From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #397 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, November 14 2007 Volume 16 : Number 397 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Robyn @The AV Club [kevin ] Re: And *Now* Playing... [Rex ] Re: And *Now* Playing... [2fs ] Re: Robyn @The AV Club [Rex ] Re: Chocolate Jesus [Rex ] Re: The box set? [Rex ] Re: And *Now* Playing... [kevin ] Re: Robyn @The AV Club [Tom Clark ] Re: Chocolate Jesus [Dolph Chaney ] Re: The box set? [kevin ] Re: Robyn @The AV Club [kevin ] Re: Chocolate Jesus [2fs ] Re: Robyn @The AV Club [Rex ] Re: Robyn @The AV Club [2fs ] Re: And *Now* Playing... [Capuchin ] Re: And *Now* Playing... [Rex ] RE: And *Now* Playing... ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: Robyn @The AV Club [lep ] Well, that's it... [Rex ] RIP - Ira Levin ["m swedene" ] Re: Well, that's it... ["Jason Brown" ] Re: Well, that's it... [2fs ] RE: And *Now* Playing... [kevin ] Re: And *Now* Playing... ["Jason Brown" ] Re: Well, that's it... [Tom Clark ] Re: Well, that's it... [Tom Clark ] Re: Well, that's it... [Rex ] d'oh [xx ] Re: And *Now* Playing... [Benjamin Lukoff ] Re: Well, that's it... [kevin ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #396 [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: My name is [lep ] Re: d'oh [Rex ] Re: And *Now* Playing... [Rex ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:28:53 -0800 (GMT-08:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Robyn @The AV Club >It's up there with that "I loves me some (x)" thing recently >cited by Tweedy via Eddie, and... shit, there's another catchphrase that's >just started to strike me as omnipresent, but I can't remember it offhand I was thinking "all up in," but that's probably going back too far for what you're thinking. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:51:10 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: And *Now* Playing... On 11/14/07, michaeljbachman@comcast.net wrote: > > -------------- Original message -------------- > From: Jeff Dwarf > > > Stacked Crooked wrote: > > > ...the new eagles LP. this is far, far worse than i could've > > > possibly imagined. > > > > Wow. I don't know that there is a far, far worse than I would have > > imagined, had someone forced me too. > > > What else would you expect of it with it only being available at WalMart? Yes, but which came first, the inevitable awfulness of the album that makes it perfect for WalMart, or the deal with WalMart that made the awful album inevitable? Certainly we're seeing a mythic gathering of Good and Evil forces for the Final Conflict/End Times in music businessry. The Eagles, Garth Brooks and Smashing Pumpkins are massing their minions in WalMordor, while Radiohead, an army of indie acts, and, somewhat paradoxically, Nine Inch Nails and Jimmy Buffet. struggle to make music freer. Neil Young, Prince, and Ray Davies remain rogue powers, giving away albums with concert tickets and newspapers, perhaps holding the balance of the conflict in their hands. The Beatles, halfway between life and death, glare on, undecided; the Ghost of the King counts his money and ignores it all in his Cheeseburger Afterlife. And Dylan just keeps making good records and awful movies. Thus the game is set in motion, or some shit. Also, most kids really don't know who any of these people are, except that the Beatles wrote the music that the newhotyoung Artists of The Now made better on the soundtrack based off of "Across Teh Universe". And yeah, I know this is kind of like a post-post-modern Dan Maclean song, which, yeah, we don't really need any more than a new Eagles album. I know. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:02:53 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: And *Now* Playing... On 11/14/07, kevin wrote: > > >> Stacked Crooked wrote: > >> > ...the new eagles LP. this is far, far worse than i could've > >> > possibly imagined. > >> > >> Wow. I don't know that there is a far, far worse than I would have > >> imagined, had someone forced me too. > >> > >What else would you expect of it with it only being available at WalMart? > >Michael B. > > So Henley's rationale is that the Big W's operation is totally green and > was more supportive of the band's groovy recycled packaging than any of the > other retailers he approached. He says nothing about Big W's abusive > treatment of their employees, hostility to union organizers, and that kind > of stuff. Priorities, huh? Uh, what does a retailer have to do with the "groovy recycled packaging"? (Not to mention the recycled music...) Plus which I rather doubt Wal-Mart is "totally green" - unless "green" means money, of course. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:08:42 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Robyn @The AV Club On 11/14/07, kevin wrote: > > >It's up there with that "I loves me some (x)" thing recently > >cited by Tweedy via Eddie, and... shit, there's another catchphrase > that's >just started to strike me as omnipresent, but I can't remember it > offhand > > I was thinking "all up in," but that's probably going back too far for > what you're thinking. > That flashed across my mind, too, but it is a bit older than what I'm thinking of. Dollars to donuts I'll hear it in the next few days and report back. There's that thing that sounds like "yuh-yayuh", but that's not quite it either. The two primary sources of these things seem to be hip-hop and Oprah-style talk shows. I'm just a little alarmed that I can't tell which once come from which source any more. That shouldn't be as difficult as it is. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:12:07 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Chocolate Jesus On 11/14/07, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > Rex wrote: > > Okay, from whence divines the increasingly common "sweet chocolate > > Jesus" trope (meme?)? > > Mule Variations: Ah, this one I know, but the specific usage these days has "sweet" attached every time and is used as an oath. Waits is really talking about a... well, a delicious messiah, and not doing a "ferfucksake" type of thing. I wonder if it started with Waits and then trickled down... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:17:24 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: The box set? On 11/14/07, kevin wrote: > > > There's always a revisionism factor in these retrospective deals. Neil > Young ignored a bunch of tracks when he released the Buffalo Springfield box > and generated considerable controversy. Right, which just inspires fans to seek out the "lost" tracks, and though that's not money in the artist's pocket, it does "hook" the listener into a deeper level of fandom while they're, I dunno, digitizing the long version of "Bluebird" from their cassette of the out-of-print 2-record Springfield collection, or googling around for mp3's of "Eldorado". Kind of like how every time a new collection of WH Auden's poems came out > someone would notice that he'd revised a bunch of stuff. Was it here were we were recently discussing Hunter S. Thompson's de-heroinization of his early writings in later Republican-era repringings? It happens. Also, Han shot first. Talking of which, where's my sax-laden "Man Who Invented His Own Damn Self"? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:18:22 -0800 (GMT-08:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: And *Now* Playing... Uh, what does a retailer have to do with the "groovy recycled packaging"? (Not to mention the recycled music...) Plus which I rather doubt Wal-Mart is "totally green" - unless "green" means money, of course. Now you're just being cynical. That's the kind of thing the Eagles have been fighting against all their lives You've got to let go of your defense mechanisms, as a girl I went to high school with in CA used to tell me every other time she opened her mouth. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:38:55 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Robyn @The AV Club On Nov 13, 2007, at 9:00 PM, Steve Talkowski wrote: > I also fondly recall the moment a few month back when Maggie > Gyllenhaal and Peter sARRRSgaard walked past me in front of the > office during lunch hour. Maggie and I had one of them eye contact > moments and I got a slight grin from her. *sigh* Note to self: Rent "Secretary" again... - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:49:12 -0600 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: Re: Chocolate Jesus There's also the very-much-NSFW definition provided herein: On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 10:12 -0800, Rex wrote: > On 11/14/07, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > > > Rex wrote: > > > Okay, from whence divines the increasingly common "sweet chocolate > > > Jesus" trope (meme?)? > > > > Mule Variations: > > > Ah, this one I know, but the specific usage these days has "sweet" attached > every time and is used as an oath. Waits is really talking about a... well, > a delicious messiah, and not doing a "ferfucksake" type of thing. I wonder > if it started with Waits and then trickled down... > > -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:52:06 -0800 (GMT-08:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: The box set? >Right, which just inspires fans to seek out the "lost" tracks, and though >that's not money in the artist's pocket, it does "hook" the listener into a >deeper level of fandom while they're, I dunno, digitizing the long version >of "Bluebird" from their cassette of the out-of-print 2-record Springfield >collection, or googling around for mp3's of "Eldorado". One regret is that in the Great Purge of 1984 (don't ask) I got rid of the Bluebird Roots boot that had the original something-like-fifteen-minute studio jam that the 1973 "extended version" was edited down from. That was kind of fun, though the sound was crap. That may even have been one of the rare recordings of all five original Springfield members in the same studio at the same time... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:06:40 -0800 (GMT-08:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Robyn @The AV Club >> I also fondly recall the moment a few month back when Maggie >> Gyllenhaal and Peter sARRRSgaard walked past me in front of the >> office during lunch hour. Maggie and I had one of them eye contact >> moments and I got a slight grin from her. *sigh* > >Note to self: Rent "Secretary" again... > >-tc Back to the bunk? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:10:48 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Chocolate Jesus On 11/14/07, Dolph Chaney wrote: > > There's also the very-much-NSFW definition provided herein: > Urban Dictionary is total bullshit - a bunch of misogynistic frat boys imagining sex. Feh. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:13:39 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Robyn @The AV Club On 11/14/07, 2fs wrote: > > On 11/14/07, lep wrote: > > > > m swedene says: > > > So is tom clark saying he and peter buck are the same person? > > > > oh sweet chocolate jesus, next you folks will being telling us the > > first rule of fight club. > > > > I think he's saying that Peter Buck and Bruce Wayne are the same person. Perhaps. But meanwhile, at the Joker's hideout, Lobsters 1 issues an official denial of Tom Clarkdom: > RE: Hello, I Am Lobsters! > > by Lobsters 1 > > No, I am not Tom Clark. There are thousands of us out there waiting to get > you, Buckittymuck!! > > 6:05 AM Wed November 14, 2007 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:38:15 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Robyn @The AV Club On 11/14/07, kevin wrote: > > >> I also fondly recall the moment a few month back when Maggie > >> Gyllenhaal and Peter sARRRSgaard walked past me in front of the > >> office during lunch hour. Maggie and I had one of them eye contact > >> moments and I got a slight grin from her. *sigh* > > > >Note to self: Rent "Secretary" again... > > > >-tc > > Back to the bunk? Tonight on National Fegographic, we will demonstrate how to lure the wiley Lauren Elizabeth from her hiding place in deepest Philadelphia. Reg here will sound this specially designed call - which goes like this: "Hey! Check it out! I've found a website with pictures of James Marsters naked!" Wait a moment and...ahh, there she is now. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:43:50 -0600 (CST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: And *Now* Playing... On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, 2fs wrote: > Plus which I rather doubt Wal-Mart is "totally green" - unless "green" > means money, of course. Well, their ideal store model encourages leap-frog development and automobile dependence and 80% (by mass) of everything that leaves Wal-Mart ends up in land-fill or incinerator within two months. Not what you would call "green". J. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:05:50 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: And *Now* Playing... On 11/14/07, Capuchin wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, 2fs wrote: > > Plus which I rather doubt Wal-Mart is "totally green" - unless "green" > > means money, of course. > > Well, their ideal store model encourages leap-frog development and > automobile dependence and 80% (by mass) of everything that leaves Wal-Mart > ends up in land-fill or incinerator within two months. > > Not what you would call "green". Now, this is the end of the innocence. You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave. I'm sure there are seven or eight similar quotes on the new double album... surely some of the greatest sins of the Eagles would be far more forgiveable if not for the context of their massive, massive hypocrisy. Of course, I haven't heard one note of the Eagles record, so what do I know... it could be better than "Loveless". Has MBV inked their distribution deal with WalMart for their comeback records yet? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:19:32 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: And *Now* Playing... - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Capuchin Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 2:44 PM To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: Re: And *Now* Playing... On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, 2fs wrote: > >Plus which I rather doubt Wal-Mart is "totally green" - unless "green" > >means money, of course. >Well, their ideal store model encourages leap-frog development and automobile dependence and 80% (by mass) of >everything that leaves Wal-Mart ends up in land-fill or incinerator within two months. >Not what you would call "green". The community I have lived in for almost 15 years now successfully held off a developers plans to put in a Wal-Mart right next to our high school and in a residential neighborhood. We had published development plans for the corridor that forbade big box stores. Orco submitted development plans which included a Wal-Mart three times within a span of a couple of years and was shot down each time by our committee. Orco then slapped a $40 million dollar lawsuit against our township earlier this year. They must have realized they weren't going to win, as they just dropped the lawsuit last month. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:20:43 -0800 From: "Clinton Golden" Subject: Unearthed rare Soft Boys issue? Seeing a recent post regarding a German "Heaven" release, I thought I'd chime in with something I recently came across that I had no previous knowledge of: "A Can of Bees" on the German Metronome label. I saw it on eBay and snatched it up (for an admittedly almost-probitively large "Buy-It-Now" sum). Has anyone seen of heard of this issue before? I've never seen it mentioned on ANY discography list. It comes in the second issue "yellow-back" cover, including the Aura tag, but appended with the Metronome label as well. The disc itself is on the black Metronome label, Cat. #0060.031. The matrix numbering in the trail-off vinyl is different from the Aura release, as well, so I'm assuming that this was actually a completely different mastering and pressing. Anyone have any idea? Thx, clint**** ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:04:27 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: Robyn @The AV Club 2fs says: > "Hey! Check it out! I've found a website with pictures of James Marsters > naked!" > > Wait a moment and...ahh, there she is now. Apologies, back now - I got distracted at mention of Ms. Gyllenhaal in ''Secretary." as ever, Lauren P.S. BTW, the only thing that makes up for the endless supply of shirts in Season 5 of Angel is that Spike gets to spent all his shirt-time complaining about our Dear Boy. - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:07:02 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: Robyn @The AV Club Chris wrote: > Excellent. Now, do we suspect that there may be some sort of connection > between Peter Buck and Glory? oh, I would so call you a geek if I didn't know exactly what you're talking about. as ever, Lauren - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:02:07 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Well, that's it... ...I'm afraid I'm going to have to use violence. I dunno against whom or what I'll be using it, or what form it'll take, but I've been left no choice. I'm also not saying I'm going to commit violence myself, just that I'm going to utilize it. For the greater good, you know. Thanks for understanding. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:47:50 -0500 From: "m swedene" Subject: RIP - Ira Levin Writer Ira Levin, who gave the devil his due in "Rosemary's Baby," created an archetype in "The Stepford Wives" and brought a notorious Nazi to fiction in "The Boys From Brazil," has died at the age of 78. http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-me-levin14nov14,0,1356811.story?coll=la-books-headlines ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:24:15 -0800 From: "Jason Brown" Subject: Re: Well, that's it... Let us know how you like Halo 3. - -- "Never go with a hippie to a second location." - Jack Donaghy ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:18:50 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Well, that's it... On 11/14/07, Rex wrote: > > ...I'm afraid I'm going to have to use violence. > > I dunno against whom or what I'll be using it, or what form it'll take, > but > I've been left no choice. > > I'm also not saying I'm going to commit violence myself, just that I'm > going > to utilize it. For the greater good, you know. > > Thanks for understanding. Errrmm...in reference or reaction to what exactly? Has Styx reunited with Dennis DeYoung? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:38:57 -0800 (GMT-08:00) From: kevin Subject: RE: And *Now* Playing... >Orco submitted >development plans which included a Wal-Mart three times within a span of >a couple of years and was shot down each time by our committee. Orco? Is that like, as in "Orc-co"? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:51:57 -0800 From: "Jason Brown" Subject: Re: And *Now* Playing... On Nov 14, 2007 2:38 PM, kevin wrote: > >Orco submitted >development plans which included a Wal-Mart three times within a span of >a couple of years and was shot down each time by our committee. > > Orco? Is that like, as in "Orc-co"? Nah i blame this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orko - -- "Never go with a hippie to a second location." - Jack Donaghy ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:56:35 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Well, that's it... On Nov 14, 2007, at 2:24 PM, Jason Brown wrote: > "Never go with a hippie to a second location." - Jack Donaghy Had that on my iChat status for about a week. Alec Baldwin is the shit. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:58:21 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Well, that's it... On Nov 14, 2007, at 2:02 PM, Rex wrote: > ...I'm afraid I'm going to have to use violence. > > I dunno against whom or what I'll be using it, or what form it'll > take, but > I've been left no choice. > > I'm also not saying I'm going to commit violence myself, just that > I'm going > to utilize it. For the greater good, you know. You have our support. Wear gloves. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:05:31 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Well, that's it... On 11/14/07, Jason Brown wrote: > Let us know how you like Halo 3. Haven't really done videogames since they stopped putting out games for Colecovision. All the stuff that it's supposedly now okay to like even if you're over 16, like videogames and comic books and Transformers... well, they haven't interested me much since I was 16-- okay, in the case of Transformers, make that 14. But I do recall putting up a pretty big stink at the time about how it should be okay to like them even if you were, like, over 16. The Victory of the Geek comes some decade and a half too late to do me any good. You know, about that Transformers thing, since the writer's strike is in the news, let me just say one more thing. Well, two more things, since I might as well break it to the FegTrekkies that the guys who wrote Transfomers have also written the new Star Trek movie. But the other thing is... a year or so ago there was a piece in the LA Times about how the screenwriters on the movie did an extraordinary experiment in collaboration by holding a well-attended open forum workshop, discussing and finessing the particulars of their script with other esteemed Hollywood scribes who were also "fans of the franchise". Which is neat and all, but... there's more than one "writer" "working" in "Hollywood" who professes to be a "fan" of the "Transformers" "franchise"? That's when I reach for my revolver. Okay, while everyone else is on strike, I'll be polishing my spec script for "Easy-Bake Oven: Final Vengance". - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:13:30 -0800 (PST) From: xx Subject: d'oh Man, I did some work on the movie "Rise: Blood Hunter". It is that Lucy Liu vampire move, which features the Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus Three track over the closing credits. I just grabbed the tape to check it out. The song is called "You Cut Me Loose". It is credited to "Robyn Hitchcock and The Venus Three". Is this song available anywhere else? mmmmmmm lucy liu, cameron richardson & carla gugino ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! your homepage. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:26:13 -0800 (PST) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: And *Now* Playing... On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Jason Brown wrote: > On Nov 14, 2007 2:38 PM, kevin wrote: > > >Orco submitted >development plans which included a Wal-Mart three times within a span of >a couple of years and was shot down each time by our committee. > > > > Orco? Is that like, as in "Orc-co"? > > Nah i blame this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orko Not him? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orko_%28Basque%29 OK, so who else here had no idea Orko had an uncle? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz3E8rp14P0 By the way, "fabulous secret powers were revealed to me the day I held aloft my magic sword and said 'By the power of Greyskull!'"... now, WHAT possessed him to do that in the first place? And does it slightly freak anyone else out when he holds out the sword like he's going for a bunt and yells "I....have...the POWERRRRRR!"? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:38:25 -0800 (GMT-08:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: Well, that's it... >Okay, while everyone else is on strike, I'll be polishing my spec script for >"Easy-Bake Oven: Final Vengance". Alternatively it could finally be time to start shooting Return Of the Son of Monster Magnet. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:54:42 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #396 >2fs says: > > Perverse of me, I know - but I imagine Gary Numan doing "Higsons"... > >oh dear, that's brilliant. way back in the days when we were recording our own cover versions for Glass Flesh, I toyed with a "Are friends electric" mix of Higsons, simly because Robyn;'s vocals on that song always sound like Gary Numan to me. As to who should cover "The president", as asked in an earlier post, Steve Earle could do a good, heartfelt countrified version... 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: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:01:59 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: My name is kevin says: > I laughed my ass off at Intolerable Cruelty (enormous George Clooney fan). Unsurprisingly, I've started on a Coen brothers jag after watching "Raising Arizona.". I was watching "Fargo" last night. I don't know if it was just my mood, but there's some twisted crap in that movie. Not that I wasn't laughing, but much of the time I was laughing it was that sort of laughing that half from the appall*. Like when the robbers get the wife to their "cabin" and she tries to escape, but runs in circles since she's blindfolded. And that cute little shoot out during the money drop. It's probably why I like "Barton Fink" much better. The humor in "Barton Fink" is very dark, but there's something that's a bit more humane about that movie. There's a certain kind of detachment in the violence in "Fargo" that makes me kind of nervous. I suppose it's one of the things that the Coens do so very well, but I guess a little of that goes a long way for me. At any rate, I saw "Intolerable Cruelty" for the first time. With all due respect to our Mr. Tews, I quite liked it. But it's probably just as well that I don't quite think of it as a Coen brothers movie. I mean, for a regular movie, it's very good. George Clooney pretty much saves the entire thing, and how the movie managed to recover from that really, really dreadful opening scene is sort of an accomplishment in itself. Next will be "Hudsucker Proxy." Later, perhaps "Miller's Crossing", but I read the Netflix capsule review, and indications are that the plot involves a triple cross, which would explain why I didn't like it when I saw it the first time. I never like any movie that involves a triple cross. Especially with mobsters. Not only do I fail to ever understand any form of the triple cross, but all the matching grey suits and short, dark haircuts in a mob / triple cross movie just make for total chaos. Sad but true. As an aside, it occurred to me that one of the reasons the triple cross perplexes me is that there seems something vaguely not right about the degree of three attached to it. It's more like two double crosses, isn't it? Or something. I mean, the triple cross isn't related to the double cross in the same way that x^3 is related to x^2? Oh, wait don't tell me: I'm overthinking the problem. What else is new. as ever, Lauren *I think I didn't use "appall" correctly in that sentence but didn't know what to do about it. - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:31:50 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: d'oh > Man, I did some work on the movie "Rise: Blood > Hunter". It is that Lucy Liu vampire move, which > features the Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus Three track > over the closing credits. > > I just grabbed the tape to check it out. The song is > called "You Cut Me Loose". It is credited to "Robyn > Hitchcock and The Venus Three". > > Is this song available anywhere else? And if not, can you, with your tape that you just checked out, make it so? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:38:04 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: And *Now* Playing... On 11/14/07, Benjamin Lukoff wrote: > > By the way, "fabulous secret powers were revealed to me the day I held > aloft my magic sword and said 'By the power of Greyskull!'"... now, WHAT > possessed him to do that in the first place? He was drunk? God, were the secret powers really "fabulous"? I guess the homoerotic undertones on that show went deeper than I remember. - -Rex ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #397 ********************************