From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #227 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, June 6 2007 Volume 16 : Number 227 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [0% rh] If stuck in LA, what to do? ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] RE: good band names ["Michael Wells" ] Re: FW: good band names [2fs ] Re: good band names ["Sealion Ramvir" ] Re: good band names ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Devil's Radio vid ["Sealion Ramvir" ] irritant of the day ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: Speaking of reunited bands... ["Stacked Crooked" ] Re: irritant of the day [Tom Clark ] Re: Ohh noooes! Ben Curtis left The Secret Machines? ["Miles Goosens" ] Re: Speaking of reunited bands... [2fs ] Re: [0% rh] If stuck in LA, what to do? [Rex ] Re: Constellations and Aussie V8s [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: irritant of the day [2fs ] Re: Constellations and Aussie V8s [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: Ohh noooes! Ben Curtis left The Secret Machines? [Rex ] Re: Speaking of reunited bands... ["Michael Sweeney" ] Re: Southern Cross / McGuinn / Lloyd ["Michael Sweeney" ] Re: Southern Cross ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] RE: Ohh noooes! Ben Curtis left The Secret Machines? ["michael wells" ] PF official website:no Robyn mentioned @ Syd trib [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 15:30:52 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: [0% rh] If stuck in LA, what to do? Stewart Russell wrote: > Looks like I'm stuck in downtown Los Angeles for the next couple of > evenings. What would fegs recommend doing? drugs. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 15:36:54 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: FW: good band names Kevin wrote: >Flipper Agreed. I wish "Generic" would get re-issued. Insane Clown Posse Wishbone Ash Fairport Convention Guadalcanal Diary We Have a Fuzzbox, and We're Gonna Use It Band of Susans ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:10:45 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter Jr." Subject: Re: good band names On Jun 6, 2007, at 2:15 PM, fegmaniax-digest wrote: > Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 12:14:13 -0700 (GMT-07:00) > From: kevin > Subject: Re: good band names > >> oh, anyone want to play "best band names ever?" Oh, OK, what the hell. Throw Me Your Finger The Fat Chick from Wilson Phillips Cat Butt Poodle Whumpies Gelatinous Citizen WInechugger P16D4 another thread on this: ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 15:11:01 -0500 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: RE: good band names Fear Beat Farmers The Toadliquors Concrete Blonde Monks of Doom Bay City Rollers! (S-A-T-U-R...never mind) Moby Grape Motorhead Secret Machines Spank My Ass and Call me Sally Whoops, that last one was a hot sauce. Michael ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 15:13:29 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: FW: good band names On 6/6/07, Bachman, Michael wrote: > > Kevin wrote: > >Flipper > > Agreed. I wish "Generic" would get re-issued. I thought it was, a year or so ago. Insane Clown Posse "Best name for stupidest band"? Wishbone Ash > Fairport Convention > Guadalcanal Diary Don't quite get why these are good names, particularly - story behind them? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 20:59:44 +0000 From: "Sealion Ramvir" Subject: Re: good band names Just to be pedantic, I'm pretty sure it was Ultimate Spinach (without the 'The'). I remember finding their Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse LP in the loft when I was about 13, and being delighted (you can guess what my Take That- and East 17-loving friends thought of my musical taste at that age). Actually, just to check I had the title of the album right, I typed 'Ultimate Spinach Apocalypse' into Google: now THAT's a good band name! Charlotte > ------------------------------ > > Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 10:12:36 -0700 (GMT-07:00) > From: kevin > Subject: Re: good band names > > >oh, anyone want to play "best band names ever?" > > off the top of my head: > The Stooges > Flipper > MC 900 Foot Jesus > The Fags (local boys from the early 80s, never broke out of Seattle) > The Ultimate Spinach > Root Boy Slim & the Sex Change Band > Godspeed You! Black Emperor > Tigers Of Pan Tang > Kinky Friedman & the Texas Jewboys > Steely Dan ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 18:05:29 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: good band names kevin says: > >oh, anyone want to play "best band names ever?" > > Jodie Foster's Army i've never actually heard this band, but they are one of the reasons that jodie will remain forever cool in my book. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 22:33:13 +0000 From: "Sealion Ramvir" Subject: Devil's Radio vid This is a mid-90s video I hadn't seen before: *www.spudgoodman.com/livemusic/index2.html *Charlotte* * ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 18:41:08 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: irritant of the day hi fegs, i still have a hotmail account and they send e-mails to encourage me to "experience" windows live. to-day's e-mail said: "Windows Live Hotmail also helps you manage your spam" that is such a stupid sentence. i'm so used to people simplifying everything; when did they start complicating things? i mean, as a user of hotmail, what exactly is involved in my "management" of "my" spam? it's just another reason why gmail is cool - - they manage spam with no help from me whatsoever. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:49:46 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Re: Speaking of reunited bands... so your solstice marks the *middle* of the season? i always thought that would make more sense than it marking the beginning of the season, as it does here. james, i think you may need to check yourself in to a netspeak support group. - -- lubricated goat - -- TOOL - -- the sutures - -- mission of burma ...there really aren't very many truly great band names, in my opinion. never heard of 'em, but that is a kick-ass name. i thought i remembered there being an early-'80s seattle band called "lou guzzo must die"; but according to , it was an EP, and it was actually *Kill Lou Guzzo*. hmm...i've always kinda hated that one. KEN "Fetch me my smelling salts" THE KENSTER ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 15:51:35 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: irritant of the day On Jun 6, 2007, at 3:41 PM, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > hi fegs, > > i still have a hotmail account and they send e-mails to encourage me > to "experience" windows live. to-day's e-mail said: > > "Windows Live Hotmail also helps you manage your spam" > > that is such a stupid sentence. i'm so used to people simplifying > everything; when did they start complicating things? Yes, it's like the cell phone company that proudly states "we have fewer dropped calls than any other provided". Wow, so you suck just a little bit less than your competitors! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 18:45:33 -0500 From: "Miles Goosens" Subject: Re: Ohh noooes! Ben Curtis left The Secret Machines? On 6/6/07, Michael Wells wrote: > Gene: > > I'm reading rumors that The Secret Machine's guitar player, Ben > Curtis, has left the band; he's not listed on their MySpace page. > > Yep. It's even on wiki ;) > > "Benjamin Curtis left the band on March 3, 2007 to focus full time on > his new band, School of Seven Bells. The news was posted by Brandon > Curtis on the Secret Machines' messageboard." > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Machines This sounds like something born of the fall 2004 Interpol/Secret Machines/On!Air!Library tour... after On!Air!Library! broke up, one of the adorable Deheza twins went to Daylight's for the Birds along with OAL's P. Wann, and the other went to School of Seven Bells... but now both Dehezas are in the latter with Mr. Curtis, and Daylight's for the Birds has a newish non-Deheza singer. I saw consecutive nights of that tour, knowing zilch about Secret Machines or On!Air!Library! going in. (Interpol was brilliant both nights, but this isn't about them.) The first night (Atlanta) I was sorta "hmmm... it's ok" about On!Air!Library! and thought Secret Machines was (were?) entertaining. But on the second night (Asheville NC), On!Air!Library! totally won me over with their nice combo of Cocteau-like vocals and feedback/found-sound bleeps, and Secret Machines' pseudo-classic rawk bored me to no end. (Yes, I strongly prefer the pseudo-U.K.-post-punk of Interpol.) I will say that guys in those audiences really, really seemed to like Secret Machines. Maybe saying this will earn me back my non-guy cred that I lost with my super macho movie list. ;) later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 16:52:19 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: irritant of the day >> "Windows Live Hotmail also helps you manage your spam" >> >> that is such a stupid sentence. I prefer mine seared in a hot skillet with scrambled eggs & grilled onion, smothered in ketchup with feta crumbled over the whole mess. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 18:54:42 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Speaking of reunited bands... On 6/6/07, Stacked Crooked wrote: > > few > weeks from now), when those stars become visible just before dawn in the > eastern sky.> > > so your solstice marks the *middle* of the season? i always thought that > would make more sense than it marking the beginning of the season, as it > does here. Well, depends who you talk to. Traditionally, spring in the northern hemisphere indeed began around February 1 (Celtic Imbolc, for example). Since the summer soltice marks the sun's highest point in the sky, that, logically, should be midsummer (similarly with winter solstice), which dates the beginnings and endings of summer & winter approx. 45 days either side of those dates. I'm not sure when spring "officially" was given its March 21 start date - but feel free to regard right now, for example, as summer (or winter in the southern hemisphere) if it feels summer to you. > > > > -- lubricated goat Silliest, yes - in a good way. Note: really dumb "sexual" names include: Whorgasm (is that a whore's orgasm, an orgasm with a whore, or what? And why name your band after it?) and Jack Off Jill (which was probably really clever for an 11-year-old to have come up with). - -- TOOL Oh c'mon - what's clever about that? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 17:04:21 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: [0% rh] If stuck in LA, what to do? On 6/6/07, Tom Clark wrote: > > On Jun 5, 2007, at 11:55 PM, Stewart Russell wrote: > > > Looks like I'm stuck in downtown Los Angeles for the next couple of > > evenings. What would fegs recommend doing? > > Play folk music with Rex? I have a house full of kids tonight, but I think the banjo's still in tune... I should have a better answer, though... Stewart, whereabouts are you marooned, particularly? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 12:05:53 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: Constellations and Aussie V8s >The Big Dipper and the Southern Cross are two separate constellations, no? > >On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Eleanore Adams wrote: > >> The Big dipper also known as the Souther Cross, and the little >> Dipper, were in my youth also called the Big Bear and the Little > > Bear. Those constillations have many names. most definitely they are. As are tyhe big bear and the little bear (or to use their proper names, Ursa Major - of which the Big Dipper or Plough is a part - and Ursa Minor, which contains the north star, Polaris). 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: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 19:06:30 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: irritant of the day On 6/6/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > > "Windows Live Hotmail also helps you manage your spam" > > that is such a stupid sentence. > I don't want spam "managed" - I want it terminated with extreme prejudice. Same with spammers. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 12:10:17 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: Constellations and Aussie V8s > >Kiwis have the best names for evarything. > >They make a really nice fruit salad with bananas and tangerines, >too. Maybe some white grapes... don't be silly. You can't have flightless birds in a fruit salad. (Oh... perhaps you mean kiwifruit...) 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: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 17:13:04 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Ohh noooes! Ben Curtis left The Secret Machines? On 6/6/07, Miles Goosens wrote: > > I saw consecutive nights of that tour, knowing zilch about Secret > Machines or On!Air!Library! going in. It is hard not to hate the puctution torture of that name. If nothing else, !!! should be able to sue them for having a name that embodies the entirety of their own, just with some superfluous actual word in there. However, the description of the music sounds intriguing. And god knows I never would have thought I'd like a band with an awful name like My Bloody Valentine, so...* - -Rex * ain't it irritating how many "My Something Something" bands there are these days, considering that rock and roll made it just fine for four decades without any? It's the like the "gerund-plural noun band name formulation" for the 2000's... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 19:41:28 -0500 From: "Miles Goosens" Subject: Re: Southern Cross / McGuinn / Lloyd On 6/5/07, Rex wrote: > (If you > rate the Byrds as highly as I do, and I know not everyone would.) I sometimes think the fact that the mail ate the Byrds comp Rex once made for me was the universe closing the door on the Byrds for me once and for all. I've never been too keen on the Byrds that I've heard, and though I thoroughly enjoy many of their children (Robyn, Tom Petty, Lindsey Buckingham, maybe I'll even list R.E.M. though I think the Byrds influence there is massively overstated), I've never been moved even to own something by the originals. There are other instances where I prefer the children much more than the parents - the Band and the Beach Boys, for example. And I have really, really tried with both, including systematically reexamining both acts while in my 20s and my 30s. I haven't decided whether to take a fourth shot at either in my just-entered 40s - more likely, I'll claim the prerogatives of age and listen without guilt to ABC's HOW TO BE A ZILLIONAIRE instead, since it's guaranteed I'll enjoy that. Lest this appear to be a '60s "B" artists prejudice, I love the Beatles. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 21:03:06 -0400 From: "Stewart Russell" Subject: Re: [0% rh] If stuck in LA, what to do? Very downtown, I think: on South Grand near 5th - by the neato central library. I'm here tomorrow night too, tho. Stewart On 06/06/07, Rex wrote: > On 6/6/07, Tom Clark wrote: > > > > On Jun 5, 2007, at 11:55 PM, Stewart Russell wrote: > > > > > Looks like I'm stuck in downtown Los Angeles for the next couple of > > > evenings. What would fegs recommend doing? > > > > Play folk music with Rex? > > > > I have a house full of kids tonight, but I think the banjo's still in > tune... > > I should have a better answer, though... Stewart, whereabouts are you > marooned, particularly? > > -Rex > - -- http://scruss.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 13:09:10 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: RE: Constellations and Aussie V8s >Shawn Colvin's song Orion In The Sky from her "Fat City" album has the >Southern Cross and the Seven Sisters as well as Orion in it's lyrics. Orion's one of the constellations visible from just about the whole planet. My favourite song mentioning it is Jethro Tull's "Orion", with it's delightful stanza: Orion, light your lights, come guard the open spaces From the black horizon to the pillow where I lie; Your faithful dog shines brighter than its lord and master Your jewelled sword twinkles as the world rolls 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: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 20:09:02 -0500 From: "Miles Goosens" Subject: Re: Ohh noooes! Ben Curtis left The Secret Machines? On 6/6/07, Rex wrote: > > > > On 6/6/07, Miles Goosens wrote: > > I saw consecutive nights of that tour, knowing zilch about Secret > > Machines or On!Air!Library! going in. > > > It is hard not to hate the puctution torture of that name. If nothing else, > !!! should be able to sue them for having a name that embodies the entirety > of their own, just with some superfluous actual word in there. Oh, I was all ready to hate them based solely on their name. Preach on, brother. > However, the description of the music sounds intriguing. And god knows I > never would have thought I'd like a band with an awful name like My Bloody > Valentine, so...* If you can stomach MySpace and want to here them, first go here: http://www.myspace.com/onairlibraryband Then play the (current) second song, "Bread." If you like that song, you'll like On!Air!Library!... and chances are you'll like both the spinoffs. Coincidentally, MBV is *another* band that never took with me at all, even after the Loud Family's boffo live cover of "When You Sleep" made me do a late '90s second try. They're just a total snoozefest to me, whereas I'm all about Kitchens of Distinction's big wash of shimmery guitar. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 20:27:26 -0500 From: "Miles Goosens" Subject: Re: good band names On 6/6/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > to-day's good band name: > > gutterball > > that is so sort of dumb that i like it. its existence was made known > to me by dimeadozen. i think it's associated with steve wynn so it > might even be a good band as well. I will vouch for it being a good band as well. I'm really thinking about what my favorite band name is. Maybe I should choose something simple, like the Kinks. Luke Haines is always good for band names: the Auteurs, Black Box Recorder, Baader Meinhof... later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 01:53:23 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: Speaking of reunited bands... Christopher Gross informed us: >Skinny Puppy is on tour! ...Yeah, I saw that they had been through Chicago the other day. In fact, how I noticed was by going out to buy late-night beer at a neighborhood liquor store that happens to be across the street from the alley entrance to NEO, a long-time punk/wave dance club (man, it's been many lifetimes ago since I was in there, but...always seemed a good time). A kid was over in the store, buying ciggies...and he had on a spanking new Skinny Puppy shirt, showing they had just played the (I think) House of Blues. Man, I thought, it's been a (take yer choice) /grateful dead/ "long strange trip" /gd/ or a /g. harrison/ "long long long time" /gh/. Wonder what D. Boon would be up to these days? Michael Sweeney ...in St. Augustine now (not as touristy as I'd feared; pretty nice); heading for Titusville (pre-shuttle launch!) tomorrow. I may wear astronaut diapers on the ride in honor/remembrace/sarcasm... _________________________________________________________________ Play games, earn tickets, get cool prizes. Play nowit's FREE! http://club.live.com/home.aspx?icid=CLUB_hotmailtextlink1 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 18:55:25 -0700 From: Eleanore Adams Subject: Re: Constellations and Aussie V8s Yep, I stand corrected. ea On Jun 6, 2007, at 5:05 PM, grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: >> The Big Dipper and the Southern Cross are two separate >> constellations, no? >> >> On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Eleanore Adams wrote: >> >>> The Big dipper also known as the Souther Cross, and the little >>> Dipper, were in my youth also called the Big Bear and the Little >> > Bear. Those constillations have many names. > > most definitely they are. As are tyhe big bear and the little bear > (or to use their proper names, Ursa Major - of which the Big Dipper > or Plough is a part - and Ursa Minor, which contains the north > star, Polaris). > > 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, 07 Jun 2007 02:03:36 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: Southern Cross / McGuinn / Lloyd Rex wrote: >You know how we all have favorite artists that we've unaccountably never >seen live? McGuinn is one for me-- at least he's a big part of several of >my very favorite records-- but although he still seems to be able to do >what >he always did well, I've never felt that compelled to see him because he >just hasn't done anything that vital for a long, long time... for some >reason his appearances have, for a long time, had more of a whiff of >"oldies >act" to them than most of his contemporaries of similar stature. It'd probably haveta be Dylan for me: A) Was just starting "born again" phase when I was 17/18 and most into his back catalog (and when I saw more concerts); B) Sucked for awhile after; C) The propensity for oft-shitty shows; and D) The "Never-Ending Tour" / eh-he's-always-around-I'll-see-him-sometime kinda thing... With the late-career revival (ongoing, and all), I probably oughta go sometime... Michael "He's gonna make me lonesome when he goes..." Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ 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, 07 Jun 2007 02:12:18 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: Southern Cross Lauren Elizabeth says: >...well, you can visit the zoo, but otherwise it's dogs, cats, an >occasional cow, and rats if you're lucky enough to live near central park. ...Ironically, I was thinking something somewhat similar today, about it being semi-random squirrels-and-pigeons-a-go-go back home in Cheecawgo...but, down here in FLA, I was seeing little green and brown lizards (including one puffing out a pinkish neck sac; looked like he was chewing bubble gum and blowing the occasional bubble) poking out of the brush, scurrying up trees, etc. Michael Sweeney Missing our kitties back at home, esp. at bedtime where there are now zero climbing-aboard-and-snuggling-kitties...where we are used to usually at least 2 or 3... _________________________________________________________________ Get a preview of Live Earth, the hottest event this summer - only on MSN http://liveearth.msn.com?source=msntaglineliveearthhm ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 22:31:28 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: Southern Cross Sweeney says: > ...but, down here in FLA, I was seeing little green and brown > lizards (including one puffing out a pinkish neck sac; looked like he was > chewing bubble gum and blowing the occasional bubble) poking out of the > brush, scurrying up trees, etc. LIZARDS!!!!! small lizards are florida's saving grace. a long time ago, on a family trip to bermuda, i sat outside the motel mesmerized by the little pastel-coloured lizards that ran about. and the mom made me go inside to watch nixon resign. she said it was "important." maybe it was, but i remember the lizards and i don't remember the resignation. i suppose we all have our priorities. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 20:42:50 -0700 From: "michael wells" Subject: RE: Ohh noooes! Ben Curtis left The Secret Machines? Miles > I will say that guys in those audiences really, really seemed to like Secret Machines. I noticed that as well during my first TSM show, a mostly jock-rock kind of vibe with white dudes and backwards ballcaps. But that had changed by the most recent gig, which was probably 50/50...a1nd the chicks were in a stone groove with the tunes. I can't believe there'll be much of TSM left now, and I've been kind of down about it. Not that you could easily replace any member of a three-piece, and especially not one who was responsible for so many layers of sound. It makes me sad. I love the albums, and they are/were *the shit* live. Ben did like it when I yelled at him to TURN UP THE GUITAR at that show. He did, too. Michael N.p. "Girl from the North Country" - Secret Machines ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 02:39:15 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: good band names Real, mainstream division: The Damned The Clash The Replacements The Velvet Underground The Band More obscure / just like for bizarreness: Hitler's Left Testicle Darth Vader's Mom Sandy Duncan's (Left/Right?; can't recall) Eye ...and, the topper... The Voluptuous Horror Of Karen Black Michael Sweeney ...And, of course, imaginary: Ice Cream in the Army [a late ex-GF's made-up pick; very beefheartian in its surrealism] Cavemen in Cars [my current GF's invention; pre-Geico ads] Motorshue [with the umlaut] [my then-4-y.o. niece's invention] The World Record Players Leppo and the Jooves We Drove Princess Grace Off the Embankment _________________________________________________________________ Dont miss your chance to WIN $10,000 and other great prizes from Microsoft Office Live http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/aub0540003042mrt/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 22:45:20 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: PF official website:no Robyn mentioned @ Syd trib Friday 11th May: Floyd and Waters pay tribute to Syd. As expected, last nightbs 'Madcap's Last Laugh' concert was a fitting tribute to Pink Floydbs leading light, Roger bSydb Barrett. The show, which featured unpublicised performances by both Roger Waters and Pink Floyd (David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright), took place at London's Barbican Hall and was organised by Pink Floyd's first producer Joe Boyd and Nick Laird-Clowes of Dream Academy as a celebration of Syd's life and music. Attended by Sydbs nephew Ian, who was coaxed to the stage and gave a short statement of thanks, the show included a varied list of performers with their own takes on Syd songs. The long list included Kevin Ayers; Damon Albarn; The Bees; Vashti Bunyan; Martha Wainwright, Kate McGarrigle & Anna McGarriglebs niece Lili Laken; The Incredible String Band's Mike Heron; Captain Sensible and Chrissie Hynde. Roger Waters, having given a personal dedication to Syd, who, he said, bkind of bouncedb, rather than walked, performed a rarely heard 'Flickering Flame', accompanied only by his own acoustic guitar and Jon Carin on keyboards. Syd was represented on film throughout, and the spirit of the Sixties was vividly recreated by early Floyd lighting designer Peter Wynne Willson's oil-wheel psychedelic creations, enveloping the stage with colour and movement. Joe Boyd made an evocative speech, then introduced Pink Floyd. David, Richard and Nick performed 'Arnold Layne', with additional musicians Andy Bell (Oasis) on bass and Jon Carin on keyboards. Wrapped up by an all-ensemble rendition of 'Bike', the evening was a fitting memorial to a unique and hugely influential individual. 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