From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #675 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, August 1 2008 Volume 16 : Number 675 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Robyn's patter bits [John Liebler ] un REAP [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: Robyn's patter bits ["Jeremy Osner" ] Monster Mash! ["Stacked Crooked" ] Re: Monster Mash! ["Jeremy Osner" ] upcoming SOFT BOYS box set [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: Love Songs [2fs ] Re: I'm a born lever-puller ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: upcoming SOFT BOYS box set [Carrie Galbraith ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #674 ["Bri N" ] complain, complain [2fs ] Hitchcock patter: a first attempt ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: Beatleness [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: Ringo fourth best drummer? [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: Ringo fourth best drummer? [2fs ] Re: Ringo fourth best drummer? [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: I'm a born lever-puller [Rex ] movie talk ["(0% rh)" ] Re: Feg on the move... ["(0% rh)" ] Re: movie talk [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: Feg on the move... [Carrie Galbraith ] Re: Feg on the move... [Carrie Galbraith ] Re: Feg on the move... ["Jeremy Osner" ] File under: Misc. ["kevin studyvin" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:06:17 -0400 From: John Liebler Subject: Re: Robyn's patter bits Jeremy Asked: > Anyone know by the way: Was "Storefront Hitchcock" all filmed on a > single evening or were the songs taken from more than one concert? Did > Demme or Hitchcock make the cuts for the album and CD? I think there were actually four shows over the course of two days one each morning and one each afternoon. I was at one of the morning shows, and I remember feeling strange going to a show at that hour. My memory is hazy, though. There was a lot of discussion about the shows on this list, though, so you might find more info in the archives. John www.MeshAndBones.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:01:28 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: un REAP cheech + chong reunion ! cheech and chong light up america tour announced my blog is "Yer Blog" _http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/_ (http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/) _http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.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, 31 Jul 2008 11:14:28 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: Robyn's patter bits On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:06 AM, John Liebler wrote: > > I think there were actually four shows over the course of two days one each > morning and one each afternoon. That makes sense -- when I watch the movie I notice lighting changes that make me wonder what's going on with the sun. > I was at one of the morning shows Envy. ENVY. (envy.) Hey, everybody here already knows about the "I Often Dream of Trains" show happening in NYC (Symphony Space) in November, right? Because if you did not already know, you do now by implication. Tickets go on sale soon. J - -- READIN 2.0 http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:29:43 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Monster Mash! unscripted, but often very similar from one date to the next. *Storefront*'s "verbals" were interesting in that they were all one-offs. i can only assume that this was intentional; that he'd worked out at least the skeletons of these before-hand, and probably included them on the setlists. four shows in two nights -- plus a coupla practice gigs at maxwell's right before that. there're forty-eight of 'em at . ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:37:16 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: Monster Mash! On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Stacked Crooked wrote: > > there're forty-eight of 'em at > . > If person or people start doing this, I will devote some effort to building a database and a web interface for storing and viewing and cross-referencing the transcriptions. This would fit in nicely with a project I had started a few months ago to cross-reference the archive.org Hitchcock tapes, but have neglected because nothing was pushing me to work on it. J - -- READIN 2.0 http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:57:09 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: upcoming SOFT BOYS box set i wonder if they'll include NEXTDOORLAND / SIDE 3 it seems to be out of print ? it's not on amazon, it's still listed on the matador website although i gave up trying to find out if it's still in print 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, 31 Jul 2008 14:29:09 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Love Songs On 7/31/08, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > > > --On 30. Juli 2008 13:22:35 -0500 2fs wrote: > > Exactly! > > Maybe a better way to look at it is that even though the universe is >> deterministic at the subatomic level (apparently), >> > > Actually no. I'm no physicist and only have a superficial understanding of > these things, but Heisenberg & Co. can actually be interpreted to mean that > the universe is *not* deterministic at the subatomic level. Honderich takes > that approach. He does *not* endorse a determinism in the mold of Laplace, > who postulated that the future could be predicted entirely if one could only > know the state of the entire universe at any given moment, plus the laws of > physics that govern it. Instead he claims that only human action is > determined. According to him it is determined by traits we are born with, by > outside influences during our lives, and by accident, e.g. subatomic > indeterminism. So you can't predict anybody's future, because it depends on > factors that haven't yet been determined. Still, we as humans don't actively > decide anything ... My response is, first: *we're* not at "the subatomic level' (obviously, I'm no physicist either), and in a sense it doesn't matter what goes on there, just as we don't need to be able to predict what ever atom is going to do in order to know that if we open a bottle of beer and pour it into a glass, and then lift it to our mouths to drink, the beer will go down our throats and not break up into millions of discrete little beer-threads that go to Denver, Kuala Lumpur, and Australia. At least not unless we've had *way* too much to drink. We can predict certain actions or activities, even if we cannot predict the actions of the object's or substance's components. > > > Practically speaking, what we mean when we say "free will" is simply that >> we *feel* as if we're choosing, >> > > Right. > > as if we're free to have made another >> choice. (I could have had a sub if I'd decided to. And I could have hit >> delete w/o sending this message - an action some of you probably regret >> that I didn't take...) And to argue against that idea, we end up denying >> the reality of that perception (not its accuracy, its reality) - which >> seems odd, since surely that perception of consciousness and choice is >> among the variables "determining" our actions. >> > > Perhaps. The big question really is: what difference would it make if > everybody accepted that nobody is morally responsible for anything? But this definition of determinism absolutely does not evaporate responsibility...since our belief in the efficacy of our will, within the bounds of circumstance, is among the variables that need to be taken into account...as is responsibility, etc. I wouldn't worry, though - humans have held the concept of "responsibility" for thousands of years, and I'm pretty sure no philosopher will make it go away. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:29:27 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: I'm a born lever-puller > Note that where players may not have been "excellent" (in technical terms, > Lennon was probably the least impressive) they played with such distinctive > character as to overcome those technical limitations. Note also that I've > never been one to value technical considerations over other musical > considerations; I value distinctive playing over facile but characterless > playing. (That's one of the most rock'n'roll things about me!) And Artemis bless ya for that. Two of my favorite pickers (Neil Young, Frank Zappa) have been cited lots of times for being undistinguished players, but they manage to get an idea across in ways that more technically skilled individuals regularly fail to...recall NY being quoted somewhere to the effect that when he plays one of those infamous one-note solos, you have to dig that every time he plays that note there's a different intent behind it - something that's either clear to a listener or not, I guess...and the reason so much of Zappa's later material doesn't move me is that he insisted on hiring musicians who were formally proficient as a mofo but had little or no character as performers, as opposed to the MOI, et al. np Beach Boys: Pet Sounds (glorious original mono mix) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:42:27 -0700 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: upcoming SOFT BOYS box set On Jul 31, 2008, at 9:57 AM, HwyCDRrev@aol.com wrote: > i wonder if they'll include > NEXTDOORLAND / SIDE 3 > it seems to be out of print ? > it's not on amazon, > > it's still listed on the matador website > although i gave up trying to find out > if it's still in print I took a look at alibris, a site for rare and out of print books that now includes film and music. - - c ************************************** Questions are a burden for others. Answers are a prison for oneself. ************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:23:41 -0700 From: "Benjamin Lukoff" Subject: Beatles as musicians > From: 2fs > On 7/30/08, Terrence Marks wrote: >> >> Mind you, I've heard it said that Ringo was the fourth-best drummer in >> The Beatles. I've also heard similar things said about the other >> three, as if moving them all one instrument clockwise would've greatly >> improved the band. > > This is, of course, nonsense. McCartney was a competent drummer - but I've > never heard any evidence that either Lennon or Harrison could play drums at > all. Lennon certainly couldn't -- if he could, "The Ballad of John and Yoko" would have been a Plastic Ono Band track, not a Beatles (well, a John+Paul) one. As for George, I've never heard of him being able to drum, but it wouldn't surprise me if he was at least minimally competent. > Similarly, while McCartney was also a competent lead guitarist (in fact, > some very distinctive leads are his: "Taxman," "Good Morning, Good Morning," > to name two), Lennon was at best an iffy bassist (I think one of his > recorded performances is "I've Got a Feeling"), and off the top of my head I > can't think of any Harrison bass-playing. Ringo, so far as I know, couldn't > really play any other instruments. Ringo could kind of play the piano, but not very well. Lennon played bass on "The Long and Winding Road" for sure, and perhaps "Let It Be" too, and "iffy" is too kind :) Harrison bass? I've got to look this one up. Hmm, well, according to this (http://www.dmbeatles.com/disk.php?disk=51) George *did* play bass a number of times. Certainly not McCartney's superior in this department though. > Lennon: distinctive rhythm guitarist, adequate bassist, reasonable piano > player. Distinctive how? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:36:50 -0700 From: "Bri N" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #674 Lennon plays some excellent slide guitar in the Let It Be movie. I think over one of Harrison's songs. - -Nuppy - ---------------- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:53:48 -0500 From: 2fs To sum up: McCartney: in many ways the best overall musician of the band, excellent bassist, fine and distinctive lead guitar player, good rhythm guitar, good piano. Harrison: excellent lead guitarist (particularly his slide playing from about '68 onwards) Lennon: distinctive rhythm guitarist, adequate bassist, reasonable piano player. Starr: excellent drummer. Note that where players may not have been "excellent" (in technical terms, Lennon was probably the least impressive) they played with such distinctive character as to overcome those technical limitations. Note also that I've never been one to value technical considerations over other musical considerations; I value distinctive playing over facile but characterless playing. (That's one of the most rock'n'roll things about me!) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:58:49 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: complain, complain In the process of ripping my CD collection to my external drive, I decided to make three separate playlists from George Harrison's _All Things Must Pass_: the original songs on the album, the bonus tracks included with the 2000 reissue, and the jam tracks. Which is how I found out that the original songs are 76:52 - which leads me to wonder, why the hell didn't they put *those* tracks together on one CD, with the bonus tracks and jam tracks on the second CD, instead of cramming the bonus songs at the end of the first disc (first LP of the original set) thereby breaking up the flow of the original recording? I mean, yeah: originally, you had to get up and put the record on the other side (unless it was one of those fancy 2-record sets that paired sides 1 & 4 and sides 2 & 3, allowing you to listen to the first two sides w/o having to change records) - but it seems odd to me the way they did it. Either break up the set where the LP broke (and make a 3-CD set of it), or put the songs on one disc. Dammit. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:41:34 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Hitchcock patter: a first attempt OK, so I had a go at transcribing the introductions to "I'm Only You" and to "Victorian Squid", from the Ridgewood and the Piermont show this month. Results here: http://readin.com/blog/?id=1364 J - -- READIN 2.0 http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 11:15:02 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: Beatleness > > Also: Ringo > > is a *brilliant* drummer - anyone who thinks he was just kind of >middling is > > (a) probably not a drummer and (b) possessed of a couple of stale cinnamon > > rolls for ears. Ringo's one of those drummers who's not all that > > flashy...but he's incredibly distinctive. You can recognize his drumming > > almost immediately...and in fact, you can recognize almost immediately when > > another drummer is playing in a "Ringo" style. In all this good points/bad points about the Beatles, I'd like to add my voice with one point that is frequently ovelooked. When discussing Paul's merits, it's usually as a songwriter and singer - but that man can play bass like virtually no other (maybe not in the same league as Entwistle, but damn close). Have a listen to the astonishing work on "I want you (She's so heavy)" - some of the mosty inventive bass playing you're ever likely to hear. 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: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 11:19:35 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: Ringo fourth best drummer? >i think Lennon said that about ringo - it was a joke No-one, to the best of my knowledge, ever claimed that Ringo was the fourth-best drummer in the Beatles. The true story, from memory, is that this story arose from one of John's typical charming ego-deflation pokes. After a particcularly fine piece of work on drums, Ringo yelled out "I'm the best drummer in the world!", to which John responded with a grin "You're not even the best drummer in the Beatles!" Which, given Paul's musical abilities, may well have been close to the truth. 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, 31 Jul 2008 18:40:41 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Ringo fourth best drummer? On 7/31/08, grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > > i think Lennon said that about ringo - it was a joke >> > > No-one, to the best of my knowledge, ever claimed that Ringo was the > fourth-best drummer in the Beatles. > > The true story, from memory, is that this story arose from one of John's > typical charming ego-deflation pokes. After a particcularly fine piece of > work on drums, Ringo yelled out "I'm the best drummer in the world!", to > which John responded with a grin "You're not even the best drummer in the > Beatles!" Which, given Paul's musical abilities, may well have been close to > the truth. Close - but no flaming phallus. McCartney's a good drummer, yes...but he's not in the same league as Ringo. There's a reason Ringo was a star (NPI) before he was in the Beatles, and there's a reason polls of drummers themselves consistently place Ringo in the top ranks of drummers. People respect Paul's abilities...but "competent" and "respectable" is not "excellent" and "distinctive." Regardless, as I said I think Paul's probably the best overall musician of the Beatles. In a way, it's no contest: he plays more instruments, and plays all of them well or (in the case of bass, lead guitar, and acoustic) exceptionally. It's worth noting that when Ringo left the band temporarily during the recording of the White Album, the rest of the band wanted him back. They were a studio-only band at that point, of course - so if Paul were a better drummer than Ringo, they might have just said screw it, let Paul play drums. They didn't. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 11:52:02 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: Ringo fourth best drummer? >Regardless, as I said I think Paul's probably the best overall >musician of the Beatles. In a way, it's no contest: he plays more >instruments, and plays all of them well or (in the case of bass, >lead guitar, and acoustic) exceptionally. It's worth noting that >when Ringo left the band temporarily during the recording of the >White Album, the rest of the band wanted him back. They were a >studio-only band at that point, of course - so if Paul were a better >drummer than Ringo, they might have just said screw it, let Paul >play drums. They didn't. I think that latter point was at least in part because he was a cohesive element in the band - he kept them grounded at a time when Ghu knows they needed it. I'm not down-playing his drumming ability, but that is likely not to have been the onlly reason (or maybe even the main reason) they wanted him back. 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, 31 Jul 2008 20:51:06 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: I'm a born lever-puller On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:29 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > > Note that where players may not have been "excellent" (in technical > terms, > > Lennon was probably the least impressive) they played with such > distinctive > > character as to overcome those technical limitations. Note also that I've > > never been one to value technical considerations over other musical > > considerations; I value distinctive playing over facile but characterless > > playing. (That's one of the most rock'n'roll things about me!) > > > > And Artemis bless ya for that. Two of my favorite pickers (Neil Young, > Frank Zappa) have been cited lots of times for being undistinguished > players, but they manage to get an idea across in ways that more > technically > skilled individuals regularly fail to...recall NY being quoted somewhere to > the effect that when he plays one of those infamous one-note solos, you > have > to dig that every time he plays that note there's a different intent behind > it - My favorite Neil playing-style self-description-- and I think he was comparing himself to Steve Vai-- was something like "Yeah, I have more of this giant sandworm type thing going on". The spice must flow, Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 03:09:25 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: movie talk hi list, this is a single-entry installment of movie talk for "tell no one" (2008, french) (in theatre): this was the first time i got up midway through a movie (a thriller, mind you) to walk out to the lobby to look for something else to do (i was with three friends so i couldn't go too far from the theatre.) this was around the time i started wondering if the movie was actually a spoof. to give you an idea, it was WAY worse than ``deja vu'', my most recent really-bad-movie idea. i saw it, in part, because it got extremely good reviews (did not read any of them, i just check the ``grades''.) if anyone has seen it or (you poor dear) goes to see it, and likes it, please explain why. as ever, lauren p.s. i think this is the first french movie i've ever seen that had more than 3 characters (that's one of the reasons i tend to like french movies; i also like them because nothing ever happens in them.) actually, it had so many characters that they all started morphing into clumps of characters, but maybe that was because, by that point, i was so very far from caring who was who anyway. - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 03:17:50 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: Feg on the move... Marc Alberts says: > I am pleased to announce that this Feg is on the move. I just accepted a > new job within my company where I will be leaving the Seattle area and > moving to Washington, DC. congratulations on your new job. i'd warn you about the east coast (we're so callous!) but, what your having lived in the philadelphia, i'm sure you know the drill. > And Lauren-don't think you'll get away from me as I'll be sure to > be up in Malvern probably once a month if not more, and that diner we went > to had meat loaf too good to not try a second time. funny, i recently was at a friend's house and went to "her" diner. not so good. i guess it reminded not to my diner for granted. AND besides all the reports of good food (i never actually know since i always get "two eggs, any style") (although i can say the eggs are good), it's open 24/7! let me know when you're in town. as ever, lauren - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:03:15 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: movie talk - --On 1. August 2008 03:09:25 -0400 "(0% rh)" wrote: > if anyone has seen it or > (you poor dear) goes to see it, and likes it, please explain why. I haven't (it hasn't even come out yet in Germany), but the reviews make it sound really good. The NYT critic even writes: "'Tell No One' is pure, nasty fun. I watched it twice. It was even better the second time. " Roger Ebert says: "'Tell No One' will play as a terrific thriller for you, if you meet it halfway. You have to be willing to believe." So you're no Fox Mulder, I suppose? Perhaps you would like to explain why you didn't like it? And what did your friends think? > it was WAY worse than ``deja vu'', my most recent > really-bad-movie idea. The CSNY Deja Vu? I thought it was OK, but a bit of a letdown. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 02:28:54 -0700 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: Feg on the move... On Aug 1, 2008, at 12:17 AM, (0% rh) wrote: > Marc Alberts says: >> I am pleased to announce that this Feg is on the move. I just >> accepted a >> new job within my company where I will be leaving the Seattle area >> and >> moving to Washington, DC. > > congratulations on your new job. i'd warn you about the east coast > (we're so callous!) but, what your having lived in the philadelphia, > i'm sure you know the drill. When I arrived in Philly for grad school, a colleague shook my hand and said "Welcome to the East Coast - let's have soup." As a Californian, and someone who really doesn't "get" soup, I was charmed. I never warmed to it, topographically, but in retrospect, I really liked the parts of the Eastern Seaboard that i got to know. Besides, you are now going to be close to Bayard and Mr. Gross. How great is that! - - c "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. " - - Thomas Jefferson ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 03:51:41 -0700 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: Feg on the move... On Aug 1, 2008, at 3:24 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 5:28 AM, Carrie Galbraith > wrote: >> someone who really doesn't "get" soup > > ...What's not to get? > I am not a fan of "wet" food. The reason I also don't like Chinese food and am one of those people who ask for the salad dressing "on the side." Perhaps it''s wariness from 35+ years as a vegetarian. Chicken stock and all. Seems to me soup is a winter meal. I grew up in SoCal, the child of people who grew up in SoCal. So maybe soup got lost somewhere? It has always seemed to me as: "food you eat when you are sick." The only soup I know is canned tomato as recovery from the flu. No winter stews, no summer cold soups. Not ever appearing on the dinner table. Hence my reluctance to accept it as part of he world of meals. Again, I exhibit my rigidness. Geez, will I ever lighten up? - - c ************************************** Questions are a burden for others. Answers are a prison for oneself. ************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 06:58:11 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: Feg on the move... Ah I see! Yep, soup can be treacherous if you're vegetarian. > will I ever lighten up? Only one way to find out... J On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 6:51 AM, Carrie Galbraith wrote: > > On Aug 1, 2008, at 3:24 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 5:28 AM, Carrie Galbraith > wrote: > > someone who really doesn't "get" soup > > ...What's not to get? > > I am not a fan of "wet" food. The reason I also don't like Chinese food and > am one of those people who ask for the salad dressing "on the side." Perhaps > it''s wariness from 35+ years as a vegetarian. Chicken stock and all. > Seems to me soup is a winter meal. I grew up in SoCal, the child of people > who grew up in SoCal. So maybe soup got lost somewhere? It has always > seemed to me as: "food you eat when you are sick." The only soup I know is > canned tomato as recovery from the flu. No winter stews, no summer cold > soups. Not ever appearing on the dinner table. Hence my reluctance to accept > it as part of he world of meals. > Again, I exhibit my rigidness. Geez, will I ever lighten up? > - c > > ************************************** > > Questions are a burden for others. > > Answers are a prison for oneself. > > ************************************** > > - -- READIN 2.0 http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:54:59 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: File under: Misc. So I'm playing the live stream from WNYU and it's clipping so bad it's almost unintelligible. I thought radio stations use, like, compression and stuff for that very reason, or doesn't that apply in the streaming world? Kids these days and their new-fangled technology... ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #675 ********************************