From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #114 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, April 13 2009 Volume 17 : Number 114 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Magic Window toy [vivien lyon ] Re: Pretension in rock [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: thanks for the warning [vivien lyon ] rock operas/concept albums [Jill Brand ] Re: BeatlesTube [kevin studyvin ] Re: Magic Window toy [kevin studyvin ] Re: thanks for the warning [kevin studyvin ] Re: thanks for the warning [kevin studyvin ] Re: thanks for the warning [Rex ] RE: Magic Window toy ["Brian Huddell" ] REAP [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Pretension in rock [Rex ] All your kuna are belong to "Eb" ["Nectar At Any Cost!" ] Hope! Change! ["Nectar At Any Cost!" ] Re: REAP [kevin studyvin ] Re: All your kuna are belong to "Eb" [Rex ] Re: Magic Window toy [lep ] Re: Magic Window toy [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Magic Window toy [Rex ] Cat's Cradle recording [Rex ] REAP [FSThomas ] Reap!!! [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Cat's Cradle recording [FSThomas ] Re: Cat's Cradle recording [Rex ] Re: REAP [m swedene ] Re: REAP [Jeremy Osner ] Robyn cancelled tonight ! [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: Robyn cancelled tonight ! [Great Quail ] Re: Robyn cancelled tonight ! [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] REAP (Flies on the Windscreen) [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: [VegFriends] Re: Robyn cancelled tonight ! [FSThomas ] Re: REAP (Flies on the Windscreen) [Tom Clark ] Re: [VegFriends] Re: Robyn cancelled tonight ! [Rex ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:43:53 -0700 From: vivien lyon Subject: Re: Magic Window toy I loved the Magic Window!!! It was just this mysterious thing in our basement, I never saw my sisters play with it... it seemed like some artifact from another world that I had dug up in the recesses of someone else's childhood. On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:07 PM, wrote: > Hey, I have a weird question - and this seems like a better than average > place to ask it. > > Remember the Magic Window from Wham-O? Here's a link to refresh your > memory: > http://www.magicwindows.org/ > > Does anyone know what the hell is in that thing? Wham-O used to say > "Millions of > Microdium Crystals" but you know what? I think they made that up. > > Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:44:23 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Pretension in rock - -- Great Quail is rumored to have mumbled on 13. April 2009 11:40:00 -0400 regarding Pretension in rock: > Progressive rock (once also called "art rock!") I agree with most of what you wrote, but to me the two terms above are not synonymous, although I may be in the minority regarding that. Allmusic.com write: "Progressive rock and art rock are two almost interchangeable terms describing a mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." (Quoted from: Anyway, I always thought that art rock is more things like Captain Beefheart and early Wire, but apparently that's called "Art punk" these days: - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:45:23 -0700 From: vivien lyon Subject: Re: thanks for the warning I took a photo of something similar in Durango, Colorado this summer. I think it was a Sphinx moth. On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Rex wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:37 AM, Stewart C. Russell >wrote: > > > Rex wrote: > > > > > >> (nb: don't get pneumonia - just don't) > > > > > > My mantra since 12/1999. > > > > Yep. Had it mildly in 2007. Nasty even then. > > > > Also just lost an in-law family member to it. Went to septic shock, two > > weeks in intensive care, was recovering, then had a heart attack due to > > oxygen starvation. My sister in law, an ICU doctor, just had the awful > > decision of having to turn off the life support of her own mother. > > > > Well, that's my morning started cheerily. Off to work, then! > > On the flipside, omen-wise, opened the front door to send the kids off to > school this morning only to discover that it really was the TIME of the > GIANT MOTHS! Well, one giant moth, anyway. Nifty large green grey > number > with Audrey Hepburn feelers, and turned out to have some crazy pink on > his/her lower wings when they fluttered. Have photo, will attempt to > identify. > > -Rex, in the NEIGHBOURHOOD of SILVER-UH... LAKE-UH! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:45:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: rock operas/concept albums I have always loved Tommy, and I'm a proud defender of all the Kinks' endeavors in that direction (Arthur, Preservation Parts I and II, Soap Opera, and Schoolboys in Disgrace). OK, so Stewart scared the shit out of me this morning with his little "gone toxic" pneumonia report. I'd better really and truly take care of myself. The only time I've ever gone to a concert to see the opener was when the Fabulous Poodles opened for Tom Petty. I really don't like Tom Petty most of the time. His stage demeanor was so "well, like, you know, I was doing some coke with this beautiful blonde...." Gag. I guess he's an OK person and all. Cross all your digits (and Sebastian, do some thumb pressing) that I get to see Robyn tonight. It depends on whether my husband, who is a fucking saint (he has basically been a single parent for the last 4 weeks), says that it's OK to go. I guess he'll drag me out if I start hacking or passing out. Jill ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:59:29 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: BeatlesTube Fun city. But where are the old circa-'66 Beatles cartoons? On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:43 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > Wow, lots of Beatles videos! Handily indexed here: > > http://artiewayne.wordpress.com/2009/04/11/every-beatle-video-ever-made-for-free/ > > 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, 13 Apr 2009 10:18:55 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Magic Window toy Yer Magic Window was a standard fixture at parties in the 70s (at least the ones I can remember) - hour after hour, sitting in some ratty patchouli-drenched armchair with Ummagumma (disc 2) playing at speaker-killing volume, turning one of those little things over and over and over and... I don't recollect the Whizzer. My favorite Wham-o product was the Superball, which my little buddies & I labored industriously to destroy since there was a rumor that if they suffered enough wear and tear, a bad bounce would make them explode (a result our experiments never managed to reproduce). My mom's least favorite was the Slip'n'Slide, after we pretty much ruined the grass in the back yard with the one we were allowed to have. And of course Wham-o provided the inspiration for Frank Zappa's premier ballet, the Dada classic "Return Of the Son Of Monster Magnet" on the first Mothers Of Invention album. So a great cultural debt is owed there, I guess. On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 6:25 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > Oh yeah, cool -- I remember that toy. I always figured it was just > fine-grained sand dyed in different colors. IIRC they made them -- or > somebody else made a knock-off version in other colors besides the > classic metallic blue-white. I seem to remember one in hot pink and > yellow. > > J > > If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the > essential words. -- Saramago > http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:43:07 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: thanks for the warning Yup, had that '07 flu. Took six weeks to throw it off. Daughter spends far too much time working in the ER and is constantly warning us that we're overdue for the next pandemic flu, since the last one was in 1918 (which killed something like 20% of the world's population - before the advent of widespread air travel, of course). She says, when that stuff starts just don't leave your home until the all clear, for anything. On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:37 AM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > Rex wrote: > > > >> (nb: don't get pneumonia - just don't) > > > > My mantra since 12/1999. > > Yep. Had it mildly in 2007. Nasty even then. > > Also just lost an in-law family member to it. Went to septic shock, two > weeks in intensive care, was recovering, then had a heart attack due to > oxygen starvation. My sister in law, an ICU doctor, just had the awful > decision of having to turn off the life support of her own mother. > > Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:43:07 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: thanks for the warning Yup, had that '07 flu. Took six weeks to throw it off. Daughter spends far too much time working in the ER and is constantly warning us that we're overdue for the next pandemic flu, since the last one was in 1918 (which killed something like 20% of the world's population - before the advent of widespread air travel, of course). She says, when that stuff starts just don't leave your home until the all clear, for anything. On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:37 AM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > Rex wrote: > > > >> (nb: don't get pneumonia - just don't) > > > > My mantra since 12/1999. > > Yep. Had it mildly in 2007. Nasty even then. > > Also just lost an in-law family member to it. Went to septic shock, two > weeks in intensive care, was recovering, then had a heart attack due to > oxygen starvation. My sister in law, an ICU doctor, just had the awful > decision of having to turn off the life support of her own mother. > > Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:44:39 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: thanks for the warning On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 9:45 AM, vivien lyon wrote: > I took a photo of something similar in Durango, Colorado this summer. I > think it was a Sphinx moth. Oh, I hope so. That would be Thoth-y! Further research required... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:49:58 -0500 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: RE: Magic Window toy Magic Window toy is people!! > Hey, I have a weird question - and this seems like a better than > average place to ask it. > > Remember the Magic Window from Wham-O? Here's a link to refresh your > memory: > http://www.magicwindows.org/ > > Does anyone know what the hell is in that thing? Wham-O used to say > "Millions of > Microdium Crystals" but you know what? I think they made that up. > > Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:16:19 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: REAP Eve Sedgwick: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_Kosofsky_Sedgwick If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:19:20 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Pretension in rock On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Sebastian Hagedorn < Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de> wrote: > > Anyway, I always thought that art rock is more things like Captain > Beefheart and early Wire, but apparently that's called "Art punk" these > days: > > > You can probably divvy up pretention in rock (as perceived by, like, anyone and everyone) a million different ways... some of them might have to do with formal cross-pollination, but a lot of them won't. For example, just right now when I let my mind wander to try to think of a really pretentious-ass pop-rock record (or a pretentious ass-pop rock-record, if you prefer), the first thing I think of is George Michael's "Faith". I mean, that shit is pree- TENNN- shus, in almost exactly none of the same ways that Sonic Youth are, or Yes is, or the Decemberists or ELP or Wire or even Big Bobby "Being Just Contaminates the Void" Hitchcock might be accused of being. Some critics may or may not be more or less merciful based on whether or not there's cross-genre pollination or experimentation going on... I don't think rock critics have a unified enough voice to generalize about that. Sometimes musical fusions get praised just for being musical fusions, whether they're good or not... and more importantly, some of them are good and some of them are not. (The fusions, not the critics, but them, too, but... oh, bother, you know what I mean.) Pretentious just means a lot of things to a lot of people. I liked my "Daydream Nation" cassette when I was 16 because it sounded good to me. I wasn't so keen on my brother's cassette of "Tarkus" when I listened to it when I was 16 and before I was very steeped in Rock Crit Orthodoxy at all. My guess is that, if you trace my musical interests back to infancy through a lot of counterintuitive transitive properties, I like SY better than ELP because I had more formative grounding in Waylon Jennings than Rice-Webber, but that's just a hunch. I don't think my brother listens to ELP any more. He's more a John Fogerty guy. But he is really big on Pete Townshend, so I shouldn't assume. Perhaps most importantly it should not be forgotten that pretention and fame is a CAREER. CAREER. CAREER. CAREER. CAREER. CAREER. CAREER. Whoo huh hoo huh hoo hoo! - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:22:19 -0700 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: All your kuna are belong to "Eb" i disagree. further, the decemberists junkies -- or at least the ones over to the livejournal community -- seem to be every bit as worshipful of nate as they are of colin. also columbia (where andrew bird is on the bill, too!!) and boston. hopefully i'm not beating this horse deader than would be considered reasonable. but: that's the beauty of the mp3 tag! y' want it on *Crane Wife*, just *assign* it to *Crane Wife*. no fuss, no muss. here, for example, is what i hear when i spin up * The Crane Wife*: 01 - Crane Wife III, The 02 - Come And See 03 - Landlord's Daughter, The 04 - You'll Not Feel The Drowning 05 - Culling Of The Fold, The 06 - Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then) 07 - O, Valencia! 08 - Clementine 09 - Perfect Crime I, The 10 - Day I Knew You'd Not Come Back, The 11 - Perfect Crime II, The 12 - When The War Came 13 - After The Bombs 14 - Hurdles Even Here 15 - Shankill Butchers, The 16 - Summersong 17 - Crane Wife I, The 18 - Crane Wife II, The 19 - Sons And Daughters more misheard lyric-ism: "Vibrating". all these years, i'd thought that it was "Until his bones were stems / Upon the *cross* they dried". i still like that better that "grass"; but, oh well. huhn, i guess that "white upon the green" makes a lot more sense now... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:35:20 -0700 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: Hope! Change! . ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:38:34 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: REAP At first glance I thought that was Edie Sedgwick and I'm going, "Wait, I thought she exited decades ago...?". On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > Eve Sedgwick: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_Kosofsky_Sedgwick > > If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the > essential words. -- Saramago > http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:47:32 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: All your kuna are belong to "Eb" On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: > more misheard lyric-ism: "Vibrating". all these years, i'd thought that it > was "Until his bones were stems / Upon the *cross* they dried". i still > like that better that "grass"; but, oh well. huhn, i guess that "white > upon the green" makes a lot more sense now... That's how I heard it for (kwik math) about fourteen years and feel exactly the same way. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:14:18 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: Magic Window toy kevin says: > I don't recollect the Whizzer. here's a picture of a whizzer (n.b.: this one's not 1/2 as cool as my black and white whizzer.): http://www.inthe70s.com/toys/whizzers0.shtml i remember it as a killer top, but, in the brief time it took me to find a photograph, i've learned that whizzers were also great at getting caught in children's hair. > My mom's least favorite was the Slip'n'Slide, after we pretty > much ruined the grass in the back yard with the one we were allowed to > have. we weren't allowed to have one of those. i imagine my mom was actually being logical when it came to evaluating the slip'n'slide, but it didn't seem so at the time. another mom-quirk: although i almost always had either a mouse (or two) or a gerbil (or two), my mom would never let me get a hamster. she said they smelled. granted, but i could never quite figure out how it would be any different from the other pets. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:24:59 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Magic Window toy lep recalled, > although i > almost always had either a mouse (or two) or a gerbil (or two), my mom > would never let me get a hamster. How awful! What did you use to power your inventions? J If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:48:04 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Magic Window toy On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:18 AM, kevin studyvin wrote: > My mom's least favorite was the Slip'n'Slide, after we pretty > much ruined the grass in the back yard with the one we were allowed to > have. I can assure you all that Slip'n'Slide is alive and well and has multifoliated into such myriad and deluxified forms as would have been unimaginable by the stunted branes of we wretched children of the '70's. There must surely be a Hanna Montana model by now (Mates of State prelude music sold separately). - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:05:51 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Cat's Cradle recording Making it to the end of this now, and have been confronted with two key moments: 1) "Lady Waters" acoustic, with all that thumping & struming artillery available? Oh, Robyn. 2) But what's this... a version of "The Lizard" that sounds like an outtake from "On the Beach" only better? Oh, Robyn! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:59:55 -0400 From: FSThomas Subject: REAP Porn star Marilyn Chambers found dead in L.A. County home Marilyn Chambers, a former Ivory Snow detergent model who became a porn star, died Sunday at her Canyon Country home. She was 56. Chambers, whose real name is Marilyn Ann Taylor, was found unresponsive at 8:51 p.m. at her residence it the 16000 block of Vasquez Canyon, said Los Angeles County coroner's spokesman Ed Winter. The cause of death is under investigation but foul play was not suspected and an autopsy is pending. Chambers became a pop culture phenomenon when she gave up work as a model advertising Ivory Snow laundry detergent to star in the X-rated "Behind the Green Door" in 1972. The movie also sparked a buying frenzy on boxes of Ivory Snow soap, then graced by Chambers' angelically complexioned face. http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-marilyn-chambers,0,2934276.story ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:16:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Reap!!! Harry Kalas http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4064793 "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:18:39 -0400 From: FSThomas Subject: Re: Cat's Cradle recording Rex wrote: > Making it to the end of this now, and have been confronted with two key > moments: > > 1) "Lady Waters" acoustic, with all that thumping & struming artillery > available? Oh, Robyn. > 2) But what's this... a version of "The Lizard" that sounds like an outtake > from "On the Beach" only better? Oh, Robyn! I meant to comment on that recording. The quality absolutely fantastic. One of the best audience recordings I've heard in a long, long time. I think I have either Equipment Envy or Venue Envy. Possibly both. - -f. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:35:37 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Cat's Cradle recording On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 1:18 PM, FSThomas wrote: > >> > > I meant to comment on that recording. The quality absolutely fantastic. One > of the best audience recordings I've heard in a long, long time. I should have said that as well... kudos to all responsible. Has anyone trainspotted Robyn's acoustic on this tour? The Fylde* is gone, right? I remember Robyn once saying that even when he's not playing a Telecaster, it somehow still sounds like he's playing a Telecaster. That appears to be completely true! I wonder how long he messed with the knobs on the Airstream* to get that sound, or if just sort of comes out that way? - -Rex *totally clammed both of those, didn't I? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:04:33 -0400 From: m swedene Subject: Re: REAP they found her in her living room.the room behind the green door. mike On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:59 PM, FSThomas wrote: > Porn star Marilyn Chambers found dead in L.A. County home > > Marilyn Chambers, a former Ivory Snow detergent model who became a porn > star, died Sunday at her Canyon Country home. She was 56. > > Chambers, whose real name is Marilyn Ann Taylor, was found unresponsive at > 8:51 p.m. at her residence it the 16000 block of Vasquez Canyon, said Los > Angeles County coroner's spokesman Ed Winter. The cause of death is under > investigation but foul play was not suspected and an autopsy is pending. > > Chambers became a pop culture phenomenon when she gave up work as a model > advertising Ivory Snow laundry detergent to star in the X-rated "Behind the > Green Door" in 1972. > > The movie also sparked a buying frenzy on boxes of Ivory Snow soap, then > graced by Chambers' angelically complexioned face. > > http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-marilyn-chambers,0,2934276.story ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:05:43 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: REAP I was also not referring to Edna Sedgwick, http://www.sedgwick.org/na/families/robert1613/B/2/3/4/6/3/1/B234631-sedgwick-edna1915.html On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 2:38 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > At first glance I thought that was Edie Sedgwick and I'm going, "Wait, I > thought she exited decades ago...?". > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: >> >> Eve Sedgwick: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_Kosofsky_Sedgwick >> >> If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the >> essential words. -- Saramago >> http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:13:19 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Robyn cancelled tonight ! Monday April 13, 2009 Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 featuring: Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey, & Bill Rieflin with Jennifer O'Connor - presented by WXRV doors at 7 PM; 18+ show - SHOW CANCELLED, REFUNDS AT POINT OF http://www.thedise.com/rockclub/index.html my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ **************The Average US Credit Score is 692. See Yours in Just 2 Easy Steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1221621489x1201450100/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fwww.freecreditreport.com%2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc%3D668072%26h mpgID%3D62%26bcd%3DAprilAvgfooterNO62) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:56:13 -0400 From: Great Quail Subject: Re: Robyn cancelled tonight ! Oh, that is such a drag! But he was complaining of serious throat problems in New York on Saturday night... - --Q > Monday April 13, 2009 > Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 featuring: Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey, & > Bill Rieflin with Jennifer O'Connor - presented by WXRV > doors at 7 PM; 18+ show - SHOW CANCELLED, REFUNDS AT POINT OF > > http://www.thedise.com/rockclub/index.html > > my blog is "Yer Blog" > http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ > http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ > > **************The Average US Credit Score is 692. See Yours in Just 2 Easy > Steps! > (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1221621489x1201450100/aol?redir=http: > %2F%2Fwww.freecreditreport.com%2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc%3D668072%26h > mpgID%3D62%26bcd%3DAprilAvgfooterNO62) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:55:03 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: Robyn cancelled tonight ! not only did LIVE NATION send an email but they just called as well ! and i'm getting a refund for the whole amount including the service charge my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ In a message dated 4/13/2009 5:22:08 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, HwyCDRrev@aol.com writes: Monday April 13, 2009 Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 featuring: Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey, & Bill Rieflin with Jennifer O'Connor - presented by WXRV doors at 7 PM; 18+ show - SHOW CANCELLED, REFUNDS AT POINT OF http://www.thedise.com/rockclub/index.html **************The Average US Credit Score is 692. See Yours in Just 2 Easy Steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1221621489x1201450100/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fwww.freecreditreport.com%2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc%3D668072%26h mpgID%3D62%26bcd%3DAprilAvgfooterNO62) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:11:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: REAP (Flies on the Windscreen) In addition to Marilyn Chambers, Harry Kalas, and Eve Sedgwick: Mark "The Bird" Fidrych http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4065778 Bruce Snyder http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4065325 "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:06:07 -0400 From: FSThomas Subject: Re: [VegFriends] Re: Robyn cancelled tonight ! HwyCDRrev@aol.com wrote: > not only did LIVE NATION send an email > but they just called as well ! > and i'm getting a refund for the whole amount > including the service charge > Lucky dog! When Morrissey cancelled last month TicketBastard kept $2.50/ticket. They justified it by saying it was used for offsetting the rising cost of Thai bathhouse boys or something. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:27:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Reap Phil Spector's freedom http://www.avclub.com/articles/phil-spector-found-guilty-of-murder,26585/ "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:36:31 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: REAP (Flies on the Windscreen) On Apr 13, 2009, at 3:11 PM, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > In addition to Marilyn Chambers, Harry Kalas, and Eve Sedgwick: > > Mark "The Bird" Fidrych > http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4065778 > > Bruce Snyder > http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4065325 Add to that my wife's step-father, Dick "Pedro" Dillon, and thus we cut out vacation week short. Life is short, people. Make the most of it. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:42:57 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: [VegFriends] Re: Robyn cancelled tonight ! On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:06 PM, FSThomas wrote: > HwyCDRrev@aol.com wrote: > >> not only did LIVE NATION send an email but they just called as well ! and >> i'm getting a refund for the whole amount including the service charge >> > > Lucky dog! When Morrissey cancelled last month TicketBastard kept > $2.50/ticket. They justified it by saying it was used for offsetting the > rising cost of Thai bathhouse boys or something. Which just goes to prove. Support Robyn always; spurn Morrissey with similar frequency. Major bummer about the cancellation, though! - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:00:26 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: Magic Window toy jeanne says: > Various people replied, but I am just going to write one email because I'm on St. John > and paying for internet by the minute... > >> >> i thought it was sand and static electricity in there. >> >> i was just last night asking my brother-in-law if he ever had a whizzer. > > But remember, the two colors would actually separate completely if you rotated it long > enough. Were they different weights? i chose to leave the "magic" in the magic window (i.e. i don't know.) > So, yeah, missed the philly show because I'm in the Virgin Islands. It's intense - we're > on the side of a mountain in an eco-resort, which mostly means there isn't any hot > water. I am not in any way complaining. It's the most beautiful island I've ever > visited. > > Sounds like it was a great show! Lauren, did you go after all? yes, i missed you at the show. but perhaps it was for the best as i went with my friend jeanine, and we met ty and his fiance, jean, there. a jeanne there and the time-space continuum might have been overloaded. we were unfortunate to stand about two yards from an alcohol-poisoning-level drunk who shouted for "whipping post" about 20 times, and, worse, treated us to some of his own harmonies, and tried to strike up a conversation with mr. buck. at one point, the drunk caught me gawking at him and seemed to think it would be amusing to stand closer to me. i (being so good with the witty comeback) gave him the finger. glad to hear you're enjoying the island. how's the snorkeling? xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #114 ********************************