From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #800 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, December 11 2008 Volume 16 : Number 800 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Meeting John ["Jeremy Osner" ] disc is boosted by appearances from Robyn Hitchcock, [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: Darth Mercury in Taurus [James Dignan ] Re: Listen to Goodnight Oslo now... ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: disc is boosted by appearances from Robyn Hitchcock, [Rex ] Eno on singing ["Jeremy Osner" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:55:16 -0500 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Meeting John Candy Schulman posts her reminiscence of meeting John, in the Village in 73: http://mrbellersneighborhood.com/story.php?storyid=2237 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: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:24:05 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: disc is boosted by appearances from Robyn Hitchcock, http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/148104-decemberists-reveal-hazards- of-love-date-tracklist Decemberists Reveal Hazards of Love Date, Tracklist Jim James of My Morning Jacket Guests Photo by Nilina Mason-Campbell Hazards of Love, the forthcoming rock opera from the fliers of fancy in the Decemberists, is due March 24 from Capitol, according to Billboard.com (and confirmed by Capitol). Sporting 17 tracks with silly titles like "Hazards of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle the Thistles Undone)" and "Won't Want for Love (Margaret in the Taiga)", the album is probably pretty ridic even by Decemberists standards. Apart from previously reported guests Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond and Becky Stark of Lavender Diamond, Billboard.com notes that the disc is boosted by appearances from My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James, Robyn Hitchcock, and Rebecca Gates of the Spinanes. (UPDATE: Apparently Worden and Stark sing the parts of specific characters on the album!) The disc follows 2006's The Crane Wife LP and the band's recent string of singles under the Always the Bridesmaid umbrella. Presumably because they have yet to secure an adequately large fog machine and foam forest backdrop, the Decemberists currently have no tourdates scheduled. But multi-instrumentalist Chris Funk appears on Target Heart, the forthcoming EP from Blue Giant, while John Moen once again lends his drums to the next one from Bob Pollard's Boston Spaceships. Hazards of Love: 01 Prelude 02 Hazards of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle the Thistles Undone) 03 A Bower Scene 04 Won't Want for Love (Margaret in the Taiga) 05 Hazards of Love 2 (Wager All) 06 The Queen's Approach 07 Isn't It a Lovely Night? 08 The Wanting Comes in Waves / Repaid 09 An Interlude 10 The Rake's Song 11 The Abduction of Margaret 12 The Queen's Rebuke / The Crossing 13 Annan Water 14 Margaret in Captivity 15 Hazards of Love 3 (Revenge!) 16 The Wanting Comes in Waves (Reprise) 17 The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned) Video: The Decemberists: The Tain [from the Tain EP] Posted by Paul Thompson on Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 6:50pm 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, 12 Dec 2008 00:29:48 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: Darth Mercury in Taurus > > Dunno why people get so hung up on whether or not our fates are governed by > > the movement of the heavens (what do you think?), when there's much more to > > the subject than that - an amazing amount of very interesting information > > tied-up in the astrological archetypes - the planets, the signs, the houses > > for a start. Belief isn't a pre-requisite. There again, belief can be a lot > > of > > fun, especially before breakfast..! > > >I would say that such baby as there is falls under a literary or >psychological/mythological heading rather than the usual claims re >personality types, influence, etc. After all, an orange held at arm's length >exerts more gravitational force over me than most the stars...as would a >crab, a cone, or an overripe tomato. And why do you assume that gravity's got anything to do with it? It's quite likely that any belief in the astrological influence of different star signs developed from very real phenomena related to the season of year. People born in mid-winter and people born in mid-summer may well - taken on average - have a different psychological or personality make-up, simply due to the different conditions during the first few months of their life - and any differences would have been even more pronounced in former times before central heating and air conditioning. Though the actual association of those differences to constellations may be, erm, dubious, to say the least, it's more than possible that there are underlying causes tfor these superstitions, and that such causes have simply been misascribed to the heavens. 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: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:40:36 -0500 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: Listen to Goodnight Oslo now... Cool, thanks! I love the cover art. Interesting that the three songs available for preview are all soundtrack songs from "Rachel" and "The Fifth Beatle". J If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Josi Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Matthijs van Geldere wrote: > http://www.proper-records.co.uk/artists.php?action=alview > > &alid=2121 > > > > Now with the new cover of the album and a few samples of the new songs! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:36:16 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: disc is boosted by appearances from Robyn Hitchcock, On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:24 PM, wrote: > > http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/148104-decemberists-reveal-hazards- > of-love-date-tracklist > Decemberists Reveal Hazards of Love Date, Tracklist > Jim James of My Morning Jacket Guests > > Apart from previously reported guests Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond > and Becky Stark of Lavender Diamond, Billboard.com notes that the disc is > boosted by appearances from My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James, Robyn > Hitchcock, and Rebecca Gates of the Spinanes. (UPDATE: Apparently Worden > and Stark > sing the parts of specific characters on the album!) The disc follows > 2006's The > Crane Wife LP and the band's recent string of singles under the Always the > Bridesmaid umbrella. > Guests from My Morning Jacket *and* My Brightest Diamond? What about My Bloody Valentine, My Chemical Romance, My Jealous God and My Teenage Stride? Just hearing one interview with that My Brightest Diamond chick was painful enough... can't even imagine the grating pretention the actual music must possess... - -Trent ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:22:07 -0600 From: "Miles Goosens" Subject: Re: Oliver Postgate > Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:58:09 -0500 > From: "Stewart C. Russell" > Subject: reap > Oliver Postgate > (UK fegs will shed a tear; others may need some help: > . Basically, > Smallfilms' stop motion animation was my early life: Bagpuss, The > Clangers, Ivor the Engine, Noggin, Pogles Wood, ...) When I saw the subject line, I thought "there goes a gent whose misfortune is to have a name that sounds like it's describing a political scandal over an unreleased Dickens novel." Looking at the pictures of the Postgate/Firmin stuff, I'm convinced that somehow I saw some of their work in the early '70s, though via what outlet I'm not sure, since the one channel I could receive at home via the antenna was not likely to have carried any such thing. I'm wondering if my enterprising mom lit on a book or LP or something else connected to their world... later, Miles - -- now with blogspot retsin! http://readingpronunciation.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:22:59 -0500 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Eno on singing Brian Eno was on the radio a couple of weeks back talking about singing: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97320958 J If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Josi Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #800 ********************************