From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #28 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, February 1 2009 Volume 17 : Number 028 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: REAP semi-scare... [Rex ] RE: REAP semi-scare... [Michael Sweeney ] RE: REAP semi-scare... [Michael Sweeney ] up to our nex (symphony space) [ontario moe ] Re: up to our nex (symphony space) [Jeremy Osner ] 13th Floor Elevators box (NR) [Steve Schiavo ] Audities 2008 (NR) [Steve Schiavo ] Ivory and Ivory [Jeremy Osner ] Bristol Fleece [hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] reap [2fs ] Mind Wall [Jeremy Osner ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:44:23 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: REAP semi-scare... > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Michael Sweeney wrote: > ...So, after hearing the great (and recently mentioned -- by Rex, right?) Yep, me.... all 37-years-worth of me. Michael "Although I certainly wouldn't mind having to sit through 'Don't Stop Believing' and 'Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'' to hear resulting bad news about Steve Perry (or, frankly, ANY member of Journey -- even the former-Santana member(s)...)" Sweeney Dude, I feel ya, "Don't Stop Believing" is hard to sit through no matter *what* the circumstances. Totally uninteresting story: the kids and I were standing in line for the Finding Nemo Submarine ride at Disneyland when this cover band emerges from the ground in a cloud of fog, Spinal Tap-like, from the cafe adjacent to the queue next to us, cranking out "Don't Stop Believin'" with appropriate Disney earnestness. In the line in front of me, a woman and her daughter, the latter est. 17 yrs old or so, sings along with vigor. Behind me, a group of college-age women interrupt their reading from some kind of book of pickup lines to check out the scene. After a moment, one of them says, "You know, I think this song is universally loved by everyone." I find that interesting because (A) college kids are obviously a little different twenty years since I graduated, and (B) I've long been saying that I think "Don't Stop Believing" is the very worst song ever recorded, and while I can understand hardcore nostalgists loving it for its cheese factor, it's a little harder to see how it's secured such a place in the heart of the younger generation. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:15:51 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: RE: REAP semi-scare... ...and, dude (if I may!), it's even worse here in Chicago (esp. on the North Side), cuz, somehow (and bless their lil' idiotic hearts, but I don't care how) the goddamn White Sox fans (all few-hundred-thousand of them in the world) adopted "Don't Stop Believing" (and I'm with you -- it came out when I was a late teen...and it's one of the WORST SONGS EVAH!) as the team's unofficial theme song during the 2005 World Series run... Now, as a Cubs fan, I'm not jealous, in 2nd place, wondering how they felt, bitter, etc. -- all those semi-stupid cliches the South Side fans seem to gloatingly want to take on (rather than actual higher-than-lower-middle-class employment)...to me, it was just another case -- like the Twins in the '90s, for example -- of a small-market team in the league I don't follow managing to win it...good for them -- at least a break from the Yanks and Crimson, eh? But...GODDAMN IT -- stop with the "Don't Stop Believing" bullcrap already...my god, the fact that today's 18-yr-olds aren't rejecting that faster than they did McCain has got to be a leading mystery of taste and style. There can't even be anything classically ironic about it... ...I'd rather sit through weeks and weeks of horrible reality shows with Bret Michaels, the horsed-up original drummer from G'n'R, and the entire car-crash Ozzbourne family than hear that piece of crap song ever again (notably, to celebrate the -- hopefully tragic (AND painful) -- death of the singing duck, Steve Perry excepted...). Michael "OK - rant over..." Sweeney np "Bluebird" - Buffalo Springfield...gawd, I luv this satellite radio! Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:44:23 -0800Subject: Re: REAP semi-scare...From: spottedeagleray@gmail.comTo: m_l_sweeney@hotmail.comCC: fegmaniax@smoe.org On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Michael Sweeney wrote: ...So, after hearing the great (and recently mentioned -- by Rex, right?) Yep, me.... all 37-years-worth of me. Michael "Although I certainly wouldn't mind having to sit through 'Don't Stop Believing' and 'Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'' to hear resulting bad news about Steve Perry (or, frankly, ANY member of Journey -- even the former-Santana member(s)...)" Sweeney Dude, I feel ya, "Don't Stop Believing" is hard to sit through no matter *what* the circumstances. Totally uninteresting story: the kids and I were standing in line for the Finding Nemo Submarine ride at Disneyland when this cover band emerges from the ground in a cloud of fog, Spinal Tap-like, from the cafe adjacent to the queue next to us, cranking out "Don't Stop Believin'" with appropriate Disney earnestness. In the line in front of me, a woman and her daughter, the latter est. 17 yrs old or so, sings along with vigor. Behind me, a group of college-age women interrupt their reading from some kind of book of pickup lines to check out the scene. After a moment, one of them says, "You know, I think this song is universally loved by everyone." I find that interesting because (A) college kids are obviously a little different twenty years since I graduated, and (B) I've long been saying that I think "Don't Stop Believing" is the very worst song ever recorded, and while I can understand hardcore nostalgists loving it for its cheese factor, it's a little harder to see how it's secured such a place in the heart of the younger generation. - -Rex _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live: E-mail. Chat. Share. Get more ways to connect. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_allup_explore_012009 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:22:07 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: RE: REAP semi-scare... ...Quick add, re: "Don't Stop Believing"... ...Just remembered (seconds after hitting the "Send" button on the last message) one of the other reasons for the song's recent revival: the final ep. of "The Sopranos"... Hey, Tony S. was about (give or take a yr or 2) my age...and the fact that apparently that Jersey jamoch was still hanging on to that song about 30 years after being a teenager (instead of, say, some Springsteen or Southside Johnny or even Mink Deville) was probably even a better reason to come gunning for him... MLS (OK, NOW the rant is finished...) _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail.:more than just e-mail. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_hm_justgotbetter_explore_ 012009 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:43:47 -0500 From: ontario moe Subject: up to our nex (symphony space) yeproc has posted "up to our nex" from the symphony space iodot show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwzoxkSPExE woj ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:16:23 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: up to our nex (symphony space) Thanks for linking this, woj -- beautiful performance. If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Josay Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 4:43 PM, ontario moe wrote: > yeproc has posted "up to our nex" from the symphony space iodot show: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwzoxkSPExE > > woj ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:39:03 -0600 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: 13th Floor Elevators box (NR) Not too bad a price for 10 discs and a book. - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:59:40 -0600 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Audities 2008 (NR) 01 Cliff Hillis // The Long Now 02 The Major Labels // Aquavia 03 REM // Accelerate 04 Sloan // Parallel play 05 She & Him // Volume 1 06 Kelly Jones // SheBANG! 07 Nada Surf // Lucky 08 Pugwash // 11 Modern Antiquities 09 Roger Joseph Manning Jnr. // Catnip dynamite 10 Rick Springfield // Venus In Overdrive The rest are here - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 07:23:47 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Ivory and Ivory Paul McCartney on the Colbert Report: http://videogum.com/archives/music-related-content/stephen-colbert-clashes-egos-w_049011.html If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Josx Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:36:56 +0000 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Bristol Fleece > Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:43:34 +0000 > From: Jim Davies > Subject: Re: RH UK tour in February > From the web page, it's most certainly not the Venus 3. And there > will be no Morris, either, unless there's been a change of plan. If > you want to see Morris, then you'll need to head on down to the gig > at the Fleece - a great place to see them play, in any case. > It's going to be great, though. I'm hoping to make it to > Birmingham, London, and Bristol. Maybe Cambridge, too. > Anyone else planning to be at those gigs? * I have a ticket for the Fleece, Jim, so see you there. My understanding was that after their last English winter, the Venus 3 quoth "Never again". - - Mike Godwin PS to James: Get well soon! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 10:50:22 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: reap Ray Dennis Steckler. Let's hope he doesn't become a mixed-up zombie... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 18:48:15 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Mind Wall Have you guys seen/heard this? http://jeansnow.net/2009/02/01/mind-wall/ 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 V17 #28 *******************************