From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #726 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, October 1 2008 Volume 16 : Number 726 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Blancmange vs. Butt-Doctor ["Nectar At Any Cost!" ] Can I just praise this cd a minute? 0%RH [Carrie Galbraith ] Re: Whoa! [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: Whoa! ["Stewart C. Russell" ] He's a Reptile ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: He's a Reptile ["Miles Goosens" ] Re: He's a Reptile ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: He's a Reptile [2fs ] Re: He's a Reptile [craigie* ] Re: He's a Reptile ["Stewart Russell" ] unreap [Dr John Halewood ] an L series [Jill Brand ] Re: an L series ["kevin studyvin" ] And when she... ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: an L series [2fs ] Re: an L series ["kevin studyvin" ] Baseball, Blancmanges and Butt-Doctors [michael wells ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:25:22 -0700 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: Blancmange vs. Butt-Doctor because they might not win the series, or because they might lose to the sox? big difference, i guess, in reading how many fingers the catcher's put down versus reading the opposing team's defense. interesting question, though: has there been a phenom at both positions, who had the choice of either at the pro level? can't think of one... now listening to the new lonely astronauts for the first time. may end up being another of these ho-hum-another-top-ten-"disappointment"-from-joseph-arthur records he seems to release every year. we'll see. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:24:40 -0700 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Can I just praise this cd a minute? 0%RH Feggily Friends, You'll been talking new cds recently but I just got my Buffy score cd a couple of days ago and can I just gush over this? It's absolutely beautiful. You notice Christophe Beck's music in the background of the show but being able to listen to it alone is a delight. It's haunting. If you like film scores, this is one not to miss. Be Seeing You, - - c "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. " - - Thomas Jefferson ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 20:04:44 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #725 >From: Rex > > >> On 29-Sep-08, at 7:49 PM, James Dignan wrote: >> >> FWIW - and I know this is likely to generate a few calls of "Who the fuck >>> cares what people think overseas?" +c, I thought some of you may be >>> interested to know what some other parts of the world think about Sarah >>> Palin. >> >> >Do we US Fegs act like we don't give a fuck? On behalf of us all, ouch. 99% of you, no - but I have encountered such sentiments here before, so I was all prepared. 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, 01 Oct 2008 10:09:20 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Whoa! - --On 30. September 2008 18:08:59 -0700 Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: > blancmange reissues due next week! "Waves" is the only song of theirs that I know. Is the rest any good? > *Loaded* (in > point of fact my fave vu record), Although, based on that I couldn't really trust what you have to say about Blancmange anyway ;-) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:23:06 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Whoa! Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > > "Waves" is the only song of theirs that I know. Is the rest any good? 'Living On The Ceiling' is the classic: (great bloody irrelevant 80s video there) Stewart - -- the automatic podcast - now with working RSS! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 08:44:05 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: He's a Reptile No Robyn Hitchcock song makes me think "1950's" as much as "He's a Reptile" does. It could be produced by Phil Spector. Is it a pun on "He's a Rebel" by The Crystals? The chorus I *think* is a direct reference to some song from around then -- not that one -- it's on the tip of my tongue but I can't figure out what it is. (Oh also: the song "Underwater Moonlight" is just amazing. Been listening to this record for a week or so and I'm loving most of it, but the title song is just in a class by itself in terms of beauty and energy.) J - -- If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Jose Saramgo http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 07:52:25 -0500 From: "Miles Goosens" Subject: Re: He's a Reptile On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 7:44 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > No Robyn Hitchcock song makes me think "1950's" as much as "He's a > Reptile" does. It could be produced by Phil Spector. Is it a pun on > "He's a Rebel" by The Crystals? The chorus I *think* is a direct > reference to some song from around then -- not that one -- it's on the > tip of my tongue but I can't figure out what it is. C'mon, Jeremy! It's the Crystals' "He's a Rebel." > (Oh also: the song "Underwater Moonlight" is just amazing. Been > listening to this record for a week or so and I'm loving most of it, > but the title song is just in a class by itself in terms of beauty and > energy.) The whole album is great. "Insanely Jealous" is always my pick of the litter, but it's quite a competition. later, Miles - -- now with blogspot retsin! http://readingpronunciation.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 09:10:16 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: He's a Reptile On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Miles Goosens wrote: > > C'mon, Jeremy! It's the Crystals' "He's a Rebel." Oh it is! Ok, I was trying to remember how that song went -- the obvious pick given the title -- but it seemed like the chorus was a little different. Guess that's what I was thinking of then. > > The whole album is great. "Insanely Jealous" is always my pick of the > litter, but it's quite a competition. Yeah, I like "Insanely Jealous" a whole lot too, except I'm not crazy about the ending. "The damage that we do..." -- excellent line. Here's a thought: I was listening to the record trying to pick out stylistic differences that would let me distinguish between "The Soft Boys" and "Robyn Hitchcock" and was not coming up with much beyond Kimberly Ren on guitar -- which is not exactly a "stylistic difference", more of a personnel change. So is the style of The Soft Boys completely down to RH? Or there could of course be differences that I just have not picked up on yet. Also, is RH ageless? I'm not hearing anything that makes me think "this is a young singer" -- for that matter I don't really think "this is an old singer" when I'm listening to his current stuff. J - -- If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Jose Saramgo http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 08:23:59 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: He's a Reptile On 10/1/08, Jeremy Osner wrote: > > > Here's a thought: I was listening to the record trying to pick out > stylistic differences that would let me distinguish between "The Soft > Boys" and "Robyn Hitchcock" and was not coming up with much beyond > Kimberly Ren on guitar -- which is not exactly a "stylistic > difference", more of a personnel change. So is the style of The Soft > Boys completely down to RH? Or there could of course be differences > that I just have not picked up on yet. > That's one clear difference. With the earlier Soft Boys (not as much on UM) there's a lot more weirdness - a sort of Captain Beefheart influence in the odd chords & meters. I'd say also the blues influence is stronger (albeit warped quite a bit, possibly via Beefheart) and the folk influence less pronounced (and when it does show up, more bemused or amped up a la Fairport - - "Rout of the Clones" etc.). I can't imagine Robyn now writing "The Pig-Worker" for example... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 14:29:02 +0100 From: craigie* Subject: Re: He's a Reptile On 01/10/2008, Jeremy Osner wrote: > > Also, is RH ageless? I'm not > hearing anything that makes me think "this is a young singer" -- for > that matter I don't really think "this is an old singer" when I'm > listening to his current stuff. Yeah - he's a vampire... I have it on good authority. :[ ^ " ^ "v" 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: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:00:16 -0400 From: "Stewart Russell" Subject: Re: He's a Reptile 2008/10/1 Jeremy Osner : > > Kimberley Rew on guitar -- which is not exactly a "stylistic > difference", more of a personnel change. So is the style of The Soft > Boys completely down to RH? There speaks someone who hasn't listened to "Old Pervert" enough. Kim's riff is shattering plate glass. Stewart - -- http://scruss.com/autocast/ - today featuring phonetic dementedness - Wells and House's "Vowels" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 17:32:57 +0100 From: Dr John Halewood Subject: unreap Phish, perhaps unsuprisingly. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 15:08:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: an L series It took me a while to get what this meant! I won't even be staying up to watch the first RS-Angels game tonight because, here in the east, it starts at fucking 10:05. Way to go MLB! This is a great way to get the younger generation pumped for buying all your souvenirs and paying $8 for a beer at a game later in life. I'm debating watching the debate. I want Biden to rip that cracker bitch to shreds, but if he does, he'll be demonized for not being a nice person. Speaking of not nice people, did anyone hear Barney Frank on TV/radio (God, I love him!) when he said, "and because somebody hurt their feelings, they decided to hurt the country....give me those twelve people's names and I will go talk uncharacteristically nicely to them and tell them what wonderful people they are, and maybe they'll now think about the country." I have very mixed feelings about the bail-out, but I just love to listen to unbridled Barney. Jill, playing nice with others, so please lay off my Pats ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 14:43:27 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: an L series > I'm debating watching the debate. I want Biden to rip that cracker bitch > to shreds, For the record, that remark produced a burst of startled hilarity that made me spray coffee all over my PC. God bless the deranged feglist. > but if he does, he'll be demonized for not being a nice person. And it's about freakin' time the Dems stopped with the "nice," is what I've been saying for just a long time now. > Speaking of not nice people, did anyone hear Barney Frank on TV/radio (God, > I love him!) when he said, "and because somebody hurt their feelings, they > decided to hurt the country....give me those twelve people's names and I > will go talk uncharacteristically nicely to them and tell them what > wonderful people they are, and maybe they'll now think about the country." > I have very mixed feelings about the bail-out, but I just love to listen to > unbridled Barney. It was one of the high-water marks in recent events. The way he enunciated "uncharacteristically nicely" was a masterpiece of sarcasm. Speaking of which, I wanna nominate Jon Stewart for another Emmy, if not a Pulitzer, for his performance on the Daily Show last night. Day-umm. After discovering the excellent Deer Hunting With Jesus, I think I've fallen in love with Joe Bageant. He reminds me of my dad's parents, a couple of unreconstructed hillbillies who were lifelong New Deal Democrats and taught me to hate Nixon while I was still in the cradle practically. So Bageant's been lighting up my life recently, as f'rinstance this little gem: http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2008/04/the-audacity-of.html Good luck to all y'all in the interesting days and weeks to come... np: various Zappa from his early 70s jazz phase. "Blessed Relief" is just one of the prettiest things ever. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 18:35:15 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: And when she... Does anybody else think that maybe "Globe of Frogs" was conceived whilst Robyn and the boys were jamming on "Strange"? I'm certainly not sure that's the case but it seems to me like a distinct possibility. J - -- If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Jose Saramgo http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 18:56:57 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: an L series On 10/1/08, kevin studyvin wrote: > > > > but if he does, he'll be demonized for not being a nice person. I'm just hoping some headline writer somewhere is a Wire fan...so they can write the headline PALIN BELIEF: NOT WITHOUT FAULT. I'll be here all week. And it's about freakin' time the Dems stopped with the "nice," is what I've > been saying for just a long time now. The "nice" is one thing - what's really annoying is the "principles? what principles? We've got the mythical centrist vote to chase!" The story is that the Centrist Vote may be captured only by a virgin, dressed in white, blindfolded, and wearing earplugs, in the dead center of the road. > > > It was one of the high-water marks in recent events. The way he enunciated > "uncharacteristically nicely" was a masterpiece of sarcasm. Speaking of > which, I wanna nominate Jon Stewart for another Emmy, if not a Pulitzer, > for > his performance on the Daily Show last night. Day-umm. Did not see - but I recently read something or other that the Daily Show staff spends many hours a day perusing a variety of news media to hone their material for accuracy and impact - which means Stewart is every bit as well informed as many journalists...and probably more so than most, judging by the effort. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 17:14:22 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: an L series > Speaking of which, I wanna nominate Jon Stewart for another Emmy, if not >> a Pulitzer, for his performance on the Daily Show last night. Day-umm. > > > Did not see - but I recently read something or other that the Daily Show > staff spends many hours a day perusing a variety of news media to hone their > material for accuracy and impact - which means Stewart is every bit as well > informed as many journalists...and probably more so than most, judging by > the effort. > > Dude. Right here: http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/index.jhtml?episodeId=186752 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 20:02:23 -0500 From: michael wells Subject: Baseball, Blancmanges and Butt-Doctors >> The angst among my Cubbie fan friends right now is beyond description > because they might not win the series, or because they might lose to the sox? Oh, the former for sure. That the Sox would be the team to do it would only be part of the disaster. How do you explain a hundred years of failure? George Will tried in several essays, one ISTR entitled "Cubs: On the Bannister of Eternity." And we're not talking just ordinary failure here, but decades of stupendous, magnificent ineptitude interrupted by just enough marginal success to keep a tiny ray of hope coming back every spring. Hope that the pitching will hold up. Hope that another year of beer-soaked summer wins won't shrivel and blow away by like so many dry leaves on the patio come autumn. Hope that the inevitable collapse won't be particularly horrific this year. They've done well, this two year run, and as a result hopes seem to be sky high up at Wrigley. An older co-worked of mine said today that he didn't expect them to be this good again in his lifetime, which seems like a lot of pressure to put on your own expectations. While many of their fans are smarmy, self-absorbed north shore dipshits who deserve everything they get, I do feel a kind of pity for the old Poles and Czechs who have lived in Lakeview for decades, working in machine shops in Melrose Park and one day hoping to have a winner in their adopted team. But in the end if they were real men, they'd root for the White Sox. Michael ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 22:42:25 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: Jewels, for Sophia ontario moe says: > one time at band camp, Miles Goosens (outdoorminer@gmail.com) said: > >>I said: >>> so it's totally an small interface >>> learning curve thing. > >>Argh! Article! Not my day. I blame the (supremely great) David >>Byrne concert last night. > >>I'm also sure that goof originated in one of my most common editing >>mistakes, failing to clean up a revision. The phrase was most likely >>once "a small learning curve," and then I added "interface" without >>updating the "a(n)." Computers, for me, are mostly a blessing re: >>composition, but the mistake above is something I would have never >>committed on a Selectric. :) > > miles demonstrates meta-metastasis on-list! post of the year candidate! > > +w yes, what miles said. except make that an olivetti. xo lauren p.s. in college, one of my "favourite" typos was placing a soda to the left of the olivetti. although it was electric, the carriage return actually moved as you typed, and, even more so when you hit the carriage return (i.e. soda all over the desk.) it's SO entertaining when you don't learn from your mistakes. - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #726 ********************************