From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #46 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, February 12 2009 Volume 17 : Number 046 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: My name is "Eb", and my "johnson" is just as long(er) spelt backwards or forwards [kevin studyvin ] Re: Joss Whedon on Fresh Air [lep ] Can we leave Gitmo open just long enough to prevent this? [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Joss Whedon on Fresh Air [Sumiko Keay ] On Being Complete [David Witzany ] Re: Sam's Gone Away ["Nectar At Any Cost!" ] Re: Rain [kevin studyvin ] Re: Joss Whedon on Fresh Air [kevin studyvin ] Re: My name is "Eb", and my "johnson" is just as long(er) spelt backwards or forwards [Rex ] Re: My name is "Eb", and my "johnson" is just as long(er) spelt backwards or forwards [Rex ] Re: Rain [kevin studyvin ] Re:my name is...you *know* my name - look up the number [James Dignan ] Re:hard rock [James Dignan ] Re: BSG (impending thread-merge implied) [James Dignan ] Re: Rain [lep ] Re: Rain [Rex ] Re: Rain [Rex ] Re: Rain [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Rain [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Satan's doughnut [Tom Clark ] desktops [djini@voicenet.com] Re: Rain [Michael Sweeney ] Something beautiful to look at [Jeremy Osner ] Re: BSG (impending thread-merge implied) [Steve Schiavo ] Re: Rain [Jeff Dwarf ] magnet magazine [ontario moe ] RE: [VegFriends] crawdaddy review : Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 by Paul Myers [Vernon_ Briscoe ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:07:23 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and my "johnson" is just as long(er) spelt backwards or forwards > The Buffalo Springfield, once again, notwithstanding... > As most of my peer-group would have said back in our high school daze, "There's no 'The'," in the most withering tone we could muster. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:12:17 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and my "johnson" is just as long(er) spelt backwards or forwards > i'd recommend TOOL, helms alee, korpiklaani, boris, mogwai. though i don't > know if any of these would truly be considered metal. (indeed, in > , > dancin'-machine hopstetter labeled TOOL "poseurs and pussies"...) Love that Mogwai, but it wouldn't occur to me to think of them as metal. On the other hand the most recent King Crimson release, whichever one it was, seemed firmly in the metal camp - but then Fripp's always leaned that way. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:52:53 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Can we leave Gitmo open just long enough to prevent this? http://www.avclub.com/articles/limp-bizkit-to-do-it-all-for-the-nookie-once-more,23735/ "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:08:36 -0500 From: David Stovall Subject: Re: Rain > From: lep > > i'm glad you pointed that one out kevin - i have a new catch phrase. > i'll see how many sentences i can start with "with no real loss of > truth..." > > (i should probably point out that i start a fair amount of homework > sentences with "without loss of generalization, we may assume..." so > "with no real loss of truth" could actually be useful phrase.) My freshman Calc I prof used a similar version of that phrase heavily, euphoniously acronymized: WOLOGIMBAT With-out loss of generality, it may be assumed that,... da9ve ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:10:09 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: Joss Whedon on Fresh Air Sumi says: > He's being interviewed today - I think that it should be on the NPR > website later this afternoon - so far lots of Dr. Horrible talk. i recently saw a television ad for ``dollhouse'' - i think it's starting up fairly soon? xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:12:46 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Can we leave Gitmo open just long enough to prevent this? http://www.avclub.com/articles/limp-bizkit-to-do-it-all-for-the-nookie-once-more,23735/ "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:27:19 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: So what do y'all think about ... Joaquin Phoenix on Letterman? I didn't know the Farrah Fawcett thing before, so that's pretty funny as well: - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:32:59 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Rain > My freshman Calc I prof used a similar version of that phrase heavily, > euphoniously acronymized: > > WOLOGIMBAT A-and did he pronounce it "wologgumbat"? With stress on the second syllable or the third? 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, 12 Feb 2009 14:35:36 -0600 From: Sumiko Keay Subject: Re: Joss Whedon on Fresh Air Dollhouse starts on Friday. Also, Joss may have talked about Dollhouse - my computer was being recalcitrant and I missed the first part of the interview. Sumi On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:10 PM, lep wrote: > Sumi says: >> He's being interviewed today - I think that it should be on the NPR >> website later this afternoon - so far lots of Dr. Horrible talk. > > i recently saw a television ad for ``dollhouse'' - i think it's > starting up fairly soon? > > xo > > -- > "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:52:25 -0600 (CST) From: David Witzany Subject: On Being Complete How about: "I'm not even gonna try to figure that out; it's obviously NP-complete..." Tom the oft-maligned spake: - --------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:03:58 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Rain On Feb 11, 2009, at 11:51 AM, lep wrote: > sadly, my most recent catch phrase didn't take (even *i* forget to use > it) - my AI teacher used the term "computationally painful" and i > (briefly, it would seem) feel in love with it. This guy that I work with has recently adopted "it's Turing-complete!" as an explanation for most every issue. It's cute once or twice a year, but c'mon, it really doesn't apply to everyday situations. - - -tc - ------------------------------ Dave. David Witzany ...one of nature's witzany@uiuc.edu bounds checkers ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:09:10 -0800 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: Re: Sam's Gone Away <(or will it be like Kung Fu Fighting, which got mentioned on the sleeve to Eye but never got an official release)> it's on *Alvin Lives*. i'm sure you probably know that, marc -- but in case some others don't, and want to track it down...it's in the torrent. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:09:53 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Rain On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > > My freshman Calc I prof used a similar version of that phrase heavily, > > euphoniously acronymized: > > > > WOLOGIMBAT > > A-and did he pronounce it "wologgumbat"? With stress on the second > syllable or the third? It's almost Cajun - "wall o' gumbat" very nearly identical to "wall o' gumbo." Which makes no formal sense, but then neither does John Ashbery, mostly. np: Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center 1961-1973 and Vladimir Ussachevsky: Electronic & Acoustic Works 1957-1972, excerpted to CD-R. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:11:56 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Joss Whedon on Fresh Air On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:10 PM, lep wrote: > Sumi says: > > He's being interviewed today - I think that it should be on the NPR > > website later this afternoon - so far lots of Dr. Horrible talk. > > i recently saw a television ad for ``dollhouse'' - i think it's > starting up fairly soon? > > xo Tomorrow night! Set those DVRs, because Artemis only knows how much of it will ever actually get aired... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:16:25 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and my "johnson" is just as long(er) spelt backwards or forwards On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:12 AM, kevin studyvin wrote: > > > Love that Mogwai, but it wouldn't occur to me to think of them as metal. > On > the other hand the most recent King Crimson release, whichever one it was, > seemed firmly in the metal camp - but then Fripp's always leaned that way. And there we land on the Great-Granddaddy of All Bands I'm Supposed To And By All Rights Should Be Really Into, But By Whom I've Never Heard Anything That I Like. I have tried. All of those guys are all over recordings that I love. But the whole is apparently less than the sum of its parts in the critical area of "thing that makes me like their music". Every year, I think it's gonna be the year I crack the KC nut, but something else always comes up and displaces them in my musical to-do-queue. And yeah, the metal edge doesn't help... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:21:09 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and my "johnson" is just as long(er) spelt backwards or forwards > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:12 AM, kevin studyvin wrote: > >> >> >> Love that Mogwai, but it wouldn't occur to me to think of them as metal. >> On >> the other hand the most recent King Crimson release, whichever one it was, >> seemed firmly in the metal camp - but then Fripp's always leaned that way. > > > And there we land on the Great-Granddaddy of All Bands I'm Supposed To And > By All Rights Should Be Really Into, But By Whom I've Never Heard Anything > That I Like. > > I have tried. All of those guys are all over recordings that I love. But > the whole is apparently less than the sum of its parts in the critical area > of "thing that makes me like their music". Every year, I think it's gonna > be the year I crack the KC nut, but something else always comes up and > displaces them in my musical to-do-queue. > > And yeah, the metal edge doesn't help... > > -Rex > But dude - Bruford! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:31:48 -0500 From: David Stovall Subject: Re: Rain On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: >> My freshman Calc I prof used a similar version of that phrase heavily, >> euphoniously acronymized: >> >> WOLOGIMBAT > > A-and did he pronounce it "wologgumbat"? With stress on the second > syllable or the third? Accent on the third syllable, woloGIMbat, hard G as in Guy. He managed to make it sound like something to hit people with - I guess the 'bat' part really takes care of that, but the way the prof usually emphasized the word and bugged his eyes out when saying it, added to the effect. This was no geeky stereotypical math prof, either. He looked a little like a gorilla, and claimed to have been a first-round draft pick for the '69 Cleveland Browns. d9 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:44:36 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and my "johnson" is just as long(er) spelt backwards or forwards On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 1:21 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > >> > > But dude - Bruford! > And moreover, Fripp! Belew! Levin! They're all over my record collection doing things I adore. I can't figure it, either. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:56:56 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: Satan's doughnut > >> Then one day, I asked myself that same question about quantum >physics. I've > >> been an agnostic ever since. > >> > >> --Quail > >> > > > > Well, if you define faith as belief in things unseen, that would >pretty well > > cover that whole area... > >The chief difference being, of course, any evidence in favor of the >unseen. And I believe that there *has* been evidence suggesting that >the theories of quantum physics are correct. (Otherwise, they would've >been overturned in favor of a diff. theory that better fit the facts.) it hasn't, but some of its major theories are looking decidedly shaky and are likely to be rethought pretty soon, if my astonishing mad genius Alice is anything to go by. To quote her recently: "Forget string theory - quantum dynamical triangulation makes far more sense and works better." I smiled and nodded, as usual understanding only some of the words. Something to do with spin foam, apparently (whatever that is), meaning that space isn't so much curved as made up of an infinite curving structure made up of flat planes, a bit like a multisided die with an immense number of sides. 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, 12 Feb 2009 14:00:45 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Rain > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > >> My freshman Calc I prof used a similar version of that phrase heavily, > >> euphoniously acronymized: > >> > >> WOLOGIMBAT > > > > A-and did he pronounce it "wologgumbat"? With stress on the second > > syllable or the third? > > Accent on the third syllable, woloGIMbat, hard G as in Guy. He > managed to make it sound like something to hit people with - I guess > the 'bat' part really takes care of that, but the way the prof usually > emphasized the word and bugged his eyes out when saying it, added to > the effect. > > This was no geeky stereotypical math prof, either. He looked a little > like a gorilla, and claimed to have been a first-round draft pick for > the '69 Cleveland Browns. Talk about computationally painful... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:08:19 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re:my name is...you *know* my name - look up the number >I feel we are very close to discussing, whether or not it exists, the The >The "The The The Box" box. Or indeed, despite the fact that it cannot and >never will exist, the Living In a Box "Living In A Box Box" Box. Arg. Before it starts, can e seal this threadd off in the ' the The The "The The The Box" box' box? It's a good thing there's never been a band called "The Box Set". Mind you, some bands come up with novel promotional items, such as that wonderful early PIL set. Has there ever been a Can Can? Oh, and yes, the reason macca did that tribute to george on the ukelele is that George harrison was ukelele mad and carried one with him in his luggage whenever possible. 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, 13 Feb 2009 11:09:56 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re:my name is of no consequence >Since I no longer possess most of the, um, music-boxes I've owned but retain >them in digital form, they now are generally titled something like "Biograph >(Disc 1)" as discrete units. In some cases there's a need to insert the >format as a descriptor if the box shares a title with an LP-- the only >example I can think of offhand is Buffalo Springfield, an at a push, the >Byrds, whose original box was titled "The Byrds" and whose latter day >reunion album, no material from which was featured on the "The Byrds" box, >was called "Byrds". Surprised that in this set no-one to my knwoledge has yet mentioned Secret Machines' album "The Secret Machines" - or is it the other way round? 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, 13 Feb 2009 11:15:36 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re:hard rock > >> In my attempt to find something both contemporary and "hard > >> rock," I've tried Queens of the Stone Age and pretty much snoozed > >> through 'em, so I'm still looking. > >As far as modern "hard rock" goes, I like Black Mountain a lot -- kind of >hard, stoner rock, a bit like Zeppelin at times, without the (glorious) >bombast. Inching closer to metal, I would second Chris' recommendation of >Sleep. Also, if you are a fan of Ozzy-era Black Sabbath, then Wolfmother, >Electric Wizard, and The Sword are three groups to check out... At the risk of pushing another kiwi band, if you want hard rock, you can do worse than trying Shihad. They're towards the grunge end of the hard rock scale (like a louder Foo Fighters), but well worth it. If you';d prefer the bluesier,country-folk part of the scale, Australia's Cruel Sea (not, as far as I know, The Cruel Sea) are worth checking out, too. For Blackmountain/Zepesque hard rock, there's also Masters Of Reality. 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, 13 Feb 2009 11:26:31 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: BSG (impending thread-merge implied) > >> Now I want a musical episode, Buffy-style! Choruses of Eights, >an Airlock Aria, a > >> Lullaby (for a wee Ceylon), one of the hymns to Gaius (you know >there must be scads)... > >a wee cylon...that's so cute. no, you misunderstand - it was for a 1:1000 scale model of Sri Lanka. >I never saw the episode but wasn't there a musical episode of Xena? >Suggests that Lucy Lawless sings. Given that she's sung in musicals on Broadway, this is quite likely (she played Rizzo in the 1990s version of "Grease"). 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, 12 Feb 2009 14:27:16 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: my name is of no consequence On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:09 PM, James Dignan wrote: > > > > Surprised that in this set no-one to my knwoledge has yet mentioned Secret > Machines' album "The Secret Machines" - or is it the other way round? To say nothing of Sebadoh's "The Sebadoh"... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:34:47 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: Rain d9 says: > This was no geeky stereotypical math prof, either. He looked a little > like a gorilla, and claimed to have been a first-round draft pick for > the '69 Cleveland Browns. i suspected an outlier! i tend to track differences between mathematicians and computer scientists (my interests keep me on the fence between math and computer science AND my favourite pastime is ``one of these thing is not like the other''), and mathematicians seem to have an almost puritanical aversion to acronyms. i admire them for it: nothing's changed since euclid. my number theory teacher went so far as to write WLOGWMA (without loss of generalization, we may assume), but never (and probably never would have) created a pronunciation. he was another outlier, though - a christian mathematician; this seemed kind of fascinating and quite exotic (fortunately, he's actually one of the few christians i've know who gives being christian a good name.) as ever, lauren - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:15:04 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Rain On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 3:34 PM, lep wrote: > (fortunately, he's actually one of the few christians i've know > who gives being christian a good name.) You might know quite a few other good ones without knowing they're Christian... that is, in my mind at least, one of the key factors of being "good" at it. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:35:09 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Rain On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 3:34 PM, lep wrote: > d9 says: > > This was no geeky stereotypical math prof, either. He looked a little > > like a gorilla, and claimed to have been a first-round draft pick for > > the '69 Cleveland Browns. > > i suspected an outlier! Oh, and potential band name thought progression: 1) The Outliers 2) Outliers 3) Out & the Outliers 4) Out & Outliers (I'll stop short of positing an Echo/Hootie-style putative frontperson named "The Out". Except I just kinda did.) - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:43:17 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Rain On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Rex wrote: > 1) The Outliers > 2) Outliers > 3) Out & the Outliers > 4) Out & Outliers 5) Out and the Liars If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Josx Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:44:19 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Rain 6) Out and Out Liars If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Josx Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:38:38 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Satan's doughnut On Feb 12, 2009, at 1:56 PM, James Dignan wrote: > it hasn't, but some of its major theories are looking decidedly > shaky and are likely to be rethought pretty soon, if my astonishing > mad genius Alice is anything to go by. To quote her recently: > "Forget string theory - quantum dynamical triangulation makes far > more sense and works better." I smiled and nodded, as usual > understanding only some of the words. Something to do with spin > foam, apparently (whatever that is), meaning that space isn't so > much curved as made up of an infinite curving structure made up of > flat planes, a bit like a multisided die with an immense number of > sides. Sounds like your household would fit in on "The Big Bang Theory". Specifically: - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:49:59 -0500 (EST) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: desktops This one's for James - the Vlad studio guy, whose wallpaper I love, has a New Zealand one up. http://vladstudio.com/wallpaper/?kiwikiwi Sometimes he's too cutesy, but the dark ones are so dark that I've started to see a sort of manic glee in the cute ones that mitigate the sugar. Also, I like reading his Photoshop tutorials even though they are way over my head. I've had this one on my laptop for a long time now: http://vladstudio.com/wallpaper/?typographic_world_map Sorry I'm back to cc-ing whomever I'm referencing - the smoe is eating my posts again. Nom nom. Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:51:24 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: Rain lep(po?) wrote: >p.s. these pretzels are making me thirsty. Ah, good one! ...See -- not only Rutles, Lou, Lindsey/F.Mac, Marx Bros., Beatles references, etc. -- but I'm also here to pick up the even random, semi-po-mo Woody Allen references... Michael "Actually named the protagonist of my 2nd novel 'Mark Fielding,' somewhat with 'Fielding Mellish' in mind..." 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That spoken bit at 2:30 - 2:38 > isn't on the single. I assume that this was edited from > an interview with George Harrison. I'd be willing to bet money that's from an old interview with John; or at least, George doing his John impression. "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:22:29 -0500 From: ontario moe Subject: magnet magazine magnet magazine has posted an interview with robyn from last august: http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2008/08/26/qa-with-robyn-hitchcock/ the interview was previously published in the magazine but now can be read online (so i won't paste the text here). thanks to miles from magnet for letting me know! woj ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:16:10 +0000 From: Vernon_ Briscoe Subject: RE: [VegFriends] crawdaddy review : Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 by Paul Myers Thanks for posting this glorious review from Crawdaddy. Robyn has been Robyn long enough at last, perhaps, for people to see him. Jim _________________________________________________________________ Twice the funShare photos while you chat with Windows Live Messenger. Learn more. http://www.microsoft.com/uk/windows/windowslive/products/messenger.aspx ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:10:13 -0500 (EST) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Re: BSG (impending thread-merge implied) > a wee cylon...that's so cute. Robyn gets to write that one! Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:53:49 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: my name is of no consequence On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 4:09 PM, James Dignan wrote: >> Since I no longer possess most of the, um, music-boxes I've owned but >> retain >> them in digital form, they now are generally titled something like >> "Biograph >> (Disc 1)" as discrete units. In some cases there's a need to insert the >> format as a descriptor if the box shares a title with an LP-- the only >> example I can think of offhand is Buffalo Springfield, an at a push, the >> Byrds, whose original box was titled "The Byrds" and whose latter day >> reunion album, no material from which was featured on the "The Byrds" box, >> was called "Byrds". > > Surprised that in this set no-one to my knwoledge has yet mentioned Secret > Machines' album "The Secret Machines" - or is it the other way round? There's the Invisible Lilys' album ("invisible" because none of the usual guides seem to mention it: it's the British reissue, w/some track substitutions and remixing, of _Precollection_) called _The Lilys_ - even though the band is always just "Lilys." Really woulda been headfvcking if it'd been called "Lilies"... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #46 *******************************