From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #125 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, April 23 2009 Volume 17 : Number 125 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Shorpy...Is...God ["Nectar At Any Cost!" ] Re: Tee-Hee [2fs ] To Those Who No Longer Go to Play Along that Cherry Lane [David Witzany <] Re: Shorpy...Is...God [vivien lyon ] Re: Shorpy...Is...God [Rex ] Ick (Very NR) [Steve Schiavo ] Dukes put up! [2fs ] Speaking of FZ [Steve Schiavo ] Re: Ick (Very NR) [Rex ] Musical saw festival [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Shorpy...Is...God [vivien lyon ] Re: Musical saw festival [vivien lyon ] Re: Ick (Very NR) [vivien lyon ] NEW on DiME: Robyn Hitchcock solo: KROQ LA April 28, 1989 This is a crazy wacked [HwyCDRre] June 2009 Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] The Boat That Rocked [Tom Clark ] the library of memory (0% rh) [lep ] Re: the library of memory (0% rh) [kevin studyvin ] Re: The Boat That Rocked [vivien lyon ] Re: the library of memory (0% rh) [lep ] 0% BSG [lep ] Re: the library of memory (0% rh) [2fs ] Re: 0% BSG [2fs ] Re: 0% BSG [Jason Brown ] Dukes redux [2fs ] Re: 0% BSG [2fs ] Re: the library of memory (0% rh) [kevin studyvin ] Re: Ick (Very NR) [Rex ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:42:52 -0700 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: Shorpy...Is...God . also, saddest song ever = connie francis' "I'll Be Home For Christmas". ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:55:27 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Tee-Hee On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: > originally read this headline... >> Earth Day Food for Thought: Shrinking > Your Cookprint ...as shrinking your *cockprint*. Oh no we do not want! - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:34:36 -0500 (CDT) From: David Witzany Subject: To Those Who No Longer Go to Play Along that Cherry Lane No, child, you are merely Of a Certain Age, as are precious (and) few of us here. My penultimate earliest memory is of my mother putting this 45 on the turntable at my first grade Christmas party, then turning to watch me. (My earliest memory is of my mother crying on the sofa; I've deduced that she had just heard that the President had been assassinated. And you wonder why I spend much of my time with computers.) But I won't tell you what my Braxton Hicks type is. - ---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:14:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: piles of tissues - ----- >>James wrote: "The saddest piece ever recorded is in a major key! If you can sit through "Puff the magic dragon" without getting even vaguely teary-eyed, you have no soul." - ----- >I still completely burst into tears at "without his lifelong friend..." I am a wimp. >Jill - -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:25:21 -0700 From: vivien lyon Subject: Re: Shorpy...Is...God On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: > . > > > also, saddest song ever = connie francis' "I'll Be Home For Christmas". > I remember when my sister came home in tears from a choir visit to a nursing home. They'd sung "I'll Be Home For Christmas" to a bunch of wheelchair bound elderly folks who would be lucky to spend 10 minutes with distracted children and impatient grandchildren for the holidays. The song made several of the residents burst into sobs. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:45:58 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Shorpy...Is...God On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:25 PM, vivien lyon wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Nectar At Any Cost! > wrote: > > I remember when my sister came home in tears from a choir visit to a > nursing > home. They'd sung "I'll Be Home For Christmas" to a bunch of wheelchair > bound elderly folks who would be lucky to spend 10 minutes with distracted > children and impatient grandchildren for the holidays. The song made > several > of the residents burst into sobs. Elder abuse? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:04:25 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Ick (Very NR) > The LDS Church is not helping to fund the National Organization for > Marriage, George said, but is represented on the board by author > and Mormon Times columnist Orson Scott Card. Card once again shows himself to be an ass. (Robert George can also go die). - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:05:51 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Dukes put up! My reissued Dukes of Stratosphear CDs have made their way across the Atlantic to me - entirely dry except for the reverb. Hurrah! (I'll be listening to them later today when I get back from teaching.) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:28:13 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Speaking of FZ From Cuneiform -- The Ed Palermo Big Band-Eddy Loves Frank $15.00 Ed and his amazing 16 piece band (+ guests) return with his third album of his distinctive, big-band interpretations of the great 20th century composer, Frank Zappa. This body of work has won them huge acclaim from both new and old fans of the music and they even appeared on NPR's Weekend Edition for a short feature which was heard by millions of listeners in 2006. For those not already familiar with Ed's colorful, jazz-based arrangements of Zappa's compositions, Ed has led a big band for 30 years (!) and has had his band performing the music of Frank Zappa for 15 years. Many years of playing these pieces in front of hugely enthusiastic crowds have honed the bands skills interpreting Zappa's beautiful but notoriously difficult material to where they are able to perform these challenging charts with apparent ease. All of these musicians are high caliber, hugely talented NYC professional players, and most of them have been playing this music for a decade and a half with this group, not because it is a good paying gig (it isn't) but because they all admire and appreciate the genius of Zappa's work and they love having the opportunity to be able to perform these terrifically exciting charts. "Wonderful, breathtaking, fantastic, exhilarating, great sound, great production, great musicianship...I run out of superlatives..."  paradoxone.uk "Palermo developed these charts during years of live shows with these musicians, and their mastery of the material shows in the performances, which turn on a dime yet feel fierce with spontaneous invention.... Palermos arrangements and these performances are precise, dedicated, raucous and incisivejust like Zappa himself."  JazzTimes "Palermo uses Zappa's compositions as a framework for inspiration, rather than simply trying to recreate what is already available on CD."  allaboutjazz.com - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:22:37 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Ick (Very NR) On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Steve Schiavo wrote: > The LDS Church is not helping to fund the National Organization for >> Marriage, George said, but is represented on the board by author and Mormon >> Times columnist Orson Scott Card. >> > > stance-on-civil-unions.html?pg=1> > > Card once again shows himself to be an ass. (Robert George can also go > die). > Okay, I saw someone in a Jack-In-The-Box reading "Ender's Game" last week, and I was sort of curious as to what had brought that back around. Now I retroactively suppose I was seeing a Culture Warrior fortifying his Homo-Hatred or something of that ilk. Charmed! - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:02:38 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Musical saw festival http://musicalsawfestival.org/ July 18th in Astoria -- doesn't somebody in RH's family play musical saw? Thought I remembered reading about that. 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, 23 Apr 2009 09:19:27 -0700 From: vivien lyon Subject: Re: Shorpy...Is...God On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Rex wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:25 PM, vivien lyon wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Nectar At Any Cost! >> wrote: >> >> I remember when my sister came home in tears from a choir visit to a >> nursing >> home. They'd sung "I'll Be Home For Christmas" to a bunch of wheelchair >> bound elderly folks who would be lucky to spend 10 minutes with distracted >> children and impatient grandchildren for the holidays. The song made >> several >> of the residents burst into sobs. >> > > Elder abuse? > > Certainly seems like negligent infliction of emotional distress. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:27:11 -0700 From: vivien lyon Subject: Re: Musical saw festival I thought you meant Astoria, OR. I was all.... well, not exactly excited, though I always like an excuse to visit Goonies-ville. Oh well. On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > http://musicalsawfestival.org/ > > July 18th in Astoria -- doesn't somebody in RH's family play musical > saw? Thought I remembered reading about that. > 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, 23 Apr 2009 09:29:05 -0700 From: vivien lyon Subject: Re: Ick (Very NR) On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Rex wrote: > > Okay, I saw someone in a Jack-In-The-Box reading "Ender's Game" last week, > and I was sort of curious as to what had brought that back around. Now I > retroactively suppose I was seeing a Culture Warrior fortifying his > Homo-Hatred or something of that ilk. Charmed! > Now, it's been years since I read Ender's Game, but I promise there's no culture war stuff in there. It's a tremendous book, as are most of the books in that series that I've read. For being as big an ass as OSC is politically, very little of it seeps through into his writing. FWIW. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:15:51 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: NEW on DiME: Robyn Hitchcock solo: KROQ LA April 28, 1989 This is a crazy wacked Robyn Hitchcock solo: KROQ LA April 28, 1989 This is a crazy wacked show! I mean it. This is almost surreal. First, the dj asks Robyn to be the judge of a contest where girls call in and say what they like the most about their boyfriend. Then, seemingly in revenge, Robyn asks listeners to tell him what to play, but he turns them all down, one after another. It's like he's asking them to read his mind; he wants to play something he knOws, but never played before. Then, someone does it--"the Doors". Bam! He plays a great version of Crystal Ship. And as a cool conclusion, you get Roxy Music's Avalon, the third song form the lp he's sung. Enjoy this wacky tidbit. Robyn Hitchcock KROQ, Los Angeles April 28, 1989 1. 2. 3. 4. The Crystal Ship (Doors) 5. 6. Avalon (Roxy Music), last notes cut 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: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:58:51 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: June 2009 Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 http://www.robynhitchcock.com/auditori.htm June 2009 Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 6 Tower Theatre w/ The Decemberists Philadelphia, PA 7 Rams Head On Stage Annapolis, MD 8 Merriweather Post w/ The Decemberists Washington, DC 9 Bank of America Pavilion w/ The Decemberists Boston, MA 10 Radio City Music Hall w/ The Decemberists New York, NY 11 The Bell House Brooklyn, NY 13 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival Manchester, TN 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: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:44:03 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: The Boat That Rocked Looks promising... http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/theboatthatrocked/ - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:35:41 -0400 From: lep Subject: the library of memory (0% rh) to-day's Wordle-made-feg is looking kind of sparse so.... does anyone have a favourite book inscription? books you've given, received, or just a random? i was reminded, as i gave a friend a book last night, and decided to inscribe it (...sometimes the magic works, and sometimes it doesn't.) when i was maybe 25, i borrowed a book from a friend. it had this inscription: "to d-- because entropy hurts without you. j-- " i think after that i never much bothered. as ever, lauren - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:47:39 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: the library of memory (0% rh) A high-school friend gave me a copy of T.S. Eliot's collected plays on some occasion or other that was inscribed "To? Kevin? Who? never? fails? to? question? everything?" which, as I recall, was in tribute to the arguments I was always having with our history teacher about the evils of American Imperialism and whatnot. I was a pretty angry kid and tended to be disruptive when I bothered to go to class at all...mostly I just hung out in the woods behind school, smoking and reading Nietzsche. On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:35 PM, lep wrote: > to-day's Wordle-made-feg is looking kind of sparse so.... > > does anyone have a favourite book inscription? books you've given, > received, or just a random? > > i was reminded, as i gave a friend a book last night, and decided to > inscribe it (...sometimes the magic works, and sometimes it doesn't.) > > > when i was maybe 25, i borrowed a book from a friend. it had this > inscription: > > "to d-- > because entropy > hurts without you. > j-- " > > i think after that i never much bothered. > > as ever, > lauren > > -- > "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:51:36 -0700 From: vivien lyon Subject: Re: The Boat That Rocked Bill Nighy and Nick Frost???!! I'm there. On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > Looks promising... > > http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/theboatthatrocked/ > > -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:33:48 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: the library of memory (0% rh) kevin says: > ...mostly I just hung out in > the woods behind school, smoking and reading Nietzsche. sigh. as ever, lauren p.s. to give you an idea, one of the high points of my undergraduate years was somehow finding myself sitting with my existentialism teacher on the hill of schenley park in the late afternoon sun, smoking cigarettes and talking nietzsche. sigh. - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:51:07 -0400 From: lep Subject: 0% BSG i think "caprica" was released on the 21st. has anyone seen it yet? thoughts? xo p.s. and watch it with the spoilers, else feel the wrath** of jeff 2fs. ** actually may be dissappointment and not wrath, but don't test him. - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:13:52 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: the library of memory (0% rh) On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:47 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > > Imperialism and whatnot. I was a pretty angry kid and tended to be > disruptive when I bothered to go to class at all...mostly I just hung out > in > the woods behind school, smoking and reading Nietzsche. You *smoked* Nietzsche? That must have been intense. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:15:03 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: 0% BSG On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 7:51 PM, lep wrote: > i think "caprica" was released on the 21st. has anyone seen it yet? > thoughts? > > xo > > p.s. and watch it with the spoilers, else feel the wrath** of jeff 2fs. Or - my BOMBAST! Actually, isn't this just on DVD/Blu-Ray/Whateverthefuck the cool new medium is? So it'd my own damned fault for not rushing out to buy it, right? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:46:04 -0700 From: Jason Brown Subject: Re: 0% BSG I watched it last night and really liked it. Tonally rather different from BSG, has a Dynasty with Robots vibe. Lots of good performances and rich characters. Plentiful Easter eggs but the show could just as easily been a proto-prequel to Dune (way before the Butlerian Jihad) or any number of Robot-Human stories. I'm looking forward to the series next year. But it was weird to see the Vancouver Canucks locker room double for that of a Pyramid team. - -- "Would you rather have your blood go to mindcrime or genocide?" - Trevor Heins ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:58:59 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Dukes redux So I've given my first listen to the reissued Dukes of Stratosphear CDs. I'd have to A/B my old Chips from the Chocolate Fireball 2-fer CD to analyze the effect of the remastering - but they sound good, without being overly post-60s in sonic character (the whole idea, at least with the first one, was to present the music as a newly found "lost" genuine '60s artifact). Bonus tracks? On 25 O'Clock, a couple of demos, a couple of after-the-fact Dukes tracks for other projects - nothing that leaps out as being essential, although it's fun to hear the original, less-elaborate demo versions of these tracks. Also amusing that Colin's demo of "What in the World??..." features a very '80s electronic rhythm track... On Psonic, the demos are a bit more interesting, especially Colin's demos of "Vanishing Girl" (called "No One At Home" at the time) and his heartbreaking "The Affiliated." 25 O'Clock remains one of my all-time favorites: I love psychedelia, esp. the more tightly structured and arranged British variety, and XTC's homage to the same is so faithful to its numerous sources it probably could have been mistaken for an original product of the era...except it's a little too knowing, and as straight product a bit overstuffed. As psych homage, of course, tehre's no such thing as "overstuffed": the more wacked-out crazy effects, overdubbed whatnot, and general swirling-in-space mayhem, the better. And beneath all that, they're pretty damned good songs. It's also interesting to read the notes how low-budget - and quick! - the thing was (also in the spirit of much original psych) - they "cheated" somewhat, in not being able to afford a trumpet player, say, and using an '80s synth (carefully processed) in lieu thereof. And because they couldn't hire Paul McCartney to pretend to be able to play the trumpet at the wrong speed on "What in the World??..." they were sort of The Bomb Squad avant-la-lettre, spinning in old jazz records, manually wicki-wickiing the turntable to alter speed in a few spots...(Very "Only a Northern Song" that - I'm one of those weirdos for whom OANS is a fave Beatles track!) Psonic Psunspot suffers a bit from being (a) less beholden to the concept and (b) less overtly "psychedelic" - I suppose more like The White Album than Revolver, if you want to go that way. It's much closer to XTC themselves at the time (not a bad thing, of course), and no one was trying to fool anyone about the band's guise - really, it was an XTC album except that Andy (primarily) wanted to dress up in Dukes gear again. The packaging is lovely: each comes in a booklet format, with extensive notes: track-by-track description from Andy, reminiscences from Colin and Dave, notes on the artwork, and Dave's notes on gear and recording ideas - plus complete lyrics and loads of photos. The whole thing makes me really miss XTC, and really wish they could just record something again! Dammit - too many of my favorite acts end up "retiring"! At least Robyn's going strong (although for a couple of years there I was a bit worried...). - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:59:53 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: 0% BSG On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Jason Brown wrote: > > > I'm looking forward to the series next year. But it was weird to see > the Vancouver Canucks locker room double for that of a Pyramid team. So I won't ask how you're so very familiar with the Vancouver Canucks' locker room... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:24:37 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: the library of memory (0% rh) On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:13 PM, 2fs wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:47 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > >> >> Imperialism and whatnot. I was a pretty angry kid and tended to be >> disruptive when I bothered to go to class at all...mostly I just hung out >> in >> the woods behind school, smoking and reading Nietzsche. > > > You *smoked* Nietzsche? > > That must have been intense. > Well you know, it was the sixties - it was either that or Philip K Dick. I recall an occasional big hit of Michael Moorcock too. np, Harry Nilsson, Duit On Mon Dei ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:12:10 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Ick (Very NR) On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:29 AM, vivien lyon wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Rex wrote: > >> >> Now, it's been years since I read Ender's Game, but I promise there's no > culture war stuff in there. It's a tremendous book, as are most of the books > in that series that I've read. For being as big an ass as OSC is > politically, very little of it seeps through into his writing. FWIW. > Last I checked in with OSC was with those pretty lousy "Ender's Shadow" books, which had some kinda goofball geopolitical overtones, but I don't recall anything in his early books that was too culture war-y either. I was just guessing that if someone's just now getting to "Ender's Game", it might be because of his current rep for the anti-gay-marriage stuff, about which I hadn't heard before. I could be wrong... it just seemed odd to encounter OSC twice in such a short period when I hadn't heard much about him at all for a while. - -Rex ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #125 ********************************