From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V18 #21 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, February 1 2010 Volume 18 : Number 021 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Nick Drake tribute article with ROBYN quotes - (Warning- RH content) [Terrence Marks ] Re: Propellor Time track listing [2fs ] Re: Nick Drake tribute article with ROBYN quotes - (Warning- RH content) [2fs ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V18 #20 [James Dignan ] Re: arms outstretched + Howard Devoto [2fs ] Re: magnetic fields mini-review (0% RH) [lep ] Re: arms outstretched + Howard Devoto [lep ] Re: arms outstretched + Howard Devoto [lep ] Re: arms outstretched + Howard Devoto ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Propellor Time track listing [2fs ] Scratch My Back ["Jeff B" ] Re: Scratch My Back [2fs ] Photos of Maritime Evening (RH content) [Charlotte Subject: Re: Nick Drake tribute article with ROBYN quotes - (Warning- RH content) On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 1:43 PM, James Dignan wrote: > Think of the poor Who fan >> (The band with Pete Townshend, >> not the WHO a.k.a. World Health Organization) >> > > Try googling The The sometime. Y'know, I was listening to Audience's self-titled album a while back. I wanted to find out more about them and got as far as pulling up google before I realized it was entirely hopeless. (and I've given up on finding The United States of America online, too. ["The United States of America Online" would be a cool name for a one-man techno band, wouldn't it?]) Terrence ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:58:37 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: truth or dare... LEP wrote: >Jeremy Osner says: >> I have 'em and will make 'em available. > >cool. i'd love to hear them. > >"blood on the tracks" is basically the latest dylan i listen to. i'm fiendish about it; the truth is that "idiot wind" always had me by > the throat and it's probably much of the reason i like the album so much. ,..I'm with you, LEP...although I DO love me some [eventual] "Time Out of Mind" and (to a lesser degree) "Love and Theft." But...BOTT...AND the slap-you-in-the-face immediacy of "Idiot Wind"? Well, I LOVES that!!! (sigh - and I'm suddenly about 17, absorbing it and feeling like it's some sort of one-way communicator to me...) MLS _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsofts powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390706/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:32:42 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Propellor Time track listing On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:50 PM, wrote: > Has anyone heard anything about a U.S. release? > I think the RH/V3 stuff has sold fairly well for Yep Roc - so I would be very surprised indeed if this didn't come out on Yep Roc in the US. > Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 - Propellor Time (FIT047CD) > > CD Album > > 1. Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 - Star of Venus > 2. Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 - The Afterlight > 3. Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 - Luckiness > 4. Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 - Ordinary Millionaire > 5. Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 - John in the Air > 6. Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 - Propellor Time > 7. Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 - Primitive > 8. Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 - Sickie Boy > 9. Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 - Born on the Wind > 10. Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 - Evolove > > http://sartorialrecords.greedbag.com/buy/propellor-time-1/ > > - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:34:40 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Nick Drake tribute article with ROBYN quotes - (Warning- RH content) On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Terrence Marks wrote: > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 1:43 PM, James Dignan >wrote: > > > Think of the poor Who fan > >> (The band with Pete Townshend, > >> not the WHO a.k.a. World Health Organization) > >> > > > > Try googling The The sometime. > > Y'know, I was listening to Audience's self-titled album a while back. > I wanted to find out more about them and got as far as pulling up > google before I realized it was entirely hopeless. > > (and I've given up on finding The United States of America online, > too. ["The United States of America Online" would be a cool name for a > one-man techno band, wouldn't it?]) > In both cases, I'd suggest starting with both the band name and the name of a song on the album (preferably one not called just "Love" or "The"). If there's a site dedicated to the band, it may well come up. Or: did you check whether there's a Wikipedia entry on either band, which often contains a link to the band's website? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:53:58 -0500 (EST) From: Jill Brand Subject: arms outstretched + Howard Devoto After many attempts on new Mac Mini to upload something to Megaupload, it dawned on me that perhaps Megaupload is a Windows thing. Then I found out that it is (this shows great advancement in my cyber explorations; usually, I just scream "Thomas, come upstairs!!!!" to be rescued). Do any of you Mac users use a file sharing thingy like Megaupload that works for you. Also, what is this "She's Your Lover Now" by Luxuria/Howard D. thing? I only have the one Luxuria CD. Is there/are there more? Help! Jill ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 10:11:05 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V18 #20 > > Try googling The The sometime. > > > >James, meet Rex. Rex, James... The joys of the feg-digest. You answer one comment, then you find the same answer further down. 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, 31 Jan 2010 15:35:51 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: arms outstretched + Howard Devoto On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Jill Brand wrote: > After many attempts on new Mac Mini to upload something to Megaupload, it > dawned on me that perhaps Megaupload is a Windows thing. Then I found out > that it is (this shows great advancement in my cyber explorations; usually, > I just scream "Thomas, come upstairs!!!!" to be rescued). Do any of you Mac > users use a file sharing thingy like Megaupload that works for you. > No idea - but probably not, if it's an online thing. Anyway: what are you trying to do? If you're trying to send someone something (large-ish file), I've always found YouSendit reliable - and without any of the superannoying crapola about free users having to wait 60 seconds to download, etc. The free service has a 100MB limit, I think - but you can bypass it by splitting up files (although you can only be uploading one at a time). Another option is Dropbox - that's more of a file-storage thing, but it does have a public folder, which means any files in that folder have a publicly accessible URL - so, again, if you're sharing files to someone, all you'd need to do is get the URL for that file in your public Dropbox folder and give it to them. Also free. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:44:13 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: magnetic fields mini-review (0% RH) jeff 2fs says: > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 6:36 PM, lep wrote: > >> for those on which "distortion" was lost, i'll give "realism" a push >> here. the gang's back to form. >> >> this is supposedly their folk album? wasn't that "the charm of the >> highway strip"? or maybe they're double-dipping. >> > > I thought CotHS was their *country* album. Not the same thing as "folk." d'oh. you're right. i suppose that's what i deserve for filing everything except davis sedaris and charles mingus under genre = "rock & roll". > (Also, their vampire album. Not the same thing as "shallow fashion-obsessed > morons.") vampire album? i'm thinking you mean the future bible heroes, or i'm spacing out again -- don't stephin's vampire songs usually end up there instead of magnetic fields albums? off the top of my head, i can't think of one magnetic fields song about vampires. the gothic archies i haven't pinned down yet (i know their songs are creepy and cynical -- maybe it's the "creepy" part that makes the gothic archies.) i know stephin has some algorithm, or maybe just gets a vibe, for what a band gets a song. i think he talks about it in the booklet interview that came with "69 love songs" (although part it of his decision process has to do with money - there are more people in the magnetic fields than the other bands and, that, along with the multiple bands, makes money distribution an issue that never goes away.) xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:50:25 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: arms outstretched + Howard Devoto Jill says: > Also, what is this "She's Your Lover Now" by Luxuria/Howard D. thing? I > only have the one Luxuria CD. Is there/are there more? Help! the first album is called "unanswerable lust"; the second is called "beast box." i never really took to "beast box" but it's just as likely as not that i was too busy still listening to the first album. the dylan cover i know from a CD that came with an issue of uncut magazine - it was an issue about dylan, and the CD was all dylan covers. but it might have been a luxuria single (i imagine craigie* knows...as much as i pretend to be all things magazine around here, craigie* is actually one to go to. or allmusic.com.) e-mail me offlist if you're interested in a copy of the live show craigie* sent me and/or the "beast box" videos (PAL-format DVD, i imagine, but you can play it on your computer if you can't play PAL on any standalone player you have.) xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:55:48 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: arms outstretched + Howard Devoto On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 4:35 PM, 2fs wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Jill Brand wrote: > >> After many attempts on new Mac Mini to upload something to Megaupload, it >> dawned on me that perhaps Megaupload is a Windows thing. Then I found out >> that it is (this shows great advancement in my cyber explorations; usually, >> I just scream "Thomas, come upstairs!!!!" to be rescued). Do any of you Mac >> users use a file sharing thingy like Megaupload that works for you. >> > > No idea - but probably not, if it's an online thing. > > Anyway: what are you trying to do? If you're trying to send someone > something (large-ish file), I've always found YouSendit reliable - and > without any of the superannoying crapola about free users having to wait 60 > seconds to download, etc. The free service has a 100MB limit, I think - but > you can bypass it by splitting up files (although you can only be uploading > one at a time). also, uploading generally takes *way* longer than downloading. (yes "*way* longer" is the technical computer science term. but don't forget the boldface.) xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:09:48 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: arms outstretched + Howard Devoto 2fs wrote: > > Another option is Dropbox I'm all about Dropbox - especially if you have multiple computers that you have to keep files synched on. Works cross platform (incl. Linux; but only GUI-based systems, so I can't use it on my microserver). Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:10:53 +0000 (UTC) From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Subject: Fwd: Propellor Time track listing - ----- "2fs" wrote: > From: "2fs" > To: "ventilator waders" > Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 10:32:42 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: Re: Propellor Time track listing > > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:50 PM, wrote: > > Has anyone heard anything about a U.S. release? > > > I think the RH/V3 stuff has sold fairly well for Yep Roc - so I would be > very surprised indeed if this didn't come out on Yep Roc in the US. > > Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 - Propellor Time (FIT047CD) > > > > CD Album > > > > 1. Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 - Star of Venus > > 2. Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 - The Afterlight > > 3. Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 - Luckiness > > 4. Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 - Ordinary Millionaire > > 5. Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 - John in the Air > > 6. Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 - Propellor Time > > 7. Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 - Primitive > > 8. Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 - Sickie Boy > > 9. Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 - Born on the Wind > > 10. Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 - Evolove > > > > http://sartorialrecords.greedbag.com/buy/propellor-time-1/ > > > > > -- Is the Soft Boys box from Yep Roc still scheduled for this year as well? Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:21:12 +0000 (UTC) From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Subject: Fwd: truth or dare... - ----- "kevin studyvin" wrote: > From: "kevin studyvin" > To: "lep" > Cc: "a sweet little cupcake...baked by the devil!" > Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 8:35:31 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: Re: truth or dare... > > > B a friend of mine keeps trying to get me to watch "cruising." B i'm not too > > sure. > > > > I know I saw that, or some of it, at one point. B I got too disgusted with > the sensationalizing aspect that insisted on equating "gay" with "s&m > leather creeps." B Don't get me started with everything I don't like about > that kind of thinking... > > B i've also not seen "serpico". B or the big drug lord one which, sheesh, > > i can't recall the name of (i need to swap in my flash drive labeled > > "pacino movies".) > > > > You must mean Scarface, which I saw about half an hour of on TV late one > night. B Not interested in following up. B The only really interesting thing > about that flick is the way it's become some kind of icon for gang trash and > losers of so many varieties - I mean, get real, people - the guy dies as a > result of his own stupidity; how does that make him somebody to emulate? > Hope I'm not entirely incoherent - definitely in the early stages of > something viral and my nose won't stop running. > np: Endless hours of early-70s live Grateful Dead I've been accumulating > from the library & Internet Archive. B The irresitible charm of a 500G hard > drive... Scarface hasn't aged very well the last time I saw it if you ask me, and I really don't need to see it again for a long time. On the other hand I like the movieB Carlito's Way much better and you cheer for Al's character to make it as he has some redeeming qualities. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:01:54 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: magnetic fields mini-review (0% RH) On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 3:44 PM, lep wrote: > jeff 2fs says: > > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 6:36 PM, lep wrote: > > > > > > > (Also, their vampire album. Not the same thing as "shallow > fashion-obsessed > > morons.") > > vampire album? i'm thinking you mean the future bible heroes, or i'm > spacing out again -- don't stephin's vampire songs usually end up > there instead of magnetic fields albums? off the top of my head, i > can't think of one magnetic fields song about vampires. > Oh, a huge number of lyrics on CotHS are, arguably, about vampires. I thought I'd posted about this before (maybe I have), but here's a sampling: "Lonely Highway" "I nearly killed you with my drinking/Won't be caught dead in that place" "Born on a Train" "...turns into walking dead like me." "I know that you were never young/And I know you probably won't get old/But honey, nobody's gonna hurt you anymore/And nobody's gonna make you wanna die." "...and some of us don't believe in life." "I Have the Moon" - the whole thing, really. "Crowd of Drifters" - again, nearly the whole thing - but in particular: "Some of them cast no shadow/They have no reflections" "Sometimes the sun is too bright/And it burns you like acid/You get to love driving at night..." "We come, unnoticed, at sundown..." "Sometimes we bring the rat and the wolf..." Now, Merritt's a very clever lad: nearly all of these can be interpreted in some other way in context...but my argument is, it is extraordinarily unlikely - given Merritt's self-awareness and cleverness, and his professed interest in vampires and their presence in several other songs - that all of these are merely coincidental. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:03:39 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Propellor Time track listing On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 5:10 PM, wrote: > - > > > > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:50 PM, wrote: > > > Has anyone heard anything about a U.S. release? > > > > > I think the RH/V3 stuff has sold fairly well for Yep Roc - so I would be > > very surprised indeed if this didn't come out on Yep Roc in the US. > > > > Is the Soft Boys box from Yep Roc still scheduled for this year as well? > C'mon, Yep Roc Label Spy Person on the list: come out, come out, wherever you are - give us the goods! - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:42:04 -0700 From: "Jeff B" Subject: Scratch My Back ...and then coincidentally I stumble onto Peter Gabriel's site where he's promoting a new covers album and tour. Kicked off by a single of Merrit's "The Book of Love" with full orchestra.... Fegging toward singularity, Jeff B. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:02:36 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Scratch My Back On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Jeff B wrote: > ...and then coincidentally I stumble onto Peter Gabriel's site where he's > promoting a new covers album and tour. Kicked off by a single of Merrit's > "The Book of Love" with full orchestra.... > > Okay, this is fucking weird: I was just digging around looking for various Merritt-related ephemera (following upon the vampire post of a couple hours back), and I'd just run into a reference to this track, which I'd missed - and in fact, as I opened fegmaniax in a new window, I am recording Gabriel's cover from a fake YouTube video at the exact same time. I think it's the "Jeff" thing... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 07:26:11 +0000 From: Charlotte Subject: Photos of Maritime Evening (RH content) One of the professional photographers who was at Saturday night's Maritime evening at the Queen Elizabeth Hall has posted a great set of pics on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/loudpixels/sets/72157623316205504/ Hoping someone will post a setlist and/or review - if no-one does/has done, I'll attempt it (though I made no notes this time as I was very much enjoying being 'in the moment'.) - -- Sealion ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V18 #21 *******************************