From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #231 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, June 10 2007 Volume 16 : Number 231 Today's Subjects: ----------------- lolfegz [Tom Clark ] Geobanding ["Terrence Marks" ] Re: Geobanding [2fs ] NEW on DIME: Robyn Hitchcock and The Venus 3 2007-06-01 Wychwood Festival [miss lesser hamden ] Re: More geek humor [Rex ] Re: Geobanding ["Terrence Marks" ] [none] [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: [2fs ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #229 [Tom Clark ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #229 [2fs ] Re: [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: [Rex ] Re: ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: [Rex ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #229 [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: [Rex ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #229 [2fs ] might smell as sweet [2fs ] Lolcats, etc. [Barbara Soutar ] Re: Lolcats, etc. [Rex ] Re: Lolcats, etc. ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: Lolcats, etc. [Rex ] Re: good band names ["Michael Sweeney" ] Re: Band names ["Michael Sweeney" ] RE: same thing but chicago ["Michael Sweeney" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 12:02:24 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: lolfegz On Jun 8, 2007, at 10:36 PM, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > yes, you get my meaning. so is born lolfegz. or lolrobyn. my first > thought was lolcock but obviously that should be another deal > altogether. > > okay, here is jpg #1, but mind, if anyone says i made and/or posted > this, i'll fucking deny it: > http://home.comcast.net/~ralpal/lolfegz-mexcangodz.JPG Here you go: http://lolfegz.denisvengeance.com/ email photo links to me and I'll post them. this is so wrong, - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 13:18:51 -0700 From: "Terrence Marks" Subject: Geobanding > Also: with only one or two exceptions I can think of, all bands named after > geographic locations suck horribly. Chicago. Boston. Asia. Kansas. Europe. > Etc. > > (one exception: Idaho) But surely you've forgotten about United States of America and Holopaw! Terrence Marks ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 15:35:42 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Geobanding On 6/9/07, Terrence Marks wrote: > > > Also: with only one or two exceptions I can think of, all bands named > after > > geographic locations suck horribly. Chicago. Boston. Asia. Kansas. > Europe. > > Etc. > > > > (one exception: Idaho) > > But surely you've forgotten about United States of America and Holopaw! Well, I did say there were a couple of exceptions - But: who/what the fred is a "Holopaw"? It's a place? On what planet? (bonus points for IDing that expletive...) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2007 16:41:59 -0400 From: miss lesser hamden Subject: NEW on DIME: Robyn Hitchcock and The Venus 3 2007-06-01 Wychwood Festival http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=150068&hit=1 - -------- Original Message -------- A new torrent has been uploaded to DIME. Torrent: 150068 Title: Robyn Hitchcock and The Venus 3 2007-06-01 Wychwood Festival Size: 365.08 MB Category: Rock Uploaded by: Pike1957 Info hash: 21ecfbc645118cf750d7a7d814d3686e968473a4 Description - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 (plus Morris Windsor) 2007-06-01 Wychwood Festival, Cheltenham Racecourse, Cheltenham, UK GM Pro Mics/Battery Box -> Microtrack (48khz, 24 bit) -> Adobe Audition (minor sound levelling) -> Audacity 1.3.3 (track splits/downsampling) -> WAV (44.1, 16 bit) -> FLAC (sbe corrected, level 8, tagged) 01 - Intro 02 - Adventure Rocket Ship 03 - Sally Was A Legend 04 - Ole Tarantula 05 - Balloon Man 06 - N.Y. Doll 07 - Beautiful Queen 08 - The Underneath 09 - Brenda's Iron Sledge 10 - Somewhere Apart 11 - The Authority Box 12 - Madonna Of The Wasps 13 - A Man's Gotta Know His Limitations, Briggs 14 - Kingdom Of Love Recorded by Pike1957 Up against the barriers, pretty much dead centre. The crowd were a bit noisy - adds to the atmosphere. The volume was being increased throughout the set - luckily my levels were such that no overloading occured. I have not adjusted the relative levels, so it does increase in volume throughout. I also recorded Ian Hunter. I'll upload it a bit later. I included a couple of pictures too (artwork anyone?) Enjoy! - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 14:56:20 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #229 On 6/8/07, grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > > > Has anyone added Anderson Bruford Wakeman and Howe to the bad group > names yet? Sounds more like a firm of accountants than a rock group. What was the Dead Milkmen Parody-- Anderson , Puking, Walkmen and How! or something? Another awful name I missed: System of a Down. What is that - the > topology of a hill in southern England? Oh, I know this one, and it's even lamer than you'd think-- it's a reference to a line in a poem. A famous poem? Not so much. A poem written by one of the band members in high school. So it's not just awful, but pretentiously self-aggrandizing as well! Stone Temple Pilots is also a singularly terrible name. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 15:10:59 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: More geek humor On 6/8/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > > yes, you get my meaning. so is born lolfegz. or lolrobyn. my first > thought was lolcock but obviously that should be another deal > altogether. And "lolhitchcock" would be a tribute to Robyn's sister, or close to one. http://home.comcast.net/~ralpal/lolfegz-mexcangodz.JPG That is teh awesome. We need to do these with Robyn's cartoons, of course. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 15:43:43 -0700 From: "Terrence Marks" Subject: Re: Geobanding On 6/9/07, 2fs wrote: > On 6/9/07, Terrence Marks wrote: > > > > Also: with only one or two exceptions I can think of, all bands named > after > > > geographic locations suck horribly. Chicago. Boston. Asia. Kansas. > Europe. > > > Etc. > > > > > > (one exception: Idaho) > > > > But surely you've forgotten about United States of America and Holopaw! > > > Well, I did say there were a couple of exceptions - > > But: who/what the fred is a "Holopaw"? It's a place? On what planet? a) Other folks who describe music for a living, categorize them as indie country-rock, and that sounds reasonable to me.http://www.subpop.com/artists/holopaw. http://www.holopaw.net/holopaw/home.html b) A small city in Osceola County, Florida, near Gainesville Terrence Marks ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 15:36:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: [none] Rex wrote: > grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > > Another awful name I missed: System of a Down. What is that - the > > topology of a hill in southern England? > > Oh, I know this one, and it's even lamer than you'd think-- it's a > reference to a line in a poem. A famous poem? Not so much. A > poem written by one of the band members in high school. So it's > not just awful, but pretentiously self-aggrandizing as well! Still better than Limp Bizkit or Korn as they did spell all the words correctly. > Stone Temple Pilots is also a singularly terrible name. It's not a good name, but if it was attatched to a decent band it probably wouldn't seem as bad. Of course, if they were a better band, they probably would have thought of a better name. "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Park yourself in front of a world of choices in alternative vehicles. Visit the Yahoo! Auto Green Center. http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 18:06:44 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: On 6/9/07, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > Rex wrote: > > grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > > > Another awful name I missed: System of a Down. What is that - the > > > topology of a hill in southern England? > > Still better than Limp Bizkit or Korn as they did spell all the words > correctly. Syzdem uv a D0wn! > Stone Temple Pilots is also a singularly terrible name. > > It's not a good name, but if it was attatched to a decent band it > probably wouldn't seem as bad. Of course, if they were a better band, > they probably would have thought of a better name. What is it supposed to mean? Is it a bunch of pilots associated with a stone temple? Huh? And also: Alice in Chains. Terrible name. What's with all the "Alice" stuff? Alice Cooper? Alice in Wonderland? And finally: Jane's Addiction. Awful on every level (including, I wonder, what Jane thought about the band name...) And just so people don't think I'm picking on bands that I also don't like: Red House Painters - a band whose music I love - has the same problem as Stone Temple Pilots: I mean, is it a bunch of painters who paint houses red? Or an organization of house-painting communists? What? Kozelek was probably drunk at the time. Speaking of, his hero Mark Eitzel comes up pretty lame in the band naming sweepstakes: I think I avoided American Music Club for years because I just assumed with a name like that they had to be some awful roots-rockers or something. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 16:06:05 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #229 On Jun 9, 2007, at 2:56 PM, Rex wrote: >> Another awful name I missed: System of a Down. What is that - the >> topology of a hill in southern England? > > Oh, I know this one, and it's even lamer than you'd think-- it's a > reference > to a line in a poem. A famous poem? Not so much. A poem written > by one of > the band members in high school. So it's not just awful, but > pretentiously > self-aggrandizing as well! That about sums up the music as well! - -tc, freshly coiffed ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 18:01:10 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #229 On 6/9/07, Rex wrote: > > > Another awful name I missed: System of a Down. What is that - the > > topology of a hill in southern England? > > > Oh, I know this one, and it's even lamer than you'd think-- it's a > reference > to a line in a poem. A famous poem? Not so much. A poem written by one > of > the band members in high school. So it's not just awful, but > pretentiously > self-aggrandizing as well! Sigh... So, that still doesn't answer the question: qu'est-ce que fuck does it mean? Stone Temple Pilots is also a singularly terrible name. Memorably parodied somehwere or other as "Stone Pimple Toilets"...which is neither better nor worse a band name... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 16:29:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: 2fs wrote: > And also: Alice in Chains. Terrible name. What's with all the > "Alice" stuff? Alice Cooper? Alice in Wonderland? Obviously Chains instead of Wonderland, but yeah, that one's as pretentious as fuckin' hell; at least System of a Down were pretentiously nicking their own (no doubt) lousy high school poetry so that you'd have to try to find out it's pretense; AIC weren't even that subtle. "Would?" was a pretty good song though. > And finally: Jane's Addiction. Awful on every level (including, I > wonder, what Jane thought about the band name...) Those two together reminds of a lame Spin list in the early 90s of band names that people's dad's though were solo artists: James Addiction, Alison Chains. Not as funny as when they suggest Morrissey take over for Vince Neil as the new Motley Crue singer, that's for damn sure. > And just so people don't think I'm picking on bands that I also > don't like: Red House Painters - a band whose music I love - has > the same problem as Stone Temple Pilots: I mean, is it a bunch of > painters who paint houses red? Or an organization of house- > painting communists? What? Since when does a band name really have to mean something though. A clump of words that sounds kinda good together is a perfectly valid reason to pick a name. After all, what's a Soft Boy? Nothing, just a couple words thrown together to create a noise. Perfectly fine reason to pick a name, whether you suck as much as STP did, were as great as The Soft Boys, or as meh-to-great-depending-on-your-point-of-view as RHP. > Kozelek was probably drunk at the time. > > Speaking of, his hero Mark Eitzel comes up pretty lame in the band > naming sweepstakes: I think I avoided American Music Club for years > because I just assumed with a name like that they had to be some > awful roots-rockers or something. Ah, American Music Club. _THAT_ might be the worst name of all, just because it's so dull and lazy. Alice in Chains may be a stupid name, but at least it looks like they spent a couple weeks trying to think it up. "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545433 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 16:56:04 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: On 6/9/07, 2fs wrote: > > > > It's not a good name, but if it was attatched to a decent band it > > probably wouldn't seem as bad. Of course, if they were a better band, > > they probably would have thought of a better name. > > > What is it supposed to mean? Is it a bunch of pilots associated with a > stone > temple? Huh? Duh! No, they are the people qualified to *fly* temples made of stone. Plus, it abbreviates to STP. You know, like the shit you put in your gas tank or whatever. So then you don't have to design your own log. Which is teh coolness, 'cuz what is a band without a logo? > Speaking of, his hero Mark Eitzel comes up pretty lame in the band naming > sweepstakes: I think I avoided American Music Club for years because I > just > assumed with a name like that they had to be some awful roots-rockers or > something. As I recently said, fist time I saw them, I assumed I was in for an NRBQ-type thing. But I got over it. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 20:07:10 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: Jeff Dwarf says: > Since when does a band name really have to mean something though. A > clump of words that sounds kinda good together is a perfectly valid > reason to pick a name. After all, what's a Soft Boy? Nothing, just a > couple words thrown together to create a noise. Perfectly fine reason > to pick a name, whether you suck as much as STP did, were as great as > The Soft Boys, or as meh-to-great-depending-on-your-point-of-view as > RHP. i thought "the soft boys" was a sort of self-effacing (perhaps a better term would be self-mocking?) name that pokes fun at the rock 'n' roll tough guys. whereas "red house painters" seems pretty random (at least from here.) xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 17:21:49 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: On 6/9/07, ME wrote: > > > > > Plus, it abbreviates to STP. You know, like the shit you put in your gas > tank or whatever. So then you don't have to design your own log. > Erm... logo. Unfortunately, nothing can ameliorate the need to design your own log. All kids love log! - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:37:27 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #229 >Also: with only one or two exceptions I can think of, all bands >named after geographic locations suck horribly. Chicago. Boston. >Asia. Kansas. Europe. Etc. > >(one exception: Idaho) Depends on where the name is of. Places in the US, yeah, the bands generally suck. Places in the UK, we're often talking quirky new wave stuff (from the Leyton Buzzards to Hatfield and the North). Whereas Laibach is something else entirely. And if you name yourself after a building or club, you're fine (Cabaret Voltaire, for instance). 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, 9 Jun 2007 17:52:44 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: On 6/9/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > Jeff Dwarf says: > > Since when does a band name really have to mean something though. A > > clump of words that sounds kinda good together is a perfectly valid > > reason to pick a name. After all, what's a Soft Boy? Nothing, just a > > couple words thrown together to create a noise. Perfectly fine reason > > to pick a name, whether you suck as much as STP did, were as great as > > The Soft Boys, or as meh-to-great-depending-on-your-point-of-view as > > RHP. > > i thought "the soft boys" was a sort of self-effacing (perhaps a > better term would be self-mocking?) name that pokes fun at the rock > 'n' roll tough guys. But I also thought they were literally spineless, malleable (nonhuman) creatures described by Robyn in early interviews-- sorta like the Blob meats the Dish of the Day from the Hitchhikers' Guide. Did I just dream that? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 22:18:14 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #229 On 6/9/07, grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > > >Also: with only one or two exceptions I can think of, all bands > >named after geographic locations suck horribly. Chicago. Boston. > >Asia. Kansas. Europe. Etc. > > > >(one exception: Idaho) > > Depends on where the name is of. Places in the US, yeah, the bands > generally suck. Places in the UK, we're often talking quirky new wave > stuff (from the Leyton Buzzards to Hatfield and the North). Whereas > Laibach is something else entirely. And if you name yourself after a > building or club, you're fine (Cabaret Voltaire, for instance). I should have said "bands named entirely after places." Both the British examples you give (I don't know the first - but I enjoy Hatfield & the North) aren't *only* the place name. Buildings and clubs are a separate category. Incidentally, in college a friend of mine and I came up with the Tom Waits Scale to rank whether or not a place presented some degree of danger, sleaziness, etc. It's quite simple: any place named in a Tom Waits song is not a place you want to be alone at night singing loudly about the contents of your wallet. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 22:24:19 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: might smell as sweet On 6/9/07, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > 2fs wrote: > > > Those two together reminds of a lame Spin list in the early 90s of > band names that people's dad's though were solo artists: James > Addiction, Alison Chains. Also dumb - since at that time, "people's dads" quite possibly had been fucking in the mud at Woodstock and in all likelihood enjoyed much cooler music than their idiotic, _Spin_-magazine-subscribing offspring. It's endlessly amusing how people's parents seem always to have been living in the stereotypically clueless blandness supposedly typical of the '50s - no matter how old they actually are. > And just so people don't think I'm picking on bands that I also > > don't like: Red House Painters - a band whose music I love - has > > the same problem as Stone Temple Pilots: I mean, is it a bunch of > > painters who paint houses red? Or an organization of house- > > painting communists? What? > > Since when does a band name really have to mean something though. A > clump of words that sounds kinda good together is a perfectly valid > reason to pick a name. After all, what's a Soft Boy? Nothing, just a > couple words thrown together to create a noise. Right. The words don't have to mean something per se - not literally at least - but they should be evocative, but not in a stereotypical way. That's the main problem I have with band names like Stone Temple Pilots: the words don't particularly evoke anything, unless you postulate "stone" has something to do with being stoned - but that's an utterly obvious idea, and therefore stupid. _The Onion_'s little pre-written blurb (used in the calendar section of local editions whenever the band's coming to town) for Godsmack illustrates this: there's a band clearly thinking, wow, put together Religion plus Drugs, instant cool band name that'll irritate suburban teens' parents! Stupider than fifteen boxes of hammers melted down together and thrown down an abandoned elevator shaft. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2007 23:10:59 -0400 From: Barbara Soutar Subject: Lolcats, etc. Like others here, I've been reading the "cheezburger" site. My daughter pointed me to a couple of wikipedia articles on the phenomenon where the captions are reduced to mathematical formulae. That in itself is hilarious. As she says, the language mangling is just what you'd expect if a cat got access to a keyboard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolcat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_snowclones On another topic, I've just got the Ray Davies CD, Other People's Lives. Great stuff. Barbara Soutar Victoria, BC n. p. Dead End Street, The Kinks ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 22:37:18 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Lolcats, etc. On 6/9/07, Barbara Soutar wrote: > > Like others here, I've been reading the "cheezburger" site. My daughter > pointed me to a couple of wikipedia articles on the phenomenon where the > captions are reduced to mathematical formulae. That in itself is > hilarious. As she says, the language mangling is just what you'd expect > if a cat got access to a keyboard. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolcat The one that says "YES ITS CAN BE SMILE TIEMS NOW MOTHERFUCKRS" reminds me strongly of the immortal, wonderful Natalie / Eddie mashup "It's raining babies, Motherfuckers!" Coincidentally, I've beem getting surprising mileage out of Jefferson Airplane's "Volunteers" lately. Up against the wall, Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 01:49:09 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: Lolcats, etc. Barbara Soutar says: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_snowclones i love that stuff. just my opinion. which will, with 25 cents, get you a cup of coffee. and apologies, but i just have to say: sweet chocolate jesus, i fracking worked all night decrypting this: BNVSNSIHQCEELSSKKYERIFJKXUMBGYKAMQLJTYAVFBKVT DVBPVVRJYYLAOKYMPQSCGDLFSRLLPROYGESEBUUALRWXM MASAZLGLEDFJBZAVVPXWICGJXASCBYEHOSNMULKCEAHTQ OKMFLEBKFXLRRFDTZXCIWBJSICBGAWDVYDHAVFJXZIBKC GJIWEAHTTOEWTUHKRQVVRGZBXYIREMMASCSPBNLHJMBLR FFJELHWEYLWISTFVVYFJCMHYUYRUFSFMGESIGRLWALSWM NUHSIMYYITCCQPZSICEHBCCMZFEGVJYOCDEMMPGHVAAUM ELCMOEHVLTIPSUYILVGFLMVWDVYDBTHFRAYISYSGKVSUU HYHGGCKTMBLRX and all is got was: IGREWUPAMONGSLOWTALKERSMENINPARTICULARWHODROP PEDWORDSAFEWATATIMELIKEBEANSINAHILLANDWHENIGO TTOMINNEAPOLISWHEREPEOPLETOOKALAKEWOBEGONCOMM ATOMEANTHEENDOFASTORYICOULDNTSPEAKAWHOLESENTE NCEINCOMPANYANDWASCONSIDEREDNOTTOOBRIGHTSOIEN ROLLEDINASPEECHCOURSETAUGHTBYORVILLESANDTHEFO UNDEROFREFLEXIVERELAXOLOGYASELFHYPNOTICTECHNI QUETHATENABLEDAPERSONTOSPEAKUPTOTHREEHUNDREDW ORDSPERMINUTE x "just like turing, only slower, dumber, and straighter" o - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 23:42:41 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Lolcats, etc. On 6/9/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > > and apologies, but i just have to say: sweet chocolate jesus, i > fracking worked all night decrypting this: > > BNVSNSIHQCEELSSKKYERIFJKXUMBGYKAMQLJTYAVFBKVT > DVBPVVRJYYLAOKYMPQSCGDLFSRLLPROYGESEBUUALRWXM > MASAZLGLEDFJBZAVVPXWICGJXASCBYEHOSNMULKCEAHTQ... I think I posted this before... it was something my daughter wrote on some stationery and brought home like her second month in kindergarten, and I had to stare at it a while before it became clear: cometwasbornthirtymil esouttoseaonnantucketi slandhegrewupwanderin gallovertheislandondayh Eventually she told me she'd copied out of a book about a cat, which I was able to find pretty easily through a Google/Amazon combo. She's a bright kid, turns out. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 06:42:26 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: good band names Jeff trumped with: >On 6/6/07, Rex wrote: >> >>On 6/5/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: >> > >> > oh, anyone want to play "best band names ever?" >> >>Far easier is "band names that are awful, but you don't notice it after a >>while", top of which list is U2, always and forever. > >Second from top. After a little act from Liverpool, called "The Beatles." Yep...it's either that, or, of course, the best band name ever... Because, while I absolutely see -- and do not necessarily argue with -- Jeff's point, I also have to be cognizant of the po-mo fact that, by any objective standard (Stewart perhaps excepted), the godhead that that name has come to represent far transcends its sillier-than-silly (and even Buddy Holly tributing) origins... Back then, you could briefly consider the stoopid pun ("Ah...'beat'...and sounds like an insect, eh?"), but now all you can hear / see is a brand name (with something behind it) as powerful as any other ever concocted... All that, plus...it beats the all-holy hell of having to spend 45 years (and counting!) listening, debating, and examining the never-ending cultural contributions of something called Teh Quarrymen...ugh. Michael "Sorry I'm behind on digests..still on the road -- and on 'Vacation Daylight Savings Time'" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Make every IM count. Download Messenger and join the im Initiative now. Its free. http://im.live.com/messenger/im/home/?source=TAGHM_June07 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 06:52:53 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: Band names Jeff wrote: >On 6/8/07, Terrence Marks wrote: >> >>A lot of it is suitability. >>I think that Tyrannosaurus Rex would've be a great name for an early >>70s glam-metal band. > >I'm trying to think of an early '70s glam-metal band with a name similar to >"Tyrannosaurus Rex"... Hmm... meanwhile, I'm still thinking... Very good one there (esp. the "meanwhile..." tag)... Michael "...and, of course, P. Wolf was not J. Geils and J. Tull never played a flute (that I know of, anyway)" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ 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: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 06:53:14 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: RE: same thing but chicago ...Since the other Michaels weighed in, I better give my Chicago 2c (even as I still baste -- watch it! -- here in /uncle lou/ F-L-A /uncle lou/ (yet not Miami))... Food is so subjective...if ya don't care for certain things, even a city's best ain't gonna sway ya...but if you are interested in pizza, I give you Uno's or Due's (different than the franchised versions) or, more local faves, Ranalli's and Bacino's (both nicely in my 'hood)...and, for hot dogs, my fave is Byron's on Irving Park, not far from Wrigley (also good burgers there...just a hut -- eat at benches outside or in yer car...(and skip the ketchup on dogs unless you're under 10 y.o.)). Museum of Science and Industry (cuz I've always been more of a "How things work" guy than a "Here are dead things" guy (although the Field is still nifty (and closer to downtown)))... The Wrigley environs (even if the Cubs are out of town) if you care at all for baseball...history, much weeping, beer, and sunshine...ah, and the ivy... Architecture cruise on the river -- for history and buildings buffs... Millenium Park downtown is touristy, but a not-bad integration of art, public space, and new stuff (and is close to both Mag Mile shopping (on N. Michigan Ave) and the Art Institute (on S. Michigan))...but Navy Pier is just touristy with no redeeming buts (but, as for the butts, ah...never mind...) Avoid anything with "Rosemont" or "Schaumburg" in the names at all costs...and feel free to ask me anything directly offlist (lifelong native; wrote several travel guidebooks focused on here; and helped ram a local travel TV show directly into the ground years ago) (and I pray - such as I do at all - to the gods of Terkel, Royko, Banks, Ebert, Payton, and Jordan) (eh -- not a bad pick-up team, if I do say so me ownself...) Michael "We claim MJ, sure, but Oprah's just still some chick from SC who happened to make lots o' dough here..." Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Get a preview of Live Earth, the hottest event this summer - only on MSN http://liveearth.msn.com?source=msntaglineliveearthhm ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #231 ********************************