From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #342 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, September 18 2007 Volume 16 : Number 342 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Christopher Gross - please explain! [2fs ] My name is "God", and I'm a salty little pisser with Eb's cock in my kisser ["Stacked Crooked" ] Re: Christopher Gross - please explain! [Tom Clark ] Re: tl;dr episode iv: fat bob strikes back [lep ] Re: tl;dr episode iv: fat bob strikes back [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Dog-gone Punishment! [blatzman@aol.com] Re: tl;dr episode iv: fat bob strikes back [2fs ] Re: Dog-gone Punishment! [2fs ] Re: My name is "God", and I'm a salty little pisser with Eb's cock in my kisser ["vivien lyon" ] robyn tour dates [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: My name is "God", and I'm a salty little pisser with Eb's cock in my kisser [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Christopher Gross - please explain! [kevin ] A&M rights? [JBJ ] Re: Dog-gone Punishment! [kevin ] RE: A&M rights? ["Bachman, Michael" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:21:11 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Christopher Gross - please explain! On 9/17/07, 2fs wrote: > > Actually, on thinking further about this, I'm recanting most of my > previous post. Oh never mind. Why am I bothering, when we should all just ask: "Christopher Gross - please explain!" This fall, on FOX. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:32:33 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: My name is "God", and I'm a salty little pisser with Eb's cock in my kisser maybe the artists were picked at random? she should maybe wait 'til after the project is finished before screening it, but the video for "The Tain" is just about the most bad-assedest thing i've ever seen (though i could do without the intertitles, to be honest). first of all, i'm uneasy with the terms "good" and "evil" -- as opposed to "just" and "unjust" -- inasmuch as they imply an absence of free-will (i.e., divine or demonic influence over human affairs). beyond that, it seems that most anything can be *interpreted*, by somebody, as an act of creation or preservation -- and thus not universally recognised as one or the other. perhaps that's not the word you're intending; or perhaps i'm not really comprehending what you're intending by using it. fascinating recent piece at , in which the author asks how, given that they can only survive by killing other people (namely plants), animals can justify their existence. i wasn't satisfied with his answer, but the question seemed to me fairly profound. by the way, the plus-neko-and-dan touring new pornographers lineup (eight, count 'em, members -- though dan doesn't play on all songs) is gonna blow your gourds. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:35:23 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: tl;dr episode iv: fat bob strikes back On 9/17/07, Rex wrote: > > T > > The Cure, "Phonography". Actually, the album title is "The Cool Guysography." > like Hersh, seems to be, yes, depressed to the verge of madness, but the > wailing that results isn't a whine or a rallying cry; it's more like an > attempt to find a language to describe what's happening to him, and the > hope > that having found the words and sounds to express it, become, at least in > some way, free from it. There's a beauty in that you know, a terrifying > kind of beauty, of course, but something far more real and recognizable to > me than a Nine Inch Nails- (or presumably, My Chemical Romance)-style pain > cartoon. I really like that description, Rex. It does strike me that almost any record of this type released > today would almost inevitably contain a lot more well pornography, which > is to say explicit language no, that's not right, this language is plenty > explicit, so let's just say cuss words, without being especially more > scary > or dangerous-sounding for it. The examples are legion, but for some > reason > Arab Strap is the first name to leap to mind. Basically, I wonder why, > acknowledging that there's been a fair amount of cursing is rock music > from > early on, it seems so much more prevalent now than even 20 years ago. That's irritating to me too. One short answer is, because they can (i.e., no record company seems to have any interest at all in censoring records - good thing that). I think it's this weird sort of tic - keepin' it real, man, cuz you know that song's not getting on the radio, and if does, they'll be a stupid bleep there (which, of course, serves only to call attention to the band's ineffable f-able real-keeping). And I think it's lazy speaking. I think I've alluded before to last year's "Random Rules" bit in the Onion AV Club, wherein Isaac Brock from Modest Mouse uses "fuck" or "shit" about 23 times in 18 paragraphs. Those numbers aren't exact - but they're also not an exaggeration. I think it's lazy. It also degrades the effectiveness of real curses. I mean, when Bob Dylan spat out the non-airplayable words in "Hurricane" thirty years ago, it was revelatory, it was a sign of his anger and frustration - because he just didn't usually use those words. Is there any impact at all when your average rapper uses them? Or, you know, Isaac Brock or Liz Phair? I think often the presence of random "fucking" to connote indie-rock cooldude-or-galness robs them of expression twice: the first time by not finding the right word, the second time by preventing the effect when "fuck" *is* the right word. > > pop singles), and the stunning guitar break and playout on "A Strange Day" > contain every last element of every Interpol song in a more precise way > than > anything else I've ever thought that of I know exactly the break you mean: definitely. Somehow I hadn't made that connection before. This album may be the most > fully-realized and articulated expression of the early, terrifying Cure > ethic, which makes it pretty damned brilliant, and it seems like the > actual > sound of the band from here on out comes into being halfway through. One thing I really like about "One Hundred Years" is the way it goes on for like three minutes on basically two chords (there's actually a third one they use once or twice), until they finally move to a radically different chord on the titular phrase, and it's incredibly effective: it's a new world. And when they then go back to those same two chords, it's like a prison door having slammed closed. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:14:37 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Christopher Gross - please explain! On Sep 17, 2007, at 8:21 PM, 2fs wrote: > > Oh never mind. Why am I bothering, when we should all just ask: > > "Christopher Gross - please explain!" > > This fall, on FOX. Reminds me of coworker Keith Stattenfield's public access cable show "Keith Explains" Check it out, won't you?: http://keithexplains.com/blog/ - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:21:35 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: tl;dr episode iv: fat bob strikes back Rex says: > Meanwhile, back on this album, "Siamese Twins" > unfolds as a brilliant lyric than can be viewed from, or as, a number of > different angles and hold together no matter what; it threatens to become my > favorite Cure song this song was brought up last week and i meant to post this. i made very few mixed tapes but this was side b of one of them: side b: private hell - - four walls (by iggy pop) - - banging the door (by PiL) - - siamese twins (by the cure) - - jack on fire (by the gun club) - - merrittville (by the dream syndicate) - - couldn't forget 'bout that (one item) (by death of samantha) the weird thing was i even listened to it. actually, i find all the songs very funny in their way. but now that i'm looking at the list, it seems that parade (by magazine) probably had the last word on all that. and without even being on the tape. here's side a; it was about fucking up: side a: get it wrong - - get it wrong (by the jazz butcher) - - all we ever wanted was everything (by bauhaus) - - still in the kitchen (by the jazz butcher) - - bring on the dancing horses (by echo and the bunnymen) - - hope (by bauhaus) - - drink (by the jazz butcher) - - heaven (by talking heads) - - forever (by the jazz butcher) xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:24:58 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: tl;dr episode iv: fat bob strikes back >The Rain Parade, "Beyond the Sunset: Live in Tokyo". Nice. Very >well-recorded, if short, high-energy live album from I can't tell what year, >but it's pretty damned timeless, which is a fair summary of this band's body >of work. Plenty of signposts point to the garage-psyche and pop past, and >occasionally even earlier in the spooky slide work, but there's also a big >arrow indicating the future, and one assumes Kevin Shields was paying >attention. The amazingly faithful cover of Television's "Ain't That >Nothing" does not fail to endear the set to me. I just wish the full >concert were here it's only 9 songs deep. As an aside to anyone who's >still paying attention to my developing infatuation with this band, I still >haven't been able to scare up a copy of that "Explosions in the Glass Hotel >(erm, Palace)" EP, so if anyone can point me in the right direction for that >one, you know where to find me. ISTR it was released as bonus tracks on the "Emergency Third Rail Power Trip" CD. 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, 18 Sep 2007 00:38:56 -0400 From: blatzman@aol.com Subject: Dog-gone Punishment! In reference to Capuccino's final, profound thought of "While forgiving someone does leave the possibility that another act of violence will be committed, punishment assures it." So if I totally disagree, does that mean this no longer has the air of factuality that you'd like it to have? Speaking of punishment, I heard about a judge today who *PUNISHED* a group of rowdy teenagers by making them listen to Barry Manilow for an hour. Now... some of you out there might find this punishment to be the ultimate act of evil, but I have absolutely no problem with "involuntary rehabilitation" if that's what you want to call it. Hell, I had to rehabilitate my dog, and he was very upset by the whole thing... You see, there was a time when my dog Buster used to delight in a lunch of his own shit. I found it disgusting and "trained" him out of eating his own shit by using various forms of punishment. Yes, I knew it was torture on the poor thing... During his rehabilitation, there were times he'd think I wasn't watching him and he'd sort of stroll into the backyard and wander around, hoping he wasn't being watched, but I'd always catch him in the act. He was a fudge-fiend. It was like an addiction. He was becoming anti-social in his attempts to get a hold of some fudge... Some of you are not going to believe this but I swear to you, he used to eat the shit right out of my other dogs ass BEFORE IT HIT THE GROUND. Actually, if it hit the ground it was sort of tainted. Well, you can imagine how disgusting this was... And worst of all was when he'd give you one of those stomach-turning "Hershey's Kisses"... when he licked you and you could tell he'd been dining in the backyard again... Well, when the kids came along, we knew we had to break him of his fudge habit, so out came the punishments on poor Buster... And yes, it was all for the greater good... You see, Buster was desperately attached to Alley McBeagle, the one with the Golden Anus as we used to put it... So what would be harder on the poor dog? Breaking the chocoholic of this additciotn, or getting rid of him and separating him from his true love? You see, with children in the house, I wasn't about to let Buster "dine out" and then lick the kids in the face with his stink breath... It had to be done. It was for the greater good I say! Today, Buster is fudge-free. Now I don't mind it so much when he licks my children. After all, his eating his own shit could have spread something undesireable to my kids, so punishing the behavior out of him protected my family. And dare I say, he's quite happy and seems to hold no grudge against me. His care-free days of eating straight out of the tap are nothing more than a bad memory. Life is good. Blatzy ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:26:07 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: tl;dr episode iv: fat bob strikes back On 9/17/07, lep wrote: > > > this song was brought up last week and i meant to post this. i made > very few mixed tapes but this was side b of one of them: WARNING: terminological dispute To me, "mixed tape" (or CD, whatever) would seem like the wrong name, for several reasons. One, "mixed" implies a variety, yes, but not any particular order (see: mixed nuts). The "mix" here is referring to the noun, mix, describing a set of songs chosen for their coherence in order. Also, "mixed" has another musical meaning - balancing the various musical elements. So it's ambiguous in a sense: the "mixed tape" is the version where the instruments are aligned and leveled appropriately, vs. the "unmixed tape" which might have just the raw recordings on them. For all those reasons, I prefer "mix tape" (or CD, whatever). Kenny G. must die. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:28:17 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Dog-gone Punishment! On 9/17/07, blatzman@aol.com wrote: A long narrative explaining why we have cats at our house and not dogs. (Of course, cats have their own disgusting behaviors...but, you know, nothing that causes even Dan Savage to recoil in distaste.) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:09:56 -0700 From: "vivien lyon" Subject: Re: My name is "God", and I'm a salty little pisser with Eb's cock in my kisser On 9/17/07, Stacked Crooked wrote: > > > are only justified when they can be interpreted as acts of creation or > preservation. In other words, creation and preservation are universal > values and destruction is, in general, to be avoided. Hence any policy or > action that optimizes creation and preservation while avoiding destruction > is good and any policy or action that is destructive has aspects of evil.> > > first of all, i'm uneasy with the terms "good" and "evil" -- as opposed to > "just" and "unjust" -- inasmuch as they imply an absence of free-will > (i.e., divine or demonic influence over human affairs). > > beyond that, it seems that most anything can be *interpreted*, by > somebody, > as an act of creation or preservation -- and thus not universally > recognised as one or the other. perhaps that's not the word you're > intending; or perhaps i'm not really comprehending what you're intending > by > using it. Nothing is good or evil, just or unjust, creative or destructive in and of itself. The context and intent determine the nature of acts. Furthermore, most truly creative acts are also destructive... To create a new way of seeing is to destroy the old way. To conceive and disseminate a view of the earth as round is to destroy the certainty that the earth is flat. And what is evil in one situation is good in another. The guiding principle should be love. Now, that of course begs the question... what is love? V. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:16:50 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Moral: It's all in our genes I'm not getting into the argument, but I found this today and thought it was salient: ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:29:27 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Something for Jill - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Dwarf Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 5:58 PM To: You F*ckers Subject: Re: Something for Jill 2fs wrote: > On 9/17/07, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > >Tom Clark wrote: > > >> Ya gotta love the Yankees! > > >> > >> >> http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view.bg?articleid=1031894 > > > > >I can't believe I'm almost defending a Yankee, but given the rivalry > > >between Yanks and Sawx, Duncan could have just assumed that the kid > > >would prefer an autograph that reflected the rivalry. It's hard to > > >tell without seeing how the kid and Duncan interacted, but it could > > >easily have been a playfully inteded "Red Sox Suck" instead of > > >nastily intended and that the kid was only upset after him mother > > >informed him he was upset and offended. > >> It's possible...but for an adult male to make such assumptions >> regarding tone, and even that the kid's parents wouldn't have a >> problem with "Red Sox Suck," displays rather poor judgment. IT would >> have been one thing for Duncan to jokingly *say* to the kid, hey you >> know the Red Sox suck - another to put it in writing, as he did. Jeff wrote: >Absolutely, even for a someone in a profession of arrested development. Of course, the kid was at a game >where 30K+ were all chanting "Yankees Suck" so it's not like the kid wasn't familiar with the language. I> also wonder if it had been a Devil Ray instead of a Yankee who wrote if the Boston Herald would have given a crap. I think the most hatred I've ever seen between two teams had to be the Boston Celtics and the Detroit Pistons circa 1985-1991. It was really intense though during the 1987, 1888 and 1989 seasons. I went to over a dozen of the games at the Joe Louis Arena, The Pontiac Silverdome and the Palace of Auburn Hills, not to mention watching the games from Boston and the tube, and I've never seen anything like it. Fistfights and cheap shots between the players on the court as well as nasty incidents in the stands. A whiskey bottle was even thrown from the Boston Gardens stands that landed on the Pistons bench. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:17:13 +0100 From: craigie* Subject: Re: My name is "God", and I'm a salty little pisser with Eb's cock in my kisser On 18/09/2007, vivien lyon wrote: > > > Now, that of course begs the question... what is love? Love, of course, is a fellow feeling. Jealousy is another fellow feeling. ;-) c* - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:16:10 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: tl;dr episode iv: fat bob strikes back On 9/17/07, 2fs wrote: > Kenny G. must die. Don't let him get back together with Glen Frey! - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:17:30 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: My name is "God", and I'm a salty little pisser with Eb's cock in my kisser On 9/18/07, vivien lyon wrote: > > > > > Nothing is good or evil, just or unjust, creative or destructive in and of > itself. How complex a something can a thing be to still qualify as one thing? Unless your answer is "pretty complex," I'm going to disagree. I can't come up with a situation, intentions and context notwithstanding, in which tying up a mother and father and slowly mutilating and eating their child in front of them would be not evil, unjust, and destructive. Except if that child were Kenny G. > > Now, that of course begs the question... what is love? A score of zero in tennis, of course. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:23:47 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Moral: It's all in our genes - --On 18. September 2007 10:14:19 -0500 2fs wrote: > But I have to say I think your subject line is distorting the point I was fully aware of that ;-) > the > article suggests there are essentially two moral systems, one older (and > which may well be "in our genes"), the other more recent, post-literate, > which is based more on reasoning. But that doesn't make as good a subject line, now does it? - -- b. Sebastian Hagedorn b Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de b' http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:14:19 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Moral: It's all in our genes On 9/18/07, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > > I'm not getting into the argument, but I found this today and thought it > was salient: > > < > http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/science/18mora.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=all > > > Interesting article. But I have to say I think your subject line is distorting the point: the article suggests there are essentially two moral systems, one older (and which may well be "in our genes"), the other more recent, post-literate, which is based more on reasoning. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:54:03 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: robyn tour dates On Tour _http://www.robynhitchcock.com/auditori.htm_ (http://www.robynhitchcock.com/auditori.htm) November Robyn solo with harmonies from Sean Nelson (who opens the show) Sean was the frontman of Harvey Danger, has performed his own "Nelson sings Nillson" show, and is very tall. 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They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't let your dream ride pass you by. Make it a reality with Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:15:04 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Dog-gone Punishment! On 9/17/07, 2fs wrote: > On 9/17/07, blatzman@aol.com wrote: A long narrative > explaining why we have cats at our house and not dogs. > > (Of course, cats have their own disgusting behaviors...but, you know, > nothing that causes even Dan Savage to recoil in distaste.) Verily, word. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:18:42 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Christopher Gross - please explain! >All of this cultural relativism is going to get you nowhere fast. You're >falling into the great Liberal Fallacy that all points of view are valid >and equal. Nope, just suggesting it's important to remember that they exist. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:44:30 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: tl;dr episode iv: fat bob strikes back >> Kenny G. must die. > >Don't let him get back together with Glen Frey! You just caused me to spray soy latte all over my desk. I hope you're happy. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:07:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: My name is "God", and I'm a salty little pisser with Eb's cock in my kisser On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, craigie* wrote: > On 18/09/2007, vivien lyon wrote: > > > > > > Now, that of course begs the question... what is love? > > > Love, of course, is a fellow feeling. > Jealousy is another fellow feeling. "Love is the meaning of life; life is the meaning of love" --the Rutles ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:13:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Dog-gone Punishment! On 9/17/07, 2fs wrote: > On 9/17/07, blatzman@aol.com wrote: A long > narrative explaining why we have cats at our house and not dogs. > (Of course, cats have their own disgusting behaviors...but, you > know, nothing that causes even Dan Savage to recoil in distaste.) Spoken like a man who hasn't paid that much attention to his own cat(s).... "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more. http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:36:12 -0700 (PDT) From: JBJ Subject: A&M rights? Hi Fegs - No reissue campaign would be complete without "Globe Of Frogs" & "Queen Elvis" (Okay, the other 2 A&M albums are pretty good too). I'm guessing the reason we've never seen these albums back in print is because A&M still own the rights to them. Can't YepRoc buy the rights to release these from A&M?? I'm guessing that they can, or else we probably wouldn't be seeing Billy Bragg reissues from that same time frame (originally on Elektra here in the States). Not only are these albums great, the b-sides are equally as good. I'm guessing there's enough stuff to fill those discs to the 80 minute mark. I know from reading interviews that Robyn is not very happy with "Respect", but I'm guessing the demos or sessions from that album are more in line with the planned aesthetic of the album (Morris Andy and Robyn seated round a kitchen table at Robyn's house). I'm getting tired of buying reissues of reissues, but I'd gladly fork out wads of cash for the A&M stuff with all b-sides included. JBJ "And is evil just something you are / Or something you do?" - Morrissey ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:40:23 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Dog-gone Punishment! >Spoken like a man who hasn't paid that much attention to his own cat(s).... > One of my favorite cat stories: Walking into the kitchen, which had an open door to allow the little brutes free passage, I heard an odd sort of crunching noise. Looked around for a minute and spotted one of our three under the eating a large butterfly whose beautiful yellow wings were evidently affording him the same kind of gratification I'd have got from a heap of BBQ potato chips. np Praxis: Tennessee 2004 - yum! PS: Is the cat's behavior good or evil? Discuss. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:04:50 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: A&M rights? - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of JBJ Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 2:36 PM To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: A&M rights? JBJ Wrote: >Hi Fegs - >No reissue campaign would be complete without "Globe Of Frogs" & "Queen Elvis" (Okay, the other 2 A&M albums are pretty good too). >I'm guessing the reason we've never seen these albums back in print is because A&M still own the rights to them. >Can't YepRoc buy the rights to release these from A&M?? I'm guessing that they can, or else we probably wouldn't be seeing Billy Bragg reissues from that same time frame (originally on Elektra here in the States). >Not only are these albums great, the b-sides are equally as good. I'm guessing there's enough stuff to fill those discs to the 80 minute mark. >I know from reading interviews that Robyn is not very happy with "Respect", but I'm guessing the demos or sessions from that album are more in line with the planned aesthetic of the album (Morris Andy and Robyn seated round a kitchen table at Robyn's house). >I'm getting tired of buying reissues of reissues, but I'd gladly fork out wads of cash for the A&M stuff with all b-sides included. Robyn Hitchcock - Greatest Hits, A&M release from 1996 is also out of print, so that makes it 5 for 5. A&M can't be interested in Robyn anymore if they are all out of print, and they probably have no interest in deluxe reissues. They sure dropped Robyn rather quickly after Respect, and the previous three did very well for them and Robyn from all the sales data that we've talked about over the years. I take it there was no interest from A&M in a Egyptianless Robyn Hitchcock? Michael B. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #342 ********************************