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fegmaniax-digest      Wednesday, January 23 2008      Volume 16 : Number 462



                               Today's Subjects:
                               -----------------
  Don't tell a soul.....  ["Bachman, Michael" <Michael.Bachman@fanucrobotics]
  Butt Doctors R Us                      ["Stacked Crooked" <etews@inwa.net>]
  Re: Jim Nabor's Peking Olympic?             [2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>]
  Re: Butt Doctors R Us                         [lep <softboygirl@gmail.com>]
  Re: Butt Doctors R Us                     [Rex <spottedeagleray@gmail.com>]
  reap                                   [Christopher Gross <chrisg@gwu.edu>]
  Re: Jim Nabor's Peking Olympic?  [Sebastian Hagedorn <Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-]
  Re: Butt Doctors R Us                       [2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>]
  Heath Ledger - REAP??                 ["Sumiko Keay" <sumi.keay@gmail.com>]
  REAP                              [Maximilian Lang <maximlang@hotmail.com>]
  reap                                          [Jill Brand <jlbrand@bu.edu>]
  reap                                             [grutness@slingshot.co.nz]
  Re: Heath Ledger - REAP??                [Jeff Dwarf <munki1972@yahoo.com>]
  Re: Don't tell a soul.....           [Benjamin Lukoff <blukoff@alvord.com>]
  Re: Heath Ledger - REAP??  [Sebastian Hagedorn <Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.]
  Re: Heath Ledger - REAP??             [kevin <kevinstudyvin@earthlink.net>]
  RE: Ford Prefect                    ["SH McCleary" <prodigaldog@gmail.com>]
  Re: Band names                  [Michael Sweeney <m_l_sweeney@hotmail.com>]
  How far the political fighting has spread already  [Jeff Dwarf <munki1972@]
  Mid-Mac (was: Reap)             [Michael Sweeney <m_l_sweeney@hotmail.com>]
  Re: How far the political fighting has spread already  [2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j]
  RE: How far the political fighting has spread already  ["Bachman, Michael"]
  Re: How far the political fighting has spread already  [2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j]
  RE: How far the political fighting has spread already  ["Bachman, Michael"]
  The Butt-Doctor and the Damage Done    ["Stacked Crooked" <etews@inwa.net>]
  The Heath Ledger/Nick Drake Connection                  [HwyCDRrev@aol.com]

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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:59:45 -0500
From: "Bachman, Michael" <Michael.Bachman@fanucrobotics.com>
Subject: Don't tell a soul.....

....but it's our very own Nuppy's birthday today!

MIchael B.

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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:34:53 -0800
From: "Stacked Crooked" <etews@inwa.net>
Subject: Butt Doctors R Us

<ITunes question from me: Somehow (that is to say, by trying to do too many
things at once) last night
 I accidentally altered the Artist and Album information on a couple
hundred iTunes songs (they all now claim to be tracks from David Byrne,
Sounds from True Stories).>

assuming you're running windows, what about performing a system restore?


<What's inane is some artist deciding he always wants his name spelled
iAmButtwAx in 72-point
Helvetica Bold.>

did you make that up?  that's frickin' hilarious!  screened the helvetica
documentary last week, by the way.  i'd never have believed that so many
people would have such strong feelings regarding a *font*!


<I capitalize every band name, every artist name, every album title, in
standard usage...unless there isn't standard usage or unless it looks
stupid that way. It's my database, after all...>

completely agree.  however, you can't really fault people for entering,
e.g., "k.d. lang" into a database rather that "K.D. Lang".  it's *her*
name, after all.


<When I was going to college in northern Massachusetts I had to phone the
local town offices for some reason, and presumably because of my NY accent
the old woman on the line thought I had identified myself as the Town
Clerk.  Since then that has been the name of my fantasy sports teams.>

the chef once ordered "salmon, six" (i.e., six pounds), and the distributor
delivered cinnamon sticks.


<We have very limited quantities of Robyn's "Shadow Cat" CD available now
on the website.>

somebody wanna upload some FLACs?


<I wouldn't be surprised if the Pats are defeated in the Super Bowl by the
New York Football Giants.>

i think it's clear by new that new england cannot be defeated.  they're
don't seem to be nearly as dominating as, say, were the '85 bears.  but
they always find a way.  a big part of it is that they're so much better
than everybody else at making halftime adjustments.  that said, 14.5 is a
fucking crazy line.  i see it's now down to 12 -- which is still pretty
nuts (not that i'll be wagering the giants, mind you...but at 14.5 i'd have
been *very* tempted).


<Then again, I'm not sure the good folks at The Covet House catalogue would
actually sell to such a low life as a butt doctor.>

there was a colon therapist that used to come in to the restaurant all the
time, and we had relatives' kids calling him "the butt doctor!"  not that
he did anything to dissuade such antics: he claimed his procedure was
administering "turbo-charged enemas"; when asked how he was doing, he would
often answer, "ah, you know: same shit, different day;" and one of his
stock practices was referring to constipation as "poop denial", encouraging
people to instead (with his help) "poop the nile".  motherfucker made a
*lot* of money, too.


<Eek, have we secretly uncovered a coven of K3 fans?>

i'm more partial to the new christies, but the kingston trio kicked some
serious ass as well.


<Did you listen to: Levon Helm - Dirt Farmer>

no!  downloading as we speak!


this new eels tenth-anniversary b-sides and rarities thing is pretty
decent.

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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:23:27 -0600
From: 2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Jim Nabor's Peking Olympic?

On Jan 22, 2008 11:33 AM, Stacked Crooked <etews@inwa.net> wrote:

> Jim White - Transnormal Switcheroo
>
>  ~ i think it's his best album (however, his collaboration with nina
> nastasia does nothing for me).


The Nastasia collab is a different Jim White - the Australian one, who drums
w/The Dirty Three.

Also: its actual title is _Transnormal Skiperoo_, at least according to
Google...

Interesting list, though.

Curious: what's the deal w/you and hyphens? You seem to interpolate them
whenever a noun is used adjectivally...

- -- 

...Jeff Norman

The Architectural Dance Society
http://spanghew.blogspot.com

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:10:55 -0500
From: lep <softboygirl@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Butt Doctors R Us

Stacked Crooked <etews@inwa.net> says:
> screened the helvetica
> documentary last week, by the way.

you'll say "oh, that's just not possible", but eddie is now 2X as cool
as before.

xo

p.s. can i start saying "i screened <x>" or are special credentials
needed? can you screen a movie you've seen before?  or would that be
called "rescreening"?

p.p.s. many of the "helvetica" fonts i've worked with have been
imitations, because helvetica always cost extra.  this was a while
back; i don't know what the current situation is.  hopefully i'll know
soon, as the helvetica documentary is, of course, in the netQ.

- -- 
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"People with opinions just go around bothering one another."

                   - The Buddha

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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:50:56 -0800
From: Rex <spottedeagleray@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Butt Doctors R Us

On Jan 22, 2008 10:34 AM, Stacked Crooked <etews@inwa.net> wrote:

>
>
> <Eek, have we secretly uncovered a coven of K3 fans?>
>
> i'm more partial to the new christies, but the kingston trio kicked some
> serious ass as well.
>
Just came back from the WV with my dad's whole record collection on my hard
drive.    There are some New Christies all up in there, I'm happy to say.

Maybe the nost ass-kicky K3 variant, though, is Dave Guard's Whiskey Hill
Singers.  Judy Henske, yo.

- -Rex

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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:50:37 -0500 (EST)
From: Christopher Gross <chrisg@gwu.edu>
Subject: reap

Heath Ledger, according to the "breaking news" banner on cnn.com.


- --Chris

______________________________________________________________________
Christopher Gross             On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog.
chrisg@gwu.edu

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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:55:25 +0100
From: Sebastian Hagedorn <Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: Re: Jim Nabor's Peking Olympic?

- -- Stacked Crooked <etews@inwa.net> is rumored to have mumbled on 22. 
Januar 2008 09:33:06 -0800 regarding Jim Nabor's Peking Olympic?:

> as i did last year, i've uploaded my top fifty to the usenet.  to find
> 'em, browse on over to binsearch.info (or some other usenet search
> facility), and execute a search for "rekkids".

OK, you pushed me over the edge. I finally subscribed to my provider's 
binary newsserver.

(Actually it's a steal - sic! - for 2,90 Euros per month)

So thanks much. Now I only have to correct your weird tagging and find the 
time to actually listen to all that stuff ...
- --
Sebastian Hagedorn
Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany
http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/
"Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock

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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:29:15 -0600
From: 2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Butt Doctors R Us

On Jan 22, 2008 12:34 PM, Stacked Crooked <etews@inwa.net> wrote:

>
> <What's inane is some artist deciding he always wants his name spelled
> iAmButtwAx in 72-point
> Helvetica Bold.>
>
> did you make that up?  that's frickin' hilarious!


The "name"? yeah, that's one of mine... I mean, not that I've ever used,
just that I made up. Feel free to record under it...


>
> <I capitalize every band name, every artist name, every album title, in
> standard usage...unless there isn't standard usage or unless it looks
> stupid that way. It's my database, after all...>
>
> completely agree.  however, you can't really fault people for entering,
> e.g., "k.d. lang" into a database rather that "K.D. Lang".  it's *her*
> name, after all.


That's just it: your name is given you by someone else: it's part of your
social history. It actually sorta irritates me - I think it's symptomatic of
the The Big American I: you know, like Paul Simon didn't say: I am Iraq, I
am an island. I think it's useful to remember that the seemingly most
important part of your public identity - your name - isn't given to you by
you, that instead it inscribes you in a social network.

I mean, okay: Ms. Lang can spell her name, for herself, any damned way she
chooses...that doesn't mean I'm bound to follow.

Incidentally, I'm pretty sure that case is not part of a legal name - so
that one cannot, say, legally change one's name from "James A. Littledick"
to "james a. littledick." Or "JAMES A. LITTLEDICK" for that matter.

Apparently it's sometime practice among some Asian-Americans to use numbers
as middle names...there was some kerfuffle about that a while back, as to
whether it was legal.


- -- 

...Jeff Norman

The Architectural Dance Society
http://spanghew.blogspot.com

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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:55:03 -0600
From: "Sumiko Keay" <sumi.keay@gmail.com>
Subject: Heath Ledger - REAP??

http://wcbstv.com/breakingnewsalerts/heath.ledger.dead.2.635530.html

WTF?

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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:57:51 -0500
From: Maximilian Lang <maximlang@hotmail.com>
Subject: REAP

 Heath Ledger.

_________________________________________________________________
Need to know the score, the latest news, or you need your Hotmail.-get your
"fix".
http://www.msnmobilefix.com/Default.aspx

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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:18:34 -0500 (EST)
From: Jill Brand <jlbrand@bu.edu>
Subject: reap 

Heath Ledger - age 28

Jeez

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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:20:42 +1300
From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz
Subject: reap

Heath Ledger???
- -- 
    James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand  <http://www.grutness.co.nz>
    -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-
    =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-.
    -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=-
    .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=

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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:13:23 -0800 (PST)
From: Jeff Dwarf <munki1972@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Heath Ledger - REAP??

Sumiko Keay <sumi.keay@gmail.com> wrote:
>
http://wcbstv.com/breakingnewsalerts/heath.ledger.dead.2.635530.html
> 
> WTF?

I looked at his filmography, and realized that I've never actually
seen any of the movies he was in. 

That's really sad though.


"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

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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:57:27 -0800 (PST)
From: Benjamin Lukoff <blukoff@alvord.com>
Subject: Re: Don't tell a soul.....

I loved that album.

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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:48:09 +0100
From: Sebastian Hagedorn <Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: Re: Heath Ledger - REAP??

- -- Jeff Dwarf <munki1972@yahoo.com> is rumored to have mumbled on 22. 
Januar 2008 14:13:23 -0800 regarding Re: Heath Ledger - REAP??:

> I looked at his filmography, and realized that I've never actually
> seen any of the movies he was in.

I thought the same was true for me, but I think I saw "10 Things I Hate 
About You". Can't say I remember him, though.
- --
Sebastian Hagedorn
Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany
http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/
"Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:22:26 -0800 (GMT-08:00)
From: kevin <kevinstudyvin@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Heath Ledger - REAP??

>I thought the same was true for me, but I think I saw "10 Things I Hate 
>About You". Can't say I remember him, though.

Not bad at all as the least-Boblike character in I'm Not There, which I'm still buzzed about.  Love that Todd Haynes.

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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:14:12 -0500
From: "SH McCleary" <prodigaldog@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: Ford Prefect

You could GET them in the US. My parents were driving one when I was born.
Well, not at the exact time.... My dad tells me that some Ford dealers
actually sold them in the US (back in the day -- 1959). Its name was Percy.
The steering wheel was bigger than the tires.

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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:32:52 +0000
From: Michael Sweeney <m_l_sweeney@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Band names

Rex wrote:
>Similar topic: Jeff N's year-end compilation feature a song by a band
namedRingo Deathstarr. And there is already a fairly well known band
calledDeathray Davies. Surely we can come up with a third "insert the
word'Death" into a British Invasion musician's name for an hilarious pun"
bandname, right? <


...Not exactly there (neither Brit Invasion nor a single name), but...I
nominate "Iron Death and the Maiden."


Michael "I thought Heath Ledger was survived by Jake Gyllenhaal, but...I may
have been sadly misinformed" Sweeney
_________________________________________________________________
Need to know the score, the latest news, or you need your Hotmail.-get your
"fix".
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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:18:32 -0800 (PST)
From: Jeff Dwarf <munki1972@yahoo.com>
Subject: How far the political fighting has spread already

It's now pitting members of the 1980s Lakers Dynasty against one
another!!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/22/abduljabbar-to-magic-ob_n_82707.html


"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: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:29:09 +0000
From: Michael Sweeney <m_l_sweeney@hotmail.com>
Subject: Mid-Mac (was: Reap)

Michael Bachman wrote:


>Kiln House from 1970 had some decent rocking cuts and is the last albumwith
Jeremy Spencer. I still listen to it once a year. Future Games from1971 was
pretty tame and is the first one with Christine McVie as a fulltime member.
Bare Trees from 1972 is a improvement over Future Games andis the last album
with Danny Kirwin. The 1973-74 albums I never listento anymore.<


I'm pretty familiar with those albums -- and in my opinion (wildly disparate,
admittedly; with more focus on songs, probably, rather than on purely rocking
out) I rate "Bare Trees" the highest and '73's "Penguin" as the nadir of that
post-Green, pre-Buckingham period.  But, it has been a while (OK - MORE than
awhile; none of these are on CD in my collection) since I listened to them...


Michael "Peter Green, I can see; even Spencer/Kirwan; and of course
Buckingham/Nicks...but do you think ANYONE's favorite F.Mac incarnation is the
one with Dave Mason and Delaney & Bonnie's daughter?  Uh...no" Sweeney
_________________________________________________________________
Need to know the score, the latest news, or you need your Hotmail.-get your
"fix".
http://www.msnmobilefix.com/Default.aspx

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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:37:09 -0600
From: 2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How far the political fighting has spread already

On 1/22/08, Jeff Dwarf <munki1972@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> It's now pitting members of the 1980s Lakers Dynasty against one
> another!!
>
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/22/abduljabbar-to-magic-ob_n_82707.html
>

Someone also should point out that in *his* rookie season, all KAJ did was
lead his team to the championship (the Milwaukee Bucks)...


- -- 

...Jeff Norman

The Architectural Dance Society
http://spanghew.blogspot.com

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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:53:14 -0500
From: "Bachman, Michael" <Michael.Bachman@fanucrobotics.com>
Subject: RE: How far the political fighting has spread already

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On
Behalf Of 2fs
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 8:37 PM
To: Jeff Dwarf
Cc: And Pat Riley as Howard Dean
Subject: Re: How far the political fighting has spread already

On 1/22/08, Jeff Dwarf <munki1972@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> It's now pitting members of the 1980s Lakers Dynasty against one 
>> another!!
>>
>>
>>
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/22/abduljabbar-to-magic-ob_n_827
>> 07.html
>>

Jeff wrote:
>Someone also should point out that in *his* rookie season, all KAJ did
was lead his team to the championship (the >Milwaukee Bucks)...

Sorry Jeff, but in KAJ's rookie season of 1969-70 The New York Knicks
beat the Lakers for the NBA Championship. The Bucks won the following
year when they got Oscar Robertson. Those Knicks teams from 1969-70
through 1973-74 were some of the best passing teams I every saw. They
used to run a weave at the top of the key then someone would break loose
for a lay-up underneath. Great guard trio with Walt "Clyde" Frazier,
Earl "The Pearl" Monroe, and Dick Barnett. They only one that comes
close would be the Detroit Pistons trio of Isaiah Thomas, Joe Dumars and
Vinnie Johnson. 

Michael B. 

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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:18:46 -0600
From: 2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How far the political fighting has spread already

On 1/23/08, Bachman, Michael <Michael.Bachman@fanucrobotics.com> wrote:
>
>
> >>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/22/abduljabbar-to-magic-ob_n_827
> >> 07.html
> >>
>
> Jeff wrote:
> >Someone also should point out that in *his* rookie season, all KAJ did
> was lead his team to the championship (the >Milwaukee Bucks)...
>
> Sorry Jeff, but in KAJ's rookie season of 1969-70 The New York Knicks
> beat the Lakers for the NBA Championship. The Bucks won the following
> year when they got Oscar Robertson.


Hey, what - you want me to actually look up things on the internet before I
post? I was like 9 years old at the time.

Am I right in remembering/having read that in KAJ/Alcindor's first season,
he did lead the Bucks to their first winning record, though?

- -- 

...Jeff Norman

The Architectural Dance Society
http://spanghew.blogspot.com

------------------------------

Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:28:48 -0500
From: "Bachman, Michael" <Michael.Bachman@fanucrobotics.com>
Subject: RE: How far the political fighting has spread already

  _____

From: 2fs [mailto:jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 11:19 AM
To: Bachman, Michael
Cc: Jeff Dwarf; And Pat Riley as Howard Dean
Subject: Re: How far the political fighting has spread already


On 1/23/08, Bachman, Michael <Michael.Bachman@fanucrobotics.com> wrote:


	>>

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/22/abduljabbar-to-magic-ob_n_827
	>> 07.html
	>>

	Jeff wrote:
	>Someone also should point out that in *his* rookie season, all
KAJ did
	was lead his team to the championship (the >Milwaukee Bucks)...

	Sorry Jeff, but in KAJ's rookie season of 1969-70 The New York
Knicks
	beat the Lakers for the NBA Championship. The Bucks won the
following
	year when they got Oscar Robertson.


 > Hey, what - you want me to actually look up things on the internet
before I post? I was like 9 years old at the time.

 > Am I right in remembering/having read that in KAJ/Alcindor's first
season, he did lead the Bucks to their first winning record, though?

Yes, the Knicks beat them in the playoffs if I remember correctly. They
just needed Oscar to put them over the top in 1970-71. I'm a few year
older and was in high school at the time, and The Knicks were my
favorite team back then. The 1972-73 Knicks were the champs as well and
beat the Lakers again in the finals. They haven't won it since.

Michael

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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:46:30 -0800
From: "Stacked Crooked" <etews@inwa.net>
Subject: The Butt-Doctor and the Damage Done

hey,
i've come into possession of some kenyan stamps.  i'm not a collector, but
i imagine there must be a few here who are?  if you want 'em, send me your
snail-mail address.

they're very pretty.  there's the nairobi arboretum centenary, one
depicting peanuts, two depicting the cinnamon-chested bee-eater, and four
depicting coffea arabica.

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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:07:26 EST
From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com
Subject: The Heath Ledger/Nick Drake Connection

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/48205-the-heath-ledgernick-drake-co
nnection

The  Heath Ledger/Nick Drake Connection 
Actor claims obsession with Drake,  simulates suicide on 2007 video to 
Drake's music 
The already startling  death of actor Heath Ledger has taken on another 
startling dimension following  the revelation that Ledger courted a self-proclaimed 
obsession with another  tragic figure, late English folk singer Nick Drake. 
This obsession even  manifested itself in a Drake music video.

"I was obsessed with an artist  by the name of Nick Drake," Ledger explained 
at a September 2007 Venice Film  Festival press conference [via MTV.com]. 
Ledger was promoting I'm Not There at  the time, in which he plays Bob Dylan, 
along with several other actors and  actresses. 

"I was obsessed with [Drake's] story and his music and I  pursued it for a 
while and [I] still have hopes to kind of tell his story one  day. But it kind 
of died away, faded away, because I...He was a very mysterious  figure and I 
felt like I would be taking too many liberties."

The body of  28-year-old Ledger was found yesterday (January 22) in a 
Manhattan apartment.  Since sleeping pills were found nearby, Ledger's death was 
widely reported as  being most likely drug-related. However, according to the 
Associated Press, an  autopsy performed today proved inconclusive, and TMZ.com 
reports that Ledger had  pneumonia at the time of his death.

Drake, meanwhile, died in 1974 at the  age of 26 from an apparent overdose of 
the antidepressant  amitriptyline.

Ledger created a black-and-white video clip that was shown  at a pair of 
exhibits devoted to Drake last year, according to MTV.com and  Billboard.com 
reports. 

As the MTV.com report explains, "A representative  for Drake's estate 
described the 'gorgeous' and 'extremely moving' clip as a  stark black-and-white 
composition, consisting mainly of the director turning the  camera on himself. In 
the end, Ledger is seen drowning himself in a  bathtub."

The song playing during this is Drake's "Black Eyed Dog",  purportedly the 
last song the English singer ever wrote and allegedly a  reference to Winston 
Churchill's description of depression.

The estate of  Nick Drake, which owns the Ledger video, has not yet decided 
whether to release  it.  




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