From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #537 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, March 13 2008 Volume 16 : Number 537 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Don't Murder The Damned! [Caroline Smith ] Re: another dumb question [John Liebler ] Re: Don't Murder The Damned! [craigie* ] Re: Don't Murder The Damned! [Tom Clark ] Re: Don't Murder The Damned! [Rex ] Re: Don't Murder The Damned! [Rex ] NEW on DIME: Robyn Hitchcock and Grant Lee Phillips 2000-06-22 @ Sweetwater Cafe - Mill Valley, CA. [] (Don't Fear) the Reefer (was): Don't Murder The Damned! [craigie* ] Re: Don't Murder The Damned! [The Great Quail ] Re: Don't Murder The Damned! [craigie* ] Re: Don't Murder The Damned! [Rex ] Oliver Stone... [The Great Quail ] Re: Don't Murder The Damned! [2fs ] RE: Don't Murder The Damned! ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: Oliver Stone... ["kevin studyvin" ] RE: Oliver Stone... ["Bachman, Michael" ] Appropos of nothing [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Oliver Stone... [Rex ] Re: Appropos of nothing ["(0% rh)" ] Re: the force is maybe with you, yaddy, yaddy, yah, pt. 409 [djini@voicen] Re: Appropos of nothing [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: NEW on DIME: Robyn Hitchcock and Grant Lee Phillips 2000-06-22 @ Sweetwater Cafe - Mill Valley, CA. [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:26:45 -0400 From: Caroline Smith Subject: Re: Don't Murder The Damned! On 13-Mar-08, at 12:37 AM, Tom Clark wrote: > > > I actually think it encourages people to stop smoking. Only a > fraction of the people I know smoke anymore, while before the ban it > was quite prevalent. > > -tc Same here. Smoking is banned in "enclosed public spaces" in Ontario... but that doesn't stop Sean Penn! http://www.cbc.ca/arts/tiff/story/2006/09/15/tiff-penn-fine.html It looks like Ontario is also getting close to banning smoking in cars with children under 16 years old. Does that take the rules too far? hmm... not sure. I also remember hearing about some bars that have started staging "theatre nights" where patrons can smoke as long as they are actors in the productions. http://www.startribune.com/local/15859722.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:22:02 -0400 From: John Liebler Subject: Re: another dumb question De-lurking after nearly ten years of following digests... If you haven't got a solution yet, Jill, Try IZArc for your unraring needs. In fact for all of your de-compressing needs. It's free! Cheers! John Liebler www.meshandbones.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:41:04 +0000 From: craigie* Subject: Re: Don't Murder The Damned! On 13/03/2008, 2fs wrote: > > > Uh-okay - and thanks to all for the advice - but what happens if I do get > caught? Do they force me to watch _American Idol_ or something? I've been taping (notice the use of inappropriate verb) for 33 years and have been caught three times during a performance and twice at the door. They used to take the tape and batteries... but an SD card is a little more expensive to lose. Just be careful. To be absolutley fair, though, the recording of shows is very low down most security's lists these days. Especially at the shows I go and see. Us middle-aged folks rarely get searched in the UK. And the H2 can pose as a (admitedly Large) mobile phone if you want to misdirect... Just have an imaginary conversation by holding it to your ear as you approach security and finish the call as you step up, placing the recorder in your pocket. They think it's a phone and don't even look. Or you can keep it in your hand as you assume the position. Worked for me...but then, I'm sneaky... c* - -- 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: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:56:31 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Don't Murder The Damned! On Mar 13, 2008, at 6:26 AM, Caroline Smith wrote: > It looks like Ontario is also getting close to banning smoking in cars > with children under 16 years old. Does that take the rules too far? > hmm... not sure. That's a new law in California as of this year: "California already prohibits smoking in enclosed workplaces, including taverns and restaurants, and within 25 feet of a playground. Two other states  Arkansas and Louisiana  have laws that bar smoking in vehicles containing children. The Arkansas statute applies to children under age 6 or 60 pounds. The Louisiana law covers children under age 13. California's ban would prohibit smoking in a vehicle containing anyone under 18, but the traffic stop would have to be made for another offense, such as speeding, before a vehicle's occupant could be cited for smoking." > > I also remember hearing about some bars that have started staging > "theatre nights" where patrons can smoke as long as they are actors in > the productions. > http://www.startribune.com/local/15859722.html Bringing it all home, I don't think Robyn smokes anymore but he comments quite often about "how things were before the smoking ban", as if it were a bad idea. I remember at a SF gig a few years ago he smelled pot in the room and commented "I guess tobacco is the only thing you're not allowed to smoke in here". At the Stephen Malkmus show a few months ago Malk was going off on some nonsensical tangent between songs when his bass player Joanna said "He wouldn't be saying all this If you guys would stop blowing weed smoke at the stage!" - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:10:11 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Don't Murder The Damned! On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > I actually think it encourages people to stop smoking. Only a > fraction of the people I know smoke anymore, while before the ban it > was quite prevalent. > Sure does seem that way. I think it happened kinda slowly... over the years, aging smokers found themselves surrounded by less and less cool people on their smoke breaks or whatever. Frankly, the only people I know who smoke any more are those who have noticeably prevalent issues with other substances as well. Parents (or at least most "involved" parents) really don't smoke either, and someone should remind my ex about that. Please. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:11:52 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Don't Murder The Damned! On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 5:01 AM, Bachman, Michael < Michael.Bachman@fanucrobotics.com> wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On > Behalf Of Steve Talkowski > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 7:08 PM > To: Stacked Crooked > Cc: fegmaniax@smoe.org > Subject: Re: Don't Murder The Damned! > > > On Mar 12, 2008, at 5:41 PM, Stacked Crooked wrote: > > >> did you *honestly* find the dinosaurs even remotely believable? > >> honestly? > >> you can argue that it was state of the art for its time, if you like; > > >> and that, say, *Lord Of The Rings*' CGI is fully seamless (i'd stukk > >> disagree with you, but will acknowledge that many people *wouldn't* > >> disagree with you). but to argue that *Jurassic*'s CGI was > >> believable? i think you're smoking something untoward, brother. > > >The funny thing here is, everyone likes to criticize without actually > knowing what > >real dinosaur skin looks like, or how they actually moved in real life. > I still believe > >the portrayal back in '93 was convincing enough to bring the premise to > life. But hey, > >that's not just me. > > With the glaciers and ice caps receding, it's only a matter of time > before some intact ones with skins are found. Is that an actual possiblilty? I'd hate to think that something so freakin' cool could come of global warming. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:13:43 -0400 From: gaseous clay Subject: NEW on DIME: Robyn Hitchcock and Grant Lee Phillips 2000-06-22 @ Sweetwater Cafe - Mill Valley, CA. http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=187926&hit=1 - ----- Forwarded message from DIME ----- Have another. Original info in description below. ~~~starman~~~ ______________________________________________________________________________ Grant Lee Hitchcock Grant Lee Phillips & Robyn Hitchcock June 22, 2000 Sweetwater Cafe Mill Valley, CA Source: CSC > D3 > Maxwell XLII C110 Transfer: CS Master > TC-RX370 > Soundmax > Cool Edit 2000 > CD Wave > flac Many thanks to KEN "A Wonderful Human Being" THE KENSTER for loan of the master tapes! Many apologies to Mike for the long wait. Disc 1 (Main Set): 01. intro 02. Cynthia Mask 03. Squit 04. banter 05. Queen Elvis 06. banter 07. Heavenly 08. banter 09. I Feel Beautiful 10. banter 11. Lonesome Serenade 12. banter 13. I Saw Nick Drake 14. Mockingbirds 15. Gene Hackman [slight cut due to do battery change] 16. banter 17. St. Expedite 18. banter 19. Trams Of Old London [tape flip] 20. banter 21. Folsom Prison Blues [Johnny Cash] / Ring Of Fire [June Carter/Merle Kilgore] 22. banter 23. Honey Don't Think 24. banter 25. Antwoman 26. Fuzzy Disc 2 (Encores): First Encore: 01. banter 02. Happiness 03. Rock Stool [improv] 04. Flavour Of Night 05. banter 06. Harper Valley PTA [improv] 07. Harper Valley PTA (in G) [improv] / Daydream [Lovin' Spoonfuls] 08. Don't Look Down 09. banter 10. Tangled Up In Blue [Bawb] 11. All I Have To Do Is Dream [Everly Brothers] [tape flip] Second Encore: 12. applause 13. banter 14. Flamin' Shoe 15. banter 16. Mighty Joe Moon 17. banter 18. Clean Steve 19. Across The Universe [The Beatles] 20. applause Third Encore: 21. Sound And Vision [David Bowie] / Rock Your Baby [George McCrae] / When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman [Dr. Hook] / Kung Fu Fighting [Carl Douglas] 22. I've Got A Feeling [The Beatles] / Tracks Of My Tears [Smokey Robinson] - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:15:02 +0000 From: craigie* Subject: (Don't Fear) the Reefer (was): Don't Murder The Damned! sorry, could not resist that. On 13/03/2008, Tom Clark wrote: > > on some nonsensical tangent > between songs when his bass player Joanna said "He wouldn't be saying > all this If you guys would stop blowing weed smoke at the stage!! c* - - 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: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:17:12 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Don't Murder The Damned! On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 6:26 AM, Caroline Smith wrote: > > It looks like Ontario is also getting close to banning smoking in cars > with children under 16 years old. Does that take the rules too far? > hmm... not sure. > No, that's a great idea. I'd like it even better if you were banned from smoking in a car that might be used to *transport* such kids, because I hate it that mine have to be driven around in a car that smells that damned bad. Second hand stale-butt-smell can't be that much less dangerous than actual second hand smoke... Okay, that is too far, because now I'm starting to think there should be laws governing festering piles of food and trash in kid-dedicated cars. Rather fascist of me, I suppose, but they're my kids... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:16:36 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: Don't Murder The Damned! Eddie writes, > apart from *Citizen Kane*, i can't think of a more overrated movie than > *Jaws*. I would expect such heretical views from you, you pinko bastard. "Jaws" is a near-perfect film. > *Amistad* was about as bad as > movie-making can get. Come on, it's no Michael Bay movie. Boring and pretentious and flat, sure, but really? >*War Of The Worlds* was as bad as any shyamalan > movie has ever been (and that's *very* fucking bad). Dude, this is impossible to refute because you are simply so wrong I can only posit the belief your copy of "Lady in the Water" was some heretofore unseen director's cut with 90% different material. > *A.I.* and *Minority > Report* were nearly unwatchable. I liked "Minority Report." Could have been a better movie, sure, and the ending was lame, but really... > i thought *Schindler's* was pretty decent, though; and quite loved *Catch > Me If You Can*. still need to see *Munich*. I think "Munich" is awesome. Really his best movie in a long time, and my favorite Hollywood movie of that year. > did you *honestly* find the dinosaurs even remotely believable? honestly? I knew you would pipe up again on this! And I say to you what I said to you ten years ago: Eddie! Giant fucking DINOSAURS!!!! - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:39:38 +0000 From: craigie* Subject: Re: Don't Murder The Damned! On 13/03/2008, Rex wrote: > > > Parents (or at least most "involved" parents) really don't smoke either, > and > someone should remind my ex about that. Please. and mine... although my daughter's doing her best to make Mum stop! c* - -- 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: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:47:45 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Don't Murder The Damned! On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 9:39 AM, craigie* wrote: > > > On 13/03/2008, Rex wrote: > > > > > > Parents (or at least most "involved" parents) really don't smoke either, > > and > > someone should remind my ex about that. Please. > > > and mine... although my daughter's doing her best to make Mum stop! > They do that, marvelously. But it still results in a giant undercutting of Ye Olde Parental Authoritye. I try like hell on my side to avoid the "do as I say not as I do" thing. I could go on, but ya never know who's listening in... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:20:36 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Oliver Stone... ....seems to be an asshole, personally, and frequently exhibits muddle-headed thinking, and hasn't made a worthwhile movie in a long time. But dammit, I enjoy most of his movies. I understand that he's a love-him-or-like-him director, and he's really hard to defend. But I tend to think of him as a mythmaker -- his biopics are not documentaries as much as they are attempts to create myths from the American narrative. I really liked "JFK," "Nixon," and "The Doors," I dug "Fourth of July" and "Heaven and Earth," and I thought "Natural Born Killers" was a scream. But I totally understand his many flaws, and I get why so many people revile him.... - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:55:31 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Don't Murder The Damned! On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Rex wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > > > I actually think it encourages people to stop smoking. Only a > > fraction of the people I know smoke anymore, while before the ban it > > was quite prevalent. > > > Sure does seem that way. I think it happened kinda slowly... over the > years, aging smokers found themselves surrounded by less and less cool > people on their smoke breaks or whatever. Frankly, the only people I know > who smoke any more are those who have noticeably prevalent issues with > other > substances as well. Which strongly suggests you're right...given that here, where smoking remains legal in many public places, hipster kids still smoke like chimneys on fire. (Not just them - but they're notorious offenders in that regard.) > > -- > > ...Jeff Norman > > The Architectural Dance Society > http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:05:14 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Don't Murder The Damned! - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of The Great Quail Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 12:17 PM To: Fegmaniax! Subject: Re: Don't Murder The Damned! Eddie writes, >> apart from *Citizen Kane*, i can't think of a more overrated movie >> than *Jaws*. TGQ came back with: >I would expect such heretical views from you, you pinko bastard. "Jaws" is a >near-perfect film. Near-perfect, but it was missing some tension the book had between Hooper and Brody. I seem to recall that the book had Hooper and Brody's wife having a fling between the sheets. I think Jaws the movie holds up very well though almost 33 years after first showing up in the theaters. Much more then say CEOT3K, as the alien mother ship has way too many doodads, thingamabobs and flashing lights. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:07:40 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Oliver Stone... On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 9:20 AM, The Great Quail wrote: > ....seems to be an asshole, personally, and frequently exhibits > muddle-headed thinking, and hasn't made a worthwhile movie in a long time. > But dammit, I enjoy most of his movies. > > I understand that he's a love-him-or-like-him director, and he's really > hard > to defend. But I tend to think of him as a mythmaker -- his biopics are > not > documentaries as much as they are attempts to create myths from the > American > narrative. I really liked "JFK," "Nixon," and "The Doors," I dug "Fourth > of > July" and "Heaven and Earth," and I thought "Natural Born Killers" was a > scream. But I totally understand his many flaws, and I get why so many > people revile him.... They all just seem slapdash and uninvolving to me, and I don't have much interest in myth-making, especially the disingenuous variety. But I sort of get that, and I do try to look at the public figure and the work as separate things... I loved many of the early Spike Lee joints*, even though he was a bit of a problematic public figure himself. - -Rex *tongue in cheek there... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:20:06 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Oliver Stone... On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 9:20 AM, The Great Quail wrote: > ....seems to be an asshole, personally, and frequently exhibits > muddle-headed thinking, and hasn't made a worthwhile movie in a long time. > But dammit, I enjoy most of his movies. > > I understand that he's a love-him-or-like-him director, and he's really > hard > to defend. But I tend to think of him as a mythmaker -- his biopics are > not > documentaries as much as they are attempts to create myths from the > American > narrative. I really liked "JFK," "Nixon," and "The Doors," I dug "Fourth > of > July" and "Heaven and Earth," and I thought "Natural Born Killers" was a > scream. But I totally understand his many flaws, and I get why so many > people revile him.... > Nixon was great, and casting Kyle McLachlan as Ray Manzarek was a stroke of genius, but beyond that I don't have much use for the guy. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:42:34 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Oliver Stone... - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of kevin studyvin Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 1:20 PM To: The Great Quail Cc: Fegmaniax! Subject: Re: Oliver Stone... On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 9:20 AM, The Great Quail wrote: >> ....seems to be an asshole, personally, and frequently exhibits >> muddle-headed thinking, and hasn't made a worthwhile movie in a long time. >> But dammit, I enjoy most of his movies. >> >> I understand that he's a love-him-or-like-him director, and he's >> really hard to defend. But I tend to think of him as a mythmaker -- >> his biopics are not documentaries as much as they are attempts to >> create myths from the American narrative. I really liked "JFK," >> "Nixon," and "The Doors," I dug "Fourth of July" and "Heaven and >> Earth," and I thought "Natural Born Killers" was a scream. But I >> totally understand his many flaws, and I get why so many people revile >> him.... >> >Nixon was great, and casting Kyle McLachlan as Ray Manzarek was a stroke of genius, >but beyond that I don't have much use for the guy. Kyle was on a roll back then with some great parts in movies and TP. I thought most of the casting choices were winners in JFK, Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Asner, Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon, etc. With all the wild conspiracy angles about 11-22-63, I thought Stone did a great job with JFK. Platoon is also one of the top Vietnam movies. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:51:51 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: Oliver Stone... kevin says: > Nixon was great, and casting Kyle McLachlan as Ray Manzarek was a stroke of > genius, but beyond that I don't have much use for the guy. i didn't see it (a spart of my general agenda of avoid most oliver stone movies) but a very good movie with "nixon" in the title is "the assassination of richard nixon", which doesn't have much to do with nixon, but doesn't have much to do with mr. stone, either. (i love when penn's character goes to the black panthers and suggests they be more inclusive - like zebras!) mostly it's a terrific character study - quite depressing, but mr. penn is captivating, as he tends to be. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:01:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Appropos of nothing I'm only boring you with this since the people more directly in my life I'd normally tell this to first are all people I want to surprse with it.... I was digging through some old clothes that use to fit then didn't but now might, when I came across a pair of jeans that I'm sure when I did wear I wore in that lovely under the awning fat guy style I use to inflict on the public and thought I'd check how close I was to really being wearable, only to discover that ... (drumroll) my waist has shunk 8" since mid-December. That is all.... "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: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:11:46 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Oliver Stone... On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Bachman, Michael < Michael.Bachman@fanucrobotics.com> wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On > Behalf Of kevin studyvin > Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 1:20 PM > To: The Great Quail > Cc: Fegmaniax! > Subject: Re: Oliver Stone... > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 9:20 AM, The Great Quail > wrote: > > >> ....seems to be an asshole, personally, and frequently exhibits > >> muddle-headed thinking, and hasn't made a worthwhile movie in a long > time. > >> But dammit, I enjoy most of his movies. > >> > >> I understand that he's a love-him-or-like-him director, and he's > >> really hard to defend. But I tend to think of him as a mythmaker -- > >> his biopics are not documentaries as much as they are attempts to > >> create myths from the American narrative. I really liked "JFK," > >> "Nixon," and "The Doors," I dug "Fourth of July" and "Heaven and > >> Earth," and I thought "Natural Born Killers" was a scream. But I > >> totally understand his many flaws, and I get why so many people > revile > >> him.... > >> > > > >Nixon was great, and casting Kyle McLachlan as Ray Manzarek was a > stroke of genius, > >but beyond that I don't have much use for the guy. > > Kyle was on a roll back then with some great parts in movies and TP. Toilet paper? Which of his parts were in that? > Platoon is also one of the top Vietnam movies. > I'll back off and show a little respect for "Platoon", which is okay... suffers by comparison to "Full Metal Jacket", but not terrible. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:24:20 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: Appropos of nothing Jeff Dwarf says: > , only to discover that ... (drumroll) > > > my waist has shunk 8" since mid-December. > > That is all.... congratulations! but are you keeping the helpful hints all to yourself? as ever, lauren, recovering thin person, not so happy with "normal" weight... - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:32:25 -0400 (EDT) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Re: the force is maybe with you, yaddy, yaddy, yah, pt. 409 Sebastian 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. Haven't seen Enchanted yet, although after watching the Oscars I feel like I have. (And of course I'm talking to anyfeg who wants to pipe up!) >> 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. Yes, but (trying not to spoil you) that quality in her is used to demonstrate the more typical reactions elicited by that much innocent, stubborn optimism. It's like seeing a puppy get kicked over and over. Her performance was brilliant. There's a little "making of" film on the DVD that includes her audition that was fascinating to watch. Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:38:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Appropos of nothing "(0% rh)" wrote: > Jeff Dwarf says: > > , only to discover that ... (drumroll) > > > > > > my waist has shunk 8" since mid-December. > > > > That is all.... > > congratulations! > > but are you keeping the helpful hints all to yourself? Not to be a cliche but: 1) eat better food -- more whole grains (which I originally typed as whore mole grains for some reason) more fruits and vegetables -- and less of it 2) but don't be so hyper alarmist that you end up feeling deprived -- better to go ahead and have some Ben and Jerry's now if you really want it than waiting a week and end up eating more of it than you would've in the first place 3) exercise more. Or, in my case, at all. With skinny friends who are willing to help drag you along when you need them too, and who can get you into the gym they (well, one of them) work at for free. 30-40 minutes of cardio twice a week, and go from there. "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: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:03:07 -0700 From: JBJ Subject: Re: NEW on DIME: Robyn Hitchcock and Grant Lee Phillips 2000-06-22 @ Sweetwater Cafe - Mill Valley, CA. You talk about fuckin-awesome recordings!! I love this show. Eddie Tews taped it! It helps that I spent my high-school & pre-college days chasing after this girl who lived in Mill Valley. Still don't know where Sweetwater Cafe is, but when they invent time travel, she and I will go there instead of the coffee house in San Anselmo. On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 9:13 AM, gaseous clay wrote: > http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=187926&hit=1 > > ----- Forwarded message from DIME ----- > > Have another. Original info in description below. > > ~~~starman~~~ > > ______________________________________________________________________________ > > Grant Lee Hitchcock > Grant Lee Phillips & Robyn Hitchcock > June 22, 2000 > Sweetwater Cafe > Mill Valley, CA > > Source: CSC > D3 > Maxwell XLII C110 > Transfer: CS Master > TC-RX370 > Soundmax > Cool Edit 2000 > CD Wave > > flac > > Many thanks to KEN "A Wonderful Human Being" THE KENSTER for loan of the > master tapes! > > Many apologies to Mike for the long wait. > > Disc 1 (Main Set): > > 01. intro > 02. Cynthia Mask > 03. Squit > 04. banter > 05. Queen Elvis > 06. banter > 07. Heavenly > 08. banter > 09. I Feel Beautiful > 10. banter > 11. Lonesome Serenade > 12. banter > 13. I Saw Nick Drake > 14. Mockingbirds > 15. Gene Hackman [slight cut due to do battery change] > 16. banter > 17. St. Expedite > 18. banter > 19. Trams Of Old London [tape flip] > 20. banter > 21. Folsom Prison Blues [Johnny Cash] / > Ring Of Fire [June Carter/Merle Kilgore] > 22. banter > 23. Honey Don't Think > 24. banter > 25. Antwoman > 26. Fuzzy > > Disc 2 (Encores): > > First Encore: > 01. banter > 02. Happiness > 03. Rock Stool [improv] > 04. Flavour Of Night > 05. banter > 06. Harper Valley PTA [improv] > 07. Harper Valley PTA (in G) [improv] / > Daydream [Lovin' Spoonfuls] > 08. Don't Look Down > 09. banter > 10. Tangled Up In Blue [Bawb] > 11. All I Have To Do Is Dream [Everly Brothers] [tape flip] > Second Encore: > 12. applause > 13. banter > 14. Flamin' Shoe > 15. banter > 16. Mighty Joe Moon > 17. banter > 18. Clean Steve > 19. Across The Universe [The Beatles] > 20. applause > Third Encore: > 21. Sound And Vision [David Bowie] / > Rock Your Baby [George McCrae] / > When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman [Dr. Hook] / > Kung Fu Fighting [Carl Douglas] > 22. I've Got A Feeling [The Beatles] / > Tracks Of My Tears [Smokey Robinson] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #537 ********************************