From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #806 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, December 19 2008 Volume 16 : Number 806 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: River [James Dignan ] Re: A RH dream [James Dignan ] Davy Graham [hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] Re: A RH dream [2fs ] Re: A RH dream [Rex ] Re: A RH dream ["kevin studyvin" ] more reap [Steve Schiavo ] Re: A RH dream [2fs ] Re: A RH dream ["kevin studyvin" ] Ragamuffin Jug Band (an Appreciation) ["Nectar At Any Cost!" ] Re: Ragamuffin Jug Band (an Appreciation) [2fs ] reap [lep ] RE: Reap ["C. Huff" ] Re: A RH dream [Rex ] You bid within $500 on The Price is Right, what could go wrong for you? [] REAP ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: A RH dream [James Dignan ] Laberinto de Soledad ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: Laberinto de Soledad ["kevin studyvin" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:18:34 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: River > > Stuck at home because our hill is snow-and-iced up enough that the buses > > won't come up here, and listening to lots of ... Joni Mitchell ... > >This is me, trying to come up with a play on how you ought to have a >river nearby, so you could skate away on it... Get it, cause the river >is frozen?... One of the best Christmas songs around, 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, 19 Dec 2008 11:22:58 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: A RH dream >On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:12 PM, James Dignan ><grutness@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: > >My first ever Robyn-related dream! > >Can't remember very much of it, but for some reason I was on the >Letterman show, where Tiger Woods and I were juggling cabbages. >After the break, RH came on and sang his brand new song "(Here's one >I bet you wouldn't want to meet) In the wild" > > >Oooh,,, could you recreate the song? That'd be awesome. Sadly no - I can't even work out how a title like that would scan. I have been able to "save" songs from dreams in the past once or twice, but nothing on this one :( 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, 18 Dec 2008 23:19:20 +0000 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Davy Graham Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:21:19 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: reap Davy Graham, 68. James * Too bad. I dragged some friends along forcibly to see him in Bristol at the St George's Chapel earlier this year, and it was evident that something was amiss. The spark was there intermittently, but it certainly wasn't a compelling performance. - - Mike Godwin n.p. She moved through the bizarre. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:47:53 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: A RH dream On 12/18/08, James Dignan wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:12 PM, James Dignan <> grutness@slingshot.co.nz>grutness@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: >> >> My first ever Robyn-related dream! >> >> Can't remember very much of it, but for some reason I was on the Letterman >> show, where Tiger Woods and I were juggling cabbages. After the break, RH >> came on and sang his brand new song "(Here's one I bet you wouldn't want to >> meet) In the wild" >> >> >> Oooh,,, could you recreate the song? That'd be awesome. >> > > Sadly no - I can't even work out how a title like that would scan. I I hear it as beginning on "2" - with "here's" taking up a quarter note, "one I bet you" being the next four 8th notes, "wouldn't want to meet" being two sixteenth notes and three eighth notes (beginning on 1), a pause on "3," and "in the wild" being on the 6th, 7th, and 8th eighth notes of the measure, with "wild" being extended into the next measure. I'll try to represent it graphically: 1 x 2 here's x 3 one x I 4 bet x you 1 wouldn't x want to 2 meet x 3 x in 4 the x wi- 1 ii-- x ii-- 2 ii-- x iild 3 x 4 x I'm hearing a melody sorta like (imagine A major) C# A-A F#-E A-A-A-A C# B-A-A....(with a little slide down at the very end of "wild"...) First chord's A, chord switches to a D or F#m or even a Dsus4 on the "1" just after the first syllable of "wild." - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:57:23 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: A RH dream On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:47 PM, 2fs wrote: > > > I'm hearing a melody sorta like (imagine A major) C# A-A F#-E A-A-A-A C# > B-A-A....(with a little slide down at the very end of "wild"...) First > chord's A, chord switches to a D or F#m or even a Dsus4 on the "1" just > after the first syllable of "wild." > Is that the start of the song or the chorus, do ya figure? Hmm. I'm treading carefully here lest I end up with another Tinfoil Thoths comp on my hands. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:14:20 -0800 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: A RH dream Rhythmically the scansion follows "Keep A'Knockin'" very neatly too. On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:47 PM, 2fs wrote: > On 12/18/08, James Dignan wrote: > > > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:12 PM, James Dignan < >> grutness@slingshot.co.nz>grutness@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: > >> > >> My first ever Robyn-related dream! > >> > >> Can't remember very much of it, but for some reason I was on the > Letterman > >> show, where Tiger Woods and I were juggling cabbages. After the break, > RH > >> came on and sang his brand new song "(Here's one I bet you wouldn't want > to > >> meet) In the wild" > >> > >> > >> Oooh,,, could you recreate the song? That'd be awesome. > >> > > > > Sadly no - I can't even work out how a title like that would scan. I > > > > I hear it as beginning on "2" - with "here's" taking up a quarter note, > "one > I bet you" being the next four 8th notes, "wouldn't want to meet" being two > sixteenth notes and three eighth notes (beginning on 1), a pause on "3," > and > "in the wild" being on the 6th, 7th, and 8th eighth notes of the measure, > with "wild" being extended into the next measure. > > I'll try to represent it graphically: > > 1 > x > 2 here's > x > 3 one > x I > 4 bet > x you > > 1 wouldn't > x want to > 2 meet > x > 3 > x in > 4 the > x wi- > > 1 ii-- > x ii-- > 2 ii-- > x iild > 3 > x > 4 > x > > I'm hearing a melody sorta like (imagine A major) C# A-A F#-E A-A-A-A C# > B-A-A....(with a little slide down at the very end of "wild"...) First > chord's A, chord switches to a D or F#m or even a Dsus4 on the "1" just > after the first syllable of "wild." > > > -- > > ...Jeff Norman > > The Architectural Dance Society > http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:52:56 -0600 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: more reap Majel Roddenberry Sammy Baugh - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:01:24 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: A RH dream On 12/18/08, Rex wrote: > > > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:47 PM, 2fs wrote: > >> >> >> I'm hearing a melody sorta like (imagine A major) C# A-A F#-E A-A-A-A C# >> B-A-A....(with a little slide down at the very end of "wild"...) First >> chord's A, chord switches to a D or F#m or even a Dsus4 on the "1" just >> after the first syllable of "wild." >> > > Is that the start of the song or the chorus, do ya figure? Hmm. I'm > treading carefully here lest I end up with another Tinfoil Thoths comp on my > hands. > I'm thinking the beginning... Damn - now I'll have to write a song. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:18:57 -0800 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: A RH dream Umm...never mind, I just realized I dropped a couple syllables there. Makes hash of my previous suggestion. On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 7:14 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > Rhythmically the scansion follows "Keep A'Knockin'" very neatly too. > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:47 PM, 2fs wrote: > >> On 12/18/08, James Dignan wrote: >> > >> > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:12 PM, James Dignan <> >> grutness@slingshot.co.nz>grutness@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: >> >> >> >> My first ever Robyn-related dream! >> >> >> >> Can't remember very much of it, but for some reason I was on the >> Letterman >> >> show, where Tiger Woods and I were juggling cabbages. After the break, >> RH >> >> came on and sang his brand new song "(Here's one I bet you wouldn't >> want to >> >> meet) In the wild" >> >> >> >> >> >> Oooh,,, could you recreate the song? That'd be awesome. >> >> >> > >> > Sadly no - I can't even work out how a title like that would scan. I >> >> >> >> I hear it as beginning on "2" - with "here's" taking up a quarter note, >> "one >> I bet you" being the next four 8th notes, "wouldn't want to meet" being >> two >> sixteenth notes and three eighth notes (beginning on 1), a pause on "3," >> and >> "in the wild" being on the 6th, 7th, and 8th eighth notes of the measure, >> with "wild" being extended into the next measure. >> >> I'll try to represent it graphically: >> >> 1 >> x >> 2 here's >> x >> 3 one >> x I >> 4 bet >> x you >> >> 1 wouldn't >> x want to >> 2 meet >> x >> 3 >> x in >> 4 the >> x wi- >> >> 1 ii-- >> x ii-- >> 2 ii-- >> x iild >> 3 >> x >> 4 >> x >> >> I'm hearing a melody sorta like (imagine A major) C# A-A F#-E A-A-A-A C# >> B-A-A....(with a little slide down at the very end of "wild"...) First >> chord's A, chord switches to a D or F#m or even a Dsus4 on the "1" just >> after the first syllable of "wild." >> >> >> -- >> >> ...Jeff Norman >> >> The Architectural Dance Society >> http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:38:42 -0800 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: Ragamuffin Jug Band (an Appreciation) didja hear the fucking "thunder snow"?? i sweat to the motherfuck, i thought that that shit might've been a fucking building being blown to bits. so fucking loud! i scare-quote the term because it's new to me -- though i imagine many of you in the midwest are rather familiar with the phenomenon. good name for an album, at any rate. i had a bit of a transit misadventure, too; but all's well that ends well (i...suppose). ah, before i skedaddleses, a quick mini-review: The Decemberists, *Always The Bridesmaid* ~ been listening to this non-fucking-stop. is it the best album-sessions "teaser" single (although in this case being released separately, as the songs here are apparently stylistically much different from the songs in the album proper) since the famed "Penny Lane" / "Strawberry Fields"? o' course, the Ds do the Bs three better: instead of a double-a side, we get a sextuple-a-side. the band sound so great together -- frequent touring really does a band wonders, ain't it? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:48:09 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: A RH dream On 12/18/08, Rex wrote: > > > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:47 PM, 2fs wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm hearing a melody sorta like (imagine A major) C# A-A F#-E A-A-A-A C# B-A-A....(with a little slide down at the very end of "wild"...) First chord's A, chord switches to a D or F#m or even a Dsus4 on the "1" just after the first syllable of "wild." > > > > > Is that the start of the song or the chorus, do ya figure? Hmm. I'm treading carefully here lest I end up with another Tinfoil Thoths comp on my hands. Here's what I came up with. I'm fairly certain on the words, okay on the verse chords...very iffy on the bridge.... (A) Here's one I bet you wouldn't want to meet in the wild (D) The (C) scent of raw meat, between the (G) politician's teeth (F) Slavering over a (F) shivering (E) child At home we find it best to try to keep them in line Some jingling coins, and some velvety loins Makes them forget they're already dying (bridge) Well(D) over here, Mr. (A) Perkins has a brand new (G) smile But (C) over there, old (Em) Jim has set a trap He'll have an (Bb) alligator purse in a (G) while Here's one I bet you wouldn't want to meet in the wild It's invisible to most, but the holy gameshow host Is anointing his bouffant to the tips of the sky Clipped wings, and a nice little perch will be fine And yesterday's news is covered up with rotting food You won't smell it if you just keep on buying Here's one I bet you wouldn't want to meet in the wild - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:56:07 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Ragamuffin Jug Band (an Appreciation) On 12/18/08, Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: > won't come up here> > > didja hear the fucking "thunder snow"?? i sweat to the motherfuck, i > thought that that shit might've been a fucking building being blown to > bits. so fucking loud! > > i scare-quote the term because it's new to me -- though i imagine many of > you in the midwest are rather familiar with the phenomenon. good name for > an album, at any rate. By Mike Watt... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:16:47 -0500 From: lep Subject: reap Mark Felt, aka Deep Throat, 95: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/19/washington/19felt.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:49:39 -0800 (PST) From: "C. Huff" Subject: RE: Reap Davey Graham! I saw him play once at this "Freaks" evening in London at the Troubadour (1994)...he did this surreal recitation with great acoustic fingerpicking about weevils crawling out of the walls...first thought: so this is where Hitchy came from... and I'm with Rex...you should try to recreate that song you dreamt... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:19:01 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: A RH dream On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:48 PM, > > Here's what I came up with. I'm fairly certain on the words, okay on > the verse chords...very iffy on the bridge.... > > > > (A) Here's one I bet you wouldn't want to meet in the wild (D) > The (C) scent of raw meat, between the (G) politician's teeth > (F) Slavering over a (F) shivering (E) child > > At home we find it best to try to keep them in line > Some jingling coins, and some velvety loins > Makes them forget they're already dying > > (bridge) > Well(D) over here, Mr. (A) Perkins has a brand new (G) smile > But (C) over there, old (Em) Jim has set a trap > He'll have an (Bb) alligator purse in a (G) while > > Here's one I bet you wouldn't want to meet in the wild > It's invisible to most, but the holy gameshow host > Is anointing his bouffant to the tips of the sky > > Clipped wings, and a nice little perch will be fine > And yesterday's news is covered up with rotting food > You won't smell it if you just keep on buying > > Here's one I bet you wouldn't want to meet in the wild > Well, fuck yeah, is what. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:31:05 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: You bid within $500 on The Price is Right, what could go wrong for you? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AKqFctkKMY ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:59:39 -0500 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: REAP Sam Bottoms: http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-bottoms18-2008dec18,0,2920563.story 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: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:33:30 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: A RH dream >Here's what I came up with. I'm fairly certain on the words, okay on >the verse chords...very iffy on the bridge.... > > >(A) Here's one I bet you wouldn't want to meet in the wild (D) >The (C) scent of raw meat, between the (G) politician's teeth >(F) Slavering over a (F) shivering (E) child > >At home we find it best to try to keep them in line >Some jingling coins, and some velvety loins >Makes them forget they're already dying > >(bridge) >Well (D) over here, Mr. (A) Perkins has a brand new (G) smile >But (C) over there, old (Em) Jim has set a trap >He'll have an (Bb) alligator purse in a (G) while > >Here's one I bet you wouldn't want to meet in the wild >It's invisible to most, but the holy gameshow host >Is anointing his bouffant to the tips of the sky > >Clipped wings, and a nice little perch will be fine >And yesterday's news is covered up with rotting food >You won't smell it if you just keep on buying > >Here's one I bet you wouldn't want to meet in the wild very good...but what have I started here? FWIW, I can't remember what it sounded like in the dream, but if I were going to write it, I'd probably use a similar scansion but different melody and chords. I'd also repeat the title line: Notes: D G G G G FFFFG F G A ....... (x2) Chords: First time - G.....F (on "wild"); second time G....A (on "wild") 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, 19 Dec 2008 16:41:46 -0500 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Laberinto de Soledad This year marks the 50th anniversary of Octavio Paz' seminal essays on Mexican identity -- you can (if you understand Spanish) read some thoughts in this regard from Alejandro Rossi at Letras Libres: http://www.letraslibres.com/index.php?art=13412 And even if you don't understand Spanish, you can groove to Botellita de Jerez' rockin take on the theme of solitude here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_OoeqEMVl4 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, 19 Dec 2008 16:11:13 -0800 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Laberinto de Soledad A taste of Maurice Blanchot on solitude at http://quotationsbook.com/author/772/ I started reading Paz' essays a while back but I was annoyed enough at the consciousness expressed in his piece on the virtues of male jealousy that I've never looked back. On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > This year marks the 50th anniversary of Octavio Paz' seminal essays on > Mexican identity -- you can (if you understand Spanish) read some > thoughts in this regard from Alejandro Rossi at Letras Libres: > http://www.letraslibres.com/index.php?art=13412 > And even if you don't understand Spanish, you can groove to Botellita > de Jerez' rockin take on the theme of solitude here: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_OoeqEMVl4 > > 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 #806 ********************************