From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #378 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, October 25 2007 Volume 16 : Number 378 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: MILF liz [lep ] Re: MILF liz [2fs ] My name is "Eb", and, dammit all, I'm *still* mourning Brad Delp's passing ["Stacked Crooked" ] Re: the Shins and Tom lehrer [craigie* ] Re: MILF liz [craigie* ] Re: My name is [kevin ] Re: MILF liz [Rex ] Re: MILF liz [Rex ] Re: MILF liz [kevin ] Re: the Shins and Tom lehrer [lep ] Things that I for some reason have never thought about before [Rex ] Good News / Bad News [Tom Clark ] Hola de Barcelona! [Capuchin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:42:08 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: MILF liz 2fs says: > On 10/23/07, lep wrote: > > actually, i would think the problem for liz, jr. would be more that > > "H.W.C." is just a really stupid song. > > > And on this point, Lauren and I gladly wave the same flag. > > The song just reeks of, oh, people like it when I talk dirty, so how can I > do it again. Absurdly calculated. and on top of it, i get the feeling that she probably thinks it's all funny-ironic what with the sing-song-y-ness of it. "Absurdly calculated" - well put, yes. i always imagine the record company just issuing a blanket reject: "you forgot 'flower'. come back when you have it." this is probably only because the song really bugs me to begin with, but the line about dorian grey really super-irritates me. i mean, "without it i'm just another dorian grey" ??? what the frack? since when did dorian grey represent a *lack* of beauty, or an ordinary joe, as she seems to be saying? BTW, the preface to dorian grey is, on a per page basis, one my very favourite pieces of text. because of its sort of generalizing and its simplicity, it's the kind of thing i would have suspected i would have outgrow, but none of the years have made a dent in my love of it. oscar wilde was a genius. http://www.kingkong.demon.co.uk/gsr/prefdg.htm i don't think i go a week without at least a fragment of a phrase of that running through my mind. these are the lines that get especially heavy rotation: "No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved." - wilde "We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely." - wilde as ever, lauren - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:00:02 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: MILF liz On 10/23/07, lep wrote: > > 2fs says: > > On 10/23/07, lep wrote: > > > actually, i would think the problem for liz, jr. would be more that > > > "H.W.C." is just a really stupid song. > > > > And on this point, Lauren and I gladly wave the same flag. > > this is probably only because the song really bugs me to begin with, > but the line about dorian grey really super-irritates me. i mean, > "without it i'm just another dorian grey" ??? what the frack? since > when did dorian grey represent a *lack* of beauty, or an ordinary joe, > as she seems to be saying? Ah, the hack "Dorian Grey" reference. My favorite is from whatever song it is by Styx damned if I'm looking up the title of a bloody Styx song on the internet: "Ageless and timeless as Dorian Grey...": uh, do you realize what you're actually saying there fella? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:20:40 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: My name is "Eb", and, dammit all, I'm *still* mourning Brad Delp's passing ouch! i know it was recorded in a barn, or something; but it sounds pretty well-rehearsed to me. it's neck-and-neck with *Challengers* for record-of-the-year for me. but your mileage may vary! i'd call it more dylan-esque, or even beck-esque, though, than springsteen-esque...but having said that, he *did* cover "The River" the other night. (and saw ted leo covering "Dancing In The Dark" last month, and the veils covering "State Trooper" a few months before that. and casey neill covering "Fire" and sleater-kinney covering "Promised Land" a few years before *that*. it's some kind of...mania, or what?) i stand corrected. fair enough -- if you leave the u.s., which wasn't endangered by any of them, out of that equation. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:02:50 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: MILF liz 2fs says: > Ah, the hack "Dorian Grey" reference. > > My favorite is from whatever song it is by Styx damned if I'm looking up the > title of a bloody Styx song on the internet: "Ageless and timeless as Dorian > Grey...": uh, do you realize what you're actually saying there fella? um...does styx think that dorian grey's a vampire? as ever, lauren - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:19:56 +0100 From: craigie* Subject: Re: the Shins and Tom lehrer On 23/10/2007, kevin wrote: > > > That sounds suspiciously like a setup, like what do you call 100 lawyers > up to their necks in horseshit?, A start? c* - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:48:09 +0100 From: craigie* Subject: Re: MILF liz well, in a sense, he didn't age... but whether that makes him timeless... Although, the book still is - maybe they were referring to the Story, not the person? Now, if I could only remember which attic I left *my* portrait in... c* On 24/10/2007, lep wrote: > > 2fs says: > > > Ah, the hack "Dorian Grey" reference. > > > > My favorite is from whatever song it is by Styx damned if I'm looking up > the > > title of a bloody Styx song on the internet: "Ageless and timeless as > Dorian > > Grey...": uh, do you realize what you're actually saying there fella? > > um...does styx think that dorian grey's a vampire? > > as ever, > lauren > > -- > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." > > - The Buddha > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:25:12 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: My name is >> >Of course, it didn't last >> >> Why "of course"? > >Well, in this case it was short for "of course [you all know] it didn't >last," not "of course [since Communism is for losers] it didn't last," but >I guess I could as easily have meant "of course [since it was a repressive >dictatorship] it didn't last".... > >Or I could have just replied "why not?" :) I'll take number three, Monty. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:44:19 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: MILF liz On 10/23/07, lep wrote: > > 2fs says: > > > Ah, the hack "Dorian Grey" reference. > > > > My favorite is from whatever song it is by Styx damned if I'm looking up > the > > title of a bloody Styx song on the internet: "Ageless and timeless as > Dorian > > Grey...": uh, do you realize what you're actually saying there fella? > > um...does styx think that dorian grey's a vampire? Styx probably thinks a lot of wrong shit. I'm still waiting for some kind of explanation as to what that whole "Mr. Roboto" thing was all about. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:07:52 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: MILF liz On 10/24/07, Rex wrote: > > > > On 10/23/07, lep wrote: > > > > 2fs says: > > > > > Ah, the hack "Dorian Grey" reference. > > Well, the whole thing falls apart on close inspection, doesn't it? She seems to want the guy's semen for beautifying purposes, but it would seem that she's happily involved with him already... or is she just keeping him around so she can look good to other guys... or... well, you know. It's just silly, and kinda feeds into some of your wackier totally unrealistic fantasy aspects of porn. Are there really very many women-- any humans-- who actually really *like* semen, in any context other than as the inevitable outcome of certain sex acts? Would you really keep it around and do, like, anything with it, fertility clinic stuff excluded? But back to the subject line, and my inevitable Paisleyization of it: Naked Liz and her Jaguar on the cover to that record have absolutely *nothing* on Suzanna (clothed) and her Rickenbacker on the cover to "All Over the Place". Actually, examining the cover a little more closely, I can't quite work out which Petersen is which... one of them is a brunette here, and I think it's Vicki, but I'm not sure. Perhaps Matt Piucci can explain? No, no, wait, that's wrong. I meant, one of the Petersen sisters is a brunette on the album cover... Christopher Gross, please explain! - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:20:20 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: MILF liz >Are there really very many women-- any humans-- >who actually really *like* semen, in any context other than as the >inevitable outcome of certain sex acts? Would you really keep it around and >do, like, anything with it, fertility clinic stuff excluded? Sick as it sounds yr question immediately reminded me of Zappa's "Let's Make the Water Turn Black" and the legendary Ronnie and Kenny Williams with their disgusting jars full of bodily fluids out in the garage. It must be the weird pseudo-clinical resonance of the phrase "fertility clinic stuff." np: a huge file of old crap, mostly Procol Harum and late Beatles (currently "Hey Bulldog"). ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:29:45 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: the Shins and Tom lehrer craigie* says: > On 23/10/2007, kevin wrote: > > > > > > That sounds suspiciously like a setup, like what do you call 100 lawyers > > up to their necks in horseshit?, > > > A start? in case you forget any of your lawyer jokes: http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/lawyers.html (gnu has good jokes. i think hackers have a better sense of humour than mathematicians. or maybe they just stay up later and so laugh at more stupid jokes.) as ever, lauren - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:32:16 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Things that I for some reason have never thought about before 1) What the hell is that shit on the cover of "Fables of the Reconstruction"? Okay, that's all for now. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:52:57 -0700 From: "michael wells" Subject: catching up Stewart: > The release that's really got me psyched is the new one from Ken Reaume Thanks for the tip! I'm on the new one by Paul Curreri http://www.paulcurreri.com/ And see he's in the Pacific Northwest for a rare few gigs out there, so if you're handy, go! [Eddie Tews, this means you. You need to hear and see Paul]. Jill: > My parents bought "That Was the Year That Was" when it came out in 1965, and we wore the grooves out of it (even though I didn't understand about 70% of its content, it was one of my favorite records). Oh hell yeah! We had TWTYTW but I got much more mileage out of AN EVENING WITH TOM LEHRER. I could probably still sing you quite a bit of "The Element Song" if you really wanted. It was a strange childhood musically; 50 percent classical, 30 share for Beatles, Stones and Who; 5 percent to classic Linda Ronstadt albums; 10 percent spoken comedy albums (Carlin, Cosby, etc); 5 more for Tom Lehrer; 20 percent Zeppelin and Pink Floyd; 15 percent new bands like Rush and 3 percent old hacks like Wingss and Black Sabbath. More than 100 percent, you say? It was a confusing time. > I'm still waiting for some kind of explanation as to what that whole "Mr. Roboto" thing was all about. So's Tommy Shaw, go ask him. Shame really, they were quite good for about five years there. I rated them highly from about EQUINOX up to...well, YMMV on where it should end, I adored CORNERSTONE but by PARADISE THEATRE the shark-jumping had commenced. I sorted more seeds from stems on the cover of THE GRAND ILLUSION than should probably be admitted. Eddie: > ouch! i know it was recorded in a barn, or something; but it sounds pretty well-rehearsed to me. it's neck-and-neck with *Challengers* for record-of-the-year for me. Me too. I think it's more Dylan-esque (lyrically) then anything else I've heard in a long, long while. And of course he can sing, where Uncle Bobby...can...not. Michael ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:38:42 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Good News / Bad News "I Wanna Go Backwards" arrived today. I just saw a Dell commercial that was using a Flaming Lips song. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:24:02 -0500 (CDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Hola de Barcelona! No fegs here, I suppose. Well, it's pretty freakin' cool anyway. J. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #378 ********************************