From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #216 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 216 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: i'm just saying... [kevin studyvin ] Re: Movies: Leaving Las Vegas [Tom Clark ] Re: Movies: Leaving Las Vegas [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: Movies: Leaving Las Vegas [Carrie Galbraith ] Re: i'm just saying... [Miles Goosens ] Re: Movies: Leaving Las Vegas [Miles Goosens ] Re: Movies: Leaving Las Vegas [Randall Riebe ] Re: Movies: Leaving Las Vegas [michaeljbachman@comcast.net] Re: Movies: Leaving Las Vegas [kevin studyvin ] Cortez the Killer [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Cortez the Killer [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Cortez the Killer [2fs ] Re: Cortez the Killer [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: Cortez the Killer ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Cortez the Killer [kevin studyvin ] Re: Cortez the Killer [kevin studyvin ] Re: Cortez the Killer [kevin studyvin ] Re: Cortez the Killer [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: Movies: Leaving Las Vegas [Tom Clark ] Re: Cortez the Killer [kevin studyvin ] Re: Cortez the Killer [Carrie Galbraith ] Movies: The Sound of Music [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: Cortez the Killer [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Cortez the Killer [lep ] Re: Movies: Leaving Las Vegas [lep ] Re: Cortez the Killer [Great Quail ] Re: Cortez the Killer [Steve Schiavo ] Re: Cortez the Killer [Tom Clark ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 23:09:37 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: i'm just saying... On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 10:19 PM, lep wrote: > 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. > What gets me is, the original gecko spoke like a toff and liked to drive around in a tiny roadster painted British racing green. Then one day he was replaced by this other gecko with a working-class kind of sound, and *nobody even noticed*. It was like when they switched Darrens on Bewitched, only not quite as weird. Waiting for the SNL rerun with the great Rosario Dawson. np Nicole Atkins/Neptune City ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:03:33 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Movies: Leaving Las Vegas On Aug 8, 2009, at 5:42 PM, Carrie Galbraith wrote: > With the exception of Raising Arizona, I can see no reason to force > myself to watch anything with Nic Cage in it. I was about to say "Truer words have never been written" and then I remembered the following: Birdy Wild At Heart Red Rock West Adaptation - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 09:16:47 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Movies: Leaving Las Vegas - -- kevin studyvin is rumored to have mumbled on 8. August 2009 15:44:34 -0700 regarding Re: Movies: Leaving Las Vegas: > 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. Ack on both counts - The Saint was an abomination. I don't think I've seen her in any other movies, but I think she actually did a pretty good job in LLV. I just put KKBB in my queue, because I've only seen it once, and that was in German and with a girl I was trying to date. So it didn't exactly get my undivided attention. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 09:20:59 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Movies: Leaving Las Vegas - -- Tom Clark is rumored to have mumbled on 8. August 2009 23:03:33 -0700 regarding Re: Movies: Leaving Las Vegas: > On Aug 8, 2009, at 5:42 PM, Carrie Galbraith wrote: > >> With the exception of Raising Arizona, I can see no reason to force >> myself to watch anything with Nic Cage in it. > > > I was about to say "Truer words have never been written" and then I > remembered the following: > Birdy > Wild At Heart > Red Rock West > Adaptation Amen. I'm not as down on him as others here. I'd even add a film to your list: Face/Off Not sure how much I'd like it now, but I really liked that one when it came out. Cage will be the lead in Herzog's remake of Bad Lieutenant, so I wonder what all you Herzog-lovers/Cage-haters will make of that :) - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 09:25:53 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Movies: Leaving Las Vegas - -- lep is rumored to have mumbled on 8. August 2009 18:52:30 -0400 regarding 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? I was contemplating the hypothesis that Sera (Elisabeth Shue's character) was just a figment of Ben's delirious imagination. That would've been much better. I don't think it's meant that way. > did you remember to -2 for its being a nic cage movie that's not "valley > girl"? I don't know Valley Girl and for the rest see my reply to Tom. > 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. Not quite. He shot himself two weeks after filming had started. So the novel was published pre-humously, and the film was under way. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 01:04:03 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Movies: Leaving Las Vegas On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Sebastian Hagedorn < Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de> wrote: > -- Tom Clark is rumored to have mumbled on 8. August 2009 > 23:03:33 -0700 regarding Re: Movies: Leaving Las Vegas: > > > On Aug 8, 2009, at 5:42 PM, Carrie Galbraith wrote: >> >> With the exception of Raising Arizona, I can see no reason to force >>> myself to watch anything with Nic Cage in it. >>> >> >> >> I was about to say "Truer words have never been written" and then I >> remembered the following: >> Birdy >> Wild At Heart >> Red Rock West >> Adaptation >> > > Amen. I'm not as down on him as others here. I'd even add a film to your > list: > > Face/Off > > Not sure how much I'd like it now, but I really liked that one when it came > out. > > Cage will be the lead in Herzog's remake of Bad Lieutenant, so I wonder > what all you Herzog-lovers/Cage-haters will make of that :) > Truly, these are the last days. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 04:44:37 -0700 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: Movies: Leaving Las Vegas On Aug 8, 2009, at 11:03 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > On Aug 8, 2009, at 5:42 PM, Carrie Galbraith wrote: > >> With the exception of Raising Arizona, I can see no reason to >> force myself to watch anything with Nic Cage in it. > > > I was about to say "Truer words have never been written" and then I > remembered the following: > Birdy > Wild At Heart > Red Rock West > Adaptation > OK, I'll give him Wild at Heart. But that's as far as I go! - - c ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 06:52:24 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: i'm just saying... On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 1:09 AM, kevin studyvin wrote: > Waiting for the SNL rerun with the great Rosario Dawson. We watched this after I got home last night; didn't see it when it first aired. While SNL has been funnier the last few years than it has been since 1992, it's still terribly written and usually a far piece from funny, as it has been since, well, 1992. And it was my first exposure to Fleet Foxes, who are sooooooooo not not not not a band for me. Ugh. Super ugh. My wife dubbed them "I hear America singing" about 10 seconds into the first song, sending me into paroxysms of laughter. You probably had to visit Opryland to get the play on words there, but not to get the main point. later, Miles - -- now with blogspot retsin! http://readingpronunciation.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 07:10:29 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: Movies: Leaving Las Vegas On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 2:20 AM, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > -- Tom Clark is rumored to have mumbled on 8. August 2009 > 23:03:33 -0700 regarding Re: Movies: Leaving Las Vegas: > >> On Aug 8, 2009, at 5:42 PM, Carrie Galbraith wrote: >> >>> With the exception of Raising Arizona, I can see no reason to force >>> myself to watch anything with Nic Cage in it. >> >> >> I was about to say "Truer words have never been written" and then I >> remembered the following: >> Birdy >> Wild At Heart >> Red Rock West >> Adaptation > > Amen. I'm not as down on him as others here. I'd even add a film to your > list: > > Face/Off He's also great in PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED, though he's about the only great thing in it, he's wonderfully funny in MOONSTRUCK, and his crazed weird-out at the end of VAMPIRE'S KISS somehow transcends a performance I'd normally dismiss as scenery-chewing. Stop the world in 1990, and he's my favorite actor, and deservedly so. We can also glimpse Nic's old, likable self as late as 2000's surprisingly agreeable THE FAMILY MAN, which also features the ever-tasty Tea Leoni. But yeah, since 1990, it's been pretty much stupid action films that he kinda just does the same character in, over and over. Also, Mr. Cage deserved his Oscar for H.I. McDonough in RAISING ARIZONA rather than for LEAVING LAS VEGAS, because, well, he rocks as H.I. Nevertheless, I blame LLV's shortcomings on Figgis rather than Cage or Shue. later, Miles - -- now with blogspot retsin! http://readingpronunciation.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 06:27:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Randall Riebe Subject: Re: Movies: Leaving Las Vegas Once upon a time, I used to like N. Cage quite a bit. Not always for his acting, but for his choice in movies he appears in. An example being Bringing Out The Dead. He's pretty good though I think Tom Sizemore steals his thunder a bit. Vince ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 14:20:00 +0000 (UTC) From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Subject: Re: Movies: Leaving Las Vegas Red Rock and WIld at Heart are my two favorite Nic Cage flics. Regarding Mike Figgis, I haveB yet to check out his remake of the B The Browning Version. Till then my favorite Figgis movie is the somewhat flawed but haunting Libestraum. I won't let this one pass me by: Wings of Desire - The Critereon Collection double disc edition, October 20th release date !! Michael B. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Clark" To: "Singing Policemen" Sent: Sunday, August 9, 2009 2:03:33 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: Movies: Leaving Las Vegas On Aug 8, 2009, at 5:42 PM, Carrie Galbraith wrote: > With the exception of Raising Arizona, I can see no reason to force B > myself to watch anything with Nic Cage in it. I was about to say "Truer words have never been written" and then I B remembered the following: Birdy Wild At Heart Red Rock West Adaptation - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 09:24:38 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Movies: Leaving Las Vegas On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 7:20 AM, wrote: > Red Rock and WIld at Heart are my two favorite Nic Cage flics. > > > > Regarding Mike Figgis, I haveB yet to check out his remake of the B The > Browning Version. Till then my favorite Figgis movie is the somewhat flawed > but haunting Libestraum. > > > > I won't let this one pass me by: Wings of Desire - The Critereon Collection > double disc edition, October 20th release date !! > > > > Michael B. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tom Clark" > To: "Singing Policemen" > Sent: Sunday, August 9, 2009 2:03:33 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: Re: Movies: Leaving Las Vegas > > On Aug 8, 2009, at 5:42 PM, Carrie Galbraith wrote: > > > With the exception of Raising Arizona, I can see no reason to force B > > myself to watch anything with Nic Cage in it. > > > I was about to say "Truer words have never been written" and then I B > remembered the following: > Birdy > Wild At Heart > Red Rock West > Adaptation > > -tc > I have to agree with Craig Ferguson on this: Ghost Rider. "He's a SKELETON - - and he's ON FIRE!" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 12:29:33 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Cortez the Killer I have never heard this song before. Apparently it is a Neil Young tune! But I am listening to it be sung by David Rawlings (of the David Rawlings Machine). I'm finding very impressive (besides, or as a way of, being completely blissed out by this beautiful song) the variety of shades of mournfulness it captures. (somebody was relating to me the other day that he had heard The Guitar described as a primitive instrument but capable of transmitting emotion "if the player is able to feel emotions" -- I just discovered Rawlings but it is seeming right to me that he could be described as a very emotional guitarist. Anyway hoping to dig up a copy of the Neil Young track. Perhaps it has been YouTube'd... J ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 12:34:36 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Cortez the Killer I recently asserted: > Perhaps it has been YouTube'd... And indeed!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSj5yOK_mt4 , also a live version last year:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOR0zLL7UlU J ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 11:56:26 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Cortez the Killer On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > I have never heard this song before. Apparently it is a Neil Young tune! > But > I am listening to it be sung by David Rawlings (of the David Rawlings > Machine). I'm finding very impressive (besides, or as a way of, being > completely blissed out by this beautiful song) the variety of shades of > mournfulness it captures. (somebody was relating to me the other day that > he > had heard The Guitar described as a primitive instrument but capable of > transmitting emotion "if the player is able to feel emotions" -- I just > discovered Rawlings but it is seeming right to me that he could be > described > as a very emotional guitarist. > It's fun to read the reactions of people hearing for the first time songs I've known forever! This is a favorite Neil tune of mine - one of those songs that could conceivably go on forever...something about the chord structure being endlessly circular. The way he plays it (I haven't heard Rawlings' version - I should check that out) there are a lot of notes common to all the chords, a lot of open strings, so the effect is that the chord *shifts* rather than changes outright. And you're right about the mournfulness: one of those songs where, whatever the shortcomings of the lyric (in being a bit too on the nose at points), the combination of lyrics and music is compelling. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:52:22 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Cortez the Killer - -- Jeremy Osner is rumored to have mumbled on 9. August 2009 12:29:33 -0400 regarding Cortez the Killer: > I have never heard this song before. You really need to listen to more Neil Young! Which records of his do you know so far, so that we can help you along? I hadn't listened to Neil much in recent years, but now that the Archives are out, I'm on a major binge. Say what you will, Neil Young is God. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:11:48 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Cortez the Killer Marissa Nadler does a really good version; it's actually about the happiest song she does. I'm pretty much with Jeremy: missed out on Neil Young, mostly; didn't get Harvest until a year back or so, and up until then, thought that "Old Man" was a Wailing Jennys original ... Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 11:14:46 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Cortez the Killer On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Sebastian Hagedorn < Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de> wrote: > -- Jeremy Osner is rumored to have mumbled on 9. > August 2009 12:29:33 -0400 regarding Cortez the Killer: > > I have never heard this song before. >> > > You really need to listen to more Neil Young! Which records of his do you > know so far, so that we can help you along? > > I hadn't listened to Neil much in recent years, but now that the Archives > are out, I'm on a major binge. Say what you will, Neil Young is God. > Word. But yeah, I'm sure some of this crew can fix you up with all the Neil you need. As it is written, ask and it shall be given you. Still got that Nicole Atkins thing going on. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 11:21:52 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Cortez the Killer On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > I have never heard this song before. Apparently it is a Neil Young tune! > But > I am listening to it be sung by David Rawlings (of the David Rawlings > Machine). I'm finding very impressive (besides, or as a way of, being > completely blissed out by this beautiful song) the variety of shades of > mournfulness it captures. (somebody was relating to me the other day that > he > had heard The Guitar described as a primitive instrument but capable of > transmitting emotion "if the player is able to feel emotions" -- I just > discovered Rawlings but it is seeming right to me that he could be > described > as a very emotional guitarist. Anyway hoping to dig up a copy of the Neil > Young track. Perhaps it has been YouTube'd... > But anyway, you'll find that baby on Zuma, which was one of NY's career highlights. There's also a reggae-ized performance on Live Rust. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 11:30:05 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Cortez the Killer On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > Marissa Nadler does a really good version; it's actually about the > happiest song she does. > > I'm pretty much with Jeremy: missed out on Neil Young, mostly; didn't > get Harvest until a year back or so, and up until then, thought that > "Old Man" was a Wailing Jennys original ... > FWIW I read an interview with Lou Reed back mid-70s somewhere. He had Zuma on and went on at some length about Neil's grooviness. Then he started playing along with "Dangerbird." Either he was testing out a new strategy for annoying journalists or he was really into Zuma. Maybe both. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:39:52 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Cortez the Killer - -- kevin studyvin is rumored to have mumbled on 9. August 2009 11:30:05 -0700 regarding Re: Cortez the Killer: > FWIW I read an interview with Lou Reed back mid-70s somewhere. He had > Zuma on and went on at some length about Neil's grooviness. Then he > started playing along with "Dangerbird." Either he was testing out a new > strategy for annoying journalists or he was really into Zuma. Maybe both. ISTR that I read that prior to listening to Zuma he had this image of Neil Young as some kind of laid back hippie West Coast rocker - Zuma laid that one to rest ... it's still hard to imagine them ever working together, because their approach to music is so different. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:41:01 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Movies: Leaving Las Vegas On Aug 9, 2009, at 12:25 AM, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > I don't know Valley Girl and for the rest see my reply to Tom. Valley Girl is totally rad!! It's even got a performance by The Plimsouls in it. - -t "When they attack the car, save the radio" c ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 11:57:18 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Cortez the Killer On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Sebastian Hagedorn < Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de> wrote: > -- kevin studyvin is rumored to have mumbled on 9. > August 2009 11:30:05 -0700 regarding Re: Cortez the Killer: > > FWIW I read an interview with Lou Reed back mid-70s somewhere. He had >> Zuma on and went on at some length about Neil's grooviness. Then he >> started playing along with "Dangerbird." Either he was testing out a new >> strategy for annoying journalists or he was really into Zuma. Maybe both. >> > > ISTR that I read that prior to listening to Zuma he had this image of Neil > Young as some kind of laid back hippie West Coast rocker - Zuma laid that > one to rest ... it's still hard to imagine them ever working together, > because their approach to music is so different. > Back in the olden days we tended to view them as East Coast - West Coast mirror images of each other. Loud guitars, antisocial lifestyles, substance abuse. Then Lou got clean and he wasn't nearly as much fun anymore. Neil went his own way... ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 14:24:21 -0700 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: Cortez the Killer On Aug 9, 2009, at 9:56 AM, 2fs wrote: > On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Jeremy Osner > wrote: > >> I have never heard this song before. Apparently it is a Neil Young >> tune! > > This is a favorite Neil tune of mine - one of those songs that could > conceivably go on forever...something about the chord structure being > endlessly circular. The way he plays it (I haven't heard Rawlings' > version - > I should check that out) there are a lot of notes common to all the > chords, > a lot of open strings, so the effect is that the chord *shifts* > rather than > changes outright. > This is by far one of my favorite NY songs! I can listen to it over and over. The version I have is from the "Live Rust" album. I recommend his soundtrack for the Jarmusch film "Dead Man." Essentially they finished the film and then rolled it on a screen while Neil was plugged in and he just went with the "feel" of the film as it rolled. Apparently Jarmusch was listening to a lot of Crazy Horse when writing and filming the movie. Also, I remember going to the theaters to see his "Journey Through The Past" when it was released in '74. It a slow pondering film that makes more sense if the smoke is wafting around the room. I can distinctly see one scene in my head where Neil was playing electric guitar in a smelting furnace, while the furnace was ablaze! Yikes! Also I have a copy of Greendale that he filmed, under one of his pseudonyms "Bernard Shakey." I've seen bits and pieces so far, never all the way through. Definitely interesting. > On Aug 9, 2009, at 10:52 AM, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: >> >> >> I hadn't listened to Neil much in recent years, but now that the >> Archives are out, I'm on a major binge. Say what you will, Neil >> Young is God. >> I thought Robyn Hitchcock was God... Be Seeing You. - - c ************************************** Questions are a burden for others. Answers are a prison for oneself. ************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:12:15 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Movies: The Sound of Music Believe it or not, I just saw this for the first time. The reason is that nobody in Germany knows this movie. There is a German "Heimatfilm" called The Trapp Family that actually predates the American sort-of-remake by almost 10 years. Apparently it's one of the most successful German films of all time, but I don't think I've seen that one, either. I think that's because when I grew up, German movies of the 50s had fallen in disregard. So why was The Sound of Music no success in Germany? According to the German Wikipedia entry, it was released in a bowdlerized version that left out all Nazi references (I wonder why, because the earlier film apparently left them in). The film *ended* with the wedding. The title was translated as "My Songs, My Dreams". The film was a major flop. Both audiences and critics panned it. There is quite a bit of snickering in the Wikipedia entry about American tourists who come to Salzburg and expect to be served "Schnitzels with noodles" and think that "Edelweiss" is Austria's national anthem :) And what did I think? Well, I'm a sucker for musicals :) I *love* "My Fair Lady" and "Mary Poppins", so of course I enjoyed this one as well. There is a lot I could criticize, but the positive outweighs the negative as far as I'm concerned. Julie Andrews is wonderful, even though her affectations in the current intros and commentaries make me cringe. 8/10 - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 20:11:00 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Cortez the Killer Sebastian fragt leise: >Which records of his do you know so far, so that we can help you along? Funny you should ask -- I've always thought of NY as an artist I was kind of familiar with but I think the only records of his I really know are Rust Never Sleeps and Decade. Oh and probably After the Gold Rush. I have heard a bunch of tracks, as well, off Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere and Harvest Moon. J ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 20:51:57 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Cortez the Killer Jeff meint, > ( haven't heard Rawlings' version - I should check that out) Sure, you should. It starts about 42 1/2 minutes in to this podcast: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111389535 Rawlings' voice and gittarring are very different from Young's -- lovely backup vocals from Ms. Welch -- well worth your while. J ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 22:00:28 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: Cortez the Killer Jeremy says: > Sebastian fragt leise: >>Which records of his do you know so far, so that we can help you along? > > Funny you should ask -- I've always thought of NY as an artist I was kind of > familiar with but I think the only records of his I really know are Rust > Never Sleeps and Decade. Oh and probably After the Gold Rush. I have heard a > bunch of tracks, as well, off Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere and Harvest > Moon. when did they take "cortez the killer" off of "decade"? my favourite neil young album is (big surprise here) "to-night's the night." ditch "harvest moon" for "harvest." xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 22:02:40 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: Movies: Leaving Las Vegas tc says: > Valley Girl is totally rad!! It's even got a performance by The Plimsouls > in it. > > -t "When they attack the car, save the radio" c i love to see reason prevail. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:44:28 -0400 From: Great Quail Subject: Re: Cortez the Killer Cortex the Killer is my favorite Neil Young song. But the lyrics are a hoot: "Hate was just a legend And war was never known The people worked together And they lifted many stones." Ha ha ha! He's talking about the AZTECS! Everyone knows they are the most asshole Civ to find on your goddamn map. - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 21:51:43 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: Cortez the Killer On Aug 9, 2009, at 7:51 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > Jeff meint, >> ( haven't heard Rawlings' version - I should check that out) > > Sure, you should. It starts about 42 1/2 minutes in to this podcast: > http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111389535 > Rawlings' > voice and gittarring are very different from Young's -- lovely > backup vocals > from Ms. Welch -- well worth your while. > > J There's also a live cover by Matthew Sweet and band (with an Indigo Girl, or maybe both) on Goodfriends. The original is o/p, but Cortez is on the second disc of the Girlfriend reissue on Volcano. - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:28:12 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Cortez the Killer On Aug 9, 2009, at 7:00 PM, lep wrote: > when did they take "cortez the killer" off of "decade"? I was thinking the same thing. > > my favourite neil young album is (big surprise here) "to-night's the > night." Yup. > > ditch "harvest moon" for "harvest." They actually work pretty well mixed together. - -tc ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #216 ********************************