From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #508 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, February 19 2008 Volume 16 : Number 508 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Fwd: Re: Sailor; Pilot: Chicory Tip ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: retraction [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: retraction [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: Sailor; Pilot: Chicory Tip [2fs ] Re: movie talk [Tom Clark ] RE: movie talk ["Bachman, Michael" ] bad album covers (no RH content as far as i can tell) [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: movie talk [Rex ] Re: bad album covers (no RH content as far as i can tell) ["kevin studyvi] Re: misheard lyrics [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: misheard lyrics [Tom Clark ] Terry Gilliam kinda sorta catches a break [Jeff Dwarf ] Guaranteed Hitchcock-free post ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: Guaranteed Hitchcock-free post [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] reap [lep ] Re: Sailor; Pilot: Chicory Tip [Sebastian Hagedorn ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:24:15 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Sailor; Pilot: Chicory Tip mike wrote: > > PS Our drummer always thought that the Scottish accent on ?Don?t go, > don?t go? was really amusing? sorry about that. Stewart. That's okay. I find other people's accents absolutely hilarious. Since there are many of you and only one of me, I get a ton more amusement than everyone else. Sadly, though, people I'm meeting now don't believe I'm Scottish. I think I just speak generic Scarborough now. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:50:04 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: movie talk On 2/18/08, lep wrote: > > > > as an aside, i think my friend m. turned out to be (what i can only > guess is) the singular gay man who hadn't yet heard of the movie > ("grey gardens" says nothing if not "cult gay hit.") > Support lent to this theory by the fact of Rufus Wainwright having written a song titled after the movie... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:50:17 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: retraction yoko ? no, just may pang and mary hopkin In a message dated 2/18/2008 4:20:31 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, craigie@gmail.com writes: well.. I know Mary Hopkinssings on Sound And Vision... but I didn't know (and I guess your comment refers to) Yoko Ono did as well. But given John Ono's involvement with Bowie in that period, it's not a great surprise. **************Ideas to please picky eaters. Watch video on AOL Living. (http://living.aol.com/video/how-to-please-your-picky-eater/rachel-campos-duffy/ 2050827?NCID=aolcmp00300000002598) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:51:31 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: retraction mary hopkin was married to tony visconti so she is listed as mary visconti In a message dated 2/18/2008 4:20:31 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, craigie@gmail.com writes: well.. I know Mary Hopkins sings on Sound And Vision... but I didn't know (and I guess your comment refers to) Yoko Ono did as well. But given John Ono's involvement with Bowie in that period, it's not a great surprise. **************Ideas to please picky eaters. Watch video on AOL Living. (http://living.aol.com/video/how-to-please-your-picky-eater/rachel-campos-duffy/ 2050827?NCID=aolcmp00300000002598) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:06:52 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Sailor; Pilot: Chicory Tip On 2/18/08, hssmrg@bath.ac.uk wrote: > > Jeff, here is the product of extensive research! > > > Son Of My Father ? was number 1 for 3 weeks in 1972 > Turns out that it was written by Giorgio Moroder ? I should?ve > guessed! The characteristic synth break is at about 1:09 IIRC > Sounds only vaguely familiar...but good lord what *is* that on the singer's head? I believe it's best described as a "mop-top mullet"... Incidentally, the guy in the comments talking about synths is full of it. First: the keyboard in Del Shannon's "Runaway" is a "Musitron," which is essentially a modified clavioline...which itself is similar to the (get ready, Stereolab fans) Jenny Ondioline. And depending on your definition of "synthesizer," it pretty clearly *is* one. See < http://www.delshannon.com/maxmusitron.htm>. Regardless: the same guy claims Bowie's "Space Oddity" is the first rock track to feature synth: also crap. That's a stylophone: < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylophone>. Anyway: I forget which song, but a track on the Doors' second album features synth, as does "Star Collector" by the Monkees, both earlier than "Space Oddity." Sailor > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailor_(band) > ?A glass of champagne? was Number 2 in 1974. Watch them here: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPEBhjdD6Tc That's not half bad...but not at all familiar. Since this was at the peak of my top-40 listening time, I can conclude only that it wasn't a US hit, or not a very big one. Pilot > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_%28band%29 > ?January? was their biggest UK hit - No 1 in January (surprise!) 1975. > ?It?s magic? had also been number 1 the previous year. Subsquently, > several of them joined the Alan Parsons Project. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Bairnson > claims that ?It?s magic? was their sole hit ? a dramatic rewrite of > history! You can watch ?January? here: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFl4offXM18 Blech. (But again: not all that familiar) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:12:19 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: movie talk On Feb 18, 2008, at 2:19 AM, lep wrote: > tc says: >> Anyway, we saw the most fascinating documentary a few nights ago: >> Grey >> Gardens. >> http://imdb.com/title/tt0073076/ > > that movie is just something else all together. did you watch any of > the extras? there was an interview with todd oldham who just went on > and on about little edie's incredible sense of style. Yeah, Todd really put a lot of the film into perspective for me. I recognized her unusual style, but he pointed out what it was that made her so unique. > > there's a follow up documentary that i haven't seen; i think it's > generally not as highly regarded. > It's in the Netflix queue. I'll report back... > p.s. favourite part: edie feeding wonder bread to the live-in > raccoons. And don't forget topping it off with an entire box of cat food! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:17:56 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: movie talk - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Capuchin Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 7:41 PM To: And Jason Bateman as The Minus 5 Subject: Re: movie talk On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > Rex wrote: >> What the hell was Jason (Bateman)'s post-Silver Spoons show? > > >> Oddly enough, I even think that was pre-Beetlejuice, which I why I >> think I remember it since I remember thinking that the movie had >> nicked that idea, only made it unsucky. Jeme came back with: >It was a good five years before Beetlejuice and I can't see any relationship at all between the films except that they >both feature people moving into houses haunted by benign ghosts of former residents. But hell, that's practically >a genre. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir from the mid-40's with Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison is great example. I picked up the Criterion edition Days Of Heaven over the weekend. The movie pushed the edge of filming during twilight hours, with hardly any light unnatural lighting used. Also it was the first to feature the hand held panaflex camera. A real groundbreaking film. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:42:27 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: bad album covers (no RH content as far as i can tell) _http://www.cheezeball.net/offtopic.htm_ (http://www.cheezeball.net/offtopic.htm) has this been posted here before ? **************Ideas to please picky eaters. Watch video on AOL Living. (http://living.aol.com/video/how-to-please-your-picky-eater/rachel-campos-duffy/ 2050827?NCID=aolcmp00300000002598) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:00:25 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: movie talk On Feb 18, 2008 8:17 AM, Bachman, Michael wrote: > > > I picked up the Criterion edition Days Of Heaven over the weekend. The > movie pushed the edge of filming during twilight hours, with hardly any > light unnatural lighting used. Also it was the first to feature the hand > held panaflex camera. > A real groundbreaking film. I was lucky enough to see that for the first time on the big screen, and it was eerily luminous. HD might do it some justice, but NTSC I can hardly imagine (although I'm sure it would look better than anything else of its ilk). > > -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:35:00 -0800 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: bad album covers (no RH content as far as i can tell) There I was' laffing my ass off, sooo smug about how I'd never owned any of that stuff, and then I ran smack into Edgar Winter. On Feb 18, 2008 8:42 AM, wrote: > _http://www.cheezeball.net/offtopic.htm_ > (http://www.cheezeball.net/offtopic.htm) > > has this been posted here before ? > > > > > **************Ideas to please picky eaters. Watch video on AOL Living. > ( > http://living.aol.com/video/how-to-please-your-picky-eater/rachel-campos-duffy/ > 2050827?NCID=aolcmp00300000002598) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:02:18 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: misheard lyrics >Not a funny one, but for years I heard Dylan sing "We ain't married, she's >my friend" instead of "Queen Mary"... Glad to know I'm not the only one who thought that. I've collected a handful of personal mondegreens over the years - some of my favourites include: You dosie do with the inner man, Buster Crabbe and the other man (Kurt's Rejoinder -Brian Eno) (Do the dosie do, do the mirror man, the Boston crab, and the Allemande) Martinique, and lumps of rotten steak (Kokomo - Beach Boys) (Martinique, that Montserrat mystique) This is a town for lizards (Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen) (This is a town for losers) Old Andy Warhol (Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Hole in the wall) (Hole in the wall) Ronnie Dio! Ronnie Dio! (Smells like teen spirit - Nirvana) (A denial! A denial! ) Private life dromedary, leave me out (Prvate Life - Pretenders) (Private life drama baby leave me out) And one from Alice - The wrong employer (Wrong 'em Boyo - The Clash) (The wrong 'em boyo) James (off to Manapouri and Wanaka in an hour or so's time. Back in a couple of days) - -- 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, 18 Feb 2008 14:34:16 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: misheard lyrics Just this morning "1974" came around on the ol' rando-playlist and Coleen said to me "You could vote for Layla"? - -tc, desperately searching for relevant resumes... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:11:02 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Terry Gilliam kinda sorta catches a break Jude Law, Johnny Depp, and Colin Farrell are going to step into the Heath Ledger part in the movie he was shooting at the time of his death. http://www.zap2it.com/movies/news/zap-depplawfarrellimaginariumcasting,0,5855224.story "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 . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. 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(http://living.aol.com/video/how-to-please-your-picky-eater/rachel-campos-duffy/ 2050827?NCID=aolcmp00300000002598) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:27:08 -0500 From: lep Subject: reap fidel castro's presidency: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7252109.stm xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:44:09 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Sailor; Pilot: Chicory Tip - --On 18. Februar 2008 10:06:52 -0600 2fs wrote: > Sailor >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailor_(band) >> ?A glass of champagne? was Number 2 in 1974. Watch them here: >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPEBhjdD6Tc > > > That's not half bad...but not at all familiar. Since this was at the peak > of my top-40 listening time, I can conclude only that it wasn't a US hit, > or not a very big one. According to AMG, "Unlike in the States, music hall had a much longer life span in the U.K., kept alive at summer season seaside shows, its influence percolating out as far as punk -- think Ian Dury & the Blockheads, and even into Two Tone via Madness. Sailor represented the best of this tradition, from their sailor caps to their bell bottom trousers, their port of call stage set, and their sing-along songs." AGoC sounds vaguely familiar, but I still like "Girls, Girls, Girls" better (obviously, you could say) and even bought it at the iTunes Store last night. It's really a pretty good song: ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:30:19 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: reap lep wrote: > fidel castro's presidency: > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7252109.stm I had always kinda hoped that he and Pinochet would die the same day, just to watch the explosions on both sides over who was a great man and which was a pigfucker, nevermind they were (okay, are, in Castro's case) both pigfuckers. "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! 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