From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #533 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, March 11 2008 Volume 16 : Number 533 Today's Subjects: ----------------- billboard on robyn [gaseous clay ] Re: SW [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] My name isn't Eb, and this subject line is too long [grutness@slingshot.c] Re: Serbian Ethno ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Serbian Ethno [Caroline Smith ] Re: Serbian Ethno ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: the force is maybe with you, yaddy, yaddy, yah, pt. 83 [2fs ] John Cale on TV game show [2fs ] Re: the force is maybe with you, yaddy, yaddy, yah, pt. 83 ["(0% rh)" ] Re: the force is maybe with you, yaddy, yaddy, yah, pt. 409 [Carrie Galbr] Re: the force is maybe with you, yaddy, yaddy, yah, pt. 83 ["kevin studyv] Re: the force is maybe with you, yaddy, yaddy, yah, pt. 409 ["(0% rh)" ] Re: Critical favourites [hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] Re: The cult of personality [djini@voicenet.com] Re: Serbian Ethno Canadiana [Caroline Smith ] Fwd: Serbian Ethno Canadiana [Caroline Smith ] Re: Serbian Ethno [Tom Clark ] Re: the force is maybe with you, yaddy, yaddy, yah, pt. 409 [Rex Subject: billboard on robyn http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003722605 Hitchcock, Partridge Working On Collaborative Album March 10, 2008, 12:35 PM ET Gary Graff, Detroit A new DVD, another album with the Venus 3, a collaboration with XTC's Andy Partridge and a box set will be keeping Robyn Hitchcock busy for the coming year, and beyond. Hitchcock tells Billboard.com he's particularly stoked about working with Partridge, which at the moment he calls "a self-generating project. I write the words on the train going up to Swindon (in England) and then, bang, we record it in his shed. I think it's good for me to be brought up against somebody else, another songwriter; I really think about how everything fits together. And I think it's something else for (Partridge) to kind of flex his mind on while he's doing other stuff, to keep his beak sharpened." Hitchcock says he's not sure what he and Partridge -- who's also working on a solo album -- will be doing with the music they're creating. "It'll definitely be worth releasing," he says. "And I would think it should be its own project rather than getting mixed in with other things were doing." Hitchcock is gearing up for the March 25 release of "Sex, Food, Death ... and Insects," a Sundance Channel/BBC documentary by John Edginton that focuses on Hitchcock's creative process, specifically with the Venus 3 consortium that includes R.E.M.'s Peter Buck and associates Scott McCaughey and Bill Rieflin. The DVD includes eight unreleased Venus 3 songs, which will be the precursor for a full-fledged Hitchcock album with the group that he expects to put out in 2009. "We've recorded a lot of music," says Hitchcock, whose last session with the Venus 3 took place during November in Seattle. "I'm not a believer in a double album, so I've got to sift through everything and see what makes sense." Some of the material may end up in "Dancing With Shiva," a Jonathan Demme film starring Anne Hathaway in which Hitchcock appears briefly as a wedding singer. In addition to these projects, Hitchcock is also overseeing his next boxed set with Yep Roc, which is due this summer and will focus on his '80s work with the Egyptians. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:21:13 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: SW >> > Never saw either of the other two - although a friend played me about five >> > minutes of the third one to demonstrate his belief that George Lucas is so >> > utterly terrible directing actors that even good actors come across like >> > idiots re-enacting their favorite films on public access channels in >> > Chowaska, Montana. He was right. >> > >> >>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. >Richard Perry on Safe As Milk - I suspect that a big part of the >glossy sound of the album is attributable to Perry's magic ears. Yup - he'd have probably done a far better job than Lucas on that one. > > _The Empire Strikes Back_. One of my jinx movies. I've never seen it. I've sat down to watch it several times, but something always comes along to stop me watching it. SW is better than ROTJ though, by a country light year. Still hanging out for the lolcat version. 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: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:14:09 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: My name isn't Eb, and this subject line is too long CRITICSb FAVOURITES THAT THE PUBLIC HATES >16 Cardinal, Cardinal And there I was thinking I was the only person who'd heard, let alone liked, this puppy. >PUBLIC FAVOURITES THAT THE CRITICS HATE Fan of four of the critics' choices, and three of the public's, if that's anything to go by. More telling though, is the number at the "tolerate or better" level - 15 from the critic list, 7 from the public list. BTW, I'm pleasantly surprised by Nada Surf's latest, "Lucky". 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: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:18:26 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Serbian Ethno Carrie Galbraith wrote: > > btw, is anyone else on this list a Sigur Ros fan? Completely. 'Takk' is gorgeous. Has to played extremely loud when everyone else is out. Stewart (hiding from The Weed Man: their 1-800 number calls about 5 times a night with no message. I call 'em right back [hey, it's their dime] and just let the phone sit for 5-10 minutes. In between the "Your call is important to us"s, there's the occasional "Hello? ... Hello?". I'm yet to formulate an evil plan [scream? giggle maniacally? play banjo?], but I see a Weed Man truck prowling the neighbourhood. I think they're on to me ...) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:30:29 -0400 From: Caroline Smith Subject: Re: Serbian Ethno > Stewart > (hiding from The Weed Man: their 1-800 number calls about 5 times a > night with no message. I call 'em right back [hey, it's their dime] > and just let the phone sit for 5-10 minutes. In between the "Your > call is important to us"s, there's the occasional "Hello? ... > Hello?". I'm yet to formulate an evil plan [scream? giggle > maniacally? play banjo?], but I see a Weed Man truck prowling the > neighbourhood. I think they're on to me ...) I guess Weed Man doesn't realize that there's 10 feet of snow on the ground. Have you ever noticed how the dude (yes, dude) on their TV commercials sounds a lot like Peter Mansbridge? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:15:03 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Serbian Ethno Caroline Smith wrote: > > I guess Weed Man doesn't realize that there's 10 feet of snow on the > ground. Weed Man works with toxic chemicals and smokes Manitoban. Weed Man doesn't realize. > Have you ever noticed how the dude (yes, dude) on their TV commercials > sounds a lot like Peter Mansbridge? err, no TV, and I don't know who Peter Mansbridge is. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:29:36 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: the force is maybe with you, yaddy, yaddy, yah, pt. 83 On 3/10/08, Rex wrote: > > 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. I haven't seen it...but, uh, does it strike anyone else as a bad ripoff of the red raincoat/mac in Nicolas Roeg's _Don't Look Now_? Julie Christie...the rumors are true - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:31:09 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: My name isn't Eb, and this subject line is too long On 3/10/08, grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > > CRITICSb FAVOURITES THAT THE PUBLIC HATES > > >16 Cardinal, Cardinal > > And there I was thinking I was the only person who'd heard, let alone > liked, this puppy. Really? It's pretty well regarded by US critics too - maybe it never quite took off that way in NZ. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:36:23 -0800 (PST) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: The cult of personality On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Rex wrote: > 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. http://i.realone.com/assets/rn/img/6/1/3/6/19106316.jpg PLUS: CLAPTON & WINWOOD REUNITE! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:08:31 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: John Cale on TV game show ...in 1963: < http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/download/49174-john-cale-vexations-live-on-ive-got-a-secret-in-1963-video > - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:18:41 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: the force is maybe with you, yaddy, yaddy, yah, pt. 83 jeff 2fs says: > > On 3/10/08, Rex 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. > > > I haven't seen it...but, uh, does it strike anyone else as a bad ripoff of > the red raincoat/mac in Nicolas Roeg's _Don't Look Now_? it doesn't strike me that way, mostly because it would have to suck *way less* before i could even classify it a bad ripoff. the main thing is that in "don't look now", the red of the child's raincoat is very integral to the movie. and the movie is colour. roeg just isn't up to snuff when you put him against the speilberg gift of cheap sentiment, and lazy visuals... despite what i just said, i think i know your meaning (or not.) what it seems is there's this kind of archetype of a red object in photography and movies, and i guess in stories, too (don't know if i'm correct here, but i think of the red balloon as coming from a children's story?) but instead of using it in any creative, or even just neutral or referential way, pielberg just uses it in the way that a spot of colour shows up on an otherwise black-and-white hallmark card. as though there's something inherently artistic about it. i guess it's a visual cliche, and for some reason, they seem to make me wretch way more than verbal cliches. > Julie Christie...the rumors are true i love that song, but right now, i can't fill in anything around it. like who it's by or the line before or after that one. actually, that strikes me as the first line of the song. i sort of like when that happens - it's a little bit of mystery when one hears a line out of its normal context. btw, i LOVE "don't look now." i mean, not like how i say "i love " and "i love ". it's probably in my top five, definitely in my top ten. (i had an ex- who, when trying to convince to go to a movie that i was so-so on, he would try to sneak the word "haunting" in its description...if there's one adjective that describes the movies i most love, it's that one.) of course, the bowie jag included renting "the man who fell to earth." my, he's pretty. after that, i finally remembered to check if "insignificance" is out on dvd - my sources say no. i never get to see that movie. i could never find it on VHS. think i saw it once on UHF, but that's it. as ever, lauren p.s. i don't know why i'm bothering to remember that i dislike speilberg, when i could be remembering how i dislike ollie stone like 1000X more. - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:24:53 -0700 From: JBJ Subject: Re: Don't Murder The Damned! On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Stacked Crooked wrote: > > hey, john, are you gonna tape the decemberists in bend on memorial day > week > end? Man, Eddie, the last show I remember taping was Elliott Smith at Crystal Ballroom in December 2001. No wait, I think it was Voices On The Verge at Aladdin Theater in spring 2002. Either way, its been a long-ass time. I think I grew tired of being a human mic-stand. And I was never completely happy with my equipment. My sharp minidisc recorder was my last setup, and while I loved the absence of hiss on the recordings, i had to manually lower the levels in between songs because the clapping would overload the damn thing. that's alot of adjustments to be making on the fly. I still have my D6, but the compactness of the sharp really spoiled me. I think I would really take to something from the current generation of hard drive or flash-based recorders. Just have no clue what to get, or where to start reading. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:10:58 -0700 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: the force is maybe with you, yaddy, yaddy, yah, pt. 409 On Mar 10, 2008, at 10:18 PM, (0% rh) wrote: >> I haven't seen it...but, uh, does it strike anyone else as a bad >> ripoff of >> the red raincoat/mac in Nicolas Roeg's _Don't Look Now_? > > it doesn't strike me that way, mostly because it would have to suck > *way less* before i could even classify it a bad ripoff. the main > thing is that in "don't look now", the red of the child's raincoat is > very integral to the movie. and the movie is colour. roeg just isn't > up to snuff when you put him against the speilberg gift of cheap > sentiment, and lazy visuals... > Well said Lauren! It is lazy, and cheap and designed to manipulate us into remembering a Hallmark moment. And maybe we all remember it because of the Red Balloon?? I mean a classic I remember as if I was a child when I first saw it (which is doubtful since French films did not show on the TV in LA in the 60s). So Spielberg played off our collective memories. No surprise. > Don't Look Now is much more of a film, so deep and scary and, well, > speaking as someone who lived in Venice, indicative of Venice. You > can almost smell the place. It stands in my head now as one of the > creepiest of movies I've seen to date. I have it on dvd and once in > a while we watch it to creep ourselves out. Solid performances, > solid directing from a man at his peak. > (i had an ex- who, when trying to convince to go to a movie that i was > so-so on, he would try to sneak the word "haunting" in its > description...if there's one adjective that describes the movies i > most love, it's that one.) > Anytime I get the program for a film festival, I underline the films that are described as "bleak" before anything else. If "bleak" is in the description - I'm there! Frankly, it's getting harder and harder to find that description these days. I did see a lovely little film a few years back at a festival called "Wristcutters" that I highly recommend... Nice and bleak. > of course, the bowie jag included renting "the man who fell to earth." > my, he's pretty. after that, i finally remembered to check if > "insignificance" is out on dvd - my sources say no. i never get to > see that movie. i could never find it on VHS. think i saw it once > on UHF, but that's it. Another one I saw when it came out and have on DVD. You know, this is the film that started the Ziggy Stardust phase - not the other way around. Bowie went off on the Captain Tom stuff AFTER Roeg got him to play in this film. Oh, and I recently got Performance on DVD. Just out in 2007. Another Roeg classic. > > p.s. i don't know why i'm bothering to remember that i dislike > speilberg, when i could be remembering how i dislike ollie stone like > 1000X more. Except for "Salvador." Now there was the performance of a lifetime by James Woods. Man, what a slimeball. And maybe not true to the facts but not far off if what I read it true. Worth the viewing. - - c, ok, ok, I won't post again today!!! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:28:02 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: the force is maybe with you, yaddy, yaddy, yah, pt. 83 > p.s. i don't know why i'm bothering to remember that i dislike > speilberg, when i could be remembering how i dislike ollie stone like > 1000X more. > > Don't know if anybody remembers the Ben Stiller Show from the early days > of Fox but in one of the episodes there was a whole deal about Oliver Stone > Land, a theme park based on Stone's movies. The Doors ride still cracks me > up. The Stiller shows are out there on DVD and are worth looking up if you > can relate to Stiller's sense of humor - the regulars were Bob Odenkirk, > Janeane Garofalo and Andy Dick and there are a lot of laughs in there... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:49:07 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: the force is maybe with you, yaddy, yaddy, yah, pt. 409 Carrie says: > > Don't Look Now is much more of a film, so deep and scary and, well, > > speaking as someone who lived in Venice, indicative of Venice. You > > can almost smell the place. It stands in my head now as one of the > > creepiest of movies I've seen to date. I have it on dvd and once in > > a while we watch it to creep ourselves out. Solid performances, > > solid directing from a man at his peak. is the part about venice yours? it looked like you were quoting someone, but in that case, i missed an e-mail, and don't know WhichFeg lived in venice. > Another one I saw when it came out and have on DVD. You know, this is > the film that started the Ziggy Stardust phase - not the other way > around. Bowie went off on the Captain Tom stuff AFTER Roeg got him to > play in this film. unless there's some behind-the-scene dealings, ziggy stardust shows were around 1973 and MWFTE can out in 1976? or do you mean popularity of the bowie's ziggy stardust phase? > ok, ok, I won't post again today!!! and why not, dear? i think the guys will agree with me on this one: more female feg posts = yay. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:07:11 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: the force is maybe with you, yaddy, yaddy, yah, pt. 83 - -- "(0% rh)" is rumored to have mumbled on 11. Mdrz 2008 01:18:41 -0400 regarding Re: the force is maybe with you, yaddy, yaddy, yah, pt. 83: >> Julie Christie...the rumors are true > > i love that song, but right now, i can't fill in anything around it. > like who it's by or the line before or after that one. actually, that > strikes me as the first line of the song. i sort of like when that > happens - it's a little bit of mystery when one hears a line out of > its normal context. It's "Tom Courtenay" by Yo La Tengo. And it *is* the first line. It's one of those songs of theirs that should've been a pop hit, just like, say, "Sugarcube" or "Upside-Down". - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:13:25 +0000 From: craigie* Subject: Re: Don't Murder The Damned! I loved all three of my D6s (until they died...) And the minidisc took AGES to get used to. I botched several recordings while I attenuated to its umm... particular needs... But recently I bought a digital recorder, the Zoom H2 - smaller sibling of the more expensive H4 and a 2gb SD card. All of which means with 2 (yes, just 2 AA batteries) 2400mh rechargeables, I can record for 3 and a quarter hours at CD quality. The controls lock, there's tons of preset attenuation to choose from, levels are adjustable during recording in tiny increments, you can monitor thru headphones, mics are powered by the machine, and it has a guitar tuner built-in (which includes bass guitar tuning!) and a metronome. plus it has really good built in mics - four of them. The two front mics have 90 degree separation, the rear 120, but if you're a musician you can enable all four for rehearsal recording and mix down to two before saving. Transfer to computer is via USB. Really. I love using this machine. You'd guessed, right? and the quality is superb, both with the inbuilt mics or using my trusty Aiwa CM-30 condenser. Buy one, you won't be sorry. c* On 10/03/2008, JBJ wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Stacked Crooked wrote: > > > > > hey, john, are you gonna tape the decemberists in bend on memorial day > > week > > end? > > > Man, Eddie, the last show I remember taping was Elliott Smith at Crystal > Ballroom in December 2001. No wait, I think it was Voices On The Verge at > Aladdin Theater in spring 2002. Either way, its been a long-ass time. I > think I grew tired of being a human mic-stand. And I was never completely > happy with my equipment. My sharp minidisc recorder was my last setup, and > while I loved the absence of hiss on the recordings, i had to manually > lower > the levels in between songs because the clapping would overload the damn > thing. that's alot of adjustments to be making on the fly. > I still have my D6, but the compactness of the sharp really spoiled me. I > think I would really take to something from the current generation of hard > drive or flash-based recorders. Just have no clue what to get, or where to > start reading. > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... I like my girls to be the same as my records - independent, attractively packaged and in black vinyl (if at all possible)... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:26:24 +0000 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Re: Critical favourites Quoting fegmaniax-digest : > Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:31:18 EDT > From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com > Subject: > =?UTF-8?Q?CRITICS=E2=80=99=20FAVOURITES=20THAT=20THE=20PUBLIC=2 0?= > =?UTF-8?Q?HATES=20?= > > the article : > _http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/arti > c > le3492137.ece_ > (http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/arti > cle3492137.ece) * Just read the article and the 3 comments printed on it. One comment says what about Colin Blunstone's solo album, which is a good question, and another says "God preserve us from these deep sixth-formers with their Ivor Cutler albums", which sounds very much like me... - - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:49:36 -0400 (EDT) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Re: The cult of personality Tom Clark wrote: >>>> i invented a personality test based upon which star wars movie is a >>>> person's favourite >>> > > Saw the first one and about half of the second, but of course hanging > around geeks all day I probably know all I need to just from lunchtime > conversations. > Then there's this: > http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/video-r2-d2-ipod-dock That is the cutest thing I've seen all day. I would totally buy one if it wasn't super freakin' expensive. However, it led me to this: http://www.fashionfunky.com/2007/10/lego_ipod_dock.php Cheap and adorable! Probably sounds abysmal though. And hey, topical!: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080310-mm-grb-us.html "Real Death Star Could Strike Earth" watching the skies, Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:10:15 -0400 From: Caroline Smith Subject: Re: Serbian Ethno Canadiana On 10-Mar-08, at 11:15 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > Caroline Smith wrote: >> I guess Weed Man doesn't realize that there's 10 feet of snow on >> the ground. > > Weed Man works with toxic chemicals and smokes Manitoban. Weed Man > doesn't realize. > >> Have you ever noticed how the dude (yes, dude) on their TV >> commercials sounds a lot like Peter Mansbridge? > > err, no TV, and I don't know who Peter Mansbridge is. > > Stewart Well, if you're ever near a TV (looks similar to a computer monitor, usually operated by a remote control), say in a hotel room or something, and want to watch some TV news, the National, anchored by Peter Mansbridge, runs every evening on the CBC. It's pretty reliable. Almost as good as the Hour. I miss Peter. We don't have a TV either. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:30:30 -0400 From: Caroline Smith Subject: Fwd: Serbian Ethno Canadiana Stewart - sorry if that was snarky. I'm obviously going through withdrawal from my regular TV habit. Begin forwarded message: > From: Caroline Smith > Date: March 11, 2008 9:10:15 AM GMT-04:00 > To: singing policemen > Subject: Re: Serbian Ethno Canadiana > > > On 10-Mar-08, at 11:15 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > >> Caroline Smith wrote: >>> I guess Weed Man doesn't realize that there's 10 feet of snow on >>> the ground. >> >> Weed Man works with toxic chemicals and smokes Manitoban. Weed Man >> doesn't realize. >> >>> Have you ever noticed how the dude (yes, dude) on their TV >>> commercials sounds a lot like Peter Mansbridge? >> >> err, no TV, and I don't know who Peter Mansbridge is. >> >> Stewart > > > Well, if you're ever near a TV (looks similar to a computer monitor, > usually operated by a remote control), say in a hotel room or > something, and want to watch some TV news, the National, anchored by > Peter Mansbridge, runs every evening on the CBC. It's pretty > reliable. Almost as good as the Hour. > > I miss Peter. We don't have a TV either. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:18:28 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Serbian Ethno On Mar 10, 2008, at 7:18 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > Stewart > (hiding from The Weed Man: their 1-800 number calls about 5 times a > night with no message. I call 'em right back [hey, it's their dime] > and just let the phone sit for 5-10 minutes. In between the "Your > call is important to us"s, there's the occasional "Hello? ... > Hello?". I'm yet to formulate an evil plan [scream? giggle > maniacally? play banjo?], but I see a Weed Man truck prowling the > neighbourhood. I think they're on to me ...) Ovovlab Phlink < http://www.ovolab.com/ > is our answering machine. Pesky callers like that get added to the "shit file" so their calls get answered on the first ring and all they hear is the standard "doo- DOO-DOO - This line has been disconnected" greeting. It's been working so far! "The Weed Man" is a cool name for a business. Reminds me of "Ellis The Rim Man" in Boston. Here in San Jose we've got "Casa de Mini Storage" - I love that one. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:01:51 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: the force is maybe with you, yaddy, yaddy, yah, pt. 409 On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:10 PM, Carrie Galbraith wrote: > > Well said Lauren! It is lazy, and cheap and designed to manipulate us > into remembering a Hallmark moment. And maybe we all remember it > because of the Red Balloon?? Yeah, I think so. > I mean a classic I remember as if I was > a child when I first saw it (which is doubtful since French films did > not show on the TV in LA in the 60s). But it freaked me the fuck out when I saw it, because not only did the balloon "die", but (SPOILERS) it ends with the kid being borne off into the atmosphere to certain doom, no matter how you look at it. I think it was supposed to be metaphorically uplifting, but it terrified me. I haven't seen it since, so maybe I have that all-ass backwards. - -Rex > So Spielberg played off our > collective memories. No surprise. > > Don't Look Now is much more of a film, so deep and scary and, well, > > speaking as someone who lived in Venice, indicative of Venice. You > > can almost smell the place. It stands in my head now as one of the > > creepiest of movies I've seen to date. I have it on dvd and once in > > a while we watch it to creep ourselves out. Solid performances, > > solid directing from a man at his peak. > > > > (i had an ex- who, when trying to convince to go to a movie that i was > > so-so on, he would try to sneak the word "haunting" in its > > description...if there's one adjective that describes the movies i > > most love, it's that one.) > > > > Anytime I get the program for a film festival, I underline the films > that are described as "bleak" before anything else. If "bleak" is in > the description - I'm there! Frankly, it's getting harder and harder > to find that description these days. I did see a lovely little film a > few years back at a festival called "Wristcutters" that I highly > recommend... Nice and bleak. > > > of course, the bowie jag included renting "the man who fell to earth." > > my, he's pretty. after that, i finally remembered to check if > > "insignificance" is out on dvd - my sources say no. i never get to > > see that movie. i could never find it on VHS. think i saw it once > > on UHF, but that's it. > > Another one I saw when it came out and have on DVD. You know, this is > the film that started the Ziggy Stardust phase - not the other way > around. Bowie went off on the Captain Tom stuff AFTER Roeg got him to > play in this film. > > Oh, and I recently got Performance on DVD. Just out in 2007. Another > Roeg classic. > > > > p.s. i don't know why i'm bothering to remember that i dislike > > speilberg, when i could be remembering how i dislike ollie stone like > > 1000X more. > > Except for "Salvador." Now there was the performance of a lifetime by > James Woods. Man, what a slimeball. And maybe not true to the facts > but not far off if what I read it true. Worth the viewing. > - c, ok, ok, I won't post again today!!! ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #533 ********************************