From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #532 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, March 10 2008 Volume 16 : Number 532 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: The Zombies [hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] Re: The cult of personality [Christopher Gross ] More Zombies (with bonus RH content) [hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] Don't Murder The Damned! ["Stacked Crooked" ] Re: Don't Murder The Damned! [Sebastian Hagedorn ] =?WINDOWS-1252?Q?Re:_CRITICS=92_FAVOURITES_THAT_THE_PUBLIC2_0HA TES?= [Re] Re: the force is maybe with you, may not (was Re: My name is "Eb", and being that I play a butt-doctor on the prime-time teevee, I feel that one will (nor should they!) question my competence to offer that as bunge-holes go, one could do a lot worse [] =?WINDOWS-1252?Q?Re:_CRITICS=92_FAVOURITES_THAT_THE_PUBLIC2_0HA _TES?= ["] Re: the force is maybe with you, yaddy, yaddy, yah [Carrie Galbraith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:45:21 +0000 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Re: The Zombies Well, it's not "Care of Cell 44" or even "Beechwood Farm". And it doesn't have Colin Blunstone's unique tones. I found it very difficult to select interesting adjectives for the show. The Zombies certainly aren't like any other successful sixties band I've seen. - - Mike Quoting 2fs : > On 3/10/08, hssmrg@bath.ac.uk wrote: >> >> The Odessey and Oracle show. > > > Interesting story - but I'd disagree with one point: I wouldn't call > "Butcher's song" maudlin. Not the best choice for a single, true - but I > think it's a bit more effective, and less cheesily manipulative, than > "maudlin" would imply. > > > -- > > ...Jeff Norman > > The Architectural Dance Society > http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:49:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: The cult of personality > >>> i invented a personality test based upon which star wars movie is a > >>> person's favourite I loved Star Wars growing up, but frankly none of them hold up that well looking back on them now. I think Empire Strikes Back is the best of the bunch, but the original Star Wars is my personal favorite. So what does that make me? (And despite being a geek, I still call it just Star Wars, and not Episode IV or A New Hope or anything. But maybe my approach is more purely geeky?) - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:33:03 +0000 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: More Zombies (with bonus RH content) Just found out that the one I thought was called "I've been abused" was actually called "Sticks and Stones". And apparently Robyn was at one of the shows, though I didn't see him: Full setlist and RH reference on this page: - - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:05:25 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Don't Murder The Damned! try , and similar. when you do, however, i think you'll find that... ...you'll no longer be of this opinion. they do still hold some nostalgia value, yes, but otherwise don't hold up well *at all*. "kristin and billy". i've not heard it. (and actually must confess to being fairly lukewarm on the auto club's studio output generally. why is it so many bands that are knock-out spectacular live -- wilco and radiohead being the two most prominent, in my view -- just can't quite measure up in the studio? don't get me wrong: better this than the other way around...) "just to"? you *will* burn in hell, lobsterman! ha! it's the mic that came with the sony d3! still trustworthy after all these years. i did buy a CMC-8 a few years back, but never warmed up to it - -- in part because it overloads to high hell for very loud sounds. but you can hear it getting decent enough results on the raveonettes' semi-acoustic in-store yesterday. . it was back to the pc-62 for the evening's entertainments, however, as i noticed the CMCs tripping the LS-10's clip-warning light during the opening act's set. am likely going to upgrade with either microphone madness' sennheisers, or the church audio cards. leaning to the latter, but definitely open to suggestions! hey, john, are you gonna tape the decemberists in bend on memorial day week end? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:23:38 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Don't Murder The Damned! - -- Stacked Crooked is rumored to have mumbled on 10. Mdrz 2008 11:05:25 -0700 regarding Don't Murder The Damned!: > why is > it so many bands that are knock-out spectacular live -- wilco and > radiohead being the two most prominent, in my view -- I've never seen either of them, although that may change. One of my friends is a huge Radiohead fan and I'm sure she'll drag me to one of the shows. > just can't quite > measure up in the studio? don't get me wrong: better this than the other > way around... Is it really, though? I listen to recorded music way more than to live shows. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:52:42 -0400 From: gaseous clay Subject: NEW on DIME: Robyn Hitchcock, Neil Finn, Grant Lee Phillips & Jon Brion 1999-04-03 @ Largo - West Hollywood, CA. http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=187522&hit=1 - ----- Forwarded message from DIME ----- A new torrent has been uploaded to DIME. Torrent: 187522 Title: Robyn Hitchcock, Neil Finn, Grant Lee Phillips & Jon Brion 1999-04-03 @ Largo - West Hollywood, CA. Size: 922.37 MB Category: Singer/Songwriter Uploaded by: starman714 Info hash: 8233badc04e1eae4ab577d9d8b7fdc6da2e4fb56 Description - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Closest thing I have to a GLP Largo show, though I thought I had at least one that was all him at this venue. I'll keep looking as time permits. Really, I'd have to say this is a Robyn Hitchcock show. Lot's of great covers. I tried to update the info here in the comments section, but left the original info file in the torrent "as is/was" ~~~starman~~~ ______________________________________________________________________________ Robyn Hitchcock, Neil Finn, Grant Lee Phillips & Jon Brion April 3, 1999 Largo, West Hollywood, CA AUD > DAT > DAT CLONE > PRO TOOLS > WAV > FLAC DISC 1 - Robyn Hitchcock (71:57) 1. Gene Hackman (Hitchcock) 2. Queen Elvis (Hitchcock) 3. Viva Sea-Tac (Hitchcock) 4. Balloon Man (Hitchcock) 5. Wild Mountain Thyme 6. I'll Get You 7. It's Obvious 8. Sleeping With Your Devil Mask 9. Trams Of Old London (Hitchcock) 10. The Crystal Ship 11. All Tomorrows Parties (Reed) 12. Ye Sleeping Knights Of Jesus (Hitchcock) 13. I Feel Beautiful (Hitchcock) 14. Antwoman (Hitchcock) 15. We Are The Underneath DISC 2 - Neil Finn (44:47) 1. Coming Into Los Angeles (Guthrie) 2. Private Universe 3. The Burglar Song 4. Lester 5. Into Temptation 6. Fall At Your Feet 7. Four Seasons In One Day 8. Honey Don't Think(Grant Lee) 9. Shallow End(Grant Lee) 10. Sinner DISC 3 - All (56:33) 1. Visions Of Johanna (Dylan) 2. I've Got A Feeling (McCartney) 3. One After 909 4. Don't Let Me Down (Lennon) 5. Wipeout 6. Country Roads 7. She Said She Said (Lennon) 8. Arnold Layne (Syd Barrett) 9. Sound & Vision (Bowie) 10. All You Need Is Love (Lennon) 11. Soul Kitchen 12. White Christmas (Irving Berlin) Robyn Hitchcock - Vocals, Guitar Neil Finn - Vocals, Guitar, Drums Grant Lee Phillips - Vocals, Guitar, Bass Jon Brion - Keyboards, Drums, Guinness Drinker Here's the complete copy of the show that was seeded last week. I'm not even gonna try to notate who and when is onstage at any given moment, but suffice it to say there's a lot of switching around. I got the DAT from the original taper a few years back, but this is the first time I transferred it to disc. All I did was add fades, split tracks and convert to WAV files. Hope you enjoy it. And if you have any other Jon Brion shows at Largo, please seed them. They're always very unique. ** DO NOT CONVERT TO MP3 OR OTHER LOSSY FORMATS. DO NOT SELL--TRADE ONLY ** - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:24:40 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: the force is maybe with you, may not (was Re: My name is "Eb", and being that I play a butt-doctor on the prime-time teevee, I feel that one will (nor should they!) question my competence to offer that as bunge-holes go, one could do a lot worse On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 10:30 PM, (0% rh) wrote: > Rex says: > > On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 1:52 PM, kevin studyvin > wrote: > > > > > The original three are great > > > > > > Erm, two. The dropoff is pretty steep between EMPIRE and JEDI. > > i invented a personality test based upon which star wars movie is a > person's favourite (the invention process was grueling, although i > confess it took all of two minutes). but the test is a bit shaky > these days as i invented it a while ago, so if one's choice is one of > those anakin movies, the test's a big flop. well, actually that's not > true - if someone chooses one of those, i don't need the test anyway; > i can just file that person under "Something is Very Wrong." > > feel free to answer so i can Judge You. > I used to unreservedly say "Empire", but these days it's a dead heat between that and the first one, which is a pretty amazing achievement starting from scratch, really. No other installments need apply. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:33:30 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: The cult of personality On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Christopher Gross wrote: > > (And despite being a geek, I still call it just Star Wars, and not Episode > IV or A New Hope or anything. But maybe my approach is more purely > geeky?) "A New Hope" is also apparently what Rolling Stone wants us to call Barrack Obama. They've got a really odd image of him on the cover along with a tease about a Black Crowes story, in an equally large font. Ouch. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:43:01 -0700 From: Rex Subject: =?WINDOWS-1252?Q?Re:_CRITICS=92_FAVOURITES_THAT_THE_PUBLIC2_0HA TES?= On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 11:31 PM, wrote: Probably the Brit thing, but on the Critic Love List I have most of them, but have never even heard of "Palace Music" or Viva Last Blues... And I actually own one of the Critic Hated records, albeit in the form of a freebie advance that I haven't heard in many years. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:55:04 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: the force is maybe with you, may not (was Re: My name is "Eb", and being that I play a butt-doctor on the prime-time teevee, I feel that one will (nor should they!) question my competence to offer that as bunge-holes go, one could do a lot worse On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 1:38 AM, kevin studyvin wrote: > > > Amen. What I concluded while watching that final, terrible movie was that > while Lucas obviously knew what he was *trying* to create in terms of > grand > operatic structure he didn't have the chops to actually materialilze it, > so > what you get in effect is a sort of demo. Too bad he didn't have the > sense > to hand it off to a writer and/or director who could have made the movie > he > was only capable of more-or-less hinting at. Re: the SW prequels, that's pretty much spot-on, and yet (or maybe even partly because) they're pretty dicey as storytelling goes, I have to say: there's something to the notion of Lucas as a sort of "outsider artist" that does make those movies more perversely interesting to me than your average super-slick market-tested assembled-by-committee blockbuster. In short, they're pretty messed up, and, for better or worse, nobody but George Lucas would've gotten away with making them that way. To me, anyway, a sort of Jerry Bruckheimer/Michael Bay-style crowd-pleaser version of Star Wars would've been a worse travesty. Maybe just by a hair, but still. He really shoulda just handed it off to Spielberg, don't you figure? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:05:22 -0700 From: "Jason Brown" Subject: =?WINDOWS-1252?Q?Re:_CRITICS=92_FAVOURITES_THAT_THE_PUBLIC2_0HA _TES?= On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Rex wrote: > On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 11:31 PM, wrote: > > Probably the Brit thing, but on the Critic Love List I have most of them, > but have never even heard of "Palace Music" or Viva Last Blues... Palace Music was a pseudonym for Will Oldham before he started calling himself Bonnie "Prince" Billy. Granted Oldham does usaully get more critical love in the UK than here. > And I actually own one of the Critic Hated records, albeit in the form of a > freebie advance that I haven't heard in many years. I own 12 of the public hated and 7 of the critic hated. And i genuinely like Bat Out of Hell. - -- "Never go with a hippie to a second location." - Jack Donaghy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:42:50 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: the force is maybe with you, yaddy, yaddy, yah - -----Original Message----- >From: Rex >Subject: Re: the force is maybe with you, may not (was Re: My name is "Eb", and being that I play a butt-doctor on the prime-time teevee, I feel that one will (nor should they!) question my competence to offer that as bunge-holes go, one could do a lot worse > >On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 1:38 AM, kevin studyvin wrote: >> Amen. What I concluded while watching that final, terrible movie was that >> while Lucas obviously knew what he was *trying* to create in terms of >> grand operatic structure he didn't have the chops to actually materialilze it, >> so what you get in effect is a sort of demo. Too bad he didn't have the >> sense to hand it off to a writer and/or director who could have made the movie >> he was only capable of more-or-less hinting at. > > >Re: the SW prequels, that's pretty much spot-on, and yet (or maybe even >partly because) they're pretty dicey as storytelling goes, I have to say: >there's something to the notion of Lucas as a sort of "outsider artist" that >does make those movies more perversely interesting to me than your average >super-slick market-tested assembled-by-committee blockbuster. In short, >they're pretty messed up, and, for better or worse, nobody but George Lucas >would've gotten away with making them that way. To me, anyway, a sort of >Jerry Bruckheimer/Michael Bay-style crowd-pleaser version of Star Wars >would've been a worse travesty. Maybe just by a hair, but still. > >He really shoulda just handed it off to Spielberg, don't you figure? Am I the only person in the world never to have seen a Star Wars movie? Am I also the only person in the world to absolutely detest Spielberg and his films? OK, ok, Empire of the Sun, but hey, how could you lose with a J.G. Ballard novel and a screenplay by Tom Stoppard? - - c ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:39:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: the force is maybe with you, may not (was Re: ..... Rex wrote: > Re: the SW prequels, that's pretty much spot-on, and yet (or maybe > even partly because) they're pretty dicey as storytelling goes, I > have to say: there's something to the notion of Lucas as a sort > of "outsider artist" that does make those movies more perversely > interesting to me than your average super-slick market-tested > assembled-by-committee blockbuster. In short, they're pretty > messed up, and, for better or worse, nobody but George Lucas > would've gotten away with making them that way. To me, anyway, a > sort of Jerry Bruckheimer/Michael Bay-style crowd-pleaser version > of Star Wars would've been a worse travesty. Maybe just by a > hair, but still. Nah, it would have been much worse. At least, I'd rather see incompetant than crass. > He really shoulda just handed it off to Spielberg, don't you > figure? Or a younger director (or series of younger directors) who, while they love the original films, would have the backbone to tell George to fuck off and fix the storylines, and get in someone to help write better dialog, etc. The prequels themselves were not a bad idea, but Lucas forgot to get some people around him who would be willing to tell him his ideas were half-baked, etc. "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. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:02:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: the force is maybe with you, yaddy, yaddy, yah On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Carrie Galbraith wrote: > Am I the only person in the world never to have seen a Star Wars movie? I have a coworker (American, 28, watches a *lot* of movies and TV shows) who has never seen any Star War movie, or any James Bond movie, or any Godfather movie. She has, however, apparently seen every romantic comedy ever made. - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:33:40 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: the force is maybe with you, yaddy, yaddy, yah > Am I the only person in the world never to have seen a Star Wars movie? > Am I also the only person in the world to absolutely detest Spielberg and > his films? > OK, ok, Empire of the Sun, but hey, how could you lose with a J.G. Ballard > novel and a screenplay by Tom Stoppard? I've always resisted seeing that movie (even though JGB gave it his blessing) on account of the high cheese factor in Spielberg's work and the near-religious regard I've had for Ballard since reading The Crystal World back in 1960-whatever. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:38:01 -0700 From: "Jason Brown" Subject: Re: the force is maybe with you, yaddy, yaddy, yah > I have a coworker (American, 28, watches a *lot* of movies and TV shows) > who has never seen any Star War movie, or any James Bond movie, or any > Godfather movie. She has, however, apparently seen every romantic comedy > ever made. I was really confused until the pronoun "she" popped up. - -- "Never go with a hippie to a second location." - Jack Donaghy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:38:28 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: the force is maybe with you, may not (was Re: ..... > The prequels themselves were not a bad idea, but Lucas forgot to get some > people around him who would be willing to tell him his ideas were > half-baked, etc. > Speaking of prequels (that almost came out preaking of spequels), when the 1st Star Wars was released Lucas was telling everybody it was actually one of a nine-film series with the first three being in the middle, then three films set before them and three more after, but somehow the great plan seems to have fallen by the wayside. Has he said anything about that original schema within living memory? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:44:18 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: the force is maybe with you, yaddy, yaddy, yah - -- Carrie Galbraith is rumored to have mumbled on 10. Mdrz 2008 13:42:50 -0700 regarding Re: the force is maybe with you, yaddy, yaddy, yah: > Am I the only person in the world never to have seen a Star Wars movie? Perhaps. As I said, I'm not a fan, but not having seen any ranks at about the same level as when Zlatko, one of the inhabitants of the Big Brother container during the first German season, professed that he didn't know who Shakespeare was! Seriously, we're talking cultural literacy here ... > Am I also the only person in the world to absolutely detest Spielberg and > his films? I used to as well, but I've come around. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:12:03 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: the force is maybe with you, may not (was Re: ..... On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 2:38 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > > The prequels themselves were not a bad idea, but Lucas forgot to get > some > > people around him who would be willing to tell him his ideas were > > half-baked, etc. > > > > Speaking of prequels (that almost came out preaking of spequels), when the > 1st Star Wars was released Lucas was telling everybody it was actually one > of a nine-film series with the first three being in the middle, then three > films set before them and three more after, but somehow the great plan > seems > to have fallen by the wayside. Has he said anything about that original > schema within living memory? At first it was actually supposed to be *twelve* films. But for most of the time between 1977 and the beginning of the prequels, yes, there were supposed to be nine films. Lucas has indeed said (since the prequels began) that there will be no Episodes 7-9, though, because he never really had a story in mind, among other reasons. That said, look out for a movie cobbled together from CGI episodes of the forthcoming Clone Wars cartoon in theatres in, like, a couple of months. I so remember every last little bit of information about those films and everything related to them up through '83. It's sad, really. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:15:33 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: the force is maybe with you, yaddy, yaddy, yah Carrie says: > Am I also the only person in the world to absolutely detest Spielberg and his films? heavens, no. the one that sent me over the edge with him was "schindler's list." i didn't like it at all - god, it just went on and on and on. but what really did me in was having to hear (and overhear) people gushing on and on about it for the next pretty much every holocaust documentary i've ever seen was way more interesting than "schindler's list." i related to elaine benis' hating "the english patient" (i love that episode.) except hating "schindler's list" in addition to being kind of unpopular, seems un-PC as well, so when i going on and on about hating it, i would often feel (and resist, just on principle) the need to say "really - i adore jews." oh, sweet jesus, i think that was the fucking movie with like that one red object that appeared out of the depths of the black and film for five minutes or so? was it a rose, an umbrella, a balloon? oh, i hate crap like that. as ever, lauren p.s. really - i adore jews ;) p.p.s. as an aside, i tend not to like fiction and history getting too close (is that the "historical fiction" genre, or is that something else?) generally, i'd much prefer to see a good documentary. although one notable exception is "sophie's choice." i love the book, and the movie. william styron, too, while i'm at it. - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:38:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: the force is maybe with you, yaddy, yaddy, yah - -----Original Message----- >From: Christopher Gross >Sent: Mar 10, 2008 5:02 PM >To: Squidmaniax! >Subject: Re: the force is maybe with you, yaddy, yaddy, yah > >On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Carrie Galbraith wrote: > >> Am I the only person in the world never to have seen a Star Wars movie? > >I have a coworker (American, 28, watches a *lot* of movies and TV shows) >who has never seen any Star War movie, or any James Bond movie, or any >Godfather movie. She has, however, apparently seen every romantic comedy >ever made. Star Wars and James Bond, I can completely understand - I've not seen any James Bond films either. Afterall, James Bond? He is no John Drake! The Godfather however, at least the first two, cinema greatness! Your coworker may be like my sister, absolutely no stomach for violence. She does, however, seem to have a penchant for musicals. We have regular family film nights and I suggested Grosse Point Blank. I mean it's a comedy, right? I thought it'd be safe. My sister didn't stay in the room and really detested it. I suppose she'd never appreciate Buffy... Be Seeing You, - - c ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:04:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: the force is maybe with you, yaddy, yaddy, yah, pt. 83 - -----Original Message----- >From: "(0% rh)" >heavens, no. > >the one that sent me over the edge with him was "schindler's list." I absolutely detested Schindler's List! Urgh. I made an exception to my No Spielberg rule and went to see it. My mistake. >oh, sweet jesus, i think that was the fucking movie with like that one >red object that appeared out of the depths of the black and film for >five minutes or so? was it a rose, an umbrella, a balloon? oh, i >hate crap like that. It was a child's dress and really annoyed me as well. This is why I can't stand the guy. He manpulates the audience's emotions, treating the viewer as a simpleton. Does it seem arrogant to anyone else? >p.p.s. as an aside, i tend not to like fiction and history getting too >close (is that the "historical fiction" genre, or is that something >else?) generally, i'd much prefer to see a good documentary. >although one notable exception is "sophie's choice." i love the book, >and the movie. william styron, too, while i'm at it. I will say, I did like the English Patient (and that Ralph Fiennes). But I knew the story contained a lot of fictional elements. As an aside, I asked my mother to go to a matinee with me to see it (we often did that when she was alive) and she, of the WWII generation, refused. She said she would not go see a movie about a traitor and spy. I had not even thought about it that way. - - c, who is posting a lot because my job is imploding and I've nothing else to do... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:27:15 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: the force is maybe with you, yaddy, yaddy, yah, pt. 83 On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Carrie Galbraith wrote: > > >oh, sweet jesus, i think that was the fucking movie with like that one > >red object that appeared out of the depths of the black and film for > >five minutes or so? was it a rose, an umbrella, a balloon? oh, i > >hate crap like that. > > > It was a child's dress and really annoyed me as well. For some damned reason it's lived in my brain as a balloon for all these years as well. Strange. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:45:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: Serbian Ethno - -----Original Message----- >From: Sebastian Hagedorn >Subject: Serbian Ethno > >-- Stacked Crooked is rumored to have mumbled on 7. Mdrz >> . it's a various artists >> comp entitled (you guessed it) *Serbian Ethno*, and it's stone-cold one of >> my twenny favourite albums of all times. i mean, like, in fucking *ever*. >> well, at least upon the first listen-through. i'm downloading vol. 2 >> right now, beeyatches! > >I don't claim to be an expert and I bet I don't know most of it, but as I >guessed the compilation includes Goran Bregovic, the (former) composer for >Emir Kusturica. My favorite soundtrack of his is probably the one for >"Arizona Dream". Both movie and music are fantastic. Arizona Dream was pretty damn good and I particularily like the insane characters/actors (and Iggy Pop on the soundtrack) but my fave of Kusturica (and Bregovic) is "Time of the Gypsies." Still more a dream than a film. The soundtrack is also dreamlike. Never found it in the US but might be imported now. The other person I recognize on the Serbian Ethno is Kayah (also playing with Bregovic). She is a Pole and sings the Brogovic songs in Polish. It's lovely and her voice is grand. btw, is anyone else on this list a Sigur Ros fan? I just can't seem to get enough and have been listening daily for months now. - - c, who promises this is my last post for the day! ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #532 ********************************