From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #620 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, June 3 2008 Volume 16 : Number 620 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: movie talk ["(0% rh)" ] Re: movie talk ["(0% rh)" ] She lost the ashes [Jeff Dwarf ] two degrees of robyn ["(0% rh)" ] Re: two degrees of robyn [Tom Clark ] Re: She lost the ashes ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: movie talk [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: no not that guy Mix CD [craigie* ] Re: E.C. [was John Fahey was Bob Brozman] [hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] Re: two degrees of robyn [craigie* ] Wonderboys [Jill Brand ] RE: Bram Stoker's Dracula ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: She lost the ashes [Poem Lover ] Re: E.C. [was John Fahey was Bob Brozman] [2fs ] Re: movie talk ["(0% rh)" ] Re: no not that guy [Rex ] Re: two degrees of robyn [Rex ] Re: movie talk [craigie* ] Re: fred schnieder (B-52s) ["m swedene" ] the return of Mr. Bill [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: the return of Mr. Bill [Steve Talkowski ] RE: Bob Brozman ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: movie talk [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: movie talk [craigie* ] Re: NY TIMES Bo Diddley [Barbara Soutar ] Re: NY TIMES Bo Diddley [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] [Fude] Absinthe Gummi Bears [FSThomas ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 23:54:36 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: movie talk 2fs says: >> 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. apparently, i've got "out of print" confused with "out of stock." xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 23:59:58 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: movie talk i say: > 2fs says: >>> 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. > > apparently, i've got "out of print" confused with "out of stock." http://tinyurl.com/5eltyu ...or maybe amazon does. at any rate, there's a gal in san francisco minus a killer cd but $10 happier. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 22:04:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: She lost the ashes http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2283380,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=39 "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 . ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 01:53:01 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: two degrees of robyn i found mp3s for the soundtrack to "velvet goldmine" on my hard drive (that was weird, although, admittedly, there's not much accounting for what i do and don't remember.) at any rate, i was curious to hear the cover (at least i think it's a cover) of "make me smile." it's so roxy music-ized. which i guess makes sense since i think there's a cover of "2hb" and maybe some other roxy music on there. well, except "2hb" actually is a roxy music song. i only know the song from the MSF benefit show robyn did, and i really like his cover of the song. i'm not sure about this "velvet goldmine" version. xo p.s. i just had a random-ish memory of when i was all thrilled for figuring out that bryan ferry was singing "jungle red's a deadly shade" in "both ends burning". i love those lyrics that finally come to you after years wondering, or wondering so long that you stopped bothering to wonder (like the opposite of a misheard lyric (that's your thread cue.)) p.p.s. misheard lyric of the day: from "piazza, new york catcher", belle and sebastian: i thought the line that says "the statue's crying now, and well he may" was "the statue's crying now, and willie mays." the willie mays part made sense to me since baseball was mentioned two lines before, although it did strike me as odd - it seemed so unlike dear stuart to get all crazy with his grammar. - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:26:35 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: two degrees of robyn On Jun 2, 2008, at 10:53 PM, (0% rh) wrote: > p.s. i just had a random-ish memory of when i was all thrilled for > figuring out that bryan ferry was singing "jungle red's a deadly > shade" in "both ends burning". i love those lyrics that finally come > to you after years wondering, or wondering so long that you stopped > bothering to wonder... For some odd reason I was particularly tuned in to "Dance Away" the other day and the painting was finally complete. Crazy. It's the same thing that's kept me so involved in Robyn's music for so long: the "onion peel" lyrics that you keep uncovering over time. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 00:48:14 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: She lost the ashes More likely she snorted them. On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2283380,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=39 > > > "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 > . ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:02:35 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: movie talk - --On 2. Juni 2008 20:31:22 -0400 "(0% rh)" wrote: > p.s. haven't been listening to much, but i discovered (by was of > "juno") soundtrack, I loved the soundtrack! I saw that movie with my 14 year old niece and made her a CD of all the songs I had, which was the majority. > that i stopped my belle and sebastian collection > too early. "dear catastrophe waitress" (which, WTF, is out of print) > is amazing. Well, I told you so :-) It's absolutely my favorite B & S record. "The Life Pursuit" is more similar to DCW than to any other B & S record, but it's not as good. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 11:26:49 +0100 From: craigie* Subject: Re: no not that guy Mix CD OK. I'm in. Give me a couple of weeks, though -my daughter has a place in the National Pokemon League Finals and we're a bit busy practising for that... I've had that idea for a Pop Quiz round going about for a while... c* On 03/06/2008, 2fs wrote: > > 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 > - -- 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: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:27:09 +0100 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Re: E.C. [was John Fahey was Bob Brozman] Quoting kevin studyvin : > > 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. * The last time I saw Clapton apart from the Cream revival concert was with a band including Gary Brooker on keyboards and Dave Markey on bass. Apart from a novelty number where he would shout a different key to the band every 12 or 24 bars, it was a moderately pedestrian show. I would rank my Clapton sightings as follows: 1. Cream at the Savile Theatre, 1967 opening with Tales of Brave Ulysses and supported by the Bonzos. ***** 2. Goodbye Cream at the Albert Hall ****= 3. Derek and the Dominoes, Colston Hall, Bristol.****= 4. Eric Clapton Rainbow Concert ****= 5. Cream at Windsor Jazz Festival, 1967 (though I was really there to see the debut of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac). ****= 6. Clapton with the 461 Boulevard Band supported by Freddie King, Crystal Palace. The audience went wild for Layla as they seem to have been doing ever since.**** 7. NME poll-winners concert 1967. They played 3 songs but were really blasted off the stage by The Move. The Kinks were good too! *** 8. Blind Faith in Hyde Park ***= 9. Unannounced at a Ginger Baker festival appearance in the late 60s *** 10. Aforementioned band with Gary Brooker, Colston Hall **= 11. With Delaney and Bonnie, Colston Hall - they turned up late and played for no more than 20 minutes: and they wouldn't give us our money back. minus 2 stars Still too early for me to rate the revived Cream show, but it was better than the disappointing Blind Faith concert. Otherwise it looks very much like a downward path to me... - - Mike Godwin PS Read his depressing autobiography last month; as Lou Reed said about Frank Zappa "I think he isn't happy with himself, and I think he's right". - - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 11:33:41 +0100 From: craigie* Subject: Re: two degrees of robyn On 03/06/2008, (0% rh) wrote: > > at any rate, i was curious to hear the cover (at least i think it's a > cover) of "make me smile." it's so roxy music-ized. which i guess > makes sense since i think there's a cover of "2hb" and maybe some > other roxy music on there. well, except "2hb" actually is a roxy > music song. There are two versions by Ferry, one with Roxy Music and a remake from the b-side of one of his solo singles (also compiled on the 'Let's Stick Together' album (almost typed LP - then I remembered...) I can send these to you as mp3 or whatever, if you'd like to hear them? Very different versions from each other. The HB in the title was, of course, Humphrey Bogart, but the allusion to an artist's favourite soft pencil shouldn't be ignored. c* - -- 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: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 07:25:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: Wonderboys Kevin wrote: "Can't speak to Pittsburgh but I've seen Wonder Boys repeatedly and will do so again, probably soon." Have you read it? I agree that the movie is really good, but the book is even better. The movie leaves out all the details/stories about the wife of the Michael Douglas character. She's one of two Korean adoptees of a Jewish family, and the Passover seder (yes, this is redundant) is hilarious. I just finished reading Middlesex and loved it. Jill ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 08:26:06 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Bram Stoker's Dracula - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of kevin studyvin Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 11:27 PM To: The Great Quail Cc: Fegmaniax! 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. Not exactly Coppola, but it did come from his American Zoetrope Studios, 1982's Hammett staring Fredric Forrest as Dash. It was finally released on DVD a caouple of years ago. Highly recommended if you likke film noir or in this case neo noir. Directed by Wim Wenders. Michael B. NP Cannonball Adderly - Somethin' Else ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 00:41:20 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Film evaluations; reap-reap-a-reap a-reap-reap Mr CG wrote: >My brief evaluation: not nearly as good as I had hoped, not nearly as bad >as I had feared. You should've listened to Steve Kilbey. "It's never as good as I hoped or as bad as I feared". >...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." Two of the oddest would no doubt be Brian Eno's ode to his erstwhile bandmate, "Blank Frank" and the slower Diddleyesque beat of "Dead Finks Don't Talk" (on which he imitates the aforementioned BF's vocal style). By sheer coincidence I caught part of this week's episode of the NZ version of "Stars in their eyes" tonight; the winner was impersonating George Michael and performed his BDB standard "Faith". I once tried to write a Bo Diddley beat song ("Uncle Joe's enormous raincoat"). Perhaps I should dust it off and try to finish it. "Uncle Joe's enormous raincoat...Uncle Joe's enormous raincoat...it kept out the rain and it kept out the snow, it kept him warm from his head to his toes..." Or maybe not. 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, 3 Jun 2008 08:59:44 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: movie talk kevin says: > And what's the buzz, if any, on Corbijn's Joy Division flick? it got pretty good reviews. i really would have liked to have seen that in the theatre, but, it either didn't play around here, or didn't play for long. it's being released on dvd to-day, actually. i guess it's not a big demand item, since it's on its way to me from netflix already, and should arrive this afternoon. xo p.s. re: 24HRPP - okay, i knew about ian curtis' listening to "the idiot" when he hung himself, but i didn't know he was (supposedly) watching the herzog movie at the same time. sheesh, it's like he was really trying to kill himself. - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 06:03:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Poem Lover Subject: Re: She lost the ashes Sounds like Britney Spears's dad could have another conservatorship gig if he wanted one.... Jeff Dwarf wrote: http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2283380,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=39 "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 .. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 08:08:31 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: E.C. [was John Fahey was Bob Brozman] On 6/3/08, hssmrg@bath.ac.uk wrote: > > > > PS Read his depressing autobiography last month; as Lou Reed said about > Frank Zappa "I think he isn't happy with himself, and I think he's right". What's funny is, to me that quote would be more apt coming from Zappa about Reed... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 09:14:47 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: movie talk Sebastian says: >> that i stopped my belle and sebastian collection >> too early. "dear catastrophe waitress" (which, WTF, is out of print) >> is amazing. > > Well, I told you so :-) yes, but do i ever listen to you? next thing you know, i'll be "discovering" that it's a bad idea to use gmail from a browser. xo p.s. to sebastian: you mentioned the new aimee mann album. it's just being released to-day in the U.S. has it grown on you at all? i'm sure i'll get it fairly soon, especially since since she's actually stopping in philadelphia (two nights, even) for her tour this summer (i think her first stop here in a few years.) i was just listening to "the forgotten arm" yesterday. i really like that one (but i'd say that about any of her albums.) - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 06:32:36 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: no not that guy On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 8:16 PM, 2fs wrote: > > 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. > Yes, they do. So does our own Dolph Chaney (although in his case it's not "for some reason", but very much on purpose). Another neat mix challenge: Start with a song of this type, then follow it with a song with the same title as the next song on the track list of the original album from whence it comes. Not as tricky as it used to be thanks to iTunes... you'd just have to avoid songs that are the last track on their respective albums. Dunno if I'm explaining it clearly-- I'd do do with examples given more time and coffee. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 06:38:33 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: two degrees of robyn On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 10:53 PM, (0% rh) wrote: > i found mp3s for the soundtrack to "velvet goldmine" on my hard drive > (that was weird, although, admittedly, there's not much accounting for > what i do and don't remember.) > > at any rate, i was curious to hear the cover (at least i think it's a > cover) of "make me smile." I think that's the original. That soundtrack was the first place I heard it outside of the Happy Mondays' swipe from it in "Grandbag's Funeral". There are sliding vocal bits in that song that are probably supposed to sound Dylan-y but come closer to what Robyn does with words like "ooooiiiiilllllll" on "Bell Street Ramble" (to me, at least)-- there are earlier examples but that's the first one that came to mind. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 14:40:56 +0100 From: craigie* Subject: Re: movie talk For me, Contyrol was like a series of photographs that Corbijn would like to have been able to take, had he been around at the time. The fact that he then issued a book of stills (#30!! that's $60 in real money...) just makes me believe it more. Most disappointing was the way he played fast and loose with the timeline which meant the ending was a confusing jumble. And there's no character development for Curtis; he starts off moody and introverted, takes drugs that make him moody and introverted, develops a disease whose treatments makes him moody and introverted, then dies. Which is not the Ian most people knew. I did gain an insight into exactly *how* he committed suicide, though. It's not pretty. The 'Joy Division' film (also out on release at the moment) is much much better. c* On 03/06/2008, (0% rh) wrote: > > kevin says: > > And what's the buzz, if any, on Corbijn's Joy Division flick? > > it got pretty good reviews. i really would have liked to have seen > that in the theatre, but, it either didn't play around here, or didn't > play for long. > > it's being released on dvd to-day, actually. i guess it's not a big > demand item, since it's on its way to me from netflix already, and > should arrive this afternoon. > > xo > > p.s. re: 24HRPP - okay, i knew about ian curtis' listening to "the > idiot" when he hung himself, but i didn't know he was (supposedly) > watching the herzog movie at the same time. sheesh, it's like he was > really trying to kill himself. > > -- > "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: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 09:51:39 -0400 From: "m swedene" Subject: Re: fred schnieder (B-52s) I am going to see the B52s with Cyndi Lauper and the Indigo Girls tonight on the True Colors tour this evening. It will be like a flash back to the 80s. Should be fun. Mike On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 11:21 PM, wrote: > 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: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 10:29:04 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: the return of Mr. Bill http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/business/media/03adco.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&or ef=slogin Advertising Mr. Bill Returns (in One Piece) to Pitch a Debit Card **************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, 03 Jun 2008 11:16:45 -0400 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: the return of Mr. Bill The use of Mr. Bill in a TV spot? Priceless! - -Steve, who actually contributed to a few of those Mastercard mnemonics over the years... On Jun 3, 2008, at 10:29 AM, HwyCDRrev@aol.com wrote: > http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/business/media/03adco.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&or > ef=slogin > > Advertising > Mr. Bill Returns (in One Piece) to Pitch a Debit Card Steve Talkowski, Character Design | Animation Director Email stevetalkowski@mac.com | Web sketchbot.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 11:33:04 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Bob Brozman - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of kevin studyvin Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 11:56 AM To: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Cc: braneout@earthlink.net; fegmaniax@smoe.org 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... I would have liked to have seen Clapton when Derek Trucks was touring with him a year or so ago. They were performing up to a half dozen songs from Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs per show. I did see Eric in July of 1975, 4th row seats at Cobo area in downtown Detroit where the Detroit Pistons used to play. Eric was on fire that night, and Carlos Santana joined him on stage for "Eyesight To The Blind". When Eric wasn't too hammered during the mid-late 1970's he could occasionally put on a good show, and I was lucky enough to catch him on one of those nights. Three years later I saw him again and wasn't so lucky that time. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 08:30:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: movie talk On Tue, 6/3/08, (0% rh) wrote: > it got pretty good reviews. i really would have liked to > have seen that in the theatre, but, it either didn't play around > here, or didn't play for long. > > it's being released on dvd to-day, actually. i guess it's not a big > demand item, since it's on its way to me from netflix already, and > should arrive this afternoon. Not necessarily. If you have something #1 on your list and have a movie sent back to arrive the Monday the week of release, you get it almost all the time. It just means they ordered enough of them. Not that I expect Closer was a huge demand item. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 16:56:23 +0100 From: craigie* Subject: Re: movie talk oh, I don't know... Natalie Portman for one thing... c* On 03/06/2008, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > On Tue, 6/3/08, (0% rh) wrote: > > it got pretty good reviews. i really would have liked to > > have seen that in the theatre, but, it either didn't play around > > here, or didn't play for long. > > > > it's being released on dvd to-day, actually. i guess it's not a big > > demand item, since it's on its way to me from netflix already, and > > should arrive this afternoon. > > Not necessarily. If you have something #1 on your list and have a movie > sent back to arrive the Monday the week of release, you get it almost all > the time. It just means they ordered enough of them. Not that I expect > Closer was a huge demand item. > - -- 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: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:40:18 -0700 From: Barbara Soutar Subject: Re: NY TIMES Bo Diddley http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5939223/20_bo_diddley My brother Mark did this illustration of Bo Diddley for Rolling Stone Magazine, Iggy Pop wrote the article! Love the guitar. http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/06/02/cls-late-nite-music-club-remembers-bo-diddley/ I cried when I watched this video. The energy is magic. Barbara Soutar Victoria, BC ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 12:53:55 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: NY TIMES Bo Diddley very, very cool In a message dated 6/3/2008 12:52:36 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, bsoutar@horizon.bc.ca writes: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5939223/20_bo_diddley My brother Mark did this illustration of Bo Diddley for Rolling Stone Magazine, Iggy Pop wrote the article! Love the guitar. http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/06/02/cls-late-nite-music-club-remembers-bo - -diddley/ I cried when I watched this video. The energy is magic. Barbara Soutar Victoria, BC **************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, 03 Jun 2008 16:36:37 -0400 From: FSThomas Subject: [Fude] Absinthe Gummi Bears Lord, they sounds good. http://tinyurl.com/44x4k4 http://www.urbandaddy.com/nyc/1350/Absinthe_Gummi_Bears_New_York_City_NYC_Served_Up_UrbanDaddy_Archives Even in a city with a virtually limitless array of dining options, some dishes are way too good to missbthey demand immediate consumption. Every month, our feature Served Up gives you the lowdown on a standout dish in the city. Dig in. Hearing the phrase "absinthe cocktail" may not get your heart racing anymore, but a new gummi bear recipe is always good for a palpitation or two. After months in the kitchen tinkering with gelatin and various liquors, the Tailor crew has finally channeled the wormwood concoction into something everyone can agree on. Feast your eyes on the Absinthe Gummi Bear, the final word in alcoholic confectionary bears. That's right, your favorite recently legalized, possibly hallucinogenic liquor has finally made it into ursine gummi form, fresh from Tailor's in-house candy shop (aka, mad scientists Sam Mason and Eben Freeman). You'll mostly taste licoricebit's really the anise in the absinthebbut this gummi is smarter (and boozier) than the av-e-rage bear. It's 85% absinthe, with just a touch of gelatin and sugar added to keep things solid. Of course, moderation is crucial, so rather than giving you a sack full of the bears, Tailor gives you a single Paddington, perched on a spoon alongside a cup of espresso. (That also means you won't have to ask for the bear; just order an espresso.) Saunter in after eleven and try the new after-hours menu, with savory treats like the Pulled Duck Sandwich with Kumquat Relish that act as the perfect lead-in for your new gummi dessert. You won't want to take on a beast like this on an empty stomach. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #620 ********************************