From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #256 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, September 26 2009 Volume 17 : Number 256 Today's Subjects: ----------------- "'The Obama Administration Has Completely Failed" ["Nectar At Any Cost!" ] in David Wallace-related news to-day [lep ] Rhino lays of 30 employees [michaeljbachman@comcast.net] Re: Rhino lays of 30 employees [kevin studyvin ] Re: Rhino lays of 30 employees [2fs ] Re: Deluxe 2 cd digitally remastered UK reissue of Peggy Suicide with 11 bonus cuts. [James Dignan ] Check out the crazy birthers (NR) [Steve Schiavo ] Re: Rhino lays of 30 employees ["Stewart C. Russell" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:08:21 -0700 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: "'The Obama Administration Has Completely Failed" . ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:34:23 -0400 From: lep Subject: in David Wallace-related news to-day Review of film version of "Brief Interviews With Hideous Men": http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/09/25/movies/25brief.html?8mu&emc=mua1&pagewanted=print I'm unexcited about this. I probably already mentioned this, but I saw a production of "Brief Interviews" at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival a while back. I believe it was done by the people involved with the film version. Sort of unsurprisingly, the Wallace stories didn't translate well to the format of a play. Actually, they don't translate that well to stories, either, but that's another issue. The book ""Brief Interviews With Hideous Men" has some stunning writing in it, but the collection of stories of the same name, IMO, are best described as experimental -- specifically the not-so-good kind. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:25:51 +0000 (UTC) From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Subject: Rhino lays of 30 employees http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118009163.html?categoryid=16&cs=1&nid=2568 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:45:06 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Rhino lays of 30 employees On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 7:25 AM, wrote: > > http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118009163.html?categoryid=16&cs=1&nid=2568 > Kinda sucks. I'll be fine with downloading digital audio when it happens in lossless formats. Till then, not so much. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:29:18 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Rhino lays of 30 employees On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 12:45 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 7:25 AM, wrote: > > > > > > http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118009163.html?categoryid=16&cs=1&nid=2568 > > > > > Kinda sucks. I'll be fine with downloading digital audio when it happens > in > lossless formats. Till then, not so much. > FWIW, I think that's likely. Matador, at least (in their "Buy Early Get Now" promo thingies for selected titles) typically offers the bonus options as FLACs as well as MP3s. If the industry were smarter and paying more attention, they'd introduce FLACs or similar as an option now - price them higher than mp3s, and promote their superior quality. (I rather doubt they cost any more to produce!) I was going to babble about the threat to sound quality given the casualization of music-listening, toss in something not only about mp3s but also brickwall limiting etc. - but I decided that that's ultimately more a function of the fact that for most people, music has *always* just been about entertainment, belonging to a particular clique or other, etc., rather than music per se. There will always be audiophiles - my only hope is that some of them actually end up involved in the production of recorded music... I'm no audiophile - my ears just aren't good enough or haven't been trained...I mean, half the time I can't even hear supposedly obvious, glaring errors in flawed discs that everyone else is bent out of shape on (as on the recent New Order bonus discs that Rhino recently reissued: I could hear a few, but looking at various online logs of errors, most are inaudible to me. Granted, I wasn't listening ultra-super closely, but still...) Regardless: it should be an option, you know? Also: misread the heading, thought it was some dirty joke ("Rhino lays 30 employees")... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:48:53 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: Deluxe 2 cd digitally remastered UK reissue of Peggy Suicide with 11 bonus cuts. > Anyway, I think I'm being asked to state my PEGGY SUICIDE dissent. I > don't feel like belaboring it, but PS has never worked for me. I > don't think it's a horrible album. I'm just not interested in it. I > give it another try every year, and I always zone out sometime during > "East Easy Rider" and wake up in time to realize that "Las Vegas > Basement" is a really great song. I wish my opinion had changed over > the last 18 years, but it still leaves me mostly cold. Ah - so I'm not alone in this. Give me Jehovahkill, 20 Mothers, World Shut Your Mouth, or Fried, over PS any day. I think I'd even take My Nation Underground over PS. 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: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:48:47 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re:REAP > > ** i was thinking it was the history channel, but it seems a bit too > > not-quite-non-fiction-y for them; would they run a biopic? > > >As long as it's sensationalistic enough and they can squeeze it in between >the endless reports on UFOs, Nostradamus and the Templars, they certainly >would. Especially if it's about Charlie - he's almost as big as Hitler. I thought that History Channel was the "How these planes avoided hitting each other by seconds" channel - only I've just checked and that's Discovery channel. 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: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:07:33 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Check out the crazy birthers (NR) Gary Kreep? You can't make this stuff up. - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:12:13 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Rhino lays of 30 employees 2fs wrote: > > FWIW, I think that's likely. Zunior have been doing it for years. Pay a buck or more extra, and you get FLACs instead of MP3s. Either way, you get a PDF of the album artwork and foldouts. It's about the only way you'll get Ken Reaume's music: Stewart ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #256 ********************************