From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #313 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, December 22 2009 Volume 17 : Number 313 Today's Subjects: ----------------- REAP [David Witzany ] Re: JESUS! (100% faux-savior-free...) [ross ] UK xmas no 1 single [Rob ] Re: UK xmas no 1 single ["Stewart C. Russell" ] REAP [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: JESUS! (100% faux-savior-free...) [kevin studyvin ] Re: UK xmas no 1 single [Rob ] Online Wallace Short (Short) Story, "All That", 2009 Dec 14 New Yorker [l] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:23:33 -0600 (CST) From: David Witzany Subject: REAP I don't think I missed this in the digests; Dan O'Bannon passed away a couple of days back. He was best known for his scripts for the first couple of Alien movies, but a film of his not to be missed was his first effort, Dark Star. He worked on it with John Carpenter when they were in school together at USC. It's practically a student film, but there are some things in it that he'd use later, including the habit of one character to stick a knife into the table between his fingers. Unfortunately, Pinback, the character in Dark Star with the proclivity (who he played himself) doesn't have an android's reflexes, so isn't nearly as good at it... I played "Benson, Arizona", the song you hear under the opening titles, on my show Friday. Available for your listening pleasure here: http://tinyurl.com/yh6o6za O'Bannon's the one reading a magazine. Dave. David Witzany ...one of nature's witzany@uiuc.edu bounds checkers ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:15:21 -0500 From: ross Subject: Re: JESUS! (100% faux-savior-free...) Carrie Galbraith wrote: > On Dec 16, 2009, at 10:03 AM, 2fs wrote: > > >> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Michael Sweeney >> wrote: >> >> >>> ...two NEARLY ENTIRE digests IN A ROW that I "merely" scroll through, >>> reading >>> only the same few randomly popping words: "Whedon," "Willow," >>> "Dollhouse," >>> "NPH," "HIMYM"...(oh well -- as (47-yr-old) I often remark to my >>> (53-yr-old) >>> GF (usually about TV or pop culture elements), we're apparently >>> just NOT in >>> the target demo...) >>> >>> >> Hey! I'm 47, and I wrote a few of those posts. >> >> Although I have no idea what HIMYM stands for: is it a new ultrastable >> polycarbonate metaplasma? >> >> > > > I just turned 53! And I even get the HIMYM reference (although I've > never seen said show)! And I don't own a TV. > Go figure... > - carrie, joss is boss, the carriester > 53 here. The list has always been full of references to things obscure to me. That's often a good thing. So what's the target demo? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:37:23 +0000 From: Rob Subject: UK xmas no 1 single The past four years has seen the single by the winner of Simon Cowell's X Factor as the chart topping single at Christmas. Massive marketing campaign followed by the single being released at exactly the right time to top the chart at Christmas. Happily, a campaign started on facebook has seen Rage Against The Machine's Killing In The Name (with its lyric 'Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me') outsell the X Factor song by 50000 units. So a merry christmas and a fuck you, I won't do what you tell me to one and all. Link to the BBC story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8423340.stm R ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:50:12 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: UK xmas no 1 single Rob wrote: > > Happily, a campaign started on facebook has seen Rage Against The > Machine's Killing In The Name (with its lyric 'Fuck you, I won't do > what you tell me') outsell the X Factor song by 50000 units. Isn't this a case of "... but I'll happily do what someone else tells me"? Stewart (enjoying Korean 'Couque d'Asse' cookies. Yes, it's pronounced like 'cooked ass'.) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:45:22 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: REAP http://www.examiner.com/x-15343-Jacksonville-Celebrity-Headlines-Examiner~y2 009m12d20-Brittany-Murphy-dies-at-age-32-from-cardiac-arrest-and-celebrities - -react-to-news-on-Twitter Bob Dylan Examiner Column http://www.examiner.com/x-21829-Bob-Dylan-Examiner ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:58:19 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: JESUS! (100% faux-savior-free...) > I just turned 53! And I even get the HIMYM reference (although I've never >> seen said show)! And I don't own a TV. >> Go figure... >> - carrie, joss is boss, the carriester >> >> > > 53 here. The list has always been full of references to things obscure to > me. That's often a good thing. > > So what's the target demo? > Not me fer sure - 56 in 90 days (about the same time my unemployment runs out). Lots of info here is obscure to me also, but that's how the learning process works. Also, a very pleasant crew for the most part. Bruce Campbell is God / KS ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:30:56 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: UK xmas no 1 single On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > Rob wrote: > > > > Happily, a campaign started on facebook has seen Rage Against The > > Machine's Killing In The Name (with its lyric 'Fuck you, I won't do > > what you tell me') outsell the X Factor song by 50000 units. > > Isn't this a case of "... but I'll happily do what someone else tells me"? > > Really - you'd think the irony would be visible from space. Too bad a better band couldn't have achieved this...uh, honor. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:10:18 +0000 From: Rob Subject: Re: UK xmas no 1 single On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 11:30 PM, 2fs wrote: > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > >> Rob wrote: >> > >> > Happily, a campaign started on facebook has seen Rage Against The >> > Machine's Killing In The Name (with its lyric 'Fuck you, I won't do >> > what you tell me') outsell the X Factor song by 50000 units. >> >> Isn't this a case of "... but I'll happily do what someone else tells me"? >> >> > Really - you'd think the irony would be visible from space. > > Too bad a better band couldn't have achieved this...uh, honor. > I thought the irony was part of the fun. Sadly, the ultimate irony is that Sony won either way as both artists are on their roster. There was a similar but unsuccessful campaign two years ago to get Malcom Middleton to the Christmas number one. Was a decent song though. Here's a link to the video on youtube, it's well worth watching: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbL9Vsobx8I R ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:36:35 -0500 From: lep Subject: Online Wallace Short (Short) Story, "All That", 2009 Dec 14 New Yorker This is a lovely story by David Wallace in a recent New Yorker. It's online, very short, and will break your heart, just a bit: http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2009/12/14/091214fi_fiction_wallace?currentPage=all xo P.S. The issue also contains a very readable, rather junky article on the Polanski business - which aside from being a fun read on a snowy day, reminds me that that The New Yorker will forever have the potential to be a stones' throw away from Vanity Fair**. Although in theory I mind, in practice my morals fly out the window as I have access to only one of the two. ** the inverse in NOT true, thank the gods. P.P.S. I know I owe a list reply to James - my e-mail muse is not only not e-mail muse, she's not even get my Christmas shopping done. Layabout. - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #313 ********************************