From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #193 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, May 6 2007 Volume 16 : Number 193 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [none] [hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] NEW on DIME: Robyn Hitchcock - Doug Fir Lounge - Portland - Oregon - 2007-04-07 [miss lesser hamden ] run for the roses ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: found poem... on ipod ["vivien lyon" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #191 [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: found poem... on ipod [Rex ] Re: found poem... on ipod ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: found poem... on ipod [Christopher Gross ] Re: found poem... on ipod [Tom Clark ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #190 ["Michael Sweeney" Subject: magic band reunion mp3 > nowt to do with Robyn, I know, but back in 2003(ish) someone flipped me > a copy of a BBC radio show that had the reformed Magic Band play at > Camber Sands at All Tomorrow's Parties. Does that someone still have it > and could send it, please? My guitar teacher is a huge MB fan, and > hadn't heard any of the reformation stuff. > cheers, > Stewart If no-one obliges, you could purchase the DVD of the Shepherds Bush gig: > "I know a room of musical tunes/Some rhyme some ching." "Take a > couple if you wish, they're on the dish". Syd Barrett - Madcap's Last Laugh, Barbican, London EC2 (020-7638 8891), 10 May _http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/article2509105.ece_ Surely it's the gingerbread men who are on the dish, not the musical tunes... - - Mike Godwin PS Looks as if I have a spare ticket for 10th May at the Barbican. Can I tempt anybody? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 13:23:42 -0400 From: miss lesser hamden Subject: NEW on DIME: Robyn Hitchcock - Doug Fir Lounge - Portland - Oregon - 2007-04-07 http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=144767&hit=1 - ----- Forwarded message from DIME ----- A new torrent has been uploaded to DIME. Torrent: 144767 Title: Robyn Hitchcock - Doug Fir Lounge - Portland - Oregon - 2007-04-07 Size: 585.86 MB Category: Rock Uploaded by: crowflies Info hash: 4dffa0949033978da1fd364873d400deda099d7c Description - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robyn Hitchcock Doug Fir Lounge Portland Oregon 2007-04-07 7 April 2007 Lineage:Sony ECM>Sony MD MZ-NF810>Headphone Output>SBLive>CoolEdit2000>CD Wav>Flac Frontend Ver 1.7.1 (Level 8) Sound Quality EX+ 34 Tracks Ghost Ship Talk Queen Elvis Talk Flanagan's Song Talk Sally Was A Legend Talk Ole! Tarantula Talk N.Y.Doll Talk Balloon Man Talk Creeped Out (American Girl) Talk Brenda's Iron Sledge Talk Television Talk Vibrating Talk Jewels For Sophia Talk The Authority Box Talk Madonna of The Wasps Talk (A Man's Gotta Know His Limitations)Briggs I Often Dream of Trains She Said She Said See Emily Play Ballad of a Thin Man Kingdom of Love - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 18:05:51 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: like you're dying to know what really bugs me.... Steve Schiavo wrote: >On May 4, 2007, at 3:02 PM, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > >>as an aside, i think i read the caveman guy went to the oscars (or >>some such ceremony) but had to go in his caveman getup and whatever i >>was reading was saying, jeez, if the caveman guy is popular enough to >>send to the oscars, give the actor a night off . > >You guys know that there is talk of TV series? It's been made as a pilot (I understand) for possible use in the fall. ...But, in further "Did you realize?" type of news, I had heard (and, lazy 'net user that I am, I figured it's more fun to float it out here than to actually check it) that the female therapist in the later commercials is played by Talia Shire (Adrian from "Rocky;" Francis Ford Coppola's sister; Jason ("Rushmore") Schwartzman's mom). Looks like it could be her, but...ya never know (until ya googly it, but...I'll leave that to others). Michael "But Google is so easy, even a 45-year-old lazy-ass writer watching a Cubs game while checking his e-mail could use it!" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Exercise your brain! Try Flexicon. http://games.msn.com/en/flexicon/default.htm?icid=flexicon_hmemailtaglineapril07 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 18:25:14 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: T-birds (and they were Fab-ulous!) add... Lauren trixied: >okay, you've probably all been down this road: >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALzDcMDhf2o&NR=1 > >but i haven't so bear with me. > >(1) i think that may be the best opening for any show ever. I grew up watching "Speed Racer" after school (early '70s) and grew to no longer be fond of it at all (as opposed to my outright hate of "Scoop of Poo," er, I mean "Scooby Doo," which karma re-foisted on me by making the latter-day version of that my niece's fave...) ...But, irregardless of all that, I cannot hear the "Speed Racer" theme song without inserting the parody lyrics my younger brother invented when he and my sister were both working at a semi-fancy suburban restaurant, where quickness of service was very much emphasized to the young staff: Here he comes, he comes Speed Waiter He's a server on drugs He's your waiter and he's gonna be screwing up your order... ...Then something about tossing the Chateaubriand (the hated, most complicated entree for the waiters there to serve) from the restaurant's upstairs atrium: "Catch it if you can!" So...it's always "Speed Waiter" to me now... Michael "Whatever happened to catchy TV theme songs? (or blacksmiths or butter churns or TV repair shops or...)" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Watch free concerts with Pink, Rod Stewart, Oasis and more. Visit MSN In Concert today. http://music.msn.com/presents?icid=ncmsnpresentstagline ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 20:54:04 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: found poem... on ipod - -- vivien lyon is rumored to have mumbled on 4. Mai 2007 15:39:05 -0700 regarding found poem... on ipod: > I haven't posted anything like this in a long time, but.... > I was searching for a song title on my ipod, and scrolled past the "i" > section, only to read this poem: > > It's a crime > It's a curse > It's a laugh > It's a mystic trip > It's all downhill from here > It's all gonna break > It's all in your mind > It's getting colder > It's time > It can't come quickly enough. Mine gives me this: It's a boy It's a curse It's a dream It's a feeling It's a free world It's a free world, baby It's a hit It's a long road It's a miracle It's a mystic trip It's a shame about Ray It's a sin (and many others starting with "it's" but not "it's a") - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 19:05:57 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #190 Kiwi James sez: >>[Chi-town Me sez:] 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...) > >you mean... I'm not the only person on the planet who's ever heard of it, >let alone likes it? Oh man -- glad to be of service! A friend of mine first turned me onto the gigantic slice of sarcastic pop-funk that is "Endicott" back when it was new and we were both cynical single men...and I rushed out and bought it then. (We're both still cynical and "technically" single...but my girlfriend of 14+ years (yeah, yeah, I know...) puts the lie to the term "single" when it comes to me...) Hadn't heard it for years until recently plugging into Rhapsody.com and checking out all my semi-obscure faves that I rarely get to hear (yes for "Endicott," "Memo From Turner," "L.A. Goodbye," and "Europa And The Pirate Twins;" sadly no for David Johansen's "Frenchette" and Mink DeVille's "Mixed Up, Shook Up Girl")... Anyway -- to me, the screeching phrase "Why can't you be like Endicott?" has long been shorthand for "annoyingly competitive and demanding girlfriend / wife." Michael "'Cuz I'm freeeeeeeee / Freer than a made-to-order liability / Thank god I'm free / 'Cuz it's hard enough for me to take care of me" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Exercise your brain! Try Flexicon. http://games.msn.com/en/flexicon/default.htm?icid=flexicon_hmemailtaglineapril07 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 19:10:29 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: T-birds (and they were Fab-ulous!) add... Steve Schiavo wrote: >On May 4, 2007, at 4:05 PM, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > >>(1) i think that may be the best opening for any show ever. > >There is this - > > ...I believe that gave me some sort of aneurism. Michael Sweeney ...Not that I wouldn't want to see an episode of whatever it is afterward... _________________________________________________________________ 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: Sat, 5 May 2007 15:53:22 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: found poem... on ipod i'm assuming you guys don't have "i" by the magnetic fields: tracklist: 01. I Die 02. I Don't Believe You 03. I Don't Really Love You Anymore 04. I Looked All Over Town 05. I Thought You Were My Boyfriend 06. I Was Born 07. I Wish I Had An Evil Twin 08. If There's Such A Thing As Love 09. I'm Tongue-Tied 10. In An Operetta 11. Infinitely Late At Night 12. Irma 13. Is This What They Used To Call Love 14. It's Only Time your found poems made me start thinking of "i'm tongue-tied". when i looked at the lyrics, they weren't as "i" as your poems though. the song's really slow, and i think that emphasizes that many lines do start with "i." "i'm tongue tied and useless I'm weak-kneed and brainless and then I mumble some jumble you kiss me I'm history I'm tongue-tied and useless again" etc., etc. my favourite "i" song is "i don't believe you" which is actually a pretty old song that i think was only available on a single for awhile. i am having trouble not just pasting in the entire lyrics to that one, but to keep it reasonable(?), i narrowed it to three verses (btw, this is one of those songs with a very, very short chorus, if it has one at all.) i've been listening to this song for a long time and it still makes me laugh ("you may set your charm on stun.." not to mention points for mentioning two forms of punctuation.) "So you quote love unquote me Well, stranger things have come to be But let's agree to disagree Cause I don't believe you I don't believe you" . . . "You may set your charm on stun And say I'm delightful and fun But you say that to everyone Well, I don't believe you I don't believe you" . . . "So you're brilliant gorgeous and ampersand after ampersand You think I just don't understand But I don't believe you I don't believe you" xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 16:13:37 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: run for the roses hi fegs, well, i was once a teenage girl - these things stay with you. to-day is the day of kentucky derby, and i have to say it's just making me a bit sad about barbaro. that guy just kicked ass in last year's derby. when i was young, i used to read all the horse books and read about all the races, and barbaro really was unusual - i'm sure he got compared to secretariat (there's a fair chance he was related - i don't follow these things anymore.) but i have to say it really is something when an athlete is in a class by himself. (re: secretariat: i have an old book about secretariat and he won the belmont (the third race of the triple crown, held in NY five weeks after the derby) by like thirty lengths - it was really just something else altogether. of course it makes me wonder about thoroughbreds and horse racing - these animals are raced when they are quite young and just by their nature they can horribly injure themselves with one small misstep. but all that aside, it would have been nice if last year had gone a bit differently, and barbaro had walked(?) away with the triple crown. affirmed was the last triple crown way back in 1978. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 13:25:53 -0700 From: "vivien lyon" Subject: Re: found poem... on ipod Even on someone else's ipod, the Magnetic Fields haunt me. My ipod likes the Magnetic Fields more than I do; when I put it on shuffle, every other song is a M.F. song. Anyone else notice this? I mean, there are at least 69 M.F. songs on there, which is a lot, but I have other artists with a similar number of songs and they don't seem to come up that frequently. V. On 5/5/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > i'm assuming you guys don't have "i" by the magnetic fields: > > tracklist: > > 01. I Die > 02. I Don't Believe You > 03. I Don't Really Love You Anymore > 04. I Looked All Over Town > 05. I Thought You Were My Boyfriend > 06. I Was Born > 07. I Wish I Had An Evil Twin > 08. If There's Such A Thing As Love > 09. I'm Tongue-Tied > 10. In An Operetta > 11. Infinitely Late At Night > 12. Irma > 13. Is This What They Used To Call Love > 14. It's Only Time > > your found poems made me start thinking of "i'm tongue-tied". when i > looked at the lyrics, they weren't as "i" as your poems though. the > song's really slow, and i think that emphasizes that many lines do > start with "i." > > "i'm tongue tied and useless > I'm weak-kneed and brainless > and then > I mumble some jumble > you kiss me > I'm history > I'm tongue-tied and useless again" > > etc., etc. > > my favourite "i" song is "i don't believe you" which is actually a > pretty old song that i think was only available on a single for > awhile. > > i am having trouble not just pasting in the entire lyrics to that one, > but to keep it reasonable(?), i narrowed it to three verses (btw, this > is one of those songs with a very, very short chorus, if it has one at > all.) i've been listening to this song for a long time and it still > makes me laugh ("you may set your charm on stun.." not to mention > points for mentioning two forms of punctuation.) > > "So you quote love unquote me > Well, stranger things have come to be > But let's agree to disagree > Cause I don't believe you > I don't believe you" > . > . > . > "You may set your charm on stun > And say I'm delightful and fun > But you say that to everyone > Well, I don't believe you > I don't believe you" > . > . > . > "So you're brilliant gorgeous and > ampersand after ampersand > You think I just don't understand > But I don't believe you > I don't believe you" > > xo > > -- > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." > > - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 10:23:23 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #191 >On 5/4/07, >michaeljbachman@comcast.net ><michaeljbachman@comcast.net > >wrote: > > >> Currently listening to a Chills album which I shall just refer to by >> the initials SB... >> > >Soft Bomb! A perfect pop album! > > >Or... a different Chills album... or two... > >Wonder why that "album titles linked by letter combos" thing is so >particularly antipodal. (Well, the GB's and Chills are the only >ones I can think of at all, but still...) > >-Rx In the case of the Chills, it's apparently a coincidence (at least according to Martin Phillipps, who should know). They recorded Soft Bomb and Submarine Bells, and someone asked him what the business with the SB initials was. He hadn't even noticed the similarity, but decided it would be fun to continue in the same way - hence Sunburnt, Secret Box and Stand By. 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: Sat, 5 May 2007 15:40:43 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: found poem... on ipod On 5/5/07, vivien lyon wrote: > > Even on someone else's ipod, the Magnetic Fields haunt me. > > My ipod likes the Magnetic Fields more than I do; when I put it on > shuffle, > every other song is a M.F. song. Anyone else notice this? I mean, there > are > at least 69 M.F. songs on there, which is a lot, but I have other artists > with a similar number of songs and they don't seem to come up that > frequently. We've kinda kicked the seeming non-randomness of iPod/iTunes shuffling around as a topic before, without any conclusive results I can recall. All I know is that my iPod seems to play "Cindy (Rotten Tanx)" by Thurston Moore more than it does all other songs by Sonic Youth at large. So at this point that song feels to me like the biggest hit anyone associated with SY ever had. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 19:31:02 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: found poem... on ipod > We've kinda kicked the seeming non-randomness of iPod/iTunes shuffling > around as a topic before, without any conclusive results I can recall. All > I know is that my iPod seems to play "Cindy (Rotten Tanx)" by Thurston Moore > more than it does all other songs by Sonic Youth at large. So at this point > that song feels to me like the biggest hit anyone associated with SY ever > had. even when explained, randomness can be pretty strange. the well-known (in some circles) "birthday problem" just came up on one of my problem sets (you remember hashing, tc?) - it's a standard-issue probability problem with fairly surprising results. the question is: assuming that birthdays are randomly distributed, if you are at a party, how many people have to be there in order for there to be a 50-50 chance that two people at the party have the same birthday? well obviously it doesn't have to be a party, but that's how it's usually stated. xo np: "i" (on the boombox, i remain, fairly contentedly, ipod-less) - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 19:35:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: found poem... on ipod Mine works best if I start with just "it": It Ain't Easy It Could Be Sunshine It Could Be Sweet It Doesn't Matter It Is Obvious It Was the Night It Won't Come Again It's a Fire It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll) It's a Mistake It's a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl It's a Sin It's Alright It's Been So Long It's Enough It's Her Factory It's My Life It's My Mind That Works It's No Game (Part 1) It's No Game (Part 2) It's No Good It's Not Easy Being Green It's Not Safe It's Only Love It's Over Now It's Over, It's Under It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) It's Too Late It's True That We Love One Another IV. Suite No. 1 in C Major, BWV 1066 - Forlane The poem sort of loses momentum toward the end, but the killer last line saves it. - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 18:15:45 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: found poem... on ipod On May 5, 2007, at 4:31 PM, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > the question is: assuming that birthdays are randomly distributed, if > you are at a party, how many people have to be there in order for > there to be a 50-50 chance that two people at the party have the same > birthday? > > well obviously it doesn't have to be a party, but that's how it's > usually stated. > Yeah - 17 years ago in my stats class, the party scenario was invoked. > np: "i" (on the boombox, i remain, fairly contentedly, ipod-less) You were so close to a haiku there! Here you go: "i" on the boombox i remain, fairly content ipod-less: tc? Sure! I'd be happy to help you with a discount! - -tc (just trying to keep the stock price up...) np: my "stoner" iTunes playlist: Dead, Traffic, Cream, Malkmus, Cracker, Derek Trucks... !Feliz Cinco De Mayo todos los fegos! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 19:09:48 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #190 James Dignan p.s.ed: >PS - is it possible I sense a thread on childhood TV crushes developing? I forgot to mention Judy Carne ("Laugh-in," a late '60s sitcom called "Love on a Rooftop;" briefly married to Burt Reynolds)...her PLUS the Lady Penelope marionette. No wonder I'm still a sucker for a woman with a British accent... Michael "Mmm: Dame Judy Dench!" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Download Messenger. Join the im Initiative. 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