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fegmaniax-digest        Monday, August 20 2007        Volume 16 : Number 298



                               Today's Subjects:
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  Re: the buffy thread lives  [Sebastian Hagedorn <Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln]
  Robyn on Sundance                       [Eleanore Adams <eleanore@tdl.com>]
  Re: End of the Road festival (100% RH content)  ["Stacked Crooked" <etews@]
  Re: Robyn on Sundance          ["Lauren Elizabeth" <softboygirl@gmail.com>]
  Re: End of the Road festival (100% RH content)  ["Stewart C. Russell" <scr]
  Re: End of the Road festival (100% RH content)  [Rex <spottedeagleray@gmai]
  RE: End of the Road festival (100% RH content)  ["Bachman, Michael" <Micha]
  Re: End of the Road festival (100% RH content)  [Rex <spottedeagleray@gmai]
  Re: End of the Road festival (100% RH content)  [2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.]
  birthday coincidence                        [2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>]
  coupla brief notes                     [Christopher Gross <chrisg@gwu.edu>]
  nick drake box set (very little robyn content)          [HwyCDRrev@aol.com]
  Re: coupla brief notes                ["Sumiko Keay" <sumi.keay@gmail.com>]

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Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:54:19 +0200
From: Sebastian Hagedorn <Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: Re: the buffy thread lives

- -- Christopher Gross <chrisg@gwu.edu> is rumored to have mumbled on 19. 
August 2007 11:02:25 -0400 regarding Re: the buffy thread lives:

> On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Lauren Elizabeth wrote:
>
>> and anyway, starbuck's hotness eclipses all other BSG hotness.
>
> Something we can all agree on!

For me it comes and goes. There were times when I prefered Boomer/Sharon.
- --
Sebastian Hagedorn
Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany
http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/
"Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock

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Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:40:29 -0700
From: Eleanore Adams <eleanore@tdl.com>
Subject: Robyn on Sundance

Robyn is on Sundance cable channel, in a documentary today. I am sure  
you guys have seen it already, but it is new to me. Love Robyn's  
shirts. Cool telecaster too.

Leaving for 3 weeks for Slovakia in 2 days. My brother's wife is from  
Trencin, north of Bratislava. Can't wait!

eleanore

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Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 16:37:56 -0700
From: "Stacked Crooked" <etews@inwa.net>
Subject: Re: End of the Road festival (100% RH content)

<Is your cell phone sitting on that side of the desk?>

don't own one.


<Anything else that could be emitting RF?>

don't think so.


<Is that the side of the room where you microwave your burritos?>

don't own either a microwave *or* a burrito (nor, for that matter, a burro
- -- although the chef once stated his desire to sell his motor and get a
donkey to ride to work upon).


<does the speaker act the same way on an audio cd in the cd drive? i've
heard tell that there's kind of a "throughput" for audio cds, and finding
out about this may help you (or someone on the list) figure out the
problem.>

rarely, if ever, play audio CDs on my computer.  thought you might be onto
something with the *ripping* of discs -- which i've been doing a lot of
lately -- but can't get the sumbitch to act up just now...


<yeah, i get the impression a lot of people (present company excluded)
don't really pick up on the fact that hits is really a post-mortem for the
metcalfe incarnation of the soft boys, containing a hodge-podge of material
from *between* bees and moonlight.>

matthew appears on five of the songs (or something like) -- so i've always
thought of it as more a transition than a post-mortem.


<it's not really even an album, per se, i suppose.>

true that.  and yet...it's my favourite soft boys "album".


<Oh, and today I finally listened to "Challengers", sort of dreading it
after Eddie's tumultuous emotional struggle with it and my own having
turned out to really not like Destroyer (and the shock of that Wilco
thing being as bad as I'd been warned), but you know what?  I instantly and
completely love everything about it.>

not the artwork, surely?  neko's apparently a graduate from the
sleater-kinney school of album-packaging.

funny: i would reverse "not" and "really" from your description of
destroyer to describe my own.

i'm kinda warming up to the new wilco, especially the first half.  in other
anticipated-by-me releases:

- -- the new imperial teen has merit, but is not in the same class as its
predecessor.

- -- the new po'-girl is *awesome*.  almost surely a top-five for me.  what
say you, stewart?

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Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:52:39 -0400
From: "Lauren Elizabeth" <softboygirl@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Robyn on Sundance

Eleanore <eleanore@tdl.com> says:
> Leaving for 3 weeks for Slovakia in 2 days. My brother's wife is from
> Trencin, north of Bratislava. Can't wait!

my sister recently got back from a visit to slovakia.  she's been
there three or four times.  she goes to stropkov or thereabout, where
there is family related to our paternal grandfather (naturally, my
father is clueless about such things - my sister did the research and
found the town the family was from.)

she first went to slovakia looking for family when she was teaching in
luxembourg.  i tell her that it's probably just some random strangers
that she met while looking for family gravestones in the cemetery.
but she has a grand time when she visits them, family or no ;)

at any rate, i hope you have a wonderful trip.

as ever,
lauren

- -- 
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"People with opinions just go around bothering one another."

                   - The Buddha

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Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 21:50:59 -0400
From: "Stewart C. Russell" <scruss@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: End of the Road festival (100% RH content)

Stacked Crooked wrote:
> 
> -- the new po'-girl is *awesome*.  almost surely a top-five for me.  what
> say you, stewart?

Haven't heard it. Won't be hitting a record store for the next couple of
weeks, either. I'm more in a Richard Farina place right now.

 Stewart

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Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 22:52:36 -0700
From: Rex <spottedeagleray@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: End of the Road festival (100% RH content)

On 8/19/07, Stacked Crooked <etews@inwa.net> wrote:
> <Is your cell phone sitting on that side of the desk?>
>
> don't own one.

> <Is that the side of the room where you microwave your burritos?>
>
> don't own either a microwave *or* a burrito

There's a healthy streak of semi-ludditism amongst fegs, huh?  Offhand
I can think of:

- -Eddie: no cell phone, no microwave, a few other contrarian tendencies
that escape me, including a very pro-free-music stance.
- -Jeme: recently detailed eschewing of standard-issue OS's, general
stances against a lot of toxic "conventional" "wisdom"
- -Jeff Norman:  no cell phones
- -James: no CD-burning capability
- -Myself and a few others: no television (technically there are TV's in
my household, but they are utilized by me exactly never)
- -Certainly a few vinyl devotees to a greater or lesser degree of fervor
- -A general fetishism for reference volumes and other bound printed matter

I'm sure there are other examples (I'll bet the guitarists around here
tend to favor tube amplifiers and acoustic instruments); out
yourselves as you will.  I think it's at least safe to say that this
isn't too surprising amongst people who admire the work of someone
like Robyn.


>
> <Oh, and today I finally listened to "Challengers", sort of dreading it
> after Eddie's tumultuous emotional struggle with it and my own having
> turned out to really not like Destroyer (and the shock of that Wilco
> thing being as bad as I'd been warned), but you know what?  I instantly and
> completely love everything about it.>
>
> not the artwork, surely?  neko's apparently a graduate from the
> sleater-kinney school of album-packaging.

Is that bad?  The incredibly subtle Kinks tribute cover to "Dig Me
Out" still kicks my ass.  I generally like it when musicians take a
hand in their own album art (notable exception: the Chameleons...
dreadful stuff)...

Erm... the Challengers artwork isn't great, but I haven't really
looked at it much, and never in its physical form.

- -Rex, just back from seeing The Buzzcocks... which surely has to
qualify as antiquarianism of some stripe...

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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 08:15:59 -0400
From: "Bachman, Michael" <Michael.Bachman@fanucrobotics.com>
Subject: RE: End of the Road festival (100% RH content)

ET:
>> not the artwork, surely?  neko's apparently a graduate from the 
>> sleater-kinney school of album-packaging.

Rex retorted:
>Is that bad?  The incredibly subtle Kinks tribute cover to "Dig Me Out"
still kicks my ass.  I generally like it when musicians take a hand in
their own album art (notable exception: the Chameleons...
dreadful stuff)...

Dig Me Out is certainly my favorite s-k album. I never picked up on The
Kinks conections, but then I must confess that the only Kinks I have is
"Muswell".  Kudos to s-k as well for being huge Go-Betweens fans and
helping them in recording "The Friends of Rachel Worth" back in 2000.

Michael B.

NP - Cocteau Twins - The Pink Opaque

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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 06:59:52 -0700
From: Rex <spottedeagleray@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: End of the Road festival (100% RH content)

On 8/20/07, Bachman, Michael <Michael.Bachman@fanucrobotics.com> wrote:

> Dig Me Out is certainly my favorite s-k album. I never picked up on The
> Kinks conections

The cover is a recreation of "Kinks Kontroversy", which was out of
print at the time that "Dig Me Out" was released-- there are six
pictures instead of eight and the copy is blue instead, but otherwise
the layout, cropping, font, and photo content are the same.

> but then I must confess that the only Kinks I have is
> "Muswell".

That's probably unusual, albeit cool.  "Muswell" was also out of print
for years!

>Kudos to s-k as well for being huge Go-Betweens fans and
> helping them in recording "The Friends of Rachel Worth" back in 2000.

Musta seemed odd to some but made sense to me.  Hearing Janet on drums
is always a good thing.

- -Rex

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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:12:44 -0500
From: 2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: End of the Road festival (100% RH content)

On 8/20/07, Rex <spottedeagleray@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> There's a healthy streak of semi-ludditism amongst fegs, huh?  Offhand
> I can think of:
>
>
> -Jeff Norman:  no cell phones



You can add "no TV" to my list, at least if we're talking about network or
cable TV. We have a TV set, but it's really just a DVD monitor.

I wouldn't call it Luddite, though: I don't have any objection in principle
to cell phones or TVs, only to either the way some people use them or just a
lack of interest or need on my own part in owning them.

SOW: do the Luddites have a website?


> >
> > not the artwork, surely?  neko's apparently a graduate from the
> > sleater-kinney school of album-packaging.
>
> Erm... the Challengers artwork isn't great, but I haven't really
> looked at it much, and never in its physical form.



I understand the badness of that artwork - on the other hand, it does stand
out (I don't think I have any other CDs with silver spines and bright orange
print in my collection).




- -- 

...Jeff Norman

The Architectural Dance Society
http://spanghew.blogspot.com

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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:26:47 -0500
From: 2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>
Subject: birthday coincidence

Following on the Buffy thread, I just found out today is James Marster's
(Spike) 45th birthday.

It is also the 45th birthday of another fabulous blonde with cheekbones: my
wife, Rose.

(She, however, has never played a vampire.)

- -- 

...Jeff Norman

The Architectural Dance Society
http://spanghew.blogspot.com

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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:47:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Christopher Gross <chrisg@gwu.edu>
Subject: coupla brief notes 

On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:

> >> and anyway, starbuck's hotness eclipses all other BSG hotness.
> >
> > Something we can all agree on!
>
> For me it comes and goes. There were times when I prefered
> Boomer/Sharon.

Whereas my devotion to the One True Faith has never wavered.  Not that I
don't find Sharon attractive!  I'd even say she's better looking than
Starbuck in strictly physical terms.  But Starbuck has the better
combination of looks and personality.  (A deeply messed-up personality, to
be sure, but it's not like I'm going to date her in real life or
anything.)

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, 2fs wrote:

> Following on the Buffy thread, I just found out today is James Marster's
> (Spike) 45th birthday.
>
> It is also the 45th birthday of another fabulous blonde with cheekbones: my
> wife, Rose.

Happy Birthday to both Rose and James!  In honor of the occasion, here's
a link some might find entertaining:

<http://www.slayage.com/articles/000069.html>


- --Chris

______________________________________________________________________
Christopher Gross             On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog.
chrisg@gwu.edu

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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:38:01 EDT
From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com
Subject: nick drake box set (very little robyn content)

Hi,

Release date is confirmed as Oct 22nd.

Artwork to follow,  Fruit Tree is a boxed set which comes in two editions: CD 
and Vinyl. 

The  CD box contains contain:

1.A CD of Five Leaves Left in a mini-vinyl  replica sleeve.

2. A CD of Bryter Layter in a mini-vinyl replica  sleeve.

3. A CD of Pink Moon in a mini-vinyl replica sleeve.

4. A  DVD of the film 'A Skin Too Few'

5. The book as described  below.

The Vinyl box contains:

1. A record of Five Leaves Left in  its original replica sleeve. 

2. A record of Bryter Layter in its  original replica sleeve.

3. A record of Pink Moon Left in its original  replica sleeve.

4. A DVD of the film 'A Skin Too Few'.

5. The book  as described below

The boxes are lift-off lid in style.

The book  is 100 pages thick. It is type only.It is the same size as the CD 
box. The book  contains the first-ever interview with Joe Boyd and John Wood 
together and takes  you through each track of Nick's song-by-song. John has 
never talked about this  before. It also contains a song-by-song musical breakdown 
and history by Robin  Frederick.It also contains all of Nick's lyrics It also 
contains the original  sleeve notes by Arthur Lubow. So, the book itself is 
quite something!  

Because the boxed sets are expensive, we are going to build a 'Fruit  Tree' 
enclave on the Nick Drake website i.e. will be a simple  password-controlled 
enclave to brytermusic.com site where journalists can go to  get:

1. Packshot

2. Product array shot

3. Packshots of all  three CDs and DVD

4. Biog

5. Artist pictures

6. Streamed  viewing copy of the DVD film 

7. Electronic version of the 100 paged book  in bite-size sections 

8. Track list and running order

We'll have  a minimal quantity of finished boxes to give away.

We've touched on  promotional opportunities around this release eg Mark 
Radcliffe Radio 2 special  and the possibility of a re-run of the Radio 2 Brad Pitt 
documentary. 

Do  we want to service a track to radio, can radio also use the website 
above, or do  we need to service people with a best of (do we offer them 'A 
Treasury' in some  form as a digest of the three available albums in the set)?

Can we get  the Skin Too Few broadcast on TV? We will be trying to get it 
screened at  various festivals.

We are still pushing for the Starbucks exclusive  compilation to come out at 
the same time (would have the same artwork as Fruit  Tree) but this is still 
tbc. 

The Fruit Tree box is merely a re-issue of  the first edition of the box. It 
does not contain new music. 

It will  contain the DVD of 'A Skin Too Few' but this will be made available 
separately  in 2008. 

It will contain a new book, the contents of which will also  come out in 
expanded form separately in 2008.

The CDs are not  remastered.

Some info about 'A Skin Too Few':

Synopsis:

"I  always say that Nick was born with a skin too few", tells actress 
Gabrielle  about her brother, the English singer-songwriter Nick Drake (1948-1974). 
It took  twenty posthumous years for his music to gain recognition and even 
proclaim him  cult hero. The documentary A Skin Too Few approaches the silent 
landscapes,  locations, people and music in the life of this unorthodox loner in 
the hope of  understanding his state of mind. 

Director's Bio:

Jeroen Berkvens  was born in 1968 in Eindhoven in the south of Holland. He 
studied for 5 years at  the AV & Cinematographic Design department of the 
Academy of Arts in Breda.  Besides directing documentaries he occasionally produces 
documentaries &  other filmprojects. In 1996 and 1997 he was a member of the 
editorial staff at a  PBS in the Netherlands called Humanist Broadcasting 
Foundation. Since 1998  Jeroen has been teaching AV-design at his alma mater in 
Breda. In 2004 he was  designated to lead the documentary workshop of the 
International Documentary  Filmfestival Amsterdam 2004. He also teaches on a regular 
base at the  post-graduate Sandberg Institute & at the Dutch Film & Television 
 Academy. 

The film enjoyed a rare screening at SXSW March 2007 followed  by a panel 
discussion 'Nick Drake Remembered' featuring Gabrielle Drake, Vashti  Bunyan, Joe 
Boyd and Robyn Hitchcock, link below to view:

_http://www.brytermusic.com/sxsw.html_ (http://www.brytermusic.com/sxsw.html) 
 



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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:07:28 -0500
From: "Sumiko Keay" <sumi.keay@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: coupla brief notes

A belated Happy Birthday to the August 19th b-day twins.

Buffy made Scifi Now's Top Ten Science Fiction TV Heroes list:

http://www.scifinow.co.uk/images/your_sfn/Top_tens/tv_heroes/top_ten_02.html



On 8/20/07, Christopher Gross <chrisg@gwu.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:
>
> > >> and anyway, starbuck's hotness eclipses all other BSG hotness.
> > >
> > > Something we can all agree on!
> >
> > For me it comes and goes. There were times when I prefered
> > Boomer/Sharon.
>
> Whereas my devotion to the One True Faith has never wavered.  Not that I
> don't find Sharon attractive!  I'd even say she's better looking than
> Starbuck in strictly physical terms.  But Starbuck has the better
> combination of looks and personality.  (A deeply messed-up personality, to
> be sure, but it's not like I'm going to date her in real life or
> anything.)
>
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, 2fs wrote:
>
> > Following on the Buffy thread, I just found out today is James Marster's
> > (Spike) 45th birthday.
> >
> > It is also the 45th birthday of another fabulous blonde with cheekbones: my
> > wife, Rose.
>
> Happy Birthday to both Rose and James!  In honor of the occasion, here's
> a link some might find entertaining:
>
> <http://www.slayage.com/articles/000069.html>
>
>
> --Chris
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Christopher Gross             On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog.
> chrisg@gwu.edu

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