From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #101 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, April 1 2009 Volume 17 : Number 101 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: *nice* tablets [Rob Collingwood ] Not Dark Yet [Jeremy Osner ] Re: what Vivien said [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: REAP: Andy Hallet (the Host) [Christopher Gross ] Re: Agadoo and lemon bars [Christopher Gross ] Re: Agadoo and lemon bars ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: what Vivien said [Miles Goosens ] Re: what Vivien said [Rex ] Re: jeff beck , the OOO and the G Dead - beware strong opinions ! [2fs ] Re: what Vivien said [2fs ] Re: what Vivien said [2fs ] Re: jeff beck , the OOO and the G Dead - beware strong opinions ! [Rex ] Re: Agadoo and lemon bars [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: what Vivien said [Michael Sweeney ] RE: more fodder [] ASLEEP AT THE FOOKIN SWITCH PEOPLE! [2fs ] Re: what Vivien said ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Colin explains/serious Stewart problems ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: My name is "Eb": I'm known in many (okay, most) circles as "The Eddie Van Halen Of The Sitar", motherfucker! [] Re: what Vivien said [2fs ] Re: My name is "Eb": I'm known in many (okay, most) circles as "The Eddie Van Halen Of The Sitar", motherfucker! [] Re: what Vivien said [Rex ] Re: what Vivien said [Tom Clark ] Re: what Vivien said [2fs ] Re: My name is "Eb": I'm known in many (okay, most) circles as "The Eddie Van Halen Of The Sitar", motherfucker! [] request [lep ] Re: Rachels Hochzeit [Steve Schiavo ] Pictures from my trip [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: request ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Crowded fodder [michaeljbachman@comcast.net] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:04:10 +0100 From: Rob Collingwood Subject: Re: *nice* tablets Not chocolate, surely. More like fudge. Rob On 31 Mar 2009, at 22:22, James Dignan wrote: >> Jill asks: >> > What's a tablet (other than a pill that you swallow)? >> >> Something to write upon. > > Chocolate! It's an old name for a slab of chocolate, still > occasionally met with. > > 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: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:06:18 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Not Dark Yet Robyn with John Paul Jones: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RStlxAEeUMQ If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:11:04 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: what Vivien said - -- michaeljbachman@comcast.net is rumored to have mumbled on 31. Mdrz 2009 21:01:46 +0000 regarding Re: what Vivien said: > Canned peas are almost as bad, I've never bought them and always get the > frozen variety. I don't think I've ever seen canned spinach in Germany (watching Popeye made me want to have it, though!), but I buy canned peas all the time. Of course fresh and frozen ones taste better, but the canned ones are just fine for e.g. rice and noodle salads. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:14:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: REAP: Andy Hallet (the Host) Poor Andy. I like what Brian H said on FB: "He made it possible to stand a kind of singing I can't stand." On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Sumiko Keay wrote: > Meanwhile in other former Angel Cast news: > > Alexis Denisof and Alyson Hannigan had a little girl on March 24th - > that they named Satyana. Some good news! Having more of Alyson's genes in the pool can only help humanity. And she actually had the baby on her, Alyson's, own birthday. Can't say I care much for the name Satyana, though -- too reminiscent of Santana, or Satan. - --Chris np: Andy Hallett, "It's Not Easy Being Green" ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:16:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: Agadoo and lemon bars On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, 2fs wrote: > No - a pill that you swallow is a pillow. "Doctor, I dreamed I ate a five-pound marshmallow!" "Okay, that's weird, but why did you think you had to come to the emergency room?" "You don't understand. When I woke up, my pillow was missing!" Read that joke when I was about 8, and I still think of it every time I change a pillowcase. - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:22:10 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: Agadoo and lemon bars >fegmaniax-digest V17 #100 >From: 2fs > > > > > What's a tablet (other than a pill that you swallow)? > > >No - a pill that you swallow is a pillow. No, you're thinking of swill. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:44:08 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: what Vivien said Rex: >> No borscht for me, >> Rex How do you feel about "No Borscht 3" though? "I'm hurt and I'm tryin' to find / a beet in the early morn... the former tenants were anti-vegetable funish," etc. later, Miles p.s.: "No Bulbs" would be another great introductory Fall song, I think: catchy, goofy MES randomness, propulsive, fun. And, I think, previously suggested. Hear it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E06Krc6NYFc (it's not a proper video, one of those "there is no video, so I'm going to make the song available on YouTube by ripping the track from the CD and uploading it with a still of the album art" things). - -- now with blogspot retsin! http://readingpronunciation.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:59:40 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: what Vivien said On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Miles Goosens wrote: > Rex: > >> No borscht for me, > >> Rex > > How do you feel about "No Borscht 3" though? "I'm hurt and I'm tryin' > to find / a beet in the early morn... the former tenants were > anti-vegetable funish," etc. Omigod, kids... he just substituted "borscht" for "belt". Borscht... belt! WIN! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:27:12 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: jeff beck , the OOO and the G Dead - beware strong opinions ! On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Rex wrote: > > The current Who: was just talking to a friend about that one Who reunion > (I > know, which one) where Townshend's tinnitus supposedly confined him to > acoustic guitar only or some such bollocks... what the hell ever happened > with that? I heard the most recent EP (that's a sampler of sorts from the full-length album) because I read good things about it and it was used-cheap - and while musically, it's mostly good, Daltrey's voice is verging on unpleasant these days...and Pete...well, poor Pete's nose has utterly swallowed his vocal apparatus, at least judging from the odd goose-like honking that emanates therefrom. I mean, he never had the most pleasant or powerful voice - but it was dearly expressive, and musical enough even though its weaknesses in nasality and adenoidal qualities were apparent enough...but now it's nearly unlistenable. Sad. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:30:47 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Agadoo and lemon bars On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Jason R. Thornton wrote: > fegmaniax-digest V17 #100 >> From: 2fs >> >> > >> > What's a tablet (other than a pill that you swallow)? >> >> >> No - a pill that you swallow is a pillow. >> > > No, you're thinking of swill. If we keep this up we'll be writing Cocteau Twins lyrics... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:33:25 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: what Vivien said On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:28 PM, wrote: > I can only tolerate beets in a greek salad. > Eh? Beats in a Greek salon? Why am I imagining Jack Kerouac swilling ouzo? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:35:35 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: what Vivien said On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 3:03 PM, vivien lyon wrote: > > > "It's no corndog." <- my new favorite way of declining food. > That's from an old blues song, no? Ain't no corndog Been studyin' me Ain't no corndog Keep studyin' me Well I walked all the way to Pedro Ain't no corndog gonna let me be. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:36:33 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: jeff beck , the OOO and the G Dead - beware strong opinions ! On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 4:27 PM, 2fs wrote: > well, poor Pete's nose has utterly swallowed his vocal apparatus, at least > judging from the odd goose-like honking that emanates therefrom. I mean, he > never had the most pleasant or powerful voice - but it was dearly > expressive, and musical enough even though its weaknesses in nasality and > adenoidal qualities were apparent enough...but now it's nearly unlistenable. > Sad. > Yeah. I never did hear "Feast of"-- wait, sorry, "ENDLESS Wire", but "Empty Glass" remains a favorite of mine. There are probably only two, maybe three Who albums that I like better (depending on how long it's been since I was exposed to classic rock radio, basically). Amazing record. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:43:51 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: what Vivien said On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:35 PM, 2fs wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 3:03 PM, vivien lyon wrote: > >> >> >> "It's no corndog." <- my new favorite way of declining food. >> > > That's from an old blues song, no? > > Ain't no corndog > Been studyin' me > Ain't no corndog > Keep studyin' me > Well I walked all the way to Pedro > Ain't no corndog gonna let me be. If you don't get the Minutemen reference therein... well, you've got some listening to do. later, Miles, who prefers DOUBLE NICKELS ON THE DIME to ZEN ARCADE in the steel-cage death match of SST double albums from 1984 (though both are absolutely essential) - -- now with blogspot retsin! http://readingpronunciation.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:01:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Agadoo and lemon bars 2fs wrote: > Jason R. Thornton wrote: > >> From: 2fs > >> > What's a tablet (other than a pill that you swallow)? > >> No - a pill that you swallow is a pillow. > > No, you're thinking of swill. > > If we keep this up we'll be writing Cocteau Twins > lyrics... How could we tell? "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 00:09:10 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: what Vivien said Michael Bachman wrote: >Canned peas are almost as bad, Ooh...I hate peas...but love peapods... Michael "Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Quick access to Windows Live and your favorite MSN content with Internet Explorer 8. http://ie8.msn.com/microsoft/internet-explorer-8/en-us/ie8.aspx?ocid=B037MSN5 5C0701A ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:36:01 -0400 From: Subject: RE: more fodder From: vivien lyon [mailto:vivien.lyon@gmail.com] Subject: Re: more fodder >>On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:43 PM, wrote: >>I seem to remember mentioning several years ago that Elvis Costello left me >>wanting as well. (I believe I said his voice was like someone huffing in a >>phonebooth outside of Euston Station, and Viv nearly killed me, as I recall.) >The thing is, he's probably not exaggerating all that much. Sorry 'bout that. >>This opinion has not changed. >What?? Why, you..... Good thing I'm 1,000 miles away. She might remember what I said about Michael Penn... >>One of the main facets that may not have been mentioned was >>there's a certain level of discomfort some people need in order to make their >>art. >That is a very interesting point. That's how I work- something builds up inside of me >and at some point it has to come out, or I get very dysfunctional. Good that you can use it in your work. What's the line? "Like swallowing a red hot iron ball. You want to vomit it out, but you can't." One of the reasons I haven't really pursued songwriting is that I don't have time or room for that kind agitation. ::: getting back on the #41 Lurk Bus ::: - -Doc This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:14:50 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: ASLEEP AT THE FOOKIN SWITCH PEOPLE! On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Michael Sweeney wrote: > Michael Bachman wrote: > > > > >Canned peas are almost as bad, > What - not a single solitary reference to "canned bees" at this point? I am sadly, sadly disappointed. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:14:53 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: what Vivien said Rex wrote: > > I could really go for an endive tonight after all this. A really damn > vinaigrettey endive. Toasted endive is a phenomenal taste experience. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:18:46 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Colin explains/serious Stewart problems Jill Brand wrote: > > but haven't read the whole thing. The only comment I have thus far is, > Colin, lose the fucking mutton chops! Easiest way to do that: murmur to him as he passes, "Great bugger's grips, Colin!" They'll be gone before morning. > Stewart, we've braved a lot together, and we even share a birthday, but > this lemon dessert/brussel sprout divide in beginning to worry me. I blame my upbringing. Sprouts needed to be boiled for 90 minutes. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:05:52 -0700 From: vivien lyon Subject: Re: ASLEEP AT THE FOOKIN SWITCH PEOPLE! On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:14 PM, 2fs wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Michael Sweeney >wrote: > > > Michael Bachman wrote: > > > > > > > > >Canned peas are almost as bad, > > > > What - not a single solitary reference to "canned bees" at this point? > On the other hand, I have a can of bees and I find it to be quite to my taste! (<-- is that what you had in mind?) > I am sadly, sadly disappointed. Sorry, dad. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:16:55 -0700 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: My name is "Eb": I'm known in many (okay, most) circles as "The Eddie Van Halen Of The Sitar", motherfucker! felice brothers have leaked! . don't know who wrote the following; record-label, i guess. makes 'em seem somewhat robyn-esque, which i'd probably not argue (though one song does remind of "Ghost Ship"): >> The Felice Brothers come to us from the Catskill Mountains where a homegrown sound has been working its way through the bloodlines for generations. Titled with a phrase drawn from the pages of Mark Twain, "Yonder Is The Clock" is teeming with tales of love, death, betrayal, baseball, train stations, phantoms, pandemics, jail cells, rolling rivers, and frozen winter nights. This is music that hasn't lost sight of the history of the land from which it came, and that quality alone makes The Felice Brothers the next great American band. << KEN "Breathe, chicken, breathe" THE KENSTER ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:22:03 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: My name is "Eb": I'm known in many (okay, most) circles as "The Eddie Van Halen Of The Sitar", motherfucker! On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: > felice brothers have leaked! . > > >> The Felice Brothers come to us from the Catskill Mountains where a > homegrown sound has been working its way through the bloodlines for > generations. Titled with a phrase drawn from the pages of Mark Twain, > "Yonder Is The Clock" *sigh* Given my previous Felice Brothers joke, and probably because it's Eddie, I of course misread this as "Yonder Is The Cock." Which, you know, in a barnyard sense. Obviously. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:38:57 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: what Vivien said On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Miles Goosens wrote: > > Miles, > who prefers DOUBLE NICKELS ON THE DIME to ZEN ARCADE in the steel-cage > death match of SST double albums from 1984 (though both are absolutely > essential) I'll agree with that one, although I give the Huskers a slight edge as a band. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:45:15 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: My name is "Eb": I'm known in many (okay, most) circles as "The Eddie Van Halen Of The Sitar", motherfucker! On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:22 PM, 2fs wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Nectar At Any Cost! > wrote: > > > felice brothers have leaked! . > > > > >> The Felice Brothers come to us from the Catskill Mountains where a > > homegrown sound has been working its way through the bloodlines for > > generations. Titled with a phrase drawn from the pages of Mark Twain, > > "Yonder Is The Clock" > > > *sigh* > > Given my previous Felice Brothers joke, and probably because it's Eddie, I > of course misread this as "Yonder Is The Cock." > > Which, you know, in a barnyard sense. Obviously. > Yes. He did mention chickens almost immediately thereafter, so... you can see how that works. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:53:33 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: what Vivien said On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Rex wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Miles Goosens >wrote: > > > > > Miles, > > who prefers DOUBLE NICKELS ON THE DIME to ZEN ARCADE in the steel-cage > > death match of SST double albums from 1984 (though both are absolutely > > essential) > > > I'll agree with that one, although I give the Huskers a slight edge as a > band. Hmmm.. Depends on what you mean. I think both Mould and Hart were better songwriters per se than anyone in Minutemen...but then, Minutemen (which my hands persist in wanting to type "Minutement") weren't really about songs in the conventional sense. While the Huskers were no slouches as musicians, there I'd have to give the Pedro boys the edge...and who knows what they might have gotten up to had they had a better van mechanic. That was a tragic loss. I was never a huge giant fan...but perhaps because I'd seen the band live not long before, that one really hit me at the time. (Yes kids...it's old dudes talking about guys who died before you were born. Someday you too will be old and flabby and gray and babbling about when you were in third grade and got scared by your weird uncle's Aphex Twin CD...) PS: If I were a huge giant fan, perhaps I could make some extra money hiring myself out to generate windpower. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:55:40 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: My name is "Eb": I'm known in many (okay, most) circles as "The Eddie Van Halen Of The Sitar", motherfucker! On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Rex wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:22 PM, 2fs wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Nectar At Any Cost! >> wrote: >> >> > felice brothers have leaked! . >> > >> > >> The Felice Brothers come to us from the Catskill Mountains where a >> > homegrown sound has been working its way through the bloodlines for >> > generations. Titled with a phrase drawn from the pages of Mark Twain, >> > "Yonder Is The Clock" >> >> Given my previous Felice Brothers joke, and probably because it's Eddie, I >> of course misread this as "Yonder Is The Cock." >> >> > Yes. He did mention chickens almost immediately thereafter, so... you can > see how that works. > Thanks to which, the following ad appeared in Gmail's sidebar: *"Chicken Hawk Tire Warmers * Standard,Pole position,Proline temp.adj. affordable,easy to use" I have no idea WTF...but I probably don't want to know about anything brandnamed "Chicken Hawk." - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:16:53 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: what Vivien said On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:53 PM, 2fs wrote: > > > Depends on what you mean. I think both Mould and Hart were better > songwriters per se than anyone in Minutemen...but then, Minutemen (which my > hands persist in wanting to type "Minutement") cf. Echo & the Bunnyment, who have been deleted from my text countless times over the years. > weren't really about songs in > the conventional sense. While the Huskers were no slouches as musicians, > there I'd have to give the Pedro boys the edge... Yeah, well, you know, I really changed my mind halfway through that thought and it just didn't come out right. I was originally going to give the edge to the Huskers' *catalog*, but decided that wasn't fair because they were hardly congruent due to, like, dying and stuff. So somehow I landed on the word "band" instead... I think I really meant "artist", but even then I was only give slight preference, but "band" certainly did seem to mean "performing unit", and you may be right. Titans both, though, surely... seen a few Huskers clips on the tubes lately, and, you know, damn, and shit. - -Rex, remembering when Gnat listened to the Minutemen and got mad because of all the slap bass and thought we were yanking her chain... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:25:32 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: what Vivien said On Mar 31, 2009, at 4:43 PM, Miles Goosens wrote: > who prefers DOUBLE NICKELS ON THE DIME to ZEN ARCADE in the steel-cage > death match of SST double albums from 1984 (though both are absolutely > essential) Tough choice but I'd have to agree. - -tc, who has "Corona" as his ringtone. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:41:05 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: what Vivien said On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Rex wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:53 PM, 2fs wrote: > >> >> >> hands persist in wanting to type "Minutement") > > > cf. Echo & the Bunnyment, who have been deleted from my text countless > times over the years. > And then there's Sam Phillips' song "Entertainmen"...which is probably the most incorrectly-corrected songtitle ever (or would be, if more people referred to it). My fingers also think there's a band called "The Magentic Fields." - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:50:32 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: My name is "Eb": I'm known in many (okay, most) circles as "The Eddie Van Halen Of The Sitar", motherfucker! On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:38 PM, 2fs wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Rex wrote: > >> >> "Halal Meat in Elk Grove" is of course also the new Fall single. >> > > I thought Adam Halal was one of their former guitarists. > Yes, MES is trying this new "self-referential" thing. I think Halal was responsible for what must surely have been the band's biggest hit, "Dr. Buck's Letter". - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 02:16:00 -0400 From: lep Subject: request hi fegs, look, i'm kind of busy this week. and apparently, someone scheduled a shitstorm of feglist activity without bothering to check my google calendar. sheesh, i can barely keep up with reading the "subject:" lines (and no chance of that if eddie starts in with his MAXSTRING-sized headers.) we've got fegmaniax, fegmaniax-digest, fegmaniax-announce, but none of those are all that helpful when i don't bother to read them. but i'd be willing to make time for a well-written, concise-yet-insightful pricis of the day's feglist activities. so could someone be a dear and start up fegmaniax-abstract? as ever, lauren p.s. and was it one of the steves who created the lovely four-quadrant graph of feg results to some liberal/conservative (but with a twist) online poll? fegs and vegetables is WAY better than that. i mean, would it kill someone to collate 29 pages of posts and stick it in a graph? maybe some regression analysis? and i know some of you are thinking "synthesizing data's not really my thing." no worries, you're probably more the artistic type. a ballad-of-the-day would do nicely. - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:17:19 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: Rachels Hochzeit On Mar 31, 2009, at 8:50 AM, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was apparently too complicated, so > they shortened it to Tiger & Dragon Or ToraDora - - Steve _______________ Interconnectedness among living beings can be accounted for by nonlocal quantum entanglement. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:06:56 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Pictures from my trip Hi, I've posted some of these on Facebook, but for all who don't use it here are some of the pictures I took on my recent trip to the US: If you click on the miniatures you get the original photos. In addition to the pictures of the actual meeting there are a few I took on my tour of Stanford, with Nick as my gracious tour guide, plus some touristy shots of the bay. Let me repeat how great it was to meet Carrie, Nick, Russ and Tom plus family. I wish I could've taken them with me. Thanks guys! - -- b. Sebastian Hagedorn b Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de b' http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:34:45 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: request lep wrote: > > so could someone be a dear and start up fegmaniax-abstract? This is only a moderate-traffic time. Real life is nowhere near as important as fegmaniax. Stewart (though fegmaniax-meta might be interesting) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 12:29:41 +0000 (UTC) From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Subject: Re: Crowded fodder If you add "Fall at your Feet"B and "She Goes On" to "Weather With You" and "Four Seasons in One Day", then I think you have four really great songs that vault Woodface from an otherwise mediocre album to a really great album. Maybe "She Goes On" gets overshadowed by the other three, which is too bad because it's got some elements of nationalistic prideB in it's lyrics. Michael B. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Dignan" To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 5:13:37 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re:Crowded fodder >There can be no doubting the celestial majesty of "Weather With You", can >there? B I loved that song for year before I found out that it was an actual >sing-along-level *hit song* outside the US. B And when I did find that out, >it made me very, very happy. B Like coming home. That and "Four seasons in one day" make me feel very odd. They almost give me some sort of nationalistic pride, a feeling I'm really not used to - that someone from the li'l ol' shaky isles can have come up with something so hearbreakingly gorgeous. >Also, Viv says: > B > I was so musically naive at the time I didn't know "Pale and >Precious" was a > B > Beach Boys pastiche. I only figured it out years later, upon hearing Pet > B > Sounds for the first time. > >Y'know, I still can't identify half of what theyr'e homaging. B I think >Pale & Precious is the only one I got on first listen. When I was younger I knew far more about the Hollies than the Beach Boys, so "Vanishing Girl" was the most obvious one for me. "Albert Brown" always struck me as Herman's Hermits meet the Small Faces, too. James - -- B B B James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand B B B B -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- B B B =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. B B B -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- B B B .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #101 ********************************