From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #181 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, June 27 2009 Volume 17 : Number 181 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Yes! [Tom Clark ] Re: Yes! [kevin studyvin ] 1-800-FEG-HELP (bird and book people division) [lep ] Re: Near REAP [kevin studyvin ] Re: Saxon... Jackson... coincidence? [kevin studyvin ] reap [lep ] Re: reap ["Stewart C. Russell" ] in a series of "huh?"... [2fs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:46:36 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Yes! On Jun 26, 2009, at 12:14 PM, Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: > . mmmmm....Chloe...... - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:48:11 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Yes! On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Marc wrote: > Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: > >> . >> >> > I'm a big Stillman fan, but this one is my least favorite for some reason. > I'd probably rank Barcelona first and Metropolitan second, then Last Days. > > On the plus side, IMDB says he has a new film in pre-production based on > Christopher Buckley's "Little Green Men." > > Marc > Been talk for so long about this or that upcoming Stillman project...I love the existing films but he's starting to remind me of Joseph Heller in those long years after Catch-22. I'm with you on those rankings though. Barcelona rules. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:09:27 -0400 From: lep Subject: 1-800-FEG-HELP (bird and book people division) Hi List, Since you guys know all kinds of strange things, I figure it won't hurt to ask. (1) If I can't find a "screech-owl nesting box" at the local bird/nature store tomorrow, any recommendations on where to find one online? (N.B. *not* helpful: a link to a book entitled "Build Your Own Screech-Owl Nesting Box in Ten Days or Less". This is a belated Father's Day gift and, sadly, I just haven't been in that "build a nesting box" kind of mood.) (2) Also appreciated: any recommendations on recent or lesser-known post-modern or 20th-century fiction (Dad likes Pynchon, old Cormac McCarthy(sp?), Faulkner, Peter(?) Achroyd(sp?), biographies of post-modern or 20th century fiction writers, French or German history books (*especially* any new Hilter, Germany between between the wars, or books about the Nazis) would be appreciated. Recently published books preferred as goes to book stores a lot, and has the "one-click" enabled on Amazon. Of particular interest would be any book of appropriate subject matter *not* prominently featured in The NY Review of Books, or NYT Book Review. Is anyone watching that BSG-producer-related thing on FOX to-night? I watched the first half-hour -- it looked fairly standard-issue but interesting enough. I'm headed out for some Friday evening antics (which, sadly, require me to bring *not even one* math book), but plan to grab an AVI when I get home. as ever, Lauren - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:57:42 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: 1-800-FEG-HELP (bird and book people division) On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 6:09 PM, lep wrote: > Hi List, > > Since you guys know all kinds of strange things, I figure it won't hurt to > ask. > > (2) Also appreciated: any recommendations on recent or lesser-known > post-modern or 20th-century fiction (Dad likes Pynchon, old Cormac > McCarthy(sp?), Faulkner, Peter(?) Achroyd(sp?), biographies of > post-modern or 20th century fiction writers, French or German history > books (*especially* any new Hilter, Germany between between the wars, > or books about the Nazis) would be appreciated. I'm always ready to point people in the general direction of Donald Barthelme, the Puck of po-mo fiction who never wrote a dull sentence. Angela Carter's Nights At the Circus might be a good choice. The Red Shoes by Karen Elizabeth Gordon. Paul di Filippo's Little Doors. Any of Kelly Link's couple books of short fiction. Or take a chance on Celine's Journey To the End Of the Night. Or the mostly forgotten and utterly mad Thorne Smith (Night Life Of the Gods, Turnabout). Just a thought. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:34:34 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: Re: Near REAP Tom and the other Marc pointed out: >> Michael Jackson suffered cardiac arrest, >TMZ says he died. >- -tc Man, how will I ever be able to figure out what beers to drink without him hunting them down for me? Oh, wait. I've been doing that for a couple of years now. Never mind. Marc fwiw--McCartney and the other Beatles/heirs might finally get a chance to own their back catalogue... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:29:19 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Near REAP On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Marc Holden wrote: > Tom and the other Marc pointed out: > >> Michael Jackson suffered cardiac arrest, >>> >> > TMZ says he died. >> > > - -tc >> > > Man, how will I ever be able to figure out what beers to drink without him > hunting them down for me? > Oh, wait. I've been doing that for a couple of years now. Never mind. Marc > > fwiw--McCartney and the other Beatles/heirs might finally get a chance to > own their back catalogue... > About time too. I ought to know better but I am plain amazed at how this story has taken over the news. Olberman got nothing else to talk about two nites in a row? On the other hand, while in search of non-Jackson news (hey, remember Farrah? Where's her endless mindless tributeage?) I did catch most of I Often Dream Of Trains on the Sundance, which was a nice surprise. That Hitchcock guy's not bad. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:36:50 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Saxon... Jackson... coincidence? On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Rex wrote: > Well, yeah. > > There sure is going to be a lot of vapid cultural commentary going on for > the next few weeks. > > So I'm curling up with this: > > > http://pessimistclub.blogspot.com/2009/06/video-fall-brownies-nyc-7-april-1998.html > > Cheers! > Rex Also, if you follow the linx from this blog the way I did, you will come upon a sweet little stash of Lovecraft mp3s: http://audiobookcorner.blogspot.com/search/label/horror so that's pretty fun. Happy Friday all / KS. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:17:33 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Near REAP On Jun 26, 2009, at 7:29 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > I did catch > most of I Often Dream Of Trains on the Sundance, which was a nice > surprise. > That Hitchcock guy's not bad. I don't get Sundance so I was hoping to grab it off a torrent, but no dice. Anyfeg wanna help a brutha out? - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:40:36 -0400 From: lep Subject: reap it's been a bad week, i know. but *this* one hurts: kodachrome, 74: http://tinyurl.com/exqys - -or- http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/technology/companies/23kodak.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&ref=technology&adxnnlx=1246097330-vYaslXcep8LtVetrePp1Cg wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodachrome as ever, lauren p.s. yes, i'm hypocrite (alert the fucking presses**): my nikon F2 (along with with the F, mamiya 645, and canon AE-1) has been gathering dust for 5 years. and anyway, as far as slide film goes, i preferred fuji velvia (E-6 process) by far. whatever. hypocrites feel pain, too, you know...maybe even more than regular people, who operate under the warm comfort of some semblance of rational thought. ** are there any left? - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:45:10 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: reap lep wrote: > > kodachrome, 74: Not really missed; it's a bear to scan, even on fairly high-end equipment. I was worried when Ilford nearly bought the farm a couple of years back. Stewart (whose RB67 is sulking under the table while the D90 gets lots of days out) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:40:57 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: in a series of "huh?"... I picked up the CD companion to the book _The Rose & the Briar_ - and I noticed, looking in the track credits, that for many songs, the recording and release date is listed as "prior to 1972" rather than a specific year (even if, from evidence of recording date and the like, clearly there's a specific year known and available). I'm wondering why this curious phrasing...is there some legal hoo-hah involved here? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #181 ********************************