From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #600 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, May 15 2008 Volume 16 : Number 600 Today's Subjects: ----------------- REAP [Sebastian Hagedorn ] shakespeare vs. the slackers ["(0% rh)" ] Re: REAP ["(0% rh)" ] Jim White [djini@voicenet.com] Re: shakespeare vs. the slackers [2fs ] Re: shakespeare vs. the slackers ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: shakespeare vs. the slackers ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: shakespeare vs. the slackers [Christopher Gross ] Mini-Reviews ["Stacked Crooked" ] Mini-Reviews ["Stacked Crooked" ] Re: Mini-Reviews [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: shakespeare vs. the slackers [Rex ] Re: shakespeare vs. the slackers [2fs ] Re: Feg radio shows ["John B. Jones" ] Feg radio shows [David Witzany ] RE: shakespeare vs. the slackers ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: shakespeare vs. the slackers [Carrie Galbraith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 09:59:56 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: REAP Robert Rauschenberg, 82 He was one of the first artists I enjoyed as a child. At the Museum Ludwig here in Cologne there's a decent pop art collection. I also liked Roy Lichtenstein and James Rosenquist. - -- b. Sebastian Hagedorn b Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de b' http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 04:24:57 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: shakespeare vs. the slackers http://tinyurl.com/4y5k82 a.k.a. http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN0842573120080509?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews as ever, lauren p.s. all u.s. fegs with a collection of "forever" stamps should be feeling mighty fine right now. p.p.s. i, on the other hand, had to go dig up my stock of one-cent stamps, as, god knows why, i have like "stamp principles" and refused to buy any of those stupid "forever" stamps on the basis that they were REALLY BORING (which is kind of dumb, because, ultimately, it's some other sap that has to look at the dumb thing when it comes to them in the post.) p.p.p.s. any opinions on best u.s. stamp of recent memories? i was really fond of the 33-cent undersea creatures. and the (i think) 37-cent cloud stamps that had small text at the bottom describing the type of cloud formation pictured. those might have had longer descriptions on the back of the sheet (i love stamps with back-of-the-sheet descriptions - i believe those are always sheets with non-repeating images, e.g. there were 20 different cloud stamps per cloud-stamp sheet.) - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 04:26:34 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: REAP > Robert Rauschenberg, 82 ouch. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 13:34:14 -0400 (EDT) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Jim White If there are any Philly fegs who are into Jim White (the Wrong-Eyed Jesus one, not the drummer), he's playing Tuesday night at the World Cafe Live. It's a late show - starts at 9:30. I am doubtless lame, but that's too late for me, especially since I'm at some distance from the city now... Anyway, just fyi. I'm still considering the Baltimore show, since scheduling-wise it works better. http://www.jimwhite.net/vocation.html#tours Baltimore area fegs, what's the Ram's Head Tavern like? Worth it? Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 10:48:43 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: shakespeare vs. the slackers Subject line of the year... On 5/14/08, (0% rh) wrote: > > http://tinyurl.com/4y5k82 > a.k.a. > > http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN0842573120080509?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews > - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 09:43:25 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: shakespeare vs. the slackers > p.p.p.s. any opinions on best u.s. stamp of recent memories? i was > really fond of the 33-cent undersea creatures. and the (i think) > 37-cent cloud stamps that had small text at the bottom describing the > type of cloud formation pictured. The only one that ever mattered to me was Fat Elvis. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 09:53:21 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: shakespeare vs. the slackers On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 1:24 AM, (0% rh) wrote: > http://tinyurl.com/4y5k82 > a.k.a. > > http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN0842573120080509?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews > > as ever, > lauren Actually I picked up the item sbout the dummies with the skull bong a couple days back in the NYT (reminded me of the tale about Prescott Bush digging up Geronimo's skull). What I found more diverting on the same page was the bit about how our President gave up golf in 2003 as a show of solidarity with the families of the soldiers killed in Iraq. Truly, he is The Man... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 13:28:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: shakespeare vs. the slackers On Wed, 14 May 2008, kevin studyvin wrote: > Actually I picked up the item sbout the dummies with the skull bong a couple > days back in the NYT (reminded me of the tale about Prescott Bush digging up > Geronimo's skull). What I found more diverting on the same page was the bit > about how our President gave up golf in 2003 as a show of solidarity with > the families of the soldiers killed in Iraq. Truly, he is The Man... See also: http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/05/no_golf_for_bush.php Our Glorious Leader is certainly his father's son -- anyone remember the minor flap about Bush Sr. zooming around in his cigarette boat during buildup phase of the Gulf War*? - --Chris *Why must people refer to the First and Second Gulf Wars? I think it's far more logical to call 1990-91 the Gulf War and 2003-whenever the Iraq War, since the former took place in multiple countries around the Gulf and the latter is taking place within Iraq. Also, it's completely acceptable but not required to put a comma after the second item in a series of three ("X, Y, and Z"). And of course the pig is Mucky, not Bucky. ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 11:09:20 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Mini-Reviews British Sea Power, *Do You Like Rock Music* ~ damn! this is (considering how little i liked their previous work) shockingly, fantastically great! The Submarines, *Honeysuckle Weeks* ~ very nice. check 'em out, if you get the chance. Death Cab For Cutie, *Narrow Stairs* ~ well, even the great wave of 2008 can't save death cab. they used to be a great live band -- perhaps still are. but they've never, (to mine ears) made even a good record, let alone a great one. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 11:09:20 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Mini-Reviews British Sea Power, *Do You Like Rock Music* ~ damn! this is (considering how little i liked their previous work) shockingly, fantastically great! The Submarines, *Honeysuckle Weeks* ~ very nice. check 'em out, if you get the chance. Death Cab For Cutie, *Narrow Stairs* ~ well, even the great wave of 2008 can't save death cab. they used to be a great live band -- perhaps still are. but they've never, (to mine ears) made even a good record, let alone a great one. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 20:40:45 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Mini-Reviews - -- Stacked Crooked is rumored to have mumbled on 14. Mai 2008 11:09:20 -0700 regarding Mini-Reviews: > British Sea Power, *Do You Like Rock Music* > ~ damn! this is (considering how little i liked their previous work) > shockingly, fantastically great! Agreed. "Waving Flags" is a fantastic song. Friends of mine had been raving about them before, especially as a live band. I only now got all their records. I haven't really fully listened to all of them yet, but the first one and this one sound like winners. > Death Cab For Cutie, *Narrow Stairs* > ~ well, even the great wave of 2008 can't save death cab. they used to be > a great live band -- perhaps still are. but they've never, (to mine ears) > made even a good record, let alone a great one. I like them. I heard a review of the new one on NPR yesterday that wasn't all the flattering. I listened to it on my way to and from work today. I'm not sure how much I'm going to like it in the long run, but it's definitely a kind of music I enjoy. I also have "Plans" and "Transatlanticism", but with all that new music I hardly get to listen to records in depth anymore .... I also got the new Aimee Mann, but that's disappointing so far. OTOH, her albums have a tendency to grow on me, so who knows? - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 11:41:49 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: shakespeare vs. the slackers On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Christopher Gross wrote: > On Wed, 14 May 2008, kevin studyvin wrote: > > Truly, he is The Man... > Well, he is *a* man. Sort of. Teh Man at best. It's almost over, though. > *Why must people refer to the First and Second Gulf Wars? Been wondering about this, too. In fact, if they're the First and Second Anythings, they're War With Iraq I and WWI II (not to be confused with WWIII (yet)). I've found that when I refer to the Gulf War, the chronology throws people off, and they think I'm talking about more recent events, so there has to be some kind of qualifier. Usually I just mumble something about the year or Schwarzkopf and leave it at that. - -Rex "'Desert Storm' or 'The Pre-Grunge Gulf War' also acceptable" Broome ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 14:06:13 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: shakespeare vs. the slackers On 5/14/08, Rex wrote: > > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Christopher Gross > wrote: > > > *Why must people refer to the First and Second Gulf Wars? > > > -Rex "'Desert Storm' or 'The Pre-Grunge Gulf War' also acceptable" Broome Actually, I *hate* terms like "Desert Storm." Prior to...oh, I dunno, the 1970s or so, operations had code names seemingly picked randomly - Operation Blue Windows, Operation Flung Monkey, etc. Then - - as with everydamnedthing else in the world, marketing took over, along with egregious back-patting, and so we got things like "Desert Shield," "Just Cause," etc., which seemed named entirely to allow the creation of graphics on Fox News. Anything that could also be the name of an SUV or pickup truck should be disqualified ("drive the new 2008 Desert Storm - fuck up the environment, 8 gallons per mile at a time!"). Sorry - if you have to *name* something "Operation Just Cause," the odds are pretty damned strong the cause is anything but just. (Yeah, I know: "just 'cause...") - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 12:10:45 -0700 From: "John B. Jones" Subject: Re: Feg radio shows Thanks for weighing in, Dave. Do you have a website? I just set up one for my show (anodyneradio.com) and want to include links to fellow djs' shows. On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:03 PM, David Witzany wrote: > From jbj: > ----------------------- > I'm curious how many fegs either have had or currently have radio shows. > Given the breadth and depth of musical knowledge so visible on this list, > I'm guessing there's quite a few. > > jbj > ------------------------- > > Here. I've had a weekly show at WEFT in Champaign (community radio, as is > jbj's KBOO) for over a decade now. I play music by bands who have upcoming > concerts in the region, but I always set aside plenty of time each week to > spin tunes just 'cause. Few months go by with zero RH content. WEFT > streams its signal online at weft.org; I'm on Fridays from 6-8 PM CST. > > Dave. > > David Witzany ...one of nature's > witzany@uiuc.edu bounds checkers ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 14:03:24 -0500 (CDT) From: David Witzany Subject: Feg radio shows From jbj: - ----------------------- I'm curious how many fegs either have had or currently have radio shows. Given the breadth and depth of musical knowledge so visible on this list, I'm guessing there's quite a few. jbj - ------------------------- Here. I've had a weekly show at WEFT in Champaign (community radio, as is jbj's KBOO) for over a decade now. I play music by bands who have upcoming concerts in the region, but I always set aside plenty of time each week to spin tunes just 'cause. Few months go by with zero RH content. WEFT streams its signal online at weft.org; I'm on Fridays from 6-8 PM CST. Dave. David Witzany ...one of nature's witzany@uiuc.edu bounds checkers ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 16:08:43 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: shakespeare vs. the slackers - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of kevin studyvin Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 12:43 PM To: (0% rh) Cc: a sweet little cupcake...baked by the devil! Subject: Re: shakespeare vs. the slackers >> p.p.p.s. any opinions on best u.s. stamp of recent memories? i was >>really fond of the 33-cent undersea creatures. and the (i think) >>37-cent cloud stamps that had small text at the bottom describing the >> type of cloud formation pictured. >The only one that ever mattered to me was Fat Elvis. I thought the 29-cent blues stamps from 1994 were pretty cool, especially the Robert Johnson one. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 13:27:18 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: shakespeare vs. the slackers On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:06 PM, 2fs wrote: > On 5/14/08, Rex wrote: > > > > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Christopher Gross > > wrote: > > > > > *Why must people refer to the First and Second Gulf Wars? > > > > > > -Rex "'Desert Storm' or 'The Pre-Grunge Gulf War' also acceptable" Broome > > > > Actually, I *hate* terms like "Desert Storm." > Oh, lord, me too. But the very mention of it seems to indicate its own lameness so accurately that there's little need to editorialize (or at least so it seems to me). Imagine it being said with the utmost of sarcasm... desert scorn, as it were. - -Rex "Operation God Says We're Awesome" Broome ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 13:51:08 -0700 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: shakespeare vs. the slackers On May 14, 2008, at 9:43 AM, kevin studyvin wrote: >> p.p.p.s. any opinions on best u.s. stamp of recent memories? i was >> really fond of the 33-cent undersea creatures. and the (i think) >> 37-cent cloud stamps that had small text at the bottom describing the >> type of cloud formation pictured. > > > > The only one that ever mattered to me was Fat Elvis. I bought a set of stamps with Elvis on them while in Albania several years ago. They are fantastic in that it is a Byzantine Elvis! His face is elongated, his lips smallish, eyes closer together and his expression so full of suffering and sorrow. So beautiful I had them framed. - - c, who also loves this thread's title ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 16:51:18 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: shakespeare vs. the slackers - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Rex Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 4:27 PM To: 2fs Cc: menaced by bears! (and mice) Subject: Re: shakespeare vs. the slackers On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:06 PM, 2fs wrote: > On 5/14/08, Rex wrote: > > > > > >On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Christopher Gross > > >wrote: > > > > > > >*Why must people refer to the First and Second Gulf Wars? > > > > > > > > >-Rex "'Desert Storm' or 'The Pre-Grunge Gulf War' also acceptable" > > > Broome > > > > > > > >Actually, I *hate* terms like "Desert Storm." > > Rex promptly came back with: >Oh, lord, me too. But the very mention of it seems to indicate its own lameness so accurately that there's little >need to editorialize (or at least so it seems to me). Imagine it being said with the utmost of sarcasm... >desert scorn, as it were. "Desert Storm" didn't bother me nearly as much as "Shock and Awe" did. I was never so disgusted at being a US citizen as that night in March five years ago. Speaking of which, the 5 year anniversary of "Mission Accomplished" passed us by a couple of weeks ago. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 02:01:34 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?REAP=20Larry=20Levine,=20an=20Inventor=20of=20?= =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=98Wall=20of=20Sound,=E2=80=99=20Is=20Dead=20at=2080?= phil spector must have an alibi ! http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/15/business/15levine.html?_r=1&ref=arts&oref=sl ogin Larry Levine, an Inventor of bWall of Sound,b Is Dead at 80 By WILLIAM GRIMES Published: May 15, 2008 Larry Levine, the recording engineer who helped create Phil Spectorbs groundbreaking bwall of soundb technique on hit records by the Crystals, the Ronettes and the Righteous Brothers, died May 8 at his home in Encino, Calif. He was 80. Mr. Levine had been suffering from emphysema, said a cousin, Stan Ross. Mr. Levine, a house engineer at Gold Star Recording Studios in Hollywood, first collaborated with Mr. Spector in 1962 on the Crystals hit bHebs A Rebel,b the first of many Spector-produced records featuring lush instrumental backgrounds and heavy use of echo chamber. The wall of sound technique, which Mr. Spector and Mr. Levine refined through a process of trial and error, defined a string of hits, including bBe My Babyb and bWalking in the Rainb by the Ronettes, bDa Doo Ron Ronb and bThen He Kissed Meb by the Crystals, and bYou bve Lost That Lovinb Feelinbb and bUnchained Melodyb by the Righteous Brothers. Mr. Levine was born in New York on May 8, 1928, and was reared in Los Angeles. After serving in the Army in the Korean War, he began working as a recording engineer for Mr. Ross, an owner and founder of Gold Star. Before teaming up with Mr. Spector, he worked with Eddie Cochran, engineering the sound on b Summertime Bluesb and other records. He first crossed paths with Mr. Spector in 1958, when Mr. Spector, a member of the Teddy Bears, was at Gold Star recording bTo Know Him Is to Love Him.b Mr. Levine steered clear of Mr. Spector at first, put off by what he later recalled as ba little acerbic attitude,b but Mr. Levinebs calm, accommodating nature proved to be a perfect match for his volatile partner. In addition to being a good listener, Mr. Levine devised creative solutions to the severe demands that Mr. Spectorbs lavish orchestrations and Mahler-esque grandiosity placed on the limited recording technology of the day. bHe made Phil Spector a genius by the simple logic of using echo chamber,b Mr. Ross once told The Los Angeles Times. bPhil had a tendency of overbooking the room, and there were more musicians than there should have been in the studio.b To remedy this, he used echo to make the studio sound larger, a technique that came in handy when a herd of musicians were massed shoulder to shoulder for the Ike and Tina Turner record bRiver Deep, Mountain High,b made in 1966. At Gold Star, Mr. Levine worked with the Beach Boys on bPet Sounds,b and with Herb Alpert, who came to Gold Star and Mr. Levine in search of a bigger, brighter sound for his recordings with the Tijuana Brass. In 1965, Mr. Levine won a Grammy Award for the best engineered recording for bA Taste of Honey.b In 1967, Mr. Alpert hired him as chief recording engineer for A&M Recording Studios, which Mr. Levine helped develop. Mr. Levine continued his collaboration with Mr. Spector in the 1970s, working on the Leonard Cohen album bDeath of a Ladiesb Manb and the Ramones album b End of the Century.b He is survived by his wife, Lyn, of Encino; three sons, Rick, Rob and Michael, of Los Angeles; one sister, Joyce Black, of Los Angeles; and four grandchildren. **************Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family favorites at AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 09:50:58 +0100 From: craigie* Subject: Re: Feg radio shows I used to be on the radio... I had a three hour show, weeknights (Mon-Fri) between 7pm and 10pm for a year. Of course, that was in 1984... good fun, but I wouldn't do it again... you miss so much of what's going on when you have to wade through all the new releases... It took me another year to catch up! c* On 14/05/2008, John B. Jones wrote: > > Thanks for weighing in, Dave. Do you have a website? I just set up one for > my show (anodyneradio.com) and want to include links to fellow djs' shows. > > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:03 PM, David Witzany wrote: > > > From jbj: > > ----------------------- > > I'm curious how many fegs either have had or currently have radio shows. > > Given the breadth and depth of musical knowledge so visible on this list, > > I'm guessing there's quite a few. > > > > jbj > > ------------------------- > > > > Here. I've had a weekly show at WEFT in Champaign (community radio, as > is > > jbj's KBOO) for over a decade now. I play music by bands who have > upcoming > > concerts in the region, but I always set aside plenty of time each week > to > > spin tunes just 'cause. Few months go by with zero RH content. WEFT > > streams its signal online at weft.org; I'm on Fridays from 6-8 PM CST. > > > > Dave. > > > > David Witzany ...one of nature's > > witzany@uiuc.edu bounds checkers > - -- 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") ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #600 ********************************