From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #288 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, November 11 2009 Volume 17 : Number 288 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: A couple of appearances by Rush in the (Canadian) funnies [Randall Ri] my kind of metaphor [lep ] Re:number one with a number [James Dignan ] Re: my kind of metaphor [kevin studyvin ] Do you like to rock the fuck out? ["Nectar At Any Cost!" ] pancakes in a pressurized can [lep ] movie talk, or how the mighty have fallen... [lep ] Re: pancakes in a pressurized can [kevin studyvin ] Re: movie talk, or how the mighty have fallen... [kevin studyvin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 09:18:41 -0800 (PST) From: Randall Riebe Subject: Re: A couple of appearances by Rush in the (Canadian) funnies Nice, but that look on Neil's face was not fact-checked for accuracy. Vince ________________________________ From: Jeremy Osner To: Pigworkers Local 47 Sent: Mon, November 9, 2009 8:56:36 AM Subject: A couple of appearances by Rush in the (Canadian) funnies Here: http://beatonna.livejournal.com/123001.html and here: http://viruscomix.com/page499.html (Actually not at all sure about most of the identities, but I thought the one with frizzy blond hair and horns might be a Rush member.) J ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 13:46:22 -0500 From: lep Subject: my kind of metaphor so you all read xkcd. so what: http://xkcd.com/659/ xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:01:06 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re:number one with a number >Sorry if this has been shared before, but I thought you lot would >enjoy this (and I haven't been on the list to see it if you've already >done it.) Following is a list of numbers; each one was a set of >numerals in the title of a #1 pop song. I gave you the year it came >out in each case (except the honorable mention one at bottom. but that >is one of the easy ones.) Probably best to send your answers to me >individually so as not to spoil it for others - but either way. If >anyone can get all of them, I'll give you a prize! > >Good to see some familiar faces - er - names, still here on the list! > >bayard > > > >96 (1966) - yup >2525 (1969) - yup >50 (1976) - yup >1963 (1976) - yup >9 (1981) - yup; another song of the same title was big in 1980 >2 (1990) - um...? Oh yeah... that's cheating! :) >4 (1992)- nope >4 (1997) - um, nope., If you'd said "1", then yes, but not 4. >21 (2003) - fo sho >3 (2009) - sadly, I think so > > >Honorable mention >99 (reached #2) - yup Mmmm. I'm surprised that the following weren't on the list - though quite a few of them didn't get to no. 1: 8 (1965) (US only single; UK band) 19 (1966) (back when this band was good) 2 (1977) (HUGE hit in Britain, not so big in the US) 3 (1978) (no. 1 in the UK and US) 4 (1979) (a classic Canadian song, but not a big hit, apparently) 45 (1981) (one of the worst things ever to hit the airwaves) 2 (1982) (back when this band was good) 2 (1982) (another one! Debut for quirky new wavers) 19 (1985) (bit of a giveaway...) 500 (1988) (for Stewart) 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, 9 Nov 2009 14:36:33 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: my kind of metaphor On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:46 AM, lep wrote: > so you all read xkcd. so what: > > http://xkcd.com/659/ > > xo > Had a hunch that one would make its way to the feg hit list. Thanks to the Wanda Sykes show sat nite for another potential greatest-band-name ever entry: Dildo Wildfire. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:12:45 -0800 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: Do you like to rock the fuck out? if so, then download the new visqueen rekkid as soon as you dare. don't forget, yo, to maximise your volume level before engaging the play function! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 20:08:15 -0500 From: lep Subject: pancakes in a pressurized can who doesn't love pancakes? and who doesn't love pressurized cans? here you go (warning: will invoke uninvited, but catchy jingle): for fegs <> stewart** http://www.batterblaster.com/ for stewart: http://www.batterblaster.ca/ and don't forget to watch the video. ** i know we have more canadians than stewart; stewart's just the only feg that, for some reason, i can never forget is canadian. with credit to: http://www.thedoghousediaries.com/?p=1030 xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 20:01:39 -0500 From: lep Subject: movie talk, or how the mighty have fallen... hi list, netflix-wise, i've been in a documentary phase, and television-wise, i discovered "this" tv and it treasure-trove of worse after worse late-night movies**. but i did get out to the theatre a few times recently: "a serious man" - okay, i believe this has *kicked "barton fink" out of its long-term place as my favourite coen brothers movie*. that is not a "minor thing". the brothers have really, really outdone themselves this time. i can't even decide to describe it as "dark, yet funny" or "funny, yet dark". whatever. it was really fucking dark, and really fucking funny. and the cinematography is gorgeous (and keep in mind that i don't even know what cinematography is exactly - the cinematography is *that* impressive. and before the accusations start flying, no, i'm *not* being all biased by how crappy "burn after reading" was. just see it. especially if you were alive during any part of the 1960s. bonus points for mention of schrodinger's cat and heisenberg's uncertainty principle and NOT even in the same scene. and if you hate it, don't blame me. it wouldn't be my fault -- it would be yours. "where the wild things are" - frankly, if it hadn't been spike jonze or michel gondry, i don't know if i could have faced "where the wild things" as a movie. but, god, this was one of those movies that shows what movies can be: it was magical, it was playful, it was larger than life, it was scary, it was its own world. it made me laugh. and it even made me cry -- not the big kind of crying, but its sadness hung over me for day. max rules. xo ** some examples: vincent price TRIPLE feature, "the thing with 2 heads", "the 2 headed transplant", "frogs", "squirm", "octaman", need i say more? p.s. best documentary as of late: "dreams with sharp teeth" with is about the writer harlan ellison - a bit of spitfire, eh? - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 18:11:01 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: pancakes in a pressurized can On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:08 PM, lep wrote: > who doesn't love pancakes? and who doesn't love pressurized cans? > here you go (warning: will invoke uninvited, but catchy jingle): > > for fegs <> stewart** > http://www.batterblaster.com/ > > for stewart: > http://www.batterblaster.ca/ > > and don't forget to watch the video. > This may be beating the obvious with a dead horse, but I can't see anybody who'd purchase this product in the first place going for it because "it's organic!"...druther make 'em myself the ol'-fashioned way with whole wheat flour, oatmeal and lashings of cinnamon & vanilla. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 18:19:37 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: movie talk, or how the mighty have fallen... On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:01 PM, lep wrote: > hi list, > > netflix-wise, i've been in a documentary phase, and television-wise, i > discovered "this" tv and it treasure-trove of worse after worse > late-night movies**. but i did get out to the theatre a few times > recently: > > "a serious man" - okay, i believe this has *kicked "barton fink" out > of its long-term place as my favourite coen brothers movie*. that is > not a "minor thing". the brothers have really, really outdone > themselves this time. i can't even decide to describe it as "dark, > yet funny" or "funny, yet dark". whatever. it was really fucking > dark, and really fucking funny. and the cinematography is gorgeous > (and keep in mind that i don't even know what cinematography is > exactly - the cinematography is *that* impressive. and before the > accusations start flying, no, i'm *not* being all biased by how crappy > "burn after reading" was. just see it. especially if you were alive > during any part of the 1960s. bonus points for mention of > schrodinger's cat and heisenberg's uncertainty principle and NOT even > in the same scene. > > and if you hate it, don't blame me. it wouldn't be my fault -- it > would be yours. > Okay, you got me. I'll go, I'll go. > > "where the wild things are" - frankly, if it hadn't been spike jonze > or michel gondry, i don't know if i could have faced "where the wild > things" as a movie. but, god, this was one of those movies that shows > what movies can be: it was magical, it was playful, it was larger > than life, it was scary, it was its own world. it made me laugh. and > it even made me cry -- not the big kind of crying, but its sadness > hung over me for day. max rules. > Had some reservations about this flick largely on account of being a Sendak lover, without reservation. (Ever read Outside Over There? Dang.) And I still do. > > xo > > ** some examples: vincent price TRIPLE feature, "the thing with 2 > heads", "the 2 headed transplant", "frogs", "squirm", "octaman", need > i say more? > They haven't got The Tingler? > > p.s. best documentary as of late: "dreams with sharp teeth" with is > about the writer harlan ellison - a bit of spitfire, eh? > Ask me some time about my hilariously embarassing encounter with Mr. Ellison many many years ago. I got the DWST from Netflix and it didn't disappoint. Harlan rules, Last Dangerous Visions or no. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:25:47 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: REAP Dollhouse, age 2: Can't even say I blame them. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #288 ********************************