From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #146 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, May 16 2009 Volume 17 : Number 146 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: congratulations (to me!) [lep ] Re: congratulations (to me!) [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: Two Questions and a Proposition [Jeremy Osner ] RE: I've fallen [Michael Sweeney ] Re: Two Questions and a Proposition [Eleanore Adams ] Re: Two Questions and a Proposition [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Two Questions and a Proposition [2fs ] Re: Two Questions and a Proposition [2fs ] Re: Two Questions and a Proposition [vivien lyon ] Re: Two Questions and a Proposition [Jeremy Osner ] about that NYT article on probability [2fs ] Re: Two Questions and a Proposition [2fs ] Re: Two Questions and a Proposition [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Two Questions and a Proposition [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Two Questions and a Proposition [kevin studyvin ] Re: Two Questions and a Proposition [djini@voicenet.com] Re: Two Questions and a Proposition [2fs ] Surprise: Fox leaning toward 'Dollhouse' renewal [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Movies: The Perfume [Sebastian Hagedorn ] movie talk [lep ] Re: Movies: The Perfume [kevin studyvin ] Re: how is it we haven't been discussing this? [kevin studyvin ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V17 #145 [2fs ] Re: I've fallen [Rex ] Re: I've fallen [kevin studyvin ] OMG (100% dollhouse) [lep ] Re: I've fallen [Rex ] Re: OMG (100% dollhouse) [kevin studyvin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 11:31:31 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: congratulations (to me!) says: > not as stupid as getting an > email from them asking for > my thoughts on the RH & V3 > concert i bought a ticket to > (the one at the Paradise . . > you know ...the one that was canceled) congratulations. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 11:27:15 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: congratulations (to me!) not as stupid as getting an email from them asking for my thoughts on the RH & V3 concert i bought a ticket to (the one at the Paradise . . you know ...the one that was canceled) my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ In a message dated 5/15/2009 10:18:59 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, softboygirl@gmail.com writes: this is how the e-mail started out: << Congratulations, your Live Nation Ticketing order has shipped. >> that's kind of...really stupid. **************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: Fri, 15 May 2009 11:49:51 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Two Questions and a Proposition Mr. Nectar: > 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. Not necessarily: in the fictional world of the movie, the songs could be written by the character. No? If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 15:51:19 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: RE: I've fallen According to the "GO" credits, the harmonies on "I'm Fallng" are Bill, Scott, Sean Nelson, and Morris. And I'm absolutely with you on that semi-random off-snare -- a very nice touch. That song is just about friggin' perfect... Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 21:52:23 -0700 Subject: Re: I've fallen From: spottedeagleray@gmail.com To: djini@voicenet.com CC: fegmaniax@smoe.org; m_l_sweeney@hotmail.com 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 _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail. has a new way to see what's up with your friends. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/WhatsNew?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutoria l_WhatsNew1_052009 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 09:37:52 -0700 From: Eleanore Adams Subject: Re: Two Questions and a Proposition When I saw Rachael getting Married, it appeared to me that Robyn was playing himself, and playing his music. ea On May 15, 2009, at 8:18 AM, Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: > 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". ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 12:57:33 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Two Questions and a Proposition FWIW, the imdb listing of the credits has Robyn appearing as "Wedding Guest" rather than as "Self". J On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Eleanore Adams wrote: > When I saw Rachael getting Married, it appeared to me that Robyn was > playing himself, and playing his music. > > ea > > > On May 15, 2009, at 8:18 AM, Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: > > 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". ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 12:05:35 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Two Questions and a Proposition On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > Mr. Nectar: > > 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. > > Not necessarily: in the fictional world of the movie, the songs could be > written by the character. No? > Actually, he's playing a character called "Robyn Hitchcock" who's written the songs his character plays in the movie. In the "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead" version, "Hitchcock" keeps getting glimpses of having written more songs than those...or rather, that somehow there's someone else, in some sort of alternate universe, called "Robyn Hitchcock" who's written loads more songs than the songs this movie's "Hitchcock" has written. Or am I overthinking this...? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 12:13:33 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Two Questions and a Proposition On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: > > 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. > To answer this for real, I'll note that that IMDB lists Hitchcock's role as "Wedding Guest." I would say that means he's playing a character. Does the movie ever hint that the songs we hear are, in the world of the film, not original to the singer (i.e., *our* Robyn Hitchcock's?) Or are they presented as if they're original songs by the "Wedding Guest" Robyn Hitchcock plays? These things are clearer, of course, when characters are given names: if Robyn's character had been called "Reg Claythorpe" and introduced two songs that he (Reg) had written (which were, in fact, Robyn's songs), obviously the idea is that in the movie, this "Reg Claythorpe" wrote those songs (not "Robyn Hitchcock" - who may or may not exist in the world of the movie). That sort of thing is plausible when the singer's relatively obscure like Robyn...but I wonder how popular someone has to be before their absence from an otherwise real-world setting (say: politicians hold the actual offices they hold, sports teams named are actual sports teams, etc.) into an alternate-world one? I mean, a movie in which everything else beyond the main characters is "real" but Bob Dylan plays a guy named "Seth Pierce" - and in which, somehow, the idea is conveyed that no one's ever heard of anyone named "Bob Dylan" - starts seeming more like a science-fictional alternate universe...because how could it be this world if no one's ever heard of "Bob Dylan"? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 10:14:11 -0700 From: vivien lyon Subject: Re: Two Questions and a Proposition On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > FWIW, the imdb listing of the credits has Robyn appearing as "Wedding > Guest" > rather than as "Self". He could have been playing himself as a wedding guest at a fictional wedding. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 13:20:22 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Two Questions and a Proposition Jeff notes: >I mean, a movie in which everything else beyond the >main characters is "real" but Bob Dylan plays a guy named "Seth Pierce" - >and in which, somehow, the idea is conveyed that no one's ever heard of >anyone named "Bob Dylan" Wasn't Carrie or somebody just talking recently about "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid"? If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 12:28:16 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: about that NYT article on probability This - "Statisticians like Efron emphasize that when something striking happens, it only incidentally happens to us. When the numbers are large enough, and the distracting details are removed, the chance of anything is fairly high. Imagine a meadow, he says, and then imagine placing your finger on a blade of grass. The chance of choosing exactly that blade of grass would be one in a million or even higher, but because it is a certainty that you will choose a blade of grass, the odds of one particular one being chosen are no more or less than the one to either side." - - is exactly why it flabbergasts me that some people will cite the narrow range of conditions under which life could exist in our universe as some sort of proof of God - I mean, how does that make any sense? If the conditions were different, yeah, we wouldn't be here to argue about the existence of God...but if a universe exists, it has to have *some* conditions, and this universe's were such that life was able to exist. *Any* particular condition of a universe has gazillions of variables, and is every bit as likely or unlikely to have existed. It just so happens that this one actually exists, so here we are to argue about the meaning of its improbability. In most of those other universes, no one's around to argue about it...but *those* universes' existence are each exactly as improbable in the exact configuration of each one's variables. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 12:32:19 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Two Questions and a Proposition On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:14 PM, vivien lyon wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > > > FWIW, the imdb listing of the credits has Robyn appearing as "Wedding > > Guest" > > rather than as "Self". > > > He could have been playing himself as a wedding guest at a fictional > wedding. > But why would Robyn attend a fictional wedding? (That's a joke designed to dead-end your mind... Anyway: IMDB typically lists actors who play themselves as playing "Himself" or "Herself" (see the entry for "Al Gore" on _30 Rock_ or _Futurama_ for an example), so the fact that Robyn's listed as playing a role "Wedding Guest" suggests he's *not* playing himself but a character who's a musician & songwriter...) And hey - guess which artist iTunes shuffle just brought up? None other than...Robyn Hitchcock! What are the odds? (Pretty good...considering how much Hitchcock is in my iTunes library...) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 13:58:31 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Two Questions and a Proposition Jeff asks: >What are the odds? (Pretty good...considering how >much Hitchcock is in my iTunes library...) This. I have a respectable-size iTunes library (though it pales in comparison to many of yours I expect) but I believe more than 5 percent of the titles, and likely closer to 10 percent, are by Robyn. It's unusual for me to be listening to the shuffle and go for say, a half hour without some of his auditory stylings. J If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 14:01:54 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Two Questions and a Proposition I hazarded: > more than 5 percent of the titles, and likely closer to 10 percent (In large part because I have a lot of his live shows on my iTunes library, with the bits in between songs chopped into separate tracks -- so the shuffle may play Robyn introducing "Filthy Bird" in between Blind Boy Fuller and Sol Ho'opi'i.) J If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 11:13:05 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Two Questions and a Proposition On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > I hazarded: > > more than 5 percent of the titles, and likely closer to 10 percent > > (In large part because I have a lot of his live shows on my iTunes library, > with the bits in between songs chopped into separate tracks -- so the > shuffle may play Robyn introducing "Filthy Bird" in between Blind Boy > Fuller > and Sol Ho'opi'i.) Sol Hoopii is the man! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 15:14:20 -0400 (EDT) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Re: Two Questions and a Proposition Eddie posed and proposed: > > 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. He is listed as "wedding guest." I think that because the groom is a musician, he is assumed to have all these cool musician friends. I kept thinking - where are all these musicians staying? Who is feeding them? What is the giant british guy doing there? > proposition: "Saturday Groovers" is robyn's most-fun song since "De Chirico > Street". Seconded. "Your Head Here" is pretty damn fun too though, and I wish I could pull off "ring my chimes, I'm a ding dong daddy" in conversation with a straight face. Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 14:26:53 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Two Questions and a Proposition On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:14 PM, wrote: > Eddie posed and proposed: > > > > > 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. > > He is listed as "wedding guest." I think that because the groom is a > musician, he is > assumed to have all these cool musician friends. I kept thinking - where > are all these > musicians staying? Who is feeding them? What is the giant british guy doing > there? Do you ask this of all wedding guests? ("Where are they staying?") Because my guess is, the answer's pretty much the same: hotels etc. Or I'm missing something in your question... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 21:54:35 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Surprise: Fox leaning toward 'Dollhouse' renewal Just rumor-mongering, but better than nothing: Salient quote: "Whatbs to talk about? Well, money, of course. Fox wants bDollhouseb cheaper. All the networks want every show cheaper this year, if they can haggle it." - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 KC6ln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 16:04:41 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: how is it we haven't been discussing this? Info (including track listing): < http://www.spin.com/articles/sneak-peek-danger-mouse-sparklehorse-david-lynchs-dark-night > And: As to the apparent non-release of the CD portion thereof for "legal reasons"...*after* a stream of the whole thing is available at a major, legit site (NPR): I think the coroner will have no choice but to rule EMI's imminent demise a suicide. Just how fucking stupid can a record label be? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 23:51:08 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Movies: The Perfume The first movie I got from lovefilm.de is The Perfume. As I mentioned before, I hated the S"uskind novel. Now that I've seen the movie twice (once with commentary by Tom Tykwer) plus the Making-Of, I have to say that I like the movie better than the book, but I still don't like the story. The film itself is quite masterful, just as I have come to expect from Tom Tykwer, but IMO he did not manage to fully transform the story from the misanthropic and cynical crap that is the novel into something worthwhile. He certainly added a humanistic touch, and there are quite a number of elements of the movie that I'm glad I've seen, but I don't see myself going back to it as I would to other Tykwer films. Positive: - - Alan Rickman - - Dustin Hoffman - - great soundtrack - - I liked the orgy scene, and its making-of was fascinating - - the Tykwer touch Negative: - - the story itself ... - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 18:11:35 -0400 From: lep Subject: movie talk Jeremy says: > This thread of conversation is reminding me to ask whether you people (And > especially You Softboy Girl!) have seen The Pervert's Guide to Cinema by > Slavoj Zizek. A lot of fun, it is. okay, i've just started watching this and it's so ridiculously brilliant that i can barely pay attention to it because i keep thinking to myself "this is so ridiculously brilliant." and then going to the computer to tell feglist how it's so ridiculously brilliant. at any rate, i've only watched 15 minutes of it, but it is a barrel or more of fun. i'm indebted to jeremy to bringing it to my life. xo lauren - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 15:12:28 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Movies: The Perfume On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Sebastian Hagedorn < Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de> wrote: > The first movie I got from lovefilm.de is The Perfume. As I mentioned > before, I hated the S"uskind novel. Now that I've seen the movie twice (once > with commentary by Tom Tykwer) plus the Making-Of, I have to say that I like > the movie better than the book, but I still don't like the story. The film > itself is quite masterful, just as I have come to expect from Tom Tykwer, > but IMO he did not manage to fully transform the story from the misanthropic > and cynical crap that is the novel into something worthwhile. He certainly > added a humanistic touch, and there are quite a number of elements of the > movie that I'm glad I've seen, but I don't see myself going back to it as I > would to other Tykwer films. > > Positive: > - Alan Rickman > - Dustin Hoffman > - great soundtrack > - I liked the orgy scene, and its making-of was fascinating > - the Tykwer touch > > Negative: > - the story itself ... > Me, I devoured the novel when it first appeared over here, whenever back in the 80s that was. The sheer perversity of it was overwhelming - tons o' fun if you enjoy that sort of thing. And I loved the movie, if for no other reason than Alan Rickman (I love that man's voice, but then I seem to have a weakness for Welsh voices {they really do excel}). I have a used rental DVD I came across somewhere for a couple bucks that has some nasty scratches. Some day I have to obtain an intact copy. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 15:18:25 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: how is it we haven't been discussing this? On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:04 PM, 2fs wrote: > > Info (including track listing): < > > http://www.spin.com/articles/sneak-peek-danger-mouse-sparklehorse-david-lynchs-dark-night > > > And: > > As to the apparent non-release of the CD portion thereof for "legal > reasons"...*after* a stream of the whole thing is available at a major, > legit site (NPR): I think the coroner will have no choice but to rule EMI's > imminent demise a suicide. > > Just how fucking stupid can a record label be? > I'm going to assume that's a rhetorical question... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 18:22:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: Surprise: Fox leaning toward 'Dollhouse' renewal On Fri, 15 May 2009, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > Just rumor-mongering, but better than nothing: > > Thanks! This will cheer me up for the rest of the day, even though it may also make the eventual disappointment that much more painful.... - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 10:58:41 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V17 #145 > >> DOGS RULE. > > > > also, drool. > >cats vomit. Reminds me of a story I never got round to writing about a family with two pets called Slobodan and Claude. One was a very old, drooling dog, the other was a nervous and violent cat. So the cat was Slobodan and the dog was Claude. FWIW, my cats over the years have been Shane (nickname "The beast"); Jennifer Jane McSquiggle Angstrom O'Pusscat (Jenny or JJ), and Nut and Bolt. Bolt's nickname was "Bobo" or "Bete noire". Nut is "Nutty Boy", "Panda cat" or "The land orca" - he currently spends much of his timereducing the local rodent population or fighting with the neighbour's cat Arvix. Alice's current cats are Grizabel ("Grizzle" or "Baby"), Missy Hoover ("Hoovy", "The girl"), and Mr. Fang ("Inspector/Monsieur Le Fang", "Stumpy", or "Sir"). previous cats of hers have included Jim and Peppercorn, and her yard seems to be visited by most of the neightbourhood's cat's - all of whom have picked up nicknames, from "Evil" to "VFB" (very fierce beast - a tiny playful bundle of fluff), to Dabney and Gwent, to Jackson and Leroy. James - -- James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 18:09:46 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V17 #145 On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:58 PM, James Dignan wrote: > > > FWIW, my cats over the years have been Shane (nickname "The beast"); > Jennifer Jane McSquiggle Angstrom O'Pusscat (Jenny or JJ), and Nut and Bolt. > I always wanted to name two cats Being and Nothingness...just so I could nickname them "Beany" and "Nut" for short... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 19:59:12 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: I've fallen On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Michael Sweeney wrote: > According to the "GO" credits, the harmonies on "I'm Fallng" are Bill, > Scott, Sean Nelson, and Morris. > Very interesting. I don't think Rieflin has as yet done had a vocal mic on the REM tours... hell, he played guitar and bass at one time or another when I saw them last year, but nary a harmony. Of course they have Mills and then Scott as Bill Berry/Stipe overdub replicator... > > > And I'm absolutely with you on that semi-random off-snare -- a very nice > touch. That song is just about friggin' perfect... > It. Really. Is. I think Robyn & the V3 may well be able to lay claim to the title of Best Pure Jangle-Rock Band Ever. I could explicate if called upon to do so, but I hope my meaning comes across clearly; if there are any other contenders besides the obvious Byrds, lob 'em my way and I'll shoot 'em down. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 20:42:00 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: I've fallen On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Rex wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Michael Sweeney >wrote: > > > According to the "GO" credits, the harmonies on "I'm Fallng" are Bill, > > Scott, Sean Nelson, and Morris. > > > > Very interesting. I don't think Rieflin has as yet done had a vocal mic on > the REM tours... hell, he played guitar and bass at one time or another > when > I saw them last year, but nary a harmony. Of course they have Mills and > then Scott as Bill Berry/Stipe overdub replicator... > "The Berry/Stipe overdub replicator" is the kind of random string of syllables that brings joy to my heart; so reminiscent of classic Gernsbackian sci-fi it just jumps off the page, er, screen. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 00:17:52 -0400 From: lep Subject: OMG (100% dollhouse) i just noticed the dollhouse page which sebastian posted had updated itself. "UPDATED: In a stunning move, sources say Fox has renewed Joss Whedons Dollhouse for next fall." http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/05/dollhouse-second-season.html is this a joke? am i thrilled? please tell me! xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 22:03:51 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: I've fallen On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 8:42 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Rex wrote: > >> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Michael Sweeney > >wrote: >> >> > According to the "GO" credits, the harmonies on "I'm Fallng" are Bill, >> > Scott, Sean Nelson, and Morris. >> > >> >> Very interesting. I don't think Rieflin has as yet done had a vocal mic >> on >> the REM tours... hell, he played guitar and bass at one time or another >> when >> I saw them last year, but nary a harmony. Of course they have Mills and >> then Scott as Bill Berry/Stipe overdub replicator... >> > > "The Berry/Stipe overdub replicator" is the kind of random string of > syllables that brings joy to my heart; so reminiscent of classic > Gernsbackian sci-fi it just jumps off the page, er, screen. > And yet it as preceded by the phrase "has as yet done had a vocal mic", which is as full of fail as... something really failful. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 23:38:20 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: OMG (100% dollhouse) On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 9:17 PM, lep wrote: > i just noticed the dollhouse page which sebastian posted had updated > itself. > > "UPDATED: In a stunning move, sources say Fox has renewed Joss > Whedon s Dollhouse for next fall." > > http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/05/dollhouse-second-season.html > > is this a joke? am i thrilled? please tell me! > To the extent it's not just a cruel joke I'd bet you, like me, are thrilled. And surprised. And skeptical. I'm happy about the Fringe renewal, too. I love Walter - we seem to have a lot in common. And Agent Dunham is the coolest HSA agent ever, not to mention looking far too much like an old girlfriend of mine... And we just learned that Mastodon will be on the Letterman show tonite - what fun! ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #146 ********************************