From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #149 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, May 19 2009 Volume 17 : Number 149 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: We're dealing with a menace (NR) [michaeljbachman@comcast.net] Re: Do you believe in coincidences? [djini@voicenet.com] Ferndale! ["Nectar At Any Cost!" ] My name is "Eb"...AKA "The Kolostomy Kid" ["Nectar At Any Cost!" ] Re: Blinking on and off [2fs ] Re: Pepe [Rex ] Re: My name is "Eb"...AKA "The Kolostomy Kid" [Rex ] Re: article about stephin merritt in vanity fair [kevin studyvin To: "Steve Schiavo" Cc: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 8:35:28 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: We're dealing with a menace (NR) AWESOME!!!! TOO THE MAXXXX ea On May 16, 2009, at 4:09 PM, Steve Schiavo wrote: > > > > - Steve > __________ > There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's B > life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish B > fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its B > unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially B > crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, B > of course, involves orcs. - Kung Fu Monkey ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 15:05:05 -0400 (EDT) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Re: Do you believe in coincidences? Lauren wrote: > > 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.") Thanks for not calling it "manifesting." Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 11:11:14 -0700 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: Ferndale! for nuppy, and any others who were waiting for me to get my ass in the gear and get the '99 ferndale show uploaded to the archive: . FLACs just finished uploading now, so if you're looking for other formats, it'll take a little bit for them to be derived. thanks for your patience! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 15:41:40 -0700 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: My name is "Eb"...AKA "The Kolostomy Kid" hadn't thought of looking in the IMDB -- the film's credits just only list the musicians' names. now, having listened to the commentary, it looks like they're all playing themselves. they didn't list them "as themselves", according to the producer, because there're so many of them. so i guess that the IMDB is incorrect on this count. it happens that the young male guitarist in robyn's band is demme's son. oh, anybody know why they used the venus 3's "Up To Our Necks" in the soundtrack? something to do with the lawyers, probably? by the way, didja notice robyn out grooving it up on the dance floor (the song immediately following "Up To Our Necks")? well, with all the horns and strings on the record, could they really be considered "pure" jangle-rock? either way, if you supply a list of all notable "pure jangle-rock" artists, we can probably discuss. whoa -- very similar experience here! but, i only started having dreams with the family dog in them about five years ago (she died in '92, i think it was). more frequently than once a month, though. weird thing is that the family cat doesn't turn up nearly so often, though i was much closer to him than i was to the dog. very highly recommended: *Planet Of Beer*, by brian sendelbach (). i imagine this dude partakes of very similar drugs to that of *The Sarah Silverman Program*'s creators. maybe this'll help you decide if it'd be your thang: in one of the strips, president carter offs henry kissinger with a flame-thrower, because the latter won't stop streaking on the white-house lawn. tried "number of albums released by robyn hitchcock", for starters. but: >> Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input. << KEN "Help!! The Moon is on fire!!" THE KENSTER ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 12:44:44 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: Blinking on and off > 2fs says: > > 2) People who look at computers too long tend not to blink often enough, > > resulting in dry eyes, etc. But here's a guess (does anyone know if > there's > > any substance to it?): if the monitor were to "blink" in very rapid > > intervals on occasion (blipping off for a millisecond or something), I'm > > thinking people would blink in response, even if they had no idea why, > and > > if the time of the monitor blink were short enough, it wouldn't be > > consciously perceived. Blinking doesn't work like that. All you'd do is induce a few epileptic seizures. 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: Mon, 18 May 2009 20:49:05 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Blinking on and off On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 7:44 PM, James Dignan wrote: > 2fs says: >> > 2) People who look at computers too long tend not to blink often >> enough, >> > resulting in dry eyes, etc. But here's a guess (does anyone know if >> there's >> > any substance to it?): if the monitor were to "blink" in very rapid >> > intervals on occasion (blipping off for a millisecond or something), >> I'm >> > thinking people would blink in response, even if they had no idea why, >> and >> > if the time of the monitor blink were short enough, it wouldn't be >> > consciously perceived. >> > > Blinking doesn't work like that. All you'd do is induce a few epileptic > seizures. Okay, so blinking is just closing your eyes and then opening them again quickly, right? So we'll program the computer to display, periodically, a close-up image of Carrot-Top (which will cause users to close their eyes in terror) followed immediately by a cheery announcement "it's gone now - everything's okay!" Ta-da: induced "blinking." Plus will probably induce some psycho to toss Carrot-Top off a bridge - so everybody wins. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 20:42:16 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Pepe On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > Rex rote: > > Why? And furthermore how does that follow? > > 'cos listening to The Fall makes me angry and depressed. YMMV. > I guess it does! I get the happies (most of the time). - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 21:22:24 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: My name is "Eb"...AKA "The Kolostomy Kid" On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: > > well, with all the horns and strings on the record, could they really be > considered "pure" jangle-rock? either way, if you supply a list of all > notable "pure jangle-rock" artists, we can probably discuss. I was talking "live". But the idea of "pure" jangle rock is kind of intentionally stupid, or so I would have said until I decided that RH&V3 were the best at it. Then it became cool. And I would be amused to see faux-badass graffiti promoting stridently non-badass genres, just as an exercise in absurdity: "JANGLES NOT DEAD", "TWEE UP THE ASS!", "CHAMBER POP OR DIE"... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 21:50:44 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: My name is "Eb"...AKA "The Kolostomy Kid" > And I would be amused to see faux-badass graffiti promoting stridently > non-badass genres, just as an exercise in absurdity: "JANGLES NOT DEAD", > "TWEE UP THE ASS!", "CHAMBER POP OR DIE"... > Or the ever-popular STIPE/MILLS OVERDUB REPLICATOR. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 22:21:48 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: My name is "Eb"...AKA "The Kolostomy Kid" On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 9:50 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > And I would be amused to see faux-badass graffiti promoting stridently >> non-badass genres, just as an exercise in absurdity: "JANGLES NOT DEAD", >> "TWEE UP THE ASS!", "CHAMBER POP OR DIE"... >> > > Or the ever-popular STIPE/MILLS OVERDUB REPLICATOR. > It's actually a BERRY/STIPE OVERDUB REPLICATOR, and its name is Scott! But yes, excellent graffiti. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 08:06:31 -0400 From: lep Subject: article about stephin merritt in vanity fair he's cranking them out as usual: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/culture/2009/05/13/stephin-merritts-new-musical-coraline.html?printable=true¤tPage=all - -or- http://tinyurl.com/p2htm9 as ever, lauren - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 09:58:22 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: article about stephin merritt in vanity fair On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 5:06 AM, lep wrote: > he's cranking them out as usual: > > > http://www.vanityfair.com/online/culture/2009/05/13/stephin-merritts-new-musical-coraline.html?printable=true¤tPage=all > -or- > http://tinyurl.com/p2htm9 > > as ever, > lauren > Sounds like fun! There's something depressing about the need to explain the prepared piano fifty years and more since John Cage started messing with them. I mean, it's such a novel idea that The Grateful Dead were using prepared piano in the farging sixities, fa gosh sake. Otherwise, my heart goes out to those of you with jobs and lives and stuff who didn't see Craig Ferguson's puppet theater lip-synching "Oops I Did It Again" last night. One of the most brilliant spectacles *ever*. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #149 ********************************