From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #47 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, February 14 2009 Volume 17 : Number 047 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: So what do y'all think about ... [lep ] Re: BSG (because I have nothing to say about Rush) [djini@voicenet.com] Re: So what do y'all think about ... [Michael Sweeney ] Re: got my Live Nation RH ticket [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Rain [michaeljbachman@comcast.net] Re: Robyn gives in and gets an iPod [Rex ] Re: Robyn gives in and gets an iPod [Jeremy Osner ] Re: BSG (impending thread-merge implied) [Sumiko Keay ] Re: BSG (impending thread-merge implied) [2fs ] Re: my name is...you *know* my name - look up the number [kevin studyvin ] Re: magnet magazine [kevin studyvin ] Re: Rain [kevin studyvin ] Re: Robyn gives in and gets an iPod [kevin studyvin ] Re: BSG (because I have nothing to say about Rush) [lep ] Re: if you're happy and you know it... [lep ] For junkies and wonks [Steve Schiavo ] Re: FW: Heads-Up, Euro-Fegs! [Rex ] Re: if you're happy and you know it... [Rex ] April 3.... [Poem Lover ] Re: BSG (because I have nothing to say about Rush) [Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: So what do y'all think about ... Sebastian says: > Joaquin Phoenix on Letterman? > > that one had been taken down by the time i got there, but this "highlights" version was still up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXpYk7WGN5Y the debate seems to be whether he's stoned or putting on an act for a documentary (it's a thin line between drugs and art.) > I didn't know the Farrah Fawcett thing before, so that's pretty funny as > well: > > that's kind of depressing (i'd probably have been amused if it weren't for the commenters claiming cancer fog (everyone know that if *anyone* speaks the truth, it's a youtuber with an opinion.) xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:47:02 -0500 (EST) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Re: BSG (because I have nothing to say about Rush) Sumiko wrote: > > AJ has opera training. 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)... I will stop before I start inadvertently spoiling. And Lauren clarifies: > > that 'cause you're a guy (for the record, lee is > delicate-yet-still-strongly-handsome and helo is rugged-handsome.) Oh, I don't have trouble with Apollo. He looks like a politician. I don't think I would like him very much in person. It's the others. And yes, part of it is that they all have nicknames. > BSG (dated) triva: i'm assuming everyone knows that hot dog is, in > real life, eddie olmos' son? > No, I didn't know that! I need to be watching this show with you in the room Lauren! Wanna have a final episode party? Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 06:18:18 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: So what do y'all think about ... Sebastian wrote: >Joaquin Phoenix on Letterman? ...Oh man, was that some mental / human wreckage on display there last night. Yes, it brought to mind the Farrah appearance (and good crack from Dave about apologizing to her), as well as classic Crispin Glover / Cher / Madonna shows. As they also pointed out on Howard Stern's show this morning, it definitely harkened back to the more edgy '80s Letterman days, when he was perhaps more willing to shake things up and call people on their behavior (rather than just sucking up to cute young actresses)... ...The weirdest thing was that it didn't seem to be drink / drug-related behavior from JP -- IMO, that's either some seriously teetering medulla oblongata functioning (i.e., get that boy back on his meds) OR some bizarrely put-on Kaufman / method-acting / "Punk'd" long-form stab at, at...well, SOMETHING. Gawd knows what, at this point...(although I heard his recent appearances and horrible rap performances have all been filmed, as if some doc is being made about all of this...) Good, fascinating car-crash TV, though... Michael "Now, THAT sure wasn't Johnny Cash..." Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Want to do more with Windows Live? Learn 10 hidden secrets from Jamie. http://windowslive.com/connect/post/jamiethomson.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!550 F681DAD532637!5295.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_domore_092008 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:18:49 +0000 From: "craigie*" Subject: Re: my name is...you *know* my name - look up the number On 12/02/2009, James Dignan wrote: > > 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? I'm not touching *this* again... 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? I believe the French did this at Folies Bergere... ;-) 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. Indeed. And it was sweet of 'Mad' Macca (if the stories told by his ex-Heather are true...) to perform it in this way. c* - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... I like my girls to be the same as my records - independent, attractively packaged and in black vinyl (if at all possible)... Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc (the motto of the Addams Family: "We gladly feast on those who would subdue us") ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:33:25 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Something beautiful to look at Jeremy Osner wrote: > Dudes, you gotta check these photos out: http://readin.com/blog/?id=1733 meh, polariser and HDR. That technique's getting as overexposed as false tilt-shift (or 'tilt-shit' as it should be properly known). Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:37:53 EST From: HSatterfld@aol.com Subject: Re: Robyn gives in and gets an iPod <> I'll probably pick up "Give the People What They Want" eventually. I expect the reason I haven't before now is that "Come Dancing" is way more annoying than anything Journey has ever recorded. (BTW, I have convinced myself that that Journey song is really called "Don't Stop Bleedin'". It is much more entertaining that way.) **************Nothing says I love you like flowers! Find a florist near you now. (http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=florist&ncid=emlcntusyelp00000002) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:49:02 EST From: HSatterfld@aol.com Subject: Re: BSG (impending thread-merge implied) >>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"). This is also the role Rosie O'Donnell played, so I don't know that there is a correlation with having musical ability. **************Nothing says I love you like flowers! Find a florist near you now. (http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=florist&ncid=emlcntusyelp00000002) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:56:42 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: got my Live Nation RH ticket boy, that's one good looking ticket ! my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ **************Nothing says I love you like flowers! Find a florist near you now. (http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=florist&ncid=emlcntusyelp00000002) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:59:14 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Robyn gives in and gets an iPod > I expect the reason I haven't before now is that "Come Dancing" > is way more annoying than anything Journey has ever recorded. I like "Come Dancing". I like it in a very similar way to how I like "Ob-la-di", a way which involves acknowledging the annoying aspects of the song and reveling in its joyous aspects. "Come Dancing", I particularly like to hear buskers covering. J If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Josx Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:07:08 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: got my Live Nation RH ticket On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 9:56 AM, wrote: > boy, that's one good looking ticket ! My heart is filled with envy -- I will be in NY on the 9th and in DC on the 11th; which is *exactly* the wrong arrangement! J If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Josx Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:27:48 +0000 (UTC) From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Subject: Re: Rain - ----- Original Message ----- From: "lep" To: "a sweet little cupcake...baked by the devil!" Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 6:34:47 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: Rain d9 says: > This was no geeky stereotypical math prof, either. B He looked a little > like a gorilla, and claimed to have been a first-round draft pick for > the '69 Cleveland Browns. A couple ofB great names on the 1969 Browns roster, Fair Hooker and Chip Glass! Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:46:20 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Robyn gives in and gets an iPod On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 6:37 AM, wrote: > \> > > I'll probably pick up "Give the People What They Want" eventually. > I expect the reason I haven't before now is that "Come Dancing" > is way more annoying than anything Journey has ever recorded. Now I'm angry with you! > > (BTW, I have convinced myself that that Journey song is really > called "Don't Stop Bleedin'". It is much more entertaining that way.) Now I completely forgive you and celebrate your wonderfulness!! > > -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:53:10 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Robyn gives in and gets an iPod > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 6:37 AM, wrote: >> (BTW, I have convinced myself that that Journey song is really >> called "Don't Stop Bleedin'". It is much more entertaining that way.) But this is kind of unnecessary advice, right? I mean, they *never* stop bleeding... If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Josx Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:34:54 -0600 From: Sumiko Keay Subject: Re: BSG (impending thread-merge implied) I believe that Michael Trucco plays guitar. So far - a cast of three for the special musical episode of BSG. But can Ronald D. Moore write a musical? Perhaps they can hire Joss and his family to do it? Sumi On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 8:49 AM, wrote: >>>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"). > > This is also the role Rosie O'Donnell played, so I don't know that there is > a correlation with having musical ability. > > > **************Nothing says I love you like flowers! Find a florist near you > now. (http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=florist&ncid=emlcntusyelp00000002) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:10:24 -0800 (PST) From: xx Subject: Amoeba LA Sorry if this is a repost (haven't been keeping up with the digests in a long, long time).... Mr. Hitchcock will be at Amoeba Records Hollywood on February 25th (or is that FEGruary?). Oddly, I received "Goodnight Oslo" 2 weeks ago. I thought it wasn't being released until next week. Sad to say, that I am just not liking the new disc.... Still might go to the instore. - -g ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:01:45 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: BSG (impending thread-merge implied) On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Sumiko Keay wrote: > I believe that Michael Trucco plays guitar. > > So far - a cast of three for the special musical episode of BSG. > > But can Ronald D. Moore write a musical? > > Perhaps they can hire Joss and his family to do it? That's such a brilliant idea, I wish I'd thought of it! Oh. ..... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:09:48 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: my name is...you *know* my name - look up the number > I believe the French did this at Folies Bergere... ;-) > > 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. > > > Indeed. And it was sweet of 'Mad' Macca (if the stories told by his > ex-Heather are true...) to perform it in this way. Well ya know, whatever the vagaries of his taste the guy's never seemed to be anything less than 100%, human-being-wise. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:01:28 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: magnet magazine I can't help loving that man's mind. Of course the fact that we're almost the same age (he's got a year on me) is probably a factor, somewhere. "Hitchcock's rotary imagination" is definitely the word for today. Happy Friday the 13th! np Joe Venuti: Violin Jazz 1927-1934. Reading Quantum Of Solace: The Complete James Bond Stories. And the Mallarme Selected Poetry & Prose edited by Mary Ann Caws, who's translated a bunch of Maurice Blanchot (to the extent that Blanchot can be translated). On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 7:22 PM, ontario moe wrote: > 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: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:16:16 -0800 From: kevin studyvin 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.) And they've already got a built-in calling card if they do a remake of "Liar Liar." ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:20:58 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Robyn gives in and gets an iPod On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > > I expect the reason I haven't before now is that "Come Dancing" > > is way more annoying than anything Journey has ever recorded. > > I like "Come Dancing". I like it in a very similar way to how I like > "Ob-la-di", a way which involves acknowledging the annoying aspects of > the song and reveling in its joyous aspects. "Come Dancing", I > particularly like to hear buskers covering. Which reminded me of the couple of guys outside Tiffany's a couple weeks back doing "Blitzkrieg Bop" on guitar & accordion. They didn't seem to be raking in the cash, but it was certainly good for a laugh... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:19:43 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: BSG (because I have nothing to say about Rush) a while ago, jeanne says: > And Lauren clarifies: >> >> that 'cause you're a guy (for the record, lee is >> delicate-yet-still-strongly-handsome and helo is rugged-handsome.) > > Oh, I don't have trouble with Apollo. He looks like a politician. I don't think I would > like him very much in person. It's the others. And yes, part of it is that they all have > nicknames. at first, apollo was too tom-cruisey for me, but i've watched enough of the extras that the anglophile in me has taken precedence. >> BSG (dated) triva: i'm assuming everyone knows that hot dog is, in >> real life, eddie olmos' son? >> > No, I didn't know that! I need to be watching this show with you in the room Lauren! > Wanna have a final episode party? well, there's the cable issue - airing time at my house is around 2:30am! we could have a late night...or perhaps you have friends with cable? although i wonder - robyn and the boys are playing in philadelphia on the 10th of april (just received my tickets), which sounds about the time for the final episode. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:33:52 -0600 From: Sumiko Keay Subject: Re: BSG (impending thread-merge implied) Did you? Obviously I was skipping and skimming - I'm sorry. Sumi On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:01 PM, 2fs wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Sumiko Keay wrote: >> I believe that Michael Trucco plays guitar. >> >> So far - a cast of three for the special musical episode of BSG. >> >> But can Ronald D. Moore write a musical? >> >> Perhaps they can hire Joss and his family to do it? > > That's such a brilliant idea, I wish I'd thought of it! > > Oh. ..... > > -- > ...Jeff Norman > > The Architectural Dance Society > http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:50:13 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: if you're happy and you know it... The delightful Lauren wrote: >actually, he didn't talk about being a christian all that much, but >the cynic in me spotted it pretty much immediately: he has an >abundance of optimism that i find nearly impossible to imagine coming >from a non-christian. So, y'don't know any Baha'is, huh? 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 15:40:54 -0800 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: FW: Heads-Up, Euro-Fegs! >> In March, Slim Cessna's Auto Club will play two nights at Denver's Three Kings Tavern. Then, in April and May, we will tour in Europe. << . ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:14:51 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: if you're happy and you know it... James says: > The delightful Lauren wrote: >> >> actually, he didn't talk about being a christian all that much, but >> the cynic in me spotted it pretty much immediately: he has an >> abundance of optimism that i find nearly impossible to imagine coming >> from a non-christian. > > So, y'don't know any Baha'is, huh? caught. xo p.s. delightful? oh dear, that's a (pleasant) first. to give you an idea, at my last job, i was nicknamed both "cassandra" and "sunshine". but, i suppose, as with our robyn, the carapace shell** has softened over the years. p.p.s. two nights ago, i had a dream i was at the upcoming RH johnny brenda's show, and robyn was just sort of walking through the crowd afterwards, and stopped to chat with my girlfriend m. (who, in fitting dream logic, probably doesn't even know who RH is except possibly through my inability to go all that long without mentioning him in some way.) right before he walked away, he recognized me and gave me a sort of fatherly-but-not-icky-fatherly kiss. i woke up with a nice feeling that lasted for awhile. ** BTW, isn't that redundant? - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:23:33 -0600 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: For junkies and wonks - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:29:08 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: FW: Heads-Up, Euro-Fegs! On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: > >> In March, Slim Cessna's Auto Club will play two nights at Denver's Three > Kings Tavern. Then, in April and May, we will tour in Europe. << > Hee... "Euro-fegs". ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:38:04 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: if you're happy and you know it... On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:14 PM, lep wrote: > > p.s. delightful? oh dear, that's a (pleasant) first. to give you an > idea, at my last job, i was nicknamed both "cassandra" and "sunshine". > but, i suppose, as with our robyn, the carapace shell** > > ** BTW, isn't that redundant? > Answer 1: Yeah, but that's what makes it funny/original/awesome. Answer 2: At the very least t's possible to imagine an organism with a carapace shell. In a sense, a hermit crab has one: the borrowed shell of a univalve mollusc protects its proper carapace... thus "carapace shell". If that impiies that the Queen of Eyes is a hermit crab, then... we really shouldn't be too surprised about that. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:20:39 -0800 (PST) From: Poem Lover Subject: April 3.... Antone's in Austin, TX. Meet up????? Who's game????? (Hey Glen, they have BEER!!!) Marcy ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:35:03 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: BSG (because I have nothing to say about Rush) - -- lep is rumored to have mumbled on 9. Februar 2009 17:45:52 -0500 regarding Re: BSG (because I have nothing to say about Rush): > sebastian, my diagnosis is your feelings towards baltar's character > (you once said you wished he had been airlocked long ago.) so i'm > assuming you don't find him all that amusing. Only rarely. > the thought crosses my mind fairly often that the show would be pretty > unbearable without baltar. i mean, without baltar, who do you laugh > at? > > as far as the characters having weaknesses, i see it more as the whole > mess winding down and droning on, good folks getting killed off, few > hopes, blah-blah-frakkin'-blah. it's the end of the world, and four > years of that (in spades) can make even the best of men a tad testy. Well, it certainly made *me* cranky. Say what you will, but I want my TV series to be humanistic and ultimately optimistic. The last few episodes were the exact opposite of that. But I just watched "No Exit" and now I'm a bit more hopeful. Minor spoiler ahead: The storyline about Anders reminded me very much of the one with Sisko's visions on DS9. Of course Ronald D. Moore worked on that show as well, so I can't believe it's a coincidence ... So when can we start talking about Dollhouse? It had a small BSG reference after all ;-) - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #47 *******************************