From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #796 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, December 6 2008 Volume 16 : Number 796 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re:Love and fear ["C. Huff" ] Re: REM - MURMUR (0% RH) [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Latter Day Dylan [Rex ] Re: Latter Day Dylan ["C. Huff" ] Re: Latter Day Dylan ["C. Huff" ] Re: Darth Mercury Heep [craigie* ] Bowienet [Jill Brand ] One Christmas Wish [craigie* ] Re: One Christmas Wish ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: David Boo-ee [HSatterfld@aol.com] Re: REM - MURMUR (0% RH) [craigie* ] Re: David Boo-ee [craigie* ] Re: Darth Mercury Heep [Rex ] Re: One Christmas Wish [Rex ] Re: David Boo-ee [Rex ] Re: David Boo-ee [2fs ] Reap [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Latter Day Dylan [The Great Quail ] Re: Latter Day Dylan ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: Latter Day Dylan [Jeff Dwarf ] Happy Anniversary!!! [Jeff Dwarf ] from my favorite Robyn Hitchcock lines [2fs ] Re: Darth Mercury Heep [James Dignan ] Re:Love and Fear [James Dignan ] Re: Latter Day Dylan [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] bowie ball [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: Latter Day Dylan [Tom Clark ] Re: Love and Fear ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: Latter Day Dylan ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: Love and Fear [2fs ] Today Only: X-Files Complete Collector's Edition - Cheap (NR) [Steve Schi] Re: One Christmas Wish [Sebastian Hagedorn ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 21:34:08 -0800 (PST) From: "C. Huff" Subject: Re:Love and fear >...which always reminds me of the definition of God in John Lennon's song of that title. Nicely done! (sings) I don't belieeeeve in Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 21:34:54 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: REM - MURMUR (0% RH) m swedene wrote: > *R.E.M.: Murmur (Martin Rushent Sessions)* > ** > > *That's the same Rushent who had just come off his career peakHuman > League's 1981 synth-pop standard-bearer Dare. By the time the sessions > for R.E.M.'s debut wrapped, good sense had prevailed, and the album > was re-recorded minus the lip gloss and with garage-rocker Mitch > Easter manning the boards. The rough mixes remain a coveted if not > cherished bootleg among fans of the Athens, Georgia, legends.* > > > http://www.seattleweekly.com/2008-12-03/music/seven-lost-albums-that-should-never-be-found/ > > anybody have this????? Um, I'd always heard it was Stephen Hague, not Martin Rushent. In fact, given that I.R.S. was always pretty notoriously cheap, I can't imagine they'd've been willing to meet Rushent's probably pretty nice fee circa 1982. "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 21:51:19 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Latter Day Dylan On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:46 PM, C. Huff wrote: > > "Sugar Baby"!! I'm going to listen to it now. Great tune...still like > TimeOutOfMind better than Love N' Theft...but some great stuff on L&T > Agreed... it's an embarrassment of riches, the last three Dylan records. Gotta be time for a new one pretty soon, yeah? Couldn't we use some Obama-era Dylan? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 21:46:20 -0800 (PST) From: "C. Huff" Subject: Re: Latter Day Dylan >I've never thought of "Love & Theft" as especially 9/11y, although I know many people do. looks like it was released on 9/11...wow. Moldy Peaches' CD was released on 9/11 too, with the song "NYC's like a Graveyard". that being said, I've never thought of it as a 9/11 album, though I saw him live twice in October 01 and the tragedy definitely brought a new dimension to "Hard Rain", "Masters of War", "Searching for a Soldier's Grave"...I was up against the stage in Santa Barbara staring slack-jawed...I'd heard all those songs a million times before but they were so timely, it was mindbending...next show at the Staples Center in LA, there were about 500 security guards constantly pacing the floor. Had the feeling of seeing Dylan in a 3rd world banana republic or Maoist China... Have to show you the Santa Barbara setlist b/c it was too perfect: Wait For The Light To Shine (acoustic) (Larry on mandolin) (song by Fred Rose) The Times They Are A-Changin' (acoustic) (Bob on harp) Desolation Row (acoustic) Searching For A Soldier's Grave (acoustic) (Larry on mandolin) (song by Johnnie Wright, Jim Anglin and Jack Anglin) Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum Positively 4th Street Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again (Larry on acoustic guitar) Moonlight (Tony on standup bass and Bob on harp) Masters Of War (acoustic) (Charlie on dobro) Girl Of The North Country (acoustic) A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (acoustic) (Larry on bouzouki) Summer Days (Tony on standup bass) Sugar Baby (Tony on standup bass) The Wicked Messenger (Bob on harp) To Be Alone With You (Larry on fiddle) (encore) Things Have Changed Like A Rolling Stone Forever Young (acoustic) Honest With Me Blowin' In The Wind "Sugar Baby"!! I'm going to listen to it now. Great tune...still like TimeOutOfMind better than Love N' Theft...but some great stuff on L&T ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 22:17:37 -0800 (PST) From: "C. Huff" Subject: Re: Latter Day Dylan (in nasal voice) Yes we couuuuld! ;-) - --- On Fri, 12/5/08, Rex wrote: From: Rex Subject: Re: Latter Day Dylan To: huff71@yahoo.com Cc: fegmaniax@smoe.org Date: Friday, December 5, 2008, 12:51 AM On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:46 PM, C. Huff wrote: "Sugar Baby"!! I'm going to listen to it now. Great tune...still like TimeOutOfMind better than Love N' Theft...but some great stuff on L&T Agreed... it's an embarrassment of riches, the last three Dylan records. Gotta be time for a new one pretty soon, yeah? Couldn't we use some Obama-era Dylan? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 10:20:19 +0000 From: craigie* Subject: Re: Darth Mercury Heep That would be Astronomy, surely? cos, as we all know, Astrology is b*ll*cks. :-) c* On 04/12/2008, James Dignan wrote: > > but I am glad to give you "The Truth About Brian May"...he's got Ph.D. in >> astrophysics which obviously makes him the greatest guitarist ever lol >> ;-) >> > > FWIW, he's co- written at least one book on astrology (with the great > Patrick Moore, no less), and his main area of study (IIRC, the dust clouds > at the edges of planetary systems) is a hot topic in astronomy, since it's > important in the search for planets around other stars. > > 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") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= > - -- 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: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 07:30:17 -0500 (EST) From: Jill Brand Subject: Bowienet C. Huff wrote: "I was a member of Bowienet for years until the man himself disappeared...frightened off by the legions of Republican Bowie fans who came out of the woodwork after the 2000 election (who knew?)." It's the same over at the Kinks list. Quail's back :-) Jill ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 13:18:07 +0000 From: craigie* Subject: One Christmas Wish well - actually, it's four... here's links to the xmas compilations I've been compiling over the last four years... thought some of you guys might like em... http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FA4C5BB6 - compilation 1 http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WBMDBBCY - compilation 2 http://www.megaupload.com/?d=U527EXF6 - compilation 3 http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LYNQ9J9I - compilation 4 and if there's any xmas songs you think I should know about, mail them to me! (I can't find Queen's Thank God It's Xmas anywhere! I've even looked down the back of the sofa and everything...) have fun! 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") - -- 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") - -- 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") - -- 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: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 08:29:45 -0500 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: One Christmas Wish Craigie*, you might want to take a look at Pet's Choosday Chunes over the coming few Tuesdays -- she's a collector of old-time/jazz/novelty/whatever records who digitizes and posts stuff on Tuesdays and she's promising some good Xmas stuff. (Haven't looked at your collections yet BTW but I'm assuming No Xmas for Junkies is in there.) Pet's blog is at http://twindowlicker.livejournal.com/ 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: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 09:40:13 EST From: HSatterfld@aol.com Subject: Re: David Boo-ee I've always though David Bowie went downhill after "The Laughing Gnome". (At least this song was finally released on CD, or perhaps it escaped.) **************Make your life easier with all your friends, email, and favorite sites in one place. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000010) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 14:49:54 +0000 From: craigie* Subject: Re: REM - MURMUR (0% RH) I've had a look and I've got : Chronic Town (Rough Mixes and Rehearsals) 1980 Murmur (IRS Demos) 1981 (credited to 'Mitch's Garage) and Reckoning Demos 1982 (from whence Seven Chinese Brothers and King of The Road are drawn) I'll listen to the Murmur one's again, just in case. But, having heard the Joy Division Genetic Demos also done by Rushent, I'm not sure I'll be able to say... Rushent's work with the Human League was great, but his work with other artists less so IMHO. Like Langer & Winstanley - great with Madness, but rubbish with Elvis Costello - sometimes it's the blend of artist *and* producer, and not just the Producer... c* On 05/12/2008, m swedene wrote: > > *R.E.M.: Murmur (Martin Rushent Sessions)* > ** > > *That's the same Rushent who had just come off his career peak Human > League's 1981 synth-pop standard-bearer Dare. By the time the sessions for > R.E.M.'s debut wrapped, good sense had prevailed, and the album was > re-recorded minus the lip gloss and with garage-rocker Mitch Easter manning > the boards. The rough mixes remain a coveted if not cherished bootleg among > fans of the Athens, Georgia, legends.* > > > > http://www.seattleweekly.com/2008-12-03/music/seven-lost-albums-that-should-n > ever-be-found/ > > > anybody have this????? > > > Mike > - -- 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: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 14:51:50 +0000 From: craigie* Subject: Re: David Boo-ee well, it does have that DWARF BEAT! (bringing this back on topic) c* On 05/12/2008, HSatterfld@aol.com wrote: > > I've always though David Bowie went downhill after "The Laughing Gnome". > (At least this song was finally released on CD, or perhaps it escaped.) > > > **************Make your life easier with all your friends, email, and > favorite sites in one place. Try it now. > ( > http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000010 > ) > - -- 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: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 07:02:11 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Darth Mercury Heep On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:20 AM, craigie* wrote: > That would be Astronomy, surely? > > cos, as we all know, Astrology is b*ll*cks. > Oh, would that that we all did... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 07:06:57 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: One Christmas Wish On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 5:18 AM, craigie* wrote: > well - actually, it's four... > > here's links to the xmas compilations I've been compiling over the last > four > years... thought some of you guys might like em... > > Wow, the true spirit of giving. Thanks. While we're on Christmas lists, I know a lot of you guys do end-of-the-year compilations. I, erm, didn't pay much attention to new music this year, but I dearly love hearing what caught the ears of other fegs, so please do post 'em if you do 'em! - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 07:10:15 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: David Boo-ee On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 6:40 AM, wrote: > I've always though David Bowie went downhill after "The Laughing Gnome". > (At least this song was finally released on CD, or perhaps it escaped.) > > It's found a gnome on my hard drive in mp3 form. Ha ha ha, hee hee hee! Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 10:51:51 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: David Boo-ee On 12/5/08, Rex wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 6:40 AM, wrote: > > > I've always though David Bowie went downhill after "The Laughing Gnome". > > (At least this song was finally released on CD, or perhaps it escaped.) > > > > > It's found a gnome on my hard drive in mp3 form. > Plus, its twisted release history prefigured Bowie's gnomadic musical lifestyle... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 08:49:19 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Reap The guy who played Harry Bentley, Paul Benedict. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-benedict5-2008dec05,0,2329529.story "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:50:10 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: Latter Day Dylan >> I've never thought of "Love & Theft" as especially 9/11y, although I know >> many people do. Well, it was released on 9/11/2001. So while it cannot of course be about 9/11, it really seems, to my mind, stamped with it. I listened to that album incessantly in the following year. And -- I think I actually confessed to this here a few years back -- I bought "Love and Theft" on 9/11. In New York. There was a store still open - -- this was before the towers had completely collapsed -- and on my way downtown to find a working F-Train, I popped in and bought it. In my defense, this was before the magnitude of the situation had really become apparent. But still, I tell people I bought the album on 9/11, and they usually give me quite a look. > that being said, I've never thought of it as a 9/11 album, though I saw him > live twice in October 01 and the tragedy definitely brought a new dimension to > "Hard Rain", "Masters of War", "Searching for a Soldier's Grave"...I was up > against the stage in Santa Barbara staring slack-jawed...I'd heard all those > songs a million times before but they were so timely, it was > mindbending... That's how U2 felt to me, seeing them in Madison Square Garden a few months after 9/11. The song "Sunday Bloody Sunday" brought the entire house to tears. - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 13:51:04 -0500 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: Latter Day Dylan I own "Love and Theft" but don't listen to it so frequently. I saw him on that tour and it was a fantastic show. Regarding "latter-day Dylan" though, to my way of thinking the two best records Dylan ever made -- surpassing even Hwy 61 and Bringin it all Back Home -- are (IIRC) from 1991 and 1993, well in advance of "Love and Theft" but still pretty well latter day. I speak of "Good as I Been to You" and "World Gone Wrong", these two records I love more than any others in Dylan's canon because of the way they spoke to me as a young man -- I love his early stuff of course but it's older than me so my reaction to it is filtered through all this generational stuff. 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: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 11:30:23 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Latter Day Dylan The Great Quail wrote: > And -- I think I actually confessed to this here a few years back -- I > bought "Love and Theft" on 9/11. In New York. There was a store still > open -- this was before the towers had completely collapsed -- > and on my way downtown to find a working F-Train, I popped in and bought > it. In my defense, this was before the magnitude of the situation had > really become apparent. But still, I tell people I bought the album on > 9/11, and they usually give me quite a look. I tend to think that people's reactions to extreme trauma -- barring extreme acts that cause actual harm to other people -- are valid no matter how bizarre they may seem in retrospect. Even if you'd picked it up at 4:30 that afternoon (which was probably not possible in New York, but...), well, fuck it, you needed to buy the new Dylan album just to feel normal for a couple seconds. When I was awoken that morning (I'd worked a graveyard shift) and told what had happened, I went and after 10 minutes of watching TV coverage, I went out and exchanged a pair of shoes and bought a pie. I just couldn't sit and watch any more, and I needed to do something that felt normal. When our father died, my brother's reaction was to fix chicken wings. Doing something normal can keep you from losing yourself at times that threaten to make your brain melt. "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 11:56:35 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Happy Anniversary!!! http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/in-the-us-its-time-to-party-like-its-1933-1052545.html "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 15:15:37 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: from my favorite Robyn Hitchcock lines (an ongoing series) Yesterday I saw the devil in the nude - It was embarrassing; I turned away He was leering in the mirror when I looked again ("The Devil's Coachman") Who needs theology and psychology? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 10:51:13 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: Darth Mercury Heep >That would be Astronomy, surely? > >cos, as we all know, Astrology is b*ll*cks. arg. Need more coffee. Astronomy, of course. 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: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 11:14:03 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re:Love and Fear >Jeremy Osner wrote (re: Unca Lou characters): > >On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:55 AM, kevin studyvin >wrote:>>>> I'm going as Newspaper Joe. >>Dibs on Doctor Filth. > > >...Put me down for The Water Boy (or maybe whoever Bruce is supposed to be >when he comes in with the counterpoint in "Street Hassle"...) Okay... I'd assumed by Dr. Filth we were still on Bawb characters. No wonder I couldn't work out where Newspaper Joe came in. BTW, another musician you could just about do this with would be Frank Zappa. That'd be quite a party, too. 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, 5 Dec 2008 17:41:29 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: Latter Day Dylan not to mention Mariah Carey's Glitter soundtrack my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ In a message dated 12/5/2008 12:56:38 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, huff71@yahoo.com writes: >I've never thought of "Love & Theft" as especially 9/11y, although I know many people do. looks like it was released on 9/11...wow. Moldy Peaches' CD was released on 9/11 too, with the song "NYC's like a Graveyard". **************Make your life easier with all your friends, email, and favorite sites in one place. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000010) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 17:44:58 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: bowie ball http://bowieballnyc.com/ NIGHTLIFE Put On Your Red Shoes Friday, December 5, 2008 Miss MaroItbs empirical: everyone loves David Bowie. So don your best Labyrinthine, Stardust-y, Young American get-up and glittery eye makeup for Saturday bs BowieBall. Michael T. and five others will be behind the decks; Earl Slick, a guitarist who worked with Bowie, will perform; and there will be a costume contest, glam makeovers and gender-bending nudity. As the Thin White Duke would say, letbs dance. my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ **************Make your life easier with all your friends, email, and favorite sites in one place. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000010) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 14:51:33 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Latter Day Dylan On Dec 5, 2008, at 11:30 AM, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > The Great Quail wrote: >> And -- I think I actually confessed to this here a few years back >> -- I >> bought "Love and Theft" on 9/11. In New York. There was a store still >> open -- this was before the towers had completely collapsed -- >> and on my way downtown to find a working F-Train, I popped in and >> bought >> it. In my defense, this was before the magnitude of the situation had >> really become apparent. But still, I tell people I bought the album >> on >> 9/11, and they usually give me quite a look. > > I tend to think that people's reactions to extreme trauma -- barring > extreme acts that cause actual harm to other people -- are valid no > matter how bizarre they may seem in retrospect. Even if you'd picked > it up at 4:30 that afternoon (which was probably not possible in New > York, but...), well, fuck it, you needed to buy the new Dylan album > just to feel normal for a couple seconds. When I was awoken that > morning (I'd worked a graveyard shift) and told what had happened, I > went and after 10 minutes of watching TV coverage, I went out and > exchanged a pair of shoes and bought a pie. I just couldn't sit and > watch any more, and I needed to do something that felt normal. Same here. I just had to get out so I went and got an oil change. Those were the days before my daughter was born when I regularly worked into the evening, and for the next few nights driving home in the dark was quite eerie because there were no airplane lights landing or taking off from SJC. Coincidentally those commutes regularly had the "Essential Bob Dylan" discs on shuffle. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 16:10:24 -0800 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Love and Fear It was after Rex tossed in the notion that you could get a swell bunch of characters out of Uncle Lou's ouevre and the first thing that came to mind was She's My Best Friend, which is one of my fave performances on Coney Island Baby. On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:14 PM, James Dignan wrote: > Jeremy Osner wrote (re: Unca Lou characters): >> >On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:55 AM, kevin studyvin >> wrote:>>>> I'm going as Newspaper Joe. >>Dibs on Doctor Filth. >> >> >> ...Put me down for The Water Boy (or maybe whoever Bruce is supposed to be >> when he comes in with the counterpoint in "Street Hassle"...) >> > > Okay... I'd assumed by Dr. Filth we were still on Bawb characters. No > wonder I couldn't work out where Newspaper Joe came in. > > BTW, another musician you could just about do this with would be Frank > Zappa. That'd be quite a party, too. > Dibs on Billy the Mountain! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 16:13:33 -0800 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Latter Day Dylan Grim days everywhere. I still get sick when I see that footage. There's an insurance company with an office in the building where my job is and they were devastated because their entire NY office was wiped out - couple hundred people. On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > On Dec 5, 2008, at 11:30 AM, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > >> The Great Quail wrote: >> >>> And -- I think I actually confessed to this here a few years back -- I >>> bought "Love and Theft" on 9/11. In New York. There was a store still >>> open -- this was before the towers had completely collapsed -- >>> and on my way downtown to find a working F-Train, I popped in and bought >>> it. In my defense, this was before the magnitude of the situation had >>> really become apparent. But still, I tell people I bought the album on >>> 9/11, and they usually give me quite a look. >>> >> >> I tend to think that people's reactions to extreme trauma -- barring >> extreme acts that cause actual harm to other people -- are valid no matter >> how bizarre they may seem in retrospect. Even if you'd picked it up at 4:30 >> that afternoon (which was probably not possible in New York, but...), well, >> fuck it, you needed to buy the new Dylan album just to feel normal for a >> couple seconds. When I was awoken that morning (I'd worked a graveyard >> shift) and told what had happened, I went and after 10 minutes of watching >> TV coverage, I went out and exchanged a pair of shoes and bought a pie. I >> just couldn't sit and watch any more, and I needed to do something that felt >> normal. >> > > Same here. I just had to get out so I went and got an oil change. Those > were the days before my daughter was born when I regularly worked into the > evening, and for the next few nights driving home in the dark was quite > eerie because there were no airplane lights landing or taking off from SJC. > Coincidentally those commutes regularly had the "Essential Bob Dylan" discs > on shuffle. > > -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 18:52:43 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Love and Fear On 12/5/08, kevin studyvin wrote: > > > > > > BTW, another musician you could just about do this with would be Frank > > Zappa. That'd be quite a party, too. > > > > > Dibs on Billy the Mountain! Studebacher Hoch! (yeah, yeah!) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:24:52 -0600 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Today Only: X-Files Complete Collector's Edition - Cheap (NR) Amazon has this for $123.99 today only. Maybe someone needs a back-up copy. - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 10:55:24 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: One Christmas Wish - -- craigie* is rumored to have mumbled on 5. Dezember 2008 13:18:07 +0000 regarding One Christmas Wish: > here's links to the xmas compilations I've been compiling over the last > four years... thought some of you guys might like em... Too popular? "The file you are trying to access is temporarily unavailable." - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #796 ********************************