From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #310 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, December 16 2009 Volume 17 : Number 310 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Bored now. ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Bored now. [2fs ] Re: Bored now. [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Bored now. [Carrie Galbraith ] Re: Bored now. [Tom Clark ] Re: Bored now. [Tom Clark ] Re: Bored now. [lep ] Re: Bored now. [Stewart Russell ] Re: Bored now. [lep ] Re: Bored now. [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Joss Whedon, what is my next command? (100% Dollhouse) [lep ] Re: Your 2010 Rockunroll Halloufaim Inductees [2fs ] Re: Bored now. [2fs ] Re: Bored now. [James Dignan ] Re: reap [Tom Clark ] REAP [James Dignan ] Site Renovations [Steve Sonoras ] Re: Bored now. ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Bored now. [kevin studyvin ] Re: Bored now. [kevin studyvin ] Re: Site Renovations [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Site Renovations [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: Site Renovations [kevin studyvin ] Re: Site Renovations [Tom Clark ] ferguson 1000th episode tonight . . . [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: okay, something we might be able to agree on [ross ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:52:55 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Bored now. kevin studyvin wrote: > > Had a girlfriend once who'd lived in Edinburgh for six months and came back > with an accent you could cut with a fork. I never really understood what > was going on with that. Edinburgh - it's like the Twilight Zone, but with less tea. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:58:32 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Bored now. On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > kevin studyvin wrote: > > > > Had a girlfriend once who'd lived in Edinburgh for six months and came > back > > with an accent you could cut with a fork. I never really understood what > > was going on with that. > > Edinburgh - it's like the Twilight Zone, but with less tea. > I think some people are just sensitive to the local cadence and pick it up without particularly or consciously trying. What's funny is that when someone from "our" speech goes "out" and picks up a "foreign" accent, we call it pretentious (Madonna, say)...whereas when someone NOT from "our" speech comes "in" to where we are and *fails* to drop all hints of "foreign" accent, we're disdainful. So the rule is: If you're an American, you can never change your accent to the local variety, even when you're speaking another language (because pronouncing French as the French do is pretentious, see), whereas others coming to America must drop all local speech inflections and talk like a goddamt American. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:28:22 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Bored now. On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:58 AM, 2fs wrote: > speech comes "in" to where we are and *fails* to drop all hints of "foreign" > accent, we're disdainful. I have not seen so much of this, besides with Latin American or Asian immigrants/children of immigrants -- where obviously there is a lot more going on than elocutionary prejudice -- Americans I have known generally seem to be impressed by foreign accents (specifically by the various accents of the United Kingdom, but also commonly by other more "exotic" ones.) J ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:05:12 -0800 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: Bored now. On Dec 15, 2009, at 6:28 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:58 AM, 2fs wrote: >> speech comes "in" to where we are and *fails* to drop all hints of >> "foreign" >> accent, we're disdainful. > > I have not seen so much of this, besides with Latin American or Asian > immigrants/children of immigrants -- where obviously there is a lot > more going on than elocutionary prejudice -- Americans I have known > generally seem to be impressed by foreign accents (specifically by the > various accents of the United Kingdom, but also commonly by other more > "exotic" ones.) > I'd agree with this. I know plenty of immigrants and some of them, after many years, never lose their accented English. My Bosnian friend has as thick an accent as when he came to this country in '92 as a refuge. My Italian, while not perfect, does not sound like an American nominally speaking Italian. If anything, I get people who are annoyed by my pronunciation specifically because it is a Venetian accent (Venetians do not use the double consonants, for example). Perhaps in some parts of the US there people are still suspect of foreigners, but I am not sure where that would be anymore. - - c "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. " - - Thomas Jefferson ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:17:04 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Bored now. On Dec 15, 2009, at 12:02 AM, lep wrote: > one of my favourite quotes is one of einstein's: > "the universe is not only stranger than we imagine; it is stranger > than we can imagine." > > p.s. that quote actual is the best explanation as to why i stopped > considering myself an atheist. Actually that's a perfect reason to *continue* considering yourself an atheist. Who says humans are entitled to universal omniscience? Humans are no more special than a quasar. We just fuck more. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:12:23 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Bored now. On Dec 15, 2009, at 12:57 AM, kevin studyvin wrote: >> After 6 months in Belfast I found myself quickly picking up an >> accent and >> automatically answering "aye" instead of yes. A year there and I'd >> have >> sounded local. > > Had a girlfriend once who'd lived in Edinburgh for six months and > came back > with an accent you could cut with a fork. I never really understood > what > was going on with that. One of the guys on my team is Australian and now lives in Glasgow. At this point I can hardly understand him, especially when he mixes regional colloquialisms like "The unit test chucked a wobbly because he's a complete numpty". - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:48:56 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: Bored now. tc says: > On Dec 15, 2009, at 12:02 AM, lep wrote: > >> one of my favourite quotes is one of einstein's: >> "the universe is not only stranger than we imagine; it is stranger >> than we can imagine." >> >> p.s. that quote actual is the best explanation as to why i stopped >> considering myself an atheist. > > Actually that's a perfect reason to *continue* considering yourself an > atheist. i take as a good reason to consider myself an agnostic. > Who says humans are entitled to universal omniscience? i'm not sure if this is a rhetorical question, but if it's not, i didn't. > Humans are > no more special than a quasar. that may well be true, but between humans and quasars as a start, that's a damn big bucket of mystery. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:50:54 -0500 From: Stewart Russell Subject: Re: Bored now. 2009/12/15 Tom Clark : > > "The unit test chucked a wobbly because he's a complete > numpty". Numpty's a great word, though. And everyone knows that "wobbly" is the correct term for an exception. Stewart - -- http://scruss.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:03:21 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: Bored now. Stewart says: > 2009/12/15 Tom Clark : >> >> "The unit test chucked a wobbly because he's a complete >> numpty". > > Numpty's a great word, though. And everyone knows that "wobbly" is the > correct term for an exception. i'm assuming "wobbly" be used for both hardware and software? xo p.s. a word i learned from robyn that i successfully and, i believe, discreetly integrated into my vocabulary is "dodgy." there must be a few others, but i can't of them right now, being as a rarely remember words. p.p.s. i know it's not specifically a robyn word, but that's where i first heard it, so i'm sticking to my story (more specifically, it was (the VHS tape of) "gotta let this hen out".) - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:25:12 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Bored now. On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:03 PM, lep wrote: > p.s. a word i learned from robyn that i successfully and, i believe, > discreetly integrated into my vocabulary is "dodgy." there must be a > few others, but i can't of them right now, being as a rarely remember > words. Always think of "dodgy" (though I know this is factually incorrect) as a distinctly American word, because my folk etymology of it runs through Dodge City and the criminal underworld of cowboy movies. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:23:47 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: Joss Whedon, what is my next command? (100% Dollhouse) Chris says: > BTW, I liked this interview with Joss Whedon about the end of Dollhouse: > > http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2009/12/dollhouse-fox-joss-whedon.html > > or > > http://tinyurl.com/ykp6vub > > The article is spoiler-free. The full transcript at the bottom mentions > which guest stars will be in the finale, but is otherwise also pretty > spoiler-free. that was an interesting article; thanks for posting the link. BTW, i burst out laughing at the line: << Bonus: One of Friday's episodes contains the funniest John Cassavetes reference you'll hear on television all year. >> i mean, come on -- i think it's safe to say it's the funniest john cassavetes reference you'll *ever* hear. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:00:28 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Margrave Subject: Your 2010 Rockunroll Halloufaim Inductees ABBA Jimmy Cliff Genesis The Hollies The Stooges, meaning that like The Velvet Underground, it took the death of the guitarist* for Jann to let them into his little private thingy *Yes, Lou's a guitarist in TVU too; you know what I meant. http://www.avclub.com/articles/here-are-your-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-inductees,36356/ "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:51:21 -0500 (EST) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Re: Bored now. > Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:50:13 -0800 > From: kevin studyvin > Subject: Re: Bored now. > > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Sebastian Hagedorn < > Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de> wrote: > >> -- kevin studyvin is rumored to have mumbled on 14. >> Dezember 2009 01:37:21 -0800 regarding Re: Bored now.: >> >> >> Thanks for the Vampire Willow reference - my dream gurl. And she might >>> be a little bit gay... >>> >> >> No no no! That's not Vampire Willow, it's Dark Willow! They're similar in a >> way, but they're not the same. >> > > Dude, I'm pretty sure it's Vampire Willow. > > Any third parties wanna adjudicate? > Me again! There's some confusion. The recent Willow reference in HIMYM is to Dark Willow (I keeel you with my eyes!) and "I'm so evil! And skanky! And I think I'm kinda gay," is regular Willow *talking* about Vamp Willow, before she realizes that, in fact, she herself is a kinda gay. Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:09:57 -0800 (PST) From: Randall Riebe Subject: Re: Your 2010 Rockunroll Halloufaim Inductees Where the FUCK (apologies to eddie) is RUSH? Vince ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:19:04 -0500 From: Stewart Russell Subject: reap Oral Roberts, 91 - -- http://scruss.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:16:28 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Your 2010 Rockunroll Halloufaim Inductees On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Jeff Margrave wrote: > ABBA > Jimmy Cliff > Genesis > The Hollies > The Stooges, meaning that like The Velvet Underground, it took the death of > the guitarist* for Jann to let them into his little private thingy > Looking forward to Iggy jamming with ABBA... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:19:42 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Bored now. On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Carrie Galbraith wrote: > On Dec 15, 2009, at 6:28 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:58 AM, 2fs wrote: > >> speech comes "in" to where we are and *fails* to drop all hints of > >> "foreign" > >> accent, we're disdainful. > > > > I have not seen so much of this, besides with Latin American or Asian > > immigrants/children of immigrants -- where obviously there is a lot > > more going on than elocutionary prejudice -- Americans I have known > > generally seem to be impressed by foreign accents (specifically by the > > various accents of the United Kingdom, but also commonly by other more > > "exotic" ones.) > > > > I'd agree with this. I know plenty of immigrants and some of them, > after many years, never lose their accented English. My Bosnian > friend has as thick an accent as when he came to this country in '92 > as a refuge. > > My Italian, while not perfect, does not sound like an American > nominally speaking Italian. If anything, I get people who are annoyed > by my pronunciation specifically because it is a Venetian accent > (Venetians do not use the double consonants, for example). > > Perhaps in some parts of the US there people are still suspect of > foreigners, but I am not sure where that would be anymore. > Google "TA foreign accent." Students complain *endlessly* about not being able to understand their foreign TAs...but rarely about their Texan TAs (although Texas is essentially a foreign country)...and if they ever had a TA with a Cockney accent, would doubtless be all how cute his/her accent is. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:21:59 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Bored now. On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Tom Clark wrote: > omniscience? Humans are no more special than a quasar. We just fuck more. > > I dunno...I knew this quasar once that might cause you to question that theory. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:49:29 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: Bored now. >Neil Patrick Harris > >Sumi > >On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:43 PM, lep wrote: > > Sumi says: > >> NPH. > > > > i don't know what that means. I don't know what Neil Patrick Harris means*. *other than just a name, that is**. **OK, I looked him up. Seems he's been in quite a few series I've not seen, plus a lot more I've never heard of. >I was watching with friends who know nothing of the Buffyverse and I >tried to explain how horrible he is when he tries to do "American >English." Ironically. Since he's an American. Critics often complain about Ralph Fiennes's "bad fake upper-class English accent" - Fiennes is eighth cousin of the Prince of Wales and descended from the Baronetcy of Saye and Sele. Nothing bad and fake about it. - -- 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: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:55:17 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: reap On Dec 15, 2009, at 2:19 PM, Stewart Russell wrote: > Oral Roberts, 91 > Best Fark.com headline EVAR: "Jesus prepares to receive Oral" - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:45:52 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: REAP Oral Roberts, 91 How sad 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: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:57:36 +0000 From: Steve Sonoras Subject: Site Renovations Did anyone else get the email from Robyn's Museum announcing the shop sale and site renovations? Might Robyn finally have become aware that his website looks like it was crafted in 1995 (perhaps it was for all I know)? Maybe his webmaster will finally be keeping regular news updates; It seems I find out more about Robyn's activity by searching Google for news updates than through his website. It seems as though the sudden spike in media attention following the constant name dropping he's receiving on hip sites like Stereogum and Pitchfork Media, as well as press for Rachel Getting Married, the Independent Spirit Awards (for which he performed "Up to Our Nex"), and his indulgent reach into his own canon (i.e. his Yep Roc boxes and the Trains tour/DVD) might have inspired Hitchcock to make his home on the web a bit more attractive to potential new fans. Any thoughts? What sorts of changes do you all think the site could use? By the way, I'd better introduce myself briefly. My name's Steven, and I'm a 21-year-old film studies major at Eastern Michigan University. I've been a rabid fan of all things RH since the fall of 2005 when I blindly picked up a copy of IODOT at Wazoo Records in Ann Arbor expecting to hear a British female rainy day folk album ala Vashti Bunyan. In short, I thought Robyn was a pretty girl and was rather pleased-yet-unsettled upon discovering his surreal flavor of human music. _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141665/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:20:36 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Bored now. lep wrote: > > i'm assuming "wobbly" be used for both hardware and software? Yes, and people too - in the conniption/hissy fit sense, as was the original usage. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:37:01 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Bored now. On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 3:49 PM, James Dignan wrote: > Neil Patrick Harris >> >> Sumi >> >> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:43 PM, lep wrote: >> > Sumi says: >> >> NPH. >> > >> > i don't know what that means. >> > > I don't know what Neil Patrick Harris means*. > > *other than just a name, that is**. > > **OK, I looked him up. Seems he's been in quite a few series I've not seen, > plus a lot more I've never heard of. > But what elevated him to quasi-divinity was Harold And Kumar Go To White Castle. > > I was watching with friends who know nothing of the Buffyverse and I >> tried to explain how horrible he is when he tries to do "American >> English." Ironically. Since he's an American. >> > > Critics often complain about Ralph Fiennes's "bad fake upper-class English > accent" - Fiennes is eighth cousin of the Prince of Wales and descended from > the Baronetcy of Saye and Sele. Nothing bad and fake about it. > Actress of my acquaintance went into a killing snit when a reviewer was snarky about her "homemade Irish accent," which she went to considerable lengths to explain was nothing of the kind, since she was born and raised over there, way the hell out in the country someplace, and in fact she'd gone to considerable effort to learn to speak standard-issue American. (Also memorable was the running battle she had with another company member over the relative merits of Bushmill's vs Jameson - every time there was a party they'd try to drink one another under the table, which was good for a laugh if nothing else - and I learned a healthy respect for Irish whiskey, which is the only sort I'd rate the equal of a good homegrown bourbon.) > -- > 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: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:44:43 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Bored now. On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > lep wrote: > > > > i'm assuming "wobbly" be used for both hardware and software? > > Yes, and people too - in the conniption/hissy fit sense, as was the > original usage. Around these parts it used to refer to a member of the IWW, though they haven't drawn a lot of press since the Everett Massacre... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:51:39 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Site Renovations >i thought Robyn was a pretty girl I wish! On 12/15/09, Steve Sonoras wrote: > Did anyone else get the email from Robyn's Museum announcing the shop sale > and > site renovations? Might Robyn finally have become aware that his website > looks > like it was crafted in 1995 (perhaps it was for all I know)? Maybe his > webmaster will finally be keeping regular news updates; It seems I find out > more about Robyn's activity by searching Google for news updates than > through > his website. It seems as though the sudden spike in media attention > following > the constant name dropping he's receiving on hip sites like Stereogum and > Pitchfork Media, as well as press for Rachel Getting Married, the > Independent > Spirit Awards (for which he performed "Up to Our Nex"), and his indulgent > reach into his own canon (i.e. his Yep Roc boxes and the Trains tour/DVD) > might have inspired Hitchcock to make his home on the web a bit more > attractive to potential new fans. Any thoughts? What sorts of changes do you > all think the site could use? > > By the way, I'd better introduce myself briefly. My name's Steven, and I'm a > 21-year-old film studies major at Eastern Michigan University. I've been a > rabid fan of all things RH since the fall of 2005 when I blindly picked up a > copy of IODOT at Wazoo Records in Ann Arbor expecting to hear a British > female > rainy day folk album ala Vashti Bunyan. In short, I thought Robyn was a > pretty > girl and was rather pleased-yet-unsettled upon discovering his surreal > flavor > of human music. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. > http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141665/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:16:59 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: Site Renovations That's a great story - I found out about him in Trouser Press magazine before you were born ! and, yeah, the updates on RH.com are long overdue and it looked kind of cool when it was new . . . but "official" websites often lag behind fansites . . . that's why we're here ! Bob Dylan Examiner Column _http://www.examiner.com/x-21829-Bob-Dylan-Examiner_ (http://www.examiner.com/x-21829-Bob-Dylan-Examiner) In a message dated 12/15/2009 9:07:29 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, stevesonoras@hotmail.com writes: Did anyone else get the email from Robyn's Museum announcing the shop sale and site renovations? Might Robyn finally have become aware that his website looks like it was crafted in 1995 (perhaps it was for all I know)? Maybe his webmaster will finally be keeping regular news updates; It seems I find out more about Robyn's activity by searching Google for news updates than through his website. It seems as though the sudden spike in media attention following the constant name dropping he's receiving on hip sites like Stereogum and Pitchfork Media, as well as press for Rachel Getting Married, the Independent Spirit Awards (for which he performed "Up to Our Nex"), and his indulgent reach into his own canon (i.e. his Yep Roc boxes and the Trains tour/DVD) might have inspired Hitchcock to make his home on the web a bit more attractive to potential new fans. Any thoughts? What sorts of changes do you all think the site could use? By the way, I'd better introduce myself briefly. My name's Steven, and I'm a 21-year-old film studies major at Eastern Michigan University. I've been a rabid fan of all things RH since the fall of 2005 when I blindly picked up a copy of IODOT at Wazoo Records in Ann Arbor expecting to hear a British female rainy day folk album ala Vashti Bunyan. In short, I thought Robyn was a pretty girl and was rather pleased-yet-unsettled upon discovering his surreal flavor of human music. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:41:51 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Site Renovations On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Steve Sonoras wrote: > Did anyone else get the email from Robyn's Museum announcing the shop sale > and > site renovations? Might Robyn finally have become aware that his website > looks > like it was crafted in 1995 (perhaps it was for all I know)? Maybe his > webmaster will finally be keeping regular news updates; It seems I find out > more about Robyn's activity by searching Google for news updates than > through > his website. It seems as though the sudden spike in media attention > following > the constant name dropping he's receiving on hip sites like Stereogum and > Pitchfork Media, as well as press for Rachel Getting Married, the > Independent > Spirit Awards (for which he performed "Up to Our Nex"), and his indulgent > reach into his own canon (i.e. his Yep Roc boxes and the Trains tour/DVD) > might have inspired Hitchcock to make his home on the web a bit more > attractive to potential new fans. Any thoughts? What sorts of changes do > you > all think the site could use? > > By the way, I'd better introduce myself briefly. My name's Steven, and I'm > a > 21-year-old film studies major at Eastern Michigan University. I've been a > rabid fan of all things RH since the fall of 2005 when I blindly picked up > a > copy of IODOT at Wazoo Records in Ann Arbor expecting to hear a British > female > rainy day folk album ala Vashti Bunyan. In short, I thought Robyn was a > pretty > girl and was rather pleased-yet-unsettled upon discovering his surreal > flavor > of human music. Sometimes he wishes he was a pretty girl. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:27:24 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Site Renovations On Dec 15, 2009, at 5:57 PM, Steve Sonoras wrote: > > By the way, I'd better introduce myself briefly. My name's Steven, > and I'm a > 21-year-old film studies major at Eastern Michigan University. I've > been a > rabid fan of all things RH since the fall of 2005... Welcome Steve! RH and film studies sounds like the perfect life path. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:14:32 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: ferguson 1000th episode tonight . . . looks like the opening is a musical number with dancers and puppets. YES ! Bob Dylan Examiner Column _http://www.examiner.com/x-21829-Bob-Dylan-Examiner_ (http://www.examiner.com/x-21829-Bob-Dylan-Examiner) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:06:59 -0500 From: ross Subject: Re: okay, something we might be able to agree on Stewart C. Russell wrote: > YOU WON'T SEE ME as performed on the five string banjo by Mr. Billy > Faier: > Bookmarked! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:54:16 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: ferguson 1000th episode tonight . . .spoiler looks like it's all Wavy - all the time tonight Bob Dylan Examiner Column http://www.examiner.com/x-21829-Bob-Dylan-Examiner In a message dated 12/16/2009 12:42:10 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, HwyCDRrev@aol.com writes: looks like the opening is a musical number with dancers and puppets. YES ! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:24:31 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: Site Renovations tc says: > On Dec 15, 2009, at 5:57 PM, Steve Sonoras wrote: >> >> By the way, I'd better introduce myself briefly. My name's Steven, and I'm >> a >> 21-year-old film studies major at Eastern Michigan University. I've been a >> rabid fan of all things RH since the fall of 2005... > > Welcome Steve! RH and film studies sounds like the perfect life path. > > -tc well said, tc**. welcome to the list, steve. feel free to talk about robyn even when this doesn't seem like you're on a robyn hitchcock list. and if you don't feel like talking about robyn, talk about film studies. i'm a movie junkie myself and i'd be glad to have some to either confirm my wonderful taste in movies, or to bicker with, whichever may be the case. BTW, i saw "a serious man" for the second time in the theatre this evening. i can't recall the last time i saw a movie twice on the big screen during its first run. although i do remember my friend, dave (a huge hitchcock fan) saw barton fink twice in one week. that still impresses me, regardless of the fact that he was writing a paper on it. another BTW, do "the coen brothers" *** remind anyone of david lynch? i'd say i was talking about the cinematography if i knew what that meant. xo lauren ** although it never hurts to throw some mathematics into the mix if you want to make sure you don't run out things to think about in life. *** am i supposed to cross-post this shit from FB or am i already friends with everyFeg on FB? - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #310 ********************************