From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V18 #2 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, January 7 2010 Volume 18 : Number 002 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Martinverse, anyone? [lep ] REAP [Jeff Margrave ] Re: Martinverse, anyone? [Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Martinverse, anyone? Sebastian Hagedorn says: > I wrote about this on Facebook a few days ago, but maybe here's the better > place for it. I just re-read all four volumes so far of George R. R Martin's > "A Song Of Ice And Fire". When I read it the first time, I read the first to > volumes in a row, but then had to wait for the third and the fourth to come > out. I know that I had real trouble with the fourth one, because there had > been a 5 year wait in between, and I had forgotten a lot about what happened > before. > > Anyway, in anticipation of the fifth volume, which will hopefully come out > this year, I read all of them in a row. I noticed some minor things that > bugged me a little, but that's probably nitpicking. Except for that I still > love the series. Anybody care to discuss specifics? We've been through Buffy > so often, I thought it's time for a change :) Plus, HBO has filmed a pilot > of "A Game Of Thrones" and I'd bet good money that it's going to be picked > up as a series in March, so it's timely for that reason as well ... > > I'm going to bed now, so you'll have some time on your own ;-) Lord knows I'll jump at the chance to discuss anything (NR), but this one sounds like it involves something time-consuming and attention-span demanding like reading or something. Do they have Cliffs Notes? BTW, where the frak are all you folks? Where are your top-10 lists**? Where are your movie top-10 lists? Where's ken? ** please ignore if you've already submitted your list. Don't make me start a "most embarrassing moment" thread or something like that. Don't test me. I'm an ass -- I'll do it. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 19:32:34 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Margrave Subject: REAP Willie Mitchell "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:47:14 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Martinverse, anyone? In the interest of sparing Lauren the fate of having to describe traumatic memories ... - --On 5. Januar 2010 21:18:40 -0500 lep wrote: > Lord knows I'll jump at the chance to discuss anything (NR), but this > one sounds like it involves something time-consuming and > attention-span demanding like reading or something. Do they have > Cliffs Notes? Kinda. There's this site, which I found invaluable: You could read the Cliffs Notes version, starting here: Of course I don't recommend that. What make's ASOIAF special, IMO, is that it employs an unusual narrative mode. Each chapter, the third person narrator changes. All the narrators are what I learned to call "Personaler Erzdhler", but what according to Wikipedia is called "Third-person, subjective" in English. > BTW, where the frak are all you folks? Where are your top-10 lists**? > Where are your movie top-10 lists? Where's ken? I already posted my Last.fm Top 10 on Facebook: Top 10 Artists 1. R.E.M. 2. Big Star 3. Neil Young 4. Maxomo Park 5. The Beatles 6. Juliana Hatfield 7. Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs 8. The Decemberists 9. Yo La Tengo 10. The Smiths I'm actually surprised by that ranking. I wouldn't have been able to make that list without help. BTW, Robyn Hitchcock would've ended up in the Top 10 if I didn't distinguish between the various configurations. The list should be extremely accurate, though, because these days almost all music I listen to gets scrobbled one way or another. Except for that I don't really have a list, sorry! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:28:01 -0800 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: My name is "Eb", and that was the first and last time I was ever involved with the canning of corn! 1. no, for fuck real: this new thea gilmore disc is SO FRICKING GREAT! can't...stop...listening. okay, i shut up about it now. 2. thoughts about *Trains* in new york: ~ wouldn't have pegged robyn as a cellphone-owner. but i guess it makes sense, considering that he manages his own career, and all. ~ tim's getting old. (shit.) ~ "Heartful" of leaves? would it've killed them to have hired a proofreader? ~ robyn's vocalisation at the end of "Autumn Is Your Last Chance" is practically my favourite moment of his career. as such, it's always disappointed me that he's never performed it live. cool that he's now done so...but it doesn't hold a candle to the studio reading. ~ on the other hand, the arrangement for "Winter Love" is fantastico! who else is ready for a robyn/gaida/tim/terry album-and-tour with new material? ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V18 #2 ******************************