From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #302 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, August 24 2007 Volume 16 : Number 302 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: I was walking.. ["Michael Sweeney" ] We're all in this shit together ["Michael Sweeney" ] Re: the "in your bunk" thread ["Michael Sweeney" ] Re: the "in your bunk" thread [Tom Clark ] RE: the "in your bunk" thread ["Marc Alberts" ] Re: Starbuck in her bunk ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: the "in your bunk" thread [Tom Clark ] Re: tl;dr (album reviews from here in my car, where I feel safest of all) [Steve Schiavo ] Re: tl;dr (album reviews from here in my car, where I feel safest of all) [Rex ] Re: tl;dr (album reviews from here in my car, where I feel safest of all) [2fs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:21:14 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: RE: I was walking.. The Bachman who ISN'T really Stephen King wrote: >My 1992 "There are no jokes in the bible Keith" tee is still in great >shape. ...Well, that's a crying shame, mister... Michael "A cartoon man in the real world" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Messenger Cafi  open for fun 24/7. Hot games, cool activities served daily. Visit now. http://cafemessenger.com?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_AugHMtagline ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:30:12 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: We're all in this shit together Rex wroth (sorry - just an approximation of an old Groucho pun from "Horsefeathers"): >Mildly apropos to the TV-related thread: Any other fegs had to watch "High >School Musical 2" yet? How about more than once? If your hand's in the >air, I'll buy this round for y'all. Michael Sweeney <<<===== Lucky, lucky non-reproducer... _________________________________________________________________ Booking a flight? Know when to buy with airfare predictions on MSN Travel. http://travel.msn.com/Articles/aboutfarecast.aspx&ocid=T001MSN25A07001 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:43:50 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: In which I gloat. (0% RH) Christopher Gross said: >Last night I finished reading the Harry Potter series. I quite liked it. >But what I really want to talk about now is this: I got through the last >four books without *any* spoilers whatsoever! None! That's right, world >- -- you've conspired to spoil plot twists for me in everything from The >Crying Game to Alien 3 to "Seeing Red," but this time you failed! You >failed! At last, I win! I WIN! Bwahahahahaha!!! Hee. ...I never read them, but asked people (after the final one came out but before they had finished it) if they were as shocked as everyone else seemed to be at the scene where Hermione experiments with that racy and new use for broomsticks on poor ol' Ron... Michael Sweeney ...Oh yeah, BTW -- Soylent Green is people... _________________________________________________________________ Puzzles, trivia teasers, word scrambles and more. Play for your chance to win! http://club.live.com/home.aspx?icid=CLUB_hotmailtextlink ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:46:34 -0500 From: "natalie jacobs" Subject: Starbuck in her bunk > well, it looks like everyone's in their bunk this afternoon. so in > honor, i'll start a "favourite sex scene" thread. no porn, since we > all (or most of us) believe we're above it anyway. Well, as long as we're on the subject of BSG - the scene where Starbuck and Leoben get it on while all covered with paint is pretty damn hot (if kinda creepy). You can watch it here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=W-bCSbS4nVc I saw an interview with Katee Sackhoff where she was talking about filming that scene. Apparently ubiquitous Canadian character actor Callum Keith Rennie "is even hotter in real life," and the pasties she was wearing came off during filming and her management had to nab the resulting nude footage before it hit the internet. I'm sure you're all very disappointed. n. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:49:36 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: the "in your bunk" thread Lauren said: >well, it looks like everyone's in their bunk this afternoon. so in >honor, i'll start a "favourite sex scene" thread. no porn, since we >all (or most of us) believe we're above it anyway. Personally, I mounted the TV high enough so that IT would be above me... ...And, as regards yr query...5 words: Mimi Rogers, "Full Body Massage." Michael Sweeney ...Wait, that wasn't so much a "sex scene" as her all naked in about 90% of the movie and me...oh, never mind... ps - 4 more words: Helen Hunt, "The Waterdance" _________________________________________________________________ Puzzles, trivia teasers, word scrambles and more. Play for your chance to win! http://club.live.com/home.aspx?icid=CLUB_hotmailtextlink ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:08:10 -0700 From: Rex Subject: tl;dr (album reviews from here in my car, where I feel safest of all) WARNING!!! 0% hotness content; feel free to ignore. "Our Love to Admire", Interpol. Not bad, but not much of a progression from what came before, either. As noted by other fegs, the lyrical clunkers really stand out. And I really dislike the closing number all kinds of overblownness going on there (I think those grandiose church chimes show up elsewhere on the album, too, to its detriment). There is still just something keeping these guys from achieving teh awsome for me. Should I follow everyone's lead and start taking The Editors seriously instead? "Carnavas", Silversun Pickups. Been kind of avoiding this, since these guys are supposed to be the spearhead of the ultrahip indie rock scene in my very own neighborhood (they are supposedly named after a local liquor store, but I can't quite work that out, because that liquor store is clearly called Silversun Liquor, so is it just a reference to picking stuff up at the store, or changed to avoid pissing off the proprietors, or WTF?) anyways, um, I really like this. There almost as many bands touted as nuevo-shoegazers as neo-post punk these days, but this one really seems to hit the spot where a lot of then don't for me. Maybe it's the singer's voice or sense of melody, but it's all good, certainly more instantly catchy than the Interpol record. I suppose I'm now duty-bound to give the also-shoegazey-and-Silver-Lakey Autolux another chance, huh? Fountains of Wayne, entire album catalog. Saw them open for Squeeze and figured I was long past overdue to immerse myself in the band who seems to have been the godhead of the power-pop crowd for quite a long time now. It's a remarkably consistent set of records; if I'd been asked to do a blind chronological sequencing of them, I'd probably flunk it. They're all enjoyable, but it sort of seems like for every dead-on Ray Davies-like character sketch, there's a too-clever-by-half joke number with an easy punchline to even it out, pushing them a little too close to Barenaked Ladies territory. Sometimes they go for sly craftsmanship just when I think they need to go for something a little more primal or direct. And usually, certainly, the melody makes up for that. I could probably condense this catalog to a superkiller self-sequenced compilation, but that kinda goes counter to the band's rep as an "album artist". We shall see. I suppose I'm now duty-bound to listen to all the albums Sloan has piled up since their debut, huh? "Under the Blacklight", Rilo Kiley. I guess a lot of longtime fans are hating on this, and a seemingly equal faction is defending it. My worst fears from the hype were that that band was trying to become, like, the thinking person's No Doubt or something. It ain't that bad the pop maneuvers are actually rather tasteful and respectable, if not quite to my personal tastes. Tell you one thing, though: Jenny Lewis is often a stunning lyricist, and I don't think she's dumbing herself down here so much as trying new tactic, but you wouldn't guess she's as great as she is if this was your first exposure to her writing (I confirmed that to my own satisfaction by listening to RK's second album for the first time today as well). But maybe I would've felt the same way about Talking Heads if the first record I'd heard by them had been, say, "True Stories". I'll give this one some time. "Ramblin'". Lucinda Williams. Yeah, never heard this before. Very good., although how anyone could have listened to this and anticipated what a monster songwriting talent she would become is hard to figure. On the other hand, it lends credence to my belief that my girl is incredibly underrated as a vocalist. "Beauty & Crime", Suzanne Vega. I'd kinda lost track of her after "Songs in Red & Grey", which I thought had some great songs that I just happened to find very difficult to listen to just a little too close to home for me at the time. This one I can take a little better, and it's kind of a cool old-school singer-songwriter album with a digestible number of distinctively memorable songs. You know, in a good way. "Challengers", The New Pornographers. Already mentioned this. It rules. If I were to be honest with myself, these guys would certainly take up four slots in my Top 10 list for the *decade* (unless "Mass Romantic" squeaked in at the end of the '90's, can't recall). Neko would probably grab two of the other slots. That doesn't seem fair, but there it is. "Uncle Dysfunktional", Happy Mondays. Weeeeeird, man. If Sean Ryder hasn't been compared frequently enough to Mark E. Smith, for all the obvious reasons except for prolificness (prolificity?) this thing sure helps make up some ground. This bandwell, there's hardly enough of them left to have this really qualify as a reunionis probably supposed to be a guilty pleasure, but I tend to stick up for them as actually good. I just always have, and still do, get a rush from hearing Ryder cut loose with his blissed out and borderline-evil nonsense. The album starts out strong on that front, and then kinda sags in the middle, on several numbers on which Sean does these weird character voices that make him sound like he has had, or is in fact having, a stroke as you listen. He's kinda done that type of thing before, on stuff like "Bobs Yer Uncle", but his output has been so scarce and his messed-up lifestyle so legendary in recent years that it makes me tend to worry more than laugh. Also, it's incredibly filthy, even by Ryder's usual standards, in a way that probably wouldn't be so noticeable to me if I listened to more hip hop these days. In fact, the whole listening experience catapults me into a parallel musical universe that's probably been unfolding off my radar for the last decade or so. Did I miss anything? "Neon Bible", Arcade Fire. Had a wonky copy of this for a while, but just now got a proper version. Now, while I can intellectually imagine reasons for disliking this band or this album, I can't really see how it could be done in practice. One of my friends didn't like this as much as the first album because he thought it sounded a bit too Springsteen-esque in places. I hear way more of the Bunnymen in it, though, and the Bunnymen are that same friend's favorite band, so go figure. To me, this is just great, and often very touching. I'm happy to have this band be the U2 of the moment, probably happier than I was to have had U2 as the U2 of the moment when we had them (and way happier than I was when we had Radiohead instead). Jesus, does Canada have a lock on my Top 10 list of the '00's already? Possibly. "Circus (Live)", John Cale. If I'd seen this tour in person, as I failed to do by not knowing what the hell day it was two years ago, I'd probably list it as an epic performance. I mean, it's a really nice setlist and the performances are fine and totally committed (on Cale's partthe lead guitarist is a little bit too mannered for my tastes). As a recording, it has some lulls, though. I could totally live without the Velvets numbers (since Cale totally pwns the good parts of the live VU reunion record), and the nifty idea of the "Femme Fatale/Rose Garden Funeral of Sores" medley loses some impact simply by being identified on the track list. The re-reinvention of "Heartbreak Hotel" is a nice surprise (does Robyn have to do it this way, now, too?) and hearing the newish and classic material sitting comfortably side by side makes it worthwhile. I wonder if another studio record in the near future is too much to expect ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:10:22 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: the "in your bunk" thread On Aug 23, 2007, at 3:07 PM, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > well, it looks like everyone's in their bunk this afternoon. so in > honor, i'll start a "favourite sex scene" thread. no porn, since we > all (or most of us) believe we're above it anyway. It's been a while since I've seen either of these films, but I seem to remember getting quite excited about them at the time: "Wild Things" - Matt Dillon/Neve Campbell/Denise Richards. That scene needs to be about three minutes longer... "Sea Of Love" - Al Pacino/Ellen Barkin. To this day I'm turned on by women in red leather jackets. Lots of hotness in "Body Heat" as well, but I can only remember the one scene where William Hurt throws a chair through a sliding glass door to get at Kathleen Turner. Oh, and that reminds me of a scene in the 1983 remake of "Breathless", where Richard Gere and Valerie Kaprisky break the shower stall with their fierce lovemaking. That movie has one of my favorite lines ever, when Kaprisky wants to wash up before going out for the evening and Gere says "No. I want us to smell like we've been fucking". Gold, Jerry! Gold! - -tc, did I just write "lovemaking"? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:14:30 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: the "in your bunk" thread On Aug 23, 2007, at 4:49 PM, Michael Sweeney wrote: > ...And, as regards yr query...5 words: Mimi Rogers, "Full Body > Massage." > > ps - 4 more words: Helen Hunt, "The Waterdance" Oh yes, oh Jumpin Jesus on a Pogo Stick yes: Ludivine Sagnier, "Swimming Pool" and: Eva Green, "The Dreamers" - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:11:02 -0700 From: "Marc Alberts" Subject: RE: the "in your bunk" thread Tom Clark wrote about Helen Hunt's scene in "The Waterdance" > Oh yes, oh Jumpin Jesus on a Pogo Stick yes I couldn't have said it better. I never liked Hunt all that much, but that scene was hawt. I also always thought the manual stimulation scene with Laura Dern and Lukas Haas had a lot going for it as well. Almodovar's "Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down" had a great scene with Victoria Abril and Antonio Bandares that probably deserves a mention. And one shouldn't go through a great sex scene discussion without mentioning the amazing puppeteering involved in "Team America: World Police." Still, for pure excitement I have to nominate the train scene from "Risky Business" since that was the one that practically got me through high school. Marc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:59:53 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: Starbuck in her bunk n. says: > Well, as long as we're on the subject of BSG - the scene where Starbuck and > Leoben get it on while all covered with paint is pretty damn hot (if kinda > creepy). You can watch it here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=W-bCSbS4nVc the memories. btw, what's with all the weird "i made this!" starbuck/leoben videos, e.g.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1bUF0gcI8s&mode=related&search= (that's a rhetorical questions, but feel free to go with it anyway...) > I saw an interview with Katee Sackhoff where she was talking about filming > that scene. Apparently ubiquitous Canadian character actor Callum Keith > Rennie "is even hotter in real life," and the pasties she was wearing came > off during filming and her management had to nab the resulting nude footage > before it hit the internet. I'm sure you're all very disappointed. i saw some people online (maybe even on TWOP) talking about the actor's hotness, but i failed to notice since starbuck was looking so good in the white guy shirt and then in the white paint... as ever, lauren p.s. i like whatever hotdog (i think it was) said when starbuck woke up - it was cute or funny (i can't remember more than that...) - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:03:31 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: the "in your bunk" thread On Aug 23, 2007, at 6:11 PM, Marc Alberts wrote: > Tom Clark wrote about Helen Hunt's scene in "The Waterdance" >> Oh yes, oh Jumpin Jesus on a Pogo Stick yes > > I couldn't have said it better. I never liked Hunt all that much, > but that > scene was hawt. To be honest, I was referring to Swimming Pool with that exclamation. Having never seen The Waterdance. It's in the Netflix queue now though. > And one shouldn't go through a > great sex scene discussion without mentioning the amazing puppeteering > involved in "Team America: World Police." Especially the uncut version! It's scatarific!!! > > Still, for pure excitement I have to nominate the train scene from > "Risky > Business" since that was the one that practically got me through high > school. What a difference 25 years make. Rebecca De Mornay is still kinda hot, but her role in HBO's "John From Cincinnati" sure soured me on her. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:10:54 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: tl;dr (album reviews from here in my car, where I feel safest of all) On Aug 23, 2007, at 7:08 PM, Rex wrote: > Fountains of Wayne, entire album catalog. Eh, their previous album was too long by half, and I haven't been able to force myself to buy the new one. Try these guys instead . The bass player alone could beat up all of WoF at once. > I suppose I'm now duty-bound to listen to all the > albums Sloan has piled up since their debut, huh? Never Hear the End of It is quite enjoyable. No harm in working backwards. - - Steve _______________ NP - Paradise Lunch -> Gun's & Roses ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:10:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: tl;dr (album reviews from here in my car, where I feel safest of all) Rex wrote: > WARNING!!! 0% hotness content; feel free to ignore. > > "Our Love to Admire", Interpol. .... Should I follow everyone's > lead and start taking The Editors seriously instead? Given that the lyrics on the new Editors album are not only worse than Interpol's, but are worse while being cloyingly naive and borderline "Up with Peopl," no. The music part is fine, but not particularly better than Interpol, and the lyrics are ruin everything in a way that even the worst of Paul Banks clunkers don't. "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: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:24:23 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: the "in your bunk" thread tc says: > Oh yes, oh Jumpin Jesus on a Pogo Stick yes: Ludivine Sagnier, > "Swimming Pool" > and: Eva Green, "The Dreamers" oh, i think i might be triangulating on "your type". well, not that you might not have more "types", being male and all. those women are lovely, but a little top-heavy for my tastes. uma is the only gal i can think of in that category who does it for me. btw, and completely aside from the point, those are two very good, but IMO somewhat flawed, movies. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:39:55 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: tl;dr (album reviews from here in my car, where I feel safest of all) On 8/23/07, Steve Schiavo wrote: > > I suppose I'm now duty-bound to listen to all the > > albums Sloan has piled up since their debut, huh? > > Never Hear the End of It is quite enjoyable. No harm in working > backwards. Might do, might do. I actually do have the debut album, which, thinking about it now, sounds somewhat like Silversun Pickups. Jeff D: > Given that the lyrics on the new Editors album are not only worse >>than Interpol's, but are worse while being cloyingly naive and >>borderline "Up with Peopl," no. In that case, I may just get over the churchbells and threesomes and cruise with what I already have. Incidentally, I did breeze past She Wants Revenge at the Sunset Junction Street Fair, after the Buzzcocks. The Buzzcocks were very fun, and SWR were every bit as awful as I'd expected. I wouldn't be surprised if there was absolutely no overlapping audience between those bands, other that folks who ill-advisedly tried to stake out spots for SWR close to the stage during the Buzzcocks' set, and got their faces moshed upon. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:45:45 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: the "in your bunk" thread On 8/23/07, Tom Clark wrote: > And one shouldn't go through a > great sex scene discussion without mentioning the amazing puppeteering > involved in "Team America: World Police." > > Especially the uncut version! It's scatarific!!! Have I told my work story about the "technical note" on the unrated version of that film? Almost as funny as the scene itself... in the notes field where it usually says stuff like "PAL transfer from NTSC" or "Clone of HD master" (etc.), that one actually said (spoilers) > > > > > > > > > > > > "UNRATED VERSION WITH PISS AND SHIT" - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:14:28 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: tl;dr (album reviews from here in my car, where I feel safest of all) On 8/23/07, Rex wrote: > > WARNING!!! 0% hotness content; feel free to ignore. > > "Our Love to Admire", Interpol. Not bad, but not much of a progression > from > what came before, either. As noted by other fegs, the lyrical clunkers > really stand out. And I really dislike the closing number all kinds of > overblownness going on there (I think those grandiose church chimes show > up > elsewhere on the album, too, to its detriment). There is still just > something keeping these guys from achieving teh awsome for me. Should I > follow everyone's lead and start taking The Editors seriously instead? I keep thinking I should check them out (Editors - n.b., one of those bands apparently picky about the "no-the" thing) but haven't yet. I kinda figure Interpol to be one of those bands that hits upon a sound and more or less sticks with it - although actually I thought there was a fair amount of progression between the first and second albums. Have to listen to this one more, really. > > own neighborhood (they are supposedly named after a local liquor store, > but > I can't quite work that out, because that liquor store is clearly called > Silversun Liquor, so is it just a reference to picking stuff up at the > store, or changed to avoid pissing off the proprietors, or WTF?) Errr...is the liquor store known as a place to pick up people? > > > "Challengers", The New Pornographers. Already mentioned this. It > rules. If > I were to be honest with myself, these guys would certainly take up four > slots in my Top 10 list for the *decade* (unless "Mass Romantic" squeaked > in > at the end of the '90's, can't recall). Neko would probably grab two of > the > other slots. That doesn't seem fair, but there it is. I'm liking it better every day. Never disliked it - but it wasn't quite as omigod inyrface as the first two, in particular. > > "Neon Bible", Arcade Fire. Had a wonky copy of this for a while, but just > now got a proper version. Now, while I can intellectually imagine > reasons > for disliking this band or this album, I can't really see how it could be > done in practice. One of my friends didn't like this as much as the first > album because he thought it sounded a bit too Springsteen-esque in > places. I > hear way more of the Bunnymen in it, though, and the Bunnymen are that > same > friend's favorite band, so go figure. To me, this is just great, and > often > very touching. I'm happy to have this band be the U2 of the moment, > probably happier than I was to have had U2 as the U2 of the moment when we > had them (and way happier than I was when we had Radiohead > instead). Jesus, > does Canada have a lock on my Top 10 list of the '00's already? Possibly. Hmm. This one's just never quite clicked with me. Not that it's bad or anything - just never quite...clicked. "Circus (Live)", John Cale. I wonder if another > studio record in the near future is too much to expect One can hope! I actually like some of the music on the DVD disc better... Did this get domestic release, or did you give in & buy the import? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:51:23 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: tl;dr (album reviews from here in my car, where I feel safest of all) Rex says: > Jeff D: > > Given that the lyrics on the new Editors album are not only worse > >>than Interpol's, but are worse while being cloyingly naive and > >>borderline "Up with Peopl," no. > > In that case, I may just get over the churchbells and threesomes and > cruise with what I already have. i was too lazy to revive the "what i got" thread, but i did get the editors cd yesterday (jeff 2fs: yes, i've heard that, too, so my meaning is the cd by editors, not the cd by the editors.) i haven't listened to it yet. i quite liked the first album, but do find them similar enough to interpol that i generally just throw on interpol (unlike the interpol / joy division comparisons, which i don't get, i concur on the interpol / editors comparisons.) btw, new interpol is still in rotation on the mp3 player in the honda, and it occurred to me to wonder if the "three stowaways" in the first song are the singer, his girl, and the, uh, "something new" in the second song. xo lauren - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:00:13 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: tl;dr (album reviews from here in my car, where I feel safest of all) On 8/23/07, 2fs wrote: >(Editors - n.b., one of those bands > apparently picky about the "no-the" thing) but haven't yet. Unlike (the) Arcade Fire, aligned with Cocteau Twins, and in direct opposition the THE Geraldine Fibbers... > > own neighborhood (they are supposedly named after a local liquor store, > but > > I can't quite work that out, because that liquor store is clearly called > > Silversun Liquor, so is it just a reference to picking stuff up at the > > store, or changed to avoid pissing off the proprietors, or WTF?) > > Errr...is the liquor store known as a place to pick up people? Not by me, at least. It's one of those businesses named after the streets intersecting at its location (SILVER Lake and SUNset), but if they were just going for that reference, they would just claim to be named after the intersection, not the business, right? The opposite phenomenon, also in LA (or really the Valley), gave birth to Beachwood Sparks , which is named after two *consecutive* streets. Kinda tripped me out the first time I noticed that (hadn't read about the origin of the name, but there it was). And if that doesn't get me couple of credits toward a degree in band name origins, I give up. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:02:12 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Might as well make it a formal invitation... Funniest thing to grace my monitor today was gmail's suggestion to "Invite You Fuckers to join gmail?" the next-to-last time I replied to the list. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:20:44 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Starbuck in her bunk On 8/23/07, natalie jacobs wrote: > > > Well, as long as we're on the subject of BSG - the scene where Starbuck > and > Leoben get it on while all covered with paint is pretty damn hot (if kinda > creepy). You can watch it here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=W-bCSbS4nVc > > I saw an interview with Katee Sackhoff where she was talking about filming > that scene. Apparently ubiquitous Canadian character actor Callum Keith > Rennie "is even hotter in real life," and the pasties she was wearing came > off during filming and her management had to nab the resulting nude > footage > before it hit the internet. I'm sure you're all very disappointed. Well I certainly am. Weird thing: can someone tell me whether I"m (a) remembering an actual MTV video from the mid-eighties, or (b) remembering an idea I had for a music video during the eighties? I'm leaning toward the second, because, uh, the song in question is "A Blues in Drag" by The Glove (the one-off Robert Smith/Steven Severin project), which is a slow-ish instrmental track. The treatment basically involved a number of people, each doused in their own color of paint (blue, red, green, yellow, etc.), grappling nude in slow motion in an all-white space. (You can see why this scene reminded me of that...) Very MTV... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #302 ********************************