From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #190 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, May 4 2007 Volume 16 : Number 190 Today's Subjects: ----------------- ReReap [Rex ] re: p.s. -- coachella ["Michael Sweeney" ] Re: ReReap [kevin ] Re: p.s. -- coachella [kevin ] Re: Wraith Pinned to the Steak ["Stacked Crooked" ] RE: ReReap ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: Wraith Pinned to the Steak [2fs ] News [kevin ] Re: crusade of one ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: News ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Wraith Pinned to the Steak ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Wraith Pinned to the Steak [2fs ] Re: RH converts [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] reap ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: RH converts ["m swedene" ] reap [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] REAP ["Michael Sweeney" ] T-birds (and they were Fab-ulous!) add... ["Michael Sweeney" ] Re: Wraith Pinned to the Steak [Rex ] Re: Wraith Pinned to the Steak [2fs ] Re: chicks on chick flicks [Rex ] Re: Wraith Pinned to the Steak [Rex ] Re: T-birds (and they were Fab-ulous!) add... ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: crusade of one [craigie* ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 07:15:15 -0700 From: Rex Subject: ReReap From the Verlaine list: "After the scheduled show at the Summer stage in New York, Richard (Llloyd) will be severing his ties with Television, after 34 years." Pretty definitive and harsh after all this time. There were new songs and everything. I guess the Soft Boys were ahead of the curve in terms of re-breaking up... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 14:49:40 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: re: p.s. -- coachella Marc (with a C) sez: >I've come across many non-poisonous snakes, tarantulas, Ole! >coyotes, A prisoner of the white lines on the freeway... >desert foxes, road runners, I'm in love with rock and roll... >burrowing owls, horned toads, kangaroo rats, scorpions, [insert umlaut-rawk joke here] >chuckwallas, pronghorn antelope, a bobcat, a grey wolf, a ringtail, and >even a coatimundi Why can't you be like Endicott? (OK, OK -- semi-obscure Kid Creole and the Coconuts joke, but...how often do you get a chance to make a reference like that?) (besides, I love that song...) Michael "This is only a test; had it been an actual emergency, you surely would have found something better to do, like running around in panicked circles" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Exercise your brain! Try Flexicon. http://games.msn.com/en/flexicon/default.htm?icid=flexicon_hmemailtaglineapril07 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 08:23:41 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: ReReap >"After the scheduled show at the Summer stage in New York, Richard (Llloyd) >will >be severing his ties with Television, after 34 years." > >Pretty definitive and harsh after all this time. There were new songs and >everything. I guess the Soft Boys were ahead of the curve in terms of >re-breaking up... > Whatever the opposite of making my day is, that was it. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 08:34:26 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: p.s. -- coachella >Paris Hilton climbing the Chili Peppers amps and >suchlike. Which inspires images of hideous blonde cockroaches scurrying around...ick. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 08:39:40 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Re: Wraith Pinned to the Steak you must have me confused with eb. already? i had thought that they didn't close new torrents down until three weeks after the initial upload. anyhow, anybody else in a similar boat might try . ace newman, in his recent pitchfork interview, kinda agreed and disagreed with this stance (and referenced the outback deal, to boot): . ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 11:53:08 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: ReReap - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Rex Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 10:15 AM To: fegmaniax Subject: ReReap >From the Verlaine list: >"After the scheduled show at the Summer stage in New York, Richard (Llloyd) will be severing his ties with Television, after 34 years." >Pretty definitive and harsh after all this time. There were new songs and everything. I guess the Soft Boys were ahead >of the curve in terms of re-breaking up... Richard Lloyd should join up with Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs in a band. Add a drummer and a keyboard player and they would be good to go. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 11:09:16 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Wraith Pinned to the Steak On 5/3/07, Stacked Crooked wrote: > > I've been paid to take my clients to adult book stores or assist in > selecting hardcore videos.> > > you must have me confused with eb. So what on earth is Marc's "line of work"? suspicious when folks are more than willing to judge people on how they > make money, without examining how they themselves make money, or what > other > ways there might be to do so.> > > ace newman, in his recent pitchfork interview, kinda agreed and disagreed > with this stance (and referenced the outback deal, to boot): > . For myself, I think if I were in Barnes' position, I wouldn't do it. Or at least, I wouldn't do it unless I actually patronized and liked the business in question. Then again, no one's ever offered me relatively large sums of cash to use any of my creative work. I can't say for sure I'd be so principled. I'm sure if there were a crying need for money - like, I had a desperately ill child or something - I could easily rationalize accepting it on the grounds that I'm doing something necessary with it, whereas the business is going to spend the money anyway, and get some promotional value from it anyway, no matter what I decide. Which is another thing: it'd be easier for me to accept a lot of anti-commercial rhetoric from bands and critics if they were doing anything actively anti-corporate to, you know, actually improve things, rather than just posing for photos in front of their high horse. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 14:23:28 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: News Anybody else catch the feature on NPR this AM where a very authoritative sounding individual was saying it's only a matter of months before gasoline in the UK hits $10 a gallon? Jeepers, if that happened here things might get unpleasant. Will, eventually, I suppose. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 17:44:17 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: crusade of one craigie* says: > My daughter (age 10) had a great time singing along with I Got A Message For > you when she was younger (OK - I used it a s a lullaby when she was tiny...I > cheated...) yes a bit of cheating there, i would say. but at least you didn't use "the man with the lightbulb head" (with props) as a lullaby. well if people don't have converts, feel free to share harrowing experiences of how close your significant other gets to strangling you when e.g. "eye" gets anywhere near the stereo. xo p.s. re: maxwell's footage...i fortunately seem to have escaped. what with my camera phobia, i was getting a bit nervous when watching the documentary. p.p.s. another re: the documentary. "the giant close-up." ugh. go easy on the zoom, brother. - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 18:27:06 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: News kevin wrote: > Anybody else catch the feature on NPR this AM where a very > authoritative sounding individual was saying it's only a matter of > months before gasoline in the UK hits $10 a gallon? Jeepers, if that > happened here things might get unpleasant. Will, eventually, I > suppose. I think a lot of people have heard that program, and done some google searching. Seems that the average petrol price is 89p/l in the UK, and one of the first searches that suggests itself on typing 0.89 is '0.89 gbp per liter in usd per gallon'. (which is US$6.72/gallon) Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 18:39:11 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Wraith Pinned to the Steak 2fs wrote: > > If I didn't have them all, I'd ask for those CD-Rs you're burning... You didn't see semi-humour I put there? > Let me be clear: I don't particularly like it, but I also find it suspicious > when folks are more than willing to judge people on how they make money, > without examining how they themselves make money, or what other ways there > might be to do so. Hmm, should I say that I work in renewable energy, Catherine works with recovering victims of torture, we drive a small car infrequently (and even then, use certified CO2 offsets), commute by transit, all our electricity (our use of which is half the national average) is carbon free, and we try to invest ethically? Nah, you'd think me a complete tosspot if I did. ;-) Stewart (going to see Casper & the Cookies tonight, yay!) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 18:26:01 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Wraith Pinned to the Steak On 5/3/07, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > > 2fs wrote: > > > > If I didn't have them all, I'd ask for those CD-Rs you're burning... > > You didn't see semi-humour I put there? You didn't see the semi-humor I put there? ;-) > Let me be clear: I don't particularly like it, but I also find it > suspicious > > when folks are more than willing to judge people on how they make money, > > without examining how they themselves make money, or what other ways > there > > might be to do so. > > Hmm, should I say that I work in renewable energy, Catherine works with > recovering victims of torture, we drive a small car infrequently (and > even then, use certified CO2 offsets), commute by transit, all our > electricity (our use of which is half the national average) is carbon > free, and we try to invest ethically? Nah, you'd think me a complete > tosspot if I did. Oh, that wasn't intended personally, at you - just as a general remark about those who go on and insist on musicians' integrity, ma-aa-an, but don't ever bother to think about their own. I think a lot of folks think of music generally, and rock music particularly, as some sort of haven for idealists, and we expect them to live out the ideals of "integrity" many of us can't do for ourselves. This, of course, at the same time we *also* look to them to indulge in all the depravity we can't or won't, also... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 12:17:40 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: RH converts > i'm curious as to how successful people have been making converts over > the years. > > i feel like i've been fairly successful, although admittedly the > converts were all people interested in music in general and > open-minded in their tastes. 1. M. - huuuge 60s British Invasion fan, everything from Troggs to Small Faces to early (Syd era) Floyd, with a particular penchant for the early Rolling Stones and Beatles. Also a very big Eno fan. Lent him EoL, UM and Fegmania (IIRC). He came back asking for a mixtape of others like it. Now lives in Australia, from where he sends me copies of his recent Robyn bootleg acquisitions. Thoroughly enjoyed RH's recent Aussie shows, too, apparently. 2. L. - an ex-girlfriend. Big Beatles fan, but tastes ranging from Enya to Steppenwolf. Made a mix tape for her many years ago, which she thoroughly enjoyed. Later beat me to buying Dunedin's first copy of "Respect". 3. A. - my s.o. A bit of an ambivalent one here... her musical taste is very very finickity (things have toi be at "just the right angle"), though a big fan of Beatles, Punk, and some Brit Invasion and Grrl. A fan of some of Robyn's more off the wall numbers, she frequently quotes RH lyrics to me (especially off UM) when I least expect it. Wouldn't describe her quite as a convert, but... James - -- James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 20:23:46 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: reap Wally Schirra, astronaut, 84 http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0705/03schirra/index2.html xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 20:28:35 -0400 From: "m swedene" Subject: Re: RH converts Converts! I got my brother and several of his friends. My wife - she was reluctant at first but now even quotes him aas well. Favorite line to quote "Every body needs my nose...." Mike ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 12:43:33 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: reap Walter Schirra, 84 James - -- James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 03:07:31 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: REAP Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo astronaut Wally Schirra, 84. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18470469/ Only Scott Carpenter and John Glenn remain of the original Mercury 7. Man, I'm getting old... Michael Sweeney BTW, some astronaut / pop-culture trivia: The father-and-sons space adventurer characters in the '60s Brit "Supermarionation" show, "Thunderbirds" (my fave show when I was a kid) were named after 5 of the 7 Mercury 'nauts; there were no characters named "Wally" or "Deke." _________________________________________________________________ Need a break? Find your escape route with Live Search Maps. http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?ss=Restaurants~Hotels~Amusement%20Park&cp=33.832922~-117.915659&style=r&lvl=13&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=1118863&encType=1&FORM=MGAC01 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 03:43:39 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: T-birds (and they were Fab-ulous!) add... ...re:, the "Thunderbirds" show, I said the "father-and-sons" characters were named after Mercury 7 astronauts, but, of course (yeah -- "of course," like anybody knows or cares about what I'm saying), the father was the non-real-astronaut-named "Jeff Tracy," and it was the 5 sons that were named "Scott," "Virgil," "Gordon," "John," and "Alan." Sheesh -- getting tripped up in my own childhood minutiae... Michael Sweeney ...And don't even get me started about my kiddie crush on the English-accented "Lady Penelope" puppet character... _________________________________________________________________ Need a break? Find your escape route with Live Search Maps. http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?ss=Restaurants~Hotels~Amusement%20Park&cp=33.832922~-117.915659&style=r&lvl=13&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=1118863&encType=1&FORM=MGAC01 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 21:05:07 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: ReReap On 5/3/07, Bachman, Michael wrote: > > > > Richard Lloyd should join up with Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs in a > band. Add a drummer and a keyboard player and they would be good to go. Unfortunately, he's off fronting his own band instead. (There are those who are great boosters of solo Lloyd, but I'm a bigger supporter of... well, Matthew Sweet, John Doe, the latter day Rocket from the Tombs, and, yeah, Television.) Well, I did get to see Television, twice. And I was pretty happy with the band Verlaine toured with last year. So... erm...there. Now, does anyone here actually watch that American Idol thing? Because if so, I urge you to stop it. Having now read about "Bon Jovi Tribute Night", I see no bottom to the depths to which this thing can drag us. Tell your friends. It ends here. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 21:32:49 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Wraith Pinned to the Steak On 5/3/07, 2fs wrote: > > > > Which is another thing: it'd be easier for me to accept a lot of > anti-commercial rhetoric from bands and critics if they were doing > anything > actively anti-corporate to, you know, actually improve things, rather than > just posing for photos in front of their high horse. There was a kind of cool interview with the Arcade Fire where they discussed turning down the licensing of one of their songs to some cable program, and actually feeling bad about it. They liked the show alright, and something like the final scene of the season finale had been specifically cut to their song and they felt bad that the editors, who had obviously liked the song, would have to recut it if they turned down the license. But they did. I'd never heard them being especially high-horsey about any stance on that stuff before, but if they have been, I guess they meant it; it seems more like a stance they took without being too prissy, and they were actually kind of surprised at its real-world ramifications. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 23:50:40 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Wraith Pinned to the Steak On 5/3/07, Rex wrote: > > > > On 5/3/07, 2fs wrote: > > > > > > > > Which is another thing: it'd be easier for me to accept a lot of > > anti-commercial rhetoric from bands and critics if they were doing > > anything > > actively anti-corporate to, you know, actually improve things, rather > > than > > just posing for photos in front of their high horse. > > > There was a kind of cool interview with the Arcade Fire where they > discussed turning down the licensing of one of their songs to some cable > program, and actually feeling bad about it. They liked the show alright, and > something like the final scene of the season finale had been specifically > cut to their song and they felt bad that the editors, who had obviously > liked the song, would have to recut it if they turned down the license. But > they did. I'd never heard them being especially high-horsey about any > stance on that stuff before, but if they have been, I guess they meant it; > it seems more like a stance they took without being too prissy, and they > were actually kind of surprised at its real-world ramifications. > I'd argue, first, that licensing songs to TV shows or movies is different from letting them be used in ads for steakhouses or outhouses or combinations thereof. Anyway: the show in question is _Six Feet Under_ - and eventually, Arcade Fire gave a *new* song to the show (the very excellent "Cold Wind") for, if I recall, its final episode (or second-last - can't recall right now). I just watched the commentary for the earlier episode (the one cut with an AF song, which the band denied), and the commentor (the writer or director) did mention that they were disappointed but found something that worked nearly as well (I think it was a Radiohead song, in fact). Oh - here's something amusing, worth repeating in its entirety. So you've probably seen or heard (or heard of) that ad for Wendy's with the Violent Femmes' "Blister in the Sun" as soundtrack (just the guitar/bass lick - some of the lyrics would seem, uh, less than suitable)? Here's bass-player Brian Ritchie's comments on the situation: *"For the fans who rightfully are complaining about the Wendy's burger advertisement featuring Blister in the Sun, Gordon Gano is the publisher of the song and Warners is the record company. When they agree to use it there's nothing the rest of the band can do about it, because we don't own the song or the recording. That's showbiz. Therefore when you see dubious or in this case disgusting uses of our music you can thank the greed, insensitivity and poor taste of Gordon Gano, it is his karma that he lost his songwriting ability many years ago, probably due to his own lack of self-respect as his willingness to prostitute our songs demonstrates. Neither Gordon (vegetarian) nor me (gourmet) eat garbage like Wendy's burgers. I can't endorse them because I disagree with corporate food on culinary, political, health, economic and environmental grounds. However I see my life's work trivialized at the hands of my business partner over and over again, although I have raised my objections numerous times. As disgusted as you are I am more so." (more here: < http://www.onmilwaukee.com/music/soundcheck/articles/femmeschili2.html> * - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 21:55:21 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: chicks on chick flicks On 4/30/07, natalie jacobs wrote: > > > 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? :-\ Finally got around to it, and... wow, dullsville, huh? I'm pretty stunned... I hadn't tracked all the negative early reviews, and I was thinking, you don't really add Nels Cline to your lineup and then record an America record do you? But maybe you do. The worst part is that you can tell he's going for "soulfulness" here and there, but it just doesn't come across... it's so wide of the mark that I had to keep reminding myself what (I think) he was going for. I can't figure out how the same brain produced this and Summerteeth-- not because they're so different as because they bespeak totally incongruent concepts/priorities of what the pop parts of a pop record can be. Weird. What's the "single"-- and is it really getiing added? Is this going to be something like those Liz Phair records that pretty much erased her relevance from my world, but puzzlingly later turned out to have yielded "hits"? The Wilco record has a nice cover image, though.... which I guess is true of that Liz album as well... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 22:01:33 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Wraith Pinned to the Steak On 5/3/07, 2fs wrote: > > > > I'd argue, first, that licensing songs to TV shows or movies is different > from letting them be used in ads for steakhouses or outhouses or > combinations thereof. > True, but I thought it relevant since it had to do with an artist's decision against licensing of any kind. I just deal with this stuff too often at work. Today was all about the history of which syndicated and home video iterations of Bosom Buddies had Billy Joel singing the theme and which ones didn't-- it's gone back and forth over the years, you know. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 01:05:21 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: T-birds (and they were Fab-ulous!) add... Sweeney says: > ...And don't even get me started about my kiddie crush on the > English-accented "Lady Penelope" puppet character... a puppet?! i was way more sophisticated and had a crush on a real person - mr. speed racer. btw, for years i was looking for confirmation that the television show "prince planet" actually existed. it's not like i would ask everyone i encountered, but i asked enough people to start to to wonder about it. and as i was reading sweeney's e-mail, i thought, oh one of the fegs must have seen it. then i remembered wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Planet wikipedia: it answers all questions, it kills all mysteries. i was also a fan of "ultraman", "kimba", and have i mentioned "star trek"? does anyone know if there was an opening song for "kimba"? xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 01:14:36 -0500 From: "natalie jacobs" Subject: kids come running for the bland taste of Wilco > Finally got around to it, and... wow, dullsville, huh? I'm pretty > stunned... I hadn't tracked all the negative early reviews, and I was > thinking, you don't really add Nels Cline to your lineup and then record an > America record do you? > Man, that pretty much sums it up. I'm also worried that their future live setlists are going to be weighed down with the new material. Hopefully they'll mix it up a little, but who knows. What's the "single"-- and is it really getiing added? > The song I heard on the radio was "What Light," one of the many songs on the album with amazingly trite lyrics. I still can't believe the guy who was responsible for "She's a Jar" and "Jesus, Etc." is now writing lyrics like "On and on and on, we'll stay together, yeah." Maybe I'll just listen to the second Loose Fur album and pretend it's the new Wilco album. *sigh* n. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 07:00:57 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: p.s. -- coachella (0% actual Coachella content) Tom clarked: >ob. porn: puretna.com... Late at night, reviewing what I quickly skimmed in the last digest...and I saw this again -- and was trying to puzzle out what / why the website name was / meant...for some reason, kept processing it as "Pure Etna" or "Puret Na" or something...then I put it into teh Googly and found it deconstructed as "Pure T 'n' A." Oh -- THAT makes sense now...lol... Michael Sweeney Haven't actually followed the google link...but, oh, I will... _________________________________________________________________ Exercise your brain! Try Flexicon. http://games.msn.com/en/flexicon/default.htm?icid=flexicon_hmemailtaglineapril07 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 07:18:01 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: p.s. -- coachella Rex wrote: >On 5/2/07, Tom Clark wrote: >> >>On May 2, 2007, at 12:48 AM, Marc Holden wrote: >> >>>the Jesus and Mary Chain (w/Scarlett Johansson) >> >>Whuuuuuu? Was that as spectacular as I'm making it out to be in my >>mind? > >Apparently there was a lot of grousing about the starfuckery this year, at >least in the local press-- Paris Hilton climbing the Chili Peppers amps and >suchlike. Read something in the celebrity section of the Chicago Sun-Times the other day about Paris Hilton showing up at a Prince concert (think it was in Vegas), getting called up on stage, then Prince saying something like, "Let's see if she can sing," and leaving her flustered in front of a live mike...until she skulked offstage. Wait...let's see... OK, here's the link: http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/people/363825,CST-FTR-scurry30.article Pretty much the story ('cept it came from US Weekly originally). So...that Paris -- she's everywhere, down with teh rock AND the roll, apparently...(Here's hoping she tries to bumrush Townshend's stage sometime and Pete swings the guitar at her like a baseball bat...) Michael "Can you tell it's 2:16 AM and I'm trying to trigger a digest?" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Download Messenger. Join the im Initiative. Help make a difference today. http://im.live.com/messenger/im/home/?source=TAGHM_APR07 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 09:40:30 +0100 From: craigie* Subject: Re: crusade of one Eye is certainly a 'difficult' album for non-Fegs... Of course, it would have been better if KungFu Fighting had been included (as the rear liner notes suggest)... Better in a 'Oh I know that song' sort of way... not *better* as a ... well I think you all know where this is going... c* On 03/05/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > craigie* says: > > My daughter (age 10) had a great time singing along with I Got A Message > For > > you when she was younger (OK - I used it a s a lullaby when she was > tiny...I > > cheated...) > > yes a bit of cheating there, i would say. but at least you didn't use > "the man with the lightbulb head" (with props) as a lullaby. > > well if people don't have converts, feel free to share harrowing > experiences of how close your significant other gets to strangling you > when e.g. "eye" gets anywhere near the stereo. > > xo > > p.s. re: maxwell's footage...i fortunately seem to have escaped. what > with my camera phobia, i was getting a bit nervous when watching the > documentary. > > p.p.s. another re: the documentary. "the giant close-up." ugh. go > easy on the zoom, brother. > > -- > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." > > - The Buddha > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #190 ********************************