From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #364 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, October 10 2007 Volume 16 : Number 364 Today's Subjects: ----------------- More delays on box set..... ["m swedene" ] Fwd: [bot-dimeadozen-org] NEW on DIME: Popticians - BBC John Peel Session 1984-11-12 ["Stacked Crooked" ] Re: More delays on box set..... [Martin J Fioretti ] Re: Across The Universe [Rex ] Re: Across The Universe [lep ] Re: Across The Universe [Tom Clark ] Re: Across The Universe [lep ] Re: Across The Universe [Benjamin Lukoff ] Re: Across The Universe [Benjamin Lukoff ] Re: Across The Universe [kevin ] Re: Across The Universe [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: Across The Universe [lep ] Re: Across The Universe [Sebastian Hagedorn ] RE: crap... [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: Across The Universe [Rex ] Re: Across The Universe ["Stewart Russell" ] Re: Across The Universe [kevin ] Re: Across The Universe [Rex ] Re: Across The Universe [Rex ] Re: Across The Universe [kevin ] the "hope springs eternal" thing [Jill Brand ] Re: Across The Universe [kevin ] There are no lolcats in teh bible, Keith [Tom Clark ] Re: There are no lolcats in teh bible, Keith [2fs ] sex pistols on craig ferguson's punk rock week [HwyCDRre] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 10:39:19 -0400 From: "m swedene" Subject: More delays on box set..... I got this moments ago. I am certain some of you also got it. Mike Greeting Robyn Hitchcock fans, We regret to inform you that the I Wanna Go Backwards box set and accompanying reissues have been delayed in manufacturing, and the release date has been moved to November 13th. However, we will be making every effort to ship your order as soon early as possible. The day we receive the CDs/LPs we will be sending them out to our pre-order customers, and you may receive your box set quite a bit sooner than the new release date. In the meantime, all Yep Roc pre-order customers (that's you!) will receive their digital downloads on the original release date of October 16th. On that day, you can log into your Stash (at yeproc.com/stash) and download the MP3 version of the album you ordered. If you have any trouble with this process, please don't hesitate to contact Yep Roc Customer Service (at custserve@yeproc.com). Thank you for your continued patience and your support of Robyn Hitchcock. Shanna Oskin Yep Roc Customer Service Get your 10 free downloads! Create your Stash at the yeproc.com/stash today and get a free Yep Roc digital sampler! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:17:53 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Fwd: [bot-dimeadozen-org] NEW on DIME: Popticians - BBC John Peel Session 1984-11-12 *********** BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE *********** On 10/9/2007 at 9:11 AM DIME wrote: A new torrent has been uploaded to DIME. Torrent: 165690 Title: Popticians - BBC John Peel Session 1984-11-12 Size: 70.60 MB Category: Alternate Uploaded by: fatboy68 Info hash: 1d8b30be7af5ac04dcc8edc021f6d1dda7fe5778 Description - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - --- Popticians BBC Session (John Peel show) Maida Vale Studio 4 London U.K. 1984-11-12 John Hegley (Guitar, Vocals) Russell Greenwood (Drums, Vocals) Susan Norton (Saxophone, Vocals) Keith Moore (Clarinet, Vocals) Producer - Dale Griffin Engineer - Mike Engles Studio - Maida Vale 5 BBC Radio 1 FM broadcast > Pioneer tuner > Aiwa cassette deck > TDK SA-C90 cassette master > Cassette playback on Aiwa Cassette Deck > Sony MZ-R50 > CDWAV > WAV > DBPoweramp > FLAC frontend > .flac files I missed track 6.Somehow You Look Different Tonight - I only found this out a few days ago when I was researching the session details for this torrent! If anyone else has this as well as the first session broadcast on 20/07/1983 (Maida Vale 4)... I ended up seeing them at Manchester Poly freshers week in 1985. They were all dressed up in pith helmets and "it ain't alf hot mum" gear, or was that my drunken recollection... TRACKLIST 1.Scoutmaster 2.Song About The Misery Of Human Existence 3.Private 4.Song About John's Brother's Glasses 5.Red Ken 2:30 Total Time : [13:42] There was some bug with getting CDWAVE to write to FLAC, so I gave up in the end and reverted to DBPoweramp. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - --- You can use the URL below to download the torrent (you may have to login). http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=165690&hit=1 Take care! dimeadozen.org *********** END FORWARDED MESSAGE *********** ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:24:31 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Re: crap... considering how little rugby that yankees and red sox fans (presumably) have flowing through their veins, this isn't saying much. not to speak about whose fans are the more passionate, but, having attended games in a great many baseball stadia, i'd say that cincinnati has the most *knowledgeable* fans. actually, it seems to me the most passionate fans in american sports are the sacramento kings'. seems a bit of a contradiction there. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 12:21:12 -0400 From: Martin J Fioretti Subject: Re: More delays on box set..... > I got this moments ago. I am certain some of you also got it. I got it. All in good time, patience is a virtue, etc etc....LOL! Martin ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 09:40:23 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: New Radiohead album - pay what you think it's worth >...that kind of describes anyone who is not actually exene. > >i'm paraphrasing (like i'm ever *not*) but in that X documentary, upon >hearing about exene's trying for or getting the singer job, i think it >was john doe who said "not only is she a *girl* but she's fucking >crazy." That's as may be true but somebody has to be the queen of trailer-trash goth, & I still break up whenever I hear her singing "Come Back To Me." ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 09:42:44 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: New Radiohead album - pay what you think it's worth >> Nahh - married to a former Lutheran with no formal affiliation >> who's about as non-new agey as you can get. About as not-Exene as >> you can get too. > >Can she harmonize in a minor key? Not so much, but you remember Michelle Pfeiffer in The Fabulous Baker Boys? She could blow her off the piano any time she felt like trying... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:56:48 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Across The Universe anybody seen this? looks pretty interesting -- i liked *Frida* quite a bit, *Titus* not so much. but, damn, robyn should've been offered one of the cameos! as whom? mean mr. mustard, perhaps? shit, talk about a missed opportunity! doesn't he have a talent agent, for god's sake? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 11:15:09 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Across The Universe On 10/9/07, Stacked Crooked wrote: > > anybody seen this? looks pretty interesting -- i liked *Frida* quite a > bit, *Titus* not so much. Fairly well reviewed, but the trailer certainly made it look like the most dreadful and misguided thing evar commited to film... I just finally saw "The Life Aquatic". It was teh awesome. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 14:22:49 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: Across The Universe Stacked Crooked says: > anybody seen this? looks pretty interesting -- i liked *Frida* quite a > bit, *Titus* not so much. the director was on charlie rose last night, but i forgot to pay attention (no disrespect, just got caught up in a homework problem.) i take all my film-related orders from my overlord, mr. sean burns of philadelphia weekly: http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/articles/15415 it doesn't sound too good. i don't always agree with mr. burns on what he loves, but i almost always agree with him when it comes to what he hates (so i miss a few mob movies, but it would have all been worth it had i seen mr. burns review of "pi" *before* i went to the theatre.) xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 11:28:29 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Across The Universe On Oct 9, 2007, at 10:56 AM, Stacked Crooked wrote: > anybody seen this? looks pretty interesting -- i liked *Frida* > quite a > bit, *Titus* not so much. > > but, damn, robyn should've been offered one of the cameos! as > whom? mean > mr. mustard, perhaps? shit, talk about a missed opportunity! > doesn't he > have a talent agent, for god's sake? Fairly scathing yet entertaining review from my fave podcast: http://cdn.libsyn.com/cinecast/filmspot178_092107.mp3 - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 14:37:11 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: Across The Universe i say: > (so i miss a few mob movies, but it would have all been > worth it had i seen mr. burns review of "pi" *before* i went to the > theatre.) errata: oh, now *that* is way more embarrassing than my usual mis-speaks. i meant "requiem for a dream." i really liked "pi" - it was a lot of the reason that i went to see (the horrid) "requiem for a dream." xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 11:45:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: Across The Universe On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, lep wrote: > i say: > > (so i miss a few mob movies, but it would have all been > > worth it had i seen mr. burns review of "pi" *before* i went to the > > theatre.) > > errata: > > oh, now *that* is way more embarrassing than my usual mis-speaks. > > i meant "requiem for a dream." i really liked "pi" - it was a lot of > the reason that i went to see (the horrid) "requiem for a dream." I rather liked "Requiem"...as far as one can "like" such a truly disturbing movie. Say, instead, that I thought it was a finely made and acted movie.. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 11:46:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: Across The Universe On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Stacked Crooked wrote: > anybody seen this? looks pretty interesting -- i liked *Frida* quite a > bit, *Titus* not so much. I saw it. It was horrendous. Buy the soundtrack instead. Seriously. > but, damn, robyn should've been offered one of the cameos! as whom? mean > mr. mustard, perhaps? shit, talk about a missed opportunity! doesn't he > have a talent agent, for god's sake? Anyone seen "Eastern Promises"? The actor who plays Kirill is the spitting image of Robyn--now THAT would have been a great role for him :) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 12:11:21 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Across The Universe >i take all my film-related orders from my overlord, mr. sean burns of >philadelphia weekly: > >http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/articles/15415 > >it doesn't sound too good. Yahh, I had a bad feeling about that flick as soon as I saw the first trailer and that review is entirely consistent with that bad feeling. np: disc 1 from the velvet underground banana box set. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:07:24 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Across The Universe - -- lep is rumored to have mumbled on 9. Oktober 2007 14:37:11 -0400 regarding Re: Across The Universe: > i say: >> (so i miss a few mob movies, but it would have all been >> worth it had i seen mr. burns review of "pi" *before* i went to the >> theatre.) > > errata: > > oh, now *that* is way more embarrassing than my usual mis-speaks. > > i meant "requiem for a dream." i really liked "pi" - it was a lot of > the reason that i went to see (the horrid) "requiem for a dream." Hm, haven't seen "Pi" yet, but I thought "Requiem" wasn't all that bad ... it wasn't as good as the people on IMdB claimed at the time (it was among the top 10, IIRC) but not "horrid" either. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 13:14:20 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Across The Universe >Hm, haven't seen "Pi" yet, but I thought "Requiem" wasn't all that bad ... >it wasn't as good as the people on IMdB claimed at the time (it was among >the top 10, IIRC) but not "horrid" either. Brilliantly done but like everything connected to Hubert Selby Jr. it left me feeling like I needed to boil my soul in bleach... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 16:19:04 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: Across The Universe re: Sebastian and Ben's comments: i took issue about it with ken (MIA) awhile back. i think with my being such a cynic at heart, my real problem is that i don't need any fictions to tell me (or rather, force down my throat) how the world is probably even worse than i imagine. i know being a junkie sucks. really. i know junkies do horrible things to get drugs. i know non-junkies do horrible things to get things that aren't drugs. i even know junkies and non-junkies alike do horrible things just for the hell of it. oh, did i mention that i know that even if someone isn't doing something horrible, something horrible might happen to them? really, you don't have to prove it to me. i guess the upshot is that i tend to not like fictionalized accounts of the horrors in the world (don't get me started on holocaust movies.) they are just not for me. if i'm going to bummed out, i'll watch a documentary or even be so masochistic as to read some news. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:30:34 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Across The Universe - -- kevin is rumored to have mumbled on 9. Oktober 2007 13:14:20 -0700 regarding Re: Across The Universe: >> Hm, haven't seen "Pi" yet, but I thought "Requiem" wasn't all that bad >> ... it wasn't as good as the people on IMdB claimed at the time (it was >> among the top 10, IIRC) but not "horrid" either. > > Brilliantly done but like everything connected to Hubert Selby Jr. it > left me feeling like I needed to boil my soul in bleach... True. I read "Last Exit Brooklyn" last year .... some people here called Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" the bleakest book ever, but I think authors like Selby, Burroughs or Burgess are in some ways bleaker. I found the end of the road, eh "the Road, positively uplifting. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 15:33:08 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Across The Universe >i guess the upshot is that i tend to not like fictionalized accounts >of the horrors in the world (don't get me started on holocaust >movies.) they are just not for me. if i'm going to bummed out, i'll >watch a documentary or even be so masochistic as to read some news. As a tonic I always recommend the comic novels of Donald Westlake. Not the grim-as-death ones but the funny ones. The Dortmunder novels are uniformly funny enough to make you pee yr pants (except for the one before the most recent one, which was kinda flat, but everybody's entitled to miss once in a while). Also I highly commend his out-of-print 1975 masterpiece Dancing Aztecs, which is as fine an example of the comic art as anything in Wodehouse or Thorne Smith, or even Mark Twain. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:49:29 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: RE: crap... Marc wrote: > > ...and THAT is why they keep calling us "long-suffering" fans (Giants >> and >> Indians fans, pls nod respectfully...but shut the hell up, too)... > >Yes, the length of "suffering" has been longer, but how much of it has >really been suffering and how much of it has been "well, we're going to suck >again so I'm writing off this season and we'll think about really suffering >if we're actually decent next year"? In the last century, how many times >could you really say the Cubs were the best team in baseball but they just >didn't win it? Maybe once or twice, but not all that often. I think if you >want to claim an almost century's worth of suffering, it might be fair if >you're a Red Sox fan (since they lost sooooooo many heartbreakers and were >competitive nearly every year), but the Cubs suffering is more about time >than anything else. > >The All Blacks, on the other hand, are like the Yankees if the Yankees made >it to the World Series every year but lost in the 7th game each time. >Except the World Series happens every four years, and the three seasons in >between are spent entirely gearing up for the fourth year, and during those >three years the Yankees won 110 games. In other words, they dominate, >dominate, dominate, fall flat on their face the one time every four years >when it is really on the line. word. Some stats may enlighten. Up until 2005, the AB history included 404 tests with 296 wins, 17 draws and 91 losses. Their worst nation-on-nation ratio is against South Africa, where they have won a mere 56% of non-drawn matches.Of the last 100 tests played prior to 2005 (which is when my source book was published) they had won 81 and lost 19. In the current World Cup, only one team has aggregated more than 240 points so far - the All Blacks with 327. Commiserations, though. James PS - Sorry Stewart, blancmanges only play tennis. Mind you, the Scottish rugby team often play like they're blancmanges... - -- 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, 9 Oct 2007 16:06:36 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Across The Universe On 10/9/07, lep wrote: > > re: Sebastian and Ben's comments: > > i took issue about it with ken (MIA) awhile back. > > i think with my being such a cynic at heart, my real problem is that i > don't need any fictions to tell me (or rather, force down my throat) > how the world is probably even worse than i imagine. I generally agree with you quite heartily, but I give such fictions a pass *if they display a sense of humor*, the idea being that if we have to live with it, we might as well be able to laugh at it, or offer a new perspective of some kind. This is why I like Robyn's work and don't care for Trent Reznor's. Don't let's start about Neal LaBute, either. Often I'll see some appeal in a film that seems a bit too dark for my wife's tastes, but we're talking, like, "Pan's Labyrinth" or "Children of Men" here, not the uberbleak indie loathescape. She just doesn't have time for even the signifiers of the depressing, I think, and who can blame her. For my part, I've noticed that, that despite their current "renaissance", I can't remember the last time I was even slightly interested in a "horror" film... you'd probably have to go back to "Blair Witch" or something. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 15:18:55 -0400 From: "Stewart Russell" Subject: Re: Across The Universe Saw it last night. Kinda wished I hadn't. Jim Sturgess does look like he was grown from hybrid John/Paul DNA, but boy! he can't sing. The auto-tuning is painfully obvious. Scenes were painfully contrived from lyrics (can you guess where one of the characters arrived in through?) and characters not worthy of empathy. Good cameos (Joe Cocker, Eddie Izzard) were more than ruined by boring Irish get Bono trying to be some lo-cal Leary. I kept myself awake by watching for anachronisms: the early 60s Liverpool FC poster with an URL on it, the 1980s commuter train in the era of Revolver, and worst of all, a wind turbine on Royal Seaforth dock about 30 years before it was installed. I loved every minute of it. You can tell. Stewart On 10/9/07, lep wrote: > i say: > > (so i miss a few mob movies, but it would have all been > > worth it had i seen mr. burns review of "pi" *before* i went to the > > theatre.) > > errata: > > oh, now *that* is way more embarrassing than my usual mis-speaks. > > i meant "requiem for a dream." i really liked "pi" - it was a lot of > the reason that i went to see (the horrid) "requiem for a dream." > > xo > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." > > - The Buddha > - -- http://scruss.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 16:41:05 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Across The Universe >For >my part, I've noticed that, that despite their current "renaissance", I >can't remember the last time I was even slightly interested in a "horror" >film... you'd probably have to go back to "Blair Witch" or something. Maybe that's because they're not dealing with "horror" as much as "sadism," and not the fun kind, either. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 16:45:08 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Across The Universe On 10/9/07, Stewart Russell wrote: > > Saw it last night. Kinda wished I hadn't. > Jim Sturgess does look like he was grown from hybrid John/Paul DNA, > but boy! he can't sing. The auto-tuning is painfully obvious. You know, I don't think anyone tries to disguise Auto-Tuning any more because a whole generation of kids has grown up (or is growing up) thinking that *vocals on records are supposed to sound like that*, or, weirder still, vocals in real life *actually* sound like that. You hear it in some really odd contexts these days (especially if you (insert stock parental curmudgeonly "High School Musical"/"Hannah Montana" overexposure gripes here)). > > I kept myself awake by watching for anachronisms: the early 60s > Liverpool FC poster with an URL on it, the 1980s commuter train in the > era of Revolver, and worst of all, a wind turbine on Royal Seaforth > dock about 30 years before it was installed. Dude, that's because the Beatles were, like, so ahead of their time, maaaannnn. How about the wardrobe and hair looking about as much like the '60's as, erm, "High School Musical"? It was halfway through the trailer before I realized it was supposed to be set *in the '60's*, not just recycling music *from* the '60's. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 16:50:58 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Across The Universe On 10/9/07, kevin wrote: > > >For >my part, I've noticed that, that despite their current > "renaissance", I > >can't remember the last time I was even slightly interested in a "horror" > >film... you'd probably have to go back to "Blair Witch" or something. > > Maybe that's because they're not dealing with "horror" as much as > "sadism," and not the fun kind, either. That seems to be true-- and disturbing-- but I think my interest waned before that whole wave hit. More like around the second round of "Scream"-type post-modern hipster horror. "J-Horror" remakes I just kinda don't get... if all those films are just westernizations of contemporary Japanese films, I'd rather see the originals, really. But not that much. Now that I think about it, "The Others" was kind of neat, if it counts as a "horror" film, but that horror-with-a-twist thing was getting pretty old, too. But the honest truth is just that I don't see that many movies anymore, and should thus shut up. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 17:06:08 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Across The Universe "J-Horror" remakes I just kinda don't get... if all those films are just westernizations of contemporary Japanese films, I'd rather see the originals, really. But not that much. I see where you're coming from, but i'll go for pretty much anything with Naomi Watts in it, starting with the way obscure neo-noir Persons Of Interest with Joe Mantegna, and then Mulholland Drive, etc. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 20:09:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: the "hope springs eternal" thing Michael wrote: "Not to go all "who is suffering more" on ya, but take that 20-year championship-less gap, then add 79...meaning my dead Cubs' fan grandfather, father, and, eventually, probably ME...will have lived our entire lives without seeing the Cubs win a World Series (and, hell, they haven't even BEEN in a WS since my dad was 7...and he's been dead for 23 years now!)..." I know that pain, I remember that pain, and even I am a fraud (brought up a Dodgers and then Mets fan in Brooklyn; switched to the Red Sox in 1986 because I had fallen for that Boston loser mystique after having lived here for 5 years, much to the dismay of my family in New Yawk). I watched my daughter cry when Pedro blew it in the 7th inning of the ALCS in 2003, and I grabbed her by the shoulders and said, "Honey, love them in the moment because they will NEVER EVER EVER win the World Series." Most of us still haven't processed 2004 yet. And most of us are armed to lose now, except no one gives a fuck because A-Rod has taken his golf clubs out of storage (heh heh heh). Anyway, if the Red Sox could do it in 2004, the Cubbies can still come through in your lifetime. Pollyanna Jill ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 17:43:04 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Across The Universe > "J-Horror" remakes I just kinda don't get... if all those films are > just westernizations of contemporary Japanese films, I'd rather see > the originals, really. But not that much. I see where you're coming from, but i'll go for pretty much anything with Naomi Watts in it,> starting with the way obscure neo-noir Persons Of Interest with Joe> Mantegna, and then Mulholland Drive, etc. OK, that title is actually Persons Unknown. And I've just discovered that it exists as a DVD now, after I spent a whole three bucks (plus shipping) on a used rental tape. I guess after Kong all NW's old flicks are probably coming back out of storage... JT Walsh does a nice turn as a bent cop, too. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 20:33:44 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: There are no lolcats in teh bible, Keith Or are there.....? http://www.lolcatbible.com/ - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 23:01:56 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: There are no lolcats in teh bible, Keith On 10/9/07, Tom Clark wrote: > > Or are there.....? > > http://www.lolcatbible.com/ Oh dear. The effort put into this is, frankly, deeply frightening. That said, I do think some of the passages might have been rendered a bit more pithily, and less sort of phrase-for-phrase. So, you know: offering literary criticism of the Bible translated into lolcat? Goddamn am I put those advanced degrees to fine use! - ---------------- Now playing: Dntel - Roll On (Ft. Jenny Lewis) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:08:19 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: There are no lolcats in teh bible, Keith tc says: > Or are there.....? > > http://www.lolcatbible.com/ this is good. my endless hours spent on solving polynomials of a prime power modulus suddenly seem so much less insane. xo p.s. good one on the thread title, tc. - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:05:30 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: sex pistols on craig ferguson's punk rock week sex pistols on craig ferguson's punk rock week in as couple of weeks barry manilow also scheduled that week but not as a punk rocker, i assume ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #364 ********************************