From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #129 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, April 29 2009 Volume 17 : Number 129 Today's Subjects: ----------------- robyn's toronto show cancelled ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: robyn's toronto show cancelled [lep ] Re: Musical saw festival [lep ] Re: weird ad music [James Dignan ] Re: Musical saw festival ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Musical saw festival [Rex ] Re: Musical saw festival [kevin studyvin ] I Love The Way His Traingle's Displayed ["Nectar At Any Cost!" ] Re: Musical saw festival ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Musical saw festival ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Musical saw festival [lep ] Re: Musical saw festival [2fs ] Re: Musical saw festival [Jeremy Osner ] Austin City Limits Festival ["Marc Holden" ] Another sign of the End Times [kevin studyvin ] The usual babbling [kevin studyvin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:28:36 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: robyn's toronto show cancelled Ticketbastard just emailed me to say that they're refunding instead of rescheduling ... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:49:58 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: robyn's toronto show cancelled Stewart says: > Ticketbastard just emailed me to say that they're refunding instead of > rescheduling ... that sucks. twice even. xo p.s. which reminds me i wanted to ask you something; i'll be proper and go find the correct thread... - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:55:46 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: Musical saw festival Stewart says: > I have repeatedly tried to learn to play saw. It is very hard. i just got curious as to how many instruments you *do* you play? over time, the various mentions of playing, purchasing, and repairs are starting to tally up (not that i actually tallied them). and is it like programming languages that once you know one, plus lisp, you know them all? xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:00:48 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: weird ad music >speaking of songs: WTF, they're using a tones on tail song in a car >commercial? and if that isn't odd enough, the car *wasn't* even >european. > >most bizarre car-commercial song ever, unless someone can jog my >memory otherwise. Don't know if it was used North-side as well as down here, but using The Radicals' "You only get what you give" seemed pretty weird to me - - especially since they had to edit out the lines about smashing the cars of people you don't like. Mind you, NZ advertising is weird enough to have used Shriekback (or a cover of one of their songs, at least) for a home insulation ad. ("Cradle song", before you ask) 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: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:44:58 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Musical saw festival lep wrote: > > i just got curious as to how many instruments you *do* you play? Well enough that people don't make excuses and leave? One: clawhammer banjo. Things on which I can make the right notes or the right rhythm - six: guitar, mandolin, autoharp, kalimba, appalachian dulcimer, harmonica. Things on which I can't even do that - three: musical saw, ukulele, bones. > and is it like programming languages that once you know one, plus > lisp, you know them all? bah, if it can't be done in postscript, perl or fortran, it's not worth doing. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:59:51 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Musical saw festival On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > lep wrote: > > > > i just got curious as to how many instruments you *do* you play? > > Well enough that people don't make excuses and leave? One: clawhammer > banjo. > > Things on which I can make the right notes or the right rhythm - six: > guitar, mandolin, autoharp, kalimba, appalachian dulcimer, harmonica. > > Things on which I can't even do that - three: musical saw, ukulele, bones. Stewart... I can strum a uke, and my 8-year knows 7 or 8 chords... I think you could manage. Bones, though... well, they make a rattling sound; how hard can that be? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:31:27 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Musical saw festival > Stewart... I can strum a uke, and my 8-year knows 7 or 8 chords... I think > you could manage. > > Bones, though... well, they make a rattling sound; how hard can that be? > > -Rex > But the ones in the grouns never make a sound... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:08:25 -0700 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: I Love The Way His Traingle's Displayed . ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:18:19 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: fan girl (50% RH) very cool ! my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ In a message dated 4/27/2009 3:34:42 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, softboygirl@gmail.com writes: at any rate, this was the autograph from the IODOT show: http://www.denisvengeance.com/robyn/lep/ **************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: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 02:49:08 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: Musical saw festival Stewart says: > lep wrote: >> >> i just got curious as to how many instruments you *do* you play? > > Well enough that people don't make excuses and leave? One: clawhammer banjo. > > Things on which I can make the right notes or the right rhythm - six: > guitar, mandolin, autoharp, kalimba, appalachian dulcimer, harmonica. > > Things on which I can't even do that - three: musical saw, ukulele, bones. > >> and is it like programming languages that once you know one, plus >> lisp, you know them all? > > bah, if it can't be done in postscript, perl or fortran, it's not worth > doing. well, you know what lisp programmers always say: if it can't be played on the kalimba, it's not worth playing. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:22:32 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Musical saw festival Rex wrote: > > Stewart... I can strum a uke, and my 8-year knows 7 or 8 chords... I > think you could manage. I must've had really crappy ones, as I couldn't keep 'em in tune. > Bones, though... well, they make a rattling sound; how hard can that be? uhh ... well, here's the late Clif Ervin playing with my buddy Chris: - it's harder than it looks. My main problem is stopping the moving bone from flying across the room. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:24:03 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Musical saw festival lep wrote: > > well, you know what lisp programmers always say: if it can't be played > on the kalimba, it's not worth playing. wouldn't that be "it'th not worth playing"? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:23:16 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: Musical saw festival Stewart says: > lep wrote: >> >> well, you know what lisp programmers always say: if it can't be played >> on the kalimba, it's not worth playing. > > wouldn't that be "it'th not worth playing"? well played, sir. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:27:33 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Musical saw festival On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > Rex wrote: > > > > > Bones, though... well, they make a rattling sound; how hard can that be? > > uhh ... well, here's the late Clif Ervin playing with my buddy Chris: > - it's harder than it > looks. My main problem is stopping the moving bone from flying across > the room. Thankfully, I can't quite twist these words into a joke. Weirdly enough, over on Facebook an ad showed up in the right margin for...musical bones. Fegdominance! - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:44:39 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Musical saw festival On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:27 AM, 2fs wrote: >> My main problem is stopping the moving bone from flying across >> the room. >Thankfully, I can't quite twist these words into a joke. It wouldn't take so much effort -- in my experience just saying the word "bone" in a room of Jr. High boys is sufficient for a laff. If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:15:45 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: Austin City Limits Festival The line-up was just announced. Robyn & the Venus 3 are hidden way down the list. I was hoping some more good stuff would get added. I felt a bit uneasy buying tickets before there was a list of bands that would be playing. Marc http://2009.aclfestival.com/?utm_source=Publicaster&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=4.28_LineupEmail_Lineup&utm_campaign=2009 Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling. Jack Handey ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:15:08 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Another sign of the End Times Nothing like starting yr day with a big ol' WTF: ** *http://tinyurl.com/dxsvkv* ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:06:41 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: The usual babbling Is it just me or does Agent Dunham on Fringe look like she could be an off-duty Valkyrie? Alternatively she could just be activating the part of my brain that would prefer it if we all lived in a Pre-Raphaelite painting... ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #129 ********************************