From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #717 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, September 23 2008 Volume 16 : Number 717 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Uncarved Pumpkins / Unhatched Crablings mp3's? [JBJ ] Re: Stackenblocken ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: Stackenblocken [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: What is that quality called? [James Dignan ] Re: What is that quality called? ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: What is that quality called? [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: What is that quality called? ["Stewart Russell" ] RE: Stackenblocken ["Bachman, Michael" ] RE: Stackenblocken [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Tonight in NYC ["Jeremy Osner" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:19:33 -0700 (PDT) From: JBJ Subject: Uncarved Pumpkins / Unhatched Crablings mp3's? Hey, does anyone have mp3s of Uncarved Pumpkins and/or Unhatched Crablings that they might send my way? I'm readying a Soft Boys / Robyn retrospective for airing on my radio show next month, and I thought it would be beneficial to listen to all the fan-made compilations for inspiration and/or mining. I'm headed to Boston next week and will have plenty of time for walking around and listening to RH rarities. (Actually, what I _should_ do is pull out my recordings of those 1995 TT The Bears shows where I met so many nice Fegs!) If you can help, please let me know. Thanks, fegs! Have a grand week! JBJ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:24:08 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Stackenblocken I can't wait for that one to show up on Fox. Or maybe it'll be developed by whoever has the one where they get to see whether the contestants can figure out how to jumpo through a hole... On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:19 AM, Sebastian Hagedorn < Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de> wrote: > This is actually quite old, but funny nonetheless ... Conan O'Brien reports > about a German game show: > > > > A colleague of mine is worried that Americans might believe the story ;-) > -- > b . Sebastian Hagedorn > b Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de > b ' http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:18:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Stackenblocken Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > This is actually quite old, but funny nonetheless ... Conan > O'Brien reports about a German game show: > > > > A colleague of mine is worried that Americans might believe > the story ;-) The part of me that wants you to tell your colleague to go fuck himself is overruled by that part of me that's afraid he's right.... "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, 23 Sep 2008 02:06:37 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: What is that quality called? >On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 11:16 PM, 2fs wrote: > > Not to mention that in a film context, it would obviously be misconstrued >> (the word there, though, is usually "Hitchcockian"). > >Yeah well I rejected that one straight off. Maybe confusion between >the two Hitchcockae would not be a terrible thing in the context of >the quality name I'm trying to formulate... What I really want is a >name for the quality independent of it making me think of Robyn >Hitchcock songs and/or films by Sir Alfred. Like the way I can feel >myself completely, exactly inside Bruno's head while simultaneously >seeing him as fully alien, a different species from myself. Fegliness. There is a certain fegly quality to such films. To me, the most fegly line ever spoken in a big-budget, high-grossing film was "Congratulations Reg, it's a squid!" in "Men in Black". James - -- James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:50:17 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: What is that quality called? On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:06 AM, James Dignan wrote: > > Fegliness. There is a certain fegly quality to such films. To me, the most > fegly line ever spoken in a big-budget, high-grossing film was > "Congratulations Reg, it's a squid!" in "Men in Black". Nice -- it was definitely a fegly moment when Bruno cried to his parole officer, "Und zwar, mit den Heimen faengt's an und mit den Gefaengnissen hoert's auf!" -- I was sort of picturing him saying this to Clean Steve or one of that crew. J - -- READIN 2.0 http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:43:36 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: What is that quality called? - -- Jeremy Osner is rumored to have mumbled on 22. September 2008 11:50:17 -0400 regarding Re: What is that quality called?: > Nice -- it was definitely a fegly moment when Bruno cried to his > parole officer, "Und zwar, mit den Heimen faengt's an und mit den > Gefaengnissen hoert's auf!" -- I was sort of picturing him saying this > to Clean Steve or one of that crew. I feel like I should get that, but I don't. I'm, ironically, not as well-versed in German cinema as some of you. How would you translate "Heim" to English, btw? It can be anything from asylum to orphanage. Is there a generic term? - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:10:09 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: What is that quality called? On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > I feel like I should get that, but I don't. I'm, ironically, not as > well-versed in German cinema as some of you. How would you translate "Heim" > to English, btw? It can be anything from asylum to orphanage. Is there a > generic term? The movie's subtitles translated it as "home" which kind of works -- I might refer to the institutions where Bruno had grown up as "homes for troubled youth" or something like that. Or on second thought I probably wouldn't use that locution but I would definitely understand it. The context of that line in the film is, Bruno is being let out of prison at the beginning of the movie -- his parole officer is giving him advice like "dress well, make sure your fly is zipped, lay off the alcohol" and Bruno gets upset, says it's a cycle from the homes to the prisons, implying there's no way he's going to make it and not get arrested again. Great movie, you should watch it sometime. J - -- READIN 2.0 http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:17:59 -0400 From: "Stewart Russell" Subject: Re: What is that quality called? 2008/9/22 Sebastian Hagedorn : > > How would you translate "Heim" > to English, btw? "home" would do it - children's home, old folks' home, care home, ... - -- http://scruss.com/autocast - the automatic podcast - untouched by human hand ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:28:42 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Stackenblocken Kevin wrote: I can't wait for that one to show up on Fox. Or maybe it'll be developed by whoever has the one where they get to see whether the contestants can figure out how to jumpo through a hole... Speaking of Fox, has anyone caught the new show Fringe? It's got a lot of X-Files tones in it's make-up. X-Files writer ("Humbug", "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose", "Jose Chung's From Outer Space" the cockrach infested "War of the Coprophages") and sometimes X-Files actor Darin Morgan (Yes he was the "Flukeman" and the shapeshifting loser Eddie Van Blundht in "Small Potatoes") has signed on to write some episodes! Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:33:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Dead leaves and the dirty ground: 25 sad songs for changing seasons "Autumn is Your Last Chance" is #19. http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/dead_leaves_and_the_dirty/3 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:59:00 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Dead leaves and the dirty ground: 25 sad songs for changing seasons Here are a few that would have made my list: "Shadow On A Harvest Moon" by Everything But The Girl "Andalucma" By John Cale "On The Shore Of The Swilley" by Sinead O'Connor and Phil Coulter ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:59:32 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Dig It . ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:26:51 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: RE: Stackenblocken - --On 22. September 2008 13:28:42 -0400 "Bachman, Michael" wrote: > Speaking of Fox, has anyone caught the new show Fringe? Yup, but I don't think I'll continue watching it. > It's got a lot of > X-Files tones in it's make-up. Tell me about it. But where X-Files worked, Fringe doesn't. Maybe it'll improve (the X-Files took a season or two to really gel), but for now color me unimpressed. - -- b. Sebastian Hagedorn b Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de b' http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:09:32 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Tonight in NYC If any of you are in New York City as you read this and feel like the plans you have for this evening would be easy to lay aside, here's something going on at Cooper Union that will be a lot of enlightening fun: http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/2761/prmID/1502 I will be there; drop me a line if you will be. J - -- READIN 2.0 http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #717 ********************************