From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #272 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, July 25 2007 Volume 16 : Number 272 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Robyn Hitchcock [Rex ] Re: Grinderman on Letterman Tonight [Rex ] Re: an iTunes question [Rex ] Re: movie news [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: an iTunes question [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: an iTunes question [Christopher Gross ] RE: Robyn Hitchcock, uh, iPod ["Bachman, Michael" ] RE: Robyn Hitchcock, uh, iPod [kevin ] Re: Robyn Hitchcock, uh, iPod ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: Bury This One, Too. (was Re: Robyn Hitchcock, uh, iPod) [kevin ] Re: Robyn Hitchcock [kevin ] Re: Worst movies [kevin ] Re: Robyn Hitchcock, uh, iPod [Sebastian Hagedorn ] RE: Robyn Hitchcock, uh, iPod ["Bachman, Michael" ] Too much Testosterone vs. Too Much Estrogen....whuzz Re: Robyn Hitchcock, uh, iPod [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: is everyone reading? [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: is everyone reading? ["Jason Brown" ] Re: is everyone reading? [2fs ] Re: an iTunes question [Rex ] Re: an iTunes question [Rex ] Re: Bury This One, Too. (was Re: Robyn Hitchcock, uh, iPod) [Rex ] Re: worst movies [Sebastian Hagedorn ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:57:08 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock On 7/23/07, Elizabeth Brion wrote: > > > Worst movie: What was that thing with Dan Ackroyd and John Candy and > Demi Moore and they were lost in, like, New Jersey or something and > got put on trial by monsters? Or something like that? Yeah, that one. Totally redeemed by the appearance of Digital Underground, as predictable of a plot development as that is. Okay, that's one fucked up movie, I admit it. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:59:02 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Grinderman on Letterman Tonight On 7/23/07, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > > I waited until afterwards, and opted for the "benign polyps had a > cancerous Bush removed" predictable jokes, personally. Hee... cancerous Bush... Don't mind me... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:04:56 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: an iTunes question On 7/23/07, Tom Clark wrote: > > On Jul 23, 2007, at 6:30 PM, Jill Brand wrote: > > > This is for Tom Clark and Jeme and anyone else who can help me with > > this. Since I'm a registered computer idiot, I had my husband > > Thomas compose the following. If anyone can help me with this, I'd > > be much obliged. Oh, every time you change it, it's only effective for the new files being ripped. The old ones stay in the old folder, but iTunes still knows where they are; if you look in the folders themselves, the files haven't moved. In theory your library could be spread across an infinite number of drives... mine covers two and spills onto a third. It's actually easier than it seems like it should be. I just brought home a fresh new Power Book Pro, so welcome back to the world of Macs to me... I'm looking forward to seeing if it treats the songs in my various outboard drives the same way. Oh yeah, also? I'm pretty happy. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:03:43 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: movie news - -- vivien lyon is rumored to have mumbled on 23. Juli 2007 16:41:25 -0700 regarding Re: movie news: > LOVED IT. But I may be slightly overinvested in the characters. As a work > of fiction, it has its flaws, but they are the same flaws that Rowling's > writing has always had. so they were no big surprise. Yeah, what she said. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:14:25 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: an iTunes question - -- 2fs is rumored to have mumbled on 23. Juli 2007 20:45:15 -0500 regarding Re: an iTunes question: > I'm not the expert at all - but it seems that iTunes has its own paths > "memorized" so to speak, and moving a file - even after you've changed its > preferred folder - won't change those. Exactly. On the Mac they are in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music Library.xml. Each song has a location attribute, e.g.: key>Locationfile://localhost/Users/hgd/Music/iTunes/iTunes%20Music/'Til%20Tuesday/Everything's%20Different%20Now/02%20Rip%20In%20Heaven.mp3 So you could try to chnage the location there. You'd have to find that file first, of course. > I think that means you have two options: in iTunes, delete and re-add the > tracks from their new locations. That sucks because it resets "Date Added" etc. > I suspect there's a simpler way...or not. For example, I wonder if > "consolidate library..." (assuming all your old files are still in their > old folders as well - i.e., you copied rather than moved them) might work > - ? I don't think so. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:19:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: an iTunes question On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Tom Clark wrote: > First off, this is on Windows, so I have to excuse myself right > away. In general, I believe you might need to manually re-add the > tracks to iTunes after they've been moved. I guess that means > deleting the tracks in the iTunes app, then selecting "Add To > Library..." and choosing your new location. > > I just tried to replicate this on my Mac and could not. iTunes > played the tracks automagically even after they were moved. Hmm. But did you move them to an *external* drive? I seem to recall this question coming up before (though maybe not here). In the end the answer was that iTunes lets you move files anywhere you want, as long as it's on the same drive, but moving the files to a different drive (as Jill wants to do) will confuse it. I think the solution was to delete the tracks from your iTunes library, move the actual music files to the new location, change the iTunes music folder location in your preferences to the new location, and then manually add the songs back to your library. - --Chris (not an expert, just someone who thinks he remembers what experts have said) ______________________________________________________________________ chrisg [at] gwu.edu On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:45:22 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Robyn Hitchcock, uh, iPod - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Rex Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 9:17 PM To: Lauren Elizabeth Cc: a sweet little cupcake...baked by the devil! Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock, uh, iPod On 7/23/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: >> >> l. >> >> btw: worst movie you've ever seen? and not in some "plan 9 from outer >> space" ironic way. Rex wrote: >I always say "The Rock", followed closely by "Armageddon". These were the films that basically demostrated that you >could have every possible ingredient of a film, up to and including some vaguely promising ones, and still come up >with nothing. Like staring into the eyesockets of the Elephant Man's skull for two hours at a time. "The Rock" is probably the most embarrassing DVD in the Criterion Collection line-up. Ed Harris would make up for his inclusion in "The Rock" though a few years later with "Pollock". I walked out of the theater before "Cujo" ended. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:54:27 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Full-Circle remember when i hated *Challengers* so much that i wanted to weep? well, i've now officially reached the point that i love it so much that i want to weep. thank you for your patronage. KEN "Ready to bolt at the first glimpse of failsafe" THE KENSTER ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:23:47 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: RE: Robyn Hitchcock, uh, iPod >I walked out of the theater before "Cujo" ended. > Didn't make the mistake of going to that one, but I did see the last couple of Batman movies (Schwarzenegger, Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Silverstone, et al). Pretty regrettable. The only thing I've ever actually walked out on was Wertmuller's "Swept Away" back in '75. I've suppressed all memory of it, but I know I was pretty annoyed by it at the time. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:28:31 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock, uh, iPod kevin says: > Didn't make the mistake of going to that one, but I did see the last couple of Batman movies (Schwarzenegger, Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Silverstone, et al). Pretty regrettable. did you see the (i think it was) most recent batman movie? maybe it was called "batman begins"; it had katie holmes in it. i really liked that one - it was by far the best of the lot. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:32:51 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Bury This One, Too. (was Re: Robyn Hitchcock, uh, iPod) >>I suggest Michael Bay next tackle something along the lines >>of "Purina Puppy Chow, the Action Extravaganza" There is that upcoming TV sitcom based on the Geico caveman commercials. Shouldn't be quite as exciting as the Transformers flick tho (which to paraphrase David Byrne, I wouldn't go if you paid me). >"X-Files 2" (if there was one) Going into production shortly. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:34:39 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock, uh, iPod >> Didn't make the mistake of going to that one, but I did see the last couple of Batman movies (Schwarzenegger, Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Silverstone, et al). Pretty regrettable. > >did you see the (i think it was) most recent batman movie? maybe it >was called "batman begins"; it had katie holmes in it. i really liked >that one - it was by far the best of the lot. > Oh hell yes. I'll see anything Christian Bale wants to do. That was pretty nice work, and suggested that there may still be a flicker of hope for Katie Holmes. Maybe. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:41:18 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock >Dunno - but with a premise that insane, the best thing is probably to feed >everyone involved acid and hope someone remembers to keep the cameras >rolling. Too much rational thought and control, and it's bound to be stupid. > >Not that the other results would be good. But they might at least be >entertaining. If not legally actionable. Aykroyd wrote that one (and I don't know that he's been allowed to write another), and I don't think he has enough receptor sites left for acid to have any effect - like trying to bring down a rhino with a BB gun. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:52:22 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Worst movies >Worse, though, was the first 10-15 minutes of _Jay and Silent Bob Strike >Back_. Sorry, but I can hang out near a junior high school any time. I >imagine if I got a couple of middle-schoolers really drunk or high, they'd >be as obnoxious and stupid and pointless. But the Scooby Doo routine was pretty funny. Will Farrell's cameo wasn't bad either. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:01:56 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock, uh, iPod - -- Lauren Elizabeth is rumored to have mumbled on 23. Juli 2007 19:33:59 -0400 regarding Re: Robyn Hitchcock, uh, iPod: > tc says: >> Exactly, or a road trip or vacation. The ability to watch your own >> movie selections on a cross-country plane flight is a sanity saver. > > how, then, are you ever going to watch movies like "the break up"? > > (i suffered through it; for the sake of solidarity all others must, > too.**) > > xo > > ** i saw it by choice even (it's the price females pay for having > girlfriends.***) Do you think that boyfriends don't make you see bad movies? Of course you don't call them boyfriends when they are male friends of guys, do you. Funny how that is. Anyway, buddies of mine are responsible for some horrible films as well. > *** although you men have to keep your wives and girlfriends > (hopefully not both) too so i guess you get to see some clunkers as > well. Altogether I think females "force" you to see the less awful movies. I'd take sentimental crap over testosterone crap any day. > btw: worst movie you've ever seen? and not in some "plan 9 from outer > space" ironic way. for me, the one that always comes to mind is > (sweet chocolate jesus, forgive me) "how to make an american quilt." > (i blame my girlfriends, again.) While I never saw that one I have to say that I at least *considered* seeing it when it came out. The movie I hated the most was 9 1/2 Weeks. I haven't seen it in ages and I have the suspicion that I wouldn't be as upset anymore as I was back then. The only other movie that I gave only 1 point in my IMDb voting history is a German movie none of you will ever have heard of. It's called "Mr. Bluesman" (starring Lloyd Bridges!): I was terribly disappointed, because the previous movie by that director had given me so much hope for German cinema. I'm talking about "Kleine Haie", aka "Acting It Out" or "Little Sharks". Anyway, other bad movies from my voting history: Highlander Just Married Straight Shooter Air Force One ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:10:52 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Bury This One, Too. (was Re: Robyn Hitchcock, uh, iPod) - -- Lauren Elizabeth is rumored to have mumbled on 24. Juli 2007 01:55:59 -0400 regarding Bury This One, Too. (was Re: Robyn Hitchcock, uh, iPod): > Rex says: >> I always say "The Rock", followed closely by "Armageddon". Those were horrible, but not as horrible as some others I've seen. I just noticed that I gave Cujo 4 points - I don't even remember seeing that one ;-) > I think I saw "The Rock" but I can't really remember. Now all I can > frackin' think of is "Face/Off." (Yes, that's what I said. > "Face/Off.") > > My friend M. is a John Travolta fan. And she likes chick flicks. And > she doesn't like subtitles. The list of unbearable movies is starting > to pile up like a multiple-vehicle accident. I don't usually > compliment myself, but I have to say: I am a hell of a good friend. Hm, did you think Face/Off was bad? I really liked that one, I think. > at my last > job, we sometimes had movie "outings" and since we were all basically > geeks, the movies were usually sci-fi themed. Tell me about it. We do the same thing. I work in the IT department of Cologne University, and since 2004 our boss has been a professor for visualization. That means we have a huge screen for 3D, that can be used for 2D as well. We watched all German games during the world cup there, and every once in a while we do movie night. By coincidence one is coming up tomorrow night and it underlines whast you say ... > I think these sorts > of movies go over better when one is in a pack. Although that can be > said of most things that are borderline dumb or just campy. I certainly hope it works out that way. We're doing the Riddick triple feature tomorrow night ... ;-) I've seen Pitch Black and that was OK, but I really don't know about Chronicles Of Riddick. What really boggles my mind is that a colleague of mine has all of them on DVD! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:15:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock, uh, iPod On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > Anyway, other bad movies from my voting history: > > Highlander Ooh, thanks for reminding me. The original Highlander is silly but tolerable, but the sequel Highlander II: The Quickening is easily one of the worst movies I ever saw in the theater. (Though if direct to video movies count, Dark Planet might beat it for sheer incompetent filmmaking.) - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:40:27 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Robyn Hitchcock, uh, iPod - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Gross Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 1:15 PM To: Squidmaniax! Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock, uh, iPod On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: >> Anyway, other bad movies from my voting history: >> >> Highlander Chris: >Ooh, thanks for reminding me. The original Highlander is silly but tolerable.. Silly, especially Sean Connery with his Scots brogue playing a Spaniard. Or the lead actor, that French dude playing a Scot! Not exactly casting at it's finest. I believe I still have my VHS copy somewhere. Michael B. NP Robert Forster/Grant McLennan - Intermission ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:49:07 -0700 From: "Bri N" Subject: Live at the Portland Arms Is it just me or does this album cover remind you of the Soft Boys LIVE AT THE PORTLAND ARMS album cover? http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Agqkvioz6bb19 - -Nuppy ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:09:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Too much Testosterone vs. Too Much Estrogen....whuzz Re: Robyn Hitchcock, uh, iPod Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > Altogether I think females "force" you to see the less awful > movies. I'd take sentimental crap over testosterone crap any day. I don't know; at least overly-testosterone crap is less inclined to be full of the pretense of how "deep" and "important" it is (and even when it is full of that, it's usually in inadvertantly funny ways). Claire Danes is less likely to realize she's full of shit when she's on her death bed, pining for her old diary than Bruce Willis is when using the diary to beat Alan Rickman to death. Not that I have that much patience for either. And the next person who asks me if I want to go see the goddamn Transformers movie.... "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: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:44:43 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Worst movies On 7/24/07, kevin wrote: > > >Worse, though, was the first 10-15 minutes of _Jay and Silent Bob Strike > >Back_. Sorry, but I can hang out near a junior high school any time. I > >imagine if I got a couple of middle-schoolers really drunk or high, they'd > >be as obnoxious and stupid and pointless. > > But the Scooby Doo routine was pretty funny. Will Farrell's cameo wasn't > bad either. I'm sure any random bunch of asshole teens acting like idiots stumbles upon funny bits once in a while. Not worth torturing oneself for, though. If I had the DVD, I'd say give me the timecode for those scenes...but I don't. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:36:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: is everyone reading? Jill Brand wrote: > I haven't gotten a feg digest since Friday. I'm assuming that many > people are buried in the same book. When Huck decides he'll go to hell rather than turn Jim in....I still get goosebumps. "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:19:51 -0700 From: "Jason Brown" Subject: Re: is everyone reading? I just finished and I thought it was wonderful. Many unexpectedly sad parts! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:32:17 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: is everyone reading? On 7/24/07, Jason Brown wrote: > > I just finished and I thought it was wonderful. Many unexpectedly sad > parts! Damn you and your spoilers! I expected happy birthday cakes and puppies throughout! Actually, I misread that initially as "many unexpectedly sad pants," and have decided to write my own kids' novel, to be called _The Unexpectedly Sad Pants_. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:14:15 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: an iTunes question On 7/23/07, Tom Clark wrote: > > On Jul 23, 2007, at 11:04 PM, Rex wrote: > > > I just brought home a fresh new Power Book Pro, so welcome back to > > the world of Macs to me... I'm looking forward to seeing if it > > treats the songs in my various outboard drives the same way. > > > > MacBook Pro. Yes, that! > And is there a reason you didn't let me get you my 15% > discount? I sometimes get myself confused with Peter Buck? No, that's just the shirts. Damn. Fuck you, Rex Broome! - -Rex > Oh yeah, also? I'm pretty happy. > > That's great. We need more happy people! > > -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:17:06 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: an iTunes question On 7/24/07, Christopher Gross wrote: > > > But did you move them to an *external* drive? I seem to recall this > question coming up before (though maybe not here). In the end the answer > was that iTunes lets you move files anywhere you want, as long as it's on > the same drive, but moving the files to a different drive (as Jill wants > to do) will confuse it. I have it spread out over three drives and it's cool with that. I even take two of the drives away for weeks at it time and when I plug 'em back in, iTunes still knows where they are. There was some weird thing that threatened to copy all the files to the new drive, but I politely declined it and have had no problems since... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:21:21 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Bury This One, Too. (was Re: Robyn Hitchcock, uh, iPod) On 7/24/07, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > > > I certainly hope it works out that way. We're doing the Riddick triple > feature tomorrow night ... ;-) I've seen Pitch Black and that was OK, but > I > really don't know about Chronicles Of Riddick. What really boggles my mind > is that a colleague of mine has all of them on DVD! Oh, I just saw that at Target-- the third leg of the "trilogy" looks to be about 45 minutes of footage shot when they thought it was going to be a real trilogy. So that didn't exactly work out. I like "Face/Off" okay at the time, but back then I ran with a very John Woo/HK film-lovin' crew whose judgement in hindsight might be questioned. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:25:03 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Too much Testosterone vs. Too Much Estrogen....whuzz Re: Robyn Hitchcock, uh, iPod On 7/24/07, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > And the next person who asks me if I want > to go see the goddamn Transformers movie.... Thank god... I was starting to think that I was the only one who didn't get this whole thing. Michael Bay Presents: Charlie Tuna's Badasssssss Song? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:24:44 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: worst movies > btw: worst movie you've ever seen? and not in some "plan 9 from outer > space" ironic way. for me, the one that always comes to mind is > (sweet chocolate jesus, forgive me) "how to make an american quilt." > (i blame my girlfriends, again.) well, at least winona is a babe. > "waitress" is up there. also (girlfriends) "phenomenon". oh sheesh, > this is getting embarrassing. I'm a big fan of two cult TV series - The Avengers and The Wild Wild West. I've seen both movies, so my answer would be a toss-up. In the case of The Avengers, as Alice put it "Ralph and Uma would have had better chemistry together if they'd each been in separate movies." Oh, and there was also some appalling thing I saw about half of one time with Anthony Perkins as a psychotic priest ("Crimes of passion"? Man did that guy ever get typecast). 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: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:42:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Too much Testosterone vs. Too Much Estrogen....whuzz Re: Robyn Hitchcock, uh, iPod Rex wrote: > On 7/24/07, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > And the next person who asks me if I want > > to go see the goddamn Transformers movie.... > > Thank god... I was starting to think that I was the only one who > didn't get this whole thing. > > Michael Bay Presents: Charlie Tuna's Badasssssss Song? Well, Charlie Tuna is a far more developed character than the Transformers. The whole Transformers thing is out of control. Last week, I'm standing outside a bar in SF with one of my friends whose band had just played, and both of within 20 minutes got phone calls from (different) people wanting to make plans to see fucking Transformers that weekend (the answer, in both cases, was no). "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search that gives answers, not web links. http://mobile.yahoo.com/mobileweb/onesearch?refer=1ONXIC ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:59:23 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Too much Testosterone vs. Too Much Estrogen....whuzz Re: Robyn Hitchcock, uh, iPod On 7/24/07, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > > Well, Charlie Tuna is a far more developed character than the > Transformers. The whole Transformers thing is out of control. Yeah well I've got an option on a film based on a glob of coke and snot hanging from Michael Bay's left nostril. Look for it in theaters near you. It stars SHIT BLOWING UP. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:48:00 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: worst movies james says: > I'm a big fan of two cult TV series - The Avengers and The Wild Wild > West. I've seen both movies, so my answer would be a toss-up. In the > case of The Avengers, as Alice put it "Ralph and Uma would have had > better chemistry together if they'd each been in separate movies." i haven't seen " "the avengers" movie "; i truly adore uma, and i forgive her a lot, but i'm not an idiot. i've always loved the avengers series. they need to show it on pbs again, and the prisoner is up for a round as long as i'm making requests. the wild wild west i've not seen. must be a new zealand show. > Oh, and there was also some appalling thing I saw about half of one > time with Anthony Perkins as a psychotic priest ("Crimes of passion"? > Man did that guy ever get typecast). oh my, that was a ken russell movie, wasn't it? did it have kathleen turner in it? some bizarre percentage of people at my last job were ken russell fans. last i checked, he was completely lost on me. although actually it was an ex-boyfriend not at at my last job that i saw that one with. xo p.s. oh, the horror, it doesn't stop: i saw "psycho 2." in the theatre. sweet chocolate jesus, it's like i'll see anything. p.p.s. i realized i thought there was an "X-Files 2" only because there are two "X-Files" CDs and i thought that was one per movie, but the first CD just kind of went with the show i guess. i actually like both the CDs, especially considering that they're compilations (which i don't tend to go for.) - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:40:08 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: worst movies - -- grutness@slingshot.co.nz is rumored to have mumbled on 25. Juli 2007 12:24:44 +1200 regarding Re: worst movies: > I'm a big fan of two cult TV series - The Avengers and The Wild Wild > West. Huh, I never knew that Wild Wild West was based on a series! Anyway, that's definitely among the worst movies I've ever seen. The Avnegers, however ... > I've seen both movies, so my answer would be a toss-up. In the case > of The Avengers, as Alice put it "Ralph and Uma would have had better > chemistry together if they'd each been in separate movies." ... I enjoyed very much. I *know* that everybody and their sister hates it with a vengeance, and maybe it's only because I wasn't really familiar with the series (even though it had the rather sweet title "Mit Schirm, Charm und Melone" in German, which translates to "With Umbrella, Charm and Melon", where "Melon" is German for bowler hat, it just wasn't on when I was in the right age bracket), but I didn't notice any lack of chemistry. I thought Uma was hot, Ralph Fiennes was suave and everything was fun. I have seen only that one time, though, so who knows what I'd say today. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #272 ********************************