From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #18 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, January 20 2009 Volume 17 : Number 018 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Was it The Crow? ["Nectar At Any Cost!" ] Scott McCloud on stage [Jeremy Osner ] movie adaptation of ''Brief Interviews With Hideous Men,'' (no RH, yes DFW) [HwyCDRrev@ao] Re: Jon Carroll--Comfort Music [2fs ] Drake tribute? [James Dignan ] Re: Was it The Crow? [Rex ] Re: Drake tribute? [Rex ] hilarious evil [2fs ] Re: Was it The Crow? ["Nectar At Any Cost!" ] Re: hilarious evil ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: Was it The Crow? [Rex ] Re: hilarious evil [Rex ] Re: hilarious evil [Tom Clark ] For the inauguration [Tom Clark ] Re: For the inauguration [Caroline Smith ] Re: For the inauguration [Jeremy Osner ] Re: For the inauguration ["Sumiko Keay" ] Re: For the inauguration [Marc ] reap [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Neil Young to Release Potentially Batshit Concept Album Yes, another one [HwyCDRrev@aol.co] Re: Neil Young to Release Potentially Batshit Concept Album Yes, another one [Rex Subject: Re: Was it The Crow? <(uh, either that or it's the chinese new year.)> turns out that *that's* a few weeks away yet. so i don't know *what* the hell those shoppers were stocking up for? thanks! listen. hear that sound? it's the sound of twenny million fegs chanting (in unison): "travelogue! travelogue! travelogue!" for old times' sake, eh? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:59:49 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Scott McCloud on stage The cartoonist talking for a while about his world, with attractive slides: http://readin.com/blog/?id=1671 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: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:55:28 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: movie adaptation of ''Brief Interviews With Hideous Men,'' (no RH, yes DFW) 'Office' star gives it old college try Passion for writing leads to Sundance Newton native John Krasinski (above) wrote the screenplay for the movie adaptation of ''Brief Interviews With Hideous Men,'' which he also directed. (matt sayles/associated press) By Linda Matchan Globe Staff / January 18, 2009 Long before the acclaim for his breakout role as Jim in "The Office," before he starred in movies, before being named "Sexiest Funny Guy" by People magazine, Newton native John Krasinski was an impressionable playwriting major at Brown University who had done a little performing and was just trying to fit in, he says, with the cool kids. In his senior year, it just so happened that a lot of the cool kids were doing a staged reading of some of the monologues in "Brief Interviews With Hideous Men" by David Foster Wallace. The book, in a genre of its own, presents an idiosyncratic collection of dark, satirical male ruminations in the form of clinical interviews. Krasinski didn't know Wallace's work, but he did know the person directing the show and was invited to read one of the interviews. He said he was "blown away" by the audience reaction. "The energy in the room was like nothing I'd ever seen before," Krasinski said in a telephone interview from Los Angeles. "Without being overly sentimental, it was the moment I knew I wanted to try acting as a profession." He also knew he wanted to find a way to work with Wallace's writing again some day. It didn't take long before he did: Tomorrow, "Brief Interviews With Hideous Men" - the film - will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. Krasinski, 29, wrote the screenplay and directed it. He also appears in it, along with a cast that includes Julianne Nicholson, Timothy Hutton, Dominic Cooper, Christopher Meloni, Ben Shenkman, Bobby Cannavale, and Josh Charles. The project was his first-ever directing job, and first screenplay as well. The story of how it got made is, as Krasinski tells it, a story of youthful passion, persistence, naivete, and no small amount of chutzpah. After graduating from Brown and attending a 14-week program at the Eugene O'Neill National Theatre Institute in Waterford, Conn., Krasinski moved to New York where he waited tables and tried to get any acting job he could find. But Wallace's work still exerted a pull on him. "It's some of the most honest and powerful writing I'd ever come across," he said. "He doesn't protect the characters. They're chauvinists at times, aggressive at times, and only in revealing their vulnerability . . . and hearing their whole, complete story do they come across as real people." Around the time he was 22, Krasinski started to think seriously about turning "Brief Interviews" into a movie, though he was more or less clueless about how to actually accomplish this. "Someone explained to me the wonderful world of book rights," he said. "I had no idea."Continued... He contacted Wallace's agent to present the idea, even flying out to Los Angeles to meet her after she initially turned him down. "It was my first pitch meeting," said Krasinski. "I said, "Why would you say no to this project?" She said, "Why would I say yes?" I gave her a much too wordy pitch. I said, "You have an amazing client, one of the best who ever lived. I think more people should know how good this is. I promised her no car chases and no explosions." A week later, he was offered the rights. (It was a good month for Krasinski. He was also cast in "The Office.") It took three full years to write the script. He said one of the biggest challenges in adapting the book was figuring out the character of the interviewer, whom Wallace does not identify. Wallace even omits the questions that prompt the monologues; they are delineated in the book simply by "Q" followed by blank space. "The big question is, who are these guys and why are they being interviewed?" says Krasinski. Also, why would someone be interviewing them? He decided the interviewer would be a woman and came up with a role for her that seemed plausible: She'd be a doctoral student in anthropolo gy. While still being true to Wallace's language, he also invented cinematic devices to explore her imagination as she processed the interviews. Krasinski still sounds amazed that as a young virtual unknown he was able to assemble an impressive cast and crew, including director of photography John Bailey, who had shot some of his favorite movies, including "Ordinary People" and "As Good As It Gets." Using connections of friends of friends, he approached several of his favorite actors. "They were all so open to meeting me," said Krasinski, who did not let them read the script at first. "I asked them to sit down with me before they read the script and pitched the idea of what the movie was." He adds: "I wouldn't have done it if I was in their position. I hadn't directed. I didn't know what was right or wrong. I was still that excited kid who had been in a staged reading with the belief that it could be something great." Krasinski only had one conversation with Wallace, who never read the script; Wallace called him to give his blessing and made it clear he didn't want to meddle. He also told Krasinski he'd considered "Brief Interviews" to be a "failed experiment," an attempt to tell a story about a character - a woman - you never hear or see. "I said, 'She's a woman?' He said, 'Yeah, I feel like she'd be doing her dissertation at school on something like feminism and she's basically interviewing these men to get into the mind of the modern man, to understand the male psyche.' " Says Krasinski: "There was a long pause. That is exactly what I had done. I had to sit down. I was totally emotional." Wallace told him he hadn't decided whether he wanted to see the film when it was done. Nevertheless Krasinski hoped he would and was stunned when he got the news that Wallace committed suicide in September. "I have to say it's just a tragedy on every single level, first and foremost for his family and friends, but on top of that, as an artist and writer, it's a loss that most of us can't even fathom. It is so sad that there won't be any more of what I think of as such a unique and influential voice." Krasinski says he's lost a hero, "and when you lose a hero it's a personal loss. I attribute so much of my career, my life, my way of thinking to this book. The movie is only a fraction, a fraction, of the imagination that can be inspired by his work. I was so lucky to play around with what I thought was some of the best material I'd ever read. I hope I did some sort of justice to it." Linda Matchan can be reached at l_matchan@globe.com http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2009/01/18/office_star_gives_it_old_c ollege_try/ ) Copyright 2009 Globe Newspaper Company. my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1215855013x1201028747/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072%26hmpgID=62%26bcd=De cemailfooterNO62) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:14:42 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Jon Carroll--Comfort Music On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > Link to this article was sent me by my dad: >>> Nice piece by Jon C. today: http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/carroll/ > . I don't actually know that I could make a list of songs I > "need", that I couldn't do without; there are of course a ton of songs > I like in varying degrees -- but it seems like they're moderately > fungible, like if you took "Prodigal Son" out of it, something like > "The Saint James Infermary Blues" would ooze over and settle into some > of the space it had left behind, and the motion inward of other songs > nestling around it will fill up most of the space eventually. What's interesting to me is that I do have my own little 'greatest hits" selection...not that I could name things on it all that readily, but songs that I always enjoy when I hear them, even if I no longer listen to them all that often anymore because their every second is engraved in my brain. (Nearly the entire Beatles catalog, for example...) Another way of thinking of it is that there are songs I love that rarely make mixes, because I feel like I've included them a million times already (even if I haven't, for years, and not for the intended recipient)... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:32:56 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Drake tribute? Anyone know anything about this? 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: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:24:00 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Was it The Crow? On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: > <(uh, either that or it's the chinese new year.)> > > turns out that *that's* a few weeks away yet. so i don't know *what* the > hell those shoppers were stocking up for? > > > > > thanks! > > > natural disaster: I fled to the (second) nearest theme park and rode > roller coasters until it was over.> > > listen. hear that sound? it's the sound of twenny million fegs chanting > (in unison): "travelogue! travelogue! travelogue!" for old times' sake, > eh? Actually, yeah! At least make good with the latest in coaster technology and entertainingly absurd theming. Hey, the eight year old is totally ready for the big coasters, and even the six year old is digging the Matterhorn. We're almost there. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:30:45 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Drake tribute? On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 2:32 PM, James Dignan wrote: > Anyone know anything about this? > Hmm... I know that years ago, before Volkswagen ads and piano tributes, there was a Drake tribute that was assembled and never released. The only thing I'm sure to have been slated to be on it was a rock version of "Pink Moon" by Richard Butler and Peter Buck. This one sounds a little safer, but Nick's song seem to survive everything... incredibly hardy creatures, fragile as they may seem. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:45:20 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: hilarious evil - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:51:40 -0800 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: Re: Was it The Crow? when she's ready to tackle "the viper", give me a hollah. i might just have to make a pilgrimage down there and do it with! what is the latest in coaster technology? i once rode "Montezuma's" 101 times in one day...but it's been many years since i've been near one. oh, check this out. somebody sent one of (the third one down, for what it's worth) to ffffound the other day. anybody know where this is? huhn, i note from wikipedia that while it received a new coat of paint for '08, "its status as the park's most extreme ride has been usurped by several new coasters". need to get back down there! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:20:51 -0800 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: hilarious evil Sounds like something that William Gibson would have inserted as a throwaway gag in a novel. It makes my brain feel icky. On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:45 PM, 2fs wrote: > > > -- > > ...Jeff Norman > > The Architectural Dance Society > http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:22:44 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Was it The Crow? On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: > > > when she's ready to tackle "the viper", give me a hollah. i might just > have to make a pilgrimage down there and do it with! Viper. Good stuff. I thought Six Flags was going belly-up just a few years back, but they seem to be okay now. We're gonna rock the Disney annual passes this year, courtesy of Grandma & Granddad, but I'm overdue for some Magic Mountain, no doubt about it. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:27:14 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: hilarious evil On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 6:20 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > Sounds like something that William Gibson would have inserted as a > throwaway > gag in a novel. It makes my brain feel icky. > Nothing, and I mean pretty much nothing, is funnier than this, though... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oGFogwcx-E I get whiplash from trying to figure out how self-aware this thing is... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:50:07 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: hilarious evil On Jan 19, 2009, at 9:27 PM, Rex wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 6:20 PM, kevin studyvin > wrote: > >> Sounds like something that William Gibson would have inserted as a >> throwaway >> gag in a novel. It makes my brain feel icky. >> > > Nothing, and I mean pretty much nothing, is funnier than this, > though... > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oGFogwcx-E > > I get whiplash from trying to figure out how self-aware this thing > is... Holy shit that was painful. Glad to see even a clueless family like that could figure out how to install XP on a MacBook Pro. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:51:17 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: For the inauguration http://gallery.mac.com/tclark#100003/rhobamicon&bgcolor=black - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:43:59 -0500 From: Caroline Smith Subject: Re: For the inauguration On 19-Jan-09, at 11:51 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > http://gallery.mac.com/tclark#100003/rhobamicon&bgcolor=black > Thanks American fegs for making today happen. It's a great day to be alive! Have an awesome day everyone. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:49:55 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: For the inauguration I forget now, where I found this graphic -- possibly it was from a posting to this very listserv. Possibly immediately after finding it, I posted it to this very listserv. If not, and in case anybody hasn't seen the "Sergeant Obama's Lonely Hearts Club Band" image by Michael Cuffe, take a look: http://readin.com/blog/?id=1673 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 Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Caroline Smith wrote: > On 19-Jan-09, at 11:51 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > >> http://gallery.mac.com/tclark#100003/rhobamicon&bgcolor=black >> > > > Thanks American fegs for making today happen. It's a great day to be alive! > Have an awesome day everyone. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:53:07 -0600 From: "Sumiko Keay" Subject: Re: For the inauguration Happy Inauguration Day everyone! I've got CNN on in the office. I hope I'll be able to keep it on! Sumi On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > http://gallery.mac.com/tclark#100003/rhobamicon&bgcolor=black > > -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:04:01 -0500 From: Marc Subject: Re: For the inauguration Sumiko Keay wrote: > Happy Inauguration Day everyone! I personally not a particular fan of either party, nor do I share the media fascination with the race of the new President nor a belief, which I saw advertised on Metro the other night, in the savior-like qualities of the man. I know some of you out there are celebrating today for purely partisan reasons, and I understand that. But it should be mentioned that there is another reason to celebrate today, regardless of party and regardless of your feelings about any particular candidate--for the 44th time in 221 years, we are witnessing a peaceful transition of power in this country. This is a remarkable achievement, and truly speaks well about the dedication of Americans to republican government and the Constitution. It wouldn't have mattered which man had been elected--the fact that we can so peacefully change our national leadership is something to be proud of. Marc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:56:12 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: reap http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/arts/16kurfirst.html?_r=1&ref=arts Gary Kurfirst, Rock Promoter and Manager of the Talking Heads, Dies at 61 By VIVIEN GOLDMAN Published: January 16, 2009 Gary Kurfirst, who helped shape a generationbs pop music aesthetic as a manager, promoter, publisher, producer and label executive, steering seminal acts like the Talking Heads and Janebs Addiction, died on Tuesday while vacationing in Nassau, the Bahamas. He was 61. The cause has not been determined, said Ian Flooks, a longtime friend and associate. Mr. Kurfirst may have been best known for managing a parade of famous rock groups, including Blondie, the Ramones, the B-52bs, Big Audio Dynamite, Eurythmics and, more recently, the band Live and Shirley Manson of Garbage. His tall frame gliding easily from backstage to boardroom, Mr. Kurfirst played many pivotal roles in international pop music. Four artists he managed are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: the Talking Heads, the Ramones, Blondie and Mick Jones, formerly of the Clash. As a young promoter moving to Manhattan from Queens in 1967, Mr. Kurfirst opened the Village Theater, which metamorphosed into the legendary hippie heaven the Fillmore East, later managed by Bill Graham. The following year he staged the New York Rock Festival at Singer Bowl in Flushing Meadow Park, an open-air event featuring Janis Joplin and the Doors. Its success helped inspire the concert at Woodstock in 1969. Mr. Kurfirstbs eclectic ventures over the years included his management company, Overland Productions, and its successor, Kurfirst-Blackwell Entertainment; Radioactive Records, whose roster in the 1990s included Live, Shirley Manson and Black Grape; and his publishing companies, Loco de Amor and Mucho Loco Music. While a student at Forest Hills High School in Queens, Mr. Kurfirst began to promote local mixer dances. His quick success perplexed his mother, who feared it would inspire illicit behavior. But his addiction was music. He soon graduated from promoting shows in the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in Queens to Fillmore East. Equipped with taste that the founder of Island Records, Chris Blackwell, described as bextraordinarily good,b he cherry-picked talent before it became legendary, giving bands like the Who and performers like Jimi Hendrix their East Coast breaks. In the late 1960s Mr. Kurfirst represented the guitar band Mountain in its contract negotiations with the label of Mr. Blackwell, who was reared in Jamaica. The two became close, and Mr. Kurfirst started to manage reggae artists like Peter Tosh, a founding member of the Wailers., and Toots and the Maytals. bGary was one of the first managers who basically built the rock business,b Mr. Blackwell said in a telephone interview. bHe stayed below the radar and once refused the cover of Rolling Stone because he felt it was not the right time for his band.b Seymour Stein, a founder of Sire Records and a frequent business partner of Mr. Kurfirst, recalled: bGary was a tough negotiator. You donbt survive that many years if you arenbt. But he was very fair.b Friends remember that Mr. Kurfirst agreed to take on one particular band only if it its original, unsatisfactory manager, who had given the group its start, was given a share of the bandbs future earnings. In the 1980s Mr. Kurfirst expanded into film, producing movies like bStop Making Sense,b the performance film featuring the Talking Heads. It was directed by Jonathan Demme. Mr. Kurfirst is survived by his wife, Phyllis; his daughter, Lindsay; his son, Josh; his mother, Joan; and two grandchildren. Chris Frantz, the drummer in the husband-and-wife rhythm section of the Talking Heads, recalled some of Mr. Kurfirstbs advice: bEven if youbre playing arenas, always do something for the fans. True rock bnb rollers always take it back to the clubs.b His wife, the bass player Tina Weymouth, remembered him advising: bNever smile. People will think youbre making money.b my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1215855013x1201028747/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072%26hmpgID=62%26bcd=De cemailfooterNO62) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:10:37 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Neil Young to Release Potentially Batshit Concept Album Yes, another one http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/148514-neil-young-to-release-potent ially-batshit-concept-album Neil Young to Release Potentially Batshit Concept Album Yes, another one According to the Village Voice's Rob Harvilla, the next Neil Young album is going to be, seriously, a "concept album about eco-friendly cars." According to The Guardian, the album "seems to be exploring three things b dirty blues, direct lyrics, and his LincVolt electric car project." Woof. And if both sources are to be believed, the new songs are both perplexing and terrible, which of course will not prevent Neil Young from stuffing his setlist with these songs until he gets tired of doing so. Neil Young, you see, does whatever the fuck he wants. That concept album is going to be called Fork in the Road, and Warner Bros. will release it sometime this spring. As The Guardian reports, Neil Young fans are pissed off not only because the new songs suck, but because this album is pushing back the release of his long-delayed Blu-ray Archives project yet again. Sample song titles from Fork in the Road, all of which confirm the concept-album-about-cars thesis: "Cough Up the Bucks", "Fuel Line", "Hit the Road", "Get Around". Young's website is currently streaming the video for the title track and first single, and the entire thing consists of Young lip-syncing into a webcam while wearing earbuds that are plugged into an apple. At the end he plays air guitar. I am not joking. Young is currently on tour Down Under. Video: Neil Young: Fork in the Road [from the forthcoming Fork in the Road LP] my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1215855013x1201028747/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072%26hmpgID=62%26bcd=De cemailfooterNO62) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:14:12 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Neil Young to Release Potentially Batshit Concept Album Yes, another one On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:10 AM, wrote: > > http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/148514-neil-young-to-release-potent > ially-batshit-concept-album > > Neil Young to Release Potentially Batshit Concept Album > Yes, another one > Yesssssss!!! 2009 already ROCKS, man!!! - -Rex ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #18 *******************************