From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #694 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, August 28 2008 Volume 16 : Number 694 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: EMERGENCY (knock on wood) [Tom Clark ] Eb's-ass-mania! ["Stacked Crooked" ] Re: Floating cathedral prayer song [James Dignan ] Reap [Jeff Dwarf ] Notwist ["Stacked Crooked" ] Incident at Gloster Estates ["Stacked Crooked" ] Re: how to know that a bar is drop-dead cool [Rex ] from RH.com - Robyn in new demme film shocker ! [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] One long pair of... [Steve Schiavo ] Re: Feasting on the Higsons ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: Feasting on the Higsons ["Miles Goosens" ] REAP Replacements drummer (1990-1) Steve Foley dies [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: firefox 3 not playing nice w/Acrobat? ["Miles Goosens" ] Re: A different Egyptians sound ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: A different Egyptians sound ["Miles Goosens" ] Re: Floating cathedral prayer song ["Miles Goosens" ] Re: Floating cathedral prayer song ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: Sid & Susie, proggies [craigie* ] Re: firefox 3 not playing nice w/Acrobat? ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: A different Egyptians sound ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: A different Egyptians sound [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: A different Egyptians sound [2fs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:15:07 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: EMERGENCY (knock on wood) On Aug 27, 2008, at 11:10 AM, Capuchin wrote: > Hey, if you live in the south, southeast, midwest, mid-atlantic, or > northeast of the United States, I might like your help. > > In particular, if you live along or near the Crescent, Sunset > Limited, or City Of New Orleans rail lines and wouldn't mind putting > up a poor evacuee for a short time, I'd be quite grateful. If you > don't know your local rail lines, well, look 'em up! > > I can cook and teach advanced mathematics. > > Gustav is staring us down and who knows how many are on the line > behind that guy this season. I can attest to Jeme's good natured couch flopping. Just have plenty of cranberry juice and seltzer on hand. Good luck! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:20:26 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Eb's-ass-mania! russ tried to start a thread about it once. . weren't any takers. i remember being pretty stoked when he lit in to "Insect Mother" at the sweetwater in '97. he's only played it five times since then, i see. <"i dreamt i was given a high-level security clearance. i then asked to see something secret; i was shown a very large letter 'P'."> did you, in the dream, blurt out: "ha! i always knowed those motherfuckers at *Sesame Street* were up to no good!"? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:17:37 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: Floating cathedral prayer song I'm sure I've asked this before but got no answer... Re" Floating cathedral prayer song" - does anyone know if that little monologue was inspired by the book or film "Oscar and Lucinda", which has a flating glass church as one of its plot elements? (Good film, BTW - and the way Cate Blanchett's made up in it reminds me so much of my sweetie Alice it's not funny) 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: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:32:50 -0500 (CDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: EMERGENCY (knock on wood) On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Tom Clark wrote: > I can attest to Jeme's good natured couch flopping. Just have plenty of > cranberry juice and seltzer on hand. I'm also partial to tonic and lime. J. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:49:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Reap Del Martin http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/27/BAGI12JDIS.DTL ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:58:04 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Notwist thanks for the rec, michael! most interesting/enjoyable. the trinacria, however: 'twas not my cup o' juice... was unable to find kyle andrews available for download, poopit all. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:27:55 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Incident at Gloster Estates <> i'm going to have to retract in any case. have just listened to the elliott brood and the devotchka back-to-back; and the latter, even despite its maddening brevity, is still the clear leader as we head for the home-stretch. elliott brood are most certainly in the top-five, however. new releases lined up from some big names (tv on the radio most notable among them, i suppose...the new mercury rev is a disappointment, in my opinion), but i have a feeling this may be the year for devotchka to claim the title. *Village Voice* will, naturellement, pick beck (or some bullshit). heard "Jumping Jack Flash" blasting out of a card window to-day; and i must say that it sounded better than a whipping on a hyena's ass. KEN "If you win the rat race / If you come in first place / Then a rat is all you'll be" THE KENSTER ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:07:46 -0400 From: Rex Subject: Re: how to know that a bar is drop-dead cool On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:09 PM, 2fs wrote: > I walked in to a bar the other day (no joke...), and damned if the sound > system wasn't playing "Garden" by The Fall. That rules. And I do swear on floor thingy. PBL or Peel Session version? lauren: > i always liked the line: "he had forgotten / what others still tried > to grasp" (IMO, it conveniently sums up pretty much everything mark e. smith thinks people should know about him.) Lauren, I think that if MES read the above, you would be in The Fall next week. I am not so cool, but I may just make the cut for my planned Falll cover band, Teh Fail. It being my planned Fall cover band, though, I may well kick myself out on principle. - -Rex Broome, (briefly) lead singer/shouter all on one note, guitarist, tapes, keyboards, getting fired, Teh Fail - -RES ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:18:45 -0400 From: Rex Subject: Feasting on the Higsons On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:27 PM, Stacked Crooked wrote: > > heard "Jumping Jack Flash" blasting out of a card window to-day; and i must > say that it sounded better than a whipping on a hyena's ass. > I'm still on my Fall-only jag, but I gotta say... I hear the Call of the Stones rather clearly. I am, right now, in West Virginia, enjoying the local corn around which all life revolves. Local consensus is that this year's premiere crop is this bicolored stuff called "Higson's". Whoa ah oh. I like this for the obvious reasons, but must add... damned tasty. Whatcha see... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:42:07 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: from RH.com - Robyn in new demme film shocker ! The Silver Screen Jonathan Demme's new movie Rachel Getting Married stars Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt & Tunde Adebimpe (of TV On The Radio) and features Robyn performing two songs: "America" and one written for the movie, "Up to Our Nex." The film competes at the Venice Film Festival September 3rd, premieres at Toronto September 6th and opens October 3rd in New York. A screening at the London Film Festival will be announced shortly. my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ **************It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal here. (http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:48:55 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: One long pair of... - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:41:10 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: Feasting on the Higsons On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 1:18 AM, Rex wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:27 PM, Stacked Crooked wrote: > I hear the Call of the > Stones rather clearly. > I watched their "Rock n Roll Circus" tape again last weekend and boy oh boy, that is a fun concert tape. - -- READIN 2.0 http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:05:20 -0500 From: "Miles Goosens" Subject: Re: Feasting on the Higsons On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:18 AM, Rex wrote: >I'm still on my Fall-only jag, but I gotta say... I think Jeff once reported to me about a Fallnet post where someone said "I don't like music, except for the Fall." I wasn't a fan at the time, but since then... yeah, there have been times where that's been dangerously close to true, and of course the catalog is huge enough that you can immerse yoursself in it without really trying. Heck, there was almost a year where the ex and I only listened to 8489 A SIDES and 8489 B SIDES in the car... we'd go between those three discs, and they met our listening needs completely. I think eventually Momus displaced them (another large immersive catalog, though "large" is relative in any comparison to the Fall)... but that was a good long run. If the Fall's BBC box had existed then, it might still be all Mark E. Smith all the time... >I am, right now, in West Virginia, enjoying the local corn around which all >life revolves. Local consensus is that this year's premiere crop is this >bicolored stuff called "Higson's". Whoa ah oh. I like this for the obvious >reasons, but must add... damned tasty. Whatcha see... I should add that the area of WV that Rex is from has something called "arable land," which in the other 3/4 of the state is as mythical as the scolar-athlete, the scholar-gypsy, Will Farrell "humor," or jobs. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:08:26 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: REAP Replacements drummer (1990-1) Steve Foley dies Replacements drummer Steve Foley dies Wed Aug 27, 2008 5:41pm EDT http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSN2748807420080827?feedTyp e=RSS&feedName=entertainmentNews NEW YORK (Billboard) - Steve Foley, who played drums with the Replacements at the tail end of the alternative rock band's career, died during the weekend of August 23 in Minneapolis. He was 49. According to local media reports, Foley died after accidentally overdosing on prescription medication. The 1990 selection of Foley, who played in such Minneapolis bands as Curtiss A, Wheelo and Snaps, as the substitute for original Replacements drummer Chris Mars has become the stuff of legend. According to Jim Walsh's oral history "All Over But the Shouting," frontman Paul Westerberg and bassist Tommy Stinson bumped into Foley at a local bar and procured a ride from him to an audition. In the car was a copy of the brand new Replacements album "All Shook Down," prompting Westerberg and Stinson to look at each other and then exclaim to Foley, "You're already in." Foley toured with the band until its final show on July 4, 1991, in Chicago's Grant Park. Afterward, he and his brother Kevin joined Stinson's band Bash & Pop. Of late, he was working as a car salesman in Minneapolis. According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, visitation will be held 11 a.m. Friday (August 29) at Washburn-McReavy Funeral Chapel in Edina, Minnesota, with burial to follow at Lakewood Cemetery. Reuters/Billboard my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ **************It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal here. (http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:21:11 -0500 From: "Miles Goosens" Subject: Re: firefox 3 not playing nice w/Acrobat? On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 5:28 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > On 8/27/08, (0% rh) wrote: > => perhaps if you wait a few days, adobe will catch up. firefox 3 just > > came out, no? > > > > It's been a little while -- several months if memory serves. Only if you were an early adapter - the "push" version where the program suggests that you update it was just a couple o' days ago. And since I accepted the upgrade, I haven't noticed any Acrobat weirdness, but Firefox 3 is doing the occasional weird thing with HTML punctuation... most noticable in plain-text-unfriendly sites like MySpace, Yahoo, and CNN, but here and there elsewhere too. Seriously, like if I look at the lil' Yahoo front page to Yahoo Mail, which has the top 5-6 Yahoo News headlines, instead of quote marks I see a square that has these characters inside of it: VV 97 It could just be a hiccup on my machine - fer instance, there's one site I can't log into from Firefox from my comp but IE works fine for it, whereas Firefox works fine for it on my wife's notebook, my sister's many computers, etc. But I'm inclined to think it's Firefox 3 weirdness in this case. Speaking of MySpace, how about some Fegfriends? Not that Randi and Rex aren't sufficient... :) http://www.myspace.com/readingpronunciation later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:30:28 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Eb's-ass-mania! > >russ tried to start a thread about it once. >. weren't any takers. >i remember being pretty stoked when he lit in to "Insect Mother" at the sweetwater in '97. >he's only played it five times since then, i see. My LG box set from Border's showed up on my doorstep yesterday. I love the remastering job on Fegmania!, one of the best improvements over a previous release I've heard since the Go-Betweens double disc Tallulah reissue from a few years ago. Andy's bass sounds great, Morris and Robyn's fills are unearthed, and heck Roger ever sounds great on tracks like the aforementioned "Insect Mother". Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:34:37 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: firefox 3 not playing nice w/Acrobat? - -- Miles Goosens is rumored to have mumbled on 28. August 2008 07:21:11 -0500 regarding Re: firefox 3 not playing nice w/Acrobat?: > Speaking of MySpace, how about some Fegfriends? Not that Randi and Rex > aren't sufficient... :) > > http://www.myspace.com/readingpronunciation Sorry, but I hate MySpace with a vengeance. Most pages are just butt-ugly (I haven't looked at yours), and I think MySpace *encourages* that type of page. I prefer Facebook, because it's got a much cleaner look. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:39:05 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: A different Egyptians sound I've been listening to the live portion of "Bad Case of History" in short couple-of-song bursts -- have not indeed listened to the whole record yet, as I feel this need to rewind it to "Eight Miles High" every so often and let that and "Chimes of Freedom" wash over me (OH MY GOD!!! What an incredibly good Dylan cover this is!) -- but I just wanted to note that the sound I'm hearing is a little different from what I expect the Egyptians to sound like. Sort of sparser and quieter, almost like it's anticipating the sound of Robyn's solo work in the late 90's. "Arms of Love" in particular sort of surprises me -- I'm used to thinking of it as a pretty lush song, with violins and all. Is this characteristic of Egyptians live performances? Until now I have mainly listened to their studio recordings, and "Gotta Let this Hen Out" which I find annoyingly high-strung. I like this. J - -- READIN 2.0 http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:45:41 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: A different Egyptians sound (Also: I'm a little disappointed at the lack of talking on this record. Was pre-song patter a less integral part of Robyn's act in the early 90's? Or did the producers just decide to dispense with it?) On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > I've been listening to the live portion of "Bad Case of History" in > short couple-of-song bursts -- have not indeed listened to the whole > record yet, as I feel this need to rewind it to "Eight Miles High" > every so often and let that and "Chimes of Freedom" wash over me (OH > MY GOD!!! What an incredibly good Dylan cover this is!) -- but I just > wanted to note that the sound I'm hearing is a little different from > what I expect the Egyptians to sound like. Sort of sparser and > quieter, almost like it's anticipating the sound of Robyn's solo work > in the late 90's. "Arms of Love" in particular sort of surprises me -- > I'm used to thinking of it as a pretty lush song, with violins and > all. Is this characteristic of Egyptians live performances? Until now > I have mainly listened to their studio recordings, and "Gotta Let this > Hen Out" which I find annoyingly high-strung. I like this. > > J > > -- > READIN 2.0 > http://www.readin.com/blog/ > - -- READIN 2.0 http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:00:15 -0500 From: "Miles Goosens" Subject: Re: A different Egyptians sound On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > (Also: I'm a little disappointed at the lack of talking on this > record. Was pre-song patter a less integral part of Robyn's act in the > early 90's? Or did the producers just decide to dispense with it?) The latter. I have to say, it's been charming to hear from someone who's a new-ish Robyn fan... it's been cool to have not only another voice on the list, but one who's doing something that I did in 1985 (looks like Fegmania! was the entry point for several more folks) and most of the rest of us also did long ago. It's darn fun to discover an artist with a huge back catalog; it's like getting a great new album as often as the discography and your spending money will allow. That's not a complaint or knock on the lisfolk - heck, I take comfort in having known so many of you for so long - but us old-timers can probably recite each other's opinions by now. It's just very cool to share someone else's voyage of discovery, y'know? later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:17:16 -0500 From: "Miles Goosens" Subject: Re: Floating cathedral prayer song On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > Anybody know where the live version of "Heaven" is from, that is track > 15 on the Fegmania! reissue? It is very nice indeed. I don't know which show it's from, but it's definitely from the '92 Egyptians semi-acoustic tour, as is the almost-as-wonderful version of "Egyptian Cream." Rhino had to fudge by leaving out the performance dates because, um, if they had specified 1992, that might have drawn the ire of A&M, since the Egyptians were under contract to them at the time. I wish there was a boot of the Nashville May '92 show, just for the "Heaven" intro if nothing else... Andy and Robyn arguing about whether evolution took eons (Andy) or could happen in an instant (Robyn). later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:26:38 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Sid & Susie, proggies > BE: And the last question: can you offer a few teases about what to > expect on the 70s Sid n Susie album? > > MS: Its really wide-ranging, as they say. Its full of things that > you wouldnt have thought we would ever cover. I mean, there are a > lot of things that we loved from that era that we immediately > thought of. Were gonna do some Fleetwood Mac / Lindsey and Stevie > stuff, and were gonna do something by Todd Rundgren and Big Star > you know, all the pop groups that youd think we would like. But, > then, there were so many things from different realmslike prog- > rock. We ended up covering Ive Seen All Good People, by Yes. > > BE: Oh, wow. > > MS: Its just so awesome. Were so excited. And we got Steve Howe > to play lead guitar on it, so that was a completely exciting time > for us. - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:27:12 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: Floating cathedral prayer song Funny -- I found where you mentioned that show in 2002, and sent it to the fegs yesterday morning in answer to me own query -- but I see now that I erred in "reply"ing not "to all" and sent it only to Lauren. J On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Miles Goosens wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > >> Anybody know where the live version of "Heaven" is from, that is track >> 15 on the Fegmania! reissue? It is very nice indeed. > > > I don't know which show it's from, but it's definitely from the '92 > Egyptians semi-acoustic tour, as is the almost-as-wonderful version of > "Egyptian Cream." Rhino had to fudge by leaving out the performance dates > because, um, if they had specified 1992, that might have drawn the ire of > A&M, since the Egyptians were under contract to them at the time. > > I wish there was a boot of the Nashville May '92 show, just for the "Heaven" > intro if nothing else... Andy and Robyn arguing about whether evolution took > eons (Andy) or could happen in an instant (Robyn). > > later, > > Miles > - -- READIN 2.0 http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:07:00 +0100 From: craigie* Subject: Re: Sid & Susie, proggies Oh, my... Anything La Hoffs does is fine by me... Wonder which Big Star they'll do? I mean, Septenber Gurls was on Different Light, so I doubt it'll be that... Back Of A Car would be nice.... wait - thinking out loud... And as for a Todd Song - I Saw The Light would suit, but I'll cross my fingers for Just One Victory (even Billy Bragg couldn't dent that one) c* On 28/08/2008, Steve Schiavo wrote: > > BE: And the last question: can you offer a few teases about what to expect >> on the 70s Sid n Susie album? >> >> MS: It s really wide-ranging, as they say. It s full of things that you >> wouldn t have thought we would ever cover. I mean, there are a lot of things >> that we loved from that era that we immediately thought of. We re gonna do >> some Fleetwood Mac / Lindsey and Stevie stuff, and we re gonna do something >> by Todd Rundgren and Big Star you know, all the pop groups that you d think >> we would like. But, then, there were so many things from different realms >> like prog-rock. We ended up covering I ve Seen All Good People, by Yes. >> >> BE: Oh, wow. >> >> MS: It s just so awesome. We re so excited. And we got Steve Howe to play >> lead guitar on it, so that was a completely exciting time for us. >> > > > > > > > - Steve > __________ > I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl > with a scythe. - John > > > - -- 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: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:43:01 -0700 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: firefox 3 not playing nice w/Acrobat? FF3 on one of my Windows machines is so unstable that it can crash while idle. It may be the Acrobat plug-in, but there have been tons of problems reported with the Flash plugin. Obviously Microsoft is paying Adobe to discredit Firefox by making essential plugins unstable ... Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:32:44 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: A different Egyptians sound On 8/28/08, Miles Goosens wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > > > I have to say, it's been charming to hear from someone who's a new-ish > Robyn > fan... it's been cool to have not only another voice on the list, but one > who's doing something that I did in 1985 (looks like Fegmania! was the > entry > point for several more folks) Agreed - it's also great that Robyn's acquiring new fans. (Those old-fashioned metal ones in the mesh cages could be nasty.) FWIW - _Fegmania!_ was my first Robyn experience as well. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:50:29 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: A different Egyptians sound On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:32 PM, 2fs wrote: > > FWIW - _Fegmania!_ was my first Robyn experience as well. > Mine was BSDR but I think the moment when I fully realized Robyn Hitchcock's great genius was only last year when I listened to *Perspex Island* as gorily detailed over here: readin.com/blog/?k=music:perspex&o=a Why did I not listen to that record until last year you might ask. And I don't have any satisfactory answer. Put it down to personal laziness I guess. Hey I just bothered to look up "feg" in the OED and found among other things, "fegary" as a variant of "vagary", and "fegs": 1726 Vanbrugh Journ. Lond. iii. i, No, by good feggings. 1768 Beattie To Mr. A. Ross v, O' my fegs. And this page is kind of entertaining to look at: http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/oedbin/oed2www?specfile=%2Fweb%2Fdata%2Foed%2Foed.o2w&query=feg&docs=E&sample=1-100&grouping=match J - -- READIN 2.0 http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:52:18 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: A different Egyptians sound my 1st robyn exposure was a trouser press article on the soft boys -not only did they LOOK cool, but they covered "vegetable man" ( i was / am a big syd fan ) so i went with a friend to a store in greenwich village - -they only had one copy, so i let me friend get the "near the soft boys " EP and i waited to get back home to purchase my very own copy my friend was so impressed he bought Underwater Moonlight we listened to it - and i thought it sounded pretty good but i was not yet convinced of it's greatness (it's now of of my all-time fave LPs ever !) but i was in london in 1981 and saw RH live at The Venue it was one of the greatest shows i have ever seen ! the paper mache (i think) figures from the cover of UM were on stage, and the other band members had fish head masks on he didn't do Veg Man, but he did perform "Strange" and "KOL" - with these lines changed : i would travel all through space and time just to run my fingers thru your slime he also introduced one song by saying "everyone over the age of 30 should have their heads loped off" i assume he has since changed his stance :-D they gave away BSDR posters when i presented it to be signed a few years back at a concert - he said "Holy Fuck ! I forgot we made these ! " then showed it to other people he was traveling with after the show - he took MY picture ! my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ In a message dated 8/28/2008 12:36:57 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com writes: Agreed - it's also great that Robyn's acquiring new fans. (Those old-fashioned metal ones in the mesh cages could be nasty.) FWIW - _Fegmania!_ was my first Robyn experience as well. **************It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal here. (http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:57:50 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: A different Egyptians sound On 8/28/08, Jeremy Osner wrote: > > > Hey I just bothered to look up "feg" in the OED and found among other > things, "fegary" as a variant of "vagary", and "fegs": > 1726 Vanbrugh Journ. Lond. iii. i, No, by good feggings. > > 1768 Beattie To Mr. A. Ross v, O' my fegs. > > And this page is kind of entertaining to look at: > > http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/oedbin/oed2www?specfile=%2Fweb%2Fdata%2Foed%2Foed.o2w&query=feg&docs=E&sample=1-100&grouping=match That's a very curious link: it looks as if the OED's online for free (there's a notice that it's limited to "VIVA" something or other), and you can click on any of the lexicographical entries and get somewhere...but "home," "browse," and trying to go uplink all give 404 variations... It's like a house you can only enter if you don't go in through the doors or windows...sorta tunneling up through the basement you're okay. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #694 ********************************