From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #360 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, October 5 2007 Volume 16 : Number 360 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Songs about squids and fish [hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] Re: [craigie* ] Re: New Radiohead album - pay what you think it's worth [kevin ] Re: [kevin ] Re: various ["David Stovall" ] Re: Box Sets [kevin ] Re: Re: (Business Edition) [kevin ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #358 [kevin ] RE: "And stay out of the Woolsworth!" ["Bachman, Michael" ] RE: [kevin ] RE: ["Bachman, Michael" ] RE: [Capuchin ] Re: Most fegly story of the year (non-crustacean division) [Capuchin ] RE: [Christopher Gross ] RE: [Benjamin Lukoff ] Robyn in session on BBC Radio 6 [Rob ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #358 [Michael Sweeney ] Re: Re: [Michael Sweeney ] Re: RE: [Steve Schiavo ] Re: various [Rex ] Re: Box Sets [Rex ] Re: [Michael Sweeney ] Re: (Business Edition) [Michael Sweeney ] Re: A Haiku for Eb [Rex ] Re: Songs about squids and fish [Rex ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #359 ["Bri N" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #358 [Michael Sweeney ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 11:14:29 +0100 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Songs about squids and fish Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 08:44:51 +0100 From: craigie* Subject: Re: billboard article: Hitchcock Clears Archives, Preps New Album On 03/10/2007, kevin wrote: > I recollect an interview in which RH described a meeting with the honchos > of A&M's UK division which was not friendly (they seemed to think there were > too many songs about fish) I wonder where they got *that* idea, eh ? ;-) c* * They were _floundering_ around trying to find an excuse for throwing him back in the pond. - - MRG, skating over the real issues... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 10:00:33 +0100 From: craigie* Subject: Re: On 05/10/2007, lep wrote: > > i can only hope my > uptight nature, my love of howard devoto, and my "fuck free love" > attitude helped rid any hippie connotations that one might had about > me because of the patchouli. Yep, Howie will do *that* every time... c* - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 10:45:38 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: New Radiohead album - pay what you think it's worth >Cool. I unwittingly celebrated by listening to an album with some >Lindsey on it... Warren Zevon's "The Envoy", which I'd never heard >before, and, as has been noted by others here, is damned good. > >-Rex Just coming up in the rotation: "Charlie's Medicine." Love that man. I saw him exactly once, when he opened for X around the release of See How We Are. He rocked the place. Having Little Feat's rhythm section behind him wasn't a drawback. X was pretty kool too, although Exene appeared to be in roughly the fifth trimester of pregnancy and gave the impression that she'd rather have been somewhere else. They all looked pretty haggard (not as much as Merle) but they were great. The wife was with me and got way indignant about Exene's poor judgment in going on the road in her extremely pregnant condition. I suggested there might be contractual obligations involved, or maybe it was just her trailer-trash roots showing, but she wasn't having any of it. She takes this motherhood stuff very, very seriously. To this day the mention of that concert will set her off. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 10:51:49 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: A Haiku for Eb >a while back i'd said that i could make the argument that smog's "Hit The >Ground Running" is the most exciting seven minutes in rock. i never >actually made the argument, but if i were to, it would go something like >this: > >>> schoolchildren's choir, motherfuckers! it features a motherfucking >schoolchildren's choir! << Yeah well, Neil Young's Landing On Water has one on a couple of tunes and that didn't exactly set the charts on fire. (I always liked it though. That was the last "experimental" set we've seen from him, so far, and I wouldn't mind hearing more in that vein. Kicks the ass of snoozers like Silver & Gold, anyway.) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 10:24:30 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: >Rex says: >> > There's that damned "patchouli" again - the universal hippie signifier. I >> > wasn't entirely aware of what it was - a friend told me that Patton Oswalt >> > described its odor as "dirt fucked by a hippie." Brilliant. I'm now putting Universal Hippie Signifier on the list of potential great band names. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 09:50:37 -0400 From: "David Stovall" Subject: Re: various > From: 2fs > Well, there's people around here who call the restaurant chain > "Panera's"...as if it's a name. I've always taken that quirk to be another redneck thing, or maybe a decades-old time-period specific redneck thing. I work at Eli Lilly & Co., and during my first few years at their Clinton, IN, plant-site (we're talking *deep* redneck territory here), the old-timers referred to it as "Lilly's" while the younger or more recent arrivals (which group was also skewed towards more college-educated) uniformly said "Lilly." Really, I can see that "Lilly's" is reasonably,.... reasonable, since it was named after the founder and was essentially a family business, but it always seemed kinda funny to refer to such a behemoth in such a personal voice. > From: 2fs > There's that damned "patchouli" again - the universal hippie signifier. I > wasn't entirely aware of what it was - a friend told me that Patton Oswalt > described its odor as "dirt fucked by a hippie." Brilliant. I can't hear that word without remembering the conversation a couple friends and I had with Bob Mould after his Earth Day (2000? 2001?) show in Cincinnati,... He commented that (comedienne) Sandra Bernhard (sp?) worked out in the same gym as he did, and that she always smelled of patchouli. > From: Tom Clark > And what is the deal with "Ruth's Chris Steak House"? That always bugged me, too. I'd somehow come by the impression that a "Chris Steak" was a particular kind of steak, something about it being aged and/or marinaded and/or cooked in a certain way, but Wikipedia isn't really clear on this. They do detail a specific cooking and serving temperature, but don't comment on whether that's tied to "Chris Steak" nomenclature: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth%27s_Chris_Steak_House I'm sure somebody else will find that and beat me to the post,.... in fact (scrolling down), fuggit, somebody already has. > - -t "Carl's Junior: Fuck You, I'm Eating" c Fifth Third Bank. When 1.00 bank just ain't enough. > Cool. I unwittingly celebrated by listening to an album with some > Lindsey on it... Warren Zevon's "The Envoy", which I'd never heard > before, and, as has been noted by others here, is damned good. > > - -Rex I've been on a Zevon kick lately (buying and listening) since a friend of mine enlisted my help (incl. drum set, basement, computer for recording, + v. rusty playing skillz) to record his own little Warren Zevon tribute set. I've arrived at the conclusion that "Life'll Kill Ya" is my favorite of his albums. There's not really a klunker on it. Our first two recording-attempts are/will be "Porcelain Monkey" (his pick) and "I Was in the House When the House Burned Down" (mine). da9ve ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 11:00:01 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Box Sets >Subject: Box Sets > >Speaking of box sets, I recently got the "Love is the Song We Sing" >box from Rhino, which chronicles the rise of the San Francisco sound >from 1965 to 1970. Not only are the CDs full of classics, but the >book alone is worth the money. I can't recommend this enough. That does look like fun! Anything with "Murder In My Heart For the Judge" is OK in my book... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 10:47:38 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Re: (Business Edition) >> > Anyone ever been to Specialty's? I don't know if it's a Seattle- >> > only chain >> > or not. Yes, their official name is Specialty's. Yah, they're here in our building and I've amused a few people because I won't go in the place because I'm offended by their illiterate-ass name. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 10:32:33 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #358 >Yep, 'tisn't. Too bad, really--I was introduced to Neil Young in 8th grade >by my sister, who bought me "Decade," so I've always felt I had a good >handle on his career up till 1976, but after then..... is there any >compilation other than the recent GH? There's Lucky Thirteen, which is a comp drawn from his years with Geffen. It's mostly alternate versions and outtakes, and a couple of smokin' live tracks by the Shocking Pinks. It doesn't include any non-Geffen material though. He must have owed them another album, or something... >Yep...great notes. "Stills and I poured our hearts into this one" ("Down >to the Wire," I think), and a bit about Crosby crying after the released >take of "Ohio"....and "Heart of Gold" putting him in the middle of the >road and making him want to head for the gutters... I used to get in endless arguments with people about what I perceived as NY's sense of humor. The notes to Decade only reinforced that perception. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 13:47:39 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: "And stay out of the Woolsworth!" >>And Nordstrom is a Seattle department store.> >here, pretty much everybody calls it "Nordstrom's". i'm not saying it's right (or wrong, for that matter); just saying that it is. A sure sign that someone is from the downriver area of Metro Detroit (the area south of Detroit to Toledo, Ohio) is that they work/know someone who works at Fords. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 11:44:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: Re: (Business Edition) On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, kevin wrote: > >> > Anyone ever been to Specialty's? I don't know if it's a Seattle- > >> > only chain > >> > or not. Yes, their official name is Specialty's. > > Yah, they're here in our building and I've amused a few people because I won't go in the place because I'm offended by their illiterate-ass name. Are you in the Columbia Center? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 12:01:52 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: RE: >A sure sign that someone is from the downriver area of Metro Detroit >(the area south of Detroit to Toledo, Ohio) is that they work/know >someone who works at Fords. Yeah, what is up with that possessive-cum-apostrophizing anyway? It just reeks of country, and not in a good way. The Pike Place Market, so called because it's a farmer's market located on Pike Place, which is a little alleyway at the bottom of Pike Street, has increasingly become known as "Pike's Market" and not just by immigrants - I have a brother who's lived here his entire adult life who calls it "Pike's Place Market" these days. I guess it's just part of dealing with a living language but I have a real problem with neologisms, especially ones with a persistent tang of hog offal. np: Mott the Hoople / Backsliding Fearlessly (an excellent Rhino comp) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 15:16:14 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: - -----Original Message----- From: kevin [mailto:kevinstudyvin@earthlink.net] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 3:02 PM To: Bachman, Michael; Stacked Crooked; fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: RE: >>A sure sign that someone is from the downriver area of Metro Detroit >>(the area south of Detroit to Toledo, Ohio) is that they work/know >>someone who works at Fords. Kev came back with: >Yeah, what is up with that possessive-cum-apostrophizing anyway? It just reeks of country, and not in a good way. The >Pike Place Market, so called because it's a farmer's market located on Pike Place, which is a little alleyway at the bottom of Pike Street, has increasingly become known as "Pike's Market" and not just by immigrants - I have a brother who's lived here his entire adult life who calls it "Pike's Place Market" these days. I guess it's just part of dealing with a living language but I have a real problem with neologisms, especially ones with a persistent tang of hog offal. I would concur. Taylor is a downriver community, and it is often referred to as Taylortucky. Although not all of the people who live there are Scots/Irish decedents of hillbillies from the southeast that moved to Detroit looking for jobs in the auto plants. Michael B. NP Jennifer Warnes - Famous Blue Raincoat 20th Anniversary Edition ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 14:55:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Capuchin Subject: RE: On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, kevin wrote: > I guess it's just part of dealing with a living language but I have a > real problem with neologisms, especially ones with a persistent tang of > hog offal. So you have no problem with a changing language so long as the people making the changes are urban and/or wealthy? This reminds me of folks who fill out online profiles and under "music" write "anything but country or rap" -- in other words, anything but the music I associate with lower classes. J. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 15:15:08 -0500 (CDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Most fegly story of the year (non-crustacean division) On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > This one isn't as fegly, Well, they were found on August 23rd. > but it's another odd one reported on the same day: > The article mentions "a riddle attached", but doesn't go into detail. Disappointing. Also, I'm shocked that one fellow said, "It must be a publicity stunt; I can't think of anything else it could be." The guy's never heard of art for art's sake (and, indeed, is there any other kind?). J. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 15:02:03 -0500 (CDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: New Radiohead album - pay what you think it's worth On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, kevin wrote: > The wife was with me and got way indignant about Exene's poor judgment > in going on the road in her extremely pregnant condition. I suggested > there might be contractual obligations involved, or maybe it was just > her trailer-trash roots showing, but she wasn't having any of it. She > takes this motherhood stuff very, very seriously. To this day the > mention of that concert will set her off. Um, what's so bad about going on tour when you're pregnant? Pregnant women aren't especially fragile. Where is gNat when we need her to push against this idea that pregnancy is an illness/medical condition. (OK, so maybe the clubs might be smokey or something -- I might give you that. But isn't that more dangerous early in preganancy than late?) J. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 16:38:23 -0400 (EDT) From: kevin Subject: RE: >So you have no problem with a changing language so long as the people >making the changes are urban and/or wealthy? > >This reminds me of folks who fill out online profiles and under "music" >write "anything but country or rap" -- in other words, anything but the >music I associate with lower classes. Jeez, didn't you get the memo from the RNC about "class war rhetoric" being obsolete? In fact, I'm probably more annoyed by the obnoxious biz-speak and technobabble coming from the upper classes than the more colorful idioms arising from below - the coinage originating from the plebs contains more actual information, and it's more entertaining too. But we're just talking about a personal quirk here, and probably more to do with encroaching senility than anything else: people tinkering with the innards of the language just put a burr under my hide, to use another venerable country-ism. If a grammar is defined as a set of instructions for using a language so that it functions as a tool for effective communication, then anyone arbitrarily setting aside or altering any part or parts of that grammar for whatever reason is introducing noise into the system that's going to impede communication, which causes me frustration - which is something I have a low tolerance for. (Far as I can recall, the last time I filled out one of those profiles all I mentioned was Tanya Donelly and John Cale before going into a rant about the undeserved obscurity of Miles Davis' music from the 1970s...which I'm liable to do at any time anyway.) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 16:58:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: RE: On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Capuchin wrote: > This reminds me of folks who fill out online profiles and under "music" > write "anything but country or rap" -- in other words, anything but the > music I associate with lower classes. Oh, it's worse than you know. The people who write that all torture kittens too! But seriously -- I suspect that most people write that because they listen exclusively to mainstream rock/pop, and that, country and rap are simply the ONLY three genres of music they're familiar with. "Anything but country and rap" is their way of saying "stuff I'd hear on VH1." They'd probably turn their noses up at acid jazz and chamber music and Tuvan throat singing, too, if they ever heard any. - --Chris "I only like country recorded before 1975, and the more electronica-oriented elements of hiphop, which means I hate the upper middle class" the Christer ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 12:15:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: RE: On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, kevin wrote: > >A sure sign that someone is from the downriver area of Metro Detroit > >(the area south of Detroit to Toledo, Ohio) is that they work/know > >someone who works at Fords. > > Yeah, what is up with that possessive-cum-apostrophizing anyway? It > just reeks of country, and not in a good way. The Pike Place Market, so > called because it's a farmer's market located on Pike Place, which is a > little alleyway at the bottom of Pike Street, has increasingly become > known as "Pike's Market" and not just by immigrants - I have a brother > who's lived here his entire adult life who calls it "Pike's Place > Market" these days. I guess it's just part of dealing with a living > language but I have a real problem with neologisms, especially ones with > a persistent tang of hog offal. I see "Pike Market" a lot too, and it's even made it into the official City Clerk's map. Come on, people! (Then again, the actual sign at the corner of Pike Place and Pike Street reads "Public Market Center," so I guess I can't bring out the old "read the freakin' sign" thing again) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 22:51:13 +0100 From: Rob Subject: Robyn in session on BBC Radio 6 While looking for something else, stumbled across a list of forthcoming sessions on 'The Hub' (whatever that is). Robyn is listed as being on 16th October, broadcast on Gideon Coe's show between 10am & 1pm if I've read it correctly. See here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/events/hub/ Rob ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 22:38:28 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #358 James wrote: >Kevin wrote:>>>Amazingly, it's true. Over the weekend she said, in connection with >I don't remember what, that the celebrity couple our relationship >most reminds her of is (are?) Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft, for what >that's worth. Unfortunately I'm not nearly as funny (or rich) as >Mel B., but at least I'm taller. > >I never found any of the Spice Girls remotely funny. A) Good one! B) Had to check twice to make sure this hadn't come from Jeff... Michael "If Kim Catrall joined the Spice Girls, would she be 'Old Spice'? (and have I made that stupid joke before?)" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Help yourself to FREE treats served up daily at the Messenger Cafi. Stop by today. http://www.cafemessenger.com/info/info_sweetstuff2.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_OctWLt agline ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 23:24:52 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: Re: Edward wrote: >Here in England, at least the North West where I live, there's a real habit of this kind of thing. Like people call Safeway "Safeway's" and Tesco "Tesco's" etc. Probably because there was such a history of genuine family-owned and -run business, such as the correctly named "Morrison's."< ...Here, in Chicago, there are two major grocery store chains, Dominick's and Jewel. I was reminded of my Sout' Side youth when I heard someone refer to the latter the other day in the class-give-away-manner as "Jewel's" (as in "Are ya gonna go to the Jewel's?") (And, no, they are not under the mistaken impression that the chain is owned by the "Who Will Save Your Soul?" singer...) Michael "Had laser eye surgery today - and not even to improve my vision (damn)..." Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail and Microsoft Office Outlook  together at last. Get it now. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102225181033.aspx?pid=CL100626971 033 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 19:20:46 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: RE: On Oct 5, 2007, at 2:55 PM, Capuchin wrote: > This reminds me of folks who fill out online profiles and under > "music" write "anything but country or rap" -- in other words, > anything but the music I associate with lower classes. I always include opera and anything by that pack of entertaining rats, just for balance. - - Steve __________ The world would be a better place if Nelson Riddle (Jr.) had never been born. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 17:16:28 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: various On 10/5/07, David Stovall wrote: > > > I've been on a Zevon kick lately (buying and listening) since a friend > of mine enlisted my help (incl. drum set, basement, computer for > recording, + v. rusty playing skillz) to record his own little Warren > Zevon tribute set. I've arrived at the conclusion that "Life'll Kill > Ya" is my favorite of his albums. There's not really a klunker on it. > Our first two recording-attempts are/will be "Porcelain Monkey" (his > pick) and "I Was in the House When the House Burned Down" (mine). Links? Recording drums is hard. For me, anyway. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 17:17:38 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Box Sets On 10/5/07, kevin wrote: > > >Subject: Box Sets > > > >Speaking of box sets, I recently got the "Love is the Song We Sing" > >box from Rhino, which chronicles the rise of the San Francisco sound > >from 1965 to 1970. Not only are the CDs full of classics, but the > >book alone is worth the money. I can't recommend this enough. > > That does look like fun! Anything with "Murder In My Heart For the Judge" > is OK in my book... That got my attention. I probably want this without being fully able to admit it to myself. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 23:12:20 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: kevin wrote: >OK, the big Kool/Gang event has concluded. There was actually quite a crowd down there for a while - well-dressed office laborers for the most part. Interesting gender note - most of the women seemed to be dancing, esp. down in front of the stage where they were boogying up a storm; the guys mostly were photographing or otherwise recording it. Anthropological significance?< ...Well...maybe it just means that...Most of the Girls Like to Dance But Only Some of the Boys Like To...? (kudos to craigie*, without whose post in #357 this answer might not have leapt so nimbly to mind...) Michael "I can't believe Don Dixon's own website lists the damn title two different ways (on the same page)" Sweeney http://www.dondixonmusic.com/discography.htm _________________________________________________________________ Help yourself to FREE treats served up daily at the Messenger Cafi. Stop by today. http://www.cafemessenger.com/info/info_sweetstuff2.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_OctWLt agline ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 23:15:49 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: (Business Edition) Tom Clark idiocracized: >- -t "Carl's Junior: Fuck You, I'm Eating" c ...Come back later -- I'm 'bating! Michael "Could go for a Starbucks about now" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Climb to the top of the charts! Play Star Shuffle: the word scramble challenge with star power. http://club.live.com/star_shuffle.aspx?icid=starshuffle_wlmailtextlink_oct ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 17:13:49 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: A Haiku for Eb On 10/5/07, kevin wrote: > > >a while back i'd said that i could make the argument that smog's "Hit The > >Ground Running" is the most exciting seven minutes in rock. i never > >actually made the argument, but if i were to, it would go something like > >this: > > > >>> schoolchildren's choir, motherfuckers! it features a motherfucking > >schoolchildren's choir! << > > Yeah well, Neil Young's Landing On Water has one on a couple of tunes and > that didn't exactly set the charts on fire. (I always liked it > though. That was the last "experimental" set we've seen from him, so far, > and I wouldn't mind hearing more in that vein. Kicks the ass of snoozers > like Silver & Gold, anyway.) I dunno, GREENDALE was "experimental", at least in its live execution (where "experimental" = "pisses off people who only want to hear 'Heart of Gold' while righteously baked out of their minds"). I actually like both LANDING ON WATER (which has some really good songs) and SILVER & GOLD (although I haven't listened to it much since the year it came out). A new, real Crazy Horse album is needed pronto, for sure... but I do have hopes for CHROME DREAMS 2, as stupidly titled as it may be. I think I've just accepted that there won't ever be another NY record with some kind of conceptual glitch, and I should never have complained about BROKEN ARROW even one little bit. > it's like, a fucking > *law of nature* (or what): motherfucking schoolchildren's choir = rock > and/or roll gold. Counterexample #1: "I Don't Know Where It Comes From", by Ride, which only goes to prove that You Can't Always Get What You Want by ripping off "You Can't Always Get What You Want". Counterexample #2, and it's a doozie: "Youth of the Nation" by P.O.D., a song that is, on my scorecard, neck and neck with "Don't Stop Believin'" for the title of Worst Song Evar. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 17:04:10 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Songs about squids and fish On 10/5/07, hssmrg@bath.ac.uk wrote: > > > c* > > * They were _floundering_ around trying to find an excuse for throwing > him back in the pond. > > - MRG, skating over the real issues... Hey, this is no plaice for that kind of humor. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 12:03:24 -0700 From: "Bri N" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #359 I accidentally opened this digest before opening about a dozen others that I need to read from as far back as last week. It's like watching one of the new episodes of Heroes before I'm even half way through the 1st season (which I'm finding is pretty great). Couldn't help but notice this little bit about incense: > There's that damned "patchouli" again - the universal hippie signifier. I > wasn't entirely aware of what it was - a friend told me that Patton Oswalt > described its odor as "dirt fucked by a hippie." Brilliant. Patchouli I knew, but I only recently heard of "nag champa" (I think), which is apparently a well-known hippie signifier in incense form. Maybe it's supposed to chase the pot smoke smell. - - -Rex - ----- Let me tell you I know alot about this crap, being I've made a living selling lots and lots of it over the last 13+ years. My office is in a 50,000 square foot warehouse that has masses and masses of Nag Champa incense so I go home smelling like it every day. I distribute on a wholesale level both Satya Sai Baba and the organic version Goloka of Nag Champa and well as hundreds of other scents (and lots of other fun stuff too!). Goloka is way better because there is no cow dung in the paste and Krishnas grow all Champa Flowers and stuff on their Krishna hill in India where they hand roll it. Read about it here: www.goloka.com -Satya is made in a factory and they are being sued by Sai Baba (the Michael Jackson of India) for using his name without permission. I'll say, I like Nag Champa WAY BETTER than Patchouli. That's a whole other story... God Dammit! I want my boxset! Quit delaying it Yep Rock! - -Nuppy ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 23:33:49 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #358 Lauren shared: >my sister had a neil young songbook and i would learn the songs fromit since they were like three chords and it's not hard to sing as wellas mr. young. at any rate, there was a misprint for the lyrics to"ohio". i can't hear or even think of the song without thinking ofthe misprinted line: "what if you knew her / and found her head onthe ground? "< ...After the line "Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming" we always used to add the snide aside "Hope somebody warned Pat!" Michael "Lauren's post made me truly laugh out loud (indeed proving that Tragedy + Time = Comedy)" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail and Microsoft Office Outlook  together at last. Get it now. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102225181033.aspx?pid=CL100626971 033 ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #360 ********************************