From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #215 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, August 9 2009 Volume 17 : Number 215 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: fegmaniax-digest V17 #212 [lep ] Re: REAP: John Hughes [lep ] reap ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Robyn in the PacNo [michael wells ] Re: REAP [Michael Sweeney ] Movies: Leaving Las Vegas [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: Movies: Leaving Las Vegas [lep ] i'm just saying... [lep ] Re: i'm just saying... [FSThomas ] Re: Movies: Leaving Las Vegas [Carrie Galbraith ] Re: i'm just saying... [lep ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 00:56:09 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V17 #212 kevin says: > > On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 5:11 AM, lep wrote: >> >> kevin says: >> > I've discovered that you can do that with our local PBS station - you >> > can >> > get the normal signal on the radio, then the repeat carried by our local >> > cable company, and then the live stream from their site. They're all >> > out of >> > synch by a second or two. Creates just enough cognitive dissonance to >> > give >> > me the giggles, but it drives my wife nuts. >> >> now this is Art. >> >> xo >> >> p.s. i'm being serious. > > > Ya think I could get a grant to pursue my research in this exciting new > field of cultural production? probably not for the Art, but maybe there's grant money available in researching news ways to annoy spouses and loved ones. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 01:01:08 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: REAP: John Hughes kevin saus" > reminds me forcefully of an old > girlfriend. this is twisted and lovely sentiment. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 06:28:48 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: reap Mike Seeger, who could play more instruments better than anyone had any right to. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 10:33:09 -0500 From: michael wells Subject: Re: Robyn in the PacNo On Aug 7, 2009, at 12:38 AM, vivien lyon wrote: > May I suggest a sushi dinner at Saburo's and some after-dinner entertainment and beverages at The Woods? I'm making inquiries about getting Robyn here for a late-night secret show, hopefully that'll pan out. On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > Our plane tix are for Portland only (10/8-10/11) so we're unable to > make > the Seattle gig. Perhaps dinner on Friday the 9th? > > -tc Likewise, I think I'm in for Portland only...though it would be fun to go to Seattle, meet Eddie and then ignore him as payback for The Metro, Chicago c. 2000. We have long memories in this house. Sushi and tunes sound splendiferous! It also gives me a great excuse not to plod down to Ashland for the final night of "Henry VIII." Yeah! Michael "I'm sorry, but when you're team loses four Super Bowls in a row you shouldn't go into the Hall of Fame" the Michaelster ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 18:11:06 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: REAP Sebastian wrote: >Willy De Ville, 55 or 58 ...Yeah, very sad (and unexpected) news that I covered thusly in my newsletter yesterday when I heard: "...I was also struck by the news (learned just minutes ago (as I write this)) that New York musician Willy DeVille -- the always-smooth-and-dapper leader of the post-punk-and-rock-and-creole-and-blues-and-soul band Mink DeVille (as well as longtime solo artist) -- has died from pancreatic cancer at 55. I had not heard much of / from him recently (for example, I did not know that he had been nominated for an Academy Award in the '80s, for the song "Storybook Love" from "The Princess Bride"), but...oh my soul -- the late '70s output from him and his band! "Spanish Stroll" was a top 20 British hit and "Venus of Avenue D" ("She's the queen of my block / What's it take to make you...stop?") and "Cadillac Walk" also used to get some airplay...but click here [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SVkzsm7nGs] to connect to a YouTube slide-show-and-audio of what I feel is the indisputably GREATEST recorded moment of DeVille's impact on the world -- the sublimely excellent song "Mixed Up, Shook Up Girl." Go on -- listen to it! (I'll just wait here...) See -- it's like some sort of perfect rock / soul / doo-wop hybrid of Bruce Springsteen, Little Steven, Lou Reed, Otis Redding, Keith Richards, and Al Green! I can still fondly recall pumping quarter after quarter into the jukebox of the old Orphans on Lincoln, listening to that single over and over again. RIP Willy -- and thanks for the music. (Man, I gotta search around this weekend and dig up my vinyl -- of course! -- copy of the '77 Cabretta / Mink DeVille debut LP, and play MUSUG on the radio show on Monday...) " Speaking of the radio show...not sure if I've mentioned this yet, but on the public affairs (mostly politics) show that I do with my co-hort from The Stonecipher Report website (http://stonecipher.typepad.com/), I run the music and content half the time...and when I do, I use the Soft Boys' "I Love Lucy" as our theme / intro...and, when we break up the talk (with 3 - 4 songs an hour), I've played RH stuff like "I'm Falling," "My Wife and My Dead Wife," and "Anglepoise Lamps" (as well as plenty of Lindsey Buckingham, Wilco, Syd Barrett, Radiohead, Brazilian jazz, and various one-off stuff from my collection that may strike me.) We'll be on Monday (as well as Tuesday this week; the Mon. show is "mine" to run), from 3-4 pm Chicago time, available online live at www.whpk.org. Michael "Le Chat Very Bleu" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=PID23384::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:NF_BR_syn c:082009 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:11:47 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Movies: Leaving Las Vegas What a disappointment. I had avoided this film so far, because I was actually scared that it would be too sad and depressing. But it's really only annoying. OK, Elisabeth Shue is both cute and hot, but the script is full of cliches, confused and implausible. Most of all, listening to that awful Sting jazz soundtrack made me want to drink myself to death as well. I've only seen one other move Figgis made, Stormy Monday, and it had the same problem ... 5/10 - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 15:44:34 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Movies: Leaving Las Vegas On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Sebastian Hagedorn < Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de> wrote: > What a disappointment. I had avoided this film so far, because I was > actually scared that it would be too sad and depressing. But it's really > only annoying. OK, Elisabeth Shue is both cute and hot, but the script is > full of cliches, confused and implausible. Most of all, listening to that > awful Sting jazz soundtrack made me want to drink myself to death as well. > I've only seen one other move Figgis made, Stormy Monday, and it had the > same problem ... > My response exactly. I was thinking what a shame that the director of something as wonderful as Topsy-Turvy could have made such a mess of a flick, but that turns out to be a different Mike. And while I will always love the *idea* of Elizabeth Shue, the *reality* invariariably turns out to be something like The Saint, where she's a theoretical physicist who keeps her research notes in her bra and falls for Val Kilmer doing a cheesy imitation of Jim Morrison (as opposed to his much better imitation of Morrison in Oliver Stone's Doors movie)...he was way more fun in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 18:52:30 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: Movies: Leaving Las Vegas Sebastian says: > but the script is full of cliches, confused and implausible. kind of like alcoholics. so maybe that was the point? > 5/10 did you remember to -2 for its being a nic cage movie that's not "valley girl"? xo p.s. am i misremembering, or wasn't the author one of those one-hit wonder suicides? actually, i should say 1/2-hit wonder as ISTR that it was a sort of "confederacy of dunces"-type post-death publishing. - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 19:16:58 -0400 From: lep Subject: i'm just saying... i'm not so sure that "the money you could be saving with geico" is a legitimate mascot. as ever, lauren p.s. although perhaps i should pay it no mind and continue on my merry way - you never know when the caveman might get pulled out of cold storage. p.p.s. now wondering how cold "the cold" must be to kill a caveman. - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:52:14 -0400 From: FSThomas Subject: Re: i'm just saying... lep wrote: > i'm not so sure that "the money you could be saving with geico" is a > legitimate mascot. The gecko was their least offensive mascot to date. Kind of reminded me of Jamie Oliver. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 17:42:13 -0700 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: Movies: Leaving Las Vegas On Aug 8, 2009, at 3:52 PM, lep wrote: > Sebastian says: > >> but the script is full of cliches, confused and implausible. > > kind of like alcoholics. so maybe that was the point? Bingo. > >> 5/10 > > did you remember to -2 for its being a nic cage movie that's not > "valley girl"? > With the exception of Raising Arizona, I can see no reason to force myself to watch anything with Nic Cage in it. The best little part in LLV was the cab driver who is played by Lou Rawls. - - c ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 01:19:15 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: i'm just saying... FSThomas says: > The gecko was their least offensive mascot to date. > > Kind of reminded me of Jamie Oliver. i can't speak to that comparison, but the gecko always reminded me of niles crane. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #215 ********************************