From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #782 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, November 20 2008 Volume 16 : Number 782 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Boston fans/ win tix for Friday ["bobsyerunc@earthlink.net" ] Re: Hitchcock and Hitchcock ["Nectar At Any Cost!" ] Re: long-past unreap ["Miles Goosens" ] Re: Hitchcock and Hitchcock ["Nectar At Any Cost!" ] RE: long-past unreap ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: Philly and NYC shows (and a random Roedelius paragraph) ["(0% rh)" ] RE: Hitchcock and Hitchcock ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: Hitchcock and Hitchcock ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: Hitchcock and Hitchcock ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: Hitchcock and Hitchcock [2fs ] Re: An RH treat for you, fresh from the oven! But first I need your help [HwyCDRrev@aol.co] crawdaddy review [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Have a beer for the Buddha [Steve Schiavo ] RE: Robyn in Chycago [Michael Sweeney ] Re: Philly and NYC shows (and a random Roedelius paragraph) [craigie* Subject: Boston fans/ win tix for Friday Hello all! Boston radio station 92.5 The River, WXRV is giving away tickets to see Robyn friday night... Email robynhitchcock@92.5theriver.com for your chance to win- Or head to the contest page on www.theriverboston.com... cheers! bobsyerunc@earthlink.net - -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com  Enhanced email for the mobile individual based on Microsoft. Exchange - http://link.mail2web.com/Personal/EnhancedEmail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:04:06 -0800 (PST) From: Poem Lover Subject: Re: Boston fans/ win tix for Friday This is how we know I need a vacation. I read the subject line of this message and thought: Red Sox tickets? no, that can't be right. Must be Celtics. I wonder why this is being posted on fegmaniax? So I opened the message to find out. =P - --- On Wed, 11/19/08, bobsyerunc@earthlink.net wrote: From: bobsyerunc@earthlink.net Subject: Boston fans/ win tix for Friday To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org, fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 11:53 AM Hello all! Boston radio station 92.5 The River, WXRV is giving away tickets to see Robyn friday night... Email robynhitchcock@92.5theriver.com for your chance to win- Or head to the contest page on www.theriverboston.com... cheers! bobsyerunc@earthlink.net - -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com Enhanced email for the mobile individual based on Microsoft. Exchange - http://link.mail2web.com/Personal/EnhancedEmail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:06:40 -0800 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: Re: Hitchcock and Hitchcock <"The Wrong Balloon Man"?> nicely done! am i the only sun of a bitch, though, what can't stand "the other" hitchcock? <..."skizzles" to mock-McGuinn along with other peoples' faux-Clarks. (If you think that sentence is bad, relax; the first draft had "McGuinn" as a fucking *transitive* verb.)> the sentence is cool -- but note that the possessive of "people" is "people's" ('cause "people" is already plural). ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:14:07 -0600 From: "Miles Goosens" Subject: Re: long-past unreap On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Rex wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Bachman, Michael < > Michael.Bachman@fanucrobotics.com> wrote: > >> Rex, >> >> What were the songs on your Ultra-Special Byrds-Convertin' Megamix comp? >> > > I don't recall! Miles, this was way back during the cassette age, wasn't > it? I could try again; it'd probably be completely different by now, a set > of reissues further along and so forth... > It was definitely at the tail end of the cassette age, because if it had been digital, you probably would have burned another copy right away. The files likely would have been still on your computer, and/or you would have burned your own "test drive" copy, as is my custom with makin' comps. Rex, a 2008/2009 version of this is totally a "nice to have," at your own leisure if at all, but it would be pretty cool. later, Miles - -- now with blogspot retsin! http://readingpronunciation.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:39:00 -0800 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: Re: Hitchcock and Hitchcock of course, i don't accept that his work is "fantastic". or...i guess i do. it's the old "overrated" vs. "out-of-step" question. so many people love him so much that i'm willing to acknowledge being out-o'-step. trust me when i say, though: it's not harshing my buzz. granted, with proviso: i fucking can't stand that word ("peoples"). oh, as a verb it's fine. but not *even* its noun form. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:42:35 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: long-past unreap - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Miles Goosens Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 11:14 AM To: fegmaniax Subject: Re: long-past unreap On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Rex wrote: >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Bachman, Michael < >> Michael.Bachman@fanucrobotics.com> wrote: >> >>> Rex, >>> >>> What were the songs on your Ultra-Special Byrds-Convertin' Megamix comp? >>> >> >> I don't recall! Miles, this was way back during the cassette age, >> wasn't it? I could try again; it'd probably be completely different >> by now, a set of reissues further along and so forth... >> Miles came back with: >It was definitely at the tail end of the cassette age, because if it had been digital, you probably would >have burned another copy right away. The files likely would have been still on your computer, and/or you >would have burned your own "test drive" copy, as is my custom with makin' comps. >Rex, a 2008/2009 version of this is totally a "nice to have," at your own leisure if at all, but it would >be pretty cool. Rex, All the Gene songs of course. And don't forget Bugler from Farther Along! A friend from work is listening to my No Other cd, it totally impressed him of course. Michael ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:45:06 -0800 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: Re: Hitchcock and Hitchcock hmm...off the top of my head, my top ten for the decade so far might look something the following: Yi Yi Persepolis Winged Migration Intermission Gosford Park Bloody Sunday Monsoon Wedding Napoleon Dynamite Heima <"The peoples of pre-Columbian North America"? I think it sounds ok.> it's okay grammatically; but i don't like it. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:31:15 -0500 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: Philly and NYC shows (and a random Roedelius paragraph) jeanne says: > The Philly show starts at 7:30, according to the helpful email xpn just sent me. Might I > suggest a 7pm fegmeet in the bar upstairs for anyone so inclined? > I am at table 106, far side of the room down front, for the show proper. sounds good. hopefully i'll be there at a decent time (i'm recalling my oh-so-wise words to jeanne while walking with her on south street before the liz phair show: "oh, they never start on time" (and so getting to the T.L.A. during the third or fourth song of "exile in guyville.")) if i miss you at the bar, i'm at table 208, far side as well. xo lauren - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:49:47 -0800 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Hitchcock and Hitchcock On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 8:06 AM, Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: > <"The Wrong Balloon Man"?> > > nicely done! am i the only sun of a bitch, though, what can't stand "the > other" hitchcock? > Always up for the early British ones, your 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, etc. Can't sit through NXNW - it just feels too contrived. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:00:43 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Hitchcock and Hitchcock - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of kevin studyvin Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 4:50 PM To: Nectar At Any Cost! Cc: fegmaniax@smoe.org Subject: Re: Hitchcock and Hitchcock On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 8:06 AM, Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: >> <"The Wrong Balloon Man"?> >> >> nicely done! am i the only sun of a bitch, though, what can't stand >> "the other" hitchcock? >> >Always up for the early British ones, your 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, etc. Can't sit through NXNW - it just >feels too contrived. I don't think I've seen any of the ones after Marnie. Has anyone picked up the 50th anniversary DVD edition of OW's Touch Of Evil? Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:08:28 -0600 From: "Miles Goosens" Subject: Re: Boston fans/ win tix for Friday On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Poem Lover wrote: > This is how we know I need a vacation. I read the subject line of this > message and thought: Red Sox tickets? no, that can't be right. Must be > Celtics. I wonder why this is being posted on fegmaniax? I thought "fans of that band that did 'More Than a Feeling' and 'Don't Look Back.'" later, Miles - -- now with blogspot retsin! http://readingpronunciation.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:41:22 -0500 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: Hitchcock and Hitchcock kevin says: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 8:06 AM, Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: > >> <"The Wrong Balloon Man"?> >> >> nicely done! am i the only sun of a bitch, though, what can't stand "the >> other" hitchcock? that's stranger than stewart's not liking the beatles. and i think it explains why i have a secret (or not) fascination with eddie's taste in movies. > Always up for the early British ones, your 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, > etc. Can't sit through NXNW - it just feels too contrived. i love NXNW - probably my favourite hitchcock (alfred) after "vertigo" (which i always name as my favourite movie, period (i don't know if it actually is, but it may as well be.)) i think my love of formalism is showing here - formalism is nothing if not contrived (and i do like to colour inside the lines.) xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:44:09 -0800 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Hitchcock and Hitchcock > > Always up for the early British ones, your 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, > > etc. Can't sit through NXNW - it just feels too contrived. > > i love NXNW - probably my favourite hitchcock (alfred) after "vertigo" > (which i always name as my favourite movie, period (i don't know if it > actually is, but it may as well be.)) If I have a favorite it's probably almost guaranteed to be Satyricon. Or maybe O Lucky Man!, which isn't nearly as well-known as it should be (and seems to me something the feg-mind would naturally gravitate to). > i think my love of formalism is showing here - formalism is nothing if not > contrived (and i do like to colour inside the lines.) > Spoken like a math geek. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:41:50 -0500 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: Hitchcock and Hitchcock On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 5:41 PM, (0% rh) wrote: > i love NXNW - probably my favourite hitchcock (alfred) after "vertigo" Favorite Hitchcock is and will always be "The Lifeboat". I like them all, though I'm less enthusiastic about "Vertigo" (and "The Birds") than most. I saw "Rear Window" in the theater last winter and that was stellar. J - -- If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Josi Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:29:02 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Hitchcock and Hitchcock On 11/19/08, Jeremy Osner wrote: > > I saw "Rear Window" in the theater last winter I think that might be Eddie's fave... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:24:16 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: An RH treat for you, fresh from the oven! But first I need your help John Otway - cool ! my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ In a message dated 11/18/2008 11:01:58 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, trams@mikeycosm.org writes: Cor Baby, That's Really Free **************One site has it all. Your email accounts, your social networks, and the things you love. Try the new AOL.com today!(http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1212962939x1200825291/aol?redir=http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp %26icid=aolcom40vanity%26ncid=emlcntaolcom00000001) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:33:02 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: crawdaddy review Robyn Hitchcock November 12th at Great American Music Hall Although therebs no need for Robyn Hitchcock to get nostalgicbhis most recent releases, especially 2006bs OlC)! Tarantula with the Venus 3, are of the same top-shelf quality as his older outputba revisit to a classic like 1984bs I Often Dream of Trains is an absolutely welcome occasion. That record, which brought him out of a brief personal and artistic slump after 1982bs lackluster Groovy Decay, recently got the reissue treatment as part of last yearbs I Wanna Go Backwards box set. Tonight he gave a revised, reordered run-through of the record to a seated audience. Before Hitchcock took the stage, someone placed a cassette player atop his black piano, which started playing b Sometimes I Wish I Was a Pretty Girlb until Hitchcock sat down and slowed the tape before stopping it. That was the only peep heard of that song (one of the album bs best) all night, and he immediately set about playing the haunting b Nocturneb instrumental, setting an initially somber tone to the eveningbs affairs. The albumbs darker moments were offset by his humorbhis surreal, inter-tune audience banter was always fascinating and often funny, whether he was talking about how society has reached bthe age of miraclesb or explaining why b Trams of Old Londonb is a bfog songb (it was accompanied by mist from a smoke machine overhead). Due to the albumbs stripped-down sound, the band was a three-piece lineup for most of the night, featuring Terry Edwards on keyboards, bass guitar, horns, and vocals, Tim Keegan on guitar and vocals, and Hitchcock on lead vocals, guitar, and piano. All three harmonized around the central microphone to sing the a cappella number bUncorrected Personality Traitsb, and songs like the eerie bSounds Great When Youbre Deadb and the glittery beauty bCathedralb were fleshed out in captivating fashion. These tunes showed no signs of age, despite the fact that, as Hitchcock pointed out, he wrote them way back bbefore Kurt Cobain joined Nirvana.b An iridescent rendition of bThis Could Be the Dayb was introduced as the one bglimmer of hopeb on the record, and its performance was a definite highlight of the main setbitbs odd hearing lines like, bThis could be the night I cut a malignant growth with a steel knife,b sung with his characteristic jubilance, but thatbs part of the emotionally intricate package with Hitchcock, a musician whose genius and dreamy visions still go criminally underrated. Letbs hope that changes soon! - - MH http://crawdaddy.wolfgangsvault.com/Article.aspx?id=10716&utm_source=CD&utm_me dium=email&utm_campaign=081119 my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ **************One site has it all. Your email accounts, your social networks, and the things you love. Try the new AOL.com today!(http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1212962939x1200825291/aol?redir=http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp %26icid=aolcom40vanity%26ncid=emlcntaolcom00000001) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:00:22 -0600 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Have a beer for the Buddha - - Steve _______________ Interconnectedness among living beings can be accounted for by nonlocal quantum entanglement. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:48:18 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: RE: Robyn in Chycago Really good. Terry was impressive,,,and Robyn wss upbeat, light-hearted, and in great voice. We didn't stick around after cuz I needed a night's sleep...then, starting Sun. AM, a 4-day hospital visit. I'm better now (well, at least as better as one can be still being this much of me)... Michael "The encore tune of 'Raymond Chandler Evening' kept playing through my head while I plowed through 'The Long Goodbye' while in the hospital (that, and -- somewhat cleverly and amusingly -- Bogart's voice in my head as I read the Marlowe dialogue)..." Sweeney > From: Michael.Bachman@fanucrobotics.com> To: m_l_sweeney@hotmail.com; fegmaniax@smoe.org> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:53:35 -0500> Subject: RE: Robyn in Chycago> > Michael,> > How was the show? I was thinking about a road trip to Chicago, but I had too much work to do around the house.> > Michael B.> > - -----Original Message-----> From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Michael Sweeney> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 1:02 PM> To: fegs> Subject: Robyn in Chycago> > ...We're going to the Saturday late (10 PM) show at the Old Town School...any other Fegs headin' in (or out...or wherver) then?> > > Michael "Not feeling too well, but no way I would miss IODOT live..." Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Color coding for safety: Windows Live Hotmail alerts you to suspicious email. http://windowslive.com/Explore/Hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_safety_1 12008 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:48:16 +0000 From: craigie* Subject: Re: Philly and NYC shows (and a random Roedelius paragraph) On 19/11/2008, (0% rh) wrote: > > -deletia- (and so getting to the T.L.A. during the third or fourth song of > "exile in guyville.")) TLA? Three Letter Abbreviation? seems a funny name for a club.... ;-) 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, 20 Nov 2008 15:40:48 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: New York Dolls Reunite With Todd Rundgren for Album Jeremy Osner wrote: >The only time I saw Todd Rundgren? It was on a shared bill with (a) The Alan Parsons Project* and (b) the members of Wings who are not Paul McCartney. In 1998 or so, in Atlantic City. That was an extremely weird show.< ...Wow, sounds like it...esp. since, of Wings, only poor ol' Denny Laine -- who I bet wasn't there -- and maybe the once-astoundingly young Jimmy McCulloch -- who I KNOW wasn't there (having died nearly 30 yrs ago now) -- woulda been worth seeing / hearing. I put my money on (plunging clumsily back into my larger Macca fan days memory) it being (like...) Lawrence Juber, Denny Seiwell, maybe Henry McCullough, and even some semi-random horn players... Semi-similarly, my only time seeing Todd (who I have always pretty much enjoyed; always really loved the "Adventures in Utopia" album that one of my friends back then said sounded like a single-album, career-spanning "Greatest Hits" rekkid (for Utopia; not dismissing the earlier years of other Todd stuff)) was joining my best friend and a pal of his since college (who I hadn't seen for maybe 20 yrs) for a suddenly vacant ticket to see Todd and Joe Jackson a few yrs back. Both performers I sorta regarded similarly -- having a few records by them; esp. loving a few songs ("Different for Girls," some Utopia and "Something / Anything?"-era stuff) by them; never seeing them live before. And, the results were...Joe was excellent! and Todd...kinda sucked. Very surprising -- would not have expected that. Jackson maintained his segment well, mixing new and old songs ("Different for Girls" -- yes!!), and being self-deprecatingly entertaining. Rundgren just seemed over the top and much more "Bang on the Drum All Day" Todd than "One More Day (No Word)" or even Utopia, "Faithful," or "We Gotta Get You a Woman" Todd (he didn't even do "...Woman" or many of those semi-classics). I guess this was right around the Todd-fronting-the-non-dead-and-non-Ric-Cars-members era...so I guess I was not very surprised... Michael "Also -- too much over-enthusiastic crowd-sing-along-leading..." Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Color coding for safety: Windows Live Hotmail alerts you to suspicious email. http://windowslive.com/Explore/Hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_safety_1 12008 ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #782 ********************************