From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #535 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, March 12 2008 Volume 16 : Number 535 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Insignificance ["(0% rh)" ] Re: Zombies question [Steve Schiavo ] Re: the force is maybe with you, yaddy, yaddy, yah, pt. 409 [2fs ] Re: Don't Murder The Damned! [2fs ] Re: Quit hating on Senior Spielbergo! [2fs ] Re: Iggy Pop's nipples [2fs ] Re: Zombies question [2fs ] Re: Quit hating on Senior Spielbergo! [2fs ] Re: Iggy Pop's nipples ["kevin studyvin" ] show taping WAS: Don't Murder The Damned! [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: Quit hating on Senior Spielbergo! [Sebastian Hagedorn ] RE: Zombies question ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: Iggy Pop's nipples [Rex ] Re: Iggy Pop's nipples [2fs ] Re: Iggy Pop's nipples [Rex ] Re: Iggy Pop's nipples [2fs ] Re: Iggy Pop's nipples [Rex ] Re: Iggy Pop's nipples [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Iggy Pop's nipples [Steve Talkowski ] Re: Quit hating on Senior Spielbergo! [Carrie Galbraith ] Re: a feg babe checking in [Carrie Galbraith ] Re: a feg babe checking in [Rex ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:51:52 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: Insignificance james says: > Lauren sez: > > > 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. > > Huh? In most vid shops here, you can't move for copies of it in > cutout bins. Unless I'm getting the title confused with something > else... sort of post-apocalyptic get-together with Marilyn Monroe and > Albert Einstein? yes, that's the one. i love that movie. or maybe just the idea of it, since i can't really remember it. you know, i had suspected that NZ is a very unusual place. now i'm sure. > James ('course, you'd have to have a multi-zone player if you wanted > me to find you a copy...) nope, just two multi-zone dvd players. thanks for the offer, though. as ever, lauren p.s. feel free to send neil finn instead. - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:05:50 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: Zombies question On Mar 11, 2008, at 4:24 PM, Jill Brand wrote: > I want to get a Zombies CD for my son for his birthday, and I was > thinking of getting him Odessey & Oracle because it has been > mentioned here more than once, and because I love the song Care of > Cell 44. What are your thoughts, fegs? Odessey & Oracle is an *essential* album, but quite a bit different than their earlier stuff. Short of the Zombies Heaven box, maybe one good "best of" would do. You might end up wanting to take the O&O album back from your son, it's that good. - - Steve ______________________ Zermatism dictates that government can never be populated with anything other than filthy boil-stricken thieves, toothless whores bursting with gonorrhea, closet grave robbers, and drooling Satanists that laugh as they pull wings off flies. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:51:03 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: the force is maybe with you, yaddy, yaddy, yah, pt. 409 On 3/11/08, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > > -- djini@voicenet.com is rumored to have mumbled on 11. Mdrz 2008 13:28:20 > -0400 regarding Re: the force is maybe with you, yaddy, yaddy, yah, pt. > 409: > > > Have you seen Junebug? > > I know you're not talking to me, but: I just DL'ed it, after I saw > "Enchanted" a few days ago. > > > > The current ubiquity of Amy Adams in shiny twinkly > > mode just makes me want to see that bleak little number again. > > > I read that she's shiny and twinkly (or "sweeter than peaches", as Roger > Ebert put it) in that film as well, bleak circumstances notwithstanding. Indeed she is - but that only makes the bleakness surrounding her bleaker. Bleak bleak-mm bleak-bleak yeah! - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:52:02 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Quit hating on Senior Spielbergo! On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 7:36 PM, (0% rh) wrote: > The Great Quail says: > > All this indie-snark hating on Spielberg has never made any sense to > me. > > Sure, there's a lot to criticize, but to dismiss him, to *hate* on his > work, > > has always struck me as fundamentally narrow-minded. Like those > Pitchfork > > reviewers who can only enjoy a band that no more than 78 other record > store > > clerks have ever heard of.... > > i at least *tried* to make a positive contribution to The Thread of > Hate by attempting to change the subject to my much more significant > dislike of ollie stone. but, alas, everyone is having so much fun > with disliking speilberg - who am i to ruin such fun. hate on, > brothers. > Just to keep it real, I'll agree that Oliver Stone does indeed blow every imaginable kind of ass, and I can't think of a single shred of evidence to the contrary. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:53:21 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Don't Murder The Damned! On 3/11/08, SH McCleary wrote: > > I'm with craigie. The H2 is an outstanding piece of audio equipment at a > very reasonable price. I've used mine to record kids' concerts, practices, > ambient sound, and a couple meetings. I'd been dreaming of one of those > nice > Edirol units, but they're more than twice the price. I can't wait to take > mine to the beach this summer with a nice big windsock. Yeah the built-in > mics are REALLY smooth. Okay, totally naive question here. This is from someone who's never recorded a rock'n'roll show, ever. And so my question has to do with protocol and technique: so let's say I buy one of these units (which look very cool regardless of the fact that since I'm an old man who hates cigarette smoke but lives in an ashtray of a state, I rarely go to shows any more) and decide, hey, I think I'll record this show. Does one need to be all surreptitious, or just set the damned thing on the table (if there is one), or keep it sequestered in a pocket (would that bug the mics?), etc? Or does one ask politely about taping and *then* be sneaky or not? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:58:37 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Quit hating on Senior Spielbergo! On 3/11/08, (0% rh) wrote: > > The Great Quail says: > > All this indie-snark hating on Spielberg has never made any sense to > me. > > Sure, there's a lot to criticize, but to dismiss him, to *hate* on his > work, > > has always struck me as fundamentally narrow-minded. Like those > Pitchfork > > reviewers who can only enjoy a band that no more than 78 other record > store > > clerks have ever heard of.... > > > i at least *tried* to make a positive contribution to The Thread of > Hate by attempting to change the subject to my much more significant > dislike of ollie stone. > I think Spielberg attracts such disdain because he's both extraordinarily popular *and* not an obvious hack. In other words, I think part of it is the idea that if only he were artistically "pure," he could make *really* good films - you know, like with hour-long tracking shots of dying crows in the snow in a desolate gray sunset in some obscure Eastern European nation during a time of underheralded existential crisis involving a man with missing limbs and the mute, greasy haired, simple-yet-surprisingly-often-nude woman who loves him despite his need to extinguish cigarettes against worn brick walls. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:13:03 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Iggy Pop's nipples On 3/11/08, (0% rh) wrote: > > jeff 2fs says: > > On 3/11/08, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > > > I mean, I can kinda see the logic of going shirtless on stage -- Iggy > > > does run around a lot and does get sweaty. But just sitting around > > > doing voiceover work? > > > > > > Dude keepin it real! > > > amen to that. who the hell would want a shirt on mr. pop? only the > same sick fuck who dresses spike. The true answer is that shirts are afraid of Iggy. They disintegrate on contact. What this proves, of course, is that pants are far, far braver than shirts. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:16:13 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Zombies question On 3/11/08, Jill Brand wrote: > > There's been all this Zombies talk on the list, and this had led me to > realize that I don't actually own anything by the Zombies. Most of what I > know is the stuff they played non-stop when I was a kid (She's Not There > [The Theme Song from Bunny Lake is Missing], Time of the Season, etc.). I > want to get a Zombies CD for my son for his birthday, and I was thinking > of getting him Odessey & Oracle because it has been mentioned here more > than once, and because I love the song Care of Cell 44. What are your > thoughts, fegs? Well, O&O is an unquestioned (and deserving) classic - and I don't think you'll go too far wrong with the two-disc _Singles Collection: As & Bs 1964-1969_. A very fine band indeed. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:19:37 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Quit hating on Senior Spielbergo! On 3/11/08, 2fs wrote: > > dying crows in the snow in a desolate gray sunset in some obscure Eastern > European nation during a time of underheralded existential crisis involving > a man with missing limbs and the mute, greasy haired, > simple-yet-surprisingly-often-nude woman who loves him despite his need to > extinguish cigarettes against worn brick walls. I just realized that you only need to alter a few words of this to get...the Lynch-o-Matic! "hacked-off limbs in the grass in a golden sunrise in some obscure western state during a time of general prosperity involving a man with curious medical equipment and the preternaturally-hot-although-sociopathic-yet-abused woman who loves him despite his need to become possessed by demonic spirits who look like roadies for Metallica." - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:49:41 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Iggy Pop's nipples > p.s. btw, the first time i saw iggy live, he (surprise) took his shirt > off at some point and i was all surprised that his chest wasn't > covered in scars and such from some of his early-career antics. maybe > broken glass isn't as sharp as i thought it was. or iggy's just too > cool to scar. > Veteran of 2 iggy shows in the 80s. One ended in fire when somebody tossed a firecracker onstage that torched a pillow in the bass drum. Came on without shirt and kept teasing the audience by starting to unzip the jeans and then zipping up again. (he aldo mercilessly mocked opening act Peter Noone throughout the show.) Second show he was totally dressed in hipster black & leather and stayed that way; that one ended when the fifty-sixty people from the audience he invited onto the stage were dancing up a storm and knocked a PA stack over into the audience. After that one he didn't come back to Seattle for I don't know, at least ten years - I think there were some legal issues with the city involved. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:09:26 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: show taping WAS: Don't Murder The Damned! depends on the venue but i'd suggest hiding it with no red lights visible, etc. some places search , some don't some are complete intense searches, some just a few pats if you look nervous, they'll search you more, probably In a message dated 3/11/2008 11:59:53 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com writes: Okay, totally naive question here. This is from someone who's never recorded a rock'n'roll show, ever. And so my question has to do with protocol and technique: so let's say I buy one of these units (which look very cool regardless of the fact that since I'm an old man who hates cigarette smoke but lives in an ashtray of a state, I rarely go to shows any more) and decide, hey, I think I'll record this show. Does one need to be all surreptitious, or just set the damned thing on the table (if there is one), or keep it sequestered in a pocket (would that bug the mics?), etc? Or does one ask politely about taping and *then* be sneaky or not? **************It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms, and advice on AOL Money & Finance. (http://money.aol.com/tax?NCID=aolprf00030000000001) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:59:33 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Quit hating on Senior Spielbergo! - --On 11. Mdrz 2008 20:52:02 -0700 Rex wrote: > Just to keep it real, I'll agree that Oliver Stone does indeed blow every > imaginable kind of ass, and I can't think of a single shred of evidence to > the contrary. FWIW: While I agree in general, I think I really liked U-Turn, but it's been ages since I saw it. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:33:01 +0000 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Re: Zombies again Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:24:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: Zombies question There's been all this Zombies talk on the list, and this had led me to realize that I don't actually own anything by the Zombies. Most of what I know is the stuff they played non-stop when I was a kid (She's Not There [The Theme Song from Bunny Lake is Missing], Time of the Season, etc.). I want to get a Zombies CD for my son for his birthday, and I was thinking of getting him Odessey & Oracle because it has been mentioned here more than once, and because I love the song Care of Cell 44. What are your thoughts, fegs? Jill, who knows where to turn when she has important questions - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:27:12 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Zombies question O&O is fabulous, one of the most albumy albums of the era excluding the Beatles and Kinks catalogs. I have that and a serviceable Best-Of and feel pretty satisfied with that. If there are other essentials known to the feg collective, do tell... I'm pretty big on the British Invasion, but I don't have, like, original Hollies or DC5 records to prove it. - - -Rex * Well, I had never heard Odessey and Oracle in full until Sunday and I was very impressed - must be worth purchasing. Apart from the single of 'She's not there' all I have is a cheapo 'World of the Zombies' Decca LP with things like 'Summertime' on it (for which there were several shouts during the show). But the only songs I recognised from the O and O set were 'Care of Cell 44', which must have come out as a single, and of course 'Time of the Season' which I have on a much-played 'The Rock Machine Turns You On' sampler from CBS (along with 'Fresh Garbage' by Spirit, which is the only thing I have ever heard by them too...). The Colin Blunstone solo album with 'Say you don't mind' on it also sounds like an essential purchase. The cellist was doing the Doors-style dum-de dum de dum de diddly by bouncing the bow on the strings, arco style. Nice! - - Mike Godwin, who mainly bought singles in the sixties... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:05:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: a feg babe checking in I've never seen a movie by Tarkovsky, and only ever heard of him in the of Montreal song "Art Snob Solutions"....... "Whats up directors? Grab your knives! Its time to take all - all of the lives Of the people who cannot see The somnolent genius of Tarkovsky" Jill, who is not as indie as other feg chicks ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:27:55 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Zombies question - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Rex Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 6:27 PM To: Jill Brand Cc: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: Re: Zombies question On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Jill Brand wrote: >> There's been all this Zombies talk on the list, and this had led me to >> realize that I don't actually own anything by the Zombies. Most of >> what I know is the stuff they played non-stop when I was a kid (She's >> Not There [The Theme Song from Bunny Lake is Missing], Time of the >> Season, etc.). I want to get a Zombies CD for my son for his >> birthday, and I was thinking of getting him Odessey & Oracle because >> it has been mentioned here more than once, and because I love the song >> Care of Cell 44. What are your thoughts, fegs? Rex: >O&O is fabulous, one of the most albumy albums of the era excluding the Beatles and >Kinks catalogs. I have that and a serviceable Best-Of and feel pretty satisfied with >that. If there are other essentials known to the feg collective, do tell... I'm >pretty big on the British Invasion, but I don't have, like, original Hollies or DC5 >records to prove it. O&O would be in my top 25 albums from the 60's. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:12:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Iggy Pop's nipples 2fs wrote: > The true answer is that shirts are afraid of Iggy. They > disintegrate on contact. > > What this proves, of course, is that pants are far, far braver than > shirts. Which is particularly remarkable given what we (unfortunately) know about ol' Jim's Osterberg. "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: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:10:49 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Iggy Pop's nipples On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:13 PM, 2fs wrote: > On 3/11/08, (0% rh) wrote: > > > > jeff 2fs says: > > > On 3/11/08, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > > > > > I mean, I can kinda see the logic of going shirtless on stage -- > Iggy > > > > does run around a lot and does get sweaty. But just sitting around > > > > doing voiceover work? > > > > > > > > > Dude keepin it real! > > > > > > amen to that. who the hell would want a shirt on mr. pop? only the > > same sick fuck who dresses spike. > > > The true answer is that shirts are afraid of Iggy. They disintegrate on > contact. > > What this proves, of course, is that pants are far, far braver than > shirts. > Not *far* braver... they can be observed retreating (somewhat stealthily) from his hipline during many a show. They're just to scared to make an outright break for it. "Osterberg" as penis euphemism FTW, BTW. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:26:44 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Iggy Pop's nipples On 3/12/08, Rex wrote: > > > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:13 PM, 2fs wrote: > > > On 3/11/08, (0% rh) wrote: > > > > > > jeff 2fs says: > > > > "Osterberg" as penis euphemism FTW, BTW. > Whereas I'm amused by the dueling abbreviations both ending in "TW"... Can we start a new one "MTW" meaning "the goddamned work week"? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:37:17 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Iggy Pop's nipples On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 9:26 AM, 2fs wrote: > On 3/12/08, Rex wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:13 PM, 2fs wrote: > > > > > On 3/11/08, (0% rh) wrote: > > > > > > > > jeff 2fs says: > > > > > > > "Osterberg" as penis euphemism FTW, BTW. > > > > Whereas I'm amused by the dueling abbreviations both ending in "TW"... > > Can we start a new one "MTW" meaning "the goddamned work week"? > WTF? - -Rx ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:47:39 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Iggy Pop's nipples On 3/12/08, Rex wrote: > > > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 9:26 AM, 2fs wrote: > > > > > > "Osterberg" as penis euphemism FTW, BTW. > > > > > > > Whereas I'm amused by the dueling abbreviations both ending in "TW"... > > > > Can we start a new one "MTW" meaning "the goddamned work week"? > > > > WTF? > M-onday, T-uesday, W-ednesday... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:50:02 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Iggy Pop's nipples On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 9:47 AM, 2fs wrote: > On 3/12/08, Rex wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 9:26 AM, 2fs wrote: > > > > > > > > > "Osterberg" as penis euphemism FTW, BTW. > > > > > > > > > > Whereas I'm amused by the dueling abbreviations both ending in "TW"... > > > > > > Can we start a new one "MTW" meaning "the goddamned work week"? > > > > > > > WTF? > > > > M-onday, T-uesday, W-ednesday... > God, I suck at trying to be funny. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:07:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Iggy Pop's nipples Rex wrote: > "Osterberg" as penis euphemism FTW, BTW. Just tying all the loose ends together. It's just nice there's a gun for guys like Jim. "I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirize George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporize them." -- Tom Lehrer "The eyes are the groin of the head." -- Dwight Schrute . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:26:32 -0400 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: Iggy Pop's nipples LOL?! On Mar 12, 2008, at 12:50 PM, Rex wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 9:47 AM, 2fs wrote: > >> On 3/12/08, Rex wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 9:26 AM, 2fs >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>> "Osterberg" as penis euphemism FTW, BTW. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Whereas I'm amused by the dueling abbreviations both ending in >>>> "TW"... >>>> >>>> Can we start a new one "MTW" meaning "the goddamned work week"? >>>> >>> >>> WTF? >>> >> >> M-onday, T-uesday, W-ednesday... >> > > God, I suck at trying to be funny. > > -Rex - -- Steve Talkowski Character Design & Animation http://sketchbot.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:52:32 -0700 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: Quit hating on Senior Spielbergo! On Mar 11, 2008, at 8:58 PM, 2fs wrote: > > I think Spielberg attracts such disdain because he's both > extraordinarily > popular *and* not an obvious hack. In other words, I think part of > it is the > idea that if only he were artistically "pure," he could make > *really* good > films - you know, like with hour-long tracking shots of dying crows > in the > snow in a desolate gray sunset in some obscure Eastern European nation > during a time of underheralded existential crisis involving a man with > missing limbs and the mute, greasy haired, > simple-yet-surprisingly-often-nude woman who loves him despite his > need to > extinguish cigarettes against worn brick walls. > Hey - I saw that film!! - - c ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:57:24 -0400 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Imitation Is The Sincerest Form of Poultry (0% RH) This seems fegpropriate and I know a few of you will get a kick out of it: http://www.feedhere.com/?p=1492 Though, watch them in the following order: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hibyAJOSW8U http://adsoftheworld.com/media/tv/foster_farms_transformation http://campaignagainstreallife.com/campaign_vid.htm - -- Steve Talkowski Character Design & Animation http://sketchbot.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:03:01 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Iggy Pop's nipples On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > Rex wrote: > > "Osterberg" as penis euphemism FTW, BTW. > > Just tying all the loose ends together. It's just nice there's a gun > for guys like Jim. > > All this chatter about Iggy's unit reminded me of an interview with Ray > Manzarek - a swell musician but also a guy who seems incapable of speaking > without sounding like a pretentious, um, dick - wherein he mentioned some of > the trials he'd been through in trying to get a band together with Ig and > was quoted uttering the unforgettable phrase "Jim Osterberg truly has a > magisterial schlong." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:05:13 -0700 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: a feg babe checking in On Mar 12, 2008, at 5:05 AM, Jill Brand wrote: > I've never seen a movie by Tarkovsky, and only ever heard of him in > the of Montreal song "Art Snob Solutions"....... > > "Whats up directors? Grab your knives! > Its time to take all - all of the lives > Of the people who cannot see > The somnolent genius of Tarkovsky" > > Jill, who is not as indie as other feg chicks Somnolent? Well, I took a close friend to see Nostalgia and his only comment after the film was that it was "like watching a fly crawl up the wall for 3 hours." Obviously not for everyone. I don't hate Spielberg - I have respect for his craft and experience and enjoyed Close Encounters, but walked out of ET and decided not to see Jaws or anything else until Schindler's List, which I didn't like. (So add to the lack of Star Wars is my total lack of Indiana Jones or Jurassic Park viewing.) But that's just me. Maybe it's the summer course I took at the local college when I was still in High School that introduced me to Bergman, Truffaut, Bunuel and the like. Or that my 10th grade Latin teacher used to show us Marshall McLuhan films instead of forcing Latin repetition. I don't know. But my taste for non-Hollywood and more exploratory filmmaking was formed early on. I absolutely LOVE "The Color of Pomegranates" by Sergei Parajanov. A film shot completely in tableau, with some moving elements in each scene (wind turning the pages of books while the rest of the scene, including the people, is perfectly still). Or the films of Jodorowsky or Wojciech Has, who created not only "The Saragossa Manuscript" (Jerry Garcia's favorite film!) but a fantastic film version of "Sanatorium under the Sign of the Hourglass." To each his or her own! - - c, who probably should have been born in Eastern Europe... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:16:50 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: a feg babe checking in On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Carrie Galbraith wrote: > On Mar 12, 2008, at 5:05 AM, Jill Brand wrote: > > > I've never seen a movie by Tarkovsky, and only ever heard of him in > > the of Montreal song "Art Snob Solutions"....... > > > > "Whats up directors? Grab your knives! > > Its time to take all - all of the lives > > Of the people who cannot see > > The somnolent genius of Tarkovsky" > > > > Jill, who is not as indie as other feg chicks > > > Somnolent? Well, I took a close friend to see Nostalgia and his only > comment after the film was that it was "like watching a fly crawl up > the wall for 3 hours." Obviously not for everyone. > > I don't hate Spielberg - I have respect for his craft and experience > and enjoyed Close Encounters, but walked out of ET and decided not to > see Jaws or anything else until Schindler's List, which I didn't > like. (So add to the lack of Star Wars is my total lack of Indiana > Jones or Jurassic Park viewing.) "Jaws" is really good, though. Whatever with Jurassic Park, though... it wasn't much more than a demo reel for the CGI that now comes bundled with every blockbuster. And the sequel was awful. - -Rex ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #535 ********************************