From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #74 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, March 16 2009 Volume 17 : Number 074 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Goodnight Oslo ["Marc Holden" ] Your Head Here [Jeremy Osner ] Tonight, March 15 [Poem Lover ] REAP [Jeremy Osner ] My name is "Eb", and I can't help but suspect that my Precious Bodily Fluids are just a little more precious than are the average individuals. [] Re: REAP ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: REAP [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Return of the Son of the BSG Thread [lep ] REAP [FSThomas ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:35:02 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: Re: Goodnight Oslo Jeremy and Tom gushed and ranted: >> My copy arrived in the mail today -- have only >> listened to it about half of >> once (but have listened to "I'm Falling" twice >>because it blew my mind.) >YES!! Are you and I the only ones who see the >brilliance in this song? He takes a phrase we've >heard ad nauseam ("There's a thin line...") and >uses it to its fullest impact, all the while letting the >band build up to full on strumming & harmonizing >crescendo. Fuck I can't wait to plant myself in >front of Peter Buck and watch them play >this live... I'm liking the new album more each time I hear it. Not a perfect album, but I'd say that there are a lot of real strong points. I like "I'm Falling" a lot, not my favorite song on the album, but probably in the top four or five. The thing that runs through my head each time I hear it is that if there is ever a major artist Hitchcock tribute, the Polyphonic Spree need to do that one. Then again, I was day dreaming recently that Robyn (in concert) would go off on one of his extended aquatic stories and wrap it all up with the singing portion of the Donovan's "Atlantis"--""Way down below the ocean, where I wanna be, she may be..." For me, it might become an even stronger association with that song than when it was used in the movie Goodfellas. One other unrelated and odd thing that I think Fegs are likely to appreciate. One of my cats thinks everything in my house is a toy. He emptied most of the balls out of my pachinko machine, he emptied an entire container of drawing pencils and batted them under the sofas and chairs in my living room, he shredded a replacement speaker foam surround before I got around to fixing a damaged speaker ($25), etc. Well, this morning I'm cleaning the bathroom, and decide to sweep all the way back underneath a large bookcase I have in there. In addition to a Sharpie marker, a water bottle cap, an empty toilet paper roll, and other assorted crap, I found a CD (in the case). It was Daniel Johnston--The Lost Recordings 2. I think my cat, in addition to being totally rambunctious and one outstandingly attractive dude, might be a music critic with an ironic sense of humor. Later, Marc ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 09:57:17 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Your Head Here Is there a lyrics sheet for "Goodnight Oslo" somewhere? I'm wondering whether the chorus of "Your Head Here" is a question: "Is your head here?" - -- or an answer: "It's your head here" --or a cryptic statement: "It's 'Your head here!'" -- and what such a statement would mean. I think that it is a fun, good song which is made great by the backup vocal. J If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Josef Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:32:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Poem Lover Subject: Tonight, March 15 Any Fegs going to see Jonathan Coulton in Austin, TX tonight?? If so , text me: 254-592-7910!!! Marcy :) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:07:06 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: REAP Citizen Kafka (gifted DJ, leader of the Wretched Refuse String Band) passed away yesterday. He was a truly good person, one of the friendliest, most talented people I've ever gotten to know. I'm very sorry I won't have a chance to talk with him again. 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: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:19:53 -0700 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: My name is "Eb", and I can't help but suspect that my Precious Bodily Fluids are just a little more precious than are the average individuals. far, far, far and away the best since *Nextdoorland*. might well be better that *Jewels*. i can't believe how great his voice sounds. maybe he's quit smoking? (i read an interview with cohen last year, in which he said that his having quit smoking caused him to lose some of the lower register, but regain some of the higher register. for what that's worth.) all y'all coming in for the show next week are hereby *commanded* to take in the "Garden And Cosmos" exhibition at the asian art museum. if it don't blow your fuckin' gourd, nothing can. catch the #10 bus from downtown up to volunteer park. oh, and don't forget to bring your snowshoes! in other newz, my latest musical obsession = the felice brothers. how come none o' you sons of a bitches ever tipped me off to these cats before now?? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:26:40 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: REAP Jeremy Osner wrote: > Citizen Kafka Yes, he's getting many eulogies over on have_moicy, the Holy Modal Rounders list. I think you might like the Rounders if you don't know them already. Stewart (who got both his autoharps back from the tech yesterday - one's now electric ...) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:53:58 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: REAP And rounding out the bad news this weekend, Rick Altman of the Village Folklore Center has died of pneumonia. http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=119388&messages=3 Jeremy On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > Citizen Kafka (gifted DJ, leader of the Wretched Refuse String Band) > passed away yesterday. He was a truly good person, one of the friendliest, > most talented people I've ever gotten to know. I'm very sorry I won't have a > chance to talk with him again. > > 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, 16 Mar 2009 02:22:48 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: Return of the Son of the BSG Thread 2fs says: > It just occurred to me: if anyone's writing a BSG-themed song, and you need > a rhyme for "Kara Thrace," the word "carapace" would do well. > > Now I just sit back and wait for the royalty checks to come flooding in. i'll have to send you one, if only the cute double-rhyme. or just for mentioning BSG. is anyone current with BSG? in "daybreak" (part 1) (or is that "daybreak (part 1)") baltar says "i need this like i need *fucking* hole in the head!" what the frak? xo p.s. odd timing - did anyone else notice that anders is in need of words that rhyme with kara thrace. p.p.s. "look jeff, no spoilers." not *really*. - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:08:38 -0400 From: FSThomas Subject: REAP Ron Silver, 62 http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSTRE52F0MZ20090316 - --- Award-winning actor and activist Ron Silver, who was Emmy-nominated for his role on the hit U.S. television drama "The West Wing," died on Sunday of cancer. He was 62. "Ron Silver died peacefully in his sleep with his family around him early Sunday morning," said Robin Bronk, executive director of the Creative Coalition, which Silver helped found. Bronk said Silver was with his family in New York City and he had been fighting esophageal cancer for two years. Bronk called Silver not only a very talented actor, but a champion of free speech and artists' rights. New York-based Creative Coalition is an art-oriented political group founded in 1989 by Silver, Alec Baldwin and Susan Sarandon, among others. Silver, who won Broadway's 1988 Tony Award for his work in David Mamet's drama "Speed the Plow," had been a longtime liberal activist, but after the September 11 attacks became an outspoken supporter of Republican President George W. Bush. He was a featured speaker at the 2004 Republican National Convention, sometimes called himself a "9/11 Republican" and switched his party affiliation from Democrat to independent. Silver said his shift in politics cost him jobs in liberal Hollywood, yet he remained sought out for his skills as a character actor. His portrayal of White House strategist Bruno Gianelli on "The West Wing" was perhaps his best known part in recent years, but he earned another Emmy nomination for the murder thriller "Billionaire Boys Club." He had roles on the TV hospital drama "Chicago Hope" and the comedy "Veronica's Closet," and he won acclaim for playing lawyer Alan Dershowitz in the film "Reversal of Fortune." Born and raised in New York City, his father worked in the garment industry and his mother was a teacher. He earned a master's degree in Chinese history from St. John's University in New York and studied drama at the Actors Studio. Silver and ex-wife Lynne Miller had a son and a daughter. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #74 *******************************