From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #120 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, April 19 2009 Volume 17 : Number 120 Today's Subjects: ----------------- squirrely (was Re: My name is "Eb", and I *am* an integrated guy) [lep ] Re: squirrely (was Re: My name is "Eb", and I *am* an integrated guy) [2f] Re: fegmaniax-digest V17 #119 [James Dignan ] Re: Of Monkees and Men ["Nectar At Any Cost!" ] Re: Twitter [Steve Talkowski ] Re: squirrely (was Re: My name is "Eb", and I *am* an integrated guy) [Re] Re: Will you dance with me [Rex ] Re: Will you dance with me [Jeremy Osner ] RE: Twitter ["Brian Huddell" ] Re: Nothing Makes Me Cry I Just Wanna Be Loved [HSatterfld@aol.com] 'Alternative Dylan' Hitchcock finds liberation // Robyn Hitchcock's [HwyC] RH interview on cnn.com [Michael Sweeney ] Re: listMANIA! [michael wells ] Re: 'Alternative Dylan' Hitchcock finds liberation // Robyn Hitchcock's [kevin studyvin ] My name is "Eb", and I am daily stuffed until I leak the excess at every orifice of the body -- and still my caretakers are not satisfied. [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:22:09 -0400 From: lep Subject: squirrely (was Re: My name is "Eb", and I *am* an integrated guy) Nectar At Any Cost! says: > but is "Hurry For The Sky" supposed to be an homage to "Ghost Riders In The > Sky", or a comment upon, or a cousin of, or a sequel to, or a combination > of these? or what? i have trouble even listening to "hurry for the sky" because of painful associations of a guitar teacher who taught the most dreadful songs, including "ghost riders in the sky" (n.b. song may well not have been dreadful before she (a donna fargo sort) or i got to it.) > also, is anybody as fascinated as i am with squirrels' > athleticism? first: i'm assuming that's not one of eddie's euphemisms. second: lord, yes. i love watching their crazy antics. even their un-crazy antics (like, what's the deal when they turn flat and fall asleep on a tree limb? is that actually what they're doing?) and, yes, they're quite the little gymnasts, what with their ability to fold in half during midair when they want to reverse direction. my dad recently began a bird-feeding hobby. this includes an assortment of squirrel-proof feeders (they work quite well). but, don't be sad: he also loves watching the crazy guys, and so puts out apples and dried corn for them (i think he even feeds them on something that might have been sold as an actual squirrel feeder (it basically just keeps the food off the ground.)) throw in one jumbo poodle watching at the window with crazed intention (and occasional drool), and it's just one big party. at any rate, one of all-time favourite segments from one of those discovery-channel-type shows features the whiley squirrel. i must have seen it like 10 ago, and was very happy to find it on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWU0bfo-bSY and since i'm kind of evil, so found this highly amusing as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydLiasdJeoo one last one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5HffZbeNGk as ever, lauren p.s. i got this for my dad for christmas: http://www.amazon.com/Outwitting-Squirrels-Stratagems-Dramatically-Misappropriation/dp/1556523025 not that he's actually interesting in outwitting them. but i guess it's good to be prepared in case the little guys start getting any big ideas. - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:55:25 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Will you dance with me On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > I was listening to the Cats Cradle concert tape today and thinking > about Lady Waters and the Hooded One, which is an old favorite of mine > -- I find it a beautiful piece of music but kind of dissatisfying as a > ballad. Is it just me? How does it make sense for the Hooded One to be > shocked to see that Lady Waters has the plague? I have a theory...(below) > What interest would he > have in her house and lands and silverware? Investment opportunities - what, you're surprised demonic beings from a dimension beyond life or death run the financial markets? > Why would he leave her > with her life when that was the principal thing he came to take? Must read the fine print: as she had the plague on her body, she in a sense did *not* have her life to be taken, since she was due to die - but when The Hooded One took everything she had, that *included* the plague - which, being taken, thereby restored her to her life. I think this sort of proto-legalistic reading of portentous promises is an old folk-tale tradition - you'll always find Death, or the Devil, trying to outsmart someone with tricky phrasing, and often that someone turns right around and outsmarts Death with even trickier trickiness. Death's an honorable dude, though - good thing it wasn't Dick Cheney or anything, who wouldn't have kept his word and then would have denied ever having promised any such thing even when it's presented to him on video. > The > image of Death "recoiling" at the sight of pestilence doesn't work for > me. Yeah, a bit iffy. My suspicion is Death is less surprised than pissed off at whichever underlying had been assigned to the do the work, both for doing a crap job (the plague: so inefficient - a fall from a high window or a nice intense fire would be so much less expensive) and for not filling out the appropriate Form Z-9/234(a), whose absence is why Death didn't know Lady Waters was slated to die anyway. Folk ballads are frequently about law and bureaucracy, I've noticed... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:57:09 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: squirrely (was Re: My name is "Eb", and I *am* an integrated guy) On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 1:22 PM, lep wrote: > Nectar At Any Cost! says: > > > also, is anybody as fascinated as i am with squirrels' > > athleticism? That's the common belief - but in fact squirrels have a highly developed theology, involving a deity they know as 'The Bringer of Nuts" and a demonic being referred to only as "The Lawnmower." Oh - I thought you wrote "squirrels' atheism." - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:25:27 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V17 #119 > > also, i'm now curious as to how many ways "bachelorette" can be > > misspelled. i vow to find out. > > > >Here's one: >F-R-E-E > >Too easy? > >Jeanne Completely different band. Free were proto-metal pub rock; Bachelorette are quirky electro-pop. 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: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:27:00 -0700 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: Re: Of Monkees and Men my point was that he's hardly the same class as the discovery institute, the astrology column, and the guy outside the greyhound terminal. but you're right: the arguments should stand or fall on their own merits. i happen to find duesberg's to be most convincing indeed. your mileage varies, apparently. that's fine. and i'll apologize for having said that people should "just say no" to the teevee on my word alone, rather than urging some research. to that end, i'd recommend . the author is of the same school (i.e., natural hygiene / drugless healing) as shelton; so you, chris, may find it full of shit. but facts are just facts, after all. (not to say that the *conclusions* he draws are "just facts"; but that the facts *from which* he draws his conclusions seem to point ineluctably to the conclusions drawn...at least to mine eyes.) and i particularly like this site for its minimalist style-sheet. <> i hate that cover almost as much as i hate the *Challengers* artwork. oh, well. but i love the *Crane Wife*'s artwork. in case you were wondering. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:49:18 -0400 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: Twitter I equate a twat with a Twitter squatter, i.e., "some TWAT is sitting on my Sketchbot moniker." @SteveTalkowski p.s. I, too, noticed all those final RH Tweets. On Apr 16, 2009, at 10:19 PM, lep wrote: > Jeremy says: >> robyn_hitchcock has tweeted his last, saying "It's no fun to pretend >> to be someone when people fall for it." > > last tweet = twat? - -- Steve Talkowski Character Design & Animation http://sketchbot.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:47:16 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: squirrely (was Re: My name is "Eb", and I *am* an integrated guy) On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 11:57 AM, 2fs wrote: > On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 1:22 PM, lep wrote: > > > Nectar At Any Cost! says: > > > > > also, is anybody as fascinated as i am with squirrels' > > > athleticism? > > > That's the common belief - but in fact squirrels have a highly developed > theology, involving a deity they know as 'The Bringer of Nuts" and a > demonic > being referred to only as "The Lawnmower." > > Oh - I thought you wrote "squirrels' atheism." I though it was "aceticism". Which could make sense... maybe... ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:54:27 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Will you dance with me On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > I was listening to the Cats Cradle concert tape today and thinking > about Lady Waters and the Hooded One, which is an old favorite of mine > -- I find it a beautiful piece of music but kind of dissatisfying as a > ballad. Is it just me? How does it make sense for the Hooded One to be > shocked to see that Lady Waters has the plague? What interest would he > have in her house and lands and silverware? Why would he leave her > with her life when that was the principal thing he came to take? The > image of Death "recoiling" at the sight of pestilence doesn't work for > me. Agreeing with pretty much everything JN had to say, I'll add that I have never had a problem with this, as the same kind of nits can be picked with just about any of the ballads or folk tales that provide the template for the song. Which, to me, means that Robyn nailed the feel of the song from the outset; if he hadn't, the conclusion would be a little iffier. I always thought the fact that The Hooded One recoiled meant that dude, that was a really nasty fucking plague even by Death's standards. Alternatively he might've just been recoiling from the shock of being duped. All of this and more, including some key tidbits about squirrel theology, is explained when you can understand the language of the guitar playing in the instrumental passages. The name of that language, incidentally, is Total Ass-Kicking Super-Awesomeness Language. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:22:40 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Will you dance with me On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Rex wrote: > [The name of ] the language of the guitar playing in the > instrumental passages..., incidentally, is Total > Ass-Kicking Super-Awesomeness Language. Yes! that's totally it! And it strikes me now that maybe what was missing in the Cat's Cradle performance is the instrumentalization that's on The Record. This song is not, I think, a Venus 3 song -- their cover of it was not moving me so I went outside the lyric and felt irritable. (Their "He's a Reptile" though, was absolutely speaking a similar language to the one you refer to, that The Egyptians playing "Lady Waters and the Hooded One" are fluent in.) 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: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:28:29 -0500 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: RE: Twitter > @robyn_hitchcock has tweeted his last, saying "It's no fun to pretend > to be someone when people fall for it." Whereas Robyn Hitchcock has yet to tweet his first. Did anybody ever find out who this was? Early on I thought @lonelysandwich had sort of claimed responsibility but now I'm not sure. But whoever it was is right -- that first tweet was a fun joke but trying to sustain it is kinda creepy. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:52:36 EDT From: HSatterfld@aol.com Subject: Re: Nothing Makes Me Cry I Just Wanna Be Loved <> The copy I bought from Borders includes a link to download "I Just Want to be Loved" and "Nothing Makes Me Cry". Until February 2010. You have to sign up with YepRoc's digital download "Stash". I think you got an actual CD if you pre-ordered, though. **************Check all of your email inboxes from anywhere on the web. Try the new Email Toolbar now! (http://toolbar.aol.com/mail/download.html?ncid=txtlnkusdown00000027) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:46:46 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: 'Alternative Dylan' Hitchcock finds liberation // Robyn Hitchcock's http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/19/robyn.hitchcock/index.html?i ref=t2test_entsun&eref=rss_topstories (picture if you click on about URL) 'Alternative Dylan' Hitchcock finds liberation Story Highlights Robyn Hitchcock's new album is "Goodnight Oslo," recorded with the Venus 3 Hitchcock's '70s and '80s bands, the Soft Boys and Egyptians, were influential Singer and songwriter has cult of fans who love his surreal lyrics By Quinn Brown CNN LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Robyn Hitchcock was blunt. Robyn Hitchcock doesn't mind being described as a surrealist. "I'll be impressed if I'm here in any functioning way past 70, but you never know. I used to think I was only going to make it to 30," he said. "The Me Generation is heading for incontinence. We're right behind it." Hitchcock, 56, is obviously little impressed with his influence, but it's vast. The musician spent the late '70s and early '80s laying the groundwork for what would become alternative and indie music with his previous bands, the Soft Boys and the Egyptians, and you can hear echoes of his surreal lyrics and chiming chords in bands such as the Flaming Lips, the Decemberists and -- especially -- R.E.M. Indeed, Peter Buck of the legendary Athens, Georgia, group supports Hitchcock in his latest band, the Venus 3, and plays on the new album "Goodnight Oslo" (Yep Roc). The record, described as "ramshackle" by bandleader Hitchcock, contains some of the most raw and propulsive music of his career. He calls the sound "liberating." Watch Hitchcock perform in L.A. ; "Since 1978, Brits have only rocked ironically," he said. "The New Wave police have never really felt the collar of the American music scene." And then there are the lyrics, which are as analyzed with as much delight by Hitchcock followers as "Desolation Row" is by Dylanologists. They're of a piece with his conversation, which features musings such as "the creatures of the future will be more advanced. They might be cats. It could be the Feline Dynasty" or his description of an artist as "a time machine ... a hand thrusting through the prison bars trying to touch the hand of someone walking past." CNN sat down with Robyn Hitchcock at his manager's house in the Hollywood Hills. The following is an edited version of the interview. CNN: I've always read the words "offbeat" and "surreal" associated with you, but I always wondered if that statement was off because what you write seems perfectly natural to you. Robyn Hitchcock: What I do is natural to me, yeah. It has to be defined by other people to whom I seem odd. I like surrealism. It's putting something where it doesn't belong. So if we look at the sky and we see a slice of toast shining down, that's surreal. It's very easy to do. Surrealism is just the way I think things have gone in the last hundred years, and I'm part of that; I just don't perhaps blend in. It's always incongruous. I tend to notice that things are incongruous and point them out, so in that way maybe I'm just more of a realist. Anyway, it doesn't matter how I'm perceived. What matters is that my perceptions become part of people's way of seeing. CNN: Why do you think you've been able to thrive as long as you have? Many other artists have come and gone since you started. Hitchcock: Partly because I haven't finished yet. I think you always have the energy for things you want to do. I've already reached the stage where people say, "Robyn, you're very energetic. Look at the old chap hopping around over there! You ought to rest." (laughs) It's probably true that, for every day there is one less day for me to be Robyn Hitchcock, the more motivated I am to use that time. Not that I know what I want to say. I just know that once I'm gone, I won't be able to say it. CNN: Many musicians you've worked with talk about the spontaneity in your recording sessions. Do you think the urgency you were talking about contributes to that? Hitchcock: Yeah, maybe. Because the ideas are fast, and they come up from nowhere. I am the portal for those ideas and things. I mean, people seem to like it. I like to just crash in. I think you shouldn't be heedless about everything. Could anything be more heedless than the way mankind has taken over this Earth? What wise reflective sage soul decided to create the L.A. traffic system? CNN: How was working with the Venus 3 compared to your previous bands? Hitchcock: Peter and I have been playing for 25 years, so he is past and present. He used to play with us when I was with the Egyptians in the '80s. The Venus 3 are from the Northwest, and they are super bright, but bright enough not to be clever. It's probably the most rocking outfit I've had. Funny that it's coming in my mid-50s! A couple of nights grinding my hips on stage, and I have to go and see the chiropractor. CNN: How does [the arranging] process differ from your songwriting back in the '70s and '80s? Hitchcock: The guys in Soft Boys, particularly Morris Windsor and Andy Metcalfe, were good on producing tight arrangements. ... There was a tightness about those two; needless to say they were huge Steely Dan fans. I've always been more ramshackle. With the Venus 3, it's instinctive. I don't know if it's a national thing or difference in personalities. It feels very happy playing it. It's great to blunder through the thickets of life and find yourself at this age still having fun playing an electric guitar, bass and drums. CNN: You've been tagged as one of the godfathers of alternative music. Does that mean anything to you? Hitchcock: I'm pleased that I'm a part of the stream. We don't last, but the culture does. If I've been a link in the musical culture, then that's good. CNN: I've heard you called "the alternative Bob Dylan." Hitchcock: I wish! ... I always say, the deeper your roots, the broader your branches. Dylan used to do many different kinds of music, read many plays and went to movies, drew pictures -- he still does. He absorbs a lot. But he goes down deep. If people get anything from my stuff, it would be nice if it's an emotional [reaction]. In the end, it's how you make people feel about your songs that lasts. If I have a fraction of that, then that's fantastic. my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ **************Access 350+ FREE radio stations anytime from anywhere on the web. Get the Radio Toolbar! (http://toolbar.aol.com/aolradio/download.html?ncid=emlcntusdown00000003) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:43:55 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: RH interview on cnn.com http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/19/robyn.hitchcock/index.html?iref=t 2test_entsun _________________________________________________________________ Rediscover Hotmail.: Now available on your iPhone or BlackBerry http://windowslive.com/RediscoverHotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Rediscover_Mobi le2_042009 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:36:55 -0500 From: michael wells Subject: Re: listMANIA! > all-time *Jeopardy!* bad-ass ken jennings picks the all-time best band from each state. i've got a few quibbles, of course. but it's a pretty cool run-down. W-w-w-w-ilco? For Illinois? Eddie, I hope you more than quibble with this! Michael "that one band from Rockford was OK" the Michaelster ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 09:40:44 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: 'Alternative Dylan' Hitchcock finds liberation // Robyn Hitchcock's Evidently CNN isn't aware of the mandatory "quirky" tag in re: RH. On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 7:46 AM, wrote: > > http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/19/robyn.hitchcock/index.html?i > ref=t2test_entsun&eref=rss_topstories > (picture if you click on about URL) > > 'Alternative Dylan' Hitchcock finds liberation > Story Highlights > Robyn Hitchcock's new album is "Goodnight Oslo," recorded with the Venus 3 > > Hitchcock's '70s and '80s bands, the Soft Boys and Egyptians, were > influential > > Singer and songwriter has cult of fans who love his surreal lyrics > > > By Quinn Brown > CNN > > > LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Robyn Hitchcock was blunt. > > Robyn Hitchcock doesn't mind being described as a surrealist. > > "I'll be impressed if I'm here in any functioning way past 70, but you > never know. I used to think I was only going to make it to 30," he said. > "The > Me Generation is heading for incontinence. We're right behind it." > Hitchcock, 56, is obviously little impressed with his influence, but it's > vast. The musician spent the late '70s and early '80s laying the groundwork > for what would become alternative and indie music with his previous bands, > the Soft Boys and the Egyptians, and you can hear echoes of his surreal > lyrics and chiming chords in bands such as the Flaming Lips, the > Decemberists > and -- especially -- R.E.M. > Indeed, Peter Buck of the legendary Athens, Georgia, group supports > Hitchcock in his latest band, the Venus 3, and plays on the new album > "Goodnight > Oslo" (Yep Roc). The record, described as "ramshackle" by bandleader > Hitchcock, contains some of the most raw and propulsive music of his > career. > He calls the sound "liberating." Watch Hitchcock perform in L.A. ; > "Since 1978, Brits have only rocked ironically," he said. "The New Wave > police have never really felt the collar of the American music scene." > And then there are the lyrics, which are as analyzed with as much delight > by Hitchcock followers as "Desolation Row" is by Dylanologists. They're of > a piece with his conversation, which features musings such as "the > creatures > of the future will be more advanced. They might be cats. It could be the > Feline Dynasty" or his description of an artist as "a time machine ... a > hand thrusting through the prison bars trying to touch the hand of someone > walking past." > CNN sat down with Robyn Hitchcock at his manager's house in the Hollywood > Hills. The following is an edited version of the interview. > CNN: I've always read the words "offbeat" and "surreal" associated with > you, but I always wondered if that statement was off because what you > write > seems perfectly natural to you. > Robyn Hitchcock: What I do is natural to me, yeah. It has to be defined by > other people to whom I seem odd. > I like surrealism. It's putting something where it doesn't belong. So if > we look at the sky and we see a slice of toast shining down, that's > surreal. > It's very easy to do. > Surrealism is just the way I think things have gone in the last hundred > years, and I'm part of that; I just don't perhaps blend in. It's always > incongruous. I tend to notice that things are incongruous and point them > out, so > in that way maybe I'm just more of a realist. > Anyway, it doesn't matter how I'm perceived. What matters is that my > perceptions become part of people's way of seeing. > CNN: Why do you think you've been able to thrive as long as you have? Many > other artists have come and gone since you started. > Hitchcock: Partly because I haven't finished yet. I think you always have > the energy for things you want to do. I've already reached the stage where > people say, "Robyn, you're very energetic. Look at the old chap hopping > around over there! You ought to rest." (laughs) > It's probably true that, for every day there is one less day for me to be > Robyn Hitchcock, the more motivated I am to use that time. Not that I know > what I want to say. I just know that once I'm gone, I won't be able to say > it. > CNN: Many musicians you've worked with talk about the spontaneity in your > recording sessions. Do you think the urgency you were talking about > contributes to that? > Hitchcock: Yeah, maybe. Because the ideas are fast, and they come up from > nowhere. I am the portal for those ideas and things. I mean, people seem to > like it. I like to just crash in. > I think you shouldn't be heedless about everything. Could anything be more > heedless than the way mankind has taken over this Earth? What wise > reflective sage soul decided to create the L.A. traffic system? > CNN: How was working with the Venus 3 compared to your previous bands? > Hitchcock: Peter and I have been playing for 25 years, so he is past and > present. He used to play with us when I was with the Egyptians in the '80s. > The Venus 3 are from the Northwest, and they are super bright, but bright > enough not to be clever. It's probably the most rocking outfit I've had. > Funny that it's coming in my mid-50s! A couple of nights grinding my hips > on > stage, and I have to go and see the chiropractor. > CNN: How does [the arranging] process differ from your songwriting back in > the '70s and '80s? > Hitchcock: The guys in Soft Boys, particularly Morris Windsor and Andy > Metcalfe, were good on producing tight arrangements. ... There was a > tightness > about those two; needless to say they were huge Steely Dan fans. I've > always been more ramshackle. > With the Venus 3, it's instinctive. I don't know if it's a national thing > or difference in personalities. It feels very happy playing it. It's great > to blunder through the thickets of life and find yourself at this age > still > having fun playing an electric guitar, bass and drums. > CNN: You've been tagged as one of the godfathers of alternative music. > Does that mean anything to you? > Hitchcock: I'm pleased that I'm a part of the stream. We don't last, but > the culture does. If I've been a link in the musical culture, then that's > good. > CNN: I've heard you called "the alternative Bob Dylan." > > Hitchcock: I wish! ... > I always say, the deeper your roots, the broader your branches. Dylan used > to do many different kinds of music, read many plays and went to movies, > drew pictures -- he still does. He absorbs a lot. But he goes down deep. > If > people get anything from my stuff, it would be nice if it's an emotional > [reaction]. In the end, it's how you make people feel about your songs that > lasts. If I have a fraction of that, then that's fantastic. > > > my blog is "Yer Blog" > http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ > http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ > > **************Access 350+ FREE radio stations anytime from anywhere on the > web. Get the Radio Toolbar! > (http://toolbar.aol.com/aolradio/download.html?ncid=emlcntusdown00000003) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:23:09 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: RH review and promo post ...and, in case ayone cares, here's a post I wrote for our site this morning, promo-ing the CNN.com interview, mentioning the show last night, giving readers a bit of a career overview, and including a good YouTube vid... http://stonecipher.typepad.com/the_stonecipher_report/2009/04/robyn-hitchcock - -he-sounds-great-.html Michael Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Rediscover Hotmail.: Now available on your iPhone or BlackBerry http://windowslive.com/RediscoverHotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Rediscover_Mobi le2_042009 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:48:38 -0700 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: My name is "Eb", and I am daily stuffed until I leak the excess at every orifice of the body -- and still my caretakers are not satisfied. blog of the moment!: . the post-titles will just piss you off, so don't read them. but the pictures themselves are...remarkable. also, for stewart (or anybody else what might give a good god damn), the new hawk and a hacksaw has leaked. . and, the transfer on the new criterion release of *Hobson's Choice* is just staggeringly beautiful. yowza. i've been thinking that an essay might-could be written comparing the two halves of lean's career (the B&W flicks and the widescreen epics) with the two halves of the beatles'. (pre- and post-*Rubber Soul*, i guess? or maybe one could even say that the beatles' "B&W" period ended with *Help!*, just to make it nice and poetic-like?) ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #120 ********************************