From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #456 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, January 17 2008 Volume 16 : Number 456 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Dr. Lucy ["Stacked Crooked" ] Tiny Bit of Horn Tootin' (No RH) [Steve Talkowski ] shadow cat arrived safe & sound today ! [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: Re (extracting the) [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: Re (extracting the) [2fs ] Unlurking/Nat/Randi ["SH McCleary" ] Re: shadow cat arrived safe & sound today ! [Rex ] attn lou read fans [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: attn lou read fans [Rex ] Re: Pop on Trial (again) [hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] Re: Pop on Trial (again) [Rex ] Mail from the Museum! [Michael Sweeney ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:05:09 -0800 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Re: Dr. Lucy <> aw, next time i see you is fine. what's the title, by the way? i looked for it at half.com, but didn't see anything claiming to be from the 33 1/3 series. it appears, from , that it may have been offered at . what, you ended up not making the "I [WTC in flames] NY" t-shirts? i'd have loved to have worn one of those and seen how many times it ended up getting the shit beaten out of me. it's in the big disco torrent. . ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:36:05 -0500 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Tiny Bit of Horn Tootin' (No RH) Some of my character work is featured on Vinyl Pulse today! http://www.vinylpulse.com/2008/01/steve-talkowski.html Also, i'm participating in a custom art show (featuring KaNO's 'Moneygrip') that opens next Friday night at My Plastic Heart NYC. Swing by the East Village if you find yourself in NYC - the show runs thru February 20th. http://www.myplasticheartnyc.com - -Steve p.s. Revisit my blog on Saturday, the 26th, when I'll post images of the final, along with the design process, after the show opens. - -- Steve Talkowski Character Design & Animation http://sketchbot.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:14:12 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Re (extracting the) Michael Sweeney wrote: > Even if the current VP weren't (in Obi-Wan's felicitous phrase) > "more machine now than man: twisted and evil," the utter wreckage > of the current administration has left a trail of potential > surrogate heirs in the trash: Colin Powell, Rummy (slightly), > Alberto Gonzales, Condi, even Jeb. Powell, Condi, and (especially!) Jeb, sure. But Rummy was already too old and too obscure coming into the administration, and Gonzales was not just too obscure before becoming AG but he's too stupid -- W is actually legitimately smarter and more intellectually curious than him. Jeb was the one who was supposed to become President, until W got in the way. > At this point, watch whoever gets the GOP nomination to, once the > convention is over, NEVER mention GWB again. It'll all be "Ronald > Reagan" and "Let's make it morning, again, in America" > and "Change" and stuff like that... That's pretty much already happened. > Michael "Remember -- not only the first election w/out an incumbent > Prez or VP since 1952...but also first GOP ticket since '72 w/out > a 'Bush' or 'Dole' on it..." Sweeney "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 . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:40:04 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: shadow cat arrived safe & sound today ! will listen to once gilbert is done on howard CD says 1993-99 side one : tracks 1-7 side two : tracks 8-14 producers (i assume) all RH except brion 6 7 10 11 wiggy 5 13 andy RMS studios 8 pete gerrald @ hanszek studios unknown 4 inner pic of RH dressed for winter morris tepper acoustic on title track terry edwards - horns on 2, organ on 1 **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:06:22 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: Re (extracting the) >Apropos of nothing, isn't this the second or third time someone's >manipulated the subject line into the same Renaldo & the Loaf reference? Not >that that's a problem... Yup - me both times. I was wondering if anyone would notice. Only now the thread seems to have morphed into HamBush hodo 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, 16 Jan 2008 17:27:01 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Re (extracting the) On 1/16/08, grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > > >Apropos of nothing, isn't this the second or third time someone's > >manipulated the subject line into the same Renaldo & the Loaf reference? > Not > >that that's a problem... > > Yup - me both times. I was wondering if anyone would notice. Only now > the thread seems to have morphed into HamBush hodo Speaking of which...here's an interesting photo: < http://flickr.com/photos/milwaukeepressclub/2145649388/in/set-72157603237432348/ > - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:41:03 -0500 From: "SH McCleary" Subject: Unlurking/Nat/Randi Count me the last I'm sure to offer my condolences on Nat's death. Something told me this morning to check out the archives (something I do sporadically anyway). I was saddened to hear that we've lost such a fixture to the list. I can't offer much help with Randi. I noticed she had an account on Flickr back in the spring of 2005. I PMed her there, but never heard anything back. Some may be gratified to know her icon there is the cover of Eye. :) I'll be looking in again I'm sure. Scott Hunter McCleary www.flickr.com/photos/prodigaldog/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:01:36 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: shadow cat arrived safe & sound today ! Whoa, wait, where does one order this, the Museum? Want. - -Rex On Jan 16, 2008 1:40 PM, wrote: > will listen to once gilbert is done on howard > > CD says 1993-99 > side one : tracks 1-7 > side two : tracks 8-14 > > producers (i assume) all RH except > brion 6 7 10 11 > wiggy 5 13 > andy RMS studios 8 > pete gerrald @ hanszek studios > unknown 4 > > inner pic of RH dressed for winter > > morris tepper acoustic on title track > terry edwards - horns on 2, organ on 1 > > > > > > **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. > http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:47:09 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: shadow cat arrived safe & sound today ! Rex says: > Whoa, wait, where does one order this, the Museum? yes. http://www.robynhitchcock.com/giftshop.htm i'm awaiting tomorrow's mail pony. i ordered a mummy t-shirt as well (scroll towards bottom of page for U.S. customers) - if you like the "girly" t-shirts, it seems you might be in luck. more "girly" luck if you missed the trolley bus t-shirts from the recent tour. i believe u.k. folks have their own "shadow cat" supplier over their way; someone posted it a while back. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:16:01 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: attn lou read fans Feature Story Page 1 of 4 Standing on the Corner Studying Rules of Verse: A Visit With Sweet Jane January 16, 2008 by William I. Lengeman III _http://crawdaddy.wolfgangsvault.com/Article.aspx?id=5038_ (http://crawdaddy.wolfgangsvault.com/Article.aspx?id=5038) **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:55:49 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: attn lou read fans On Jan 16, 2008 7:16 PM, wrote: > Feature Story Page 1 of 4 > Standing on the Corner Studying Rules of Verse: A Visit With Sweet Jane > January 16, 2008 All of that, and yet no blueprints for a Stutz Bearcat? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:30:03 +0000 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Re: Pop on Trial (again) Very interesting discussion on the 60s list on BBC4 last night, including (inevitably) Stuart Maconie, but also Tony Blackburn (who has mellowed a lot since I saw him last); Neil Innes (great!) and Eddie Piller (who he?). Blackburn argued strongly for Motown as usual, and also for Jackie Wilson and Sam Cooke; Eddie Piller turned out to be a young mod, very keen on the Small Faces and the Action(!); and Neil Innes was brilliant and even stuck up for currently unfashionable Eric Clapton. There were loads of familiar clips of most of the people you have ever heard of, but no sign of any LA bands (presumably they are saving them for the 70s tonight) or of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, who were the best-selling singles act in the UK in 1969. Presumably you can watch it for 7 days on the BBC iPlayer at: James riposted: > There are a lot of "Surprising by their absence" ones (not) on that > list. The seventies without either Abba or the BeeGees is, like it or > not, just wrong. Sales figures may not lie, but they fail to capture > the zeitgeist, by the looks of it. Ken Dodd? No offence to the > diddyman, but I'm pretty sure that ther were many other singles that > captured the sixties far better than anything he ever recorded. > James * I can only guess that no individual record by the Bee Gees or Abba stood out above all the others. I certainly remember being bemused at the way Ken Dodd in 1965 and Englebert Humperdinck in 1967 dominated the charts. > On Jan 15, 2008 12:50 PM, wrote: >> PS Thanks to craigie and rob for their comments as well. Do you really >> mean that no-one knows what a trannie is any more, rob? Rex replied: > Well, the most common usage of the word these days in the US is to mean > "transsexual". Sometimes it seems to mean just plain "transvestite", but > generally it seems to be someone who's medically/physically transgendered in > some way. So I do believe it was a joke! I chuckled, anyway. > - -Rex * Right! To me, it is still a transistor radio... > Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:46:00 +0000 > Subject: Re: Top 10s by decade from 'The Times' > 2fs jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com wrote: >> ... I did not know that Lou Reed somehow had a hit with "Perfect Day" in the > '90s! > Michael Sweeney elucidated: > [Semi-resident semi-Lou voice chiming in here]...Me neither, until I saw that > BBC-produced "Classic Albums" (I think it was called) show focusing on > "Transformer" last year. In that episode, they showed parts of the video for > the '97 version. It started out as a promo piece for the BBC and was later > released as a charity single. Performers on it included Lou himself, Bono, > Bowie, Elton (don't call me Reg, it's not my...ooops!, it actually is!), > Emmylou Harris, Tammy Wynette, Dr. John, Joan Armatrading, Evan Dando, Laurie > Anderson (hey, who saw THAT coming?), and Tom Jones. (It being the UK AND a > charity single and all, George Michael must've been triple-booked -- or still > in stir over another park-bush-and-drugs lark -- to NOT be on it...) > Got to #1 in the UK for a few weeks in '97 / '98...and apparently sold a > boat-load. Who knew? It IS a large ocean that separates us... > Michael "You're gonna reap just what you sow..." Sweeney Caroline Smith added: > It's on the Trainspotting soundtrack (1996). That probably helped > popularize it, no? * And of course in 'Trainspotting' it is a drug record. More about the record here, confirming Caroline's view: And Michael's, adding an extended list of performers: - - Mike Godwin PS I woke up during the night, realising that 'melisma' has an exactly equivalent function to 'claptrap' in the theatre, designed to extract applause without really meaning anything much. Worldwide Words offers Nathan Bailey?s dictionary of 1721 definition: ?A Clap Trap, a name given to the rant and rhimes that dramatick poets, to please the actors, let them get off with: as much as to say, a trap to catch a clap, by way of applause from the spectators at a play.? PPS re Reg: I gave 'Reg Dwight' as an answer in pub quiz once, and was told 'No, that's wrong, because he has legally changed his name to Elton Hercules John'! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:20:24 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Pop on Trial (again) > PS I woke up during the night, realising that 'melisma' has an exactly > equivalent function to 'claptrap' in the theatre, designed to extract > applause without really meaning anything much. Worldwide Words offers > Nathan Bailey?s dictionary of 1721 definition: ?A Clap Trap, a name > given to the rant and rhimes that dramatick poets, to please the > actors, let them get off with: as much as to say, a trap to catch a > clap, by way of applause from the spectators at a play.? > Nice, I didn't know that one. I'd always thought it was onomatapeia (and no, I don't claim to have spelt that precisely). - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:28:00 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Mail from the Museum! ...Got my copy of "Shadow Cat" in today's mail! Can't wait to listen and report on it... Michael "Good sign: It's got that dark greenish kind of cover that bodes well ('IODOT,' 'Eye')" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Connect and share in new ways with Windows Live. http://www.windowslive.com/share.html?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_Wave2_sharelife_012008 ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #456 ********************************