From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #385 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, November 2 2007 Volume 16 : Number 385 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Fegdestiny: Genetic? [Rex ] Re: FW: Fegdestiny: Genetic? [kevin ] Re: lolcat? [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Fegdestiny: Genetic? [kevin ] Re: Fegdestiny: Genetic? [kevin ] In case of waning Whedon talk, break glass [David Witzany ] reap [lep ] RE: Where Are All The Great Beatles Covers? ["David Stovall" ] Re: reap [kevin ] Re: In case of waning Whedon talk, break glass [kevin ] Re: lolcat? [Rex ] Re: The New Fall Season [Rex ] Re: In case of waning Whedon talk, break glass [Christopher Gross ] Re: lolcat? [kevin ] RE: lolcat? ["Marc Alberts" ] Re: In case of waning Whedon talk, break glass [2fs ] Decemberists tour canceled [Jill Brand ] Re: The New Fall Season [lep ] Re: The New Fall Season [2fs ] Re: The New Fall Season [Sebastian Hagedorn ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 09:29:37 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Fegdestiny: Genetic? On 11/1/07, kevin wrote: > > Pawnshops. At least the ones I see around here. Seems to be their whole > business is skis, guns, DVDs, musical instruments and obsolete tech. That's so you can do the biathlon while recording your Peavey strat copy straight into the 1/4" deck strapped onto your back, and watching a movie at the same time. One stop shopping. I don't know if you skeet shoot the tape reels or what, but the whole concept kind of reminds me of a Dinosaur Jr. video. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 09:16:18 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: FW: Fegdestiny: Genetic? >Being a X-Files nerd, I had to have one of >those way-cool NICAP hats that Max wore, so I joined NICAP just to get >one! Speaking of Philes, anybody have any dirt on the movie? Has it died yet, or not? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 09:37:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: lolcat? 2fs wrote: > Actually, Franken seems to know his shit. Sure, his career as > (intentionally) smarmy comedian might harm him - but he's a hell of > a lot more qualified than, say, Jesse Ventura. I don't disagree that Franken knows his shit nor that he could/would be a perfectly competant or better Senator. I can just easily see his resume being held against him by a few too many voters, even if he is (as he's been known to say) the only New York Jew in the race who is actually from Minnesota. > Or George W. Bush. Well, he is a multi-celled organism. "I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirize George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporize them." -- Tom Lehrer . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 09:21:23 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Fegdestiny: Genetic? >I'd guess e-bay or Craigslist. I was gonna start searching for one >early next year, but hey, homeless dude to the rescue. There must be >tons of them out there, along with mimeo machines, overhead >projectors, and... well, turntables I guess. Pawnshops. At least the ones I see around here. Seems to be their whole business is skis, guns, DVDs, musical instruments and obsolete tech. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 10:16:47 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Fegdestiny: Genetic? >the whole concept kind of reminds me of a Dinosaur Jr. >video. I love that thing. I bought a copy of the collected Spike Jonze videos because the wife was nuts about Christopher Walken's dance gig, and the only thing on it I've looked at more than twice is Dino Jr and the Bjork "Very Quiet" danceathon. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 13:18:39 -0500 (CDT) From: David Witzany Subject: In case of waning Whedon talk, break glass Fox has signed our boy up to do seven episodes of a "La Femme Nikita"-esque TV show starring Eliza Dushku (Faith from "Buffy"). Just in time for the writer's strike. More at http://tinyurl.com/2fxklf Your typical Clever Joss interview here: http://tinyurl.com/2h5om3 Dave. David Witzany ...one of nature's witzany@uiuc.edu bounds checkers ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:34:58 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Re: The New Fall Season brilliant! damn...i'd totally forgotten about *Speed Buggy*. i believe you have me confused with ms. lord and/or mr. brown. same song-title, twice: wesley willis would've been a likely suspect... hey, this puscifer record, which i was totally expecting to not like *at all*, is actually pretty damned good. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 15:50:36 -0400 From: lep Subject: reap paul tibbets, pilot of the enola gay, 92. http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN01432398 xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 16:03:33 -0400 From: "David Stovall" Subject: RE: Where Are All The Great Beatles Covers? Oooooooooooohhhhhkay - top-posting since the precedent has been set,.... Marc Ribot's glorious, hilarious instrumental cover of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (on his first(?) album, _Rootles Cosmopolitans_) is one of my favorites. Steve Hillage did a credible version of "It's All Too Much" - which is one of my favorite Beatles songs, anyway. And I have a compilation disc of various NY artists doing Beatles covers, at the Knitting Factory (on their Knitting Factory Works label, I think). Pretty cool stuff on that. And Mike Keneally did a cover of "And Your Bird Can Sing" at a Taylor guitar clinic, playing both lead guitar lines at the same time, on the same guitar. Not available commercially, but tape-trader video exists. d9 > From: "Bachman, Michael" > Subject: RE: Where Are All The Great Beatles Covers? > > Wilson Pickett (with help from Duane Allman) did a very tasty version of > "Hey Jude". > > - -----Original Message----- > From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On > Behalf Of Benjamin Lukoff > Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 6:21 PM > To: HwyCDRrev@aol.com > Cc: fegmaniax@smoe.org > Subject: Re: Where Are All The Great Beatles Covers? > > On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 HwyCDRrev@aol.com wrote: > > > The Soft Boys: "I Wanna Destroy You" > > Never have the bright cheery harmonies been scarier. > > _http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/10/14/231124.php_ > > (http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/10/14/231124.php) > > Hmm...as I think I might have mentioned here (or was it Audities?) I > thought "Across the Universe" was pretty freaking awful as a movie, > though the music wasn't terrible. I just saw the Bee Gees/Frampton "Sgt. > Pepper" > movie the other night and that IS bad (with the exception of the last 15 > minutes or so--Billy Preston rules, and so does Carol Channing, Bonnie > Raitt, Donovan, Ann & Nancy Wilson, et al. doing a disco version of the > title song. In fact, it's so bad it's painful. Definitely NOT so bad > it's good. > > Stevie Wonder's "We Can Work It Out" might surpass the original, as > might Joe Cocker's "With a Little Help from My Friends." > > I think this steel-guitar cover of "Flying" on one of the > rec.music.beatles tribute albums I participated on surpasses the > original, too. (I didn't play on "Flying," of course..) > > Not sure if I can think of any others. > > ------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 16:30:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: In case of waning Whedon talk, break glass On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, David Witzany wrote: > Fox has signed our boy up to do seven episodes of a "La Femme > Nikita"-esque TV show starring Eliza Dushku (Faith from "Buffy"). In the words of a smarter man than me: Woohoo! - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 14:47:33 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: The New Fall Season On 11/1/07, Stacked Crooked wrote: > > > pronounced "Said Buggy" at least half of the time).> > > damn...i'd totally forgotten about *Speed Buggy*. Sid & Marty Krofft at their WTF-est. Believe me, since I heard myself talking about it, I've been trying to remember how the setup worked on this one. It was a Scooby gang reduced to a trio, and they drove around in this beat-up VW Thing (?) called "Schlep Car". When the going got tough, "Schlep Car" could turn into "Speed Buggy", as portrayed interchangeably by a real red dune buggy and a chroma-key puppet that looked almost nothing at all like the real dune buggy. But why did they ever drive around in Schlep Car at all? And didn't they talk to Schlep Car as if we was an intelligent personality, too? Odd. > > i believe you have me confused with ms. lord and/or mr. brown. I've not confused you with a librarian, but don't you frequently check stuff out from your library? I love people who frequent libraries because I'm too lame to carve out the time to do so myself. same song-title, twice: wesley willis would've been a likely suspect... I was wondering about that. Willis was always just over the line into the "gone" category for me to get really into his stuff (which is saying something). - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 15:14:41 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: reap >Subject: reap > >paul tibbets, pilot of the enola gay, 92. > >http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN01432398 And somewhere out there in the infosphere the sad-eyed head of J.G. Ballard has jerked upright, long fleshy nose twitching, twisted synapses crackling with sudden tense pulses of energy...the game's afoot! http://elab.eserver.org/hfl0093.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 15:23:23 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: In case of waning Whedon talk, break glass >Fox has signed our boy up to do seven episodes of a "La Femme Nikita"-esque TV show starring Eliza Dushku (Faith from "Buffy"). Just in time for the writer's strike. While as jazzed as anybody at this excellent news, I'm suspicious. This is Fox TV, and they'll pull stuff off the air so fast you can smell the electrons burning. They've done it before, and they'll do it again. Do Not Trust Them. That said, go for it, Joss! Once this strike thing is settled, that is. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 11:28:01 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: lolcat? Kevin sez: >Should we be concluding at this point that the entire Republican >party is in the closet? (Except the ones who don't give a rat's ass >what anybody thinks, of course, like Cheney - who our Mr. Letterman >referenced earlier this week as making pheasants dig their own >graves before he shoots them.) Pheasants? 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: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 11:31:25 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: xtc colors >Let's see (and I know this isn't quite >fair)--http://chalkhills.org/reelbyreal/i_song.html shows Blue Overall, >Blue Beret (I am assuming Fuzzy Warbles stuff originally intended for XTC >counts?), Disque Bleu (Andy likes blue apparently!), My Brown Guitar, Red >Brick Dream, Your Gold Dress.... > >might have missed a few...and not counting unreleased stuff or >Partridge/Budd stuff... At a stretch there's also "Over rusty water" 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: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 15:35:30 -0700 From: "Jason Brown" Subject: Re: The New Fall Season On Nov 1, 2007 2:47 PM, Rex wrote: > > damn...i'd totally forgotten about *Speed Buggy*. > > Sid & Marty Krofft at their WTF-est. Believe me, since I heard myself > talking about it, I've been trying to remember how the setup worked on this > one. It was a Scooby gang reduced to a trio, and they drove around in this > beat-up VW Thing (?) called "Schlep Car". When the going got tough, "Schlep > Car" could turn into "Speed Buggy", as portrayed interchangeably by a real > red dune buggy and a chroma-key puppet that looked almost nothing at all > like the real dune buggy. But why did they ever drive around in Schlep Car > at all? And didn't they talk to Schlep Car as if we was an intelligent > personality, too? Odd. I think you have the Hanna-Barbera "Speed Buggy" confused with Sid and Marty Krofft's "Wonderbug" "Speed Buggy" was animated and had a Mel Blanc-voiced talking Dune Buggy and ripoff Scooby crew (a la Jaberjaw). While "Wonderbug" was live action and had the Schlepcar/Wonderbug secret identity thing you describe. - -- "Never go with a hippie to a second location." - Jack Donaghy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 15:41:27 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: lolcat? On 11/1/07, grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > > Kevin sez: > > >Should we be concluding at this point that the entire Republican > >party is in the closet? (Except the ones who don't give a rat's ass > >what anybody thinks, of course, like Cheney - who our Mr. Letterman > >referenced earlier this week as making pheasants dig their own > >graves before he shoots them.) > > Pheasants? Quails, actually. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 15:56:55 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: The New Fall Season On 11/1/07, Jason Brown wrote: > > > I think you have the Hanna-Barbera "Speed Buggy" confused with Sid and > Marty Krofft's "Wonderbug" > "Speed Buggy" was animated and had a Mel Blanc-voiced talking Dune > Buggy and ripoff Scooby crew (a la Jaberjaw). While "Wonderbug" was > live action and had the Schlepcar/Wonderbug secret identity thing you > describe. Ah, you are correct. I barely even remember Speed Buggy at this remove. Damn. There were a lot of "talking car" things during that period. "Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch" was another one, although as I recall it, it took place in a world without humans, populated by living cars and motorcycles and such. In the synchronicity department, I recently finished "The Little Friend" by Donna Tartt, and spent the first 100 pages or so wondering when it was meant to take place, sort of suspecting that the character (who were kids) were chronologically just a year or two older than me and the story was taking place in the mid-'70's. But I wasn't totally sure until one of them dropped a reference to "Wheelie & the Chopper Bunch". I peg it as 1975, although the book never really says, and there seems to be a lot more meth kicking around in Mississippi than I would've thought at that time. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 19:02:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: In case of waning Whedon talk, break glass On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, kevin wrote: > >Fox has signed our boy up to do seven episodes of a "La Femme > > Nikita"-esque TV show starring Eliza Dushku (Faith from "Buffy"). > > Just in time for the writer's strike. > > While as jazzed as anybody at this excellent news, I'm suspicious. > This is Fox TV, and they'll pull stuff off the air so fast you can > smell the electrons burning. They've done it before, and they'll do > it again. Do Not Trust Them. Well, *I* think it sounds like Fox is improving. By only ordering seven episodes, they're greatly increasing the chance that they'll all air before the inevitable cancellation! Of course, it goes without saying that those seven episodes will be aired out of order, with the pilot episode shown last. Then they'll eagerly replace it with some crappy stylish cop show that's forgotten before it even airs, and a year later the Dollhouse DVDs will climb onto the all-time bestseller list. It's inevitable. - --Chris "I report, you decide" the Christer ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 16:47:04 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: lolcat? >> >Should we be concluding at this point that the entire Republican >> >party is in the closet? (Except the ones who don't give a rat's ass >> >what anybody thinks, of course, like Cheney - who our Mr. Letterman >> >referenced earlier this week as making pheasants dig their own >> >graves before he shoots them.) >> >> Pheasants? > > >Quails, actually. You're talking about reality, I'm talking about TV. I was quoting Dave, and Dave said pheasants. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 16:51:23 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: lolcat? >Pheasants? A game bird, i.e. something that ostensibly mature adults like to kill for fun. Don't you guys have an equivalent down there, or is the whole place overrun with hobbits? Cf. Norman Mailer, Why Are We In Vietnam? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 16:59:25 -0700 From: "Marc Alberts" Subject: RE: lolcat? Jeff Norman wrote: > On 10/31/07, Steve Schiavo wrote: > > > > > > > Times like this I wish I were really rich. Because I'd buy, say, six or > eight of these, in pairs, then breed them like crazy and give 'em away > to > fuck up this guy's market. > > Or does this guy think he's copyrighted them? > > Cool-looking cats, though - not wrong about that. My mom has a thing for show quality lhasa apsos (kind of cute, very friendly, dumb as rocks), and I bet this guy treats his cats like the breeder who gets my mom dogs--you have to agree not to breed them as a condition of buying them and/or he will only sell them fixed. Marc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 20:33:45 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: In case of waning Whedon talk, break glass On 11/1/07, Christopher Gross wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, kevin wrote: > > > >Fox has signed our boy up to do seven episodes of a "La Femme > > > Nikita"-esque TV show starring Eliza Dushku (Faith from "Buffy"). > > > Just in time for the writer's strike. > > > > While as jazzed as anybody at this excellent news, I'm suspicious. > > This is Fox TV, and they'll pull stuff off the air so fast you can > > smell the electrons burning. They've done it before, and they'll do > > it again. Do Not Trust Them. > > Well, *I* think it sounds like Fox is improving. By only ordering seven > episodes, they're greatly increasing the chance that they'll all air > before the inevitable cancellation! Of course, it goes without saying > that those seven episodes will be aired out of order, with the pilot > episode shown last. Then they'll eagerly replace it with some crappy > stylish cop show that's forgotten before it even airs, and a year later > the Dollhouse DVDs will climb onto the all-time bestseller list. It's > inevitable. Right. Fox is, I'm sure, counting on the success of the DVDs regardless of whether the show itself draws reasonable ratings. [puts on Fox exec cap] I've got it! Let's broadcast it 9:17pm Fridays, then switch it after the first two episodes to Mondays at 6:00pm - then after a single episode in that timeslot not broadcast it for five weeks, then put the last four episodes on in a marathon beginning at 2am on a Monday morning! Genius! - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 20:36:37 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: lolcat? On 11/1/07, Marc Alberts wrote: > > > > My mom has a thing for show quality lhasa apsos (kind of cute, very > friendly, dumb as rocks), and I bet this guy treats his cats like the > breeder who gets my mom dogs--you have to agree not to breed them as a > condition of buying them and/or he will only sell them fixed. Well, if the last part isn't true - I mean, if human birth control works only so well... "Sorry, man - that damned neighbor cat just slunk in the kitchen all sexylike, and he said he'd pull out, but..." Fegmania: The Only* Place Online to Discuss Cat Sex * probably not - but I don't want to know. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 21:51:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: Decemberists tour canceled Well, I guess I don't have to go alone to see the Decemberists this weekend because they aren't coming. The whole tour has been canceled. There was a cryptic e-mail about someone being sick (but not telling us who). While I'm disappointed, I'm more concerned about the recurring illness of X Decemberist. Or is it band strife? Dunno. I guess I'll be seeing Wicked with my daughter instead. Jill ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 23:20:36 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: The New Fall Season Rex says: > In the synchronicity department, I recently finished "The Little Friend" by > Donna Tartt, and spent the first 100 pages or so wondering when it was meant > to take place, sort of suspecting that the character (who were kids) were > chronologically just a year or two older than me and the story was taking > place in the mid-'70's. But I wasn't totally sure until one of them dropped > a reference to "Wheelie & the Chopper Bunch". I peg it as 1975, although > the book never really says, and there seems to be a lot more meth kicking > around in Mississippi than I would've thought at that time. Oh, for a time I kept meaning to finish that. Did you like it? I found it pretty rough going, but kept going about 4/5ths of the way through. I'm sure there was way too much narrative prose for me. I'm sure if I remembered anything about it other than half images of some elderly sisters, a tree, snakes, and a murder, I would be wondering how it ended (don't tell, there's still a chance.) I was a sucker for that first Donna Tartt (sp?) book. I think there's always a movie of it being made. It never gets finished. as ever, Lauren P.S. My favourite personal unfinished book story (which hopefully is not a personal story onlist repeat) is that when way younger (of course), I read The Fountainhead and then Atlas Shrugged but by the time I got to the end of Atlas Shrugged - I mean, within like 60 pages of the ending (which clocks in at about 1050 pages, I believe), I put it down (or threw it against a wall.) I *could not read one more fucking word*. I mean, it was physically impossible to 60 last pages reading, and rereading, and rereading, some variation of Ayn Rand's only (and by no means novel-length) idea. The Fountainhead was fun to read, mostly because my sister and I were on a trip, and I ripped off sections of the old paperback for her to read as I made my way through the book - the "read and destroy" method. - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 23:02:18 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: The New Fall Season On 11/1/07, lep wrote: > > > > The Fountainhead was fun to read, mostly because my sister and I were > on a trip, and I ripped off sections of the old paperback for her to > read as I made my way through the book - the "read and destroy" > method. There's an Iggy Pop joke in here somewhere, but I can't coax it out. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:47:46 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: The New Fall Season - --On 1. November 2007 23:20:36 -0400 lep wrote: > P.S. My favourite personal unfinished book story (which hopefully is > not a personal story onlist repeat) is that when way younger (of > course), I read The Fountainhead and then Atlas Shrugged but by the > time I got to the end of Atlas Shrugged - I mean, within like 60 pages > of the ending (which clocks in at about 1050 pages, I believe), I put > it down (or threw it against a wall.) I *could not read one more > fucking word*. I mean, it was physically impossible to 60 last pages > reading, and rereading, and rereading, some variation of Ayn Rand's > only (and by no means novel-length) idea. I haven't yet read anything by her, and based on what I've read *about* those books I can't imagine that I would like them, but they seem to be so influential that I keep thinking I should read at least one of them anyway ... my most recent exposure was in "Mad Men", where Atlas Shrugged comes up more than once. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:01:41 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Fegdestiny: Genetic? - --On 1. November 2007 07:15:35 -0700 Rex wrote: > Both of these have DIN as well, but the big one also has RCA's. Just > checked the other one and it's the same way... Huh, I never knew those were used in other parts of the world as well. The DIN connectors had some advantages (especially those for loudspeakers!), but ISTR that conversion was a hassle because the level was much lower on them. So you had to use a pre-amp to connect them to RCA. I could be wrong though, it's been a long time. I checked eBay out of curiosity, but the price level for decks in working order is (still?) pretty high. - -- b. Sebastian Hagedorn b Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de b' http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:33:17 -0400 (EDT) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Re: The Buffy Thread Still Lives (You Can't Kill It 'Cause It's Already Dead) Lauren wrote: > I mean, > just try to even start to explain who Connor is without giving up as > soon as you hear ridiculous it sounds; it's not long before you > realize that pretty much the only way to explain e.g. Connor to > someone who hasn't watched the show is to say "oh, you'll just have to > watch the show." Connor always reminded me of that kid who was in "Escape to Witch Mountain". A fine, fine film. > At any rate, I just watched "Smile Time" and decided to make the post > I meant to last week. "Smile Time" sort of sums up the point I'm > trying to make very well. I mean, that the people who do the show > could actually pull that episode off is incredible. I do really love > the show, but, on some level, I don't think my love is as is the love > of some of the other folks on the list, but I will say that there are > moments during those two series (i.e. Buffy and Angel), although few, > when I am stunned by what I can only put down to Joss Whedon being a > real genius. Smile Time may be my favorite episode of Angel. If you haven't already, go read the TWOP recap - it's brilliant. Since TWOP has come up here before, here's a nice little rant from a blog by an author who I've been following: http://yuki-onna.livejournal.com/#item339089 A snippet: "The recaps have by and large become simple play-by-plays, with little or no commentary, and very, very little actual snark. I guess that's what happens when you let a TV network buy a site that makes fun of TV shows. Snark becomes a product, gods save us all." The rest of it is entertaining in an "Oh my god, this girl loves Dr. Who more than anyone I've ever met - and that, my friends, is saying something" kind of way. Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 09:20:18 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: The New Fall Season On 11/1/07, lep wrote: > > > Oh, for a time I kept meaning to finish that. Did you like it? I > found it pretty rough going, but kept going about 4/5ths of the way > through. I'm sure there was way too much narrative prose for me. > > I'm sure if I remembered anything about it other than half images of > some elderly sisters, a tree, snakes, and a murder, I would be > wondering how it ended (don't tell, there's still a chance.) Those are all accurate memories. I did like it, but there was a lot there that I could relate to (maaannnn) and that kept me going. The end comes up a little too fast. I was a sucker for that first Donna Tartt (sp?) book. I think there's > always a movie of it being made. It never gets finished. The ending of that one almost sinks everything that came before, but it sure had a lot going for it up until then. I've avoided Ayn Rand like the plague ever since the College Lit professor who basically set my book tastes in stone mentioned her by saying something like, "That's too much like... oh, who is that woman who wrote that Fountainhead thing, and who I hate?" The guy was never wrong about anything. But yeah, her stuff is like the Bible to a certain subset of people who don't seem to have much in common otherwise, and it's a bit baffling. - -Rex ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #385 ********************************