From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #265 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, July 17 2007 Volume 16 : Number 265 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: bumper stickers = tattoos for your car [2fs ] THE WRECK OF THE ARTHUR LEE* [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Great interview with James McNew [Sebastian Hagedorn ] reap [Dolph Chaney ] Announcing the official Feg greeting ["Gene Hopstetter Jr." Subject: Re: bumper stickers = tattoos for your car On 7/15/07, Christopher Gross wrote: > > On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, Tom Clark wrote: > > > > >>>> Then of course there's the license plate... > > > > > > > I assumed it was "FUTC," or some variation on that theme. > > > > PBHTSME? > > HUH? P(eter)B(uck)H(a)T(e)SME Took me a while too... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:37:42 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: THE WRECK OF THE ARTHUR LEE* David Kamp writesb& How apt that Love frontman/madman Arthur Lee (above) should pass on within weeks of his contemporary burned-out loon/maker-of-about-an-album-and-halfb s-worth-of-good-material Syd Barrett. I never got to meet either man face-to-face, but I did enjoy a brief correspondence with Lee, who was in jail on weapons charges when I was doing a story for Vanity Fair on the history of the Whisky a Go Go. (Love had a great song called bMaybe the People Would Be the Times, or Between Clark and Hilldaleb; the Whisky is on Sunset Boulevard between Clark and Hilldale.) The old black hippie was chipper when he wrote to meb lots of exclamation pointsband when he was released, a short while later, he enjoyed a heartwarming, Arthur Kane-ish coda to his troubled life, performing to adoring new audiences of youngish Rock Snobs. He was even _honored in the British Parliament_ (http://www.nme.com/news/102063.htm) four summers ago by Labour MP and avowed Love enthusiast Peter Bradley. Godspeed, you black emperor. * The title of this post comes from a somewhat obscure song by the palpably Arthur Lee-influenced Robyn Hitchcock. Thangyew; thangyew-veh-muuuch. 08.04.06 _http://snobsite.com/archives/2006/08/the_wreck_of_th.php_ (http://snobsite.com/archives/2006/08/the_wreck_of_th.php) ************************************** Get a sneak peak of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:31:20 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Great interview with James McNew And it's pertinent to the pizza thread from a while back ... Or: - -- b. Sebastian Hagedorn b Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de b' http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:53:30 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Great interview with James McNew - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Sebastian Hagedorn Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 10:31 AM To: Fegmaniax Subject: Great interview with James McNew And it's pertinent to the pizza thread from a while back ... From the interview: JM: Okay, I'll address that as well. I think there are amazing bands from Michigan who are nothing at all like the bands from New York. The Stooges. The MC5. Some of the greatest bands in the world. Television, Patti Smith Group, Suicide - bands from New York. All great. All very different. And yet, still, in New York, which is just filled with mom-and-pop pizza places - not chains. "Indie" pizza places, if you will - - there are Domino's. They're here, not eight blocks from where I live. And that's awful. That makes me want to cry. It's such an insult. It's such a tremendous slap in the face. It's like, how dare you? How dare you even show your face here? And I feel that way about a lot of bands. Like, what pop music is now. It's kind of like something with the audacity of Domino's showing up in New York City. You don't have to walk a block to get a fantastic piece of pizza made by hand by some person whose dream it was to open up a pizza place. You know, his life's passion was to make you a piece of pizza. Similarly, you could go see a band formed by people who do nothing but think about music and how to make the music that would make them happy, and probably make you happy, too. And yet, you go to the store and buy what the signs tell you to buy. I think the two are very related. I think somewhere, in Michigan, right now, there is a pizza that's just waiting for you that is outstandingly good. MR: You really think so? JM: Yeah. And let me know when you find it. I'll go there. Alibi in Troy, MI is outstandingly good for round pizza. Next time Robyn is in town I'll suggest going to a pizza joint, and it won't be Domino's or Little Caesars! Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:51:05 -0500 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: more from the undersea world... "Coelacanths once thought to have become extinct 80 million years ago" http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19785808/ Still no word on trilobites, but hope remains. MW ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:41:06 -0400 (EDT) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Re: Feg holiday? 2fs wrote: > Is everyone lounging by the pool then? For me, this is the busy season at work. Summer Reading Club keeps kids' librarians hopping, and I barely have time to think. I am, however, taking next week off, in part to do some lounging by my mother's pool - possibly the last chance I will get to do that, because (and this will resonate for a handful of fegs who remember a certain infamous Hallowe'en party, waaay back in the last century) we are selling the farm. "it's like an amputation" djini ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:28:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: [none] http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007320865,00.html "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:36:58 -0500 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: reap Johnny Frigo, jazz bassist and violinist, 90. I had the privilege of seeing Mr. Frigo perform a couple of long sets at the Green Mill a couple of years ago. He was funny and still playing sublimely. Even the smug ubiquitous ass of Kurt Elling couldn't ruin the evening. - -- Dolph (lead guitar, The Smug Ubiquitous Ass Of Kurt Elling) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:41:29 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter Jr." Subject: Announcing the official Feg greeting OK folks, the next time there is an official Feg gathering, or even if you happen to run into a fellow Feg in the bushes, please greet fellow Fegs thusly: http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/images/denniscrab.jpg Please note that the sailor's cap and suspenders are mandatory, but you may wear a cap and suspenders which reflect your heritage or sexual proclivities. A shirt with pockets is also a good idea, because where else are you going to keep a live blue crab? - --Boundary_(ID_VpuifN+XfQLS1y3wrBfaFg)-- ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #265 ********************************