From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #451 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, January 12 2008 Volume 16 : Number 451 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [OT] tiny tube amps [craigie* ] reap ["Stewart C. Russell" ] more reap ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: reap [Rex ] Re: reap [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] more fabs [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: Where Are They Now: Knut [Sebastian Hagedorn ] RE: REAP Ken Nelson, 96, country record producer ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: Where Are They Now: Knut [Rex ] misread news of the day [lep ] new on trader's den Robyn Hitchcock 22 November 2000 The Cluny Byker Newcastle- [HwyCDRre] Re: misread news of the day [Capuchin ] Re: misread news of the day ["Stewart C. Russell" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:05:57 +0000 From: craigie* Subject: Re: [OT] tiny tube amps Which one goes to 11? c* On 11/01/2008, 2fs wrote: > > On 1/10/08, Stewart Russell wrote: > > > > If you had a choice for guitar amps between the Epiphone Valve Junior > > or the Fender Champion 600, which would you choose? > > > Depends - how many cupholders does each one have? > > > -- > > ...Jeff Norman > > The Architectural Dance Society > http://spanghew.blogspot.com > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:17:29 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: reap Dave Day of ur-punks The Monks ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:26:10 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: more reap Sir John Harvey-Jones, 83 I met him some time in the 1980s at a Smallpeice Trust* event. He was a nice guy; hadn't developed the reality-TV personality that UK folks knew him for. Stewart *: founded, of course, by Dr Cosby Smallpeice. Not to be confused with Les Dawson's character Cosmo Smallpiece. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:24:09 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: reap On Jan 11, 2008 4:17 AM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > Dave Day of ur-punks The Monks Bummer. They'd done some reunion gigs in recent years, right? The Monks album is one of the very few reputed proto-punk records that really lives up to its reputation-- positively deranged, as Monk Fan #1 Mark E Smith might say. It's amazing. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:16:12 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: reap >Edmund Hillary, 88. Sad but true, but no surprise (he's been ill for tabout a year). The whole of NZ is in mourning. He was a national icon (how many non-royal living people get to have their pictures on banknotes?). Sounds like there's going to be the first ever NZ state funeral for anyone other than a Prime Minister or Governor-General. I suppose the US equivalent would be if you combined the mana (erm, prestige and personal icon status) of Babe Ruth and Muhammad Ali. 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, 11 Jan 2008 10:59:07 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: more fabs _http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=809055_ (http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=809055) Jan 10, 2008 06:00 ET Fuego Entertainment Acquires 15 "Lost", Never Before Released, Recordings by The Beatles **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:31:19 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Where Are They Now: Knut - --On 11. Januar 2008 04:28:18 -0500 lep wrote: > also a song, presumably about how super-cute knut is: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFR0xA60GGI > (there's a few more where that came from.) Now I'm embarrassed ... > is one of the children's voices supposed to like be what little knut > would say, if he could speak, or says in his head if he secretly can > speak and just chooses not to, or is the song just sung by children? The latter. It's bascially "Oh Knut you're so cute" (which rhymes if you pronounce the name in German). > (that would be a question for sebastian, or, at the least, someone way > more well-rounded than i am.) i wonder. I did my best but could not take it for more than 30 seconds. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:45:57 -0500 From: "David Stovall" Subject: Re: Shopgirl > Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:12:48 -0600 > From: 2fs > Subject: Re: Shopgirl > .. > > I think most nature documentaries would be improved by Captain Beefheart > narrating. > > Especially if he also writes the script. This giant squid, Architeuthis dux, seen here eating dough in a polyethylene bag off the coast of New Zealand, is fast and bulbous. Got me? d9 /Feeling still sad over the news of Gnat. Though I unfortunately have to count myself amongst those who never got to meet her in person, I've had, as long as I've been on this list, a general cool-as-hell feeling associated with her name from the consistent niftiness of her posts and writing. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:03:32 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: REAP Ken Nelson, 96, country record producer >what does REAP stand for anyway ? I always thought it could stand for Rest Eternally At Peace. Michael Bachman NP Write Your Adventures Down (OZ Go-Betweens tribute album from last year) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:28:36 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: The Least Essential Albums Of 2007 The Least Essential Albums Of 2007 _http://www.avclub.com/content/node/71861_ (http://www.avclub.com/content/node/71861) **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:54:58 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: Where Are They Now: Knut Sebastian says: > --On 11. Januar 2008 04:28:18 -0500 lep wrote: > > > also a song, presumably about how super-cute knut is: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFR0xA60GGI > > (there's a few more where that came from.) > > Now I'm embarrassed ... but isn't the important thing that YOU HAVE KNUT???!!! > > is one of the children's voices supposed to like be what little knut > > would say, if he could speak, or says in his head if he secretly can > > speak and just chooses not to, or is the song just sung by children? > > The latter. It's bascially "Oh Knut you're so cute" they speak the truth. > (which rhymes if you pronounce the name in German). okay, i'll confess this comes from a forwarded e-mail from my mom, but it looks like aside from KNUT!!!!, you might have HEMA???!!!! in germany? wikipedia says you have 9 stores. this is very, very cute (need flash to view): http://producten.hema.nl/ well, not "cute" as in "let's write a song"-cute, but still cute. (and "HEMA" probably doesn't rhyme with "cute".) or maybe it's "cool". i'm not sure which, but it's one or the other or maybe even both. personal favourite part: the lamp and the magnifying glass. actual website if you need that lamp: http://www.hema.nl/ xo p.s. HEMA looks a bit target-ish, perhaps, in their design? for non-u.s. folks (well, i think it's a u.s. store, but hell if i know), target is a big store with a bunch of stuff to buy. i hardly ever go in one (in part because i suck at buying anything except books, music, and office supplies), but they are very good for e.g. when you move and need to shop at a place with, uh, a lot of stuff to buy (and, although i can't vouch for their overall reputation, i haven't heard any talk of their treating employees crappy like wal-mart does.) at any rate, i'm only bringing target up to say that i have to confess that i really love their television ads. they are modern, and entrancing, with a lot of bold colors and a clean design, and plus have a touch of michel gondry-ish transformations in them. and in the continuing spirit of self-degradation, i might well go all out here and confess that i really like chanel ads. those are even kind of special because they only show them around christmas-time. p.p.s. my absolute favourite thing to do when i go to a foreign country is to go to pharmacies and also to grocery stores. - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:05:26 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Where Are They Now: Knut On Jan 11, 2008 3:54 PM, lep wrote: > > p.s. HEMA looks a bit target-ish, perhaps, in their design? for > non-u.s. folks (well, i think it's a u.s. store, but hell if i know), > target is a big store with a bunch of stuff to buy. i hardly ever go > in one (in part because i suck at buying anything except books, music, > and office supplies), but they are very good for e.g. when you move > and need to shop at a place with, uh, a lot of stuff to buy (and, > although i can't vouch for their overall reputation, i haven't heard > any talk of their treating employees crappy like wal-mart does.) Target has gone downhill in recent years... it just ain't cheap like it useta be. And they kinda seen to take themselves seriously, which is a minus. Still, it beats Wal-Mart (which we don't have in LA, but I'm just back from West Virginia, where all roads almost literally lead to Wal-Mart). > p.p.s. my absolute favourite thing to do when i go to a foreign > country is to go to pharmacies and also to grocery stores. > Oh, me, too. Hell, I like to do this in other states. It just seems to give you so much more of a sense of the daily life, the real nitty-gritty of a place, huh? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:31:37 -0500 From: lep Subject: misread news of the day i think i have weird parsing skills** from programming and reading math books, because i saw this headline: "Twins separated at birth met and married" and i thought it seemed extra odd because i was thinking, well, how likely is that, that the previously-conjoined twins live in a place that allows gay marriage. and then i thought, well, wouldn't they know because they look exactly the same? (** or maybe i just see what i want to see.) however, my finely-honed reading skills prevailed and it seems that they weren't conjoined, they were just regular twins who were adopted by different families: http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSEIC17037920080111 - -or- http://tinyurl.com/2equ6l i seem to recall that natalie had a bit of fascination with conjoined twins and twins - a sign of true character (IMHO). xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:35:13 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: new on trader's den Robyn Hitchcock 22 November 2000 The Cluny Byker Newcastle- _http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/showthread.php?t=51052_ (http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/showthread.php?t=51052) Robyn Hitchcock 22 November 2000 The Cluny Byker Newcastle-on-Tyne, England UK Cd One 01 Mexican God 02 Chinese Bones 03 Victorian Squid 04 My Wife and My Dead Wife 05 When I Was Dead 06 Silver Dagger 07 1974 08 Beautiful Girl 09 I Am Not Me 10 Autumn is Your Last Chance 11 Queen of Eyes 12 I Often Dream of Trains 13 You and Oblivion 14 Airscape 15 Freeze CD Two 01 Gene Hackman 02 Ride 03 Wolfpack Cheese Heaven Improvisation 04 Raymond Chandler Evening 05 Madonna of the Wasps Sony DAT recorder, to hard drive, Soundforge, to CD Recorded by me on a friend's DAT recorder. Sorry, so long ago no idea what the microphones may have been. **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:51:28 -0600 (CST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: misread news of the day On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, lep wrote: > however, my finely-honed reading skills prevailed and it seems that they > weren't conjoined, they were just regular twins who were adopted by > different families: > http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSEIC17037920080111 > -or- > http://tinyurl.com/2equ6l This simply can't be true. I mean, do they not require blood tests for marriage certification in England? And isn't this exactly what that's for? J. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 07:20:37 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: misread news of the day Capuchin wrote: > > This simply can't be true. I mean, do they not require blood tests for > marriage certification in England? Nope. Just walk up to the counter, fill in the details, pay the money. Stewart ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #451 ********************************