From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #127 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, April 26 2009 Volume 17 : Number 127 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: fegmaniax-digest V17 #126 [James Dignan ] Re: Bull ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Musical saw festival ["edwardofsim@tiscali.co.uk" ] [REAP] And there goes Maude [Tom Clark ] REAP [Capuchin ] Re: Musical saw festival [kevin studyvin ] Re: Musical saw festival [Jeremy Osner ] Lou Reed : MMM live (sort of i think) [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] RH.com tour updates [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] a-z of s[k]in [Jeremy Osner ] Re: My name is "Eb", and I am probably the best woodsman in Belize [Jerem] Re: the library of memory (0% rh) [lep ] Re: My name is "Eb", and I am probably the best woodsman in Belize [lep <] Re: the library of memory (0% rh) [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: Musical saw festival [Rex ] Re: Ick (Very NR) [Poem Lover ] Re: Ick (Very NR) [2fs ] Re: Ick (Very NR) [Poem Lover ] Venus 3 [Jeremy Osner ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:56:52 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V17 #126 Rex sez: >You can't tease us like that! I was all ready to be schooled, Viv-style! Taken out of context, all I can say is "Ooo! Sounds like fun!" 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, 25 Apr 2009 07:42:54 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Bull Rob wrote: > If this isn't all over tha interwebs yet, it will be soon. I've been to Ballinrobe, and this doesn't surprise me at all. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:53:31 +0100 (GMT+01:00) From: "edwardofsim@tiscali.co.uk" Subject: Re: Musical saw festival scruss@gmail.com said >I have repeatedly tried to learn to play saw. It is very hard. Julian >Koster makes it look easy. I've always wanted to hear an all-acoustic cover of Good Vibrations, with a musical saw doing the Theremin line. peace, Edward News, Entertainment, Celebrity Gossip and more - http://www.tiscali.co.uk ____________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:51:30 +0100 (GMT+01:00) From: "edwardofsim@tiscali.co.uk" Subject: Re: the library of memory (0% rh) Tom Clark, that was just so amazingly droll. I slow-laughed for a full minute. The feglist is full of such amazing people. Smart, funny, odd, amazing people. peace, Edward >----Original Message---- >From: tclark@mac.com >Date: 24/04/2009 23:45 >To: "a sweet little cupcake...baked by the devil!" >Subj: 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 > News, Entertainment, Celebrity Gossip and more - http://www.tiscali.co.uk ____________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:04:55 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Musical saw festival On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 12:53 PM, edwardofsim@tiscali.co.uk < edwardofsim@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > scruss@gmail.com said > >I have repeatedly tried to learn to play saw. It is very hard. Julian > >Koster makes it look easy. > > I've always wanted to hear an all-acoustic cover of Good Vibrations, > with a musical saw doing the Theremin line. I just reinvented the theremin (or summat) at work. There was the God. Damn. Fire. ALARM. which would not turn off going off in the electric room and there was no way to silence it. I finally decided just to muffle it by putting a wad of tape on the actual tiny little speaker inside it. In the process I discovered I could alter the pitch on it as well by moving the tape wad around on its surface. So it was sort of like an incredibly annoying theremin variant that went SQUEEEEEEHEEEEEHEEEE instead of WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOHOOOO. But it was very very loud. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:37:38 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: [REAP] And there goes Maude Bea Arthur, 86 http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-bea-arthur26-2009apr26,0,176068.story - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:35:13 -0500 (CDT) From: Capuchin Subject: REAP Bea Arthur J. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:31:44 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Musical saw festival > > scruss@gmail.com said > > >I have repeatedly tried to learn to play saw. It is very hard. Julian > > >Koster makes it look easy. > > > > I've always wanted to hear an all-acoustic cover of Good Vibrations, > > with a musical saw doing the Theremin line. > > > I just reinvented the theremin (or summat) at work. There was the God. > Damn. Fire. ALARM. which would not turn off going off in the electric room > and there was no way to silence it. I finally decided just to muffle it by > putting a wad of tape on the actual tiny little speaker inside it. In the > process I discovered I could alter the pitch on it as well by moving the > tape wad around on its surface. So it was sort of like an incredibly > annoying theremin variant that went SQUEEEEEEHEEEEEHEEEE instead of > WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOHOOOO. But it was very very loud. > Probly didn't record it, I guess. Sounds kind of like Stockhausen's Mikrophonie I, in theory. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:38:38 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Musical saw festival "Incredibly annoying Theremine variant" is a marketable product if I ever saw one. Listen (pauses, chews at cigar), I'll call some people I know and start thinking about some slogans and product placements, I'll give you a call in a couple days... J If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:54:23 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Lou Reed : MMM live (sort of i think) http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/25/arts/music/25reed.html?_r=1&ref=arts 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: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:11:43 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: RH.com tour updates On Tour May 2009 16 Birmingham Town Hall Robyn performs at Joe Boyd's Nick Drake tribute evening, also starring Beth Orton, Graham Coxon, Boris Grobenshikov, Vashti Bunyan & others, with strings by Robert Kirby. The following afternoon Joe reads from his memoir 'White Bicycles' with Robyn performing some of the songs mentioned in the book. Birmingham, UK June 2009 Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 6 Tower Theatre w/ The Decemberists performing with the Venus 3 Philadelphia, PA 7 Rams Head On Stage performing with the Venus 3 Annapolis, MD 8 Merriweather Post w/ The Decemberists performing with the Venus 3 Washington, DC 9 Bank of America Pavilion w/ The Decemberists performing with the Venus 3 Boston, MA 10 Radio City Music Hall w/ The Decemberists performing with the Venus 3 New York, NY 11 The Bell House performing with the Venus 3 Brooklyn, NY 13 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival performing with the Venus 3 Manchester, TN 28 Glastonbury Festival Robyn & his friends play the Q stage Sunday evening.Glastonbury, UK July 2009 16/17 Robyn performs at Latitude Festival various sites, curated by Robin Ince, and sits in with Martin White's orchestra. Suffolk, UK 19 London Barbican Robyn plays at Joe Boyd's Very Cellular Evening tribute to the Incredible String Band, with Mike Heron and others 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: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:14:53 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: a-z of s[k]in I'm listening to RH sing "What You Is" on Minn. Public Radio, and surprised to hear him say I "might have been a cardinal, with an a-z of sin" -- surprised because this is always what I think the lyric is going to be when I listen to the song on the record or in the other performance of it I've heard, but then it always sounds more like "an a-z of skin" which does not make sense to me. J If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:26:45 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and I am probably the best woodsman in Belize On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: > by the way, is he singing "myth america", or > "miss america" (with a bit of a lisp)? see, i don't want to look it up, > 'cause i kinda like not knowing (but wouldn't mind hearing others' theories > about why it must be one or the other). > One reason for it to be "Miss" is, in the penultimate verse he sings, "Let me close one eye and I can/ Focus on you, Miss..." -- the woman he's speaking to is not referenced anywhere else in the song; but maybe at the very end he's addressing her as "Miss America"? Just a thought, I don't know how it will stand up to the chill light of morning. J If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:40:15 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: the library of memory (0% rh) lep says: > does anyone have a favourite book inscription? books you've given, > received, or just a random? my favourite inscriptions on my own personal books are the ones from my father. i've looked through a few of them in the past few days, and, sorry: decided to share. this one comes from "damned to fame: the life of samuel beckett" by james knowlson (hardback) (mostly unread - i barely read these days (note: knowing this will in NO way prevent from getting the big book of beckett letters that just came out): << To Laurie P. "Art thou pale for weariness of climbing heaven and gazing on on the likes of us?' Love, Dad 12-25-97 also - Do Not despair - The Wasteland and Ulysses were published in 1922 Do not presume - So was the The Forsyte Saga >> xo, lauren p.s. apologies if i'm being too share-y this evening. i'm missing my father. the sad thing is that he's not the parent i lost last fall. odd and heartbreaking how the distance between the living can be greater than that between the living and the dead. p.p.s. my father saw "godot" in paris when it first came out (it must have been when he was in the army because he would have never been in europe otherwise.) this is just one reason on a list of many that i have The Coolest Dad Ever. - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:45:02 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and I am probably the best woodsman in Belize Jeremy says: > One reason for it to be "Miss" is, in the penultimate verse he sings, > "Let me close one eye and I can/ Focus on you, Miss..." speaking as a girl, that line gets me. i've always had a soft spot for robyn's "dear"s and "babe"s and the rest that slip my uncaffeinated mind right now (N.B. feel free to post a list of such terms). in an unexpected twist, "miss" works for me as well. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:29:28 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: the library of memory (0% rh) a friend of mine wanted to get Patti Smith to autograph a favorite photo of Patti in the book "Please Kill Me" it was at a book signing in Boston (Tower records) circa 2000 .. . Patti signed the picture, and then went to the title page and scrawled "This Book Sucks !" . . then looked up at her publicist and smiled : "Well, I signed it !" My friend, of course, treasures it . . my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ In a message dated 4/25/2009 10:43:39 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, softboygirl@gmail.com writes: > does anyone have a favourite book inscription? books you've given, > received, or just a random? **************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: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:51:51 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Musical saw festival On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 2:31 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > So it was sort of like an incredibly >> annoying theremin variant that went SQUEEEEEEHEEEEEHEEEE instead of >> WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOHOOOO. But it was very very loud. >> > > Probly didn't record it, I guess. Sounds kind of like Stockhausen's > Mikrophonie I, in theory. > I could and should have recorded it, because it was on for DAYS. It's a wonder we didn't all go maaaaaadd. SQUEEEEEEHIIIIIIIIHEEEEEE!!!! - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:56:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Poem Lover Subject: Re: Ick (Very NR) I just can't take a guy seriously who is called Orson. - --- On Thu, 4/23/09, Steve Schiavo wrote: From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Ick (Very NR) To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Date: Thursday, April 23, 2009, 5:04 AM > 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: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:01:29 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Ick (Very NR) On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Poem Lover wrote: > I just can't take a guy seriously who is called Orson. Not even Orson Welles? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:06:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Poem Lover Subject: Re: Ick (Very NR) Oh ok, you got me there Jeff. - --- On Sun, 4/26/09, 2fs wrote: From: 2fs Subject: Re: Ick (Very NR) To: "Poem Lover" Cc: fegmaniax@smoe.org, "Steve Schiavo" Date: Sunday, April 26, 2009, 5:01 AM On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Poem Lover wrote: > I just can't take a guy seriously who is called Orson. Not even Orson Welles? - -- ....Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 08:50:14 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Venus 3 You know what song I would really love to hear Robyn and the Venus 3 perform? "I Watch the Cars", is what. That would totally rock. J If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #127 ********************************