From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #220 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, May 30 2007 Volume 16 : Number 220 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Yet Another Album Quiz [kevin ] Re: Yet Another Album Quiz [Tom Clark ] Re: why I stopped going to church, part 127 [Tom Clark ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #219 [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: sexing the telecaster [Rex ] Re: there's a lot of life in them thar depths... [Rex ] Re: sexing the telecaster [michaeljbachman@comcast.net] NEW on DIME: Robyn Hitchcock - Glastonbury Festival 2nd Stage June 20th 1987 [miss lesser hamden ] reap [2fs ] Re: movie talk (WARNING: spoilers) ["Michael Sweeney" ] Pink, soft, shaking ["Terrence Marks" ] 3 Kings Pub shows... [Matthijs van Geldere ] Archive.org: Robyn Hitchcock - Games for May - QEH - May 26th 2007 [Matth] RE: sexing the telecaster [matt sewell ] reap ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: movie talk (WARNING: spoilers) [kevin ] Re: Pink, soft, shaking [kevin ] Re: movie talk (WARNING: spoilers) ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: movie talk (WARNING: spoilers) [Carrie Galbraith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 15:14:47 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Yet Another Album Quiz >> 73%. > >ditto. > >at least i never owned any of the ones i got wrong (although that can >be said for most of the ones i got right.) > >embarrassing admission: i got "purple rain" wrong. > purple rain was the only thing on that list i ever owned (still do). i was guessing on at least half of them. i guess it speaks well for a life wasted in record stores... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 15:18:22 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Yet Another Album Quiz On May 29, 2007, at 1:23 PM, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > http://mentalfloss.com/quiz/quiz.php?q=73 73%. I can't believe I got Fleetwood Mac wrong! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 15:22:56 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: why I stopped going to church, part 127 On May 29, 2007, at 1:14 PM, Michael Wells wrote: > Headline: 'Round 5 goes to Harry Potter' > http://tinyurl.com/3csx9e > "Gwinnett Superior Court Judge Ronnie Batchelor on Tuesday rejected a > mother's plea to have the Harry Potter books removed from county > school > libraries. Laura Mallory of Loganville lost her argument for judicial > relief. Mallory argues the "Potter" stories are harmful and promote > witchcraft and the occult to young people. I hope she's rallying equally hard to ban The Bible as well. I've never read any Harry Potter books, but I doubt any of them depict slavery, rape, immolation, incest, torture, etc... - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 11:42:42 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #219 Tom Clark opined >Man I had no idea it's become such a phenomenon. How long before >someone translates Shakespeare into lolspeak? > >"Romeo, Romeo, warez u at Romeo?" When they do, I hope they realise that "wherefore" m,eant "why" in that context :) Take that as a subtle FYTC. James (feeling a year older. Happy Anniversary Barbara!) - -- 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: Tue, 29 May 2007 17:10:16 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: sexing the telecaster On 5/29/07, kevin wrote: > > >Matt > >*because Telecasters are female, obv... > > How about the Jazzmaster? Alembic Stratoblaster? Gibson Flying V? > > You've opened up a whole new field of inquiry here! The ultimate > interdisciplinary study - acoustibiology? Not to mention giving new meaning > to heretofore overlooked terms like "humbucking"... To say nothing of "f-hole". And "g-string". Bwahahahaha. Those nevar get old. I pretty much assume that all guitars are female, as with boats. Lucille and whatnot. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 17:17:41 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: there's a lot of life in them thar depths... On 5/29/07, Michael Wells wrote: > > "Carnivorous sponges, 585 new species of crustaceans and hundreds of new > worms have been discovered in the dark waters around Antarctica" I'd never heard of a pycnogonid before. Something new to investigate... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 17:37:08 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Pair of wayward whales closing in on San Francisco Bay wow, *all* of 'em? i found *Heat And Dust*, "Howard's End*, and *Remainds Of The Day* to all be quite stellar. agree that the rest of 'em are kind of whatever. the *Remains* commentary is a lot of fun. i was just yesterday thinking that i think i'm still in denial about altman's passing. . ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 17:49:05 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: starfuckin' i know this guy. he's pretty cool. . ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 00:47:08 +0000 From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Subject: Re: sexing the telecaster - -------------- Original message -------------- From: Rex > On 5/29/07, kevin wrote: > > > > >Matt > > >*because Telecasters are female, obv... > > > > How about the Jazzmaster? Alembic Stratoblaster? Gibson Flying V? > > > > You've opened up a whole new field of inquiry here! The ultimate > > interdisciplinary study - acoustibiology? Not to mention giving new meaning > > to heretofore overlooked terms like "humbucking"... > Rex wrote > To say nothing of "f-hole". And "g-string". Bwahahahaha. Those nevar get > old. > > I pretty much assume that all guitars are female, as with boats. Lucille > and whatnot. > This one is definitively female, and a beauty as well: http://www.rickbeat.com/modelslibrary/350sh/350sh.htm ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 22:36:18 -0400 From: miss lesser hamden Subject: NEW on DIME: Robyn Hitchcock - Glastonbury Festival 2nd Stage June 20th 1987 http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=148630&hit=1 - -------- Original Message -------- A new torrent has been uploaded to DIME. Torrent: 148630 Title: Robyn Hitchcock - Glastonbury Festival 2nd Stage June 20th 1987 Size: 282.93 MB Category: Rock Uploaded by: Misterhank Info hash: 21176731858e857c5c646cfd63da85f085441713 Description - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robyn Hitchcock - Glastonbury Festival 2nd Stage June 20th 1987 Master Recording Just dusted this one off after finding it in the big box upstairs. This is one that I recorded and, as far as I remember, I've never distributed it. Recorded with a really cheapo plastic Ross mic into a Sony Recording Walkman straight onto a TDK AD 60 cassette >> Sony TC-WE435 cassette deck >> Cool Edit 2000 (normalised) >> CDWav >> flac 6 >> you. There's a lot of crowd noise in between songs (but, hey, this was Glastonbury!) but, considering the primitive recording equipment that was used, it's a really listenable recording. There's a small gap in the middle of Track 8 where the tape was turned over. Setlist anyone??!! - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 03:57:42 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: Reap Tom Clark said: >btw, is there a spelling for CNR's trademark throaty laugh? "Guhuhuhuh" >is the best I can come up with. ...Seems pretty close, but I would think there should be an "N" or two or three in there somewhere as well... Michael "'Match Game!' was on after school for far too many impressionable years" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ PC Magazines 2007 editors choice for best Web mailaward-winning Windows Live Hotmail. http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en-us&ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migration_HM_mini_pcmag_0507 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 23:22:24 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: reap Marquise Hill < http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-patriots-hillsearch&prov=ap&type=lgns > - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 04:24:30 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: movie talk (WARNING: spoilers) Lauren said: >"waitress": where do i begin? that's kind of a no-brainer: the >gynecologist character (who was actually more of a secondary >character.) While I do not disagree about anything Lauren said about the Dr. character, I kinda cut "him" some slack _because_ he was secondary (ie., it wasn't his story; he was the equivalent of eye/mind/body candy for the main character). MY major problem with the movie was (again: plenty o' SPOILERS ahead.................................) that the main character started out sorta unlikable (note her friends not wanting to trade places with her) and in an abusive relationship (not that there's anything intrinsically wrong with these), then pretty ambivalent about a pregnancy (again, nothing wrong with that -- actually refreshing for a change)...but, then, once the baby (which she had dreaded and said she hated while carrying it) is born, she is instantly happy, emboldened, fulfilled, complete, kicks the dread hubby to the curb (yeah, like it would be that easy), and has found the "love of her life" in the baby. Again, sure, all of those things ARE possible, but, given what came before (incl. the affair w/the Dr.), they are completely deus ex machina solutions (as much -- if not more so! -- as the whole Andy-Griffith-gives-her-money-or-the-diner-or-whatever-he-did thing (and, once he told her he was going to the hospital, who couldn't see that coming? At that point, he was as doomed as every non-Danny Glover police character going into his final days on the force in the history of buddy cop movies...)) ...Anyway...I know -- that's alot of objections to a movie I said I didn't mind, but it was somewhat charming in its presentation, but...coulda been so much more...(and, Adrienne, etc., etc.) (plus -- we all HAD to go to Baker's Square for pie afterwards...they're missing some cross-promotion possibilities there...) Michael Sweeney ...Quick note: Too late for all but the late-night, individual-e-mail-receivers (sorry, digest readers like me), but the Ovation channel (which, sadly, my cable system is eliminating soon) is showing a John Cale bio at 1 AM CDST later tonight (early Wed. morn)...watched part of it earlier, and enjoyed what I saw... _________________________________________________________________ Like the way Microsoft Office Outlook works? Youll love Windows Live Hotmail. http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en-us&ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migration_HM_mini_outlook_0507 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 08:28:57 +0100 From: craigie* Subject: Re: Yet Another Album Quiz 80% pretty good really. c* On 29/05/07, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > http://mentalfloss.com/quiz/quiz.php?q=73 > > > "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to > watch many of them." -- John Waters > > . > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________Need > a vacation? Get great deals > to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. > http://travel.yahoo.com/ > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 02:13:37 -0700 From: "Terrence Marks" Subject: Pink, soft, shaking I'm not actually cool enough to sign up for those DimeADozen torrents yet, but I came across this the other day. I'm not trying to just post a YouTube link list; it just kind of works that way. http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZU0Ri6ZOQbE Pink Floyd (post-Syd) performing Let there Be More Light and Flaming, live on French TV. With David Gilmour on lead vocals and Roger Waters on slide-whistle. http://youtube.com/watch?v=MVdS1F4MRwQ The Soft Machine (post-Daevid, pre-Hugh) - We Know What You Mean. There are few things (musically) that I enjoy more than finding a previously unreleased song by a band when they were in their prime. I've sat through enough reunions and bands-that've-gone-on-too-long to realize that you really can't ever go back. To come in a few weeks late on an argument that already ended - I have no problem with songs being used in commercials. I prefer it to reunion albums. (and I laugh a little on the inside when I hear Kinks songs being used to promote HP cameras and printers. I hum "People take pictures of each other" quietly to myself when they come on. And Ray Davies has so many anti-technology songs, it just seems unfitting. But no more unfitting than having him do a soundtrack to a movie about organ transplants*. Anyhow, given the choice between having a pleasant song on TV or Preservation part 3, well, I don't mind things being the way they are so much.) http://youtube.com/watch?v=3tE_FM7SHRE Los Shakers, Uruguay's answer to The Beatles. No, really. They're damn good. They sound as if they literally only listened to Beatles albums and nothing else. Unfortunately, their albums are mostly unknown in the English-speaking world and are mostly impossible to find. I have Por Favor, a compilation album. I have been seeking a copy of La Conferencia Secreta Del Toto's Bar in any medium, and was hoping that someone here might have it. Terrence Marks *: Yes, a Hitchcock reference. I figure I should have one in here somewhere. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 10:41:59 +0100 From: Matthijs van Geldere Subject: 3 Kings Pub shows... Following previous email: tickets for the Robyn Hitchcock 3 Kings Pub shows in London on June 30th / July 1st 2007 will go on sale on Friday June 8th. Tickets will need to be collected in person from the 3 Kings Pub, they do not take any reservations over the phone. Cheers Matt. [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type application/ms-tnef which had a name of winmail.dat] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 11:13:05 +0100 From: Matthijs van Geldere Subject: Archive.org: Robyn Hitchcock - Games for May - QEH - May 26th 2007 Now available here in various audio formats (FLAC, Ogg or MP3) for those people without DIME access: http://www.archive.org/details/robynhitchcock2007-05-26 [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type application/ms-tnef which had a name of winmail.dat] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 11:53:10 +0100 From: matt sewell Subject: RE: sexing the telecaster Yeah it's true! I don't think I agree with Rex's saying that all guitars are female... Stratocaster - that's a male guitar I reckon... not sure about any others, apart from the flying V, which is certainly mail - take a sniff of one and get them male pheromones! Cheers Matt > Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 10:30:25 -0700> From: kevinstudyvin@earthlink.net> To: matt_sewell@hotmail.com; jlbrand@bu.edu; fegmaniax@smoe.org> Subject: sexing the telecaster> > >Matt> >*because Telecasters are female, obv...> > How about the Jazzmaster? Alembic Stratoblaster? Gibson Flying V? > > You've opened up a whole new field of inquiry here! The ultimate interdisciplinary study - acoustibiology? Not to mention giving new meaning to heretofore overlooked terms like "humbucking"... _________________________________________________________________ Try Live.com: where your online world comes together - with news, sports, weather, and much more. http://www.live.com/getstarted ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 07:59:50 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: reap Sam's, the iconic Toronto record store whose walls are scrawled with visiting bands' signatures, closes at the end of June: Photo of the Yonge St icon: ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 09:37:58 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: movie talk (WARNING: spoilers) >Michael Sweeney >...Quick note: Too late for all but the late-night, >individual-e-mail-receivers (sorry, digest readers like me), but the Ovation >channel (which, sadly, my cable system is eliminating soon) is showing a >John Cale bio at 1 AM CDST later tonight (early Wed. morn)...watched part of >it earlier, and enjoyed what I saw... > That would be fun to see, but we don't get Ovation. Was just thinking about Cale's autobiography and how he goes wallowing in all manner of intimate detail about his sordid adventures, but when he's relating the tale of his first marriage he tells ya everything up to & including his bride screwing Kevin Ayers backstage at the 1974 Rainbow concert but you have to read *very closely between the lines* to discover that she was one of the GTOs - which would be vital cultural currency to anybody familiar with L.A. of the period. But then he was never really an avocado empire guest-shot-on Jackson-Browne-album kind of guy, thank god. np The Mothers Of Invention: Burnt Weeny Sandwich ("You'll hurt your throat! Stop it!") ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 09:52:45 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Pink, soft, shaking >(and I laugh a little on the inside when I hear Kinks >songs being used to promote HP cameras and printers. I hum "People >take pictures of each other" quietly to myself when they come on. And >Ray Davies has so many anti-technology songs, it just seems unfitting. No more wierdly inappropriate then the same promotion using the Cure's "Pictures Of You." My current fave is the Cisco Systems campaign using "Baba O'Reilly" to promote theis global digital hegemony. Teenage wasteland, anybody? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 16:02:55 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: movie talk (WARNING: spoilers) Michael Sweeney says: > While I do not disagree about anything Lauren said about the Dr. character, > I kinda cut "him" some slack _because_ he was secondary (ie., it wasn't his > story; he was the equivalent of eye/mind/body candy for the main character). Still, secondary characters should at least carry on an appearance of making sense. > MY major problem with the movie was (again: plenty o' SPOILERS > ahead.................................) that the main character started out > sorta unlikable I had a problem with that of course, but I might have forgiven the ending had the other 95% of the movie made any sense. What's the deal with Cheryl Hines' character's husband and her affair? Why does everyone act like the owner is so impossible to deal with when all he wants is to read you your horoscope and have a glass orange juice with no ice? Why does the Adrienne Shelley character go to work looking like that? Was that a *mustard* pie? Why did Jeremy Sisto take such a stupid role? Where the hell are they walking to in the closing scene? Isn't Pee Wee Herman in jail? At any rate, this review put it way better than I could: http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/movies/379004,WKP-News-waitress11.articleprint Although I agree with almost nothing it says, this sums it up so very well: " 'Waitress' is this year's 'Little Miss Sunshine.' " Amen. xo P.S. Where did these lead caps come from? I must have too much frackin' time on my hands if I can just sit around all day hitting the "shift" key. http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/drama/2006/01/06/frack/index.html - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 16:19:46 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: movie talk (WARNING: spoilers) Lauren wrote: >Although I agree with almost nothing it says, this sums it up so very well: >" 'Waitress' is this year's 'Little Miss Sunshine.' " >Amen. I have yet to see either. Is Alan Arkin's Oscar winning role not even worth watching 'Little Miss Sunshine' for? Maybe it was a make-up Oscar for 'Catch-22'? He was perfect as the aged dad in 'Slums of Beverly Hills' as well. I wonder how long William H. Macy will have to wait until he gets his after getting robbed for his 'Fargo' performance by Cuba Gooding Jr. in the overated bit in 'Jerry McGuire'? The clock's been ticking for 10 years now. MJ Bachman ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 16:26:09 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: movie talk (WARNING: spoilers) MJ says: > I have yet to see either. Is Alan Arkin's Oscar winning role not even > worth watching 'Little Miss Sunshine' for? Absolutely not. xo P.S. I should say I'm in the minority on that one. I was completely perplexed by the good reviews (kind of like "Waitress.") - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 14:01:28 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: movie talk (WARNING: spoilers) On May 30, 2007, at 1:26 PM, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > MJ says: >> I have yet to see either. Is Alan Arkin's Oscar winning role not even >> worth watching 'Little Miss Sunshine' for? > > Absolutely not. The movie's worth a rental, but not necessarily for Arkin's performance. People seemed to read a lot more into that film that I did. I thought the characters and plot were pretty predictable and contrived. - -tc np - X "More Fun In The New World" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 14:26:35 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: movie talk (WARNING: spoilers) - -----Original Message----- >From: Tom Clark >> MJ says: >>> I have yet to see either. Is Alan Arkin's Oscar winning role not even >>> worth watching 'Little Miss Sunshine' for? >> >> Absolutely not. > >The movie's worth a rental, but not necessarily for Arkin's >performance. People seemed to read a lot more into that film that I >did. I thought the characters and plot were pretty predictable and >contrived. My nephew was raving about it and after I saw it, I felt much like Tom did. I couldn't find any oscar calliber/riveting performances from anyone. It's an often amusing, ok indie film. I felt a similar thing when I saw "Running with Scissors" which seemed like a Wes Anderson wannabe film. Perhaps Arkin got the Oscar for his lifetime of work? The age thing? However, if anyone has a chance to see a little indie diamond called "Wristcutters" - I highly recommend it. Quirky, bleak, funny and full on outrageous. I caught it at the Mill Valley Film Festival and have been thinking about it off and on since. Little Miss, on the other hand, did not warrant a second thought. Be Seeing You, - - c ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 18:34:53 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: eeyikes this new richard thompson record really bites it. ...the new rufus ain't bad, though. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #220 ********************************