From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #60 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, February 28 2009 Volume 17 : Number 060 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Macropinna microstoma (NR) [Rex ] Re: Coldplay [Michael Sweeney ] Re: Reg ["C. Huff" ] Re: REAP ["Marc Holden" ] Re: Reg [Rob ] Soft Boys / Robyn retrospective on Monday AM. ["John B. Jones" ] Re: Coldplay [Rex ] Re: Coldplay [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: REAP [Rex ] Re: Reg [Rex ] Re: Coldplay [Rex ] Re: Coldplay [Stewart Russell ] Re: Reg ["C. Huff" ] Re: Genesis of the Grammar Nazi [James Dignan ] Re: Coldplay [2fs ] Re: Reg [2fs ] Re: Coldplay [kevin studyvin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:16:35 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Macropinna microstoma (NR) On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Steve Schiavo wrote: > It's the fish with the > see-through head. > Avert your tubular eyes from his gaze, Junior, and we may yet be safe. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:28:29 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: Coldplay [various multiple back and forths...and, then Quail wrote:] >I love U2 and Radiohead so much, I tend to over-inflate my dislike of Coldplay ...Just my two pennies. I, too, very much love U2 and Radiohead...and, while I actually own no work by Coldplay, I enjoy many of their songs that I catch now and then -- "The Scientist," "Clocks" (still catchy to me after the approx. billion plays), "God Put a Smile Upon Your Face" (really like that one), "Speed of Sound," "Rainy Day"...however, I probably could not dislike "Yellow" any more than I already do. ...Then again, there's a bunch of Wings stuff I like...'77-'86 Billy Joel, too... Michael "NP: Macca's catchy (if cheesy) 'Ballroom Dancing'" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail.more than just e-mail. http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_hm_justgotbetter_howit works_022009 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:01:58 -0800 (PST) From: "C. Huff" Subject: Re: Reg Great explanation! And the next exchange should be bronzed: >> Next up: did you hear that Reginald Robyn Hitchcock's first wife >> died young? > > wasn't she the one who had her brain out? It wasn't Trudi, at any rate.. That's her, she doesn't exist anymore. Y'all are ready for primetime! :-D Next up, The Reginald Robyn Hitchcock Players featuring the Barrelnose Fish and its Transparent Head. Seriously though...I want a copy of his birth certificate! lol Proof is in the eel pudding, as it were. I also want to know what happened to Sandra and Trudi? Any NYC fegs might know? Their PO Box was in Howard Beach - they were the Original Feg Fanclub I was aware of...they were like a walking Christmas tree w/dyed green hair and dyed red hair...I filled out their form and got a button and a sticker in the mail. Still have the button somewhere... 1988 Beacon Theater. RH & Egyptians w/ the Feelies opening. The place was MAYBE 1/4 full...we were in the very very front. RH said two words the whole night "Here's Morris and Andy". ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:35:02 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: Re: REAP Rex >On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:56 PM, wrote: >> http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/149406-pylon-guitarist-randy-bewley >> -rip >> >Well, fuck, is all. Well put. Randy was a great guy. Did you make out to see them last fall in LA? The Slits had been listed on that bill also, did they show up? Pylon was great the times I saw them, once opening for R.E.M. and twice when the Chain album came out. Marc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:37:50 +0000 From: Rob Subject: Re: Reg On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 7:01 AM, C. Huff wrote: > Great explanation! And the next exchange should be bronzed: > > > Seriously though...I want a copy of his birth certificate! lol Proof is > in the eel pudding, as it were. > > I've been doing some family history stuff recently so have easy access to the UK birth marriage & death registers. I was interested enough to look and there's an entry for the first quarter of 1953 in the Paddington district for a Robyn R Hitchcock. I like Alice's reasoning. I've never really paid any attention to the writing on the coins and can't imagine I'd ever have linked it to the lyric. For the record, my tiny 5 pence coin says ELIZABETH II D G REG F D while the larger 2 pound coin expands on this with ELIZABETH II DEI GRA REG FID DEF. I wonder what size of coin would be required for unabbreviated latin. Rob PS I never wrote about the Bury gig, must do that soon. Highlight was bumping in to Robyn on the way in and having a brief chat with him on the way up the stairs. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:47:05 -0800 From: "John B. Jones" Subject: Soft Boys / Robyn retrospective on Monday AM. Hey fegs - In honor of Robyn's birthday next week, I'll be re-airing the Soft Boys / Robyn H retrospective on my radio show. I produced it last fall for KBOO's fall membership drive. It starts with a Soft Boys demo, runs chronologically with a song from every album and ends with last year's "Sickyboy" single, but I'll update it at the end so that it ends with Goodnight Oslo. My show is on Monday mornings from 3-5:30am PST, and there is an internet stream available at www.kboo.fm. Thanks! JBJ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:39:54 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: I'm gonna wear some flowers in my hair ... or maybe not. Whichever kind of hair accessory I may sport, as those of you on Facebook perhaps already know, I will go to San Francisco from March 6 thru March 13. It's a business trip and I will be staying at a hotel in San Jose. AFAIK the first weekend the small group I'm traveling in will go sightseeing, presumably in San Francisco. I understand that all activities that are not directly work-related are optional so that I hope to meet some of you guys. Tom Clark (fuck you!) has been very kind and has already indicated that some kind of feg meet-up might happen. I don't think I will be able to use my cell phone in the US, but I will likely check my e-mail regulary. You should also be able to reach me here: Hotel Wyndham San Jose 1350 North First St San Jose, California 95112 Tel. 408-453-6200 If anyone of you would like something from Germany that I can take with me without being deported, I'd be glad to get it for you. My only regrets are that I didn't think to add on a few days of vacation and that baseball season hasn't started yet. Anyway, I'm very much loking forward to the trip. It's my first to the US since 2003 and I have never before been on the West Coast. Hop to meet some of you in person soon! - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:48:59 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: I'm gonna wear some flowers in my hair > Whichever kind of hair accessory I may sport You might want to consider mice: http://www.metro.co.uk/lifestyle/article.html?Headdress_made_of_mice_and_rat_carcasses&in_article_id=560102&in_page_id=194 Have a good time in SF! 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: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:00:43 -0800 (PST) From: "C. Huff" Subject: I Got A (Non) Answer on Twitter @robyn_hitchcock Wikipedia says your name is Robyn (sic) Rowan Hitchcock. Always thought your birth name was Reginald - just a rumour? :-) robyn_hitchcock@Chris_Huff It's hard to say whether or how much that particular name posessed me--but please don't call me "Reg." So there you go. :-) He tweeted at me. I can die happy now. Someone should just ask him. - -- ...Jeff Norman ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:12:33 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Coldplay On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Michael Sweeney > ...Just my two pennies. I, too, very much love U2 and Radiohead...and, > while > I actually own no work by Coldplay, I enjoy many of their songs that I > catch > now and then -- "The Scientist," "Clocks" (still catchy to me after the > approx. billion plays), "God Put a Smile Upon Your Face" (really like that > one), "Speed of Sound," "Rainy Day"...however, I probably could not dislike > "Yellow" any more than I already do. Completely aside from all that, one thing can certainly be said about Coldplay: they have the most shit name of any band, and perhaps indeed any *thing*, in the History of The World. - -Rex > > > > > ...Then again, there's a bunch of Wings stuff I like...'77-'86 Billy Joel, > too... > > > > > > Michael "NP: Macca's catchy (if cheesy) 'Ballroom Dancing'" Sweeney > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Windows Live Hotmail. more than just e-mail. > > http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_hm_justgotbetter_howit > works_022009 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:16:21 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Coldplay - --On 27. Februar 2009 14:12:33 -0800 Rex wrote: > Completely aside from all that, one thing can certainly be said about > Coldplay: they have the most shit name of any band Hm, I never thought about the name before. Does it *mean* anything? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:18:40 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: REAP On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Marc Holden wrote: > Rex > >> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:56 PM, wrote: >> >>> >>> http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/149406-pylon-guitarist-randy-bewley >>> -rip >>> >>> > Well, fuck, is all. >> > > Well put. Randy was a great guy. > > Did you make out to see them last fall in LA? The Slits had been listed on > that bill also, did they show up? > Pylon was great the times I saw them, once opening for R.E.M. and twice > when the Chain album came out. Slits canceled (or were maybe never really booked, I never did find out). I was tied down with the family until too close to Pylon's start time to make it. The "thump ow" that you've been hearing ever since has been the distant sound of me kicking myself, and it's just gotten louder. My brother had a strange, tenuous connection with Bewley. He taught at U of G for a while and was told that Bewley had eventually finished an education degree there after Pylon's first run, and gone on to teach briefly at a local elementary school before suffering a "nervous breakdown". The elementary school was the same one at which my brother's wife taught during their years in Athens. My brother and his family recently moved to Texas, but I did get a few nifty t-shirts from Athens institutions while he was there. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:34:40 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Reg On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:01 PM, C. Huff wrote: > > I also want to know what happened to Sandra and Trudi? Any NYC fegs might > know? Their PO Box was in Howard Beach - they were the Original Feg Fanclub > I was aware of...they were like a walking Christmas tree w/dyed green hair > and dyed red hair...I filled out their form and got a button and a sticker > in the mail. Still have the button somewhere... When I wrote to S&T, the letter came back as undeliverable. My dad told me I'd gotten a letter returned, from a couple of girls who were apparently going to a Catholic school or something. I had no idea what he was talking about. He gave it to me, and, yeah, it read something like "Pleasure of the Aching Void, c/o Sandtra & Trudi- FEGMANIAX". So I guess my dad had a sort of odd idea of what Catholic schools might be called. But not that odd. Around the same time, because I was young and lame, I wrote an actual fan letter to Marty Willson-Piper, which also came back unopened. I therefore decided that I wasn't the type of person who wrote fan letters. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:36:40 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Coldplay On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Sebastian Hagedorn < Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de> wrote: > --On 27. Februar 2009 14:12:33 -0800 Rex > wrote: > > Completely aside from all that, one thing can certainly be said about >> Coldplay: they have the most shit name of any band >> > > Hm, I never thought about the name before. Does it *mean* anything? > God, I sure hope not. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:39:23 -0500 From: Stewart Russell Subject: Re: Coldplay 2009/2/27 Sebastian Hagedorn : > > Hm, I never thought about the name before. Does it *mean* anything? It was taken from a Radiohead song about Talking Heads. Stewart - -- http://scruss.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:15:49 -0800 (PST) From: "C. Huff" Subject: Re: Reg Our Lady of the Aching Void - maybe they have an opening for a music teacher? Did Marty Willson-Piper ever get another fan letter? It's a shame he never received it! I suppose there's probably some Aussie playing Under The Milky Way over and over...that WAS a top ten hit (hard to believe w/ current pop music) ...I for one applaud your elevation of indie guitarists! ________________________________ From: Rex To: C. Huff Cc: ripvanruben@gmail.com; fegmaniax@smoe.org Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 5:34:40 PM Subject: Re: Reg On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:01 PM, C. Huff wrote: I also want to know what happened to Sandra and Trudi? Any NYC fegs might know? Their PO Box was in Howard Beach - they were the Original Feg Fanclub I was aware of...they were like a walking Christmas tree w/dyed green hair and dyed red hair...I filled out their form and got a button and a sticker in the mail. Still have the button somewhere... When I wrote to S&T, the letter came back as undeliverable. My dad told me I'd gotten a letter returned, from a couple of girls who were apparently going to a Catholic school or something. I had no idea what he was talking about. He gave it to me, and, yeah, it read something like "Pleasure of the Aching Void, c/o Sandtra & Trudi- FEGMANIAX". So I guess my dad had a sort of odd idea of what Catholic schools might be called. But not that odd. Around the same time, because I was young and lame, I wrote an actual fan letter to Marty Willson-Piper, which also came back unopened. I therefore decided that I wasn't the type of person who wrote fan letters. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:45:50 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: Genesis of the Grammar Nazi >Bruno Ganz would probably get a big kick out that!B From "Wings of Desire" to >playingB Hitler in "Downfall", it just goes to show you how much range he has >an actor. Alice and I have made a game of suggersting the dream double-bill - two movies with the same actor playing impossibly different roles. It's hard to beat Ben Kingsley's double of "Gandhi" and "Sexy Beast", though that Ganz double's a good one. 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, 27 Feb 2009 22:50:50 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Coldplay On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Rex wrote: > > Completely aside from all that, one thing can certainly be said about > Coldplay: they have the most shit name of any band, and perhaps indeed any > *thing*, in the History of The World. No, no, no, no, no. I mean, it's lame...but it's no Hoobastank. Or Whorgasm. Or even Bare-Naked Ladies. Or (run and hide) Travis Pickle. Yes, they were serious; no, they weren't a joke band. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:51:53 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Reg On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 6:15 PM, C. Huff wrote: > Our Lady of the Aching Void - maybe they have an opening for a music > teacher? Perhaps not...but do they have a vacancy for a backscrubber? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:19:18 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Coldplay On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:50 PM, 2fs wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Rex wrote: > > > > > Completely aside from all that, one thing can certainly be said about > > Coldplay: they have the most shit name of any band, and perhaps indeed > any > > *thing*, in the History of The World. > > > No, no, no, no, no. I mean, it's lame...but it's no Hoobastank. Or > Whorgasm. > Or even Bare-Naked Ladies. > > Or (run and hide) Travis Pickle. Yes, they were serious; no, they weren't a > joke band. Or Ethel Meatplow. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #60 *******************************