From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #62 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, March 2 2009 Volume 17 : Number 062 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Good place for bubble tea? [Rex ] Re: Good place for bubble tea? [kevin studyvin ] Re: Good place for bubble tea? ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Good place for bubble tea? [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Eb-Ism Now And Forever [James Dignan ] Re: Good place for bubble tea? [2fs ] Early contender in the "album of the year" stakes... [James Dignan ] long picture (NR) [Steve Schiavo ] Re: long picture (NR) [2fs ] Re: long picture (NR) [2fs ] Re: bubble tea [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: Reg ["craigie*" ] Re: Eb-Ism Now And Forever [Michael Sweeney ] Fretless bassists [Charlotte ] Re: Eb-Ism Now And Forever [Great Quail ] Re: Fretless bassists [2fs ] Re: Fretless bassists [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: Fretless bassists [Stewart Russell ] Re: Fretless bassists [Marc ] Re: Fretless bassists [kevin studyvin ] Re: bubble tea [kevin studyvin ] Re: Fretless bassists [2fs ] Re: bubble tea [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: bubble tea [Marc ] a somewhat Robynesque cartoon [2fs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 11:59:13 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Good place for bubble tea? On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Sebastian Hagedorn < Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I just learned about bubble tea: > > > > We don't have that yet(?), so I thought I should try it while I'm in the > US. Any recommendations for San Francisco or San Jose? Weird. We've had "boba" around here for a decade or so, but I don't think I'd ever heard the term "bubble tea" for it before now. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 12:08:01 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Good place for bubble tea? Up here in the former center of the media universe you can't hardly spit without hittin' a bubble tea joint. It's all bubble tea and pho, all the time. Chances are I'll have lots more annoying comments to throw in now that I'm on my unplanned, potentially permanent vacation. At least I'll have no excuse to miss the upcoming RH/V3 show - the day after my birthday, too (double nickels, here I come)... On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Rex wrote: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Sebastian Hagedorn < > Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I just learned about bubble tea: > > > > > > > > We don't have that yet(?), so I thought I should try it while I'm in the > > US. Any recommendations for San Francisco or San Jose? > > > Weird. We've had "boba" around here for a decade or so, but I don't think > I'd ever heard the term "bubble tea" for it before now. > > -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:12:02 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Good place for bubble tea? I have about 20 bubble tea places within a block of my office - welcome to Markham, Ontario. Can't bring myself to drink it - it's like a cupful of eyes. Stewart (who was amazed by the Brian Dewan/Nana Grizol/Music Tapes triple bill the other night.) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 16:29:02 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Good place for bubble tea? On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > Can't bring myself to drink it - it's like a cupful > of eyes. Mmmm, eyes... 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, 2 Mar 2009 10:50:23 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: Eb-Ism Now And Forever >Lipstick vs. dog day afternoon Add in The Princess Bride for a fun triple bill. "American History X" and "Death To Smoochy". "Frida" and "Prick Up Your Ears". 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: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:22:41 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Good place for bubble tea? On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Stewart C. Russell > wrote: > > Can't bring myself to drink it - it's like a cupful > > of eyes. > > Mmmm, eyes... Drink it all right up, it's the cup of eyes... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 13:02:33 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Early contender in the "album of the year" stakes... Only just turned into March, and there's an early contender for my "top of the year" list. The part of my brain that is still mourning the loss of Kirsty MacColl has been cheered up immensely by Lily Allen's "It's not me, it's you". Charming with with a gritty bite, and redolent of the late lamented Kirsty. The song "Chinese" in particular has been on high rotate here for days. 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: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 20:11:28 -0500 (EST) From: Jill Brand Subject: bubble tea Bubble tea is my idea of a culinary nightmare. I don't like lumps of anything in my beverages, and a slimy bit of tapioca is the last thing I want sliding down. Uggh. Did I make that clear enough? Jill ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:57:08 -0600 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: long picture (NR) - - Steve __________ Mojo: If push comes to shove, what is your all-time favourite album? Harry Shearer: Right now it would be Apple Venus by XTC. Every fucking song on that record is a killer, and I just think it's Beatles-esque in the best sense of the term. We'll never see it live, which I both treasure and bemoan. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 22:45:01 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: long picture (NR) On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Steve Schiavo wrote: > > > > That is quite awesome. I'm amused by the guy about "80 meters" to the right...who clearly noticed the photographer, and is flipping him off. This is just "after" the rather interesting young woman in the pink tank top... Anyway: one thing I like is the range of personae visible here...and some curiosities, too. What's with the two people adjacent to one another, both with eye bandages? If it were taken at one *time* over a range of space (rather than, if I read the description right, in one space over a range of time), I'd guess there must be a medical clinic nearby... but it's harder to figure out this way. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 22:46:32 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: long picture (NR) On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 10:45 PM, 2fs wrote: > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Steve Schiavo wrote: > >> >> >> >> > That is quite awesome. Oh - forgot to mention: I think the guy's title is kinda pointless. Yeah, we're all gonna die...but I think the picture much better says this: right now, we're all alive. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:28:21 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: bubble tea - --On 1. Mdrz 2009 20:11:28 -0500 Jill Brand wrote: > Bubble tea is my idea of a culinary nightmare. I don't like lumps of > anything in my beverages, and a slimy bit of tapioca is the last thing I > want sliding down. Uggh. > > Did I make that clear enough? I'd say you did :-) But is that based on actual experience or is it an a priori judgement? I have no idea if I will like it, but (except for dead animals) I'm willing to try anything once. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 09:37:09 +0000 From: "craigie*" Subject: Re: Reg I have a good address for Marty if you feel inclined to write to him again... I've been in regular contact with him since 1982 and the first Church UK tour... Currently, he's in LA. He travels a LOT. The address I hvae is for where his record colection lives, so he always goes back there... c* On 28/02/2009, C. Huff wrote: > > 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 > - -- 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: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 09:36:54 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: Eb-Ism Now And Forever TC wrote: >On Feb 28, 2009, at 8:56 AM, Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: >>> It's hard to beat Ben Kingsley's double of "Gandhi" and "Sexy Beast" >> >> *Silence Of The Lambs* vs. *Remains Of The Day*? >> *My Left Foot* vs. *There Will Be Blood*? >"Brokeback Mountain" vs. "The Dark Knight"? "Last Temptation of Christ" vs. "Spider-man"? ...or, here's an interesting one: "Malcolm X" vs. "Training Day" Oh - wait: game over..."Hitler: The Last Ten Days" vs. "Star Wars" Michael "Up too late...gotta get to bed soon" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Groups: Create an online spot for your favorite groups to meet. http://windowslive.com/online/groups?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_groups_032009 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 15:00:12 +0000 From: Charlotte Subject: Fretless bassists I'm enjoying trying out some fretless playing and I'm looking for inspiration: which fretless bassists would fegs recommend in the rock/pop line rather than jazz/funk (Andy Metcalfe excepted)? Charlotte ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:15:33 -0500 From: Great Quail Subject: Re: Eb-Ism Now And Forever >>>> It's hard to beat Ben Kingsley's double of "Gandhi" and "Sexy Beast" That's still my favorite. I was thinking of a few like that one, where the two performances are not just different, but actually cause mental destabilization... Well... "Patch Adams" followed by "One Hour Photo" would certain make one view Robin William's earlier performance with a different kind of queasiness. "Bad Lieutenant" followed by "The Last Temptation of Christ" would give Judas a strange spin.... Then throw on "The Lost Highway" to screw up your notions of Jesus, too! Are there any cases where the same actor played, for instance, Jesus *and* Satan? Or Billy the Kid *and* Pat Garrett? ( I mean, of course, in different movies.) - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 09:24:21 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Fretless bassists On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Charlotte wrote: > I'm enjoying trying out some fretless playing and I'm looking for > inspiration: which fretless bassists would fegs recommend in the rock/pop > line rather than jazz/funk (Andy Metcalfe excepted)? > Does Mick Karn count as rock/pop? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:36:07 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Fretless bassists - --On 2. Mdrz 2009 15:00:12 +0000 Charlotte wrote: > I'm enjoying trying out some fretless playing and I'm looking for > inspiration: which fretless bassists would fegs recommend in the rock/pop > line rather than jazz/funk (Andy Metcalfe excepted)? Back in the 80s, Pino Palladino was *the* fretless player: ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 10:42:35 -0500 From: Stewart Russell Subject: Re: Fretless bassists I enjoy Kev Hopper's playing much more than I should, especially since he's firmly in the "rock/experimental" capacity. A bunch of his albums are online for free on his site. - -- http://scruss.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:15:22 -0500 From: Marc Subject: Re: Fretless bassists Stewart Russell wrote: > I enjoy Kev Hopper's playing much more than I should, especially since > he's firmly in the "rock/experimental" capacity. A bunch of his albums > are online for free on his site. > I've always been a fan of Victor Wooten's work, particularly with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, but that's definitely not rock for the most part. Still, probably worth checking out--the guy is awesome. Marc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 08:29:12 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Fretless bassists The Flecktones rule. Anybody who can play funk on an electric banjo... On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Marc wrote: > Stewart Russell wrote: > >> I enjoy Kev Hopper's playing much more than I should, especially since >> he's firmly in the "rock/experimental" capacity. A bunch of his albums >> are online for free on his site. >> >> > I've always been a fan of Victor Wooten's work, particularly with Bela > Fleck and the Flecktones, but that's definitely not rock for the most part. > Still, probably worth checking out--the guy is awesome. > > Marc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 08:29:56 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: bubble tea Live oysters? On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Sebastian Hagedorn < Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de> wrote: > --On 1. Mdrz 2009 20:11:28 -0500 Jill Brand wrote: > > Bubble tea is my idea of a culinary nightmare. I don't like lumps of >> anything in my beverages, and a slimy bit of tapioca is the last thing I >> want sliding down. Uggh. >> >> Did I make that clear enough? >> > > I'd say you did :-) But is that based on actual experience or is it an a > priori judgement? I have no idea if I will like it, but (except for dead > animals) I'm willing to try anything once. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 10:36:13 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Fretless bassists On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:29 AM, kevin studyvin wrote: > The Flecktones rule. Anybody who can play funk on an electric banjo... What *else* would you play on an electric banjo? "Funk" in the sense of bad smell... > > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Marc wrote: > > > Stewart Russell wrote: > > > >> I enjoy Kev Hopper's playing much more than I should, especially since > >> he's firmly in the "rock/experimental" capacity. A bunch of his albums > >> are online for free on his site. > >> > >> > > I've always been a fan of Victor Wooten's work, particularly with Bela > > Fleck and the Flecktones, but that's definitely not rock for the most > part. > > Still, probably worth checking out--the guy is awesome. > I beg to differ. Everything I've ever heard from them has been this sort of hideous jazz-funk-fusion-poograss wanking gack. A world of ick. I'm sure they're all good players. But that's like saying auctioneers are the most eloquent speakers. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:42:55 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: bubble tea - --On 2. MC$rz 2009 08:29:56 -0800 kevin studyvin wrote: > Live oysters? OK, you got me :-) I should've been more precise. Although it's even more complicated in that I *do* eat fish - go figure. - -- b. Sebastian Hagedorn b Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de b' http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:47:54 -0500 From: Marc Subject: Re: bubble tea Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > --On 2. MC$rz 2009 08:29:56 -0800 kevin studyvin > wrote: > >> Live oysters? > > OK, you got me :-) I should've been more precise. Although it's even > more complicated in that I *do* eat fish - go figure. We always knew there was something fishy about you, Sebastian.... ;) Marc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 14:06:47 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: a somewhat Robynesque cartoon - in particular, the man's appearance... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #62 *******************************