From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #133 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, May 4 2009 Volume 17 : Number 133 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: a collection of one-star reviews from Amazon [djini@voicenet.com] Fuck, I Just Realised Something ["Nectar At Any Cost!" ] Re: Fuck, I Just Realised Something [Rex ] REAP [Jeremy Osner ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V17 #122 ["Bri N" ] CD packaging preference of the fegerati [Rex ] Re: Fuck, I Just Realised Something [Carrie Galbraith ] robyn news updates [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: CD packaging preference of the fegerati [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: My Fucking Grok Is Broken [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: My Fucking Grok Is Broken [Rex ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 09:50:31 -0400 (EDT) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Re: a collection of one-star reviews from Amazon Kevin wrote: > > Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 15:56:38 -0700 > From: kevin studyvin > Subject: Re: a collection of one-star reviews from Amazon > > So it goes...if you want some great writing, try Ayn Rand. > The best part about that one is imagining Vonnegut's reaction. Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 03 May 2009 16:26:17 -0700 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: Fuck, I Just Realised Something viz., the restored *Lawrence Of Arabia* opened in theaters twenty years ago this season. don't recall exactly which month; but i think it must've been either march, april, or may. still vividly recall siskel's and ebert's "thumbs up, and they couldn't possibly be raised higher"... you might say, "well, shit-howdy, why don't they roll out a twentieth-anniversary of the restoration into theaters right now?" and the answer'd be: because *there aren't any viable prints remaining*! i guess spielberg and coppola (or what) each owns a pristine copy. seems they *could* strike up some new prints. but the prints that currently tour around are, alas, flawed. anyhow; as you were. recommended: greg prato, *Grunge Is Dead*. it's an oral history of the scene. i'm about a third of the way into it, and it's most entertaining indeed. my favourite anecdote so far: >> TKO got signed in '77 to MCA. We didn't release [an album] until '79  our first tour was with the Kinks. Right after eight weeks of getting booed offstage, we started opening for Cheap Trick  their first U.S. tour off of [1979's] At Budokan. We were doing 20,000 seats a night  we went on to do the Japan Jam. But shortly after, MCA folded Infinity because Ron Alexenburg had cut a deal with the pope for a $6 million non-recoupable advance. It's when [Pope John Paul II] was touring the United States, and the logic was you look at [the pope] filling stadiums, and [the pope] is a singer. So side A of the LP is his speeches, and then you flip it over, and it's Polish folk songs. The thing tanked. Alexenburg got shit-canned. << and damned if the library doesn't own a copy of this! albeit it's almost unlistenable, owing to incredible scratch-osity. still, i had not even been aware that the library still carries LPs. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 23:15:46 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Fuck, I Just Realised Something On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: > > you might say, "well, shit-howdy, why don't they roll out a > twentieth-anniversary of the restoration into theaters right now?" and the > answer'd be: because *there aren't any viable prints remaining*! i guess > spielberg and coppola (or what) each owns a pristine copy. I have personally laid hands on Mr. Spielberg's print. Long movies in 70mm... well, they have just plain four times the mass of the same movies at 35mm. And damn they is heavy. > > -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 11:35:04 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: REAP Marilyn French: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/04/arts/04french.html J If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 09:02:18 -0700 From: "Bri N" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V17 #122 Mr. Wells: >Michael "I've also seen Brian's microphone, but it was out of his pocket" the Michaelster Oh dear! - ---------------- Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:23:27 -0700 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: My name is "Eb", and I am probably the best woodsman in Belize >overall, i'm just flabbergasted by how much i love this album. i would never, ever have guessed this achievement to've been possible. i'm even wondering where it ranks in all time rock albums made by an artist in his 50s? (of course, it may be DQed when one considers the rest of the band are in their 40s.) - ---- Good points Eddie. After reading your review I gave Olso another listen which resulted in 3 more listens in a row. It really is a fine piece of art. I would rank it VERY high 'in all time rock albums made by an artist in their 50s.' Yeah. - -------------------- Subject: CD packaging preference of the fegerati Hey, people who still buy CD's: What kind of packaging do you prefer? Digipaks? Old-school jewel cases? Expensive but flimsy LP sleeve replicas? Or some weird triangular thing a Japanese single might come in? Etc. (Sorry for the repeat question to those of you already commented on Faisbuk.) - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 10:37:53 -0700 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: Fuck, I Just Realised Something On May 3, 2009, at 4:26 PM, Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: > viz., the restored *Lawrence Of Arabia* opened in theaters twenty > years ago > this season. don't recall exactly which month; but i think it > must've been > either march, april, or may. still vividly recall siskel's and > ebert's > "thumbs up, and they couldn't possibly be raised higher"... > > you might say, "well, shit-howdy, why don't they roll out a > twentieth-anniversary of the restoration into theaters right now?" > and the > answer'd be: because *there aren't any viable prints remaining*! i > guess > spielberg and coppola (or what) each owns a pristine copy. > > seems they *could* strike up some new prints. but the prints that > currently tour around are, alas, flawed. anyhow; as you were. I would have to wonder if *perhaps* part of why they can't really have a "20 year anniversary of the restored LofA" could also be because very few theaters remain who can project 70mm film. In the Bay Area we've lost all but 2 that I am aware of, when 20 years ago I had my choice of at least 8 theaters who could properly project Lawrence. I remember going to the NorthPoint to see that new print. That theater is now an architects office I believe. I mean who shoots in 70mm these days anyway? The Coronet, where Star Wars premiered, is gone, razed. The theater where I saw the restored prints of both Pat Garret & Billy the Kid and The Wild Bunch was closed after the earthquake of '89. I hate seeing closed movie theaters. It saddens me. - - c note: little bit of movie trivia - the first assistant director on Lawrence of Arabia was Nicolas Roeg! ************************************** Questions are a burden for others. Answers are a prison for oneself. ************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 11:40:30 -0400 (EDT) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: headline fail "Arson Awareness Week focuses on arson for profit" http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20090504/NEWS/90504022/1007/NEWS02/Arson+Awareness+Week+focuses+on+arson+for+profit It's not just me, right? Doesn't it sound like a motivational seminar? God but the Wilmington News Journal is embarrassing. Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 14:02:54 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: headline fail Jeanne asks, > It's not just me, right? Doesn't it sound like a motivational seminar? God but the > Wilmington News Journal is embarrassing. It is not just you. Now I am wondering if they will broach the topic of Arson for Personal Fulfillment. J ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 13:53:08 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: robyn news updates http://www.robynhitchcock.com/auditori.htm The first transmission date of the I Often Dream Of Trains show (including some actual train footage), filmed by John Edginton will be on the Sundance Channel June 5, 2009. It will be available in September as a DVD and audio CD on YepRoc. Comme Toujours, Here I Stand will be showing in NYC in October. It is an adaptation of a French movie script by Agnes Varda, done by Jonathan Demme's, Paul Lazar and Annie-B, with scenery by Joanne Howard. Theme song and title are by Robyn. Ruby's Chicky Boil-Ups is a fortnightly themed radio show by Ruby Wright on which Robyn makes frequent appearances. It's been running for a year now, check out new and past episodes here: http://rubywright.wordpress.com/ Robyn and the Venus 3 will be playing at the Austin City Limits festival b we don't have the exact date yet (we will soon), but the event runs Oct 2 - - 4. Tickets available here. Robyn plays guitar on 3 songs on Graham Coxon's new album The Spinning Top, released on Transgressive Records on May 11th. my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ **************Remember Mom this Mother's Day! Find a florist near you now. (http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=florist&ncid=emlcntusyelp00000006) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 20:09:27 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: CD packaging preference of the fegerati - -- Rex is rumored to have mumbled on 4. Mai 2009 10:22:07 -0700 regarding CD packaging preference of the fegerati: > What kind of packaging do you prefer? Digipaks? Old-school jewel cases? > Expensive but flimsy LP sleeve replicas? Or some weird triangular thing a > Japanese single might come in? Etc. Digipaks - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 11:55:36 -0700 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: My Fucking Grok Is Broken i've no idead why it is that all y'alls despise the teevee shows i love (*Family Guy*, *Wonder Showzen*), and love the ones i despise (*Buffy*, *Gilmore Girls*). seems like our tastes in the movies align much more closely. at any rate, i honest-to-god thought that it'd be different when i went and picked up season 1 of *Battlestar Galactica* from the library. not only do all y'alls love it, so does *everybody* (o' course, the same is true of *Buffy*...). alas, i was hating it ten minutes into the miniseries. i forced myself to finish the miniseries; finding, to my utter astonishment, that as much as i can't stand *Buffy*, i can't stand *Battlestar* about ten times more than. i'll watch at least a few more episodes, but don't think i'll be able to stomach much more than that. oh, well: them's the breaks, i guess. i will say that i did like one shot: ed olmos with a big wad of spaghetti hanging out of his mouth -- very cool (albeit horribly anachronistic)! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 21:04:42 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: My Fucking Grok Is Broken - -- Nectar At Any Cost! is rumored to have mumbled on 4. Mai 2009 11:55:36 -0700 regarding My Fucking Grok Is Broken: > i've no idead why it is that all y'alls despise the teevee shows i love > (*Family Guy*, *Wonder Showzen*), and love the ones i despise (*Buffy*, > *Gilmore Girls*). seems like our tastes in the movies align much more > closely. > > at any rate, i honest-to-god thought that it'd be different when i went > and picked up season 1 of *Battlestar Galactica* from the library. not > only do all y'alls love it, so does *everybody* (o' course, the same is > true of *Buffy*...). > > alas, i was hating it ten minutes into the miniseries. i forced myself to > finish the miniseries; finding, to my utter astonishment, that as much as > i can't stand *Buffy*, i can't stand *Battlestar* about ten times more > than. i'll watch at least a few more episodes, but don't think i'll be > able to stomach much more than that. FWIW, I'm continually and nearly constantly baffled by your tastes and opinions regarding just about everything, and when we happen to agree on something, it kinda frightens me ;-) That being said, I really liked the beginning of BSG, but hate what it turned out to be. IMO it got worse and worse. So what is it that you can't stand about the miniseries? Now watching: ST TOS Remastered, The Menagerie - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 15:09:28 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: My Fucking Grok Is Broken Nectar At Any Cost! says: > i've no idead why it is that all y'alls despise the teevee shows i love > (*Family Guy*, *Wonder Showzen*), and love the ones i despise (*Buffy*, > *Gilmore Girls*). seems like our tastes in the movies align much more > closely. > > at any rate, i honest-to-god thought that it'd be different when i went and > picked up season 1 of *Battlestar Galactica* from the library. not only do > all y'alls love it, so does *everybody* (o' course, the same is true of > *Buffy*...). > > alas, i was hating it ten minutes into the miniseries. i forced myself to > finish the miniseries; finding, to my utter astonishment, that as much as i > can't stand *Buffy*, i can't stand *Battlestar* about ten times more than. > i'll watch at least a few more episodes, but don't think i'll be able to > stomach much more than that. i'm so sad. although, as a consolation prize, eddie's tastes in television and movies remain The Eternal Mystery. when i tire of contemplating the continuum hypothesis, at least i'll have something to turn to. as ever, lauren p.s. BTW, who likes "gilmore girls"? i'll (try to) blame it on end-of-the-semester frenzy, but i don't recall it being discussed onlist. - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 12:36:29 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: My Fucking Grok Is Broken On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: > i've no idead why it is that all y'alls despise the teevee shows i love > (*Family Guy*, *Wonder Showzen*), and love the ones i despise (*Buffy*, > *Gilmore Girls*). For the record, I do hate "Family Guy", but, though I haven't seen it, am favorably disposed toward "Wonder Showzen". Meanwhile, at the admittedly meager sample rate of two episodes each, I look at "Buffy" as something which is probably good but not my bag, and just plain good-ol'-fashioned near-cellularly-revulse at "GG". We fegs are not so monolithic as we may seem! (Except for Marc Holden, who does sometimes take the form of a rectangular obsidan obelisk.) - -Rex ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #133 ********************************