From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #541 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, March 17 2008 Volume 16 : Number 541 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Glass Flesh - Last call for Robyn covers! [Rex ] Re: problem solved, thanks to Lurker Steve [Rex ] Re: Glass Flesh - Last call for Robyn covers! ["vivien lyon" ] heather mills gets $47 - has this to say [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Yeeshkul : Syd Barrett - You Got It Now (SODA 62), ST/BT/LP, 39:41 [Hwy] RE: Yeeshkul : Syd Barrett - You Got It Now (SODA 62), ST/BT/LP, 39:41 ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #540 [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #540 [2fs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:25:58 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Glass Flesh - Last call for Robyn covers! On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 10:15 AM, bayard wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm wrapping up this Robyn tribute thing so if anyone else wants to > send a cover song, now is the time. Deadline for submission is April > 30. Huh? Whuh? I don't remember even having seen anything about this before... are we adding to Ye Olde Glasse Fleshes for a web rollout of some new ilk? 'Cuz my band actually did start working on the massive shoegaze version of "Birdshead" late last year... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:32:55 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Accelerate On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 11:06 PM, 2fs wrote: > On 3/16/08, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > > > It's sorta makes me think > > of what the last U2 album should have been, instead of being > > "Vertigo," and then 11 tributes to fucking Coldplay (although none of > > these songs are quite as terrifically brash and reinvigorated as > > "Vertigo," either). > > > I missed that one! Gotta say, though: an album consisting almost entirely > of > tributes to fucking the members of Coldplay (singly? or en masse?) is an > intriguingly bizarre concept. I see what you did there. It's kind of similar to this great song I found floating around the web a few years back called "Fucking Bob Pollard"... which was written by a fellow whose bandmates kept asking him "what, do you think you're fucking Bob Pollard or something?." The song written in response starts "Last night I dreamt I was fuckinkg Bob Pollard / We did it all evening long" and goes on in that vein. Pretty good tune, too. From what I've heard of "Accelerate", it's definitely way more invigorated than either of the last two U2 records, whose rocking-comebackness has been greatly overstated. I haven't heard the whole thing, but there were certainly a few lyrical clunkers in there... but it definitely sounds like Buckertronics in full effect, yo, to its credit. - -Rex > Not quite as rock'n'roll as asking Iggy Pop to > cover your songs (but not his nipples). > > -- > > ...Jeff Norman > > The Architectural Dance Society > http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:34:07 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: problem solved, thanks to Lurker Steve On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 6:35 AM, Jill Brand wrote: > My winRAR problem is solved. The configuration of our external > hard drive was the problem, so I unpacked the file on our main hard drive. > Thank you, Steve!! And thanks to Tom Clark for pushing us a little closer > to a Mac (Waiting for the Tax Return - isn't that a VU song?). Beatles. No, wait, Cheap Trick. Maybe the Jam? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:03:05 -0700 From: Rex Subject: One for the Mac people So I managed to crack the LCD screen on my MacBook Pro. Okay, it took me, my stepdaughter, and a car door to do the job, but whatever. The machine is fine, but there's an ever-growing hairline crack radiating from the upper right corner which is slowly and I daresay gangrenously growing more black and green pixels along its length daily. It is oh so Robynesque, but one foresees that it won't end well. The guys at the Apple Store Genius Bar rated it as a $1500 repair, replacing the entire screen/lid assembly. Fuck, needless to say, that. Other options presented to me were: 1) Poke around various places for used lids, being sold by even less fortunate fuckers who flooded their keyboard and drive with beer or coffee or whatever. Seems like a pain in the ass unless someone knows of a good clearing house for such things. 2) Get my own new screen (approx. $400, not chump change) and roll the dice on installing it myself. Or have a private party install it for me for approx. another $400 or so. But then I started seeing these kinds of services-- anyone tried any of them, or have a recommendation? http://www.macservice.com/howitworks.html http://www.techrestore.com/xcart/product.php?productid=17355&cat=328&page=1 http://www.microreplay.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=29_34 I gotta say that $500 for the job done and no risk of my own fuckuppery sounds like the best deal in town. But I don't love shipping the machine away. Comments or advice? Love on ya, Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:57:59 -0700 From: "vivien lyon" Subject: Re: Glass Flesh - Last call for Robyn covers! And I'd kind of like to cover Flavour of Night, if I can convince my roommate to help me out with it. On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Rex wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 10:15 AM, bayard wrote: > > > Hey all, > > > > I'm wrapping up this Robyn tribute thing so if anyone else wants to > > send a cover song, now is the time. Deadline for submission is April > > 30. > > > Huh? Whuh? I don't remember even having seen anything about this > before... > are we adding to Ye Olde Glasse Fleshes for a web rollout of some new ilk? > 'Cuz my band actually did start working on the massive shoegaze version of > "Birdshead" late last year... > > -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:51:45 -0400 From: FSThomas Subject: reap Abba drummer Ola Brunkert found dead with throat cut in Spain By Fiona Govan in Madrid Last Updated: 12:13pm GMT 17/03/2008 The drummer of Swedish pop group Abba has been found dead with his throat cut in an apparent accident at his home on the island of Majorca. Police investigating the death of Ola Brunkert, 61, believe he may have fallen through a glass door in his kitchen wounding his neck on a shard of glass. He then apparently tried to leave the house to seek help but collapsed in the garden and bled to death. His body was discovered in the garden of his villa in Arta on the island's northeastern coast by a neighbour at around 8pm on Sunday. A police spokesman said it seemed likely that his death was the result of a tragic accident but investigators have not ruled anything out. "All the indications are that this was a tragic accident," said a spokesman for the Civil Guard. "A glass door in the kitchen of the house was shattered and it appears that this man fell through the door. He then managed to get out into the garden where he died." Mr Brunkert lived alone and there was no sign of a break in, police said. "The investigation is still continuing and nothing has been ruled out. We are waiting for the results of the autopsy to confirm whether he died from the cut to his neck." Mr Brunkert, who was originally from Stockholm, was a session musician with pop sensation Abba in the 1970s and early 1980s. He worked on all the group's albums and performed on tour with them. He retired to the island of Majorca several years ago and was a member of a local jazz band. Abba's four singers Agnetha FC$ltskog, BjC6rn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad leapt onto the international music scene after performing their song Waterloo in the 1974 Eurovision song contest. They went on to have hits with Money, Money, Money, Fernando and Dancing Queen and have sold over 350 million records worldwide. Despite breaking up in the mid 1980s the band still sells between two and three million albums a year. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/17/wabba217.xml ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:12:00 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: heather mills gets $47 - has this to say _http://news.http://newhttp://nehttp://news. turntable -> preamp -> Apple PowerBook -> Audacity (sampled at 24?-bit/96khz) -> ClickRepair (very light) -> xAct (Flac files) -> mailed data DVD-R -> FlacFrontEnd -> WAV -> Cool Edit Pro (convert 32-bit/96kHz to 16-bit/44.1kHz) -> WAV -> FlacfrontEnd 6 (no SBE) 01. Wouldn't You Miss Me (Dark Globe) - Take 1 (1987 Malcolm Jones Mix) 02. She Took A Long Cold Look At Me - Take 5 (1987 Malcolm Jones Mix) 03. Wined And Dined - Takes 1 & 2 04. Golden Hair - Instrumental Version #2 05. Bob Dylan Blues 06. Kevin Ayers - Religious Experience (Singing A Song In The Morning) - Take 10 1974-08-12, EMI Studios: 07. Boogie #1 08. Boogie #2 09. Boogie #3 10. If You Go #1 11. Ballad (Unfinished) 12. Chooka-Chooka Chug Chug 13. If You Go #2 14. Untitled 15. Slow Boogie 16. John Lee Hooker 17. Fast Boogie Thanks Doc! March 2008 **************It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms, and advice on AOL Money & Finance. (http://money.aol.com/tax?NCID=aolprf00030000000001) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:44:09 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Yeeshkul : Syd Barrett - You Got It Now (SODA 62), ST/BT/LP, 39:41 >Syd Barrett ....1974-08-12, EMI Studios: So, did he sing on his last session or not? Michael B. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of HwyCDRrev@aol.com Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 11:32 AM To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: Yeeshkul : Syd Barrett - You Got It Now (SODA 62), ST/BT/LP, 39:41 From: http://www.yeeshkul.com/forum/showthread.php?p=54645 Syd Barrett - You Got It Now (SODA 62), ST/BT/LP, 39:41 original LP -> turntable -> preamp -> Apple PowerBook -> Audacity (sampled at 24?-bit/96khz) -> ClickRepair (very light) -> xAct (Flac files) -> mailed data DVD-R -> FlacFrontEnd -> WAV -> Cool Edit Pro (convert 32-bit/96kHz to 16-bit/44.1kHz) -> WAV -> FlacfrontEnd 6 (no SBE) 01. Wouldn't You Miss Me (Dark Globe) - Take 1 (1987 Malcolm Jones Mix) 02. She Took A Long Cold Look At Me - Take 5 (1987 Malcolm Jones Mix) 03. Wined And Dined - Takes 1 & 2 04. Golden Hair - Instrumental Version #2 05. Bob Dylan Blues 06. Kevin Ayers - Religious Experience (Singing A Song In The Morning) - Take 10 07. Boogie #1 08. Boogie #2 09. Boogie #3 10. If You Go #1 11. Ballad (Unfinished) 12. Chooka-Chooka Chug Chug 13. If You Go #2 14. Untitled 15. Slow Boogie 16. John Lee Hooker 17. Fast Boogie Thanks Doc! March 2008 **************It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms, and advice on AOL Money & Finance. (http://money.aol.com/tax?NCID=aolprf00030000000001) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:31:39 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #540 >Umm, should have read Melanie *Lynskey*. > >On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 3:35 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > > > Druther have Melanie Rainey deliver my pizza any day. raather nice, yees. FWIW a friend of mine sang into a fish at her in a film once. (Wonder how many times that exact sentence has been uttered in the history of human civilisation) >I rarely remember my dreams, and when I do, they're typically very early >morning, semi-awake things that seem bizarrely mundane...as in the >following, which arrived this morning courtesy the usual dream express and >took the format of a VH-1-like documentary on various fegs. If any of the >below is actually true, of course, then I'll go into the psychic business. >To wit: > >* Michael Godwin's father, Roger Godwin, was a member of early sixties >British band The Winkies. (Note: I'm aware there actually was a band, in the >'70s I think, of that name - but apparently my dream thinks there was a >different one as well.) Yup - worked with Brian Eno briefly in about 1974 >* James Dignan, sadly, suffered the loss of his fiancee when, on May 26, >1970, she was killed while riding in a horse-drawn cart. (I think James >started his romantic life rather young...) yeah - just before my seventh birthday is a bit young for that sort of thing. That's the day George harrison started recording "All things must pass", BTW. The following day, Joseph Fiennes was born. I don't think there was any connection. On May 26 1970, Mick Ronson turned 24 and Stevie Nicks turned 22. My mind would have likely been more onthe recent Apollo 13 mission and whether Arsenal were going to do better in the 70-71 season (little did I know!) than on fiancees. 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, 17 Mar 2008 18:11:54 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #540 On 3/17/08, grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > > >Umm, should have read Melanie *Lynskey*. > > > >On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 3:35 PM, kevin studyvin > wrote: > > > > > Druther have Melanie Rainey deliver my pizza any day. > > raather nice, yees. Errm...who's Melanie Rainey then? A google image search turns up a middle-aged realtor or something. > > > >* James Dignan, sadly, suffered the loss of his fiancee when, on May 26, > >1970, she was killed while riding in a horse-drawn cart. (I think James > >started his romantic life rather young...) > > yeah - just before my seventh birthday is a bit young for that sort > of thing. T Well, i didn't say she was actually your fiancee at the time...only that the woman who *would have been your fiancee, had she survived*, was killed on that date. There was a sign on the horse-drawn cart that read "28IF"... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:57:21 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #540 >Errm...who's Melanie Rainey then? A google image search turns up a >middle-aged realtor or something. Ma Rainey's name was Gertrude, so it's nothing to do with her. There seems to be a photographer called Melanie Rainey, too, if Google's aything to go by. >Well, i didn't say she was actually your fiancee at the time...only >that the woman who *would have been your fiancee, had she survived*, >was killed on that date. > >There was a sign on the horse-drawn cart that read "28IF"... Heh. She wasn't barefooted, was she? - -- 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, 17 Mar 2008 20:32:12 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #540 On 3/17/08, grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > > > > >Well, i didn't say she was actually your fiancee at the time...only > >that the woman who *would have been your fiancee, had she survived*, > >was killed on that date. > > > >There was a sign on the horse-drawn cart that read "28IF"... > > > Heh. She wasn't barefooted, was she? No...but she was clutching a small stuffed walrus. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #541 ********************************