From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #187 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, May 1 2007 Volume 16 : Number 187 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: syd vid (replaced by RW ?!?!?) [Rex ] Re: funny? you decide. [kevin ] Re: funny? you decide. [2fs ] Re: movie talk [Rex ] Re: funny? you decide. [Rex ] Re: funny? you decide. [2fs ] Re: funny? you decide. [2fs ] Essential Robyn [Gary Sedgwick ] Re: more for the synaesthetes ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Essential Robyn ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: funny? you decide. [Rex ] January 13, 1966 ["John Irvine" ] Re: Essential Robyn [Rex ] chicks on chick flicks ["natalie jacobs" ] Re: funny? you decide. ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: chicks on chick flicks ["vivien lyon" ] Re: chicks on chick flicks ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: chicks on chick flicks [2fs ] RE: syd vid (replaced by RW ?!?!?) ["Michael Sweeney" ] Re: Sex, Food, and Death uploaded to Demonoid [craigie* ] Re: See-through teapots, Tony de Meur [hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] RE: chicks on chick flicks ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: Essential Robyn [Rex ] Re: chicks on chick flicks [kevin ] RE: syd vid (replaced by RW ?!?!?) [kevin ] RE: chicks on chick flicks [kevin ] Re: funny? you decide. [kevin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:51:35 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: syd vid (replaced by RW ?!?!?) On 4/30/07, HwyCDRrev@aol.com wrote: > > replaced with roger waters ??!?!? > > The promo video was made by the Central Office of Information (COI) > primarily for North American, Canadian and Australian television and is > made > up of > small shorts including talking computors and see-through teapots. Speaking of Paris in the the spring, I first read this as "The promo video was made by the Central Office of Information (COI) primarily for North American, Canadian and Australian television and is made up of talking computors and see-through teapots," as if the video was itself pysically comprised of such objects. Much as Clean Steve might use the man next door's best friend as a device with which to record videos. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:51:41 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: funny? you decide. >The comments sections at most high-traffic, populist sites, while often >funny, are not encouraging re: us as species, literacy, etc. > >-Rex Sturgeon's Law at work. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:52:43 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: funny? you decide. On 4/30/07, kevin wrote: > > >The comments sections at most high-traffic, populist sites, while often > >funny, are not encouraging re: us as species, literacy, etc. > > > >-Rex > > Sturgeon's Law at work. Yeah, well, Sturgeon's Law is 90% bullshit. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:56:01 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: movie talk On 4/30/07, Bachman, Michael wrote: > > >> 2001 follow-up "Lovely & Amazing". Both are very sharply written by > >> Nicole and feature Catherine Keener. "Walking and Talking" has some > >> great songs in it mainly by Billy Bragg, and they fit in very nicely. > > >> Both of these are more intelligent then the standard chick flick. > > > Jeff came back with: > >I saw L&A but not the first one. Liked it pretty well. > > The first one is worth checking out for sure! I have the soundtrack-- that was from the days when I got movie promo freebies all the time, and I picked it up on the strength of the Billy Bragg connection. Interesting curio-- the Billy "score" stuiff is mostly (all?) instrumental versions of familiar BB songs. > I'm all for banning it, but it seems to be pretty well accepted by > Amazon, Lifetime, etc. What were they called in the past, "date movies" > or "romance movies" maybe? In the beginning, circa Lillian Gish and such, they were "women's pictures". That's pretty bad. All of them beat "RomCom", though. Yech. - -Rechs ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:57:24 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: funny? you decide. On 4/30/07, 2fs wrote: > > On 4/30/07, kevin wrote: > > > > >The comments sections at most high-traffic, populist sites, while often > > >funny, are not encouraging re: us as species, literacy, etc. > > > > > >-Rex > > > > Sturgeon's Law at work. > > > > Yeah, well, Sturgeon's Law is 90% bullshit. But the 10% that's accurate is really accurate. Like 9 times out of 10 , even. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:52:01 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: funny? you decide. On 4/30/07, Rex wrote: > > > > On 4/30/07, 2fs wrote: > > > > On 4/30/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > > > > > > > > i have a little fascination with youtube comments. i usually read at > > > least the current page of comments when i watch a video. sometimes i > > > feel kind of bad about it, but then i remember that i'm a bit of a > > > snob so it's okay. really, the number of useful thoughts expressed > > > per comment is stunningly low. > > > > The comments sections at most high-traffic, populist sites, while often > funny, are not encouraging re: us as species, literacy, etc. > Well, my theory is that the internet is extremely easy to use, and readily available, so that a huge percentage of internet users, who in the past would confine their public communications to grunts, bellows, and the occasional burst of derisive nose-picking, now have the means to express their thoughts by and for the millions. What will really kill the species, however, is misused apostrophes. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:00:20 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: funny? you decide. On 4/30/07, Rex wrote: > > > > On 4/30/07, 2fs wrote: > > > > On 4/30/07, kevin wrote: > > > > > > >The comments sections at most high-traffic, populist sites, while > > often > > > >funny, are not encouraging re: us as species, literacy, etc. > > > > > > > >-Rex > > > > > > Sturgeon's Law at work. > > > > > > > > Yeah, well, Sturgeon's Law is 90% bullshit. > > > But the 10% that's accurate is really accurate. Like 9 times out of 10 , > even. > I'd say your estimate is right about 90% of the time. (this could go on for some time...) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 01:56:21 +0100 From: Gary Sedgwick Subject: Essential Robyn I imagine this must have been asked many times before, but hey... A friend asked me tonight to put together a Robyn compilation of 15 or so "essential" Robyn tracks, the ones that would "blow his mind" and show him what all the fuss is about. So it's the more distinctive tracks of the "greatest hits" I'm after... Any thoughts on improving the following would be appreciated: Leppo And The Jooves Insanely Jealous Kingdom Of Love Sometimes I Wish I Was A Pretty Girl Uncorrected Personality Traits I Often Dream Of Trains The Man With The Lightbulb Head The Yip Song I'm Only You I Something You Queen Elvis Balloon Man Airscape So You Think You're In Love My Wife And My Dead Wife ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:20:37 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: more for the synaesthetes Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > >> (yes, a case of TINYB, I know ...) > what's the "B" stand for? Blog - as in "This is not your blog" Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:32:31 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Essential Robyn Gary Sedgwick wrote: > > Any thoughts on improving the following would be appreciated: > > Leppo And The Jooves > Insanely Jealous what, no "Old Pervert"? > Kingdom Of Love > Sometimes I Wish I Was A Pretty Girl > Uncorrected Personality Traits drop and replace with 'The Speed of Things' > I Often Dream Of Trains > The Man With The Lightbulb Head > The Yip Song > I'm Only You > I Something You > Queen Elvis > ... I'd include something from this decade. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:34:58 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: funny? you decide. On 4/30/07, 2fs wrote: > > On 4/30/07, Rex wrote: > > Well, my theory is that the internet is extremely easy to use, and readily > available, so that a huge percentage of internet users, who in the past > would confine their public communications to grunts, bellows, and the > occasional burst of derisive nose-picking, now have the means to express > their thoughts by and for the millions. > > What will really kill the species, however, is misused apostrophes. I was quite sure you were going to say "when the internet is wired to transmit odors". Or should that be "odor's"? Hell in a handbasket, I tell ya. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:40:47 -0400 From: "John Irvine" Subject: January 13, 1966 "Other rarities that "The Seven Ages Of Rock" have unearthed include a first broadcast of the Velvet Underground performing at the Annual Dinner of the New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry on January 13, 1966." Wow - the exact day I was born. That I'd like to see. - -John ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:46:56 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Essential Robyn On 4/30/07, Gary Sedgwick wrote: > > I imagine this must have been asked many times before, but hey... > > A friend asked me tonight to put together a Robyn compilation of 15 or > so "essential" Robyn tracks, the ones that would "blow his mind" and > show him what all the fuss is about. So it's the more distinctive > tracks of the "greatest hits" I'm after... What are said friend's favorite five or six artists? That's a big determiner. Your list is pretty solid, and the '80's tilt is fair, given that more people heard Robyn then than at any other time, but I would indeed include some more recent stuff. My other thought is "Where are the prawns"?-- not the song per se, but it seems that expressing emotional truths (pretend I wrote something better than that) through squirmny insecty sea creaturey or just plain odd imagery is something he's especially noted for, towards which end you could sub out "SYTYIN" for, say, "Chinese Bones" or "Beautiful Queen", maybe "Mexican God" or even "Madonna" with little loss of the pop-factor. I'd add the live "Acid Bird", but then, when wouldn't I? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:56:15 -0500 From: "natalie jacobs" Subject: chicks on chick flicks > still not quite sold on the new songs, but, damn, everything > else is just ripping. I managed to snag a download of the new Wilco album about a month ago, and am just as disappointed with it as I thought it would be. It's got its moments, but for the most part it's so bland that the local dull-as-shit "adult contemporary" radio station has added one of the songs to its playlist. What gives, Jeff? :-\ i have a little fascination with youtube comments. I can actually *feel* my IQ plummeting whenever I read them. It's kind of like that sensation when the pressure in an airplane cabin equalizes, except in my brain. Regardless: can we ban the phrase "chick flick" from the language? The term annoys me on several different levels, as it presumes that: 1. All women love romantic shlock and happy endings, and are not interested in anything else. 2. Any movie centering around women is worthless and contemptible. 3. Any movie centering around people rather than guns/fast cars/etc. is equally worthless and contemptible. 4. Men can't stand movies about women, or movies that focus on relationships - they only want guns and fast cars. 5. Men's preferences are superior to women's preferences. I like movies about women. I like movies about people and relationships. I don't like romantic comedies or Hollywood happy endings. I do like action movies (i.e., "men flicks") if they're done well. In fact, for me the quality of a movie takes precedence over its subject matter or the gender of its actors. I guess I'm not really female or something. disgruntledly, n. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:08:35 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: funny? you decide. 2fs says: > What will really kill the species, however, is misused apostrophes. yeah right. like not knowing the number of transcendental numbers isn't going to kill it first. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:08:48 -0700 From: "vivien lyon" Subject: Re: chicks on chick flicks Thank you. Perfectly stated. Hear hear. Testify. Etc. etc.... On 4/30/07, natalie jacobs wrote: > > Regardless: can we ban the phrase "chick flick" from the language? > > > The term annoys me on several different levels, as it presumes that: > > 1. All women love romantic shlock and happy endings, and are not > interested > in anything else. > 2. Any movie centering around women is worthless and contemptible. > 3. Any movie centering around people rather than guns/fast cars/etc. is > equally worthless and contemptible. > 4. Men can't stand movies about women, or movies that focus on > relationships - they only want guns and fast cars. > 5. Men's preferences are superior to women's preferences. > > I like movies about women. I like movies about people and > relationships. I > don't like romantic comedies or Hollywood happy endings. I do like action > movies (i.e., "men flicks") if they're done well. In fact, for me the > quality of a movie takes precedence over its subject matter or the gender > of > its actors. I guess I'm not really female or something. > > disgruntledly, > > n. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:20:01 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: chicks on chick flicks natalie jacobs says: > I like movies about women. I like movies about people and relationships. I > don't like romantic comedies or Hollywood happy endings. I do like action > movies (i.e., "men flicks") if they're done well. In fact, for me the > quality of a movie takes precedence over its subject matter or the gender of > its actors. well-put. perhaps it's not right but i use the term "chick flick" to describe one of those dumb female movies i don't want to see. two friends and i used to go to movies and they liked, let's call it "different" movies than i did and i got pretty good at compromising. this is how good i got: "how to make an american quilt." ugh. at least winona's a babe. > I guess I'm not really female or something. join the club. btw, i've seen all three of the nicole h. movies and i would rank them in the order of release. i think they got increasing complicated and ensemble-ish, although i did like all them. i adore catherine keener, and for me she's enough reason to see any of those movies. a second btw, that scene with the sister and the actor deconstructing their looks in "lovely and amazing" was pretty bizarre. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:45:29 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: chicks on chick flicks On 4/30/07, natalie jacobs wrote: > > Regardless: can we ban the phrase "chick flick" from the language? > > > The term annoys me on several different levels, as it presumes that: > > 1. All women love romantic shlock and happy endings, and are not > interested > in anything else. > 2. Any movie centering around women is worthless and contemptible. > 3. Any movie centering around people rather than guns/fast cars/etc. is > equally worthless and contemptible. > 4. Men can't stand movies about women, or movies that focus on > relationships - they only want guns and fast cars. > 5. Men's preferences are superior to women's preferences. > > I like movies about women. I like movies about people and > relationships. I > don't like romantic comedies or Hollywood happy endings. I do like action > movies (i.e., "men flicks") if they're done well. In fact, for me the > quality of a movie takes precedence over its subject matter or the gender > of > its actors. I guess I'm not really female or something. I agree with everything you say above. Apparently, I'm not really a man. The testicles are in the mail. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 03:07:16 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: RE: syd vid (replaced by RW ?!?!?) From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com: >replaced with roger waters ??!?!? Yeah, maybe that reporter took the Robyn lyrics from "1974" literally (AND the wrong way): "Syd Barrett's last session, he can't sing anymore He's gonna have to be Roger now for the rest of his life" Michael "Ghastly mellow saxophones" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Mortgage rates near historic lows. 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Please indicate if you'd prefer NTSC as this can also be accomodated All discs will be on DVD+R and region free anyway. c* On 30/04/07, Stacked Crooked wrote: > > . registration is not > required to download. > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 01:34:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Essential Robyn On Tue, 1 May 2007, Gary Sedgwick wrote: > A friend asked me tonight to put together a Robyn compilation of 15 or > so "essential" Robyn tracks, the ones that would "blow his mind" and > show him what all the fuss is about. So it's the more distinctive > tracks of the "greatest hits" I'm after... So, what I've done is compiled a list of 15 equivalence classes. If you take one from each set, you'd get a pretty good sampling of the best stuff. The choice of particular track could depend on almost anything, but mostly would be related to making the record flow nicely, if I were to do it. Some things are, as we all know, in a class by themselves. 52 Stations Balloon Man Dark Green Energy Driving Aloud NASA Clapping One Long Pair Of Eyes Sleeping With Your Devil Mask Sometimes I Wish I Was A Pretty Girl The Yip Song Unsettled Victorian Squid A Globe Of Frogs Autumn Sea Chinese Bones Freeze Heaven I Often Dream Of Trains Serpent At The Gates Of Wisdom She Doesn't Exist Strange My Wife And My Dead Wife Agony Of Pleasure I Got A Message For You Listening To The Higsons Jewels For Sophia Sounds Great When You're Dead The Cheese Alarm The Devils Coachman Uncorrected Personality Traits Airscape Autumn Is Your Last Chance Birdshead Flavour Of Night Ghost Ship Luminous Rose Messages Of Dark Raymond Chandler Evening Surgery Antwoman Cynthia Mask Lady Waters And The Hooded One Somewhere Apart The Abandonded Brain Veins Of The Queen Vibrating Give It To The Soft Boys Have A Heart Betty, I'm Not Fireproof How Do You Work This Thing? Old Pervert Only The Stones Remain Goodnight I Say I Am Not Me The Face Of Death The Rain Tonight I Wanna Destroy You Underwater Moonlight Wading Through A Ventilator Insanely Jealous Queen Of Eyes - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin _______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 10:36:36 +0100 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Re: See-through teapots, Tony de Meur Quoting fegmaniax-digest : > Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:49:10 -0400 (EDT) > From: Jill Brand > Subject: Whatever happened to... > I don't know what happened to Tony De Meur, Mike. As you can imagine, the > Poodles were not as big a band in the U.S. as I'm assuming they were in > England (basically, they were unheard of), so it wasn't easy to keep track > of them in those days of no Internet and Google. > Jill * Judging from the number of fegs who saw them (2 US vs. 1 UK) I should say that they were bigger in the States than they ever were here. I totally lost sight of Robyn between 1988 when I saw my last Egyptians gig and 1995 when I found out about an Isle of Wight show from JT over the internet. > > Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:20:54 EDT > From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com > Subject: syd vid (replaced by RW ?!?!?) > > replaced with roger waters ??!?!? > _http://www.uncut.co.uk/news/syd_barrett/news/9748_ > (http://www.uncut.co.uk/news/syd_barrett/news/9748)with picture > A rare Pink Floyd promo video for "Jughead Blues" is to be screened on TV > for the first time, as part of a new BBC documentary series "The Seven Ages > Of Rock." The promo video was made by the Central Office of > Information (COI) > primarily for North American, Canadian and Australian television and is made > up of small shorts including talking computors and see-through teapots. > "Jughead Blues" was the final video that Syd Barrett was included in before > he was replaced by Roger Waters. * Garbled or what? When I found a video on YouTube called 'Jughead Blues' I assumed that it was a simple mistake for 'Jugband Blues'. But now I wonder whether they are deliberately trying to slander the memory of Syd [but not really, I think that cock-up is always to be preferred to conspiracy]. [snip] > Other rarities that "The Seven Ages Of Rock" have unearthed include a first > broadcast of the Velvet Underground performing at the Annual Dinner of the > New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry on January 13, 1966. * Mmm, sounds nice! - - Mike Godwin n.p. Johnny Winter, 'Highway 61 revisited' ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 09:16:06 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: chicks on chick flicks - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of 2fs Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 10:45 PM To: You F*ckers Subject: Re: chicks on chick flicks On 4/30/07, natalie jacobs wrote: >> >> Regardless: can we ban the phrase "chick flick" from the language? >> >> >> The term annoys me on several different levels, as it presumes that: >> >> 1. All women love romantic shlock and happy endings, and are not >> interested in anything else. >> 2. Any movie centering around women is worthless and contemptible. >> 3. Any movie centering around people rather than guns/fast cars/etc. >< is equally worthless and contemptible. >> 4. Men can't stand movies about women, or movies that focus on >> relationships - they only want guns and fast cars. >> 5. Men's preferences are superior to women's preferences. >> >> I like movies about women. I like movies about people and >> relationships. I don't like romantic comedies or Hollywood happy >> endings. I do like action movies (i.e., "men flicks") if they're done >> well. In fact, for me the quality of a movie takes precedence over >> its subject matter or the gender of its actors. I guess I'm not >> really female or something. Jeff of Norman wrote: >I agree with everything you say above. I think it's about accepting the fact that it's great to be able to express your feelings about people and enjoying the complexities of relationships, be it in real life or vicariously through movie characters. The better the script the better the quality of the movie regardles of genre or gender. So, I agree as well. >Apparently, I'm not really a man. >The testicles are in the mail. I never liked the fact that just because your born with testicles that male society forces you to cut yourself off from emotions. I never subscribed to it and some of the core female values like empathy, sharing, team player, good listener, compassion, etc, are the traits that I think makes me a better person. MJ Bachman ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 10:25:10 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Essential Robyn - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Stewart C. Russell Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 9:33 PM To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: Re: Essential Robyn Gary Sedgwick wrote: >> >> Any thoughts on improving the following would be appreciated: >> >> Leppo And The Jooves >> Insanely Jealous what, no "Old Pervert"? >> Kingdom Of Love >> Sometimes I Wish I Was A Pretty Girl >> Uncorrected Personality Traits drop and replace with 'The Speed of Things' >> I Often Dream Of Trains >> The Man With The Lightbulb Head >> The Yip Song >> I'm Only You >> I Something You >> Queen Elvis >> Balloon Man >> Airscape >> So You Think You're In Love >> My Wife And My Dead Wife Stewart came back with: >I'd include something from this decade. How about Briggs for The Yip Song? Somehow any list without Linctus House seems incomplete, so I would drop So You Think You're In Love in favor of LH. MJ Bachman ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 07:42:11 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: chicks on chick flicks On 4/30/07, natalie jacobs wrote: > > > I like movies about women. I like movies about people and > relationships. I > don't like romantic comedies or Hollywood happy endings. I do like action > movies (i.e., "men flicks") if they're done well. In fact, for me the > quality of a movie takes precedence over its subject matter or the gender > of > its actors. Add "genre" and we're there. I can't imagine being a fan of a film genre. Within each genre there are great films and total shit. That seems blindingly evident, and yet... Music too, for that matter. I haven't made it all the way through that new Wilco yet... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 07:45:08 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Essential Robyn On 5/1/07, Bachman, Michael wrote: > > > Somehow any list without Linctus House seems incomplete, so I would drop > So You Think You're In Love in favor of LH. We're all agreeing on the one to drop-- not surprisingly the biggest "hit" in its own time (although I think probably "Queen of Eyes" is the most anthologized, coverd and lionized of his tunes, followed possibly by "Destroy You"). - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 09:00:06 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: chicks on chick flicks >4. Men can't stand movies about women, or movies that focus on >relationships - they only want guns and fast cars. And explosions. Explosions are very key. As my brother summarized the first Rambo movie, once upon a time: "It has really excellent violence." ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 09:02:29 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: RE: syd vid (replaced by RW ?!?!?) >>replaced with roger waters ??!?!? > >Yeah, maybe that reporter took the Robyn lyrics from "1974" literally (AND >the wrong way): > >"Syd Barrett's last session, he can't sing anymore >He's gonna have to be Roger now for the rest of his life" > Some nitwit comment-er on Amazon misinterpreted that line exactly the same way. Ignorance is strength, as Eric Blair once said... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 09:05:34 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: RE: chicks on chick flicks >I never liked the fact that just because your born with testicles that >male society forces you to cut yourself off from emotions. I never >subscribed to it and some of the core female values like empathy, >sharing, team player, good listener, compassion, etc, are the traits >that I think makes me a better person. > >MJ Bachman Sissy. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 09:15:35 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: funny? you decide. >2fs says: >> What will really kill the species, however, is misused apostrophes. > >yeah right. like not knowing the number of transcendental numbers >isn't going to kill it first. > While I have an abstract appreciation of the beauty of the higher maths (which I've grown to think of as analogous to surrealist poetry), my mind is incapable of dealing with the specifics. I've started reading Rudy Rucker's Infinity And the Mind at least four times and have never got beyond the first chapter without getting the spins. Do you think remedial education might help? ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #187 ********************************