From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #145 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, May 15 2009 Volume 17 : Number 145 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Do you believe in coincidences? [lep ] Re: Pepe [Tom Clark ] Re: Do you believe in coincidences? [2fs ] Re: Do you believe in coincidences? [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: Do you believe in coincidences? ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Pepe [Sebastian Hagedorn ] The Marriage of Geraint [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Pepe ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: The Marriage of Geraint [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Pepe [lep ] Re: The Marriage of Geraint [lep ] Re: Pepe [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Pepe [lep ] My name is "Eb": Call a nurse, call a doctor, call a priest ["Nectar At A] Re: The Marriage of Geraint [Tom Clark ] My Filmspotting episode [Tom Clark ] Re: The Marriage of Geraint [2fs ] Re: The Marriage of Geraint [lep ] Re: My Filmspotting episode [lep ] I'm not trying to save the world... [Jill Brand ] Re: I've fallen [djini@voicenet.com] Re: Pepe [Steve Schiavo ] Re: Speaking of movies [Steve Schiavo ] Re: My Filmspotting episode [Tom Clark ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V17 #143 [djini@voicenet.com] Re: Dukes vids [Rex ] Re: Do you believe in coincidences? [Rex ] Re: My name is "Eb": Call a nurse, call a doctor, call a priest [Rex ] Re: I've fallen [Rex ] Re: Pepe [Rex ] Re: Do you believe in coincidences? [Tom Clark ] Re: Dukes vids [lep ] Re: Do you believe in coincidences? [lep ] Re: Do you believe in coincidences? [Sebastian Hagedorn ] congratulations (to me!) [lep ] Two Questions and a Proposition ["Nectar At Any Cost!" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 15:51:17 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: Do you believe in coincidences? Sebastian says: > 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) that's very cool. BTW, i think they're doing a theatre production of "grey gardens" (i forget whether i saw it listed for philadelphia or NYC) and also there was some HBO remake with drew barrymore. so i guess it's now even the hetero-world rage. as far as coincidence, i'm kind of two minds. i'm always surprised and amused by things like what just happened to you. but i go back and forth with it - sometimes i think it's just that when one is more aware of something, it tends to come up more often (this is the thing i used to refer to on feglist (and apparently still do) as something like "the thing that's not exactly synchronicity.") btw, while trying to remember the word "synchronicity", i came across this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture (i only post the link because i'm too narrow-minded to imagine why anyone wouldn't want to look at it.) > Well, fuck me with a power drill! that made me burst out laughing. i think it was the expected twist - don't you usually fail to say things like that? as ever, lauren - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 12:00:05 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Pepe On May 14, 2009, at 7:43 AM, Eleanore Adams wrote: > Cat names: > > I have 2 cats - Olive and Noir. But thier nicknames are Countess von > Loaf (or Loafenstein) and Vomitor. Heh, I like Vomitor. Ours have the official names of Denis and Brenda, but they are often referred to as Dipshit, Fucktard, Get out of my way, and Puky McUpchuck. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 16:03:34 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Do you believe in coincidences? On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:51 PM, lep wrote: > > > btw, while trying to remember the word "synchronicity", i came across this: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture > (i only post the link because i'm too narrow-minded to imagine why > anyone wouldn't want to look at it.) > I did, of course. Also: no thanks for reminding me of Sting. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 23:14:04 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Do you believe in coincidences? - -- lep is rumored to have mumbled on 14. Mai 2009 15:51:17 -0400 regarding Re: Do you believe in coincidences?: > as far as coincidence, i'm kind of two minds. i'm always surprised > and amused by things like what just happened to you. but i go back > and forth with it - sometimes i think it's just that when one is more > aware of something, it tends to come up more often Sure. That's happened to me lots of times, but this felt different, at least initially. Now that the rush is over, I can rationalize along with the best of them ;-) > (this is the thing > i used to refer to on feglist (and apparently still do) as something > like "the thing that's not exactly synchronicity.") > > btw, while trying to remember the word "synchronicity", i came across > this: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat_in_popular_culture > (i only post the link because i'm too narrow-minded to imagine why anyone > wouldn't want to look at it.) That's also very cool! >> Well, fuck me with a power drill! > > that made me burst out laughing. i think it was the expected twist - > don't you usually fail to say things like that? I'm more profanity-prone in actual speech than when I write, but even then it tends to take people by surprise. Anyway, I read that phrase as the title of a German porn movie once (and no, I really did not watch it) and it stuck in my mind. I must confess that I googled the phrase before I sent off the mail and to my surprise there were exactly one hit each for both German and English. I guess there will be a few more now ;-) - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 14:22:14 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Pepe On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > On May 14, 2009, at 7:43 AM, Eleanore Adams wrote: > > Cat names: >> >> I have 2 cats - Olive and Noir. But thier nicknames are Countess von Loaf >> (or Loafenstein) and Vomitor. >> > > > Heh, I like Vomitor. > > Ours have the official names of Denis and Brenda, but they are often > referred to as Dipshit, Fucktard, Get out of my way, and Puky McUpchuck. > While presently catless, I have lived with a few in my time. The first names that come to mind are Bob and Raoul, but in practice they've mostly been referred to as "Dummy" and "Hey, you." On the whole I suspect your average cat of being smarter than your average human, but then I tend to feel that way about trees too. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 17:36:39 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Do you believe in coincidences? Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > > I guess there will be a few more now ;-) At least it wasn't a power saw ... Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 18:02:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: Pepe - -----Original Message----- >From: kevin studyvin >Sent: May 14, 2009 5:22 PM >To: Tom Clark >Cc: Singing Policemen >Subject: Re: Pepe > >On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > >> On May 14, 2009, at 7:43 AM, Eleanore Adams wrote: >> >> Cat names: >>> >>> I have 2 cats - Olive and Noir. But thier nicknames are Countess von Loaf >>> (or Loafenstein) and Vomitor. >>> >> >> >> Heh, I like Vomitor. >> >> Ours have the official names of Denis and Brenda, but they are often >> referred to as Dipshit, Fucktard, Get out of my way, and Puky McUpchuck. >> > >While presently catless, I have lived with a few in my time. The first >names that come to mind are Bob and Raoul, but in practice they've mostly >been referred to as "Dummy" and "Hey, you." > >On the whole I suspect your average cat of being smarter than your average >human, but then I tend to feel that way about trees too. I like Vomitor as well! My first cat - at age 4 - was named Smokey Bluebells Cotton Galbraith, simply because I couldn't decide on which name. My second, age 6, I named Princess Shaharazod but called her Sherry for the next 18 years. Then there was Pierpz, or Pepe, or sometimes Pepewong. I'm thinking of going to the Oakland shelter to get a cat (or 2) this summer and I'm hoping for a brother/sister team just so I can name them Simon and River Tam. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 00:11:37 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Pepe - -- Carrie Galbraith is rumored to have mumbled on 14. Mai 2009 18:02:35 -0400 regarding Re: Pepe: > I'm thinking of going to the Oakland shelter to get a cat (or 2) this > summer and I'm hoping for a brother/sister team just so I can name them > Simon and River Tam. Wow, that's so cool! I never had any pets myself, but one of my girlfriends had three cats, one of which I loved especially. He was called Thomas, which was short for Thomas Edward, after T. E. Lawrence. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 18:15:18 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: The Marriage of Geraint Any ideas what lines from Tennyson's "The Marriage of Geraint" are doing in the "I'm Falling" video? J 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 18:17:48 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Pepe can I just add that - while I adore cats, and they seem to reciprocate - I am hopelessly wheezily break-out-in-hives can't-breathe oozily-itching allergic to them. So if I had one, it would be called Allergen. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 18:35:02 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: The Marriage of Geraint Also: any lip-readers in the crowd, who can tell me what Robyn is saying at the end of the video? On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > Any ideas what lines from Tennyson's "The Marriage of Geraint" are doing in > the "I'm Falling" video? > J > > 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 18:38:46 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: Pepe DOGS RULE. as ever, lauren - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 18:50:17 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: The Marriage of Geraint Jeremy says: > Also: any lip-readers in the crowd, who can tell me what Robyn is saying at > the end of the video? oh, god, this reminds me that i am the *worst* lip-reader (anyone who tries to lip-speak to me ends up having to talk. repeatedly. and loudly, even.) it's like there's some disconnect in my brain. i think it's the same disconnect that made me left-handed. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 18:51:42 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Pepe On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 6:38 PM, lep wrote: > DOGS RULE. also, drool. 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 19:00:48 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: Pepe Jeremy says: > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 6:38 PM, lep wrote: >> DOGS RULE. > > also, drool. cats vomit. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 16:46:30 -0700 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: My name is "Eb": Call a nurse, call a doctor, call a priest <> i actually looked into that once upon a time -- just on the grounds that it'd be good exercise, and lighten my environmental footprint (as it's called). turned out it would've taken an way much pedaling just to even watch the teevee; let alone keep any other appliances running. coincidentally enough, greer's "report" this week touches on this (): >> Very few people realize just how extravagant the intake of resources to maintain the information economy actually is. The energy cost to run a home computer is modest enough that its easy to forget, for example, that the two big server farms that keep Yahoos family of web services online use more electricity between them than all the televisions on Earth put together. << assuming he's correct, that's pretty scary-assed crazy. Mini-Reviewz for all of yous: - -- at the quail's urging, finally took in *Munich*. i like it quite a lot - -- although spielberg's DVD intro to the film is pretty lame. whatever; i'll let the movie speak for itself. had not realised that tony kushner shared screenwriting duties, or i'd surely have watched this one before now. Green Day, *21st Century Breakdown*. ~ after one listen, i'm saying i like it better than *American Idiot*, but not as much as the foxboro hot-tubs record. fuckin' "East Jesus Nowhere" is some kind of amazing. actually, the playing, arrangements, and production seem fantastic throughout. but somehow it doesn't *quite* add up as well as saying so might suggest. a few tracks sound as though they've been listening to calexico (or what). Jeremy Enigk, *OK Bear* ~ people are all saying it's his best solo disc since *Frog Queen*. it might be. but it's still a very far cry from *Frog Queen*. Wilco, *Wilco (The Album)* ~ well, it's neither more nor less boring than any other wilco record. certainly it *is* boring. presumably the songs will sound as motherfucking awesome in the live setting as do all the other boring records' songs. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 16:03:27 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: The Marriage of Geraint On May 14, 2009, at 3:35 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > Also: any lip-readers in the crowd, who can tell me what Robyn is > saying at > the end of the video? Looked to me like he was saying hello to someone. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 18:28:52 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: My Filmspotting episode The boys have a good time with my suggested film, "Colossus: The Forbin Project". http://www.filmspotting.net/2009/05/fs-256-after-hours-colossus-forbin.html - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 20:52:05 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: The Marriage of Geraint On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > On May 14, 2009, at 3:35 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > > Also: any lip-readers in the crowd, who can tell me what Robyn is saying >> at >> the end of the video? >> > > Looked to me like he was saying hello to someone. I can barely make out a few syllables...something very close to "duck poo, bomb park." No idea what that might mean. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 22:13:26 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: The Marriage of Geraint 2fs says: > I can barely make out a few syllables...something very close to "duck poo, > bomb park." > > No idea what that might mean. BTW, they've been discussing the video on VegetableFriends yahoo group as of late. i haven't been keeping up with the postings in detail, but perhaps you can find some clues in there. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 22:15:48 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: My Filmspotting episode tc says: > The boys have a good time with my suggested film, "Colossus: The Forbin > Project". > http://www.filmspotting.net/2009/05/fs-256-after-hours-colossus-forbin.html very cool. plus i just got my copy my netflix a day or two (on your feglist recommendation) so i can watch along with the podcast. as ever, lauren - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 22:17:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: I'm not trying to save the world... I'm just looking for a new England. ***************************************************************** Mr. Tews wrote: . 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". ***************************************************************** Welcome to New England, folks, land of homosexual couples. This Sunday, our town's 6th annual ice cream social celebrating the advent of gay marriage in the U.S. will be held on the lawn of the Unitarian church (co-sponsored by Temple Beth El). I'll be there as always. Now, 5 years after the first party, it looks like puny little Rhode Island will be the last of our states to go the way of the sodomites, unless they hold out forever. We have forced Mitt Romney out of his home and away to California, where the good folk voted in Prop 8. And people ask me why I love it here. Ha! Jill ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 18:24:03 -0400 (EDT) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Re: I've fallen Michael Sweeney wrote: > ...Also, here's the very nice vid for the song: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91CkPS8yIjM > Thanks for posting this - I rarely watch videos, possibly because having not had MTV as a kid, I never got in the habit. I I do know I am missing out sometimes. I love the "we are seen" part. I've said before, here I think, that Goodnight Oslo is my favorite RH album in a long time, in part because he just sounds so happy. I'm Falling is a great crank-it-up in the car song, and I love the title track - I have a long-standing life goal to make it to the Vigeland sculpture garden, and now there's a theme song to that ambition! Any fegs ever been there? Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 21:23:45 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: Pepe On May 14, 2009, at 5:38 PM, lep wrote: > DOGS RULE. A dog is not intelligent. Never trust an animal that's surprised by its own farts. - Frank Skinner - - Steve (2 excellent dogs and 7 rotten cats, currently) __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 21:42:56 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: Speaking of movies On May 12, 2009, at 2:36 AM, lep wrote: > (so how many strange mid 60's b&w english films with robert morse and > john gielgud *are* there?) Not that many, but if you can settle for Cook and Moore, you could make a triple-bill of The Loved One, Bedazzled, and The Bed Sitting Room. - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 20:59:16 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: My Filmspotting episode On May 14, 2009, at 7:15 PM, lep wrote: > tc says: >> The boys have a good time with my suggested film, "Colossus: The >> Forbin >> Project". >> http://www.filmspotting.net/2009/05/fs-256-after-hours-colossus-forbin.html > > very cool. plus i just got my copy my netflix a day or two (on your > feglist recommendation) so i can watch along with the podcast. > Watch the movie first. The review is only about 10 minutes. They do offer to do the commentary for the Criterion Collection version though. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 20:06:06 -0400 (EDT) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V17 #143 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. C'mon over, you can try a glass! It just tastes like aqavit to me, which my friends and I used to drink like water (sorry) when we were all much much younger. The buzz is different - things go flat and crisp and mosaic-like, though only very mildly, and maybe it's my obviously, gloriously misspent youth talking, but an imbiber might not even recognize what's happening unless they had some stronger experiences to hearken back to. skol! Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 21:33:30 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Dukes vids On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:55 AM, 2fs wrote: > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Stewart C. Russell >wrote: > creaming 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. If that's not on the next Fall LP, I'm gon' be pist. - -Rex > > > > > -- > > ...Jeff Norman > > The Architectural Dance Society > http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 21:36:17 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Do you believe in coincidences? On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > > > > I guess there will be a few more now ;-) > > At least it wasn't a power saw ... > Y'know what? You guys all know I love you, and I don't have to click these link to prove it, so don't get all sulky when I don't, okay? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 21:41:12 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: My name is "Eb": Call a nurse, call a doctor, call a priest On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: > > > Wilco, *Wilco (The Album)* > ~ well, it's neither more nor less boring than any other wilco record. > certainly it *is* boring. presumably the songs will sound as motherfucking > awesome in the live setting as do all the other boring records' songs. Oh, no. I was trying to forget the possibility that this might happen. I imagine it'll be rapturously received by the kreetiks... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 21:42:16 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: I'm not trying to save the world... On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Jill Brand wrote: > I'm just looking for a new England. We have forced Mitt Romney out of his > home and away to California, where the good folk voted in Prop 8. > Not all the good folk! Still so embarrassed on that one... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 21:52:23 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: I've fallen On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:24 PM, wrote: > Michael Sweeney wrote: > > > ...Also, here's the very nice vid for the song: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91CkPS8yIjM Wow. That was my first time hearing the studio version of the song, although I've listened to the Cat's Cradle show a LOT lately. Which reminds me... is Rieflin singing in the V3 these days? There sure do seem to be three vocals at a few points, and I don't remember there being any mention of any guest singers... And on the topic of Rieflin, on this song in particular... the placement of the snare hits kills me. It's like a measure of "Tomorrow Never Knows" just pops in every once in a while to make you feel all groovy inside. Nice. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 21:55:28 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Pepe Current cat is Exene (she' a white girl, etc.) Prior to that was Etienne. So there are a couple of themes going on there. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 22:38:30 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Do you believe in coincidences? On May 14, 2009, at 9:36 PM, Rex wrote: > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Stewart C. Russell > wrote: > >> Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: >>> >>> I guess there will be a few more now ;-) >> >> At least it wasn't a power saw ... >> > > > Y'know what? You guys all know I love you, and I don't have to > click these > link to prove it, so don't get all sulky when I don't, okay? I remember this story - you really shouldn't click it. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 03:09:13 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: Dukes vids Rex says: >> 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. > > > If that's not on the next Fall LP, I'm gon' be pist. probability dictates that it will show up on *some* fall album. so if not the next, just wait... as ever, lauren - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 03:20:13 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: Do you believe in coincidences? Sebastian says: > -- lep is rumored to have mumbled on 14. Mai 2009 > 15:51:17 -0400 regarding Re: Do you believe in coincidences?: > >> as far as coincidence, i'm kind of two minds. i'm always surprised >> and amused by things like what just happened to you. but i go back >> and forth with it - sometimes i think it's just that when one is more >> aware of something, it tends to come up more often > > Sure. That's happened to me lots of times, but this felt different, at least > initially. Now that the rush is over, I can rationalize along with the best > of them ;-) re: coincidence, this is one of my favourite articles of the NYT sunday magazine: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/11/magazine/11COINCIDENCE.html?pagewanted=all i'm kind of endlessly fascinated by how unintuitive people tend to be can be when it comes to probability (i'm saying this as a general observation, not any criticism (and it's not like i'm exempt anyway)) (warning that a registration is probably needed to read the article. i considered pasting the text in below, but the article's a long one.) as ever, lauren - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 09:54:19 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Do you believe in coincidences? - --On 15. Mai 2009 03:20:13 -0400 lep wrote: > re: coincidence, this is one of my favourite articles of the NYT > sunday magazine: > http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/11/magazine/11COINCIDENCE.html?pagewanted= > all > > i'm kind of endlessly fascinated by how unintuitive people tend to be > can be when it comes to probability (i'm saying this as a general > observation, not any criticism (and it's not like i'm exempt anyway)) Great reality check, that article. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 05:35:46 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Pepe lep wrote: > >>> DOGS RULE. >> also, drool. > > cats vomit. Catherine's massive and affectionate tomcat Attaboy used to drool. A lot. I mean, everywhere. He usually had a droplet running down a whisker. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 10:12:55 -0400 From: lep Subject: congratulations (to me!) hi feglist, i order tickets for an upcoming old 97s show, and i just received an e-mail that the tickets have been mailed. this is how the e-mail started out: << Congratulations, your Live Nation Ticketing order has shipped. >> that's kind of...really stupid. as ever, lauren - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 08:18:43 -0700 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: Two Questions and a Proposition question #1: why isn't the hashish legal in nevada? was legalisation there ever considered? question #2: in *Rachel Getting Married*, does robyn appear "as himself"? that is to say, is one of the characters friends with robyn hitchcock? OR, is robyn playing a character? if so, this would be weird, 'cause it'd be robyn playing a character who plays two songs by robyn hitchcock. proposition: "Saturday Groovers" is robyn's most-fun song since "De Chirico Street". ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #145 ********************************