From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #324 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, September 7 2007 Volume 16 : Number 324 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: another reap [2fs ] Re: lyric question ["Michael Sweeney" ] Re: jawohl, mein Herr (war: Re: von David Duchovny gebumst) [kevin ] Fwd: Stupid NYC apartment hunting [2fs ] Re: Stupid NYC apartment hunting [Benjamin Lukoff ] Re: "Make a claim"? [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: another reap [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: jawohl, mein Herr (war: Re: von David Duchovny gebumst) [Sebastian Ha] Re: "Make a claim"? [lep ] Re: jawohl, mein Herr (war: Re: von David Duchovny gebumst) [lep ] Re: Everybody needs a little TL;DR... [Rex ] Re: TV [Rex ] Re: TV [Rex ] Re: lyric question [Rex ] Re: lyric question [Rex ] Re: lyric question [Steve Schiavo ] Re: jawohl, mein Herr (war: Re: von David Duchovny gebumst) [Rex tl;dr [Rex ] Re: TV ["Michael Sweeney" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 15:49:47 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: another reap On 9/7/07, Christopher Gross wrote: > > Writer Madeleine L'Engle, best known for her children's SF/fantasy novel > _A Wrinkle in Time_, age 88. > > > > > > (I only got around to reading _A Wrinkle in Time_ when I was about 34. > Not bad, but I think I would have appreciated it more 20 or 25 years > earlier.) Those were favorites of my teen years. By "those," of course, I am incorporating the sequels...although AWIT is the best, I think. I just reacquired a complete set of those last year - should reread them. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:09:08 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: lyric question Lauren wrote: >...and mimi rogers was in "the x-files" so i know >her as well, but probably wouldn't otherwise except to know that she >was (ick) married to tom cruise.) ...Yeah, I try to never think about that (the contemptable Scientologist near-midget!)... And, besides the pics I would most like to link to would _definitely_ be NSFW... Michael "Uh...I'll be back in my bunk again..." Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Share your special parenting moments! http://www.reallivemoms.com?ocid=TXT_TAGHM&loc=us ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 14:14:17 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: jawohl, mein Herr (war: Re: von David Duchovny gebumst) >Yeah -- I remember that too...and it's been a looooooooooong time. I think >that O'Rourke (the ol' self-proclaimed "Pants-down Republican": [remembered >approx. quote] "We want to drive very fast with the top down while drinking >a vodka martini and having our wing-wang squeezed by a young girl...") also >absorbed way too much Hunter S. Thompson (as did many of us!) without >getting the related memo that that particular style and approach had exactly >one allowed practioner...(and, besides, he's cannon-shot to oblivion now). It was a genius Lampoon piece titled "How To Drive Fast On Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed Without Spilling Your Drink." One of the best things Peej ever wrote. And when it was reprinted in one of his first collections after his conversion (Republican With a Mohawk, maybe?) I noticed that all the references to heroin - which were some of the vilest, most disgustingly funny things in the piece - had been deleted, and I felt like a rancid, filthy light had gone out of the world. And yes, it's true that the energy emitted by Dr. Thompson was just part of the air one breathed in those days...whether you inhaled or not. When shall come another? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 14:22:36 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: jawohl, mein Herr (war: Re: von David Duchovny gebumst) >(Yes, I know, I'm opening the anti-prog floodgates potentially >here, but oh well. Check out my Classic Yes tribute band if anyone's >interested: www.myspace.com/seyestribute) Never had a problem with Yes; no goblins, elves or hobbits in their material that I could ever detect, just a wonderfully dense rhythmic bed supporting a lot of intensely noble-minded, incomprehensible lyrics that came across like transmissions from another dimension which had been irreparably scrambled after being squeezed through some kind of wormhole. When we caught them in Long Beach in 1973 a nude couple streaked across the stage somewhere in mid-set and Jon Anderson laughed so hard he dropped his mic... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 16:51:41 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: jawohl, mein Herr (war: Re: von David Duchovny gebumst) On 9/7/07, kevin wrote: > > >(Yes, I know, I'm opening the anti-prog floodgates potentially > >here, but oh well. Check out my Classic Yes tribute band if anyone's > >interested: www.myspace.com/seyestribute) > > Never had a problem with Yes; no goblins, elves or hobbits in their > material that I could ever detect, just a wonderfully dense rhythmic bed > supporting a lot of intensely noble-minded, incomprehensible lyrics that > came across like transmissions from another dimension which had been > irreparably scrambled after being squeezed through some kind of wormhole. The goblininess, elvosity, and hobbitatiousness of prog is greatly exaggerated. Not that I'm an expert - I think all of that really came from Rick Wakeman's damned capes. I mean, Saruman in the LOTR movies looked basically like Frank Zappa dressed up like Rick Wakeman. There's more LOTR references in Led Zeppelin than in the biggest prog groups. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 17:58:30 -0400 From: "m swedene" Subject: Stupid NYC apartment hunting Let me tell you Fegs. Those of you out of the NYC area, be happy with the apartment market. Here in the city it sucks. The wife, myself and our 8lb dog have been having a hell of a time finding a new place. We need to be out by the 30th. Tosay we saw a basement, yes a basement, in Queens for $1300. There was one room, one itty bitty closet, the smell of mold and one window. The room we would have been allowed to use was 10' x 16' with a half of bath. aggrevating. back to craig's list i go. Mike ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 17:02:33 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Fwd: Stupid NYC apartment hunting On 9/7/07, m swedene wrote: > Let me tell you Fegs. Those of you out of the NYC area, be happy with > the apartment market. Here in the city it sucks. The wife, myself > and our 8lb dog have been having a hell of a time finding a new place. > We need to be out by the 30th. > > Tosay we saw a basement, yes a basement, in Queens for $1300. There > was one room, one itty bitty closet, the smell of mold and one window. > The room we would have been allowed to use was 10' x 16' with a half > of bath. See, I'd suggest you just buy a Hummer and live in it...but parking's probably just as expensive. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 15:03:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: Stupid NYC apartment hunting I'm sure you've already thought of this, but....New Jersey? On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, m swedene wrote: > Let me tell you Fegs. Those of you out of the NYC area, be happy with > the apartment market. Here in the city it sucks. The wife, myself > and our 8lb dog have been having a hell of a time finding a new place. > We need to be out by the 30th. > > Tosay we saw a basement, yes a basement, in Queens for $1300. There > was one room, one itty bitty closet, the smell of mold and one window. > The room we would have been allowed to use was 10' x 16' with a half > of bath. > > aggrevating. > > back to craig's list i go. > > Mike ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 01:23:36 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: "Make a claim"? - -- lep is rumored to have mumbled on 7. September 2007 14:44:34 -0400 regarding Re: "Make a claim"?: > i say: >> okay, make it stop!!!!: >> <> when your hammer is C++; then everything looks like a thumb.>> >> >> that last one will keep me amused for years. > > when i finally went to sleep, i had a dream that i was telling someone > that quote and started laughing about it again. when i woke up, and > was figuring which of the things hanging in my head were dream things > (sort of a hobby before i fully awake), i just went back to laughing > about it again. I think it's funny as hell as well, but it didn't go over very well with those of my co-workers who do all their coding in C++ ... ;-) - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 01:25:33 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: another reap - -- Christopher Gross is rumored to have mumbled on 7. September 2007 16:00:16 -0400 regarding another reap: > Writer Madeleine L'Engle, best known for her children's SF/fantasy novel > _A Wrinkle in Time_, age 88. > > > > > > (I only got around to reading _A Wrinkle in Time_ when I was about 34. > Not bad, but I think I would have appreciated it more 20 or 25 years > earlier.) I did read it as a kid - perhaps I even had it read to me initially - and I loved it! Of course that was in German. I bought it in English a few years back to refresh my childhood memories and was disappointed, as one often is, I suppose. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 01:17:50 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: jawohl, mein Herr (war: Re: von David Duchovny gebumst) - -- Michael Sweeney is rumored to have mumbled on 7. September 2007 19:36:40 +0000 regarding Re: jawohl, mein Herr (war: Re: von David Duchovny gebumst): > I was so much younger (prob. as a pre-teen National Lampoon peeker (come > for the occasional '70s nudity, stay for the subversive humor)) when I > first read the humorous anti-French couplet that starts "The French they > are a funny race..." that I misinterpreted the "fight with their feet" > part to somehow be referring to Kung Fu (hey, the show was popular then) > -- and that just did not seem to make sense... So what *does* it refer to? It's late, I'm halfway drunk and don't get it ... - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 19:54:02 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: "Make a claim"? Sebastian says: > -- lep is rumored to have mumbled on 7. September > 2007 14:44:34 -0400 regarding Re: "Make a claim"?: > > > i say: > >> okay, make it stop!!!!: > >> < >> when your hammer is C++; then everything looks like a thumb.>> > I think it's funny as hell as well, but it didn't go over very well with > those of my co-workers who do all their coding in C++ ... ;-) they're just grouchy because their thumbs hurt. as ever, lauren - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 20:01:38 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: jawohl, mein Herr (war: Re: von David Duchovny gebumst) Sebastian says: > > I was so much younger (prob. as a pre-teen National Lampoon peeker (come > > for the occasional '70s nudity, stay for the subversive humor)) when I > > first read the humorous anti-French couplet that starts "The French they > > are a funny race..." that I misinterpreted the "fight with their feet" > > part to somehow be referring to Kung Fu (hey, the show was popular then) > > -- and that just did not seem to make sense... > > So what *does* it refer to? It's late, I'm halfway drunk and don't get it i'd guess that it refers to their running away. the french surrendering is one of the two or three first stereotypes that we learn about the french in the u.s., and i guess running would kind of count as surrendering. (if i'm wrong, it's okay as i already insulted the french onlist this week - another shot can't hurt.) as ever, lauren - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 02:09:51 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: jawohl, mein Herr (war: Re: von David Duchovny gebumst) - -- lep is rumored to have mumbled on 7. September 2007 20:01:38 -0400 regarding Re: jawohl, mein Herr (war: Re: von David Duchovny gebumst): >> So what *does* it refer to? It's late, I'm halfway drunk and don't get it > > i'd guess that it refers to their running away. the french > surrendering is one of the two or three first stereotypes that we > learn about the french in the u.s., and i guess running would kind of > count as surrendering. Ah, I didn't know that. I don't think that stereotype exists over here. Many others, but not this one. Perhaps because bravery in war hasn't been very much in fashion after WWII. There's this "joke", though: Q: How can you tell that a Frenchman has been around the house? A: The garbage can is empty and the dog is pregnant. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 17:10:25 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: TV On 9/7/07, 2fs wrote: > > Don't know *why* > everyone's so thrilled to pretend everyone in the same age range is > exactly > the same... Because they hate the idea that they might be abnormal? Because the fear the "other", and think they stand a better chance against it if there's a decade's worth of "us" to huddle together? Hey, remember the '80's? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 17:05:32 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Everybody needs a little TL;DR... On 9/7/07, kevin wrote: > > Yes! Finally somebody who gets it! I still have this laying around > somewhere among the heaps of old vinyl and it does get played from time to > time, though not when other humans are around...also I believe I still have > a 7" interview disc from the far-as-I-know-one-and-only Slits US tour, of > which I only recall the brilliant exchange: > > Q: Will you be performing with mud all over your bodies? A: We don't > "perform." Next question? That is excellent. If you ever digitize that, let me know. There was actually a nominal "Slits" tour in the US this very year, featuring Ari, Tessa, and numerous children, basically. As questionable of a reunion as that is, I was pretty upset when I realized I'd missed it. You can find some mind-bending live performances on YouTube. The definitely do "perform", quite joyously in fact. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 17:13:47 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: TV On 9/7/07, Michael Sweeney wrote: > > it's just my established position > to be the list Buffy holdout (or, at least the _vocal_ one), Whoa, since when am I classified as not being "vocal"? Clearly I have more work to do. > and, therefore, > aw shucks, ma'am -- I'm jus' doin' my job... Carry on. > > ...a web comic made a reference I didn't get the other day; when I looked > it > up, it led to a "Firefly" character...[to be exclaimed a la Kirk: "Khan!"] > Wheeeeeeeeee-don!!!! Ah, that's the screwy part: I did love FIREFLY... every last scrap of it. That can't qualify me as a Whedonite, but it certainly would put the lie to any claim of virginity on my part. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 17:21:43 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: TV On 9/7/07, kevin wrote: > > > PS For some reason the above got Neil Young's line "People my age/ they > don't do the things I do" looping in my head. I always suspect that line of > being cynically designed to generate feelings of smug self-congratulation in > over-40 boho types; it certainly has that effect on me... That is a GREAT damned song, loaded with classic wide-open Neil imagery. I've heard people describe that line as smug, but I don't know... in context, Neil also seems to be confessing to being a fairly screwed-up individual. And there are bits in there that suggest that he's also saying he shouldn't be doing what he does, that times have changed too much for him, and he's an anachronism... but me, I'm not even convinced that it's meant to be autobiographical as opposed to a character piece (as with "Hey Hey, My My", to name one other example of a song almost universally thought to be autobiographical by most, but which surely isn't). And if you don't trust me, my bassist thinks the same thing. Just don't get us started on "A Man Needs a Maid" (or the drummer will kill all of us). - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 17:25:02 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: lyric question On 9/7/07, craigie* wrote: > > My last TV crush was Kellie Martin (Lucy Green in ER)... > > mweowrrrrr.... > There have been some attractive women on that show, from the beginning until I left off (when they had just added that superhawt Indian actress... damn...)... - -Rex, overellipsisizing notwithstanding ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 17:29:34 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: lyric question On 9/7/07, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > > -- Tom Clark is rumored to have mumbled on 7. September > 2007 08:20:52 -0700 regarding Re: lyric question: > > > On Sep 7, 2007, at 7:12 AM, Rex wrote: > > > >> My last enormous TV crush was Maura Tierney... kept me watching ER for > >> waaaayyy too long. > > > > Loves me some Maura Tierney. > > Who doesn't? I'm honestly surprised to get so many amens on that one. The only other person I've actually known to dig her is the same guy who agrees with me about all the Neil Young lyrics, so who knows. News Radio, though... some of my friends used to tell me that I reminded them of Dave Foley, so I could even vaguely fantasize about having a chance, by proxy. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 19:36:05 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: lyric question Cheating, I know, but - And she dresses down well - - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 17:36:47 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: jawohl, mein Herr (war: Re: von David Duchovny gebumst) On 9/7/07, kevin wrote: > > >(Yes, I know, I'm opening the anti-prog floodgates potentially > >here, but oh well. Check out my Classic Yes tribute band if anyone's > >interested: www.myspace.com/seyestribute) > > Never had a problem with Yes; no goblins, elves or hobbits in their > material that I could ever detect, Dude, they're there, and seriously-- there's nothing worse than a Crypto-Goblin, unless it's a Hobbit with a cloaking device. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 17:42:50 -0700 From: Rex Subject: tg;if ----> tl;dr Green on Red, "Gravity Talks". Yet another flavor of garage-rock from these guys, guitars back in folk mode, organs and suchlike doing the Nuggets thing. I've really liked everything I've heard by this band. They definitely have a little more willful primitivism than any of the other Paisley bands, and it evokes maybe a slightly rootsier Violent Femmes or Troggs. It's not necessarily transcendant, but it's kind of like having a smarter version of The Seeds to enjoy whenever you want, and that's a good thing. Sometimes the lyrics hit a pretty creepy hoodoo spark, while at other times they're genuinely, slyly funny; it's a delicate balance that never seems to upset, and that's not an easy trick to pull off. It sounds natural here, never moreso than on the one great verse about a dead dog, which sits comfortably between Nick Cave and Mojo Nixon's respective territories. I also like the fact that the records all have slightly different identities, but I couldn't sequence them blindly. They must've been cranked out pretty quickly, like rock albums probably should be. The Sound, "Jeopardy". This is an early one, I think austere postpunk, early enough to still bear some traces of the punk bit. But you can hear those droney chorused guitars, driving bass, and icy drums starting to coalesce here. It's amazing how quickly that sound developed all over the place in a pre-intarwebs world people must have really spent a lot of time in record stores, bands must have toured constantly, and people must've given enough of a shit to show up. Sounds nice. This is comparable in some places to The Teardrop Explodes, soundwise (the synths hadn't gotten to slick yet). The lyrics are a bit overserious ("Missiles" is a real dud) but certainly no worse than those of the bands recreating this sound these days, and Adrian Borland did end up committing suicide, so there's that. If I recall my quick tour through this band's discography last year, the next two records are a lot more fully-realized, but I also seem to recall a nameless compilation (with the same cover as this album) being the real jewel. Giant Sand, "Center of the Universe". Hey, why did I think it was spelled "Centre"? Weird. It also starts out rocking pretty hard, so maybe this is more like Howe's missing "Zuma" than I'd remembered. Forgot about the Vickie Peterson/Susie Cowsill harmonies, too, but there's your Paisley connectionwait, Chris Cacavas on organ, too. One forgets just how much experimental-sounding noise everyone felt obliged to add to their records during the '90's probably a good deal of it was stuff that the artists found genuinely interesting, and some of it was a bid for grunge credibility, but most of it is pretty boring in retrospect. (It's not a big deterrent here, I'm just saying, the '90's, man.) More damaged character studies (Howe's even got Steve Wynn's empty gun in one tune, and he uses "accident waiting to happen" at almost exactly the same time as both Billy Bragg and Bono did), but some good ones "Loretta & the Insect World" is pretty cool, "Milkshake Girl" almost sounds Buffalo Springfield-esque in places in fact the whole latter half of the album (which is, also per '90's convention, too long) is great. Even so, "Thing Like This" is the standout by a wide margin, as I had remembered so at least I remembered something correctly. That song is a classic. The Dream Syndicate, "Ghost Stories". DID YOU KNOW? Since I have this one as "physical" media, I can tell you that in 1988 the appropriately-named Enigma Records was the home to the Dead Milkmen, Close Lobsters, Dream Syndicate, Game Theory, Mojo Nixon, Pere Ubu, Poison, The Smithereens, Stryper, and Wire, at least one of whom loves Jesus? Anyway, this Dream Syndicate seems a lot more comfortable than the DS Mark II what put out "Medicine Show". Wynn seems to have gotten his songwriting identity all sorted out, and we're back to a two-guitar lineup, so that while the fuzzy psyche of the early days is never to return, the songs are a lot less generic than the ones on MS, "Black" even sounding all ringing and overtoney, like a "Days" outtake. A dose of spiritual imagery goes a long way towards breathing some life into the pulp fiction drifter characters, the cover of "See That My Grave is Kept Clean" adds some heft, and "Weathered and Torn" kicks a special kind of ass. I'd call this a pretty good record all around, really. I just have to pretend that the over-chorused guitar on "I Have Faith" is the 12-string it was clearly supposed to be and I'm fine. Glossary, "For What I Don't Become". So this was from last year, even made my Top 10, but I still feel like I didn't listen to it enough, stuck in iPod shuffle mode as I was. Again, the comfort of a couple of guitars, a bass, drums and good songs is always a safe haven, and besides, these guys are melodic and rootsy (in that order) and while they're from Tennessee instead of California, they would've sounded great co-billed with Green on Red. This one's not much different from their previous record, but that one didn't need much improvement anyway. Repeated themes can be a good thing, and a couple of familiar melodies aren't much to complain about when the songs are this good and delivered this soulfully. The Band of Blacky Ranchette, "Still Lookin' Good to Me". This is Howe Gelb again, with a little bit of Neko Case and some of her pals thrown, including some Sadies and Calexico, who of course spun off of Giant Sand to begin with. Apparently this is the 4th BoBR release over a 20-year period who knew? This is also the second record I've listened to in as many weeks that features a song containing the words "trout", "mask", and "replica", not necessarily in that order (the other one being The Fall, "Reformation Post-TLC"), which is sort of interesting. Anyhow, this is a casual, low key country thing, although all the songs are Howe originals except for "I've Been Working on the Railroad" (which you wouldn't recognize if not for the words). Fun and worth it for the Neko tracks alone (and Cat Power doesn't seem to mess anything up in such a small dose). Just how Howe decides what's Howe, what's GS, and what's Blacky is not terribly clear to me, but I tend to have fewer expectations, and fewer letdowns, when it's labeled as anything other than Giant Sand, which is really my problem, not Howe's. After that I put on the Panda Bear record again, and generally liked it while still finding it a bit bewildering, so I guess I'll actually have to get some background information. Then Caribou again, making for a few hours of very breathy vocalizing, but the Caribou thing is rapidly growing on me. It kinda makes me want to shake my ass (but don't worry, I won't), and features some of the most consistently high-pitched bass playing I've heard since the heyday of Galaxie 500. "Desiree" is a bit much for me, and I could do without the instrumental and the epic-but-ambient closer. Still, I'm quite pleased with the recommendations of these seemingly (home?) studio-based creations I've been so wrapped up in playing live music for the last couple of years that I've apparently started tilting heavily towards "band-in-a-room-sounding music", both in terms of the new stuff I listen to and the older music I revisit. That said, I find that I'm quite happy that a new Underworld album is on the way. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 01:02:40 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: TV Rex wrote: >On 9/7/07, Michael Sweeney wrote: > > > > it's just my established position > > to be the list Buffy holdout (or, at least the _vocal_ one), >> >Whoa, since when am I classified as not being "vocal"? Clearly I have more >work to do. Sorry, Rex -- didn't mean to step on your also-haven't-seen-Buffy toes -- apparently, I expect others to maintain waaaaaaay more knowledge of _my_ minutiae then I pay attention to in others... > > ...a web comic made a reference I didn't get the other day; when I >looked > > it up, it led to a "Firefly" character...[to be exclaimed a la Kirk: >"Khan!"] > > Wheeeeeeeeee-don!!!! > >Ah, that's the screwy part: I did love FIREFLY... every last scrap of it. >That can't qualify me as a Whedonite, but it certainly would put the lie to >any claim of virginity on my part. Well, there's the diff, then: I haven't seen any "Buffy," "Angel," OR "Firefly" (and don't any of you dare break out the "I envy you the voyage of first-time discovery" sort of quote). However, as I've mentioned, I wouldn't mind doing the "Firefly" / "Serenity" thing...but I've still got all the past seasons of "The Wire" collected up and not yet seen. (Uh...we know what we want to watch -- eventually -- but I tend to have to be in a certain mood to do so (in other words, Lauren sent me the DVD rip of the Robyn Sundance show ages ago...and I'm very glad to have it...but have yet to watch it) (don't even ask about the "Lightbulb Head" ("Eyes"?) video collection tucked away somewhere...or the vid of "Gotta Let this Hen Out") (at this point, I'd have to physically search out a VCR and hook it up to even watch those) (sometimes I am an idiot...and my GF absolutely agrees)...) ...In (semi-) defense: Well, it _is_ baseball season, my baseball team _is_ in first (at least for another day), and there _are_ 162 games in a season (plus: here comes football...and my team _did_ go to the Superb Owl last year...) Michael "...and yet -- to call me overly 'busy' would be a lie..so, go figure" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ A place for moms to take a break! http://www.reallivemoms.com?ocid=TXT_TAGHM&loc=us ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #324 ********************************