From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #103 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, April 2 2009 Volume 17 : Number 103 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: counting the beets ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Shine on you crazy [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Shine on you crazy [2fs ] Re: Shine on you crazy [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Shine on you crazy [Marc ] BSfrakkinG again [2fs ] Re: counting the beets ["Nectar At Any Cost!" ] Re: BSfrakkinG again [Sumiko Keay ] Re: counting the beets [Rex ] Re: counting the beets [Jeremy Osner ] Re: counting the beets ["Jason R. Thornton" ] NEW on DiME: Soft Boys Italy 2003 DVD/ RH 5 November 1996 FM Canada [Hwy] Torrent #243336 THE SOFT BOYS - Bologna, Italy 15 january 2003 DVD PAL from MASTER ["Leftenant Reg?" ] Re: counting the beets [vivien lyon ] Escape: rebel music [Jeremy Osner ] tc... [lep ] possible repost (100% RH) [lep ] Re: tc... [Tom Clark ] Re: Escape: rebel music [vivien lyon ] Re: Escape: rebel music [Christopher Gross ] Re: Escape: rebel music [vivien lyon ] Re: Escape: rebel music [Rex ] Re: Escape: rebel music [Rex ] Re: counting the beets [2fs ] Re: Escape: rebel music [2fs ] Re: Pictures from my trip [djini@voicenet.com] Re: counting the beets [James Dignan ] Re: counting the beets [vivien lyon ] Re: counting the beets [Rex ] Re: counting the beets [2fs ] Re: tc... [lep ] Re: counting the beets [vivien lyon ] Re: possible repost (100% RH) [Jeremy Osner ] Re: counting the beets [Rex ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:03:07 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: counting the beets James Dignan wrote: > > I looked it up. What we call beet you probably call chard. Chard's the green leafy bit to me. Sort of salady. Despite my general disdain for green edibles, I adore collard greens. I have no idea why I like them. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 08:45:08 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Shine on you crazy Hey all, anybody know whether Robyn has covered Leonard Cohen's "There are no diamonds in the mine"? I want desperately for it to be the case that he has done, and for somebody on this list to have an MP3 recording of it to hand. J If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 08:21:41 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Shine on you crazy On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > Hey all, anybody know whether Robyn has covered Leonard Cohen's "There > are no diamonds in the mine"? I want desperately for it to be the case > that he has done, and for somebody on this list to have an MP3 > recording of it to hand. I don't know - but it brings to mind a question: what are some songs you really wish had been covered by particular artists? I've always thought Johnny Cash would have absolutely slayed on a cover of VU's "Pale Blue Eyes." - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 09:25:14 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Shine on you crazy On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 9:21 AM, 2fs wrote: > what are some songs you > really wish had been covered by particular artists? > I have long maintained that RH and Gillian Welch could do a particularly killer version of Patsy Cline's "Heartaches". ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:33:17 -0400 From: Marc Subject: Re: Shine on you crazy Jeremy Osner wrote: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 9:21 AM, 2fs wrote: >> what are some songs you >> really wish had been covered by particular artists? >> > > I have long maintained that RH and Gillian Welch could do a > particularly killer version of Patsy Cline's "Heartaches". > In that vein, I think the two of them could turn "Walking After Midnight" into a very cool duet. Marc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 10:04:23 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: BSfrakkinG again About that article in The Onion on Obama and the BSG finale: how spoilerific is it for someone who hasn't yet seen the show's final three hours? (I noticed a spoiler from the second half of S4 right in the damned first paragraph - luckily I'd watched those online - just haven't had time to get to the finale yet.) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:39:43 -0700 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: Re: counting the beets they're still quite popular in butte, montana, as well -- even though there aren't any miners left. i don't know whether it's the same variety. ...okay, according to wiki, it is the same: >> The legacy of the immigrants lives on in the form of the Cornish pasty which was popularized by mine workers who needed something easy to eat in the mines, the povitica a nutroll which is a holiday favorite sold in many supermarkets and bakeries in the Butte area, and the boneless pork chop sandwich. << ...which does remind me of "pork-chop john's", one of my mom's favourite restaurants when she was growing up there. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 11:01:31 -0500 From: Sumiko Keay Subject: Re: BSfrakkinG again Very spoilery if you haven't seen the finale. (But if you have: I highly recommend the Onion piece..) Sumi On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:04 AM, 2fs wrote: > About that article in The Onion on Obama and the BSG finale: how spoilerific > is it for someone who hasn't yet seen the show's final three hours? (I > noticed a spoiler from the second half of S4 right in the damned first > paragraph - luckily I'd watched those online - just haven't had time to get > to the finale yet.) > > -- > > ...Jeff Norman > > The Architectural Dance Society > http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 09:56:04 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: counting the beets On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:39 PM, 2fs wrote: > > Any other photos online of Fegs With Knives (tm)? If not, we can fix that pretty quickly, I'd imagine. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 13:05:03 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: counting the beets > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:39 PM, 2fs wrote: >> Any other photos online of Fegs With Knives (tm)? Here Are my knives; I'm behind the camera however. http://www.flickr.com/photos/readin/266554484/ J If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:51:22 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: counting the beets At 10:05 AM 4/2/2009, you wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:39 PM, 2fs wrote: > >> Any other photos online of Fegs With Knives (tm)? > >Here Are my knives; I'm behind the camera however. >http://www.flickr.com/photos/readin/266554484/ Here are my pretty Wusthofs: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2208/2235452596_4bda774e12.jpg I'm behind the iPhone. Well, "above" to be precise. For the record, I love beets. - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 14:45:18 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: NEW on DiME: Soft Boys Italy 2003 DVD/ RH 5 November 1996 FM Canada http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=243336 THE SOFT BOYS Le Scuderie Bologna, Italy 15 january 2003 kingdom of love queen of eyes mr. kennedy sudden town tonight insanely jealous the man with the light bulb head airscape i wanna destroy you he's a reptile i wanna be a seven winged bat only the stones remain underwater moonlight narcissus rock'n'roll toilet the bells of rhymney the face of death Lenght 82:33 min. Video: 224 MPEG-2, 720 C 576, 4:3, 25 fps, 7.50 Mbps, upper field first Audio: 160 PCM stereo, 48 kHz, 1.54 Mbps Lineage: PAL VHS MASTER >DVDRecorder>DVD-R by plusenti DVD-R>Mpeg Streamclip>DVD Studio Pro for menu and Peak for audio by loveandsoul The Soft Boys reunion tour in Italy was a great gift for all italians Robyn Hitchcock's fans. Nice small venues and very interested intimate crowds. All shows were filmed with permission. I missed just one as I couldn't really go. Thanks to loveandsoul for the great editing job! - ----------------------------------------------------------------- Robyn Hitchcock Monday, November 5, 1996 Vogue Theater Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada via CBC Radio Lineage: FM --> Audiocassete [unknown generation / recording equipment] --> CT-W606DR --> Analog Line-Out --> RX-V1300 --> Analog Line-Out --> LS-10 --> USB --> CD Wave --> FLAC Frontend Setlist: 01. [Intro] 02. Cynthia Mask 03. [The Swollen Dude] 04. Balloon Man 05. The Wind Cries Mary 06. [Equal And Opposite] 07. 1974 08. [The Wrong Side Of The Stage] 09. DeChirico Street 10. [Mysterious Intuitive Telepathy] 11. The Arms Of Love 12. [Enamel] 13. Let's Go Thundering 14. [Don't Fuck With The Pig] 15. I Am Not Me 16. I Something You 17. Freeze 18. [Intermission] 19. Sinister But She Was Happy 20. I Got A Message For You 21. [Outro] Running Time: 55:21 Notes: - -- I give the recording quality about B or B-; so possibly not for everyone. I'm uploading the show by request... - -- The right channel was missing for the beginning stages of the recording; so everything up until the start of "Balloon Man" has dual-left-channel (repaired, and normalized, in Sound Forge). - -- The date given is the date of the performance. I don't know the broadcast date. - -- Side-breaks between tracks 11 and 12 and between tracks 17 and 18. Sounds like only some audience applause and some tuning was missed. - -- Deni Bonet appears on tracks 9, 11, 13, and 19. - -- Robyn was opening for Billy Bragg on this tour; hence the somewhat abbreviated set. http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=243320 my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ **************New Low Prices on Dell Laptops b Starting at $399 (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1220433304x1201394525/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fad.doubl eclick.net%2Fclk%3B213540718%3B35046385%3Be) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 15:06:28 -0400 From: "Leftenant Reg?" Subject: Torrent #243336 THE SOFT BOYS - Bologna, Italy 15 january 2003 DVD PAL from MASTER http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=243336 Soft Boys Bologna 2003 Info hash 56269fbe2b35114e18199be84acc6a654b3758a0 Description THE SOFT BOYS Le Scuderie Bologna, Italy 15 january 2003 kingdom of love queen of eyes mr. kennedy sudden town tonight insanely jealous the man with the light bulb head airscape i wanna destroy you he's a reptile i wanna be a seven winged bat only the stones remain underwater moonlight narcissus rock'n'roll toilet the bells of rhymney the face of death Lenght 82:33 min. Video: 224 MPEG-2, 720 W 576, 4:3, 25 fps, 7.50 Mbps, upper field first Audio: 160 PCM stereo, 48 kHz, 1.54 Mbps Lineage: PAL VHS MASTER >DVDRecorder>DVD-R by plusenti DVD-R>Mpeg Streamclip>DVD Studio Pro for menu and Peak for audio by loveandsoul The Soft Boys reunion tour in Italy was a great gift for all italians Robyn Hitchcock's fans. Nice small venues and very interested intimate crowds. All shows were filmed with permission. I missed just one as I couldn't really go. Thanks to loveandsoul for the great editing job! Category Rock Last seeder Last activity 29:11 ago Size 3.74 GB (4,014,733,699 bytes) Added Thu 02nd Apr, 2009 18:32 GMT - -- I believe in coyotes and time as an abstract Explain the change, the difference between What you want and what you need, there's the key. Stipe '86 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 14:35:07 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: counting the beets On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Jason R. Thornton wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:39 PM, 2fs wrote: >> >> Any other photos online of Fegs With Knives (tm)? >> >> > Here are my pretty Wusthofs: > http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2208/2235452596_4bda774e12.jpg > I'm behind the iPhone. Well, "above" to be precise. These are my friends...see how they glisten! - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 12:43:44 -0700 From: vivien lyon Subject: Re: counting the beets On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:35 PM, 2fs wrote: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Jason R. Thornton >wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:39 PM, 2fs wrote: > >> >> Any other photos online of Fegs With Knives (tm)? > >> > > Here are my pretty Wusthofs: > > http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2208/2235452596_4bda774e12.jpg > > I'm behind the iPhone. Well, "above" to be precise. > > These are my friends...see how they glisten! My college boyfriend used to keep a blunt kitchen knife in his bag and randomly pull it out and start whispering to it in public places. Trust me, it was funny. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 16:48:40 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Escape: rebel music http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2009/04/dont-stop-believin.html Fred posts about his friend in school who was grounded after his parents found him listening to the forbidden rock and roll. "If you want to control your teenager -- if you want to protect him from the big, bad world and to ensure that he never strays from or escapes the sheltering bubble of your religious subculture, that he never encounters any thought or feeling or emotion too big to put into words, too alive to define and categorize and pin down on cardboard - -- then you really do need to prevent him from listening to music. "Any music. "Even Journey." If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 16:49:55 -0400 From: lep Subject: tc... i'm late, always a little late. "i'm falling", live: i get it. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 16:58:23 -0400 From: lep Subject: possible repost (100% RH) apologies if someone mentioned this already, but i'm just catching up with recent RH/V3 dime stuff (all very kick-ass.) on the 2009-03-21 kexp recording, track 7, the question guy asks about twitter, and RH says it must be someone pretending to be him. and also that it would be difficult for it to be "the real [him]", since he doesn't know what twitter is. as ever, lauren p.s. "i'm falling" on the same recording (loud) was what pushed me over the edge to the light. it's just about heart-stopping. - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:12:51 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: tc... On Apr 2, 2009, at 1:49 PM, lep wrote: > i'm late, always a little late. > > "i'm falling", live: i get it. Crap - I totally missed the KEXP recording. The version of this on the Triple Door torrent isn't really that powerful. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 14:30:31 -0700 From: vivien lyon Subject: Re: Escape: rebel music I don't know, my sister listened to plenty of godless rock and roll and she still believes. My other sister withstood even the siren temptations of the New Kids on the Block and remains steadfast in fundamentalism (leaving out the fun, of course). However, I myself was led astray by none other than the Monkees, and later, INXS. Though I destroyed _Kick_ after realizing its nefarious influence on me, it was too late. The seeds of doubt had been planted and started to run wild (to paraphrase Michael Nesmith). My nephew, of whom I have hopes of someday seeing the dark, listens to Christian heavy metal and is writing an adaptation of Faust. I should loan him The Birds, The Bees, and The Monkees. On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2009/04/dont-stop-believin.html > > Fred posts about his friend in school who was grounded after his > parents found him listening to the forbidden rock and roll. > > "If you want to control your teenager -- if you want to protect him > from the big, bad world and to ensure that he never strays from or > escapes the sheltering bubble of your religious subculture, that he > never encounters any thought or feeling or emotion too big to put into > words, too alive to define and categorize and pin down on cardboard > -- then you really do need to prevent him from listening to music. > > "Any music. > > "Even Journey." > > If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the > essential words. -- Saramago > http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 17:36:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: Escape: rebel music On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Jeremy Osner wrote: > http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2009/04/dont-stop-believin.html Slacktivist kicks at least 43 separate and distinct forms of ass. Last year I started going through his page-by-page evisceration of _Left Behind_, and found it both informative and highly entertaining. Recommended to anyone interested in religion, current American society, or the difference between good and bad writing. (Indexed on someone else's blog at http://exharpazo.blogspot.com/2007/01/index-to-slactivists-left-behind.html .) - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 15:04:36 -0700 From: vivien lyon Subject: Re: Escape: rebel music On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Christopher Gross wrote: > On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Jeremy Osner wrote: > > >> http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2009/04/dont-stop-believin.html >> > > Slacktivist kicks at least 43 separate and distinct forms of ass. Last > year I started going through his page-by-page evisceration of _Left Behind_, > and found it both informative and highly entertaining. Recommended to anyone > interested in religion, current American society, or the difference between > good and bad writing. (Indexed on someone else's blog at > http://exharpazo.blogspot.com/2007/01/index-to-slactivists-left-behind.html.) I will definitely read this, as I have a particular hatred for the Left Behind series, while sadly the rest of my family loves it. I was forced to listen to one of the books on tape one time in the car with my parents. I finally asked if they could turn the hate-speech off. They were confused why I would find it offensive that the writer cast the Secretary-General of the U.N as the Antichrist. It took a _lot_ of self-restraint to point out that we had a much likelier candidate for the office of the Antichrist sitting in the White House, and that they had voted for him. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 15:33:42 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Escape: rebel music On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:30 PM, vivien lyon wrote: > My other sister withstood even the siren temptations of the > New Kids on the Block and remains steadfast in fundamentalism (leaving out > the fun, of course). > Keep one "n" for "damn-entalism", and then you can use the "FU" for something else. There are a lot of people creepily concerned about their guns orbiting my Facebook account. Comes of the geography of my birth, but still... hey, conservatives, I'm sure I've been just annoying over the last eight years as you are now, and probaby frequently just as pissed off. And I'm sorry about that, I really am. But was I ever SO TOTALLY FUCKING TERRIFYING THAT YOU THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO KILL YOU AND ALL YOUR BRETHREN? Because I'm getting a *lot* of that right now. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 15:40:17 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Escape: rebel music On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:04 PM, vivien lyon wrote: > > > I will definitely read this, as I have a particular hatred for the Left > Behind series, while sadly the rest of my family loves it. I was forced to > listen to one of the books on tape one time in the car with my parents. I > finally asked if they could turn the hate-speech off. Isn't there some kind of "redeem the Jews" subplot in that crap? It boggles my mind that any corporate entity would line up behind that stuff, much less that it seems to have flirted with even the furthest frintes of mainstream acceptance. My, I'm feeling some oats today! - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 18:38:37 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: counting the beets On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:43 PM, vivien lyon wrote: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:35 PM, 2fs wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Jason R. Thornton > >wrote: >> >> > >> > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:39 PM, 2fs wrote: >> >> >> Any other photos online of Fegs With Knives (tm)? >> >> >> > Here are my pretty Wusthofs: >> > http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2208/2235452596_4bda774e12.jpg >> > I'm behind the iPhone. Well, "above" to be precise. >> >> These are my friends...see how they glisten! > > > My college boyfriend used to keep a blunt kitchen knife in his bag and > randomly pull it out and start whispering to it in public places. Trust me, > it was funny. > Was he a barber? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 18:41:40 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Escape: rebel music On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Christopher Gross wrote: > On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Jeremy Osner wrote: > > >> http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2009/04/dont-stop-believin.html >> > > Slacktivist kicks at least 43 separate and distinct forms of ass. Last > year I started going through his page-by-page evisceration of _Left Behind_, > and found it both informative and highly entertaining. Recommended to anyone > interested in religion, current American society, or the difference between > good and bad writing. (Indexed on someone else's blog at > http://exharpazo.blogspot.com/2007/01/index-to-slactivists-left-behind.html.) Index to Slacktivist's Left Behind? I thought the idea of indexing feg topics was a bit much - someone has indexed this guy's left buttock? I surely hope whoever's doing the right one hurries up - you wouldn't want a half-assed indexing job. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 12:46:51 -0400 (EDT) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Re: Pictures from my trip tc wrote: >>> >> >> Thanks for sharing! I love Tom's daughter's multi-colored toenails. > > When I told her we were going to meet my friend from Germany, she made > sure to on a "German outfit". How that outfit is German I don't know, > but apparently that's what they do to their toenails. Excellent. Now I know what to do should I ever make it to the land of my ancestors. I do appreciate the sincere weirdness of children's hospitality. Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 13:02:19 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: counting the beets >What You Call Passion, We Call A Cliffside: A.M. Mayhem's first album. What have I started here...?! I'm glad no-one mentioned yams before I sent taht thing about beet... it's even more complicated. James np - "No-one mentioned yams" by Carnassial Shear (my new fake band name) - -- 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: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 17:07:47 -0700 From: vivien lyon Subject: Re: counting the beets On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:38 PM, 2fs wrote: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:43 PM, vivien lyon wrote: > >> >> >> My college boyfriend used to keep a blunt kitchen knife in his bag and >> randomly pull it out and start whispering to it in public places. Trust me, >> it was funny. >> > > Was he a barber? > Nope, just a English grad student. We met at a party and decided to date based on the fact that we both managed to stump each other with obscure Monty Python quotes. My face flames at the recollection. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 17:40:08 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: counting the beets On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 5:07 PM, vivien lyon wrote: > > > Nope, just a English grad student. We met at a party and decided to date > based on the fact that we both managed to stump each other with obscure > Monty Python quotes. My face flames at the recollection. And that, kids, is the kind of thing that was possible, if not commonplace, before the internet. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 19:44:41 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: counting the beets On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Rex wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 5:07 PM, vivien lyon wrote: > >> >> >> Nope, just a English grad student. We met at a party and decided to date >> based on the fact that we both managed to stump each other with obscure >> Monty Python quotes. My face flames at the recollection. > > > And that, kids, is the kind of thing that was possible, if not > commonplace, before the internet. > > Oh, it's still possible - and frankly, the internet just broadens the scope: Vivien and this guy might have met, say, here instead. I think I know like six or seven couples who initially met on the Loudfans mailing list, for example. This may or may not be less likely, or desirable, on the Knifemaniax list. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 20:56:05 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: tc... tc wrote: > On Apr 2, 2009, at 1:49 PM, lep wrote: > >> i'm late, always a little late. >> >> "i'm falling", live: i get it. > > Crap - I totally missed the KEXP recording. The version of this on the > Triple Door torrent isn't really that powerful. when did they kick you off of dime, tc? (and what's the story...is peter buck one of the mods, or was it that nirvana show you just HAD to share?) http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=242002&hit=1 xo p.s. let me know what you think of that version. also, robyn is a riot (technically, an "extra riot") during the interview parts. p.p.s. if i'm wrong about your having a dime membership, let me know and i can send you a disc. - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 18:47:45 -0700 From: vivien lyon Subject: Re: counting the beets On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 5:44 PM, 2fs wrote: > > Oh, it's still possible - and frankly, the internet just broadens the > scope: > Vivien and this guy might have met, say, here instead. I think I know like > six or seven couples who initially met on the Loudfans mailing list, for > example. > > This may or may not be less likely, or desirable, on the Knifemaniax list. Been there, done that. All around, a good experience. I recommend it, with certain caveats and qualifications. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 22:15:15 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: possible repost (100% RH) *happy to think that softboygirl has come to understand the greatness of "I'm Falling"* *downloading this concert tape to find out what it is about this particular performance of the song* On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:58 PM, lep wrote: > apologies if someone mentioned this already, but i'm just catching up > with recent RH/V3 dime stuff (all very kick-ass.) > > on the 2009-03-21 kexp recording, track 7, the question guy asks about > twitter, and RH says it must be someone pretending to be him. and > also that it would be difficult for it to be "the real [him]", since > he doesn't know what twitter is. > > as ever, > lauren > > p.s. "i'm falling" on the same recording (loud) was what pushed me > over the edge to the light. it's just about heart-stopping. > > -- > "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 19:52:13 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: counting the beets On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 6:47 PM, vivien lyon wrote: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 5:44 PM, 2fs wrote: > > > Been there, done that. All around, a good experience. I recommend it, with > certain caveats and qualifications. So pretty much like any other kind of relationship, then. Yeah, those are okay. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #103 ********************************