From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #619 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, June 2 2008 Volume 16 : Number 619 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: speaking of craigie*... [craigie* ] Re: Bob Brozman [hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] 1001 albums... [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: 1001 albums... [2fs ] Re: Indy rock [The Great Quail ] Bram Stoker's Dracula [The Great Quail ] Re: Bram Stoker's Dracula ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: Bob Brozman ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: Indy rock [Christopher Gross ] reap [Christopher Gross ] REAP Bo Diddley dead at 79 [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Crazy Crab coming back for more abuse by the San Francisco Giants and their fans on July 18th?? ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: REAP [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] NY TIMES Bo Diddley [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: 1001 albums... [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: John Fahey [was Bob Brozman] [hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] Re: 1001 albums... [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] movie talk ["(0% rh)" ] bo diddley beat [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: Bram Stoker's Dracula [Rex ] Re: movie talk ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: no not that guy ["(0% rh)" ] Re: movie talk [2fs ] Re: no not that guy [2fs ] Re: movie talk ["kevin studyvin" ] fred schnieder (B-52s) [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: Bram Stoker's Dracula ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: John Fahey [was Bob Brozman] ["kevin studyvin" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 09:25:18 +0100 From: craigie* Subject: Re: speaking of craigie*... Hell, yeah! She was pretty good in the last two Garbage videos which were mini-films in all but name... so this can only be a Good Thing. c* On 30/05/2008, (0% rh) wrote: > > ...i imagine he'll join me in saying "yay": > > http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0242674/ > > xo > > -- > "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha > - -- 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: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:26:48 +0100 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Re: Bob Brozman Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 21:20:02 -0700 From: "michael wells" Subject: RE: Robyn Hitchcock and The Psychedelic Trams 2008-05-30 Wychwood Festival, Cheltenham Racecourse, UK 03 - Do The Chisel 04 - Brenda's Iron Sledge 09 - Swirling 11 - The Pigworker 15 - Kingdom Of Love Now *that's* a setlist! Michael Ps. MRG, did you make this show, or were you debating over a Brozman gig? Because that choice would have torn me up. * I took the local way out and went to see Bob Brozman at the Assembly Rooms - I really only went because I saw his name on the sleeve notes of my CD version of 'Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death'. Full hall, enthusiastic audience, spectacular ffrr sound from just two mics, and he can certainly play slide, both upright(?) and lap style. But he has a few very irritating habits - like talking down to the audience, dropping bongo breaks into the middle of numbers, slagging off Americans and Eric Clapton throughout the gig, and hardly playing any song straight through... Good guitarist, however, But as regards sensitivity to the music he wasn't a patch on John Fahey or Michael Chapman. On the other hand he wore a stunning shirt just before the gig with two cockatoos on the front and a woodpecker on the back. - - Mike Godwin n.p. Byrds, I know my rider ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 00:12:41 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: 1001 albums... Hi all - I've just been reading my new copy of "1001 albums you must read before you die", a massive and generally good selection of albums from 1955 to 2005 compiled by some 90 music critics. One good point about the book is the fact that, while it concentrates mainly on rock, everything from jazz to world music gets more than the standard passing mention. It's given me loads of albums to hunt down, as well as reviving my interest in dusting some offthat have sat on my shelves unplayed for some time. Another good thing about the book is the fact that, there among the 1980 albums listed is one "Underwater moonlight", the critique of which (by NY critic Rob Morton) follows (since I don't recall it having been copied down here before). Any typos are mine unless mentioned. BTW, I got the book from my sweetie for my birthday last Saturday. Swines... none of you remembered :| - --- Underwater Moonlight: Formed in Cambridge in 1976, The Soft Boys fused pop hooks with british folk rock and snotty punk aggression. Lead singer Robyn Hitchcock, guitarist Kimberley Rew, drummer Morris Windsor, and bassist Matthew Seligman never quite fitted in with the music trends of the time, but time has a funny way of catching up when the music is this good. "Underwater Moonlight" hits the ground running with 'I wanna destroy you',a pissed-off anthem featuring swirling guitars and bright vocal harmonies. 'Kingdom of love' showcases Hitchcock's surreal wit as he compares infatuation with insect eggs hatching under his skin; "Now there's tiny insects showing through/all them tiny insects look like you!" Guitar hooks and crashing drums lead the attack on 'Positive vibrations', but it is the sitar break midway through that sets it apart. And 'Queen of eyes' is simply an incredibly precise and addictive two minutes of guitar pop. It would be the last proper Soft Boys album. Hitchcock went on to pursue a prolific solo career with Windsor in his backing band The Egyptians, while Rew went on to form Katrina and The Waves. But The Soft Boys' legacy grew as bands such as R.E.M. and the replacements cited them as prime influences. Check out Matador's superb 2001 reissue, featuring nine bonus tracks and a second disc packed out with out-takes and rarities - an absolute must for fans. - --- 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, 2 Jun 2008 09:35:52 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: 1001 albums... On 6/2/08, grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > > Hi all - > > I've just been reading my new copy of "1001 albums you must read before you > die" Is it really called that? Or was that a slip - since you were "reading" the book, you sub'd "read" for "hear" (the likelier verb)? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:08:21 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: Indy rock > Would we simultaneously have been spared 6 or 7 years of totally whatever > Spielberg films? Dude. Did you *see* "Munich?" You really consider that "whatever?" - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:02:40 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Bram Stoker's Dracula > Maaaaan, that's embarassing. Okay, Coppola screwed up Dracula Wow. You are so very, deeply, tragically wrong. I fucking *love* that movie, despite Keanu Reeves, and fully consider it to be Coppola's last great film. - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 08:52:32 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Bram Stoker's Dracula Two issues: FC appended an unnecessary back-story of his own creation (to a film he labeled "Bram Stoker's Dracula") and used it as a basis for a hysterically melodramatic ending. Winona Ryder: "Take me away from owll this deathththth." Gary Oldman & Anthony Hopkins were great, though. On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 8:02 AM, The Great Quail wrote: > > Maaaaan, that's embarassing. Okay, Coppola screwed up Dracula > > Wow. You are so very, deeply, tragically wrong. I fucking *love* that > movie, > despite Keanu Reeves, and fully consider it to be Coppola's last great > film. > > --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 08:55:57 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Bob Brozman > But he has a few very irritating habits - like talking down to the > audience, dropping bongo breaks into the middle of numbers, slagging off > Americans and Eric Clapton throughout the gig, and hardly playing any song > straight through... > The one time I got to see Fahey he did his share of taking down to the audience too. As for slagging off Clapton, that just shows he's heard what he's been doing for oh, the last 35 years... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 12:22:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: Indy rock My brief evaluation: not nearly as good as I had hoped, not nearly as bad as I had feared. I liked Cate Blanchett and Karen Allen, and most of the action scenes were fun; but the ending went on too long, the final hat thing was just dumb, and Mutt's paternity was the least surprising surprise since Bush announced that Saddam Hussein had not done enough to disarm. I'll give it an Eb, ie, a B-. (Or is an Eb a B+? I forget now.) - --Chris np Snakes: The Perpetual Intercourse ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 12:32:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: reap Bo Diddley, 79. http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/02/diddley.obit/index.html (I actually thought he was years older than that.) - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 12:31:34 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: REAP Bo Diddley dead at 79 Bo Diddley dead at 79 _http://www.newsweek.com/id/139672_ (http://www.newsweek.com/id/139672) **************Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch "Cooking with Tyler Florence" on AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4&?NCID=aolfod00030000000002) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 14:19:58 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: Crazy Crab coming back for more abuse by the San Francisco Giants and their fans on July 18th?? Could it be after 24 years in retirement that the most abused mascot of all time is returning on July 18th? http://www.rehabthecrab.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 15:05:58 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Robyn Hitchcock 2008-05-31 "Wild Hare Club", Black Lion Inn, Hereford, UK http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=199398 Robyn Hitchcock 2008-05-31 "Wild Hare Club", Black Lion Inn, Hereford, UK Robyn Hitchcock - guitar, vocals, harmonica Rob Strawson - violin (encores) Recorded by Pike1957 from left of stage, right at the front, directly in front of the speakers. GM Pro Mics/Battery Box -> Microtrack 24/96 (24bit, 48khz) -> Adobe Audition (volume levelling) -> Audacity (track splits, resampling) -> FLAC (level 8, tagged, 16bit, 44.1khz) 01 - intro 02 - Heaven 03 - banter 'Pink Floyd' 04 - Daisy Bomb 05 - banter 'Attraction' 06 - I've Got The Hots For You 07 - banter 'RAM Download' 08 - I'm Only You 09 - banter 'Flash Photography' 10 - Glass Hotel 11 - banter 'Ghost Commercial' 12 - banter 'Invisible Man' 13 - Victorian Squid 14 - banter 'Creatures' 15 - Ole Tarantula 16 - banter 'Narrow Boat' 17 - I Saw Nick Drake 18 - banter 'Minor 6th' 19 - Beautiful Girl 20 - Full Moon In My Soul 21 - banter 'Little Babies For Jesus' 22 - I Feel Beautiful 23 - Cheese Alarm 24 - banter 'Cheese Abuse' 25 - The Wreck of The Arthur Lee 26 - banter 'Alfred Hitchcock' 27 - Oceanside 28 - Raining Twilight Coast encore, completely acoustic with Rob on violin 29 - intro to encores 30 - Open The Door, Homer 31 - Only The Stones Remain 32 - Visions Of Johanna 33 - outro Another day, another Robyn show, and this one completely different from yesterday's festival appearance with the Psychedelic Trams. Today Robyn is playing upstairs above a pub, as favour for a mate. 80 lucky people got to buy tickets, and we're seated around candlelit tables. A great setlist, and a wonderful performance from Robyn. On the first song there is a hint of feedback, but this disappears after the first song as Robyn takes a step back from the speakers and into the light. Robyn plays for 80 minutes, a wonderful collection of songs, and the typical Robyn banter. Robyn then disappeared, the music comes back on, and we all wait for a reappearance, and we're not disappointed. Robyn is joined my an old mate from his teens who he hasn't seen for thirty seven years for another three songs. This time there in no mic, and no PA, just acoustic, so the sound is slightly different here. Mattijs was sat on the other side of the stage from me, and I'm sure he's got another good recording. Hopefully he'll put his up as well. Sit back and enjoy! **************Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch "Cooking with Tyler Florence" on AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4&?NCID=aolfod00030000000002) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 20:04:11 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: REAP ...No longer a gunslinger, a twister, a lover, etc. -- Bo Diddley http://tinyurl.com/6xn8la ...and, BTW, this is a good time to pick our fave "Bo Diddley / hambone beat" songs -- mine, by a mile (in fact, one of my top fave songs EVAH), is the Pretenders' "Cuban Slide" (love it so much, I get chills just typing the name!) with honorable mention to Bruce's "She's the One." Michael "'Who Do You Love?' is excellent, too, if oft-covered and overplayed..." Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Keep your kids safer online with Windows Live Family Safety. http://www.windowslive.com/family_safety/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refr esh_family_safety_052008 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 16:28:44 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: REAP Wey Wey Hep Uh Hole - Soft Boys Not Fade Away - Bob Dylan's live version c. 1999 (plus Buddy Holly, Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead) In a message dated 6/2/2008 4:19:13 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, m_l_sweeney@hotmail.com writes: ...No longer a gunslinger, a twister, a lover, etc. -- Bo Diddley http://tinyurl.com/6xn8la ...and, BTW, this is a good time to pick our fave "Bo Diddley / hambone beat" songs -- mine, by a mile (in fact, one of my top fave songs EVAH), is the Pretenders' "Cuban Slide" (love it so much, I get chills just typing the name!) with honorable mention to Bruce's "She's the One." Michael "'Who Do You Love?' is excellent, too, if oft-covered and overplayed..." Sweeney **************Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch "Cooking with Tyler Florence" on AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4?&NCID=aolfod00030000000002) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 17:27:18 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: NY TIMES Bo Diddley It can be found in Buddy Hollybs bNot Fade Away,b Johnny Otisbs bWillie and the Hand Jive,b the Whobs bMagic Bus,b Bruce Springsteenbs bShebs the One b and U2bs bDesire,b among hundreds of other songs. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/arts/music/03diddley.html?_r=1&partner=rssny t&emc=rss&oref=slogin# **************Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch "Cooking with Tyler Florence" on AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4?&NCID=aolfod00030000000002) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 10:49:59 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: 1001 albums... >On 6/2/08, grutness@slingshot.co.nz ><grutness@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: > >Hi all - > >I've just been reading my new copy of "1001 albums you must read >before you die" > > >Is it really called that? Or was that a slip - since you were >"reading" the book, you sub'd "read" for "hear" (the likelier verb)? "hear" it is... blame old age :) There are a whole series of books like this - "Books you must read", "Films you must see", "Places you must visit", etc. I just glommed on the wrong verb. 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, 02 Jun 2008 23:43:05 +0100 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Re: John Fahey [was Bob Brozman] Quoting kevin studyvin : > The one time I got to see Fahey he did his share of taking down to the > audience too. As for slagging off Clapton, that just shows he's heard what > he's been doing for oh, the last 35 years... * I was definitely in a minority in expecting something different. On the two occasions I saw John Fahey he was too occupied with playing and drinking between tunes to talk to the audience at all, as far as I remember. One show was at the Roundhouse (but with whom?) and the other was on Parliament Hill Fields, with (I think) Soft Machine, Fairport Convention and / or Jefferson Airplane. - - Mike Godwin PS Commander Dave, help me! My memory is not what it used to be. PPS Only 35? My mate John would put that at a pre-Cream 42 years... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 19:32:20 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: 1001 albums... Arnold Schwarzenegger once said : "I think that gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman," a misstatement in a rush to keep up with the staccato-like delivery of the questions. http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/08/27/schwarzenegger.views/ In a message dated 6/2/2008 7:05:12 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, grutness@slingshot.co.nz writes: I've just been reading my new copy of "1001 albums you must read >before you die" > > >Is it really called that? Or was that a slip - since you were >"reading" the book, you sub'd "read" for "hear" (the likelier verb)? "hear" it is... blame old age :) **************Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch "Cooking with Tyler Florence" on AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4?&NCID=aolfod00030000000002) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 20:31:22 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: movie talk hi feglist, i'm sure you've all been wondering why i haven't been watching any movies. well, the truth is, i *have* been watching, and not telling you about it. but enough of that, now: recent / fairly recent / sort of remember: "the return" (on dvd) - this is a real winner. this is russian, from around 2003 maybe. it was quite eerie, really engaging, rather sad, and had some really gorgeous photography. i'll just recommend it (as long you like sort of slow movies); it's the sort of movie that it's better to see it without knowing much about it (actually, i don't know what movie that doesn't cover.) "red road" (on dvd) - pretty much ditto. except it's scottish, ~2005ish, and the photography isn't all amazing (thought it's fine.) BTW, the actress is a babe. she's one of those women that seem sort of ordinary, but just gets prettier and prettier as you watch her. if anyone's seen this, please e-mail me off list, because there seemed to be a plot hole so big that even *i* noticed it (although said plot hole didn't interfere with my enjoyment of the movie) and i'm curious what other viewers think. "flesh and bone" (on dvd) - that's like the fourth time i've seen it, and i love it just as much each time. i *really* don't understand the wishy-washy reviews that it got - not that it's a great film, but it's certainly better than the reviews let on. it's a really foreboding movie. admittedly, i'm a real sucker for that, so perhaps that's what the movie's about for me. i think this movie is made by its atmosphere. it's also got of a theme of fate, and i go for that as well. "deja vu" (on dvd) - yes, i was looking for something mindless. but this was so mindless that i was all confused and got a headache during the first half hour. i left it on until it was over, but i *really* didn't care, and didn't bother to find out, how it ended. it was really one of the worst movies i've rented in years. "the last days of disco" (on dvd) - thanks to those onlist who reminded me what a genius stillman is. "24 hour party people" (on dvd) - ha, ha. i saw this in the theatre, but missed the first ten minutes. it was even funnier the second time. i love the scene when the happy mondays hold the master tapes for ransom. i really love these "just try to make this shit up" kind of movies. "smart people" (in theatre) - this wasn't as stupid as i expected. ellen page, and whoever the teenage boy actor was, made it bearable. it was filmed at CMU, my alma mater, so i went. my friend m., who lives nearby, and wgi i've been friends with since we met the first week of freshman year, was patient in explaining my questions e.g. "which building is that?" "is *that* building new?" (i guess i had other things on my mind when i was there.) BTW, another much better movie also had a few (many fewer than this movie) scenes filmed at CMU, "wonder boys". another BTW: pittsburgh rules. i love that place. as ever, lauren p.s. haven't been listening to much, but i discovered (by was of "juno") soundtrack, that i stopped my belle and sebastian collection too early. "dear catastrophe waitress" (which, WTF, is out of print) is amazing. i had stopped at "peasant child". that stuart is such a smart, smart boy. if he weren't a blonde, i'd be so in love with him. - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 20:35:21 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: bo diddley beat RH + E "Freeze" i guess you could include the Smiths - How Soon Is Now as well **************Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch "Cooking with Tyler Florence" on AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4?&NCID=aolfod00030000000002) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 17:57:55 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Bram Stoker's Dracula On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 8:52 AM, kevin studyvin wrote: > Two issues: > > FC appended an unnecessary back-story of his own creation (to a film he > labeled "Bram Stoker's Dracula") and used it as a basis for a hysterically > melodramatic ending. Both FC's BS's Drac and FC's KB's MS's Frank were titularly supposed to be truer the the literary versions, but apparently that assumes that the author's visions were of more expensive actors, more gore, and a few more tits than previous adaptations. And that makes 'em sound way better than they turned out. - -Rx ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:03:49 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: movie talk (0% rh) wrote: > > "red road" (on dvd) - pretty much ditto. except it's scottish, Minor Kevin Bacon: Catherine used to work at Red Road, in those very towers. Most of the Kosavan refugees were housed there. We have the movie on DVD, but haven't watched it yet. cheers, Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 22:37:58 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: no not that guy 2fs says: > So I propose a new game, the Michael Moore Game...which consists solely of > finding people named "Michael Moore" (w/ or w/o initials, but this spelling) > who are not the well-known large, baseball-cap wearing guy from Flint, > Michigan, as listed in the credits of movies. whoops, i spaced on responding to this way back when. this reminded me of one of the james o. incandenza films in "infinite jest". from JOI's filmography: "Homo Duplex" - B.S. Latrodectus Mactans Productions. Narrator P.A. Heaven; Super-8 mm; 70 minutes; black and white; sound. Parody of Woititz and Shulgin's 'poststructual antidocumentaries,' interviews with fourteen Americans who are named John Wayne but are not the legendary 20th-century film actor John Wayne. MAGNETIC VIDEO (LIMITED RELEASE)" here's the complete filmography for those who've forgotten to read it lately: http://home.i1.net/~bytor/incadenza.html (also, there was a character who went by "John (N.R.) Wayne", the "N.R." standing for "not related.") xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 22:11:38 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: movie talk On 6/2/08, (0% rh) wrote: > > h > > p.s. haven't been listening to much, but i discovered (by was of > "juno") soundtrack, that i stopped my belle and sebastian collection > too early. "dear catastrophe waitress" (which, WTF, is out of print) Huh? Looks like it's readily available, at least via Amazon. Did Rough Trade go out of business...again? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 22:16:41 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: no not that guy On 6/2/08, (0% rh) wrote: > > 2fs says: > > So I propose a new game, the Michael Moore Game...which consists solely > of > > finding people named "Michael Moore" (w/ or w/o initials, but this > spelling) > > who are not the well-known large, baseball-cap wearing guy from Flint, > > Michigan, as listed in the credits of movies. > > this reminded me of one of the james o. incandenza films in "infinite > jest". > > from JOI's filmography: > > "Homo Duplex" - B.S. Latrodectus Mactans Productions. Narrator P.A. > Heaven; Super-8 mm; 70 minutes; black and white; sound. Parody of > Woititz and Shulgin's 'poststructual antidocumentaries,' interviews > with fourteen Americans who are named John Wayne but are not the > legendary 20th-century film actor John Wayne. MAGNETIC VIDEO (LIMITED > RELEASE)" Uh-anycow...that reminds me of a not-yet-executed mixlist idea (old enough that originally it was a mix tape idea, then a mix CD idea...): which was songs with the same title as much more famous songs but which are not those songs (or even based on them to any audible degree). For some reason, Pere Ubu does that a lot. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 20:18:52 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: movie talk > "the last days of disco" (on dvd) - thanks to those onlist who > reminded me what a genius stillman is. > I love the guy's work, and where the heck has he gone to? > > "24 hour party people" (on dvd) - ha, ha. i saw this in the theatre, > but missed the first ten minutes. it was even funnier the second > time. i love the scene when the happy mondays hold the master tapes > for ransom. i really love these "just try to make this shit up" kind > of movies. > Yes! What else is there to say? And what's the buzz, if any, on Corbijn's Joy Division flick? > > "smart people" (in theatre) - this wasn't as stupid as i expected. > ellen page, and whoever the teenage boy actor was, made it bearable. > it was filmed at CMU, my alma mater, so i went. my friend m., who > lives nearby, and wgi i've been friends with since we met the first > week of freshman year, was patient in explaining my questions e.g. > "which building is that?" "is *that* building new?" (i guess i had > other things on my mind when i was there.) BTW, another much better > movie also had a few (many fewer than this movie) scenes filmed at > CMU, "wonder boys". another BTW: pittsburgh rules. i love that > place. > Can't speak to Pittsburgh but I've seen Wonder Boys repeatedly and will do so again, probably soon. Haven't seen the Smart People but I like the cast a lot. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 23:21:54 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: fred schnieder (B-52s) on Daily Show tonight **************Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch "Cooking with Tyler Florence" on AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4?&NCID=aolfod00030000000002) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 20:27:15 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Bram Stoker's Dracula > On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 8:02 AM, The Great Quail > wrote: > >> > Maaaaan, that's embarassing. Okay, Coppola screwed up Dracula >> >> Wow. You are so very, deeply, tragically wrong. I fucking *love* that >> movie, >> despite Keanu Reeves, and fully consider it to be Coppola's last great >> film. >> > Speaking of Coppola, my wife's gone on a bender watching his stuff and came home last week with a recent piece called Youth Without Youth, based on something by Mircea Eliade (whose Myth Of the Eternal Return is one of those books I've started three or four times but bogged down in and never finished), which evidently went straight-to-video. It's a little confusing but I totally loved it. Tim Roth was great. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 20:36:16 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: John Fahey [was Bob Brozman] > * I was definitely in a minority in expecting something different. On the > two occasions I saw John Fahey he was too occupied with playing and drinking > between tunes to talk to the audience at all, as far as I remember. One show > was at the Roundhouse (but with whom?) and the other was on Parliament Hill > Fields, with (I think) Soft Machine, Fairport Convention and / or Jefferson > Airplane. > > - Mike Godwin > > PS Commander Dave, help me! My memory is not what it used to be. > > PPS Only 35? My mate John would put that at a pre-Cream 42 years... > I remember a live set called E.C. Was Here back in '75 or 6 that I enjoyed at the time, but that was the last one. Always been down with Cream qua pop group if nothing else - which may be down to Felix Pappalardi (r.i.p.) - and can't find anything in the Dominos to object to either, but he seems to me to have been pretty much going through the motions ever since. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #619 ********************************