From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #437 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, December 25 2007 Volume 16 : Number 437 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Festive greetings [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #436 [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #436 ["Miles Goosens" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #436 [2fs ] RE: 50 Greatest Moments in Rock ["michael wells" ] RE: 50 Greatest Moments in Rock [Jeff Dwarf ] Reap :: Arabella Churchill [FSThomas ] MY NAME IS JIM NABORS, AND IF SANTA CLAUS GETS STUCK IN MY CHIMINEY AGAIN THIS YEAR, THIS TIME I'M GONNA GATHER SOME FRIGGIN' WET-ASSED KINDLING, LIGHT A NICE SMOKEY FIRE, SMOKE THE SUMBITCH UP REAL GOOD, THEN EAT HIS TESTICLES FOR CHRISTMAS DINNER [] Reap [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Reap [michaeljbachman@comcast.net] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:26:59 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Festive greetings Hi all - just a short note to wish you a good festive season, no matter what it is you celebrate - may you have a happy and safe holiday time surrounded by those whom you love and those who love you. All the best for '08, James Dignan - -- 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: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:32:29 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #436 >From: "Miles Goosens" > >James: > >> Bangles - A Different Light > >'86. > > > Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Rattlesnakes > >'84. > >Lloyd did have an '85 album, but it's the sophomore one, EASY PIECES. Interesting. My copy of "A different light" definitely has c & p 1985 on it. You may be right about Lloyd Cole though - my copy confusingly is marked "c 1984, c 1985". "c" presumably stands for circa, not copyright. 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: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:11:36 -0600 From: "Miles Goosens" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #436 James: > Interesting. My copy of "A different light" definitely has c & p 1985 on it. Sometimes the copyright date isn't an accurate guide to release date, especially with early year releases. If I recall, DIFFERENT LIGHT was a *very* early '86 release, maybe even on New Year's Day... later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 23:41:45 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #436 On 12/23/07, Miles Goosens wrote: > > James: > > Interesting. My copy of "A different light" definitely has c & p 1985 on > it. > > Sometimes the copyright date isn't an accurate guide to release date, > especially with early year releases. If I recall, DIFFERENT LIGHT was > a *very* early '86 release, maybe even on New Year's Day... I can't weigh in on the specifics here...but what I've seen more often, in terms of differences between the year of release and the copyright date, is that the copyright date anticipates the upcoming year. So something that comes out this Tuesday (say) might well bear a 2008 copyright. Uh-and, perhaps the US and NZ release dates were different... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 23:34:11 -0800 From: "michael wells" Subject: RE: 50 Greatest Moments in Rock > I got 40 out of 50. Me too, and a rather fun quiz as those things go. Now only if I would have figured out that you could use the map for hints earlier on... Named after the famous guerrilla leader 'Che Stadium', Michael ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:44:11 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: RE: 50 Greatest Moments in Rock michael wells wrote: > > I got 40 out of 50. > > Me too, and a rather fun quiz as those things go. Now only if I > would have figured out that you could use the map for hints > earlier on... I got 44, but that's probably in part because I figured out to yse the map for hints right away. > Named after the famous guerrilla leader 'Che Stadium', > > Michael > "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 "The eyes are the groin of the head." -- Dwight Schrute . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 01:36:10 -0500 From: FSThomas Subject: Reap :: Arabella Churchill http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=RYQQ5X3WZF4HXQFIQMFCFFOAVCBQYIV0?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/12/22/db2202.xml Arabella Churchill, who died on Thursday aged 58, was the unconventional granddaughter of Britain's wartime prime minister and a founder of the Glastonbury rock festival. Drawn to the bohemian life, she was regarded as something of a wild child in one of the grandest families in Britain. Although in the mid-1970s she lived a down-and-out life as a squatter in London, she applied Churchillian energy to helping disadvantaged people, and founded her own charity, Children's World, providing entertainment for special needs children. advertisement "I'm immensely proud of my grandfather, and I hope he would be proud of me, butb& I was no good at being a Churchill," she said in an interview published in June. "People never saw me for me. It doesn't do a lot for your confidence." She was said to have been Churchill's favourite granddaughter, frequently visited him at Chartwell and was a regular caller to his London house during his final illness in January 1965. She remained close to her grandmother, Clementine Churchill, and to her half-brother Winston, for whom she canvassed when he was a prospective Conservative MP. Having enjoyed a gilded girlhood, she met the Kennedys and Martin Luther King in America. The gossip columns speculated that she might become Queen of Sweden after she dated the then Crown Prince (now King) Carl Gustav in 1970. One of the most beautiful young women in the Churchill clan, her imposing - some would say haughty - demeanour belied a friendly manner, which would break through the authoritative Churchillian presence. Arabella was shepherded across the wilder shores of high society in the late 1960s by her glamorous mother, who introduced her to the leading figures of Swinging London, and who bought her a three-storey house on Elgin Crescent in pre-gentrified Notting Hill, where Arabella entertained generously in the basement kitchen. In 1971 Arabella Churchill was embroiled in controversy when she declined an invitation to represent Britain as Azalea Queen at a Nato festival in the United States. She wrote to the organisers: "My grandfather used the phrase 'The Iron Curtain'. It seems to be that what is facing us all now is the final curtain. The defence systems of the great powers are mutually infectious." Her refusal caused a stir in Britain, and in her family. "My mother was saying: 'Darling, can't I just say you've had a nervous breakdown?' My brother rang up, absolutely furious with me," she declared. "The whole thing was a nightmare. I felt I had let the family down. I felt I wanted to be a hippy, I felt I was Left-wing, I didn't feel like the rest of my family." Arabella Spencer Churchill was born on October 31 1949, the daughter of Randolph Churchill, Winston Churchill's son, and his second wife June Osborne. As a child at her parents' house at East Bergholt, she organised fC*tes in the garden to raise money for charity. She became head girl at Fritham House, a private school in the New Forest run by Sir Timothy Eden, Bt, brother of the former prime minister Anthony Eden. In 1967 she was Deb of the Year. Two years later, in between stints as a secretary at London Weekend Television and working as a trainee public relations girl for the leprosy charity Lepra, she served on the committee of the Biafra Ball, a glittering fundraiser held at Kensington town hall at which April Ashley was one of the models. Having been conscripted on to many a charity ball committee by her mother, Arabella seized the chance to work for a cause in which she truly believed, and became an exotic ingredient in the social and political mix of the pro-Biafra lobby. In 1970, aged 21, on her return from a two-week tour of leper colonies in Tanzania and Zambia, she visited Glastonbury. With Michael Eavis she helped to found the Glastonbury festival and remained involved with the event, which often re-creates the deep mud, and some of the glory, of Woodstock. In 1979 Arabella Churchill established the festival's children's area as well as the theatre area, where she ran the circus and cabaret tents. At different periods of her life she found her Churchillian links to be a mixed blessing. In 1982 she was able to raise money for her modest alternative lifestyle by selling some of her grandfather's paintings at auction in London and New York. But in 1999, as middle-age beckoned, her sagging chin and overweight frame were ungallantly compared with the bulldog looks of her famous forebear, causing her to abandon plans for a facelift which was due to be broadcast on the internet. Arabella Churchill, who had been suffering from pancreatic cancer and was a convert to Buddhism, married, in 1972, James Barton, a Scottish school teacher, with whom she had a son. The brief marriage was dissolved and she married secondly, in 1988, Ian McLeod, a professional juggler working under the stage name "Haggis"; they had a daughter. He and her children survive her. A few hours before she died, her son, Nicholas Jake Barton, was sentenced to three years in prison in Australia for his part in an ecstasy drug racket. - -- FS Thomas | Interactive Developer | fsthomas-at-ochremedia.com 404.758.8616 (home/office) | 404.274.1632 (mobile) | ferraatu (AIM) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 10:22:38 -0800 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: MY NAME IS JIM NABORS, AND IF SANTA CLAUS GETS STUCK IN MY CHIMINEY AGAIN THIS YEAR, THIS TIME I'M GONNA GATHER SOME FRIGGIN' WET-ASSED KINDLING, LIGHT A NICE SMOKEY FIRE, SMOKE THE SUMBITCH UP REAL GOOD, THEN EAT HIS TESTICLES FOR CHRISTMAS DINNER happy goddamed xmas, goddamit! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 16:24:03 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Reap Oscar Peterson http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Obit-Oscar-Peterson.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin "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 "The eyes are the groin of the head." -- Dwight Schrute . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 19:20:50 +0000 From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Subject: Re: Reap - -------------- Original message -------------- From: Jeff Dwarf > Oscar Peterson > > http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Obit-Oscar-Peterson.html?_r=1&hp&oref=sl > ogin > > Oscar was a jazz pianist pioneer, no doubt about it. Some of his older piano peers are still around, George Shearing at 87, Dave Brubeck at 88 and Hank Jones at age 89 are still performing. Michael B. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #437 ********************************