From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #594 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, May 8 2008 Volume 16 : Number 594 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Ladies and Gentlemen... [Rex ] Re: The Norman Protocols (was:annoying MS Word/Windows issues (Lauren Elizabeth)) [2fs ] Re: funny and not-so-funny links [2fs ] Re: The Norman Protocols (was:annoying MS Word/Windows issues (Lauren Elizabeth)) [Rex ] Re: The Norman Protocols (was:annoying MS Word/Windows issues (Lauren Elizabeth)) [Michael Sweeney ] Re: The Norman Protocols ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: prepare for tweeness! [2fs ] Fex Sood Meth and Dinsects [2fs ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #593 [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] "Green Porno" by Isabella Rossellini [Steve Talkowski ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #593 [Rex ] Re: More Songs about Murder and Carjacking [Christopher Gross ] Large tracts of land [Steve Schiavo ] Re: More Songs about Murder and Carjacking [2fs ] Re: Large tracts of land [2fs ] Re: More Songs about Murder and Carjacking [djini@voicenet.com] Re: More Songs about Murder and Carjacking [Rex ] PEHDTSCKJMBA [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #593 [craigie* ] Re: More Songs about Murder and Carjacking [2fs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 13:29:00 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Ladies and Gentlemen... Now entering my Top 10 Most Beloved Songs Evar: "Dub", Pylon. Straight in at #6. I hadn't heard it for a while and had never quite realized how jaw-droppingly singular it is, is why. Displaced from the Top 10 and bounced back to the Generalized Realm of the Truly Divine: I dunno, let's say "The Little Black Egg". I've rhapsodized about that one for long enough. Standing by for news as to the status of my soul-havingness in light of these recent developments. Thanks, Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 15:33:54 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: The Norman Protocols (was:annoying MS Word/Windows issues (Lauren Elizabeth)) The suggestion of the subject line is that utterly pointless e-mails taking up mindnumbingly trivial matters and shoehorning them into a specious relation to something-anything fegly is an approach that has my name all over it. Yep. (Roc?) On 5/7/08, Rex wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 9:00 AM, 2fs wrote: > > > . > > > > (Hi Lauren: I figured since you're calling yourself "0% RH" these days, > > if I > > mean to say "0% RH" I can just use your name instead...) > > > And thus I labeled my (admittedly rare) 100% RH-related post as "0% LE". > > The Protocols may be further defined by a quorum of Fegmaniax, but only if > voted on in person, with no few than five fegs gathered together, most > likely in New Zealand. For the purposes of this convention "feg" shall be > defined as "anyone who has posted ten or more times to the fegmaniax! > mailing list during the past two years". Through a technicality (one which > we are unable to correct due to another technicality), this will allow some > attendees to vote more than once, as posts by socks *are* admissable, and > confer upon the sock puppeteer legitimate adddtional voting power. (It's > really not that much more fucked up than the Texas caucus thing.) > > Anyhow. > > Some suggest that posts be tagged by name of the "feg" (see above) most > closely associated with the topic. The most obvious example would be a > flag-related post, which would be tagged as "100% Dignan". Other examples > might include posts about banjos ("100% Stewart C. Russell" or "100% SCR"), > posts about "Hannah Montana" (sadly, "100% Rex"), or posts related to > assfucking and other buttplay ("100% ET"). > > Concerning topics over which multiple "fegs" (see above) may claim > dominion (Buffy, Rush, BSG, The Fall, Karen Allen, etc.) the various > claimants will pretty much have to eliminate each other by whatever means > necessary to secure their topic. Hot tip: a lot more things are legal if > you can get someone into International Waters before you do them. > > It is to be hoped that the necessity to have every subject line include > "0%" followed by the names of all "fegs" (see above) whose characteristic > domains are not addressed in the post can be avoided through negotiation, > but you really never know who might be manifesting a shitty personality on > any given day. > > -Rex > - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 20:33:57 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: Ladies and Gentlemen... 2fs wrote: >On 5/6/08, Jeff Dwarf wrote:>>>> 2fs wrote:>>> As the philosopher H. Montana noted, it's "the best of both>>> worlds.">>>> I thought that was Samuel Hagar.... > >No - that was often paraphrased as "the best of both girls" but what heactually wrote was "in emerging from withinity and coming-forth intobecomingness, the being-in-itself of propinquity requires its sustenance ina mise-en-abyme, yet always already ex post facto its own sine qua nonregards itself, antiteleologically yet with phenomenological dubiety, as anontological numinosity under erasure. And who do I have to blow to get afucking drink around here?"< ...Plus, he had that unusually, numerically nick-named friend -- a certain Mr. "Fifty-Five" -- to whom he admitted his inability to operate a motor vehicle... Michael "Roth, Si! Hagar, No!" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Make Windows Vista more reliable and secure with Windows Vista Service Pack 1. http://www.windowsvista.com/SP1?WT.mc_id=hotmailvistasp1banner ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 15:37:58 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: funny and not-so-funny links On 5/7/08, (0% rh) wrote: > > > eek: > > http://gofugyourself.typepad.com/go_fug_yourself/2008/05/elettra-rossefu.html Didn't read the print below...but the outfit, to me, says something like "Do you want to be stylish and sleek in an all-black ensemble and still be able to wear your enormous bulging colostomy bag in public? Now you can! (Note: syntax is ambiguous as to whether second sentence applies to both clauses previous sentence or only the latter one.)" - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 13:42:20 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: The Norman Protocols (was:annoying MS Word/Windows issues (Lauren Elizabeth)) On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 1:33 PM, 2fs wrote: > (A) The suggestion of the subject line is that utterly pointless e-mails > taking up mindnumbingly trivial matters and shoehorning them into a specious > relation to something-anything fegly is an approach that has my name all > over it. > Now, now... before you get too excited, it's really only named after you because you introduced it. Which may or may not be a function of (A) above. I aint' sayin'. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 15:47:25 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: More Songs about Murder and Carjacking On 5/7/08, Rex wrote: > > > But hey, speaking of Wire, why exactly is it that, despite there being > nothing especially wrong with it, "MANSCSAPE" is so easily identifiable as > the least essential entry in theor catalog (proper album releases dept.)? Coincidentally (and I dig the Old English-y third person possessive plural there - or should I say "theor"), I was just e-mailing someone about the Wire catalog. I appear to be a minority opinion here, but between _Manscape_ and _The First Letter_ (assuming we consider the latter to be a Wire album per se despite its missing eponymous-in-reverse silence), I think _Manscape_ is the better album by a good margin. I suspect the general disdain arises from its sonics, which are, admittedly, a bit dated. T1L, however, even though its sound is a bit less specific to its era, simply lacks in the songwriting department. Newman was losing interest in songs during this era, and it shows - and Lewis always structured his things more on sounds than melodies and chords, and around this time it seems they were less fleshed out in the arrangement than elsewhere. The ongoing interest in "dugga" meant that a lot of songs were monochordal and monorhythmic - and over the course of album, this gets wearing to me. (I like the individual tracks on _The Drill_ but can barely get through it as a single listen - and I'm assuming it doesn't count as a "proper album release" or it would definitely be the least essential.) I think it was obvious the band was nearing the end of this phase of theor career. The test for me is that I can recall most of the songs on _Manscape_, but only a handful on T1L (and those, oddly, toward the back end of the album - the one that always stands out for me is "No Cows on the Ice"). As it happens, I just relistened to both of those albums, so this is a reasonably fresh opinion and not something lurking around the back of my brain with a tire iron waiting to leap out of the darkness and pummel the question if it wandered past unaware. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 21:14:16 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: The Norman Protocols (was:annoying MS Word/Windows issues (Lauren Elizabeth)) Rex wrote: >[brilliant Feg labeling theory / proposal]< ...OK, put me down for: Lou (since that's what drew me out from lurking in the first place) [leaves Cale for others] Lindsey Buckingham / F. Mac (duh) Chicago Cubs Most things, Re: Chicago (exception below) Karen Allen (but I WILL share, since a longtime (about 30 years (yikes!)) crush on Ms. Allen is certainly understood for certain-age viewers of "Animal House," "Raiders," and / or "Scrooged!") The Rutles (which I will also share, since...hey, The Rutles, man!) ...conversely, I'm currently maintaining a "0%" on: Buffy / Angel (but I STILL do intend to check out "Serenity" / "Firefly" someday...) BSG Rush / any Ayn Rand crap Chicago White Sox ...OK, the rest of ya -- have at the rest of the available topics like they were wedding dresses at Loehmann's... Michael "Dibs on 'Bad Puns' -- oh, sorry Jeff...didn't see you there first" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ With Windows Live for mobile, your contacts travel with you. http://www.windowslive.com/mobile/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_mob ile_052008 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 14:14:45 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: More Songs about Murder and Carjacking On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 1:47 PM, 2fs wrote: > > The test for me is that I can recall most of the songs on _Manscape_, but > only a handful on T1L (and those, oddly, toward the back end of the album - > the one that always stands out for me is "No Cows on the Ice"). > I remember them both pretty well, but that's probably because a listened to them both a lot when they came out-- although in the case of "Manscape" it was because I was trying to click with the record, whereas with "T1L" it was because I really dug(ga) it. My general feeling is that "M(S?)" is a little rote-- one can see why Graytobed departed afterwards-- except for one or two experiments which don't quite jive with the then-standard Wire sound (in particular, "Torch It" sounded like Lewis reaching back to the punk vibe that the rest of the band wouldn't quite warm back up to for another decade and a half). The Wir album felt to me like a real embrace of that experimental side, all over the map but refreshingly so, so that the pop experiments were more up-to-date on the rave tip ("So and Slow It Goes" got airplay on MARS FM), and the punk nods (self-sampling "Strange") and flat-out weird shit (poetry and dugga) fit just fine, too. I might well feel differently if I heard them today... I've heard bits of both frequently and recently, but god knows when I last spun either front to back. - -Rex > > > As it happens, I just relistened to both of those albums, so this is a > reasonably fresh opinion and not something lurking around the back of my > brain with a tire iron waiting to leap out of the darkness and pummel the > question if it wandered past unaware. > > -- > > ...Jeff Norman > > The Architectural Dance Society > http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 14:27:03 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: The Norman Protocols (was:annoying MS Word/Windows issues (Lauren Elizabeth)) On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Michael Sweeney wrote: > Rex wrote: > > >[brilliant Feg labeling theory / proposal]< > > > ...OK, put me down for: > > > - Chicago Cubs > - Most things, Re: Chicago (exception below) > > This will of course be dealt with by a special "General Michael" clause. - -Rex "Chicago Now" Broome ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 21:52:43 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: RE: The Norman Protocols (was:annoying MS Word/Windows issues (Lauren Elizabeth)) Rex wrote: >On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Michael Sweeney wrote: Rex wrote: >[brilliant Feg labeling theory / proposal]< ...OK, put me down for: Chicago Cubs Most things, Re: Chicago (exception below) >This will of course be dealt with by a special "General Michael" clause. >-Rex "Chicago Now" Broome ...Hmm -- I should have clarified: "Most things, Re: CITY OF Chicago ,,,Since, beyond not caring about the White Sox, I could also not be bothered to give a good fuck about the post-Terry Kath output of the band of the same name...(OR, come to think of it, the Academy Award-winning movie musical...) Michael "Of course, more than willing to split areas of Chicago expertise with my fellow Chi-area Fegs (not ALL of whom happen to be named Michael / Mike)" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Get Free (PRODUCT) RED Emoticons, Winks and Display Pics. http://joinred.spaces.live.com?ocid=TXT_HMTG_prodredemoticons_052008 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 19:16:30 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: prepare for tweeness! Rex wrote: > > Can't find the Flemons "Tom Dooley", though... any help? Elder daughter > (the 7-year old uke player) loves that song. It's track 9 on the CCD album "Dona Got A Ramblin' Mind". They call it Tom Dula. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 19:24:05 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: The Norman Protocols 2fs wrote: > > Yep. > > (Roc?) Heresi! Stewart (ps: McVouty!) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 18:53:19 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: prepare for tweeness! About that subject line: isn't "tweeness" the word for a hermaphrodite's sexual organs? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 18:58:06 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Fex Sood Meth and Dinsects Or something like that. Finally got around to that DVD - interesting stuff, esp. Buck's comments that pretty clearly expressed his frustration with R.E.M.'s work at that time - interesting to speculate whether he didn't lay down the law, leading to _Accelerate_... Also: I don't suppose anyone has sound files of the bonus section, with the demos of the "new" songs, hmmm? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 12:31:05 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #593 >>I've been working on a "Crime Movie" mix, basically a bunch of songs that >>were made famous in crime movies or TV shows, and are thereby linked in >>popular imagination to cops and robbers and murder and mayhem. > >Would I be correct in intuiting that David Lynch films, while often >featuring lots of crime, are too much of their own unique Lychian thing to >fit your genre definition? If the answer to that is "no", then Julee Cruise's "Falling" (Twin Peaks) is a must-have. And it's interesting you only have very few Bond themes on there - why not, say, Shirley Bassey's "Goldfinger"? 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, 7 May 2008 20:56:45 -0400 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: "Green Porno" by Isabella Rossellini If this isn't tailor-made for feglist, I don't know what is... http://www.sundancechannel.com/greenporno http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/05/green-porno-isabella-rossellini-videos.php They're brilliant. Steve Talkowski, Character Design | Animation Email stevetalkowski@mac.com | Web sketchbot.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 18:22:27 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: prepare for tweeness! On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > Rex wrote: > > > Can't find the Flemons "Tom Dooley", though... any help? Elder > > daughter (the 7-year old uke player) loves that song. > > > > It's track 9 on the CCD album "Dona Got A Ramblin' Mind". They call it Tom > Dula. > Rawk. I'll see to this right away. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 18:25:36 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #593 On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 5:31 PM, wrote: > I've been working on a "Crime Movie" mix, basically a bunch of songs that > > > were made famous in crime movies or TV shows, and are thereby linked > > > in > > > popular imagination to cops and robbers and murder and mayhem. > > > > > > > Would I be correct in intuiting that David Lynch films, while often > > featuring lots of crime, are too much of their own unique Lychian thing > > to > > fit your genre definition? > > > > If the answer to that is "no", then Julee Cruise's "Falling" (Twin Peaks) > is a must-have. Lynch opens up a whole 'nother musical universe. "Wicked Game" for starters, but all the Badalementi as well. Some Barry Adamson, even some Bowie... and hell, it even puts Billy Pumpkin's ass in play. - -Rex > > > And it's interesting you only have very few Bond themes on there - why > not, say, Shirley Bassey's "Goldfinger"? > > 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, 7 May 2008 22:14:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: More Songs about Murder and Carjacking On Wed, 7 May 2008, The Great Quail wrote: > I've been working on a "Crime Movie" mix, basically a bunch of songs that > were made famous in crime movies or TV shows, and are thereby linked in > popular imagination to cops and robbers and murder and mayhem. [snip] > Any suggestions? (I am not interested in theme songs, unless they are way > cool, such as the A3 tune.) How 'bout the theme song from The Shield? Not sure how "cool" it is, but I can't imagine hearing even a snippet of the song without immediately being transported into a Vic Mackey mindspace. According to Wikipedia, it's "Just Another Day" by Vivian Ann Romero, Ernesto J. Bautista and Rodney Alejandro. You might also consider "Bawitdaba" by Kid Rock, the song that plays over the montage and murder scene at the end of the pilot episode. - --Chris (who hasn't made it out of San Andreas yet) ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 21:36:57 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: reap Irvine Robbins - - Steve _______________ Interaction with cosmic intelligence may be influenced by Penrose noncomputable Platonic wisdom embedded in Planck scale geometry. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 22:37:00 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Large tracts of land and in other fringe news - - 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: Wed, 7 May 2008 22:42:28 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: More Songs about Murder and Carjacking On 5/7/08, Christopher Gross wrote: > > On Wed, 7 May 2008, The Great Quail wrote: > > > I've been working on a "Crime Movie" mix, basically a bunch of songs > that > > were made famous in crime movies or TV shows, and are thereby linked in > > popular imagination to cops and robbers and murder and mayhem. You might also consider "Bawitdaba" by Kid Rock, the > song that plays over the montage and murder scene at the end of the pilot > episode. If by "consider" you mean "consider finding the master, erasing it, finding masters of everything Kid Rock's ever recorded, erasing them, inventing a time machine, traveling back through time and making sure Kid Rock's parents never, ever, ever had sex," then yes, please do consider it. Strongly. Although I suppose the time machine thing and that would take care of the need to erase the masters. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 23:12:14 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Large tracts of land On 5/7/08, Steve Schiavo wrote: > > > > and in other fringe news > > Given your subject line, shouldn't the second link have been captioned "every sperm is sacred"? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 17:16:56 -0400 (EDT) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Re: More Songs about Murder and Carjacking Nights in White Satin, The Moody Blues, Wiseguy "How you gonna remember me, Vinnie?" > Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 15:10:20 -0400 > From: The Great Quail > Subject: More Songs about Murder and Carjacking > > I am making a few mix CDs for GTA IV, so I may load them into my Xbox 360 > and rock the streets of Liberty City ion my own inimitable way. I already > made a Gypsy Punk mix, a few hip hop mixes, a Latin music mix, and an outlaw > country mix. > > I've been working on a "Crime Movie" mix, basically a bunch of songs that > were made famous in crime movies or TV shows, and are thereby linked in > popular imagination to cops and robbers and murder and mayhem. > > My list so far: > > Godfather's Waltz, Nino Rota, The Godfather > Woke Up This Morning, A3, The Sopranos > Across 110th Street, Bobby Womack, Jackie Brown > Way Down In the Hole 1, The Blind Boys of Alabama, The Wire > Working In A Coalmine, Lee Dorsey, Casino > New Jack Hustler, Ice T. New Jack City > Gimme Shelter, The Rolling Stones, Every Martin Scorsese movie (except Shine > a Light) > In the Air Tonight, Phil Collins, Miami Vice > Little Green Bag, George Baker, Reservoir Dogs > Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down), Nancy Sinatra, Kill Bill > I'm Shipping Up To Boston, Dropkick Murphys, The Departed > Live And Let Die, Paul McCartney, Live and Let Die > Superfly, Curtis Mayfield, Superfly > The Harder They Come, Jimmy Cliff, The Harder They Come > Stuck In The Middle With You, Stealer's Wheel, Reservoir Dogs > New Dawn Fades, Moby, Heat > Miserlou, Dick Dale, Pulp Fiction > You Know My Name, Chris Cornell, Casino Royale > Layla (Piano Exit), Derek and the Dominos, Goodfellas > The Fall, Blake Leyh, The Wire > > Any suggestions? (I am not interested in theme songs, unless they are way > cool, such as the A3 tune.) > > - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 21:34:03 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: More Songs about Murder and Carjacking On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 8:42 PM, 2fs wrote: > > You might also consider "Bawitdaba" by Kid Rock, the > > song that plays over the montage and murder scene at the end of the > pilot > > episode. > > > If by "consider" you mean [excellent plan of action redacted] That's one of the problems with the "Ten Least Favorite Songs Evar" list: there are certain periods of musical history that are so rife with rancid horror-spawned vomitunes that they could monopolize the whole list if left unchecked. Mine is especially dominated by '70's butt rock ("Don't Stop Believin'" is pretty deeply rooted in that No. 1 slot), but if I were really to think about it, I could fill the whole damn thing up with stuff from the mid-90's cesspool that spewed forth Kid Rock (who is frankly one of the age's lesser abominations when compared with Limp Bizkit, Lynkyn Park, Pudddddlez of Mudde, etc.) I do memorialize that Wretched Era with the No. 2 song on the list, which is, of course, "Youth of the Nation" by P.O.D., but perhaps that is not enough. Frankly, it is possible to forget that era because one is not confronted with its detritus very frequently at this point in history, but those were dark, dark times. We must nevar forget. Nevar. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 01:14:01 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: Large tracts of land Steve Schiavo says: > and in other fringe news > > check out the side effects hovering at or near the bottom of the side effects page: http://thepillkills.com/effects.html "a man who grows accustomed to the use of contraceptive methods may forget the reverence due to a woman, and reduce her to being a mere instrument for the satisfaction of his own desires, no longer considering her as his partner whom he should surround with care and affection." ...as opposed to a glorious instrument of baby-generation? as ever, lauren p.s. help, send chill pills -- that web page should not piss me off anywhere near as much as it does. - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 23:35:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: PEHDTSCKJMBA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOrG1r3S6ZA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_0E7x3Nqys "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, 8 May 2008 09:43:40 +0100 From: craigie* Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #593 I immediately though of Stealer's Wheel. Since Stuck In The Middle With You was used in Reservoir Dogs it has been resolutely associated with *that* scene... c* On 08/05/2008, Rex wrote: > > On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 5:31 PM, wrote: > > > I've been working on a "Crime Movie" mix, basically a bunch of songs > that > > > > were made famous in crime movies or TV shows, and are thereby linked > > > > in > > > > popular imagination to cops and robbers and murder and mayhem. > > > > > > > > > > Would I be correct in intuiting that David Lynch films, while often > > > featuring lots of crime, are too much of their own unique Lychian > thing > > > to > > > fit your genre definition? > > > > > > > If the answer to that is "no", then Julee Cruise's "Falling" (Twin > Peaks) > > is a must-have. > > > Lynch opens up a whole 'nother musical universe. "Wicked Game" for > starters, but all the Badalementi as well. Some Barry Adamson, even some > Bowie... and hell, it even puts Billy Pumpkin's ass in play. > > -Rex > > > > > > > And it's interesting you only have very few Bond themes on there - why > > not, say, Shirley Bassey's "Goldfinger"? > > > > 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") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= > - -- 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)... Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc (the motto of the Addams Family: "We gladly feast on those who would subdue us") ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 08:11:27 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: More Songs about Murder and Carjacking On 5/7/08, Rex wrote: > > > > On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 8:42 PM, 2fs wrote: > >> >> You might also consider "Bawitdaba" by Kid Rock, the >> > song that plays over the montage and murder scene at the end of the >> pilot >> > episode. >> >> >> If by "consider" you mean [excellent plan of action redacted] > > > that spewed forth Kid Rock (who is frankly one of the age's lesser > abominations when compared with Limp Bizkit, Lynkyn Park, Pudddddlez of > Mudde, etc.) > Thing is, as far as I can tell most of those other acts have disappeared. Kid Rock's ugly behatted visage is still blinking forth from beneath his cliff-like brow, probably expressing ongoing puzzlement about this walking upright business. Fortunately, I listened to commercial radio not at all during that era, so I only have a few snippets to reinforce the obvious impression given by these acts that they suck hugely. I was at a music festival, and from one stage was roaring the most pointless, metal-ish, rap-tinged, possibly synth-glopped sludge of aesthetically challenged tattoo-damaged crap - and sure enough, it was one of them there "nu-metal" things at the time, Staind. Made me understand all the piercings beloved of these bands' fans - the pain of sticking metal through your flesh would be merciful distraction from having to listen to their music. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #594 ********************************