From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #579 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, April 23 2008 Volume 16 : Number 579 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Robyn Hitchcock, Old Lesbian ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: Robyn Hitchcock, Old Lesbian [Rex ] Re: Robyn Hitchcock, Old Lesbian ["Laura Golias" ] Re: Is there a letter lower than A? [Benjamin Lukoff ] Re: Is there a letter lower than A? ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: Is there a letter lower than A? ["Laura Golias" ] Re: Is there a letter lower than A? ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: Is there a letter lower than A? [2fs ] Re: Is there a letter lower than A? [Carrie Galbraith ] Re: Ho-Hum, Another Masterpiece [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re:Robyn Hitchcock, Old Lesbian [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: Robyn Hitchcock, Ole! Lesbian [Rex ] Re: Robyn Hitchcock, Ole! Lesbian [2fs ] Re: Robyn Hitchcock, Ole! Lesbian [Carrie Galbraith ] Re: Robyn Hitchcock, Ole! Lesbian [Carrie Galbraith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:33:48 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock, Old Lesbian Dunno which one's funnier, Richard Butler or Rick James... On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > If the page has changed, go to March 18, 2008. Just under Chris > Walla, above Rick Astley. > > > > http://menwholooklikeoldlesbians.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2008-03-26T14%3A31%3A00-07%3A00&max-results=7 > > > "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: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:44:56 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock, Old Lesbian On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 9:33 AM, kevin studyvin wrote: > Dunno which one's funnier, Richard Butler or Rick James... I like this sentence as it stands... but if you take it out of context, it makes a *spectacular* non-sequitir. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:52:12 -0400 From: "Laura Golias" Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock, Old Lesbian I laughed out loud when I saw Richard Butler. I like that picture of Robyn, his hair looks great. : ) Laura gruntydawarthawg@verizon.net Dunno which one's funnier, Richard Butler or Rick James... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:11:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: Is there a letter lower than A? Rex wrote: "Psuedo-Poll: How would y'all classify yourself vis-a-vis new music and/or emerging artists? A) Totally out of the loop B) Semi-engaged, semi-detached C) Current enough to actually be able to put together a year-end Top 10?" I think I am below loopless, but that doesn't mean that I don't listen to anything new. It's new to me, so that makes it new. The last six months have been dedicated to listening to everything that of Montreal ever put out + Odessey and Oracle (is that spelling supposed to mean something?). When you all are 52 years old, tell me how you're doing. Jill, basking in the anticipation of my lilacs in bloom ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:25:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: Is there a letter lower than A? On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Jill Brand wrote: > I think I am below loopless, but that doesn't mean that I don't listen to > anything new. It's new to me, so that makes it new. The last six months > have been dedicated to listening to everything that of Montreal ever put > out + Odessey and Oracle (is that spelling supposed to mean something?). Means nobody bothered to hire a proofreader....... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odessey_%26_Oracle 'The famous misspelling of "odyssey" in the title was the result of a mistake by the designer of the LP cover, Terry Quirk (who was the flatmate of bass player Chris White). The band tried to cover this up at the time of release by claiming the misspelling was intentional.' ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:47:12 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Is there a letter lower than A? > A) Totally out of the loop > B) Semi-engaged, semi-detached > C) Current enough to actually be able to put together a year-end > Top 10?" > > I think I am below loopless, but that doesn't mean that I don't listen to > anything new. It's new to me, so that makes it new. The last six months > have been dedicated to listening to everything that of Montreal ever put out > + Odessey and Oracle (is that spelling supposed to mean something?). > > When you all are 52 years old, tell me how you're doing. > > Jill, basking in the anticipation of my lilacs in bloom Definitely in that age group; somewhere between A and B. Was definitely in the loop & totally hep to all the new stuff before getting married, when I used to hang out with kool local musicians & whatnot, but marriage brought with it two kids and a lot of new demands on my attention that have left me decades later often feeling clueless in the face of an endless flood of new product. You all have suggested some very interesting stuff. Also there's college radio, which I still isten to sporadically, and oddly enough Craig Ferguson has a lot of interesting new acts on his show - that's where I got onto Nicole Atkins and Grizzly Bear, to name a couple. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:10:51 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Batman Eats Fucking Porkchops!!! re vocalisations: at the request of one of all y'alls, i've uploaded the "Bathtime In Clerkenwell" video to alt.binaries.music.videos, and the *I, Lucifer* album to alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.complete_cd. i'd be interested to hear some of your recommendations. beyond saying that devothcka, the foals, and elbow are (at the moment) the top three, i couldn't even begin to rank them. but the discs i really like so far are: american music club, joseph arthur (EP), the b-52s, the black keys, black mountain, boris, the cat empire, clinic, cloud cult, jason collett, dead meadow, destroyer, the dirtbombs, the dodos, earth, grand archives, korpiklaani, the magnetic fields, colin meloy, the management (AKA mgmt), metric (live), the mountain goats, the raveonettes, robedoor, tapes 'n' tapes, tokyo police club. by the way, next month is shaping up very nicely on the live front. here's how it looks for seattle: 2nd - colin meloy 3rd - thee emergency in-store, devotchka 5th - elbow 9th - cloud cult 13th - the dirtbombs 16th - clinic 18th - tokyo police club 19th - langhorne slim 23rd - 26th - folklife festival (or sasquatch, if one prefers) 30th - the foals damn! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:30:29 -0400 From: "Laura Golias" Subject: Re: Is there a letter lower than A? A, totally out of everything, included the loop. The only radio I listen to is NPR. And the only new music I listen to is Robyn or Kimya Dawson. I'm not even sure if it's worth dipping my toes into any new music. So y'all tell me. Is it? Laura gruntydawarthawg@verizon.net > Rex wrote: > "Psuedo-Poll: How would y'all classify yourself vis-a-vis new music > and/or > emerging artists? > > A) Totally out of the loop > B) Semi-engaged, semi-detached > C) Current enough to actually be able to put together a year-end > Top 10?" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:36:17 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Is there a letter lower than A? On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:47 AM, kevin studyvin wrote: > > A) Totally out of the loop > > B) Semi-engaged, semi-detached > > C) Current enough to actually be able to put together a year-end > > Top 10?" > > > > I think I am below loopless, but that doesn't mean that I don't listen > to > > anything new. It's new to me, so that makes it new. The last six > months > > have been dedicated to listening to everything that of Montreal ever put > out > > + Odessey and Oracle (is that spelling supposed to mean something?). > > > > When you all are 52 years old, tell me how you're doing. > > > > Jill, basking in the anticipation of my lilacs in bloom > > > Definitely in that age group; somewhere between A and B. Was definitely > in > the loop & totally hep to all the new stuff before getting married, when I > used to hang out with kool local musicians & whatnot, but marriage brought > with it two kids and a lot of new demands on my attention that have left > me > decades later often feeling clueless in the face of an endless flood of > new > product. Parenting seems to be a bigger part of it than age. For one thing, you've gotta wonder how much new music (or general input) one can truly process out of what's offered up... it's like the neuropharmological idea of jockeying for neural receptors, and before kids I was well clear of mainstream music. Now a certain amount of the music that reaches the surface of my cortex is by definition the Jonas Brothers, Cheetah Girls, Hannah M, and that weird stuff to which the stepdaughter learns her hip-hop routines. (Of course, she's also familiar with some of The Greats, as detailed in the "conversations with" series, and the other kids in her theatre group like the Arcade Fire and other indie-ish acts of that ilk, so my mileage varies all over the place; the younger girls still respond mostly to cute stuff and the songs they hear in movies.) Grizzly Bear is a good example of my seemingly random hit/miss ratio on like-minded groups; I found them along with a bunch of other chamber-pop-ish bands last year on feggy recommendations, out of which I fell in love with Caribou, liked a few others well enough... but I Grizzly Bear just never clicked. I tried again last week, and... nothing. The songs just don't stay with me, and that type of arranging and recording just seems so... easy (for lack of a better word) to me. It's not bad or anything, though. Same deal with the neo-new-wave bands... I ended up loving Bloc Party (and Art Brut, if they count) and being indifferent to (or actively disliking) most of the others. And yes, I know that all the names I'm citing are pathetically close to, if not one with, the mainstream. That's my drift from (B) to (A) for ya. I credit the early '90's with killing my ability to give a shit about "the" "future" of "rock" and "roll" for the mellowness with which I can now accept the terms of my separation from hipsterdom. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:45:57 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Is there a letter lower than A? In terms of whether there are letters lower than A I think we'd have to appeal to Lauren, who seems like she'd be down with imaginary numbers and stuff... On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Laura Golias wrote: > A, totally out of everything, included the loop. > The only radio I listen to is NPR. > And the only new music I listen to is Robyn or Kimya Dawson. > I'm not even sure if it's worth dipping my toes into any new music. > So y'all tell me. Is it? > Laura > gruntydawarthawg@verizon.net ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:54:06 -0400 From: "m swedene" Subject: Re: Is there a letter lower than A? a sub 1? but i think that would come after a. sigh... Mike On 4/22/08, kevin studyvin wrote: > In terms of whether there are letters lower than A I think we'd have to > appeal to Lauren, who seems like she'd be down with imaginary numbers and > stuff... > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Laura Golias > wrote: > > > A, totally out of everything, included the loop. > > The only radio I listen to is NPR. > > And the only new music I listen to is Robyn or Kimya Dawson. > > I'm not even sure if it's worth dipping my toes into any new music. > > So y'all tell me. Is it? > > Laura > > gruntydawarthawg@verizon.net ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:55:53 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Is there a letter lower than A? On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:45 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > In terms of whether there are letters lower than A I think we'd have to > appeal to Lauren, who seems like she'd be down with imaginary numbers and > stuff... I will once again trot out one of my Great Unused Album Titles...first, everyone knows that there was a compilation of Howlin' Wolf released sometime in the '60s, I think on MCA, called "Real Folk Blues," 'kay? Alright then, moving on: I titled a homebrewed compilation of Scott Miller's stuff (Game Theory, the Loud Family - and know that Miller's day job is some crazed high-end computer-oriented thingumbob what with his engineering degree and all) _Irreal Folk Blues_. C'mon: that's a perfect title, dammit. It's not, however, as dumbrilliant as _It Takes a Nation of Gilligans to Hold Us Back_... > > -- > > ...Jeff Norman > > The Architectural Dance Society > http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:05:33 -0700 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: Is there a letter lower than A? On Apr 22, 2008, at 11:11 AM, Jill Brand wrote: > > When you all are 52 years old, tell me how you're doing. > Well, I'm staring at 52 in December and don't even have the excuse of a husband or children keeping me out of the loop! But really, the question is - which loop? I try to keep up on music from the Balkans, Africa and Turkey, to name a few. My closest friend and I are planning a trip to this music festival - maybe not next year but within a couple of years hopefully. We've been dreaming of it for several years. And can I recommend enough a wonderful Mauritanian musician by the name of Dimi Mint Abba?? And I've lately been turned on by a local group - calling themselves Loop Station. So the loop is relative. - - c ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:29:37 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: Ho-Hum, Another Masterpiece On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Rex wrote: > Psuedo-Poll: How would y'all classify yourself vis-a-vis new music and/or> emerging artists?>> A) Totally out of the loop> B) Semi-engaged, semi-detached> C) Current enough to actually be able to put together a year-end Top 10? ...After years of being a solid "C" (yeah, but that WAS years ago), today, I am sadly an "A" (but using Sirius and Pandora enuff to try and find some new nuggets here and there -- but not so much that I'd grant myself "B" status). Michael "These damn kids today, who can figger them out? -- or their crazy noise! [shakes fist, John McCain-style]" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ In a rush? Get real-time answers with Windows Live Messenger. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_ realtime_042008 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:00:22 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: Is there a letter lower than A? kevin says: > In terms of whether there are letters lower than A I think we'd have to > appeal to Lauren, who seems like she'd be down with imaginary numbers and > stuff... i'm so predictable - i _was_ going to check my ASCII table (i guess the kids would use their unicode tables these days.) xo p.s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII - looks like jill's looking for a "@" - aka ASCII 64. - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:42:35 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: Ho-Hum, Another Masterpiece > > > Psuedo-Poll: How would y'all classify yourself vis-a-vis new music > > and/or > > > emerging artists? > > > > > > A) Totally out of the loop > > > B) Semi-engaged, semi-detached > > > C) Current enough to actually be able to put together a year-end Top > > 10? I try for C, but I'd have to say B. I hear the stuff that arrives as samplers/freebies at the local student station, but I miss a lot ofother stuff. BTW, if you're a White Stripes fan but think the latest couple of albums have missed the mark, you might want to try the Raconteurs' album "Consolers of the lonely". 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: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:46:57 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re:Robyn Hitchcock, Old Lesbian > > If the page has changed, go to March 18, 2008. Just under Chris > > Walla, above Rick Astley. > > >Whoa. I saw a list like this a few months ago, pre-Robyn-inclusion. After >a while I came to the conclusion that just about any guy who neither goes >bald nor becomes obese is going to qualify for this honor eventually. I >guess I have this to look forward to, then. Thankfully, I like both >lesbians and old people, so it's all good. Talking of Robyn's appearanced, but in aslightly more positive way, looking at the way he and Tim and Neil Finn have aged, does anyone else here think that Robyn could be a missing Finn Brother? 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, 22 Apr 2008 16:54:25 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock, Ole! Lesbian On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 4:46 PM, wrote: > > > > > Talking of Robyn's appearanced, but in aslightly more positive way, > looking at the way he and Tim and Neil Finn have aged, does anyone else here > think that Robyn could be a missing Finn Brother? > Also positively, I refrained from mentioning it after the Lowe/Costello/RH photos surfaced, but... our boy is by far the best preserved physical specemin of that lot, eh? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:55:52 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock, Ole! Lesbian On 4/22/08, Rex wrote: > > > Also positively, I refrained from mentioning it after the Lowe/Costello/RH > photos surfaced, but... our boy is by far the best preserved physical > specemin of that lot, eh? Well, Lowe's got the excuse of being several years older. And Mr. MacManus never was the best-looking man... All in all, though, they look fine: I don't think any of them looks decrepit or aged beyond his years. Robyn's always been the best-looking of the three of them anyway. (I expect of chorus of "oh yeahs" from our female feg contingent...) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:09:47 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock, Ole! Lesbian - -----Original Message----- >From: 2fs >Robyn's always been the best-looking of the three of them anyway. (I expect >of chorus of "oh yeahs" from our female feg contingent...) Oh Yeah! - - c ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:14:29 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Robyn Hitchcock, Ole! Lesbian - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Rex Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 7:54 PM To: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Cc: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock, Ole! Lesbian On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 4:46 PM, wrote: > > > > > > >Talking of Robyn's appearanced, but in aslightly more positive way, > >looking at the way he and Tim and Neil Finn have aged, does anyone > >else here think that Robyn could be a missing Finn Brother? >> >Also positively, I refrained from mentioning it after the Lowe/Costello/RH photos surfaced, > but... our boy is by far the best preserved physical specemin of that lot, eh? Perhaps diet perhaps could have something to do with it? Robyn's been a pescetarian for a while now. Michael (also a pescetarian for a year now) B. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:18:31 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Batman Eats Fucking Porkchops!!! Stacked Crooked wrote: > > by the way, next month is shaping up very nicely on the live front. here's > how it looks for seattle: > > 2nd - colin meloy Jill didn't give this glowing reports. But in better news, I'm seeing Kevin Barnes live next month. Whee! Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:09:43 -0400 From: "Laura Golias" Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock, Ole! Lesbian I'll give you a Hell Yeah on that. : ) Laura gruntydawarthawg@verizon.net > Robyn's always been the best-looking of the three of them anyway. (I > expect > of chorus of "oh yeahs" from our female feg contingent...) > > -- > > ...Jeff Norman ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:09:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock, Ole! Lesbian Carrie Galbraith wrote: > 2fs said: >> Robyn's always been the best-looking of the three of them anyway. >> (I expect of chorus of "oh yeahs" from our female feg >> contingent...) > > Oh Yeah! Shouldn't that be "Alright, Yeah!"? "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, 23 Apr 2008 09:04:23 -0700 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock, Ole! Lesbian On Apr 23, 2008, at 7:09 AM, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > Carrie Galbraith wrote: >> 2fs said: >>> Robyn's always been the best-looking of the three of them anyway. >>> (I expect of chorus of "oh yeahs" from our female feg >>> contingent...) >> >> Oh Yeah! > > Shouldn't that be "Alright, Yeah!"? You know, that came to me moments after I hit return. - - c, ever quick on the comeback, er. I mean... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:21:34 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Robyn Hitchcock, Ole! Lesbian On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 7:55 PM, 2fs wrote: > On 4/22/08, Rex wrote: > > > > > Also positively, I refrained from mentioning it after the > > Lowe/Costello/RH > > photos surfaced, but... our boy is by far the best preserved physical > > specemin of that lot, eh? > > > Well, Lowe's got the excuse of being several years older. And Mr. MacManus > never was the best-looking man... > I dunno, I've known quite a few of the ladies to go for EC and his early looks especially. It's certainly been copied plenty, then and now. > All in all, though, they look fine: I don't think any of them looks > decrepit or aged beyond his years. > No, not at all. And neither Lowe nor Costello looks the slightest bit Lebanese. - -Rex ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #579 ********************************