From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #144 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, May 14 2009 Volume 17 : Number 144 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: yesterday's news [Eleanore Adams ] Re: yesterday's news [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: yesterday's news [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: yesterday's news [Jeremy Osner ] Re: yesterday's news ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Pepe ["Nectar At Any Cost!" ] Re: Dukes vids [Rex ] Re: yesterday's news [2fs ] Re: Dukes vids [2fs ] Re: Pepe [Carrie Galbraith ] Re: Dukes vids ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V17 #143 [lep ] I've fallen... [Michael Sweeney ] Re: I've fallen... [Jeremy Osner ] Bonnaroo - RH + V3 Sat. 6/13 2 pm to 3 pm "This Tent" [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 Bonnaaroo Page [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: Pepe [Eleanore Adams ] Re: Dukes vids [2fs ] Re: Pepe [2fs ] Re: Pepe [2fs ] Re: Dukes vids [michaeljbachman@comcast.net] Do you believe in coincidences? [Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: yesterday's news Yeah - they made it legal a few years ago. I have an absinth story. In 2001 I brought 4 bottles of absinth in to the States from the Czech Rep, presuming it was the good, illegal stuff. (pre-Sept 11 - actually 1 week before 9/11). We had an absinth drinking party - no green fairy - just wasted drunk. The stuff is 70% alcohol by volumn, which I don't know how it translates to proof. I do know that Wild Turkey 101 is 50% alcohol by volumn, so the absinth is over 101 proof. So all those stories that say it is not the wormwood, but alcohol poisoning could be correct based on my home experiments. eleanore On May 13, 2009, at 10:08 AM, lep wrote: > absinthe is legal?! > > i'd ask "since when", but my wicked investigative journalism skills > worked for that part of the equation: > http://events.nytimes.com/2009/05/13/dining/reviews/13wine.html? > 8dpc=&pagewanted=print > > xo > lauren > > -- > "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- > the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 11:05:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: yesterday's news Eleanore Adams wrote: > The stuff is 70% alcohol by volumn, which I don't know how > it translates to proof. I do know that Wild Turkey 101 is > 50% alcohol by volumn, so the absinth is over 101 proof. 140. Proof is essentially percentage of alcohol times two. "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 15:33:18 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: yesterday's news wasn't there a joke a while ago where Don Van Vliet took some absinth and started hallucinating that he was making out with the star of "Barbarella" ? so it proved that absinthe made Beefheart know Fonda ? my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ In a message dated 5/13/2009 1:31:25 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, eleanore@tdl.com writes: Yeah - they made it legal a few years ago. I have an absinth story **************Recession-proof vacation ideas. Find free things to do in the U.S. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-ideas/domestic/national-tourism-week?ncid=emlcntustrav00000002) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 15:41:43 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: yesterday's news On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:33 PM, wrote: >... absinthe made Beefheart know Fonda ? That is one of the funniest puns I've heard in a long time. If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ > my blog is "Yer Blog" > http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ > http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ > > > In a message dated 5/13/2009 1:31:25 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > eleanore@tdl.com writes: > Yeah - they made it legal a few years ago. > > I have an absinth story > > **************Recession-proof vacation ideas. Find free things to do in > the U.S. > ( > http://travel.aol.com/travel-ideas/domestic/national-tourism-week?ncid=emlcntustrav00000002 > ) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 15:47:11 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: yesterday's news HwyCDRrev@aol.com wrote: > > so it proved that absinthe made Beefheart know Fonda ? I always thought it was supposed to make flatulence sound like a popular marque of motorcycle: absinthe makes the fart go Honda. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 12:59:45 -0700 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: Pepe . although i feel i must grit my teeth and say something positive about obama. ...well, not obama *himself*; who, so far as i can tell, doesn't give one-ten-thousandth of one fuck about gay rights. but if the advent of his administration has had anything to do with the wave of gay-marriage legislation now sweeping the states -- indeed, threatening to transform into a tsunami (or so it seems); then, hurrah for its having, y'know, "advented". i mean, the timing could well be coincidental. but the timing at least *suggests* that the tsunami-in-the-making could be some manner of [insert your most favourite new-age hippie-istic phraseology here]. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 18:52:03 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Dukes vids On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:32 PM, 2fs wrote: > > > I don't know what to do with them, though! I should maybe buy an > old-fashioned corkboard and pin up all the various buttons and whatnot I've > acquired over the years...although it would have to live in the basement, > perhaps next to the two-item Mark E. Smith shrine... Okay, you know you're going to have to make with the specifics, so... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 22:21:14 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: yesterday's news On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > HwyCDRrev@aol.com wrote: > > > > so it proved that absinthe made Beefheart know Fonda ? > > I always thought it was supposed to make flatulence sound like a popular > marque of motorcycle: absinthe makes the fart go Honda. I'd heard it was an aphrodisiac: absinthe makes the font grow harder. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 22:33:09 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Dukes vids On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Rex wrote: > > > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:32 PM, 2fs wrote: > >> >> >> I don't know what to do with them, though! I should maybe buy an >> old-fashioned corkboard and pin up all the various buttons and whatnot >> I've >> acquired over the years...although it would have to live in the basement, >> perhaps next to the two-item Mark E. Smith shrine... > > > Okay, you know you're going to have to make with the specifics, so... > This is directly next to this . The latter item is for realz: someone of that name actually ran for what would seem to be an elected office of "Drain Commissioner" in Howell, Michigan probably ten years ago (I wonder if he won?). This sign is quite possibly the most awesomest thing I've ever owned. Someone on Ye Olde Fallnet was talking about it (local thereto) and I begged and pleaded to acquire one. That was back in the days when you had to find some guy in Finland and pay actual money for a copy of _Dragnet_. Good times... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 01:42:07 -0700 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: Pepe On May 13, 2009, at 12:59 PM, Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: > . > I had a cat named Pepe and thought this was some obscure reference to the dearly departed, whom I called Pierpz (pepper in Polish since Pepe is pepper in Italian - hey, why call them by their actual name...). Back to our regularly scheduled programming, - - c well, actually I renamed Pepe "Pierpz Angus Ali Mohammed Morales Wong" but usually just used the diminutive... OK, I'm off to the loony bin now... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 08:01:33 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Dukes vids 2fs wrote: > > The latter item is for realz: someone of that name actually ran for what > would seem to be an elected office of "Drain Commissioner" Very important (and controversial job) in rural areas. Responsible for assessment and upkeep of municipal drainage. Drainage assessments and the resulting "drainage courts" are some of the most contentious local events. I've seen normally snooze-worthy council meetings erupt into screaming matches over drainage assessments. The real MES wouldn't be able to take it. Seriously. He's not that hard. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 08:04:09 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V17 #143 jeanne says: > Lauren gasped: >> >> absinthe is legal?! > > Got a half-empty bottle in my cabinet right now, so I certainly hope so. It was a > present from a shady character though. (was this from before or after the absinthe prohibition?) last night, i recalled some sort of absinthe-posting to the list awhile back - it was from ferris about absinthe-flavoured gummi bears. i recall thinking that it was odd, but figured gummi bears deserve special treatment, even from the ATF (or whoever.) gummi-bear post at: http://www.fegmania.org/archives/fegmaniax/v16.n620 as ever, lauren p.s. i only notice these things because ty has a bit of an absinthe fetish. - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 14:28:45 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: I've fallen... I was later in coming to it than most (because I did not get "Goodnight Oslo" until just recently (budget-wise; not holding out for any other reason), even AFTER the mid-April show I attended here in Chicago)...AND I've mostly just been a Feg lurker as of late (I dunno - no accusations or judgments, but it just doesn't feel as perhaps wide-open, welcoming, and ongoing out here as it used to...)...but I just HAD TO comment that "I'm Falling" has indeed mind-infected me deeply as well, being the catchy hook of melody and harmonies that I find myself running through my brain or singing along with at any semi-random moment of the day. I even played it earlier this week on the (almost entirely political public affairs) radio show that me and another guy from the site I post on, The Stonecipher Report (http://stonecipher.typepad.com/the_stonecipher_report/), do every other week...I was very glad to be able to potentially infect others with it (man, that woulda been a jangle-pop radio hit in, say..., '88 or maybe '92...) ...Also, here's the very nice vid for the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91CkPS8yIjM I have to say that, although "Eye" and "IODOT" may well be my favorite RH albums, the band feel on "GO" (as others have ponted out) brings it nicely in mind of "UM," "Fegmania!" (my RH maiden voyage way back when), and "EOL" (and even "Respect") as a completely successful Robyn-led, cohesive-group offering. (And, in comprison, it makes "OT" sound nearly as random -- but not quite so - -- as some of the less-focused (but still -- quality selections of songs) that the perhaps last decade of his records (even the Rawlings-Welch one) now sorta seems to be... Anyway -- back to heavy writing elsewhere (lots of regular posts on the site mentioned above; my deep catalog -- incl. even a RH piece a few weeks ago -- is sorted at: http://stonecipher.typepad.com/the_stonecipher_report/michael_sweeney/ ...and some quiet reading here...hope all are well... Michael "Oy - just 5 days until I'm an even more decrepit (although I HAVE lost 45 lbs in 6 months) 47 yrs old..." Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail. has ever-growing storage! Dont worry about storage limits. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial _Storage1_052009 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 10:36:22 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: I've fallen... Excellent -- thanks for the link to the video. If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 10:36:56 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Bonnaroo - RH + V3 Sat. 6/13 2 pm to 3 pm "This Tent" http://www.bonnaroo.com/schedule/2009/06/13/stages.aspx my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ **************Recession-proof vacation ideas. Find free things to do in the U.S. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-ideas/domestic/national-tourism-week?ncid=emlcntustrav00000002) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 10:36:48 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 Bonnaaroo Page http://www.bonnaroo.com/artists/robyn-hitchcock.aspx Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 Links www.myspace.com/robynhitchcock bWhat makes this record for me is the musicians I was able to gather,b says Robyn Hitchcock of OlC)! Tarantula, a surreal vision and Technicolor celebration of life b from its inception and the whole catastrophe of it b till its groovy decay and inevitable last breath. bTo me, the whole record is sadness cloaked in fun. But under that sadness, more fun,b says Hitchcock. Such seeming contradictions are what make Hitchcock a credible narrator to his incredible kingdom of song, the one hebs built on a foundation of dreamlike, whimsical, tragic comedy and set to gorgeous and slightly askew melodies for the last 30 years. In Hitchcockbs universe, adventure rocket ships, exploding, twist-off heads and crawling things are the norm, as are supersonic harmonies and an ever-present chiming guitar sound. Through the years, those heavenly refrains, the harmonicas and the hilarity conspired and drew a blueprint for alternative pop as we know it. Is it any wonder he attracts stellar company when he settles in to make a record? Recorded in Seattle in September 2005 and March 2006, Hitchcock is joined throughout OlC)! Tarantula by the Venus 3 b Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey and Bill Rieflin b old friends who he notes are also b3/4ths of the Minus 5 and half of R.E.M.b bWe sound like a smart garage band, to my ears, when we play live. The record is a little more tidy, but they still rock, and rock me along with them. This is the rockingest record Ibve made in years,b he says. The Venus 3 is joined by a cast of recurrent and new characters in the Hitchcock story: Soft Boys/Egyptians bandmate Morris Windsor and Sean Nelson (Harvey Danger) on gleaming background harmonies; Chris Ballew (Presidents of The United States of America) on harmony vocals and keyboards. Soft Boys guitarist Kimberley Rew assists on three tracks and the Facesb Ian McLagan adds his famous keyboard hands to bN.Y. Doll.b bbN.Y. Dollb is one of my favorites,b says Hitchcock of the elegy inspired by the recent documentary on the New York Dollsb bassist. bI never met Arthur Kane but his story is another example of how precious a life becomes when itbs over.b bUnderground Sun,b written for a friend of Hitchcockbs who died last spring, jingle-jangles across the astral plane. bShe was a very upbeat person so I wrote her what I hope is an exciting elegy, not a mournful one.b Fuelled by mysticism, the choogling bThe Museum of Sexb is in Seaford, Sussex, bBut only visible at low tide,b he explains. bItbs an elegy for my life as a human. Again not too mournful I hope.b bThese songs were all written at home in London, though often reference the States. Ibve been commuting for over 20 years but I live here no matter how often I orbit through Los Angeles,b says Hitchcock. Indeed, the West is an auspicious presence throughout OlC)! Tarantula. bBelltown Rambleb is set in Seattle, its character and location drawn from bA 14th Century Uzbekistani warlord with an elegant nameb and a bar in Belltown. San Francisco crops up in the Dirty Harry/Magnum Force-inspired, b Limitations, Briggs,b as well as in the title song b bAbout where babies come fromb b written after an extended stay in Tucson, Arizona. Hitchcock has long made insects and sea creatures his favorite subjects and they have their say throughout OlC)! Tarantula, his self- described b twenty-somethingthb album. bAs a thinking person Ibm completely in despair, but as a creature Ibm quite happy,b he told The Believer in 2005. That would explain quite a lot about the happy/sad world of Hitchcockbs songs... Beginning as a strummer in Cambridge, Englandbs folk clubs, by the coming of the first punk rock era, Hitchcock had developed into a bandleader, heading up folk-pop iconoclasts the Soft Boys, one of alternative rockbs least sung but most influential bands. Yet by the time R.E.M., the Replacements and pre-alt-rockers like them revealed its influence on their own bands, Hitchcock had moved on to what would become his distinguished solo career. Recording and releasing records like his stark debut, Black Snake Diamond Role, the warm, all-acoustic I Often Dream of Trains and the psychedelicized Groovy Decay b sometimes with and sometimes without his band the Egyptians b Hitchcock would unwittingly help shape the pop strain of contemporary alternative rock. In 1998, director and fan Jonathan Demme placed him in a shop window for the concert film Storefront Hitchcock, introducing his engaging live show to wider audiences. As Hitchcock continues to record and tour as a solo and band act, his direction has veered from the folky Moss Elixir and the rocky Jewels for Sophia to the folk-rock tribute to Bob Dylan, Robyn Sings! Each time out, he is consistently and singularly, Robyn Hitchcock. In 2002, the Soft Boys briefly reunited for the long anticipated Nextdoorland and Hitchcock followed with his 2004 Yep Roc release Spooked, a collaboration with alternative country artists Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. Hitchcock called the studio experience bAn extraordinarily good dream.b At the time of its release, The New York Times noted he was an bb´ observer of love, death and the entire evolutionary continuumb&b bYears ago I wrote a song called bMy Mind Wants to Die But My Body Wants to Liveb and that was the only lyric in it,b he told The Believer. bAnd really, that pretty much sums me up.b my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ **************Recession-proof vacation ideas. Find free things to do in the U.S. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-ideas/domestic/national-tourism-week?ncid=emlcntustrav00000002) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 07:43:18 -0700 From: Eleanore Adams Subject: Re: Pepe Cat names: I have 2 cats - Olive and Noir. But thier nicknames are Countess von Loaf (or Loafenstein) and Vomitor. ea On May 14, 2009, at 1:42 AM, Carrie Galbraith wrote: > On May 13, 2009, at 12:59 PM, Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: > >> . >> > > I had a cat named Pepe and thought this was some obscure reference > to the dearly departed, whom I called Pierpz (pepper in Polish > since Pepe is pepper in Italian - hey, why call them by their > actual name...). > > Back to our regularly scheduled programming, > - c > well, actually I renamed Pepe "Pierpz Angus Ali Mohammed Morales > Wong" but usually just used the diminutive... OK, I'm off to the > loony bin now... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 10:55:00 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Dukes vids On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > 2fs wrote: > > > > The latter item is for realz: someone of that name actually ran for what > > would seem to be an elected office of "Drain Commissioner" > > Very important (and controversial job) in rural areas. Responsible for > assessment and upkeep of municipal drainage. Drainage assessments and > the resulting "drainage courts" are some of the most contentious local > events. I've seen normally snooze-worthy council meetings erupt into > screaming matches over drainage assessments. > > The real MES wouldn't be able to take it. Seriously. He's not that hard. He'd probably spend a significant portion of the meeting off drinking in another room, show up halfway through, fiddle with the lighting, then mutter incoherently through a megaphone, go back for more drinks, then go home and write a song ranting about the drains and the rat-brained idiocy of the committee of drains committee. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 10:59:16 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Pepe On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:42 AM, Carrie Galbraith wrote: > On May 13, 2009, at 12:59 PM, Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: > > . >> >> > I had a cat named Pepe and thought this was some obscure reference to the > dearly departed, whom I called Pierpz (pepper in Polish since Pepe is pepper > in Italian - hey, why call them by their actual name...). Cats only rarely reveal their actual names to their humans - it tends to be their nature to generate cognomina... Our cats generally end up being referred to by variations on their actual names, or unrelated nicknames. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 11:01:07 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Pepe On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Eleanore Adams wrote: > Cat names: > > I have 2 cats - Olive and Noir. But thier nicknames are Countess von Loaf > (or Loafenstein) and Vomitor. > Ours are Lumen and Oranj (which is short for Kurious Oranj, of course). Lumen actually gets called Lumen most the time - but Oranj (accent on second syllable) is most often "the O-cat," "Mr. O," etc. Collectively they are "the fluffybutts" (because they are). - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 16:08:26 +0000 (UTC) From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Subject: Re: Dukes vids Howell, MI had a bad reputation for KKK activity. I't about a 1/2 hour north off of I-75 from my exit. Michael B. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stewart C. Russell" To: "Pigworkers Local 47" Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 8:01:33 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: Dukes vids 2fs wrote: > > The latter item is for realz: someone of that name actually ran for what > would seem to be an elected office of "Drain Commissioner" Very important (and controversial job) in rural areas. Responsible for assessment and upkeep of municipal drainage. Drainage assessments and the resulting "drainage courts" are some of the most contentious local events. I've seen normally snooze-worthy council meetings erupt into screaming matches over drainage assessments. The real MES wouldn't be able to take it. Seriously. He's not that hard. B Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 20:59:59 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Do you believe in coincidences? Remember how I got all wistful about my perceived lack of friends with interest in good movies? And the discussions about "The Pervert's Guide to the Cinema" and (a while ago) "Grey Gardens"? Just a moment ago, an aquaintance of mine (we've known each other for more than 10 years, but aren't really friends, at least partially because we were interested in the same woman for a while b he with more success than I, natch b, but that's not the point) suggested to me that we make a movie night either with a dark program (his preference), which would be The Pervert's Guide plus a Lynch movie, or a "more mild" version, which would mean Grey Gardens plus sth. else TBD. (Update: current leader for that position is the Helvetica film) Well, fuck me with a power drill! I guess I needed that ... Now watching: The Perfume on Blu-ray - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 KC6ln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #144 ********************************