From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #126 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, April 25 2009 Volume 17 : Number 126 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: NEW on DiME: Robyn Hitchcock solo: KROQ LA April 28, 1989 This is a crazy wacked [Rex ] Re: Ick (Very NR) [Jason Brown ] Re: Ick (Very NR) [vivien lyon ] Re: Ick (Very NR) [vivien lyon ] Re: Dukes redux [Steve Schiavo ] Re: 0% BSG [lep ] Re: Dukes redux ["craigie*" ] Re: 0% BSG [Sumiko Keay ] Re: 0% BSG [2fs ] movie talk [lep ] Re: movie talk [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Ick (Very NR) [Rex ] Re: Musical saw festival ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Magic Window Toy [djini@voicenet.com] Re: the library of memory (0% rh) [Tom Clark ] Bull [Rob ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:14:15 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: NEW on DiME: Robyn Hitchcock solo: KROQ LA April 28, 1989 This is a crazy wacked On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:15 AM, wrote: > Robyn Hitchcock solo: KROQ LA April 28, 1989 This is a crazy wacked show! > > I mean it. This is almost surreal. If you like this, you'll love RH&TE on LoveLines, featuring improvised classics like "Send Him Some Dentures". Classic! - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:43:14 -0700 From: Jason Brown Subject: Re: 0% BSG On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:59 PM, 2fs wrote: > 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... Nothing salacious i promise. But I am a big puck fan and bright blue and green color scheme did seem very un-Caprica. - -- "Would you rather have your blood go to mindcrime or genocide?" - Trevor Heins ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:50:19 -0700 From: Jason Brown Subject: Re: Ick (Very NR) Card's Alvin Maker fantasy/historical fiction novels are lousy with Mormon allegory with the title character being a clear analog to Joseph Smith. Ugly Mormon stereotypes too, I think all the Indians were evil and into human sacrifice and all the blacks are voodoo cannibals or something. - -- "Would you rather have your blood go to mindcrime or genocide?" - Trevor Heins ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:01:18 -0700 From: vivien lyon Subject: Re: Ick (Very NR) On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Jason Brown wrote: > Card's Alvin Maker fantasy/historical fiction novels are lousy with > Mormon allegory with the title character being a clear analog to > Joseph Smith. Ugly Mormon stereotypes too, I think all the Indians > were evil and into human sacrifice and all the blacks are voodoo > cannibals or something. > And yet his historical fiction about Columbus posits that Columbus ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:01:37 -0700 From: vivien lyon Subject: Re: Ick (Very NR) Unfinished fragment not intended to be sent... sorry! On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:01 PM, vivien lyon wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Jason Brown wrote: > >> Card's Alvin Maker fantasy/historical fiction novels are lousy with >> Mormon allegory with the title character being a clear analog to >> Joseph Smith. Ugly Mormon stereotypes too, I think all the Indians >> were evil and into human sacrifice and all the blacks are voodoo >> cannibals or something. >> > > And yet his historical fiction about Columbus posits that Columbus ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:47:01 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: Dukes redux On Apr 23, 2009, at 8:58 PM, 2fs wrote: > 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. Mr. Partridge loves his packaging. > The whole thing makes me really miss XTC, and really wish they > could just > record something again! Andy is supposed to be working on a solo album (probably very slowly). He and Dave are back on friendly terms, so there's always hope for some tasty fretwork. Colin has, evidently, given up on music. In the meantime, there's Pugwash. Both Andy and Dave lend a hand on Eleven Modern Antiquities (as do Jason Falkner and Michael Penn). - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:05:03 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: 0% BSG 2fs says: > 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? um... http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B001RTCP1U this looks all regular-non-blu-ray DVD to me or are you looking for it just on VHS/Beta/LaserDisc/Whateverthefuck old medium? or wait...iTunes? VCD? i'm so confused. xo lauren p.s. "caprica" - okay, i can accept that - go old school. but don't you dare let me catch you watching the movies that so benefit from blu-ray on a frakking crappy old regular dvd: http://www.amazon.com/Failure-Launch-Blu-ray-Kathy-Bates/dp/B000K7UG3O/ref=ed_oe_blu - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:41:55 +0100 From: "craigie*" Subject: Re: Dukes redux ah, Pugwash. I have their Red Dwarf Theme cover somewhere... c* ..it's cold outside... On 24/04/2009, Steve Schiavo wrote: > > On Apr 23, 2009, at 8:58 PM, 2fs wrote: > > 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. >> > > Mr. Partridge loves his packaging. > > The whole thing makes me really miss XTC, and really wish they could just >> record something again! >> > > Andy is supposed to be working on a solo album (probably very slowly). He > and Dave are back on friendly terms, so there's always hope for some tasty > fretwork. Colin has, evidently, given up on music. > > In the meantime, there's Pugwash. Both Andy and Dave lend a hand on Eleven > Modern Antiquities (as do Jason Falkner and Michael Penn). > > > > > - Steve > __________ > I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl > with a scythe. - John > > > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... I like my girls to be the same as my records - independent, attractively packaged and in black vinyl (if at all possible)... Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc (the motto of the Addams Family: "We gladly feast on those who would subdue us") ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:36:11 -0500 From: Sumiko Keay Subject: Re: 0% BSG Easter eggs? Excellent. My copy arrived on Wednesday but I haven't had a chance to watch it. I plan to watch it on the weekend. Sumi On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Jason Brown wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:59 PM, 2fs wrote: >> 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... > > Nothing salacious i promise. But I am a big puck fan and bright blue > and green color scheme did seem very un-Caprica. > > > > -- > "Would you rather have your blood go to mindcrime or genocide?" - Trevor Heins ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:03:33 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: 0% BSG On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 2:05 AM, lep wrote: > 2fs says: > > 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? > > um... > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B001RTCP1U > > this looks all regular-non-blu-ray DVD to me > > or are you looking for it just on VHS/Beta/LaserDisc/Whateverthefuck > old medium? or wait...iTunes? VCD? > > i'm so confused. Then my fiendish plot is working! My slashes above are simply lazy-person's "or"s - thus our row. (groan) Also: don't have Blu-Ray yet. Probably will not until (a) our current TV set dies and/or (b) they become ultra-mega cheap and (c) I care enough to bother finding out. Apparently where audiovisual entertainment media are concerned I'm just not that big on ultrahigh quality. Our friends in Dallas have a very cool relatively high-end set-up - 'twas where we first watched BSG in fact, since they were the ones who introduced us to the show - and while it certainly looked and sounded great, I just don't miss it. Also the geography of our living room just doesn't really accommodate a multispeaker setup. Yes, I watch DVDs in a very 3/4-through-the-20th-century way: on a boring old TV set with the sound doing nothing but coming through its very own stereo speakers. The horror. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:49:12 -0400 From: lep Subject: movie talk hi fegList, sad to say there hasn't been much movie action (or more precise: attention span) lately, so there's only one movie to talk about...and i'm only like a third of the way through it. the movie i'm watching is called "la moustache". and, no lie, this is the plot: one morning, the wife makes a casual comment about the husband's mustache and how a change might be nice. he's had it his entire adult life so he's not to keen ( <- is that still a word?) on her suggestion. but after the wife leaves, i guess he's feeling all devil-may-care and damn if doesn't lose the mustache. that's lthe first ten minutes. what the movie actually turns out to be about is: (1) not only does his wife, friends, and co-workers not notice that he's shaved his mustache, but (2) it turns out that no-one knows what the the fuck he's talking about when he asks them why they haven't mentioned his new look. and what each of them tells him is that...he NEVER HAD A MUSTACHE. but the real stunner: it's *not* a comedy. it's a *psychological thriller*. i'm in awe. xo p.s. yet again, i'm convinced that the french are either too brilliant or too stupid for me to even comprehend. i just never know which. - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:59:47 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: movie talk On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:49 AM, lep wrote: > hi fegList, > > sad to say there hasn't been much movie action (or more precise: > attention span) lately, so there's only one movie to talk about My movie action is as follows: Film Forum in Manhattan is showing Viridiana today through next Thursday, and I am going to go watch it on Monday evening! I am ready to burst with antici... pation. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:56:20 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Ick (Very NR) On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:01 PM, vivien lyon wrote: > Unfinished fragment not intended to be sent... sorry! You can't tease us like that! I was all ready to be schooled, Viv-style! - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:24:10 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Musical saw festival Jeremy Osner wrote: > > July 18th in Astoria -- doesn't somebody in RH's family play musical > saw? Thought I remembered reading about that. His niece, Ruby Wright, plays it on "Adventure Rocket Ship". I have repeatedly tried to learn to play saw. It is very hard. Julian Koster makes it look easy. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:02:32 -0400 (EDT) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Re: Magic Window Toy Lauren asked (a while ago): > how is the snorkeling? Which is a magic window of a different kind. (Like that segue?) I had never done it before, and it was cool. I saw an octopus! Head was about volleyball-sized, and then when he got spooked he did that thing where they flatten out like a pizza and curl their arms around to look bigger, which was neat. I failed to be intimidated, however, in fact I surfaced to summon someone else on the trip with a good underwater camera ("O-o-us! O-o-us!" accompanied by excited pointing got the message across - it's hard to yell in a snorkel mask). Like a star afflicted with paparazzi, he looked insulted, gave us the tentacle and whooshed off in a huff. There are a couple of pictures here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=12952&id=1599486595&l=e7d7238468 Ive never heard so much Jack Johnson as I did on those islands. I guess everyone is good and sick of Jimmy Buffett. That was just in town though - out at the camp there was no music at all. Youre not allowed to have a radio playing without earphones. I realized how used I am to listening to *words* all the time. The enforced silence, and no TV or phone or internet, really, except at ruinous prices, was very restful once I relaxed into it. Good practice for post-collapse existence. Security was provided by a lithe be-earringed little blond named Lancelot, with his Mom tattoo squarely over his heart where it belongs. I slept well, although - I always thought that a foxs bark at night was the eeriest, loneliest, sound. I still think that. However I now know that, for sheer pathos, nothing tops the agonized nocturnal bellow of a disgruntled feral donkey. The tropics are *not* subtle. The sun is so strong, the stars are so thick, you get ravenously hungry and horribly thirsty and so tired, and very greedy about sating those needs. I think, although I loved it, that it is not a place where I belong. Part of it could be that I was with people whose vacation styles are, to put it politely, foreign to mine. My oldest and youngest sisters are both lifelong serious athletes without an ounce of quit (or excess body fat) between em. Its rather like vacationing with a couple of semi-retired Bond Girls in their tropical paradise habitat. In other words, exhausting. People sure are nice to them though - ah, life in the bubble. Also, I burn like a tadpole on concrete at noon. They tan, naturally. All in all, I think I am better off on cloudier shores. Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:45:44 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: the library of memory (0% rh) On Apr 23, 2009, at 6:13 PM, 2fs wrote: > You *smoked* Nietzsche? > > That must have been intense. It meant nothing. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:27:35 +0100 From: Rob Subject: Bull If this isn't all over tha interwebs yet, it will be soon. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nclLTrw8EAk ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #126 ********************************