like you're dying to know what i just got... ["Bachman, Michael" Subject: Re: "we're in luck, we're not there" On 4/19/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > > conference interruptions (as a somewhat related aside, i'm really glad > that pbs has started carrying the bbc news since i find it very > watchable. our pbs radio has been carrying it for quite a while, but > i tend not to listen to the radio late at night.) Watchable? On the radio? Well, yes - if you have a stylish radio... also, i'm glad to see that cnn.com finally stopped rotating those > stupid pictures of the gunman holding his gun, and has posted pictures > and information about the victims. they have paid enough attention to > the gunman already, i believe. A friend of mine, recognizing that becoming infamous is often a motivation for killers, vowed to try to forget the name of John Lennon's murderer. I suggest we do the same with this guy. (BTW: A real good way to make yourself feel older is recognizing that Lennon's been dead nearly 27 years now... I was in my first year of college at the time. I don't actually feel old - most days I have to remind myself that I'm 45 and, in fact, considerably older than the students I teach, not just a few years or more mature or something - but it's things like that...how can it be *27 years*?!? - that make that age difference more real. I think when I was a freshman in college, people who babbled about stuff that happened in 1953 as if it was yesterday would have seemed terribly ancient and out of it...so, uh, here I am talking about 1980 in the same way...) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:24:27 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: "we're in luck, we're not there" 2fs says: > On 4/19/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > > > conference interruptions (as a somewhat related aside, i'm really glad > > that pbs has started carrying the bbc news since i find it very > > watchable. our pbs radio has been carrying it for quite a while, but > > i tend not to listen to the radio late at night.) > > > Watchable? On the radio? Well, yes - if you have a stylish radio... you must know, jeff, that i do those things only to keep you on your toes. > A friend of mine, recognizing that becoming infamous is often a motivation > for killers, vowed to try to forget the name of John Lennon's murderer. and did he? > I suggest we do the same with this guy. i don't know his name yet so i have a good start. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:00:41 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Gays, guns, and guts made the Feglist free... On 4/19/07, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > > 2fs wrote: > > You know what Cap said about giving wackjobs a hug? If Ferris ever posts > > that he's leaving the list and moving to a shack in Montana, someone > give > > him a hug, okay? > > You ever met Ferris? I have. In person, he's really nice. A little shy, > but polite and funny when you meet him. Well I hope there was at least a hint that I was joking. Obviously I disagree with Ferris's perspective - and I do think either he's far more worried than he need be about government generally or he uses that as a rhetorical device - but it's not personal or nothin'. Occasionally, one or both of us probably gets a bit overheated - if I have, I apologize. I believe I will just have to apply more cooling liquids internally. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:06:27 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Gays, guns, and guts made the Feglist free... On 4/19/07, vivien lyon wrote: > > > And "anti-understanding" is what I see most often when people address > Capuchin merely to assert that he hates people. I've seen a lot of people say that about him, but I've never seen any evidence that it's true. Nor in fact any evidence that he's disingenuous in any way. But I know people think that about me, too, so maybe I'm just blind to it. Anyway, damn, y'all... I ain't never gonna be able to read alla this... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:16:23 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Can somebody please change the subject? On 4/19/07, Capuchin wrote: > > > I hope I don't get Rexed for putting personal triumphs on the list. Ohboy... I've been verbed! Define, please! - -Rex(ed), who really can't think of any personal triumphs worth mentioning... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:58:18 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: roger roger's stuff no pictures :( http://www.villanova.edu/artsci/mathematics/faculty.htm?mail=roger.lynn@villanova.edu http://www12.homepage.villanova.edu/roger.lynn/ - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:18:00 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: oopsy-doodle It has been brought to my attention that I inadvertently made a private e-mail public by replying to it to the list as a whole. I have performed penance for this stupidity by listening to "Muskrat Love" by the Captain and Tennille three times in a row without aid of drugs or alcohol. If it happens again, I will move on to the harder stuff: an entire album by Blind Melon. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 23:43:45 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: oopsy-doodle 2fs says: > It has been brought to my attention that I inadvertently made a private > e-mail public by replying to it to the list as a whole. > > I have performed penance for this stupidity by listening to "Muskrat Love" > by the Captain and Tennille three times in a row without aid of drugs or > alcohol. > > If it happens again, I will move on to the harder stuff: an entire album by > Blind Melon. well, as jeff just pointed out to me, i made a private e-mail public as well. except my mistake was way dumber because it was my own private e-mail. (btw, that was roger; i used to work with him. as i said, no pictures. he would tell me childhood stories of life in taiwan.) the closest equivalent of $1 in the jar that i can think of right now is give me the name of a charity not under investigation and next relapse, they get $10. well, how about i just make it the one robyn does those benefits for. like that'll stop me. x "embarrassment keeps me humble" o p.s. imo, jeff's punishment is way worse. - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:56:35 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: oopsy-doodle On 4/19/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > 2fs says: > > It has been brought to my attention that I inadvertently made a private > > e-mail public by replying to it to the list as a whole. > > > > I have performed penance for this stupidity by listening to "Muskrat > Love" > > by the Captain and Tennille three times in a row without aid of drugs or > > alcohol. > > > > If it happens again, I will move on to the harder stuff: an entire album > by > > Blind Melon. > p.s. imo, jeff's punishment is way worse. > Bad Taste Theater: As many of you know, the singer of the band I mentioned (Blind Melon: if you've repressed your memories, they're the band that did that horrible song with the video with the "Bee Girl" in it in the early '90s) died of a heroin overdose in about 1995 or so. My firm belief is that he only started using heroin because he couldn't stop himself from singing, and his own voice drove him insane. I'm sure it didn't help being named "Shannon Hoon." What kind of name is that? It sounds like something Dr. Seuss would use. Why do I know all this bad '90s rock trivia? Aren't there more useful things for my brain cells to be doing rather than remembering the names of dead lead singers of terrible '90s bands? Like, remembering the words of the "Oompa Loompa" song: I can't do that right now. Or figuring out whether Pink Floyd was the first band to use a bit that later was done usually with sequencers, the fast fiddly repetition in "On the Run," or whether some other band did something like that first. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:10:52 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: like you're dying to know what i just got... Lauren meticulously typed: >have you seen "the wonder boys"? that one's got a similar feel to it. >michael douglas plays jeff daniels and katie holmes plays anna >paquin. Yaha good one, too. Struck home as a writer (although not one as intellectually paralyzed)Had an ex who regularly made manuscript-blowing-away-ending jokes whenever I mentioned finishing a long projectThank god for computers, since I can still remember the retype-everything-to-change-a-line-or-two bad ol days Michael Sweeney And, while not exactly Street Hassle, TWB had that good Dylan song (Things Have Changed, I think it was (w/out checking)) _________________________________________________________________ Download Messenger. Join the im Initiative. Help make a difference today. http://im.live.com/messenger/im/home/?source=TAGHM_APR07 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:09:49 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: Can somebody please change the subject? Kevin said (and thank god for it, as well): >So Robyn Hitchcock, Peter Buck and Scott Macaughey walked into a >bar...you'd think one of them would have noticed it... My fave variation: Two guys walk into a barThe third one ducks. Michael Sweeney Wouldnt mind walking into a bar  or even walking into a bar  about now _________________________________________________________________ Interest Rates NEAR 39yr LOWS! $430,000 Mortgage for $1,299/mo - Calculate new payment http://www.lowermybills.com/lre/index.jsp?sourceid=lmb-9632-19132&moid=14888 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:11:39 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: Can somebody please change the subject? tc (that Top Cat) said: >Actually I had a dream last night that RH&V3 were playing an afternoon gig >at a local bookstore. Everyone was having a good time until there was a >pause in one of Robyn's monologues and all that anyone could hear was me >ordering a Maker's Mark on the rocks. Robyn was extremely pissed and even >followed with some disparaging remarks about me. Well, no freaking wonder  IMHO, Makers should be enjoyed straight up! Michael Sweeney Actually enjoyed a Makers last while watching RH & V3 in Philly(and nobody complained!) _________________________________________________________________ Mortgage rates near historic lows. Refinance $200,000 loan for as low as $771/month* https://www2.nextag.com/goto.jsp?product=100000035&url=%2fst.jsp&tm=y&search=mortgage_text_links_88_h27f8&disc=y&vers=689&s=4056&p=5117 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:13:10 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: oopsy-doodle On 4/19/07, 2fs wrote: > > > My firm belief is that he only started using heroin because he couldn't > stop > himself from singing, and his own voice drove him insane. I'm sure it > didn't > help being named "Shannon Hoon." What kind of name is that? It sounds like > something Dr. Seuss would use. Dr. Suess was way too cool for that. And what was up with the name Blind Melon? Some dumb riff on old blues guys' names? Why do I know all this bad '90s rock trivia? Aren't there more useful things > for my brain cells to be doing rather than remembering the names of dead > lead singers of terrible '90s bands? You're retroactively astonished at the fertile breeding ground between jam bands and fake grunge that made such things possible. Just giving you an out if you need it. So I lost track of the political thread... who won? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:20:18 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: Gays, guns, and guts made the Feglist free... Jeff pythoned (montily): >("Now we see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being >oppressed!") ...See -- I KNEW there was a reason I was still slogging through the grey (in gen'l; not yrs specifically, Mr. 2Fs)... Michael "Two-Sheds" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ MSN is giving away a trip to Vegas to see Elton John. Enter to win today. http://msnconcertcontest.com?icid-nceltontagline ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:25:43 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: According to Jeff: >On 4/19/07, kevin wrote: >> >>Seems pretty Pythagorean if you ask me. >> >>Of course, occasionally when I get too bored at work I'll open up a page >>in Excel and start listing prime numbers, so... >Kids these days. Why when I was a young whippersnapper, when I got bored, >I'd just masturbate. Post. Of. The. Day. Michael Sweeney Probably several days, if truth be told... _________________________________________________________________ Get a FREE Web site, company branded e-mail and more from Microsoft Office Live! http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/mcrssaub0050001411mrt/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:31:44 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: oopsy-doodle On Apr 19, 2007, at 9:13 PM, Rex wrote: > So I lost track of the political thread... who won? My scorecard - ----------------------- Ferris is still standing despite having no other political backing on the list: +3 I can't manage my finances: -2 Ferris gets props from Stewart: +3 Jeff never backs down from an ideological battle, while knowing how to keep it light: +2 Jeme is skating away to the land of subsidized academia: +5 Although I don't agree with him, I've gotta give this one to Ferris. Party on, Garth! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:36:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: oopsy-doodle Rex wrote: > On 4/19/07, 2fs wrote: > > Why do I know all this bad '90s rock trivia? Aren't there more > > useful things for my brain cells to be doing rather than > > remembering the names of dead > > lead singers of terrible '90s bands? I'd say God's sick sense of humor, except that I don't believe he exists. Then again, why do I remember Mike Dorado spending so much of the 8th grade wearing a Phil Collins t-shirt? > You're retroactively astonished at the fertile breeding ground > between jam bands and fake grunge that made such things possible. > Just giving you an out if you need it. > > So I lost track of the political thread... who won? Your 2006-7 Golden State Warriors. "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:36:36 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Can somebody please change the subject? On Apr 19, 2007, at 9:11 PM, Michael Sweeney wrote: > tc (that Top Cat) said: > >> Actually I had a dream last night that RH&V3 were playing an >> afternoon gig at a local bookstore. Everyone was having a good >> time until there was a pause in one of Robyn's monologues and all >> that anyone could hear was me ordering a Maker's Mark on the >> rocks. Robyn was extremely pissed and even followed with some >> disparaging remarks about me. > > Well, no freaking wonder  IMHO, Makers should be enjoyed straight > up! Are you a Maker's Mark Ambassador? Just yesterday they sent me a book of little cards that I am to submit with restaurant checks. They say "Thanks for serving Makers Mark. I'll be back" or "I hope the next time I'm in, you'll serve Maker's Mark". Genius. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:39:10 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Guitar Icon Quiz http://rope.icgo.fimc.net/staticweb/EdFeatures/PlanetRockGuitarQuiz/ I'm at 33 out of 50 so far. Gotta bring in some experts from the office tomorrow... - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:12:30 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: "we're in luck, we're not there" - -- Lauren Elizabeth is rumored to have mumbled on 19. April 2007 21:24:27 -0400 regarding Re: "we're in luck, we're not there": >> A friend of mine, recognizing that becoming infamous is often a >> motivation for killers, vowed to try to forget the name of John Lennon's >> murderer. > > and did he? I just noticed that I have! I guess I could remember it if I put my mind to it, but ... >> I suggest we do the same with this guy. > > i don't know his name yet so i have a good start. That's quite an achievement in its own right! - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 03:33:47 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: ask the feglist oracle i say: > seven digests to-day so far. it went up to eight before the day turned. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:12:43 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: Machismo Festapalooza Rex writes, > "The rest of you" is a minority. A strident, vocal, minority, but being by > definition Angry White Males, that's to be expected. You are making a lot of assumptions; or perhaps it's only your usual slipperiness. First, the "minority" is referring to "Starship Troopers," which I did not connect to the angry white male thing. Second, I find it interesting that the fact we ST are a "minority" is used by you in a vaguely sinister fashion. Finally, you are assuming I count myself as an angry white male. Frankly, I don't give a shit about changing demographics, and I welcome the evolution of America. But you are frequently in the habit of smearing your rivals with distortions, so I suppose I can't be *too* upset. After all, I am the one who broke silence. > Quail, why do you always insist that I'm offering my position as the word of > God, when I say over and over again that it's just opinion? You tend to use absolute phrasing. "This sucks," and opposed to "I think this sucks because..." Which would be fine, if you could handle the response that kind of thing generates. Instead, you retreat back, whining and moaning about how "fair" you are being. > wrote: "the *possibility* that > you could very well comprehend it fully and still *find* it shitty in other > areas". Hardly definitive, and it never says that you couldn't comprehend > it fully and love it. Yeesh.. Oh, you slippery little monkey, you! First, you fully know that your use of "possibility" and "find" are hardly ambivalent. Second, the question is not whether or not one "loves" the movie, but whether or not it constitutes effective satire. > And by the way, "Fight Club" is one of my favorite films. > > No shit. Really. Never woulda guessed. Did you by any chance enjoy "300"? I did -- certainly not on the same level as "Fight Club," but it was an enjoyable comic book adaptation. I am not sure what you are inferring here - -- do I like violent films? I certainly do, depending on how the violence is contextualized. > I don't think "Fight Club" is a terrible film, but I don't see God in it the > way people like you do. Did I mention it was a religious experience? Oddly, my favorite films happen to be "Wings of Desire," "Apocalypse Now," and "Blade Runner," all which do have religious themes, and movies in which I suppose I do see "God." Not, however, in "Fight Club." > I see that waching these films has helped you vicariously shed all your > anger at being a persecuted white male, so good on you. Nice time to be > blithely joking about violence... did you have something in there with guns, > and then think better of it and edit it out? It's bad enough you drove Eb off the list; it's bad enough that your CONSTANT idiotic blathering has dragged the Feglist down into the thickets of mediocrity; but now you link me to a psychotic shooter? You are such a vindictive creep! Really, I am constantly amazed that more people on this List don't call you out. But I suppose most of those who would have fled, or simply don't want to trigger an episode of your emotional herpes. > What I don't get is what "Rent" and "Crash" have to do with each other. I was referring to a post I made months ago that started a flame war between us, in which I stated that "Crash" was LA at its worse, but "Rent" was just as bad. Not that I think you should recall all my posts, but since it did involve you and anger you, I thought maybe you would. >Are > they both liberal or something gay like that? Rent is actually pretty damn gay -- no? But no, they are both just pseudo-intellectual pieces of trash that suck beyond belief, and yet persist in a strange popularity, that's all. And yes, I am making absolutist statements, because in this case, I am speaking the Truth as if handed to me by God and all his angels. And -- don't think I missed your attempt to smear me as a homophobe on top of everything else. What a nasty little gollum you are. > -Rex in Hollywood, Baby That's the funniest thing you've said to me in years. - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:08:48 -0400 From: FSThomas Subject: Re: Michael Sweeney wrote: > According to Jeff: > >> On 4/19/07, kevin wrote: >>> >>> Seems pretty Pythagorean if you ask me. >>> >>> Of course, occasionally when I get too bored at work I'll open up a page >>> in Excel and start listing prime numbers, so... > >> Kids these days. Why when I was a young whippersnapper, when I got bored, >> I'd just masturbate. > > Post. Of. The. Day. I'll second that. - -f. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 05:51:41 -0700 From: "Marc Alberts" Subject: RE: Can somebody please change the subject? Tom Clark wrote: > Are you a Maker's Mark Ambassador? Just yesterday they sent me a book > of little cards that I am to submit with restaurant checks. They say > "Thanks for serving Makers Mark. I'll be back" or "I hope the next > time I'm in, you'll serve Maker's Mark". Genius. Is there really a bar in the greater Bay Area that doesn't serve Maker's Mark? In a good number of Seattle restaurants (on the higher end, but still moving downscale as we speak), Maker's is the well bourbon. Heck, in my favorite bar here, they have moved to Basil Hayden's as their mixing bourbon of choice. Damn--5:50am and I want a sip. This is gonna be a long day. Marc ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:36:07 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Arcade Fire On 4/15/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > > i subscribe to rolling stone because it's like $12.00 a year and > chances are good i would pay that in single-issue purchases if i > didn't subscribe. i used to do the same for spin but at some point it > got so bad, i couldn't both subscribe and live with myself. i don't > remember what it was in particular got so annoying about spin. they > were probably taking themselves too seriously. and creem i probably > thought was a porn magazine so i never subscribed to that one. Nonetheless, it's the only one of the three ever to have featured RH on the cover. Not just his name, but as the actual cover boy. The late '80's incarnation was briefly fantastic. I prolly still have a few stashed back at my folks' place in WV. - -Rx ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:45:19 -0400 From: cph@saa.net Subject: reply to a random post a short while back wasn't that dude's name the lonesome organist? also, FWIW, on the japanese release of The Dresden Dolls Yes, Virginia there's a song about him, and he sorta comes off as an annoying lech. Rev Chris +++ If I were God, and the world treated me as it treated Him, I would kick the wretched thing to pieces. - --Martin Luther ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:38:52 +0000 From: Tony Blackman Subject: Q.E.H. "Games For May" Tickets On Sale Now Don't know if it's already been mentioned as I'm on the digest these days and I hardly get a chance to read it, but the QEH "Games For May" tickets are now available on the Royal Festival Hall website. Shame I'll miss The Barbican due to being at a wedding in Canada. Tony. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:10:32 +0100 From: matt sewell Subject: RE: rights Oh come on, using your local unseasonable coldness to deny climate change? And the TV documentary was full of holes, in fact one of the featured scientists complained to channel 4 due to his being misrepresented. However much anyone wants climate change to be untrue, it doesn't make it any less so. Interesting reading here: http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2053520,00.html And how about this for a scary plan - http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1999968,00.html Cheers Matt > Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:50:05 -0400> From: fsthomas@ochremedia.com>> > I don't know about where you are, but it's unseasonably cold here at the> moment. And hasn't there been some good press given lately to more than> a few respected members of the scientific community coming out *against*> global warming? There's also the Channel 4 documentary which I thought> raised some interesting points (http://tinyurl.com/3a4aev).> > -f. _________________________________________________________________ Try Live.com: where your online world comes together - with news, sports, weather, and much more. http://www.live.com/getstarted ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:17:06 -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 Jason Brown Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 6:07 PM To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: Re: like you're dying to know what i just got... On 4/19/07, Bachman, Michael wrote: >> Very good acting by Michael Douglas. I thought with "LA Confidential" >> and "The Wonder Boys" that Curtis Hanson would move to the very top >> tier of directors, but he has seemed to lost his way lately with less >> than stellar movies like "In Her Shoes". Jason: >"In Her Shoes" was an excellent movie on par with "Wonder Boys" even.Toni Collete was wonderful and Cameron Diaz was pretty good too. It bizarrely manages to be very much a "chick flick" and supersede the genre at the same time. Its one of the few films that gets sibling love and sibling rivalry right. Toni was wonderful in "In Her Shoes", and I am a big fan of hers. She was even better in "Japanese Story". While there are very nice moments in "In Her Shoes", I thought that a better actress then Cameron Diaz would have helped the movie out a lot. Shirley McLean seemed to have mailed in her performance as well. I loved the dumb blonde actress/Cameron Diaz paraody in "Lost in Translation". What a hoot. MJ Bachman ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:59:17 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter Jr." Subject: Re: feglist leonard cohen mention!!!!!!! > From: "Lauren Elizabeth" > Subject: feglist leonard cohen mention!!!!!!! > > kevin says: >> np Songs Of Leonard Cohen > > yay! Just a reminder, folks, that the first batch of Cohen remasters (his first three albums) will be released April 24th. Here are the Amazon pages: , , . Oh, and if any of you English folks have a mono pressing of his first album you'd like to sell me, please contact me offlist. I'm serious. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #169 ********************************