From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #81 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, March 24 2009 Volume 17 : Number 081 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Triple Door Show? [Rex ] Re: Triple Door Show? [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Triple Door Show? [Miles Goosens ] Re: Any Beefheart fans out there? [Jeremy Osner ] Decemberists new CD review from Odds & Sods (for Who fans) [HwyCDRrev@aol] Re: Decemberists new CD review from Odds & Sods (for Who fans) [kevin stu] REAP [tongue in cheek] [Poem Lover ] Re: REAP [tongue in cheek] [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: REAP [tongue in cheek] [Jeremy Osner ] Re: REAP [tongue in cheek] [2fs ] movie talk [lep ] Re: movie talk [kevin studyvin ] Re: movie talk [Jeremy Osner ] Re: movie talk [Marc ] Re: movie talk [lep ] How Is This Possible?? ["Nectar At Any Cost!" ] Re: How Is This Possible?? [Christopher Gross ] Re: movie talk [Jeremy Osner ] Re: movie talk [Rob Collingwood ] Re: Decemberists new CD review from Odds & Sods (for Who fans) [Rex Subject: Re: Triple Door Show? On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 7:21 AM, John B. Jones wrote: > Nothing rare or unreleased (the flyer out in front of the > venue said something about "due to his fans, Robyn plays alot of rare and unreleased material") except for "Out Of The Picture" and "The Lizard". That's pretty strong, though. I think I've seen an acoustic "Lizard", but never "Out of the Picture" (which is one of a handful of Robyn songs that I don't often think of, but when reminded of it, almost inevitably think of as one of his best). Still... no... V3 LA date? Really? Who do I have to talk to? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:36:52 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Triple Door Show? > I think I've seen an acoustic "Lizard", but > never "Out of the Picture" (which is one of a handful of Robyn songs that I > don't often think of, but when reminded of it, almost inevitably think of as > one of his best). I tentatively think I have never seem Robyn performing a song from BSDR and I would dearly love to. The songs from that record are engraved on my consciousness like the ten commandments or some similar text inscribed on stone. Come on baby, gimme the meat... J If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- J Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:08:53 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: Triple Door Show? On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > I tentatively think I have never seem Robyn performing a song from > BSDR and I would dearly love to. The songs from that record are > engraved on my consciousness like the ten commandments or some similar > text inscribed on stone. Come on baby, gimme the meat... He did "Acid Bird" at the Robyn Hitchcock & the Nashville Crawdads show a couple of years ago, which, along with finally seeing John Paul Jones in person, was one of the true highlights o' the show for me. I think he may have played "Acid Bird" at the 1990 show at the Bluebird... someday I'll find my notes about that show... later, Miles - -- now with blogspot retsin! http://readingpronunciation.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:15:32 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Any Beefheart fans out there? The poster has found a home: thanks for playing. J On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > A graphic of the poster is here: > http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/dt/captain-beefheart-and-the-magic-band-handbill/FD023-HB.html > > J > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: >> My friend Janis took apart her 2008 calendar this weekend -- each page >> of which is an Avalon Ballroom poster -- and gave me two pages. The >> 13th Floor Elevators/Moby Grape poster is hanging in my office now; I >> thought the other one might make some feg maniac happy. >> >> Green background, yellow and white text says "Family Dog presents: >> Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band/ and The Charlatans/ August >> 26-27/ Avalon Ballroom/ Sutter at Van Ness". The graphic is of three >> portly friars singing. >> >> Let me know if you'd like it; first come, first served. >> J ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:25:09 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Decemberists new CD review from Odds & Sods (for Who fans) The Decemberists just released a new rock opera called The Hazards of Love. I don't use the word "masterpiece" often, but my God, it fits here. I've read a couple of reviews that compare it to Tommy and the Wall, and it deserves a place next to both those albums. The story is a bit convoluted but still more decipherable than Tommy, and the music is just unbelievable. One thing that jumped out at me right off the bat is the way they (or rather, he; Colin Meloy wrote it) use musical motifs similar to the way Pete used the themes in Quad. I highly recommend giving it a listen, and actually you can check it out for free. They played the whole album start to finish at the SXSW festival last Saturday, and you can stream it from NPR's site. my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1220085203x1201389322/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fwww.freecreditreport.com%2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc%3D668072%26hmpgID %3D62%26bcd%3DMarchfooterNO62) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:42:49 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Decemberists new CD review from Odds & Sods (for Who fans) For some of us, I'm afraid the term "rock opera" has the same effect as fingernails on a blackboard (for those of you old enough to get that reference). And The Wall always struck me as an underwritten, hysterically overproduced extravaganza with all of three-four decent songs to its name. On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:25 AM, wrote: > The Decemberists just released a new rock opera called The Hazards of > Love. I don't use the word "masterpiece" often, but my God, it fits > here. I've read a couple of reviews that compare it to Tommy and the > Wall, and it deserves a place next to both those albums. The story is a > bit convoluted but still more decipherable than Tommy, and the music is > just unbelievable. One thing that jumped out at me right off the bat is > the way they (or rather, he; Colin Meloy wrote it) use musical motifs > similar to the way Pete used the themes in Quad. I highly recommend > giving it a listen, and actually you can check it out for free. They > played the whole album start to finish at the SXSW festival last > Saturday, and you can stream it from NPR's site. > > my blog is "Yer Blog" > http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ > http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ > > **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy > steps! > ( > http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1220085203x1201389322/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fwww.freecreditreport.com%2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc%3D668072%26hmpgID > %3D62%26bcd%3DMarchfooterNO62) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:21:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Poem Lover Subject: REAP [tongue in cheek] David Letterman's bachelorhood. ;) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:50:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: REAP [tongue in cheek] Poem Lover wrote: > David Letterman's bachelorhood. > ;) Technically, his divorceehood[sp] since he was married once before. "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:18:03 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: REAP [tongue in cheek] Mr. Dwarf thinks: > Technically, his divorceehood[sp] since he was married once before. O tempora! O mores! If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- J Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:37:44 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: REAP [tongue in cheek] On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > Mr. Dwarf thinks: > > Technically, his divorceehood[sp] since he was married once before. > > O tempora! O mores! That's funny - I had tempura moray at a Japanese restaurant the other night... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:54:37 -0400 From: lep Subject: movie talk hi fegs, i'm sure you've been wondering what i've been doing since i don't seem to have been watching movies and telling you about them. well, i still watch movies, secretly, and then don't you about them. sorry, but your luck has now ended. but i'll keep it short and list just the highs and the lows. the high: amargosa - has anyone seen this documentary? it was amazing and very heartwarming (without being sappy.) it's about this nutty 80-ish woman who created her own dance theatre in death valley. she's one hell of a lady. and quite the ballet dancer. the low: hard candy - oh dear. i was left speechless. except i did say to myself, "wow, there's just not enough directors these days who are bold enough to handle the on-screen castration." i did like how the director says he'd rather get a strong reaction to his film rather than a neutral one. kind of like hitler. xo p.s. actually, i haven't been watching as many movies. i have a "team" project this semester. twice the work for half the grade. and to think i'd nearly forgotten why communism sucks. p.p.s last episode BSG - "F". my dear jacob at TWoP speaks the truth. - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:02:49 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: movie talk > p.s. actually, i haven't been watching as many movies. i have a > "team" project this semester. twice the work for half the grade. and > to think i'd nearly forgotten why communism sucks. > Lenny Bruce said "Under Communism everything is like one big phone company." Which won't translate well for those of you who never lived in a world where we just had one big phone company, I guess... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:05:31 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: movie talk > the high: > amargosa - has anyone seen this documentary? it was amazing and very > heartwarming (without being sappy.) it's about this nutty 80-ish > woman who created her own dance theatre in death valley. she's one > hell of a lady. and quite the ballet dancer. I did not see this. But speaking of fantastic documentaries, did any of you see the new "Wild Combination: a Portrait of Arthur Russell"? Russell was (from what I've seen and heard of him in this movie -- I had not known about him beforehand) a genius musically, combining some lovely poetry with guitar, cello, and electronica and ambient sound for a few brief years before his early death. Loved the movie and the music. J ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:10:50 -0400 From: Marc Subject: Re: movie talk kevin studyvin wrote: >> p.s. actually, i haven't been watching as many movies. i have a >> "team" project this semester. twice the work for half the grade. and >> to think i'd nearly forgotten why communism sucks. >> > > Lenny Bruce said "Under Communism everything is like one big phone > company." Which won't translate well for those of you who never lived in a > world where we just had one big phone company, I guess... > I always sort of preferred Dilbert's round-about description, which instead of capitalism and communism, was pitched as "first world, second world and third world". In the first world, you have all the delicious food you could ever want to eat. In the third world, you do not have enough food to eat. In the second world, you had all the food you could ever want to eat, but you never wanted to eat any of it. In summing it up, the last frame showed an Elbownian getting served an entree for dinner, only to exclaim "What? Airline food again???" Sort of the same idea, and getting equally anachronistic as the airlines stop serving food on more and more of their routes. Marc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:12:32 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: movie talk Jeremy says: > But speaking of fantastic documentaries, did any > of you see the new "Wild Combination: a Portrait of Arthur Russell"? > Russell was (from what I've seen and heard of him in this movie -- I > had not known about him beforehand) a genius musically, combining some > lovely poetry with guitar, cello, and electronica and ambient sound > for a few brief years before his early death. Loved the movie and the > music. i'll definitely look for that one. i've been inclined towards documentaries and british crime lately. BTW, any british crime recommendations? problem is i've seen cracker, so everything else pales. i exaggerate of course - others i've seen: prime suspect (i loved this) the last detective (enjoyed it, but the mysteries don't seem up to prime suspect) midsomer murders (ditto) i just received the first disc of "five days" so we'll see how that goes. also saw part of interesting US short series that ran on sci-fi called "the lost room" with peter krause. never finished it though it looked promising. how's that morse guy? other recommendations? as ever, lauren - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:54:12 -0700 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: How Is This Possible?? using the latest version of openoffice, and the word "proctoscope" is not recognised by the spell-check! what...the...fuck? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:03:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: How Is This Possible?? On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: > using the latest version of openoffice, and the word "proctoscope" is not > recognised by the spell-check! You mean you didn't try spelling it "procto-scope"? - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:15:26 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: movie talk > BTW, any british crime recommendations? problem is i've seen cracker, > so everything else pales. "Witness for the Prosecution". But you already knew that... J If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- J Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:55:42 +0000 From: Rob Collingwood Subject: Re: movie talk On 24 Mar 2009, at 21:12, lep wrote: > > BTW, any british crime recommendations? problem is i've seen cracker, > so everything else pales. The Inspector Rebus books are excellent, the tv series doesn't quite live up to them although part of that might be that Ken Stott isn't how I imagine Rebus to be. Rob ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:06:41 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Decemberists new CD review from Odds & Sods (for Who fans) On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:42 AM, kevin studyvin wrote: > For some of us, I'm afraid the term "rock opera" has the same effect as > fingernails on a blackboard (for those of you old enough to get that > reference). Oh, I think we're all old enough here. I've never made it through "The Wall" in any form, I don't think. But I think I'm starting to understand who's behind the Decemberists' rise to fame: it's the faction who believe it is Vitally Important That Rock and Roll Be Important!!!!11!1 I forget about those guys sometimes. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:18:37 -0700 From: Jason Brown Subject: Re: Decemberists new CD review from Odds & Sods (for Who fans) On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:42 AM, kevin studyvin wrote: > For some of us, I'm afraid the term "rock opera" has the same effect as > fingernails on a blackboard (for those of you old enough to get that > reference). And The Wall always struck me as an underwritten, hysterically > overproduced extravaganza with all of three-four decent songs to its name. Yeah but Quadrophenia and the Lamb Lies Down on Broadway are undeniably great right? - -- "Would you rather have your blood go to mindcrime or genocide?" - Trevor Heins ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #81 *******************************