From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #134 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, May 5 2009 Volume 17 : Number 134 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Fuck, I Just Realised Something [kevin studyvin ] Re: My Fucking Grok Is Broken [kevin studyvin ] Re: headline fail [kevin studyvin ] Re: robyn news updates [kevin studyvin ] Re: My Fucking Grok Is Broken [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: headline fail [Jeremy Osner ] Re: My Fucking Grok Is Broken [Jeremy Osner ] Re: CD packaging preference of the fegerati [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: My Fucking Grok Is Broken [lep ] Re: Fuck, I Just Realised Something [lep ] Re: Regarding the Jonas Brothers [Rex ] Re: My Fucking Grok Is Broken [Rex ] Re: My Fucking Grok Is Broken [Christopher Gross ] Re: My Fucking Grok Is Broken [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Fuck, I Just Realised Something [kevin studyvin ] Re: CD packaging preference of the fegerati [lep ] Re: My Fucking Grok Is Broken [HSatterfld@aol.com] Re: My Fucking Grok Is Broken [2fs ] a correction [Jill Brand ] calling all Boston area/ New Hampshire Fegs & Radio listeners ["bobsyerun] Re: My Fucking Grok Is Broken [Rex ] Re: Regarding the Jonas Brothers [Tom Clark ] Re: My Fucking Grok Is Broken ["Marc Holden" ] Re: My Fucking Grok Is Broken [2fs ] Re: Fuck, I Just Realised Something [Carrie Galbraith ] REAP [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] My name is "Eb": Calling All Pants-Poopers ["Nectar At Any Cost!" ] Re: RIP - Dom Deluise [Rex ] OH MY FUCKING GOD SOMEBODY FAMOUS JUST DIED I HOPE I CAN BE THE FIRST TO REPORT IT ["Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: Re: Fuck, I Just Realised Something > 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 Same here. The building I worked in till my recent RIFage was built on the remains of the Blue Mouse, one of the coolest theaters in Seattle - the first thing I saw there was Zefferelli's Romeo & Juliet, and the last was Purple Rain. R.I.P. All the big ol' houses in downtown are history now, and only a couple of the neighborhood theaters that were one of the charms of Seattle before they decided to turn it into a theme park are still with us. > > note: little bit of movie trivia - the first assistant director on > Lawrence of Arabia was Nicolas Roeg! > Love the Roeg. Performance rules. Too bad he can't hardly get arrested anymore. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 12:41:08 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: My Fucking Grok Is Broken > 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 > Speaking of The Menagerie, what's up with this new Star Wars flick vis-a-vis Capt. Pike, who if memory serves was big cheese of the Enterprise before Kirk? Have the writers just written out that part of the story? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 12:41:56 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: headline fail On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > 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 > Infomercial, anybody? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 12:43:15 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: robyn news updates > Robyn plays guitar on 3 songs on Graham Coxon's new album The Spinning > Top, released on Transgressive Records on May 11th. > Best label name since Kill Rock Stars! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 21:43:03 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: My Fucking Grok Is Broken - -- lep is rumored to have mumbled on 4. Mai 2009 15:09:28 -0400 regarding Re: My Fucking Grok Is Broken: > 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. It's been discussed a few times, but in as in-depth as Buffy or BSG. I really liked parts of the Gilmore Girls, but there were certainly weak stretches and I always felt awkward about the extreme ambitiousness of Rory. But the music was often pretty good, come on, Yo La Tengo appeared in one episode for chrissakes! How can you not love that? - -- 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 21:46:05 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Regarding the Jonas Brothers I don't have kids, so I've never heard them and don't think I'd seen them until I stumbled over this: It would be funny if it weren't so sad, and the South Park bits are funny in spite of it being sad. - -- 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 12:47:11 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: My Fucking Grok Is Broken > 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. > I enjoy Lauren Graham's weird energy but I don't believe the Gilmore Girls has ever showed up on my personal radar. I'm liking this Fringe thing though. np Cheap Trick In Color! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 15:48:02 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: headline fail Kevin asks, > Infomercial, anybody? Could be a multi-disc set: "How to Win Friends and Influence People through Violent Means". (Did everybody see this news item already? http://rebelreports.com/post/103330614/us-soldiers-in-afghanistan-told-to-hun t-people-for) J If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Josi Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 15:49:38 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: My Fucking Grok Is Broken kevin asks, > what's up with this new Star Wars flick vis-a-vis > Capt. Pike, who if memory serves was big cheese of the Enterprise before > Kirk Is this some kind of Star Wars/ Star Trek xover? 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 12:51:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: CD packaging preference of the fegerati Rex asked: > 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. Jewel cases, simply because you can replace them/their parts when -- not if but when -- they break, espcially the spokes in the spindle that is supposed to hold it in place, which you can't with Digipaks. Plus, there does seem to a move towards those weird spindles in the digipaks that I guess is less vulnerable to breakage but are way too hard to get the CD off of. "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 12:52:36 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: My Fucking Grok Is Broken On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > kevin asks, > > what's up with this new Star Wars flick vis-a-vis > > Capt. Pike, who if memory serves was big cheese of the Enterprise before > > Kirk > > Is this some kind of Star Wars/ Star Trek xover? > J > > Ooops. I think it was more like a manifestation of what they call Old-Timers' Disease. The *intended* reference was, of course to the Trek, not the Wars. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 16:08:46 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: My Fucking Grok Is Broken kevin says: > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > >> kevin asks, >> > what's up with this new Star Wars flick vis-a-vis >> > Capt. Pike, who if memory serves was big cheese of the Enterprise before >> > Kirk >> >> Is this some kind of Star Wars/ Star Trek xover? >> J >> >> Ooops. I think it was more like a manifestation of what they call > Old-Timers' Disease. The *intended* reference was, of course to the Trek, > not the Wars. i thought kevin was just being silly. re: captain pike - i think the problem is: does anyone care about him? i'll confess that "the menagerie" was sort of the height of star trek intrigue when i first watched the series. it was haunting and so mysterious, wondering why spock would take them back to (do i have this right) talos IV? i think i loved that spock was the only witness to the events. i should probably mention that i was eight at the time. but the template still works for me. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 16:17:00 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: Fuck, I Just Realised Something kevin says: >> note: little bit of movie trivia - the first assistant director on >> Lawrence of Arabia was Nicolas Roeg! >> > > Love the Roeg. indeed. > Performance rules. this is kind of horrid, but i've never seen it. although to make up for it, "don't look now" is in my top ten. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 13:17:25 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Regarding the Jonas Brothers On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Sebastian Hagedorn < Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de> wrote: > I don't have kids, so I've never heard them and don't think I'd seen them > until I stumbled over this: > > < > http://classicalgeektheatre.blogspot.com/2009/03/regarding-jonas-brothers.html > > > > It would be funny if it weren't so sad, and the South Park bits are funny > in spite of it being sad. The JoBros and their freakee "purity culture" thing have made me fully paranoid that EVERY LAST TWEEN PHENOMENON to come down the pike represents some flavor of Crypto-Christian evangelism... exactly the kind of thing I want my kids to not get into. I'm probably more paranoid than I need to be, but I am 90% certain that I was correct when I pegged "Twilight" as one of these deals-- nicely chaste vampires? Sounds like the Moral Majority in Goth drag to me. Yuck... Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 13:22:45 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: My Fucking Grok Is Broken On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:08 PM, lep wrote: > > > re: captain pike - i think the problem is: does anyone care about him? As a semi -employee of P********* Studios, I can assure y'all: Pike is in there. Trekkies will have plenty of nits to pick, but that's not one of 'em. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 16:48:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: My Fucking Grok Is Broken On Mon, 4 May 2009, 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*), When ever Family Guy comes up, I have to post my canned response about being the exception to the Family Guy rule: I neither love nor despise the show, but just mildly like it. (I have canned responses to a number of recurrent topics -- "Are there any female Rush fans?" is another example.) Re: Gilmore Girls, I think Eb was the one who really liked it. Not that he would rave at length the way some people (me) do about BSG or Buffy, but he would frequently comment on the music GG featured. Re: CDs, I like jewel cases because they shelve well. I mean, sure, they take up a lot of room, but they stand up straight, you can easily read the spines, and they don't rub themselves bald upon repeated use and re-shelving. They also stack well, when you need to do that. On the other hand, digipacks shelve moderately well while providing a nice comforting illusion of being better for the environment. So really, it's a tossup between them. Taking a break from moving duties, which will soon include boxing up all those jewel cases and digipacks, Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 13:50:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: My Fucking Grok Is Broken Rex wrote: > As a semi -employee of P********* Studios, I can assure Pussymount? "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell - --- On Mon, 5/4/09, ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 14:03:23 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Fuck, I Just Realised Something On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:17 PM, lep wrote: > kevin says: > >> note: little bit of movie trivia - the first assistant director on > >> Lawrence of Arabia was Nicolas Roeg! > >> > > > > Love the Roeg. > > indeed. > > > Performance rules. > > this is kind of horrid, but i've never seen it. although to make up > for it, "don't look now" is in my top ten. > You really oughta netflick it (is that a verb yet?). You got your Mick Jagger playing Brian Jones, your James Fox having a nervous breakdown on camera, more Borges references than you can shake a stick at, and Anita Pallenberg naked...what more can you ask of a motion picture? Also some swell Jack Nitzsche scorage and the not-to-be-missed "Memo From Turner." Although the opening scenes rate a little high on the brutal-violence scale, for the squeamish. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 18:10:16 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: CD packaging preference of the fegerati Jeff says: > Rex asked: >> 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. > > Jewel cases, simply because you can replace them/their parts when -- not if but when -- they break, espcially the spokes in the spindle that is supposed to hold it in place, which you can't with Digipaks. Plus, there does seem to a move towards those weird spindles in the digipaks that I guess is less vulnerable to breakage but are way too hard to get the CD off of. i'm going with jewel cases for the same reasons that jeff and chris gave. i don't mind the digipak much (although those took more abuse when they used to go back and forth to work.) the packaging i really don't like is when the cd goes into some part of the cd sleeve like a little version of the LP. with those, the cd either comes out too easily (i.e. and onto the floor) or not easily enough. i tend to just put those sorts in a tyvek sleeve; the only problem is then re-locating them. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 19:22:18 EDT From: HSatterfld@aol.com Subject: Re: My Fucking Grok Is Broken <> I didn't really enjoy the Battlestar miniseries much, although I loved the actual series right away. Unlike the series, it didn't really seem to be about anything, other than collecting plot points. What happens in the first ten minutes though was the best part. The camera viewing a CGI digital explosion is actually hit by space debris. That was the cleverest thing that happened in the whole 4 hours. (Not a camera that was present in the story either, IIRC, the camera "filming" the show.) **************2009 3 Free CREDIT SCORES: See Your 3 Credit Scores from All 3 Bureaus FREE! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1221797372x1201397989/aol?redir=https:%2F%2Fwww.freescore.com%2FOffers%2FStart%2FFreeCreditRepor tAndScore.aspx%3FID%3D91831F371F138345B53A153F49D4D872%26siteid%3De927580bf7 ) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 19:35:15 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: My Fucking Grok Is Broken On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > Rex wrote: > > As a semi -employee of P********* Studios, I can assure > > Pussymount? Which name, you know, is derived from a nickname for "catamount" of course. Anyway: I like(d) Gilmore Girls, although I will acknowledge it had its weak moments, and its characters were definitely those that, while often more or less charming onscreen, would probably drive any actual human bats in real life. I'm sure we'll netflix that one in a year or so to rewatch it. I too am baffled by Eddie's tastes - sometimes he zeroes right in on teh someness of awe, other times I am...puzzled. But that's all a part of life's rich pageant. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 20:15:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: a correction E. Tews 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*)." I believe that Eb and I are the only two Gilmore Girls fan, and I wasn't a fan when he was discussing it so vividly. Now I'm completely hooked and am surprised when people don't know about Kirk or Miss Patty or Paul Anka (the dog, not the singer). Jill ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 21:17:08 -0400 From: "bobsyerunc@earthlink.net" Subject: calling all Boston area/ New Hampshire Fegs & Radio listeners Hi all, Does anyone listen to 92.5 The River FM in Boston (and NH)?, WXRV? www.theriverboston.com. (The River is a commercial "AAA" Adult Album Alternative station and plays Robyn) If so...by a show of hands...would you drive to the radio station to see Robyn play live during the day? On a school day? ...Perhaps the day he's in town to open for The Decemberists? Thanks in advance for your feedback! bobsyerunc@earthlink.net ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 20:09:17 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: My Fucking Grok Is Broken On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 5:35 PM, 2fs wrote: > > I too am baffled by Eddie's tastes - sometimes he zeroes right in on teh > someness of awe, other times I am...puzzled. But that's all a part of > life's > rich pageant. > And it's refreshingly less predictable than most of the crap in said pageant, so vive la... it. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 21:03:00 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Regarding the Jonas Brothers On May 4, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Rex wrote: > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Sebastian Hagedorn < > Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de> wrote: > >> I don't have kids, so I've never heard them and don't think I'd >> seen them >> until I stumbled over this: >> < >> http://classicalgeektheatre.blogspot.com/2009/03/regarding-jonas-brothers.html >> >> It would be funny if it weren't so sad, and the South Park bits are >> funny >> in spite of it being sad. > The JoBros and their freakee "purity culture" thing have made me fully > paranoid that EVERY LAST TWEEN PHENOMENON to come down the pike > represents > some flavor of Crypto-Christian evangelism... exactly the kind of > thing I > want my kids to not get into. > > I'm probably more paranoid than I need to be, but I am 90% certain > that I > was correct when I pegged "Twilight" as one of these deals-- nicely > chaste > vampires? Sounds like the Moral Majority in Goth drag to me. > > Yuck... Agreed. And unlike Miley Cyrus or Miranda Cosgrove, the Jonas boys aren't really that talented. Did you see them on SNL? The only thing worse than their music was their acting. Luckily Joelle has a serious hatred for them (wish I could say the same about Zach & Cody...) - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 00:38:07 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: Re: My Fucking Grok Is Broken Rex suggested: >We fegs are not so monolithic as we may seem! >(Except for Marc Holden, who does sometimes >take the form of a rectangular obsidian obelisk.) To be honest, it is a glandular condition brought on by stress. Right now the levels are a bit higher than usual, so seeing a police car in the rearview or catching part of a Journey song on the radio while switching CDs is enough to get some petromorphic* activity going. Fortunately, I'm going on a major vacation next week, so things should calm down once the plane takes off and regular life gets put on hold for a fortnight plus several more days. The stop in Amsterdam should be interesting because I'm traveling with my mom. Bet it won't be anything like the last time I was there 15 years ago. Unless I unexpectedly turn physically rock-like, I'm not really planning on getting stoned. We'll see how things go, Marc "I am a rock, I am an island" Holden *if this is not a real word, it should be. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 10:19:24 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: My Fucking Grok Is Broken On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Marc Holden wrote: > rock-like, I'm not really planning on getting stoned. We'll see how things > go, Marc "I am a rock, I am an island" Holden > > People often misquote this Simon & Garfunkel line. In fact, Simon's lyric speaks as a Middle Eastern nation which, peculiarly, feels a strong affinity for the ways and people of a midwestern US state. The actual lyric is this: "I am Iraq, I am an Iowan." (Stop throwing things!) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 08:57:25 -0700 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: Fuck, I Just Realised Something On May 4, 2009, at 1:17 PM, lep wrote: > kevin says: >>> note: little bit of movie trivia - the first assistant director on >>> Lawrence of Arabia was Nicolas Roeg! >>> >> >> Love the Roeg. > > indeed. > >> Performance rules. > > this is kind of horrid, but i've never seen it. although to make up > for it, "don't look now" is in my top ten. > Performance is, well, a *must see.* But then so are Walkabout and The Man Who Fell to Earth... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 11:58:35 -0400 From: m swedene Subject: RIP - Dom Deluise http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2009/05/breaking-news-dom-deluise-dies-75 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 11:58:36 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: REAP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dom_DeLuise 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: Tue, 05 May 2009 09:05:07 -0700 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: My name is "Eb": Calling All Pants-Poopers by the way, both rieflin and bloch are interviewed for the book. (though neither novoselic nor grohl elected to participate. chad channing's comments have been interesting, however.) it is accomplished. . yeah, good point. well, *everything*, frankly. the score, the acting, the dialogue, the camera movements, the anachronisms, the plot contrivances, the third-grade special-effects (to be fair here, they probably didn't have much of a budget). i really hate the "clash of civilisations" premise, notwithstanding the awkward attempts to introduce moral dilemmas as (i presume) a comment upon the bush administration's "excesses" (scare-quoting here because calling them "excesses" pre-supposes that the "war on terror" itself is righteous/necessary). now, it may well be that the series is actual *critical* of the premise, but that its producers wanted to start it out looking like they accepted it. if so, then, good on them. what i hate most, though, is the characters. not a one of them the least bit likeable. in fact, the only one i can think of that isn't outright contemptible is apolloa -- and he's a goddamned crybaby from the word "go". oh, wait; there is one thing i hate more that the characters: the word "frak". but your mileage (as they say) may vary. no, don't be. like i say: it's *my* grok that's broken, not yours. no, it's *not* the case with movies, only teevee. looking at the fegs' fave flicks, , the only ones i really hate are *Blade Runner*, *Spinal Tap*, *Being There*, and *Shawshank* -- and i really love most of them. it's eb's favourite show ever. i'd thought that there were a bunch of other fegs that like it a lot, too. but maybe it was just the overwhelming force of eb's personality that made it seem that way? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 09:05:29 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Regarding the Jonas Brothers On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > On May 4, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Rex wrote: > Agreed. And unlike Miley Cyrus or Miranda Cosgrove, the Jonas boys aren't > really that talented. Did you see them on SNL? The only thing worse than > their music was their acting. Before they became ubiquitous, my wife identified them as "those guys that sound constipated". And I really don't get the one of them who doesn't even bother to pretend to play an instrument. That just looks off. What, did they hand him a guitar and for some reason he couldn't do anything but grasp the headstock with both hands and repeatedly slam it into his own forehead, so they gave up? And yeah, iCarly is far and away the most watchable of those shows (leaving aside the animated ones, which are generally pretty entertaining if not exactly gripping). > Luckily Joelle has a serious hatred for them (wish I could say the same > about Zach & Cody...) They're fading fast, though. Have you *seen* the new "cruise ship" iteration? It should be called "The Suite Life of Zach and Fuck It Why Even Pretend We're Trying Any More." - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 09:14:40 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: RIP - Dom Deluise On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 8:58 AM, m swedene wrote: > > http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2009/05/breaking-news-dom-deluise-dies-75 > Wow. I met Dom Delouise once. I was only in his presence for about ten minutes, but that was long enough to hear him say "And then you grab a dildo and beat the cat to death with it", among other things. He was wearing a chef's hat and sweating profusely. Make of that what you will. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 09:21:42 -0700 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: OH MY FUCKING GOD SOMEBODY FAMOUS JUST DIED I HOPE I CAN BE THE FIRST TO REPORT IT ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 12:23:40 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: OH MY FUCKING GOD SOMEBODY FAMOUS JUST DIED I HOPE I CAN BE THE FIRST TO REPORT IT Nah, a couple of people beat you to it already. If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 12:10:36 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: NEW on DiME: RH & The Rock Armada November 6, 1999 The Magic Bag Ferndale, MI http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=248077 Robyn Hitchcock & The Rock Armada Saturday, November 6, 1999 The Magic Bag Ferndale, Michigan, USA Lineage: Core-Sound Stealth Cardiods --> WMD3 --> XLII --> CT-W606DR --> Analog Line-Out --> LS-10 --> USB --> CDWave --> FLAC Frontend Setlist: 01. Mexican God 02. [A Slicing Song] 03. The Devil's Coachman 04. [A Great Curry] 05. The Arms Of Love 06. [The Queen's Favourite Movie] 07. My Wife And My Dead Wife 08. [Captain Keegan] 09. I Feel Beautiful 10. [Mr. Jake Kyle] 11. All Right, Yeah 12. [Welcome Mr. Kimberley Rew...And Mr. Lindsay Jamison] 13. The Cheese Alarm 14. Jewels For Sophia 15. [Avec Les...] 16. Sinister, But She Was Happy 17. [Thanks] 18. Madonna Of The Wasps 19. The Queen Of Eyes 20. Antwoman 21. Sleeping With Your Devil Mask 22. Oceanside 23. [Intermission] 24. Airscape 25. [Welcome Back, Kim] 26. Reynardine 27. Kingdom Of Love 28. [Come On Down] 29. America 30. Birds In Perspex 31. Beautiful Queen 32. [Intermission] 33. Adoration Of The City 34. [Adoration Of Detroit] 35. Elizabeth Jade 36. [Outro] Running Time: 100:49 Notes: - -- Discontinuities after tracks 21, 23, and 31 owing to tape-flip, intermission-pause, and intermission-pause respectively. No music is missing. 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) ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #134 ********************************