From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #232 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 232 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: More geek humor ["Michael Sweeney" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #229 ["Michael Sweeney" ] nick and the boss [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: More geek humor ["Michael Sweeney" ] Re: stereo equipment recommendations [Steve Schiavo ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #229 [Steve Schiavo ] Re: ["Michael Sweeney" ] Re: Lolcats, etc. ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: [michaeljbachman@comcast.net] Re: Lolcats, etc. [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: Lolcats, etc. [michaeljbachman@comcast.net] Re: lolfegz [Christopher Hintz ] RE: same thing but chicago ["David Stovall" ] Re: lolfegz [Rex ] Re: Lolcats, etc. [2fs ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #229 [2fs ] Re: Lolcats, etc. [Rex ] What the fred ["Edward of Sim" ] bands named after places, redux ["natalie jacobs" ] Re: Lolcats, etc. [Steve Schiavo ] Re: bands named after places, redux [Rex ] Re: more geek humor ["Michael Sweeney" ] Re: bands named after places, redux [Tom Clark ] Re: more geek humor [Rex ] I like this guy [Tom Clark ] Re: When bad things happen to Rotten People, again. ["Lauren Elizabeth" <] Re: When bad things happen to Rotten People, again. [2fs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 06:53:38 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: More geek humor Jeff self-referentialed: >A LOLJEFF might well work, however. I'M IN YR GRAMMER - INSTALIN SERIAL >C0MMAZ maybe... LOLSWEENZ: IM IN MY OWN SIGNATURZ, NSERTIN A JK... ...or...IM IN UR THREADZ, TALKIN BOUT LINZY N LOUZ... Michael Sweeney ...Hey, with 5 catz, er, I mean "cats," at home, we already talk like that all the time, anywayzzzz...LOLKTHXBYE! _________________________________________________________________ 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: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 06:53:57 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #229 James came halfway around the world with: >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. ...Or, of course, even the rock equivalent of the old vaudeville joke law firm of "Dewey, Cheatem...and Howe!" Michael "IM N UR PROG SUPERZGROUPZ, TAKING ALL UR SOLOZ" Sweeney ps - gawd help me, I can't stop now... _________________________________________________________________ Get a preview of Live Earth, the hottest event this summer - only on MSN http://liveearth.msn.com?source=msntaglineliveearthhm ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 06:54:29 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Subject: Re: More geek humor Tom Clark pre-birthdayed: >On Jun 8, 2007, at 5:28 PM, Rex wrote: > >>IM UNDER UR BRIDGE >>DRINKIN UR DISNFCTNT > >oh that's good. > >SO U THINKS U HAZ LUV? SUMZTIMEZ WISH PRETTY GURL WUZ MEEEEEE... IM IN UR ABANDONED BRANE THINKING ALL UR DOODZ THOUGHTZ.... I HAZ NOT PRAWNZZZ? Michael "See, I told you this was just starting..." Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Play games, earn tickets, get cool prizes. Play nowit's FREE! http://club.live.com/home.aspx?icid=CLUB_hotmailtextlink1 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 03:08:30 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: nick and the boss _http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/arts/music/10play.html?_r=1&ref=arts&oref= s login_ (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/arts/music/10play.html?_r=1&ref=arts&oref= slogin) Nick Drake So many songwriters are now routinely compared to Nick Drake that itbs good to revisit his own music: his elegant guitar picking, his melancholy imagery and his hushed, smoky, mournfully resigned voice. bFamily Treeb (Bryter Music) is for fanatics. Itbs a newly unearthed collection of home recordings, made before his 1969 debut album. bFamily Treeb shows his style coalescing from family singalongs, the dark narratives of traditional British songs, folky American blues and, from the beginning, his own thoughts of estrangement and isolation, notably bTheybre Leaving Me Behind,b which can be heard at _brytermusic.com_ (http://brytermusic.com/) . bSuccess can be gained but at too great a cost/For some therebs a future to find,b he quietly sang. He died in 1974, at 25, from an overdose of antidepressants. _Bruce Springsteen_ (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/bruce_springste en/index.html?inline=nyt-per) Bruce Springsteenbs 17-member Sessions Band was an improbable combo, representing a compendium of American traditions, making it thoroughly untraditional. It had brass for New Orleans jazz, a bluegrass string band, gospel and soul keyboards, Celtic pennywhistle and more, and it played old, upbeat songs of resistance and Mr. Springsteenbs own tales of private dilemmas. The lineup let Mr. Springsteen ground songs anywhere he chose. By the time the groupbs tour ended with the concerts recorded and videotaped for bLive in Dublinb (Columbia), he had turned bIf I Should Fall Behindb into an Irish waltz, b Atlantic Cityb into an old-timey mountain tune and bGrowinb Upb into country. Historical roots were immaterial; it was about hot-wiring the legacy. ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 07:22:20 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: More geek humor ..more lol stupidity: IM IN UR DEBBIL MAZKZ, SLEEPINZ!!! or: IM IN UR CYNZTHIAZ MAZKZ, REPEATINZ UR HIZTORY!! IM WIZ THE MANZ NEXT DOORS BEZZ FRIEND MAKIN VIDEOZZZ SHEZ NOT HAZ EGZISTANZ??? I'Z HAZ A HARRIZON FORDZ POSTERZ LOLTHXBYE!!!! I'Z NEVER HAZ THE DAM THINGZ OUTZ!!! ...and, of course: IM IN UR CARZ, RIDINZ IN UR SANFRIZCO!! LOLKTHXBYE... Michael "I have - perhaps - become tiresome..." 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 02:33:40 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: stereo equipment recommendations On Jun 8, 2007, at 2:43 PM, Eric Loehr wrote: > Hey fegz, > > I've decided it's time to replace my 30-year old Marantz receiver, > no-name speakers, and defunct turntable. I'm looking to buy a new > receiver (or maybe just an amp - - there's not a lot to listen to > around here radio-wise), good sounding smallish speakers, and a > decent quality turntable to listen to/digitize LP's. Oh, and > probably a CD changer. > > Collectively you guys probably know way more than me about what's > new, good quality stuff. Anything you can recommend yourself, or > links to a starting point on the web or anything else helpful would > be great. > > I'm not necessarily looking for super high-end audio equipment - > years of playing in a band have probably screwed up my hearing - - > but I'd like to find stuff that's good sounding, not cheap, but not > necessarily expensive (maybe $1200-$1500 tops, but preferably less > than $1000). > > What do I want? > > Eric You can go digital for under 1000.00, but it is tough if you also want a turntable. I guess you could get one of the USB turntables at Amazon and use it to make CDs so you wouldn't need a phono stage. There are nice quality "inexpensive" integrated amps, but a lot (most/ all?) will not have a phono stage, although it could be added later. There are also a number of small, high quality bookshelf size speakers. Maybe something form NHT or PSB, but there are plenty of others. Outlaw Audio RR2150 stereo receiver - 649.00 - has a phono stage and is 100w per channel. The styling is a matter or taste, but the stereo receiver is a dying breed, and this is a nice one. Oppo DV-970HD Up-Converting Universal DVD Player - 149.00 (at Amazon) - - plays pretty much everything. PSB Alpha B1 speakers - 279.00 pair. NHT Absolute Zero speakers - 398.00 pair. Rega P1 turntable - 350.00 - with arm and cartridge. So 1427.00 with the PSBs, 1546.00 with the NHTs. If you must have a CD changer, look at Sony. The Outlaw receiver will control a subwoofer, or you might look at larger speakers, like the NHT Classic Three at 798.00 a pair if you want more bottom end. - - Steve _______________ Interaction with cosmic intelligence may be influence by Penrose noncomputable Platonic wisdom embedded in Planck scale geometry. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:33:11 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Lolcats, etc. - -- Lauren Elizabeth is rumored to have mumbled on 10. Juni 2007 01:49:09 -0400 regarding Re: Lolcats, etc.: > 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 I have no idea what a "lake wobegon comma" is (if I got that right). What's the source of this and how did you come to decrypt it? Needless to say, I wouldn't have the first clue how to do that myself. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 02:37:29 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo 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! On Jun 9, 2007, at 6:06 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > That about sums up the music as well! But they do stand a good chance in an ugliest band ever contest. - - Steve _______________ Consciousness occurs at the fundamental level of Planck scale geometry, normally in and around microtubules between our ears. But when brain coherence is lost, quantum information related to consciousness and the unconscious mind remain in the universe, distributed but still entangled. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 07:33:21 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: Rex rolled: >All kids love log! ...It's big! It's heavy! It's wood! Michael "It's better than bad...it's good!" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Get a preview of Live Earth, the hottest event this summer - only on MSN http://liveearth.msn.com?source=msntaglineliveearthhm ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 04:50:18 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: Lolcats, etc. Sebastian Hagedorn says: > -- Lauren Elizabeth is rumored to have mumbled on > 10. Juni 2007 01:49:09 -0400 regarding Re: Lolcats, etc.: > > I have no idea what a "lake wobegon comma" is (if I got that right). What's > the source of this and how did you come to decrypt it? Needless to say, I > wouldn't have the first clue how to do that myself. just read chapter one of: http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/~dstinson/CTAP3/CTAP3.html and you'll just "fly" through the decryption process. actually, since it was a textbook problem, and in chapter one at that, there were limited techniques i could use to try to solve it (we learned several classical cryptography methods), but i basically wrote a little java program to do analysis on letter frequency and possible cycles of encryption, spent some quality time knocking my head against the wall, prayed it had been coded use a vigenere cipher, and got lucky (cycle of six if you're wondering.) it was actually much more time-consuming than i would have guessed. but i survive, and love modular arithmetic for yet another day. lake wobegon is a reference to a u.s. radio show called "prairie home companion" with host named garrison keillor who may be fairly well known, i'm not sure. it's presented as sort of charming, old-time, on-a-cold-and-snowy-night radio. there was a movie recently made by robert altman which was either inspired or based on the radio show. i find the show so unlistenable that i've never made it past 5 or 10 minutes, and so can't really even say it's that bad, having never really heard it (but just to be safe, i would still like it to be nowhere near "car talk".) xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:55:16 +0000 From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Subject: Re: - -------------- Original message -------------- From: Jeff Dwarf > 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. Those Red House Painters, did they ever do side jobs, i.e there was that band Red Lorry Yellow Lorry? Did anyone mention Fields Of The Nephilim yet as a cool band name? MJ Bachman ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:07:31 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Lolcats, etc. - -- Lauren Elizabeth is rumored to have mumbled on 10. Juni 2007 04:50:18 -0400 regarding Re: Lolcats, etc.: > just read chapter one of: > http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/~dstinson/CTAP3/CTAP3.html None of our libraries has that one. Are you familiar with this one? That's apparently the one used here, probably because it's originally in German. > lake wobegon is a reference to a u.s. radio show called "prairie home > companion" Thanks. I googled the phrase and found this: ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:09:08 +0000 From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Subject: Re: Lolcats, etc. - -------------- Original message -------------- From: Rex > 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 > Rex came back with: > 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, Good call Rex on "Volunteers". I love Jorma's piercing tones, especially on 'Wooden Ships', Jack's thundering bass, the vocal harmonies and the overall quality of the songs. MJ Bachman ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 07:20:22 -0400 From: Christopher Hintz Subject: Re: lolfegz heehee! I tried to start some lolcolins or loldecemberists over at // orate.decemberists.com but it of course reverted back to kittehs. why is it all so amusing? It's, like, lolcrack! Rev Chris PS did anybody see the lol80's thing? I forget the link off the top of my head, but it was very funny, especially, the "srs moz" one. Oh! and the Big Country one might just rule them all. Sorry if that has all been discussed, dissected, dissed and died a diseased death on the list already. Fuck me, I'm a digest reader! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 11:59:35 -0400 From: "David Stovall" Subject: RE: same thing but chicago > From: "Michael Sweeney" > Subject: RE: same thing but chicago > 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)... Ah, Ranalli's. I can has rost beef pizzaz? Love Uno's, even the franchised version, but Ranalli's has one of the biggest selections of toppings I've seen (not to mention their beer list), the service is top-notch, and I've never walked out hungry. d9 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:07:15 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: lolfegz On 6/10/07, Christopher Hintz wrote: > > heehee! > > I tried to start some lolcolins or loldecemberists over at // > orate.decemberists.com but it of course reverted back to kittehs. > > why is it all so amusing? It's, like, lolcrack! Someone with more 1337 skils at photoshoop than I has need to do a "BITCHES DON'T KNOW WHERE IS TEH PRAWNS": http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Bitches_don't_know Oh my. Oh my. It is on. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 11:40:21 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Lolcats, etc. On 6/10/07, Rex wrote: > > On 6/9/07, Barbara Soutar wrote: > > > > Like others here, I've been reading the "cheezburger" site. My daughter > > 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!" My friend Joe suggested that Yes's "Roundabout" is immeasurably improved (and he's a fan) if the lyric is changed to "mountains come out of the sky MOTHER FUCKER!" I cannot help but concur. Coincidentally, I've beem getting surprising mileage out of Jefferson > Airplane's "Volunteers" lately. > > Up against the wall, fred. (No one got that one: apparently, for the original release of _Volunteers_, RCA decided that it was okay if the band sang "motherfucker" - because it was an "artistic performance" - but thought they'd get into trouble printing it on the lyric sheet. I believe it was Paul Kantner who said, okay then - just put "fred" there instead...) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 11:35:22 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #229 On 6/10/07, Steve Schiavo wrote: > > > 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? > > But they do stand a good chance in an ugliest band ever contest. Nah - I think the Decemberists have that one sewn up...maybe not "ugly" per se, but quite a homely collection of characters (counterargument arriving in three...two...one...) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:49:09 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Lolcats, etc. On 6/10/07, 2fs wrote: > > > > My friend Joe suggested that Yes's "Roundabout" is immeasurably improved > (and he's a fan) if the lyric is changed to "mountains come out of the sky > MOTHER FUCKER!" > > I cannot help but concur. > Conversely, any actual lyric containing the word "motherfucker" rendered more better by substituting "Mother Hubbard". Just to change things up. I'm also partial to the alternative "spo-dee o-dee", but that's a wee bit inside baseball. Uh oh... not even 10 am and a sports metaphor from me. Look out! - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:58:19 +0100 From: "Edward of Sim" Subject: What the fred > Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 15:35:42 -0500 > From: 2fs > Subject: Re: Geobanding [snip] > But: who/what the fred is a "Holopaw"? It's a place? On what planet? > > (bonus points for IDing that expletive...) Wasn't it Wooldoor Sockbat on 'Drawn Together'? Geez, what a dopey thing for me to de-lurk for after all this time. Even worse if I'm wrong. Anyway, hiya fellow fegz. peace and love, Edward ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:31:02 -0500 From: "natalie jacobs" Subject: bands named after places, redux > > 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. > Okkervil River (whom I love, and who have a new album coming out soon, huzzah!) are named after a river in Russia. I don't know if it counts as a band per se, but John Zorn's jazz ensemble Masada is pretty darn good. Of Montreal are definitely an acquired taste, but I don't think they suck horribly. Sometimes I want to smack them, though. After I discovered that there's a place in New Zealand called Doubtful Sound, I really really wanted to use it as a band name. I don't know if the band would suck, though. 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). I always thought Hatfield and the North was an utterly brilliant name - it's from a British road sign. (I think I might have even passed it at one time.) Which reminds me, somewhat irrelevantly, of Ursula Le Guin's story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," about a city which seems like a perfect utopia. Le Guin was inspired by looking at a road sign - "Omelas" is "Salem, O[R]" spelled backwards. n. p.s. Last night I dreamed I was at a party with a bunch of people I haven't seen in years. One of the people was none other than Tom Clark, and of course I yelled "FUCK YOU TOM CLARK!" at him. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:37:00 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: Lolcats, etc. On Jun 10, 2007, at 5:09 AM, michaeljbachman@comcast.net wrote: > Good call Rex on "Volunteers". I love Jorma's piercing tones, > especially on 'Wooden Ships', Jack's thundering bass, the vocal > harmonies and the overall quality of the songs. For a brief period, JA ruled. Baxter's - Crown - Volunteers is a damn fine run. After that, no great band ever fell faster. - - Steve ___________ Not since the medieval church baptized, as it were, Aristotle as some sort of early  very early  church father has there been an intellectual hijacking as audacious as the attempt to present Americas principal founders as devout Christians. Such an attempt is now in high gear among people who argue that the founders were kindred spirits with todays evangelicals, and that they founded a Christian nation. - George F. Will ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:36:36 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: bands named after places, redux On 6/10/07, natalie jacobs wrote: > > > After I discovered that there's a place in New Zealand called Doubtful > Sound, I really really wanted to use it as a band name. I don't know if > the > band would suck, though. I wrote a song called that. And it mentions the real name of my band, which I don't know if they would suck either, but oh well. I think it's here in unfinished demo form: www.myspace.com/skatesandrays Gig in July. No cover. Free barbecue. Thanks to James as always. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:35:32 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: more geek humor ...Here's 2 more percolating in my brain all night (I couldn't resist!): IM IN UR REMADE POLITIK THRILLERZ, GUNBUTTING UR OZCARZ WINNERZ!!! ...and... I HAZ A FLAVOR OF KNIGHTZ!!!! Michael Sweeney ...Wondering how to best convey "Invisible Hitchcock"???? Any pic w/out RH? Hmmm... _________________________________________________________________ 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 12:28:14 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: bands named after places, redux On Jun 10, 2007, at 10:31 AM, natalie jacobs wrote: > p.s. Last night I dreamed I was at a party with a bunch of people > I haven't > seen in years. One of the people was none other than Tom Clark, > and of > course I yelled "FUCK YOU TOM CLARK!" at him. Ah, so that explains my wet dream last night! You guys are really, um, creative? http://lolfegz.denisvengeance.com/ - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:35:11 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: more geek humor On 6/10/07, Michael Sweeney wrote: > > ...Here's 2 more percolating in my brain all night (I couldn't resist!): > > IM IN UR REMADE POLITIK THRILLERZ, GUNBUTTING UR OZCARZ WINNERZ!!! > > ...and... > > I HAZ A FLAVOR OF KNIGHTZ!!!! Somebody do something with the "icecream hands" line... that's perfect for this. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:37:58 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: I like this guy He's more obsessive than I am! http://blog.hometheatermag.com/markfleischmann/050907robyn/ - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:03:17 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: When bad things happen to Rotten People, again. Jeff Dwarf says: > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070608/paris-hilton/ > > The single night home probably makes the whole things worse for her. it is rather cruel and unusual punishment, putting someone alone in a cell with nothing but paris hilton's thoughts. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:14:15 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: When bad things happen to Rotten People, again. On 6/10/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > Jeff Dwarf says: > > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070608/paris-hilton/ > > > > The single night home probably makes the whole things worse for her. > > it is rather cruel and unusual punishment, putting someone alone in a > cell with nothing but paris hilton's thoughts. Oh, I don't know - that's exactly the same as putting someone alone in a cell with nothing at all. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:30:27 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: more geek humor Rex wrote: >On 6/10/07, Michael Sweeney wrote: >> >>...Here's 2 more percolating in my brain all night (I couldn't resist!): >> >>IM IN UR REMADE POLITIK THRILLERZ, GUNBUTTING UR OZCARZ WINNERZ!!! >> >>...and... >> >>I HAZ A FLAVOR OF KNIGHTZ!!!! > >Somebody do something with the "icecream hands" line... that's perfect for >this. ...Yeah, after I sent the above, I decided it shoulda been: I HAZ A FLAVOR OF KNIGHTZ & U HAZ A IZ CREAMZ HANDZ!!!! Michael "Spinning out of control..." 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 #232 ********************************