From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #665 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, July 25 2008 Volume 16 : Number 665 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: SDCC Anyone? (No RH) ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Headline Of The Moment ["(0% rh)" ] Re: Headline Of The Moment ["(0% rh)" ] Re: Headline Of The Moment ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: Headline Of The Moment [Rex ] iPod help ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: iPod help ["(0% rh)" ] Re: iPod help ["Jason Brown" ] Weird ["Stacked Crooked" ] Re: SDCC Anyone? (No RH) [Steve Talkowski ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #664 [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: Jug band blues [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: Headline Of The Moment [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers [hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] keeping the world safe from weirdoes [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: keeping the world safe from weirdoes ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers [2fs ] Re: Weird [2fs ] Re: Headline Of The Moment [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #664 [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers ["edwardofsim@tiscali.co.uk" ] yet another iTunes mystery [2fs ] Re: yet another iTunes mystery [2fs ] Now they'll supposedly come on Blu-Ray ... [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: yet another iTunes mystery [2fs ] Acoustic birds in perspex? ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: yet another iTunes mystery [Tom Clark ] Re: Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers [Rex ] Re: Acoustic birds in perspex? ["(0% rh)" ] Re: Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers [2fs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:00:52 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: SDCC Anyone? (No RH) Steve Talkowski wrote: > > -Steve, wondering if Stewart is trying to reveal something to the group > with his, erm, firm grasp of Gaelic? ;) ... that it's pronounced "gallic", you smutty animating git. Stewart ;-) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:10:18 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: Headline Of The Moment Rex says: > Aerosmith rather famously opined that you ain't seen nothin' 'til you're > down on the muffin... that sentence is completely traumatizing. i mean, if you'd said "steven tyler", it would be bad enough, but, dear lord, it's like they're *all* there. running away, lauren - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:15:10 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: Headline Of The Moment Jason says: > But it is one of the few songs written about cunnilingus. Are there > any others? aren't they mostly by robyn? whenever i don't know what the hell one of robyn's songs is about, i figure there's like a 50% chance it's cunnilingus. as ever, lauren - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:28:05 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: Headline Of The Moment > whenever i don't know what the hell one > of robyn's songs is about, i figure there's like a 50% chance it's > cunnilingus. Aha! "Brenda's Iron Sledge"... "Eaten by her Own Dinner"... (actually: I'm joking about Brenda, it could be true for all I know but that song is right over my head semantically. But it makes sense as an explanation of EbhOD which has been one of my very favorite songs among those I do not understand.) Tangientially: I love the insertion of "Funky Town" into "Brenda's Iron Sledge". All of the live tapes I've heard him play that song on, feature this insertion. Is it de rigeur nowadays? J (didn't even realize Wafflehead was about that, altho it seems pretty apparent from reading the lyric. I hadn't really been interested enough in the song to listen to it.) On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:15 PM, (0% rh) wrote: > Jason says: >> But it is one of the few songs written about cunnilingus. Are there >> any others? > > aren't they mostly by robyn? whenever i don't know what the hell one > of robyn's songs is about, i figure there's like a 50% chance it's > cunnilingus. > > as ever, > lauren > > -- > "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha > - -- READIN 2.0 http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:39:08 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Headline Of The Moment On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:10 PM, (0% rh) wrote: > Rex says: > > Aerosmith rather famously opined that you ain't seen nothin' 'til you're > > down on the muffin... > > that sentence is completely traumatizing. > > i mean, if you'd said "steven tyler", it would be bad enough, but, > dear lord, it's like they're *all* there. > I hope it helps that you've now officially traumatized me back. The sad thing is that I feel a few more songs on this topic should be on the tip of my (as it were) tongue, but memory fails me... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:24:01 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: iPod help Dear folks, I have a problem, which is my young daughter was listening to my iPod and went messing with the settings (I told her not to, but does she listen? She does not), and set the maximum volume to quite soft. When she was doing that, she put in a 4-digit password, which she promptly forgot. What can i do? Google-found pages advise me that I should use windows explorer to navigate to the iPod's "IPod Control\Device" folder and delete the file called "volume locked" -- I did this to no avail. (Somehow the iPod is only available via explorer while iTunes is synching its content, then it disappears. Google also tells me there should be a way of enabling it always to show up in Explorer but I'm not getting anywhere with that.) I'd be happy to do a cold reboot of the iPod if only I knew how. Pressing the Menu button and the center button together for a few seconds appears to do a soft reboot, and not to affect the Max Volume setting. Help please! I want to listen to my music loud! J - -- READIN 2.0 http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:40:22 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: iPod help Jeremy says: > Help please! I want to listen to my music loud! and with tc** off to anaheim (you were so close.) but there're other ipod geeks floating around these parts. xo ** resident apple (among other things) geek - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:07:43 -0700 From: "Jason Brown" Subject: Re: iPod help I think the easiest solution would be to wipe the ipod completely. In iTunes when looking at the iPod Summary view, click the restore button in the version section. This will complete wipe your ipod and real install the software. The pasword and all the setting will be gone. You'll even have to select you language of choice. You'll have to resync all your music and playlists but you can have loud music once again! - -- "IGNORE ME!!!!!!!" - The Grand Galactic Inquisitor ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:15:36 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Weird walking home from the market just now with a bunch of bananas in my hand; when some dude standing outside a bar, fixing to light up a clove cigarette, instructed me to, "look at those bananas!" more than a bit flummoxed, i eventually stammered, "i-i-i see them!" still don't know what to make of it all. natch. but how long has it been in existence? surely longer that "kid rock" has, but no more than a few decades, i wouldn't guess. by the way, is there an actual "pancakes house" chain (cf. *Fargo*: "*we stop at pancakes house!*") in the midwest? <*** Obligatory disclaimer: I don't "get" the song Wafflehead. It doesn't really move me like a Robyn Hitchcock song ought to. Are you moved by the hearing of this song? What makes you like it? ***> it was awesome live, on that tour. and robyn's explanation from *Spectre* made me appreciate it a bit more than i theretofore had done. and don't forget mojo nixon... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:16:01 -0700 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: SDCC Anyone? (No RH) I can safely assure all imaginations that the only thing phallic associated with my character (and the aforementioned freebies) is the pencil he wields. But hey, thanks for bringing it to our attentions! - -Steve, wondering if Stewart is trying to reveal something to the group with his, erm, firm grasp of Gaelic? ;) Sent from my iPhone On Jul 23, 2008, at 5:31 PM, "Stewart C. Russell" wrote: > Steve wrote: >> >> Anyone attending San Diego Comic Con this week? If so, track me down >> for some free Sketchbot swag (stickers, buttons, postcards) > > "bot" is allegedly Gaelic for "penis", so I leave the rest to your > imagination(s). > > Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:56:20 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #664 >Wafflehead is not a good song. It should have been a b-side and >replaced by Dark Green Energy or something. It's a dark mark on an >otherwise great album. Hmph., The phrase YMMV comes to mind. > >But it is one of the few songs written about cunnilingus. Are there >any others? To quote Laughing Lenny - "So I knelt there at the delta, the alpha and omega". May not be about you-know-what, but it seems more than plausible... 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: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:56:25 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: Jug band blues On 7/23/08, Jeremy Osner wrote: > > Has anybody noticed the structural similarity between "I've Got a > Message for You" and the old song (by Cannon's Jug Stompers, if hunch > serves) "Side by Side"? Oddly, it always reminds me of "Dream a little dream of me", but I can see the similarity you mention, too. 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: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:52:30 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Headline Of The Moment - -- "(0% rh)" is rumored to have mumbled on 23. Juli 2008 23:10:18 -0400 regarding Re: Headline Of The Moment: > Rex says: >> Aerosmith rather famously opined that you ain't seen nothin' 'til you're >> down on the muffin... > > that sentence is completely traumatizing. > > i mean, if you'd said "steven tyler", it would be bad enough, but, > dear lord, it's like they're *all* there. Didn't they also sing "Dude Tastes Like A Lady"? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:59:41 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Everything must GO! But, erm... how? - -- Tom Clark is rumored to have mumbled on 23. Juli 2008 14:02:46 -0700 regarding Re: Everything must GO! But, erm... how?: > I'm curious about how other folks manage and distribute their digital > media. There are tons of high-end custom install packages but those are > just not feasible or needed by most people. Naturally I'm all Apple, > with 1TB iMac serving music and video to Airports and AppleTV's > throughout the house. That's still a bit pricey and ad hoc for most > people tho. On the other end is your solution which while economical > involves a bit more tinkering than most non technical people would want > to attempt. What's in between? I think I mentioned before that I use a Playstation 3 for that purpose. On my Mac I use either Mediatomb (free) or MediaLink to stream all media. The downsides are: - - both Mac and Playstation have to be running, so this isn't exactly "green" - - the TV has to be on even if I want to listen to music on the stereo - - both pieces of software have their flaws Still I feel that the PS3 offers the most bang for the buck. It's extremely versatile. And I think it's simple enough to set up, but being a technical person myself I might have a distorted point of view. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:46:24 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: Headline Of The Moment "Jeremy Osner" wrote: >*** Obligatory disclaimer: I don't "get" the song Wafflehead. Itdoesn't really move me like a Robyn Hitchcock song ought to. Are youmoved by the hearing of this song? What makes you like it? ***< ...What makes me smile about it is having seen Robyn, Andy, and Morris perform it live onstage -- including a bizarrely semi-choreographed "'Wafflehead' Dance" -- back in '92 or '93... Michael "Also onstage that night: 'Kung Fu Fighting,' also (somewhat) choreographed..." Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Use video conversation to talk face-to-face with Windows Live Messenger. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/connect_your_way.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_ Refresh_messenger_video_072008 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:52:26 +0100 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Re: Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:04:41 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Jug band music On 7/23/08, Jeremy Osner wrote: Has anybody noticed the structural similarity between "I've Got a Message for You" and the old song (by Cannon's Jug Stompers, if hunch serves) "Side by Side"? My first guess is, no, nobody has ever noticed that...but as it happens, Robyn and Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers *have* been mentioned on fegmania before: ...Jeff Norman * Yes, that was me going through a big Jug Bands and Lemon Pipers phase in the last year of the last millennium (sp.?). I claimed that the kazoo records in my collection were limited to things like the Memphis Jug Band and Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers, plus the Jimi Hendrix record which we were discussing where he used a kazoo to thicken up a guitar riff. Chris Gross pointed out that I must have a copy of 'Corporal Clegg' by the Pink Floyd, and Ross Overbury asked what I did with my copy of Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which of course I have never owned. - - Mike Godwin PS Saw Robin and Bina Williamson last Saturday - delightful without being transcendent. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:31:07 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: keeping the world safe from weirdoes A couple of weeks late, but worth sending nonetheless: 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: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:44:44 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: keeping the world safe from weirdoes grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > > The american in the house went, "aah! make it stop!". But then, we're more about keeping the world safe *for* weirdoes. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:06:13 +0100 From: craigie* Subject: Re: Weird On 24/07/2008, Stacked Crooked wrote: > > > down on the muffin...> > > and don't forget mojo nixon... > Whatever happened to Martha Quinn? Hmm? 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: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:25:28 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers On 7/24/08, hssmrg@bath.ac.uk wrote: > > I claimed that the kazoo records in my collection were limited to things > like the Memphis Jug Band and Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers, plus the Jimi > Hendrix record which we were discussing where he used a kazoo to thicken up > a guitar riff. > > Chris Gross pointed out that I must have a copy of 'Corporal Clegg' by the > Pink Floyd, and Ross Overbury asked what I did with my copy of Sergeant > Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which of course I have never owned. I know the kazoo on "Clegg" (pretty obvious)...but where's the kazoo on SPLHCB? ObFall: The Fall uses kazoo quite a bit. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:30:03 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Weird On 7/24/08, craigie* wrote: > > On 24/07/2008, Stacked Crooked wrote: > > > > > > > down on the muffin...> > > > > and don't forget mojo nixon... > > > > Whatever happened to Martha Quinn? Amusingly enough, a few years ago I found myself asking the very same question...so it was that I (in the words of John McCain) did a google on her. (Someone, no doubt, will attempt to turn that phrase into a double entendre.) And I found out that she was even hotter in her 40s than she was when she was on the air: (the very picture I found then). As to what happened to her...I remember reading she got married to some musician from some dumb band, but that's all I remember. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:03:41 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: Headline Of The Moment yummy yummy yummy i've got love in my tummy i remember the author saying that's what it was about (recently) In a message dated 7/23/2008 11:19:21 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, softboygirl@gmail.com writes: aren't they mostly by robyn? whenever i don't know what the hell one of robyn's songs is about, i figure there's like a 50% chance it's cunnilingus. as ever, lauren my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:06:51 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #664 i bet WB wouldn't let Mr. Stipe sing so prominently on the CD In a message dated 7/24/2008 1:45:33 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, grutness@slingshot.co.nz writes: It should have been a b-side and >replaced by Dark Green Energy or something. It's a dark mark on an >otherwise great album. my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:24:16 +0100 (GMT+01:00) From: "edwardofsim@tiscali.co.uk" Subject: Re: Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers From: jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com >I know the kazoo on "Clegg" (pretty obvious)...but where's the kazoo on >SPLHCB? "Lovely Rita," right after "Made her look a little like a milit'ry man," from memory. peace, Edward _______________________________________________________________ Fight the credit crunch; get paid to recycle - http://www.tiscali.co.uk/recycle _______________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:11:11 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Weird On Jul 24, 2008, at 7:30 AM, 2fs wrote: > On 7/24/08, craigie* wrote: >> >> Whatever happened to Martha Quinn? > > And I found out that she was even hotter in her 40s than she was > when she > was on the air: (the very > picture I > found then). As the kids say: "Would hit that." > > > As to what happened to her...I remember reading she got married to > some > musician from some dumb band, but that's all I remember. From her Wikipedia page: In 1993, she married musician Jordan Tarlow (ex-Fuzztones); they have two children and live in Malibu, California. In 2005, Quinn joined Sirius Satellite Radio network. From her home in Malibu, she hosts a one-hour weekly show on the Big '80s channel called Gods of the Big '80s. Not a bad life! - -tc, back from Disneyland. It was fun! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:17:07 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: yet another iTunes mystery I was fiddling around with iTunes when I noticed that we have the option of shuffling by song (self-explanatory), album (equally so), or "grouping" (huh?). Digging around the help files brings up the following: "grouping" allows users, say, to "group individual movements on a classical CD into one work by indicating the movement (for example, 'Piano concerto in A Minor, Op. 54') in the Grouping field." That would be useful...but uh, how? If, for example, I do something obvious like put a "1" in the "grouping" field by the first movement and a "2" by the second, if I sort by "grouping" it puts all the items I've entered "1"s by first, all the "2"s second, etc...which is exactly wrong. It would seem the most intuitive way to do this would be to have the "grouping" field come up when you select multiple items, and if you click it, it will play those items in that order and consecutively if you're shuffling by "grouping." Okay - so how does it actually work? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:24:23 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: yet another iTunes mystery You know what else is funny? When you click on the link in the "Help" field to submit questions or suggestions, a window pops up...in Internet Explorer. (Yes, I know...not using a Mac blah-blah). That seems...odd for an Apple app, especially considering I have Firefox selected as my default browser. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:33:16 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Now they'll supposedly come on Blu-Ray ... ... the Neil Young Archive discs: Who knows? Wouldn't one have enough space for all of them?? - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:01:20 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: yet another iTunes mystery On Jul 24, 2008, at 1:17 PM, 2fs wrote: > I was fiddling around with iTunes when I noticed that we have the > option of > shuffling by song (self-explanatory), album (equally so), or > "grouping" > (huh?). > It would seem the most intuitive way to do this would be to have the > "grouping" field come up when you select multiple items, and if you > click > it, it will play those items in that order and consecutively if you're > shuffling by "grouping." > > Okay - so how does it actually work? Select the tracks that you don't want to separate and open the Info window. Add a grouping name to the collection. Now when you shuffle a playlist that includes those tracks they will always play together. Think "Heartbreaker/Living Loving Maid". - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:43:33 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: yet another iTunes mystery On 7/24/08, Tom Clark wrote: > > On Jul 24, 2008, at 1:17 PM, 2fs wrote: > > I was fiddling around with iTunes when I noticed that we have the option >> of >> shuffling by song (self-explanatory), album (equally so), or "grouping" >> (huh?). >> It would seem the most intuitive way to do this would be to have the >> "grouping" field come up when you select multiple items, and if you click >> it, it will play those items in that order and consecutively if you're >> shuffling by "grouping." >> >> Okay - so how does it actually work? >> > > Select the tracks that you don't want to separate and open the Info window. > Add a grouping name to the collection. Now when you shuffle a playlist > that includes those tracks they will always play together. Think > "Heartbreaker/Living Loving Maid". Can I select those two songs so they never play, ever? (Yes, I know I actually can do that, even w/o deleting them...maybe my least-favorite Zeppelin number, yet it's among their most popular.) Anyway: thanks. I'd pass on the suggestion that the language in the help file is less than clear... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:27:36 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Acoustic birds in perspex? On YooToob -- here! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2No3F6GsRaQ -- is a MTV video of young Robyn and Andy and Morris playing "Birds in Perspex" on acoustic instruments. I love this recording and would be made very happy and grateful if somebody told me that they had a copy of the audio they wanted to give me. (I'm working on a mix tape which this would make an excellent opening song for.) Best, J - -- READIN 2.0 http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:51:34 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: yet another iTunes mystery On Jul 24, 2008, at 4:43 PM, 2fs wrote: > Anyway: thanks. I'd pass on the suggestion that the language in the > help > file is less than clear... Feel free to do so with the link at the bottom of the Help page! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:52:31 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 7:25 AM, 2fs wrote: > > > ObFall: The Fall uses kazoo quite a bit. Freakin' "Junk Man", dude. It's amazing. It's just kazoo, bass and drums... in fact, only two drums as far as I can tell, and I think the bass only plays five different notes for the whole song. But somehow it sounds like some kind of pseudo-legitimate big-band arrangement. Pretty good album overall, really, - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:09:39 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: Acoustic birds in perspex? Jeremy says: > On YooToob -- here! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2No3F6GsRaQ -- is a > MTV video of young Robyn and Andy and Morris playing "Birds in > Perspex" on acoustic instruments. I love this recording and would be > made very happy and grateful if somebody told me that they had a copy > of the audio they wanted to give me. (I'm working on a mix tape which > this would make an excellent opening song for.) i can't tell you how many times i've watched that. i bet it used to make me cry. just a little. i have one of scott's dvds that has that performance and would be happy to send you a copy if i can burn one (i've had trouble copying some of the DL discs he's sent me.) then you could extract the audio. however people extract audio. or someone might come through for you ``the easy way.'' xo p.s. e-mail me offlist if you want the dvd (that will hopefully exist after i try to conjure it up.) - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:00:17 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers On 7/24/08, Rex wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 7:25 AM, 2fs wrote: > >> >> >> ObFall: The Fall uses kazoo quite a bit. > > > Freakin' "Junk Man", dude. It's amazing. It's just kazoo, bass and > drums... in fact, only two drums as far as I can tell, and I think the bass > only plays five different notes for the whole song. But somehow it sounds > like some kind of pseudo-legitimate big-band arrangement. Pretty good album > overall, really, > Okay, yes: yet another episode of Fall Fanaticism. But I continue to be amazed how that band can put out hundreds and hundreds of songs, most of which are based on dead-simple riffs, yet still sound fresh. (Well, except when they don't. But name the act that hasn't put out a couple crap tracks.) I think a key factor is rhythm: when Fall songs work, it's because there's something completely compelling in the way the various parts work together rhythmically...and of course, I would have to classify him as a first-level rapper, insofar as "rap" means "stylized speaking using rhythm and intonation in musical ways" (which seems like a reasonable definition). Plus, despite being by all accounts a drunken asshole, keeps managing to rope in stunning young women. I will assume that, given many of them are quite talented musicians in their own right, it's not just gullibility - that he also has a certain charm and charisma. And almost w/o exception, people who've worked with him will note his intense intelligence: it's not exactly disciplined, and despite its orientation fairly often to vaguely ethical concerns doesn't seem to reflect back to his own self, still, he's a keen observer. At their best, his lyrics are stunningly evocative of particular places and situations, in a way that ( at their not-quite-best) becomes almost incomprehensible in its specificity (to his own situatedness as a working-class Mancunian, and in extreme only to him himself). Errrr, uh, yeah: I like the Fall. On to another band many of us like to talk about here, one with certain similarities: Wire. I'm rather surprised the extent to which the current Colin Newman is willing to play ball with publicity (granted, on his own terms, not labels, megamedia, etc.), given how notoriously reticent and vague they were to begin with. Lewis in particular seemed to have a positive gift for superior, supercilious attitude...practically daring journalists to understand the contempt he had for them. Youth, you know. I think they've realized it's entirely possible to find compatibility between not compromising what one wants to do and communicating with whatever portion of the general public (via journalists - and nowadays, directly, online) wants to hear what you're up to. Errrr, uh, yeah: I like Wire. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #665 ********************************