From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #56 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, February 23 2009 Volume 17 : Number 056 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: alphabetization annoyance [2fs ] Re: U2ONex, 21 Feb 09 [hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] My name is "Eb": Cut my skin, it makes me human ["Nectar At Any Cost!" ] Holy Fucking Quacamole! ["Nectar At Any Cost!" ] Robyn Hitchcock's Penmanship Promotes Piracy ["John B. Jones" ] Brain Damage [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Brain Damage [Jeremy Osner ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:54:52 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: alphabetization annoyance On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Stewart Russell wrote: > 2009/2/23 : >> >> do you file the soft boys CDs with your RH CDs ? > > Yes - right along with my Warren Zevon and Art of Noise CDs;that's to > say, in big storage bins in the garden shed. Once I've ripped a CD, I > let Firefly handling the filing and playback. Well yeah - my physical discs are increasingly* a mere backup to what I actually listen to music on - but still, I'd rather file them in some sort of logical order. Uh-anyway: my question had to do w/my database - and yeah, I can merely search for it and find it regardless of how it's alphabetized, but...uh...dammit, it has to be properly alphabetized, it just does, okay? * Still about 1/3 left to rip. However: In copying my files from one of my old external drives to another external drive and back to the now-Mac-formatted first external drive, various screwups (some mine, some probably iTunes', some possibly due to funky files) meant that I ended up with a whole lot of duplicate files on the drive where iTunes lives. I've already winnowed through "duplicate songs" in iTunes (which got rid of duplciates actually *in* the ITLibrary) but there are loads of files on the drive in the iTunes folder, but not in the iTLibrary (where they'd duplicate songs already existing anyway). Any quick way to identify, find, and kill them? I've found some tricks: I've figured out quirks of iTunes' naming system under the "keep organized" option, and so apparently duplicate files that do not fit that format are therefore unwanted duplicates...but as I think I've mentioned, we're talkin' 400GB of files here (with about 125 extra)... I strongly suspect my "compilation" folder...these files were brought over from Winamp, and I don't know whether it preserves the "part of compilation" doohickey - which would mean that iTunes would reorganize folders that had initially (in earlier iTunes libraries) been under the "compilations" folder as individual-artist items, under the artist folders... Some, but not all. Crap. (By "duplicate" I simply mean: the same recording. THe filenames are different, though: it's easy & obvious when iTunes has appended a "1" to the filename...but other configurations are less so...) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:57:05 +0000 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Re: U2ONex, 21 Feb 09 Quoting fegmaniax-digest : > > Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:00:02 -0700 > From: "Marc Holden" > Subject: Robyn Hitchcock - Film Independent's Spirit Awards (torrent) > > Here's Robyn's bit from yesterday. He played with a band, but only part of > the Venus 3. I wonder if Robyn showed up at the Largo for Sean Nelson's show > last night. Marc > > http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=237589 > Description Robyn Hitchcock - 24th Annual Film Independent's Spirit Awards > February 21, 2009 > Santa Monica Beach > Santa Monica, California > > Digital Cable Broadcast > DVR > WAV > FLAC > You > 1. Up To Our Nex > Robyn Hitchcock - vocals, guitar > Bill Rieflin - drums, vocals > Grant Lee Phillips - guitar, vocals > Sean Nelson - vocals > > PLEASE NOTE: This is AUDIO ONLY! Pictures have been included for your > amusement. * You can see the performance from 5:09 to the end on this collection of items from the show: Robyn is visible in a luminous lime suit, the others are all in shadow. - - Mike Godwin, still cheesed off that there were no copies of either 'Goodnight Oslo' or 'Luminous Groove' on sale in Bristol. The band were good, however. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:12:51 -0800 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: My name is "Eb": Cut my skin, it makes me human whew! 2008 was the fucking year of years, in my opinion. many thanks to allfegs for all the great rekkids you tipped me off to! my rule for live albums this year is that they must have been recorded within the last few years -- so, no clash, dylan, neil young, etc.. as usual, i've uploaded the whole shebang to (or perform a usenet search for "favourite best rekkids"). have not been able to get hold of either the poi dog pondering or the kan'nal. if anybody's got 'em, and would like to pass them along to me, i'd be much obliged. might probably include 'em in a "booster pack" (which will also include the latest "live at kexp" disc, which i've got on hold from the library) of late-arriving good listenin's. also looking for buck 65, nordvargr, and acid mothers discs that haven't made their ways onto the sharing networks...plus, anything else that i missed! - ---------------------- GRADE A - ---------------------- Various Artists ~ Balkan Fever ~ while this was very possibly my fave release of '08, it's probably not fair to list a various artists comp. as the number one album. so maybe i'll call it "number zero", or "special-jury-prize winner", or some such-like. but at four discs' worth of material, this shit is almost a desert island collection unto itself! Joseph Arthur & The Lonely Astronauts ~ Temporary People Joseph Arthur ~ Could We Survive? Joseph Arthur ~ Crazy Rain Joseph Arthur ~ Foreign Girl Joseph Arthur ~ Vagabond Skies ~ every year, he releases a top-five or -ten album. and every year i say, "but still, he's not living up to his talent." while i *still* don't think this is his masterpiece; it's difficult to, now that he's released the number-one album in my number-one year, continue to whinge that he's underperforming relative to his skillz. and, really: apart from the new pornographers, who else are you gonna consider for artist of the decade? Devotchka ~ A Mad And Faithful Telling ~ minute-for-minute, it's as good as *Temporary People*. but considering that the latter is twice as long (or what), and that he threw in four EPs besides, i've gotta give the nod to joseph. Ray LaMontagne ~ Gossip In The Grain Thee Emergency ~ Solid ~ no soph slump here! they don't seem to be receiving as much buzz as they were a few years ago. that's too bad; 'cause this album is freaking *spectacular*: not only one of the year's very best, but possibly also its most audacious. and a seriously fantastic live band, to boot. (and for those who were looking for hard-rock acts to love, do not miss downloading this disc.) Elliott Brood ~ Mountain Meadows Firewater ~ The Golden Hour Cloud Cult ~ Feel-Good Ghosts The Decemberists ~ Always The Bridesmaid Colin Meloy ~ Colin Meloy Sings Live! Colin Meloy ~ Colin Meloy Sings Sam Cooke ~ *Bridesmaid* being so brief, and its being actually three separate releases, it surely isn't qualified to rank so highly. but, dammit, i love it so! The Black Angels ~ Directions To See A Ghost The Foxboro Hot Tubs ~ Stop, Drop, And Roll!!! ~ i like green day as much as the next guy. but in my book, this thing blows the doors off of any green day album you'd care to listen to. "don't mess with the mess-around." The Dandy Warhols ~ Earth To The Dandy Warhols ~ and to think i'd given them up for dead after the fucking travesty that was *Odditorium*... Willie Nile ~ Live From The Streets Of New York ~ tempted to rank this even higher. but will desist on account of its being a live album. Elbow ~ The Seldom-Seen Kid Boris ~ Smile Boris with Michio Kurihara ~ Cloud Chamber ~ i've said it before; i've got to believe i'll have cause to say it again: boris...are...god. you know, if they ever remake *Casablanca*, they should change the line, "we'll always have paris." to, "we'll always have boris." would you believe i've still not seen them live? Spiritualized ~ Songs In A & E Ladytron ~ Velocifero The Hold-Steady ~ Stay Positive Black Mountain ~ In The Future Lindsey Buckingham ~ Gift Of Screws Lindsey Buckingham ~ Live At The Bass Performance Hall ~ fuck! if most artists half his age would release a one-two punch this good, they could call it a career. i must say, he really gives richard thompson a run for his money here. Two-Cow Garage ~ Speaking In Cursive ~ i feel kinda bad, 'cause they've long been my fave hillbilly-punk band, and here they've released what's easily their best album -- only to have elliott brood come along and steal their thunder. still, this record is twelve kinds of awesome. Sera Cahoone ~ Only As The Day Is Long Bloc Party ~ Intimacy Buck 65 ~ Heck Buck 65 ~ The Dirtbike Project Buck 65 ~ with Symphony Nova Scotia ~ given their respective releases for ought-eight, i should not think that any doubt can remain that whatsoever "it" that the universe had endowed to him has now passed from beck to buck. now, can anybody hook me up with his other three '08 releases?? Parts And Labor ~ Receivers Parts And Labor ~ Escapers Two ~ wesley willis may have kicked the bucket (resting in peace, it is to be hoped), juno may have disbanded, sleater-kinney may be on hiatus...but rock and fucking roll lives on, my bitches. this band is proof of that. Phantom Planet ~ Raise The Dead The B-52s ~ Funplex ~ i still can't believe that such a long-dormant band could not only produce an album this fucking good, but also this high-octane. Greg Laswell ~ Three Flights From Alto Nido ~ ed harcourt's career may be missing in action; but this guy's taken up the slack very nicely indeed. it's often strange the manner in which one manages to find great music, though, ain't it? i just happened to like a record-store poster of this release. snapped a photo of the poster, and forgot about it 'til a few months later when transferring photos to my computer. downloaded the record, and, voila: one of the best of '08. Bodies Of Water ~ A Certain Feeling ~ i feel like i should say something here; but the only thing i can think of *to* say is: check this fucker out, or else be damned to the fiery pits of hell! Sam Phillips ~ Don't Do Anything ~ this album makes me want to up and...um, i don't know what, exactly; but, *something*. i'm fucking scandalised that it's placing so far down the list. but what can you say? "2008 for the motherfucking *win*, beeyatch!" you can say that, at least. The Tallest Man On Earth ~ Shallow Grave ~ it *sounds* like he's singing, "i say: where do my bluebird fly?" (rather than bluebirds, plural. which, i *love* the former.) The Nightwatchman ~ The Fabled City One Day As A Lion ~ One Day As A Lion ~ i know there are a lot of rage-haters hereabouts. that's fine. but you may want to check out *Fabled City* anyhows, as it sounds nothing like rage. (now, you may find it to be pretentious or pseudo- -- i personally do not, but could see that some might.) one day as a lion, however, you'll probably want to stay away from (unless you like quasi a whole lot). 31 Knots ~ Worried Well The Verve ~ Forth Darker My Love ~ 2 The Bad Things ~ It'll All Be Over Soon ~ if it were a bit lengthier, it'd rank even higher. not fair, i know. but if you're a-gonna make a list, you've gotta separate 'em *somehow*. Laura Marling ~ Alas, I Cannot Swim Mates Of State ~ Re-Arrange Us The Fratellis ~ Here We Stand The Fuck-Buttons ~ Street-Horrrsing ~ okay, this is some seriously weird shit. it's fuckin' *good*, though. Grace Jones ~ Hurricane John Mellencamp ~ Life, Death, Love, And Freedom The Ting-Tings ~ We Started Nothing Grampall Jookabox ~ Ropechain ~ look, i hate the name, too -- but let's shan't allow it to deter us from loving this record, shan't we? Why? ~ Alopecia ~ man, if beck could up and make an album even *half* this good, i'd be friggin' ecstatic. - ---------------------- GRADE A- - ---------------------- Slim Cessna's Auto Club ~ Cipher ~ probably the best rock and/or roll live act that's ever been, or ever will be. but, much like wilco, they've never quite been able to capture the might and majesty of the live show onto their recordings. even the live album doesn't cut the mustard. that said, this is definitely their best record. still, before you die, YOU MUST SEE THIS BAND LIVE at least 1,001 times! Destroyer ~ Trouble In Dreams Calexico ~ Carried To Dust The Raveonettes ~ Lust Lust Lust The Duke Spirit ~ Neptune ~ they've got perhaps the coolest bandsite (thedukespirit.com) this side of the arcade fire's. The Dirtbombs ~ We Have You Surrounded Metric ~ Live At Metropolis David Vandervelde ~ Waiting For The Sun To Rise Sigur Ros ~ Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust Kristin Hersh ~ Speedbath The Moondoggies ~ Don't Be A Stranger ~ these guys are about a hundred times better that fleet foxes...and about a hundred times less popular. there ain't no fuckin' justice, i tells ya. the album bogs down a bit in the middle third (and their "Jesus Is On The Main Line" doesn't hold a candle to aerosmith's), else it'd be right up there in the top fifteen. Lou Reed ~ Berlin soundtrack Margot And The Nuclear So-And-Sos ~ Animal! Margot And The Nuclear So-And-Sos ~ Not Animal Ra Ra Riot ~ The Rhumb Line Jenny Lewis ~ Acid Tongue ~ i don't think rilo kiley will ever make an album this good. "Fernando" sounds a lot like *Stone*-era crash vegas to me! Nomo ~ Ghost-Rock Joan Osbourne ~ Little Wild One ~ laugh if you must; but i think this record is the fucking crackerjack! Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band ~ Conor Oberst The Cat Empire ~ So Many Nights Hayden ~ In Field And Town ~ i noted at the time of its release that i thought fegs'd be especially keen on this one. still feel that way to-day. give it a listen if you've not yet done! Grand Archives ~ The Grand Archives ~ "The Crime Window" sounds to me like the new pornos admixed with neutral milk hotel...which is about as holy a combination of which one could possibly conceive. The Dears ~ Missiles The Zutons ~ You Can Do Anything Emiliana Torrini ~ Me And Armini ~ oddly enough, i rather love her voice, while also finding it rather similar to joanna newsom's (whose makes me want to kill myself roughly forty-seven times over). The Cold-War Kids ~ Loyalty To Loyalty Gustav ~ Verlass Die Stadt Korperwelten ~ Avatars Of Rape And Rage Nordvargr ~ Helvete Nordvargr ~ Interstellar Nordvargr ~ Pyrrhula Ryan Adams & The Cardinals ~ Cardinology Korpiklaani ~ Korven Kuningas Acid Mothers Temple and The Cosmic Inferno ~ Journey Into The Cosmic Inferno Acid Mothers Temple and The Cosmic Inferno ~ Ominous From The Cosmic Inferno Acid Mothers Temple and The Cosmic Inferno ~ Pink Lady Lemonade Acid Mothers Temple and The Melting Paraiso UFO ~ Recurring Dream And Apocalypse Of Darkness ~ plus about a million others i wasn't able to track down. these mofos are more prolific that boris and nordvargr put together! The Airborne Toxic Event ~ The Airborne Toxic Event The Headlights ~ Some Racing, Some Stopping Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara ~ Soul Science The Helio Sequence ~ Keep Your Eyes Ahead Sonic Youth ~ Andre Sider Af Sonic Youth Sonic Youth ~ J'accuse Ted Hughes Wolf Parade ~ At Mt. Zoomer ~ it seems to me that the keyboards get in the way at times. but the rhythm section is truly great. Johnny Flynn ~ A Larum The Foals ~ Antidotes - ---------------------- GRADE B+ - ---------------------- The Last Shadow-Puppets ~ The Age Of The Understatement Vetiver ~ Thing Of The Past ~ if harrison ford is not generally a much-sung-about person, how about fuckin' lon chaney? Deerhunter ~ Microcastle Deerhunter ~ Weird Era Continued James McMurtry ~ Just Us Kids ~ Kinda reminds me of *New York*. not as good as, of course. but it'll likely hold up quite well, i'd think. Weezer ~ The Red Album Weezer ~ Christmas With Weezer Clinic ~ Do It! The Duhks ~ Fast-Paced World Johnny Dowd ~ A Drunkard's Masterpiece TV On The Radio ~ Dear Science ~ not quite clicking with me right now, for some reason. i have a feeling that were i to re-visit these albums a year from now, this one'd rank quite a bit further up the chain. The Submarines ~ Honeysuckle Weeks British Sea Power ~ Do You Like Rock Music? The Welcome-Wagon ~ Welcome To The Welcome-Wagon Centro-Matic ~ Dual Hawks ~ when it was first released, i didn't like this one nearly as much as i had *Fort Recovery*; but it's really grown on me. great little record! Robedoor ~ Closer To The Cliff Secret Chiefs Three ~ Xaphan Die Amsterdam Klezmer Band ~ Zaraza David Byrne and Brian Eno ~ Everything That Happens Will Happen To-Day The Aliens ~ Luna Earthless ~ Live At Roadburn Sheryl Crow ~ Detours Sheryl Crow ~ Home For Christmas ~ while i've enjoyed her career well enough that i own the greatest hits album; this is a shockingly strong recording (in my estimation). she must be the most high-profile artist to write a protest song centred on the realities of peak oil, no? "Out Of Our Heads" the catchiest song of the year? as for the christmas album: i'm not always thrilled with the arrangements; but her voice performs exceedingly well throughout. Yann Tiersen ~ Tabarly soundtrack Dead Confederate ~ Wrecking-Ball Howlin' Rain ~ Magnificent Fiend Shogu Tokumaru ~ Exit El Guincho ~ Alegranza Lykke Li ~ Youth Novels Sid And Fancy ~ Barrelhouse Angelinas ~ the record doesn't quite live up to the live show; which was one of the very best that i witnessed in ought-eight. Merzbow ~ Anicca Merzbow ~ Dead Leaves Merzbow ~ Dolphin Sonar Merzbow ~ Eucalypse Merzbow ~ Here Merzbow ~ Hodosan Merzbow ~ Peace For Animals Merzbow ~ Protean World Merzbow ~ Tombo Porn and Merzbow ~ ...And The Devil Makes Three The Shortwave Set ~ Replica Sun-Machine Man Man ~ Rabbit Habits Amadou and Mariam ~ Welcome To Mali Puscifer ~ V Is For Viagra Puscifer ~ D Is For Dubby ~ don't like either of these as much as last year's *V Is For Vagina*; but they're both still *far* better than the perfect circle output. Rodrigo y Gabriela ~ Live In Japan Fujiya and Miyagi ~ Lightbulbs Matthew Sweet ~ Sunshine Lies Faun Fables ~ A Table Forgotten Kocani Orkestar ~ The Ravished Bride - ---------------------- GRADE B - ---------------------- Jason Collett ~ Here's To Being Here Creature ~ Creature ~ totally awesome -- just, not enough *of* it. The Magnetic Fields ~ Distortion The Bird And The Bee ~ Ray-Guns Are Not Just The Future Tokyo Police Club ~ Elephant Shell Mercury Rev ~ Strange Attractor Mercury Rev ~ Snowflake Midnight The Foo-Fighters ~ Live At Wembley Blitzen Trapper ~ Furr Colour Revolt ~ Plunder, Beg, And Curse PG Lost ~ It's Not Me, It's You! Louis XIV ~ Slick Dogs And Ponies Adem ~ Takes Ani DiFranco ~ Red-Letter Year The Fall ~ Imperial Wax Solvent The Notwist ~ The Devil, You + Me James Yorkston ~ When The Haar Rolls In ~ album-cover of the year, yo. Megapuss ~ Surfing ~ "Fuck Enron / Fuck Exxon / Fuck homophobes...in their assholes": lyric of the year? Catfish Haven ~ Devastator The Vivian Girls ~ The Vivian Girls Andre Ethier ~ Born On Blue Fog The Kooks ~ Konk Jack Johnson ~ Sleep Through The Static ~ though he's decidedly not in the same weight class as josh ritter, there is much to like here. Gnarls Barkley ~ The Odd Couple Ben Folds ~ Way To Normal The Tindersticks ~ The Hungry Saw The Broken West ~ Now Or Heaven ~ while not as good as the first album, i wouldn't exactly call this a sophomore slump, as it's still quite good. so there. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds ~ Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! Giant Sand ~ Provisions The Horror-Pops ~ Kiss Kiss Kill Kill Shearwater ~ Rook Portishead ~ Third Van Morrison ~ Keep It Simple Mogwai ~ The Hawk Is Howling ~ while they've always had great song titles, this album may have the best. i mean, "I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead", "The Sun Smells Too Loud", "I Love You, I'm Going To Blow Up Your School", "Thank You, Space Expert", "Dracula Family", and "Stupid Prick Gets Chased By Police And Loses Slut Girlfriend" *all* deserve consideration for the song-title hall of fame, innit? R.E.M. ~ Accelerate Aimee Mann ~ Fuckin' Smilers Paul Weller ~ 22 Dreams The Whigs ~ Mission Control Helms Alee ~ Night Terror ~ hey, pal, metal ain't dead *yet*. and don't even have to wait five years for the next TOOL platter. Elf-Power ~ In A Cave Department Of Eagles ~ In Ear Park Noah And The Whale ~ Peaceful The World Lays Me Down ~ shame i'm not so fond of the vocals, as the music is tops. The Kills ~ Midnight Boom American Music Club ~ The Golden Age Glasvegas ~ Glasvegas Dead Meadow ~ Old Growth ~ kind of inconsistent; but the highs are very high. Santogold ~ Santogold The Do ~ A Mouthful The Walkmen ~ You And Me Earth ~ The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull Lizz Wright ~ The Orchard The Dutchess And The Duke ~ She's The Dutchess, He's The Duke Secret Machines ~ The Secret Machines The Mountain Goats ~ Heretic Pride ~ anybody else feel like he's kinda spinning his wheels at this point? The Gutter Twins ~ Saturnalia Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan ~ Sunday At Devil Dirt The Waco Brothers ~ Waco Express Kelley Stoltz ~ Circular Sounds Snow Patrol ~ A Hundred Million Suns The Management ~ Oracular Spectacular God Is An Astronaut ~ God Is An Astronaut Jolie Holland ~ The Living And The Dead ~ i'm a big fan; but i've gotta say that it sounds as though she phoned it in this time around. i'm sure she *didn't* do...but that's what it sounds like. Cheb I Sabbah ~ Devotion ~ a worthy effort, though surely not his best. man, i sure wish that the dum-dum project would release another record! The Rosebuds ~ Life-Like Duffy ~ Rockferry Randy Newman ~ Harps And Angels Apollo Sunshine ~ Shall Noise Upon These New Puritans ~ Beat-Pyramid - ---------------------- GRADE B- - ---------------------- Crooked Fingers ~ Forfeit/Fortune ~ probably the biggest disappointment of the year for me. maddeningly, right when it seems to be hitting its stride, in the last third or so, it just...ends. (i'd call beck the biggest disappointment, excepting that i've long since ceased expecting him to turn out anything decent.) The Black Keys ~ Attack And Release Frightened Rabbit ~ The Midnight Organ-Fight ~ good record, though it doesn't live up to the absolutely brilliant band-/album-name combo... Nikka Costa ~ Pebble To A Pearl Mudcrutch ~ Mudcrutch The Dodos ~ Visiter Nurse With Wound ~ Huffin'-Rag Blues ~ thanks for the tip, "brother" quail! Damien Jurado ~ Caught In The Trees Herman Dune ~ Next Year In Zion Chicha Libre ~ !Sonido Amazonico! Judas Priest ~ Nostradamus ~ there actually are some pretty great, vintage-priest-ian songs; but they're too few and too far between for it to all add up. Beach House ~ Devotion Sons And Daughters ~ This Gift Jackson Browne ~ Time, The Conqueror Ida Maria ~ Fortress Around My Heart Mostly Autumn ~ Glass Shadows Kathy Mattea ~ Coal White Denim ~ Workout Holiday Local H ~ Twelve Angry Months Okkervil River ~ The Stand-Ins Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks ~ Real Emotional Trash Eagles Of Death-Metal ~ Heart-On Ane Brun ~ Changing Of The Seasons Sparks ~ Exotic Creatures Of The Deep What Made Milwaukee Famous ~ What Doesn't Kill Us Dengue Fever ~ Venus On Earth ~ does it still count as a sophomore slump if it's the third album, but the second album was the breaktrhough? i must confess to disappointment at their having chosen to write some songs in english this time around. The Flaming Lips ~ Christmas On Mars soundtrack The War On Drugs ~ Wagonwheel Blues The War On Drugs ~ Barrel Of Batteries Elvis Costello & The Imposters ~ Momofuku No Age ~ Nouns Rush ~ Snakes And Arrows Live Albert Hammond, Jr. ~ ?Csmo Te Llama? El Perro Del Mar ~ From The Valley To The Stars Abigail Washburn ~ Abigail Washburn & The Sparrow Quartet Times New Viking ~ Rip It Off The Stills ~ Oceans Will Rise Brian Jonestown Massacre ~ My Bloody Underground Tracy Chapman ~ Our Bright Future Fleet Foxes ~ Fleet Foxes Of Montreal ~ Skeletal Lamping Beth Rowley ~ Little Dreamer ~ her "Nobody's Fault But Mine" is my song of the year. even though the rest of the album is just okay, it perhaps nevertheless merits a listing here on the strength of that one song alone. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:19:33 -0600 From: Sumiko Keay Subject: Re: Dollhouse 2nd episode was both skeevier (it's possible!) and much better than the first episode. Sumi On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 8:52 PM, wrote: > Lauren and Sebastian are impatient: > >> >> Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 06:45:35 -0500 >> From: lep >> Subject: Re: BSG (because I have nothing to say about Rush) >> >> Sebastian says: >> >>> So when can we start talking about Dollhouse? >> >> folks, it's been like over 24 hours since it aired. anyone want to >> give an ETA for leaving your bunks? >> > > Joss is apparently over bunks. But "I'll be in my box" just doesn't have the same kick > to it. > >> p.s. just kidding. change sucks. >> >> - -- >> "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha >> > > Oh good! I like this sig. It sums up the feglist pretty well, I think. Consensual > bothering! > > Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:26:26 -0800 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: Holy Fucking Quacamole! this new neko is fucking *impossibly* awesome. first listen is reminiscent of the first time i listened to *Historical Conquests*: just wishing/hoping there would always be one more song... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:44:21 -0800 From: "John B. Jones" Subject: Robyn Hitchcock's Penmanship Promotes Piracy http://i.gizmodo.com/5158933/academy-award-winning-films-distributed-for-free-at-kopime-stations ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:19:30 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re:alphabetisation >Example: the band A Camp, featuring the Cardigans' Nina Persson and >Shudder to Think's Nathan Larson: is that simply "a camp"...or is it >"A Camp" like the old TV series "F Troop"? If it's the first, of >course it goes under "C" - but if it's the second, it goes under "A" >because the "a" isn't an article but a letter. I've always wondered the same about "A House". A or H? > do you file the soft boys CDs with your RH CDs ? > are RH, RH & E, and RH & V3 all different entities [...] Under S. The rest get sort of mixed together to some extent, but even sorted alphabetically they'd be next to each other on the shelf - - Hitchcock, Robyn - - Hitchcock, Robyn and the Egyptians - - Hitchcock, Robyn and the Venus 3 But there are worse conundrums that that: 1) If you have that problem with the Soft Boys, how do you cope with Dukes of Stratosphear? D or X? 2) ...or The Chills, one of whose albums is as "Martin Phillipps and the Chills"? 2) Most pernicious of the lot - Bill Direen. What to do with the albums where he calls himself Bill Direen and the ones where he calls himself Bilderine, and then the ones with his band, which has been variously The Builders, The Bilders, and Der Bilder. 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, 23 Feb 2009 22:13:56 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Brain Damage Dear sirs: I am listening to a two-hour podcast called "The Madcap Laughs", which self-identifies as being made on May 25, 2007 on a radio show called "Brain Damage, your definitive Pink Floyd radio program". It's good stuff! But I've got no idea where I found it. I wanted to send a link to a friend but I'm not sure how... Anybody know the proevenance of this? 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, 23 Feb 2009 22:15:26 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Brain Damage Ah! Nemmine, I found it: http://braindamage.libsyn.com/index.php?post_year=2007&post_month=05 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 Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > Dear sirs: > > I am listening to a two-hour podcast called "The Madcap Laughs", which > self-identifies as being made on May 25, 2007 on a radio show called > "Brain Damage, your definitive Pink Floyd radio program". It's good > stuff! But I've got no idea where I found it. I wanted to send a link > to a friend but I'm not sure how... Anybody know the proevenance of > this? > > 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 #56 *******************************