From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V18 #29 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, February 11 2010 Volume 18 : Number 029 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: television top 5 thread (was Re: hey you sci-fi hepcats (100% caprica =0% RH))) [lep ] Re: Lou Reed MM3 [kevin studyvin ] Re: Holy Fucking Crapshit! [cgalbraith ] Re: television top 5 thread (was Re: hey you sci-fi hepcats (100% caprica =0% RH))) [cgalbraith ] Re: Holy Fucking Crapshit! [Christopher Gross ] Re: REAP [Jeremy Osner ] Re: REAP [kevin studyvin ] "Fool on the Hill" in Swedish [Jeremy Osner ] Heimat! [Jill Brand ] didn't see: [Bret ] Re: television top 5 thread (was Re: hey you sci-fi hepcats (100% caprica =0% RH))) [Rex ] Re: Holy Fucking Crapshit! [Rex ] colin covers robyn ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V18 #28 [James Dignan ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V18 #28 ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V18 #28 [Jeremy Osner ] Re: television top 5 thread (was Re: hey you sci-fi hepcats (100% caprica =0% RH))) [Christopher Gross ] reap [Stewart Russell ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 23:53:18 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: television top 5 thread (was Re: hey you sci-fi hepcats (100% caprica =0% RH))) i say: > tc saus" i meant: > tc says i say: > i recently bought a book of interviews with david lynch (highly > recommended for any lynch fan, along with the class "lynch on lynch"): i meant: > i recently bought a book of interviews with david lynch (highly > recommended for any lynch fan, along with the ***classic*** "lynch on lynch"): i say: i meant: xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 23:01:11 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: television top 5 thread (was Re: hey you sci-fi hepcats (100% caprica =0% RH))) On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:45 PM, lep wrote: > > > not to mention i haven't seen season 2 in so long that i probably > forget 80% of what happened. but i know for a fact that it was a lot > fucking stranger than what happened during season 1. > > I will say only this: the critical rep for S2 is pretty poor...and while it's true that several subplots could easily have been dispensed with (I had a list - and, truth is, I probably posted it here), the best of the season makes the series what it is. A lot of people, in fact, forget that some of their fave TP moments are actually in S2, not S1... Also, those flaws were magnified by the huge enormous long obnoxious delays between episodes as the networks sought to induce euthanasia on the series... On DVD, subplots that take a total of 15 minutes out of 4 episodes were drawn out excruciatingly over 10 weeks... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 23:02:22 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: television top 5 thread (was Re: hey you sci-fi hepcats (100% caprica =0% RH))) On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:53 PM, lep wrote: > > > i say: > > > i meant: > > > I want a t-shirt that has the first bit on the front and the second bit on the back. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:01:23 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Lou Reed MM3 http://bit.ly/ap8Mo5 Bob Dylan Examiner Column http://www.examiner.com/x-21829-Bob-Dylan-Examiner ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:26:47 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: television top 5 thread (was Re: hey you sci-fi hepcats (100% caprica =0% RH))) jeff 2fs says: > On DVD, subplots that take a total of 15 minutes out of 4 episodes > were drawn out excruciatingly over 10 weeks... sounds like my life. if it ever comes out on dvd that is. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:00:33 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Holy Fucking Crapshit! On Feb 9, 2010, at 6:30 PM, Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: > speaking of being blewn away; still trying to get my mind around lobstie > and rexie never having heard *Dark Side O' The Moon* all the way through. > quite the accomplishment (for better or worse)! I know, right? You guys should hear the the quadraphonic version I've got! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 23:19:55 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Lou Reed MM3 On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:01 PM, wrote: > http://bit.ly/ap8Mo5 > Yawwwnnn. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:58:11 -0800 From: cgalbraith Subject: Re: Holy Fucking Crapshit! On Feb 9, 2010, at 9:00 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > On Feb 9, 2010, at 6:30 PM, Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: > >> speaking of being blewn away; still trying to get my mind around >> lobstie >> and rexie never having heard *Dark Side O' The Moon* all the way >> through. >> quite the accomplishment (for better or worse)! > > I know, right? You guys should hear the the quadraphonic version > I've got! > First time I heard "Dark Side of the Moon" I thought I was levitating. No shit. I mean it could have been what was in the bong or the headphones but, damn. - - c ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:13:53 -0800 From: cgalbraith Subject: Re: television top 5 thread (was Re: hey you sci-fi hepcats (100% caprica =0% RH))) On Feb 9, 2010, at 8:45 PM, lep wrote: > tc saus" > >>> ALL-TIME BEST SHOWS EVER. >> >> Seinfeld >> Twin Peaks > > thanks for your lists. i am so out of it what's even on, except, of > course, for "bones" (i can only delude myself that my social > inadequacies are even half as charming as dr. brennan's.) OK, while I'm not a TV owner nor watcher, I will admit to being introduced to some TV over the years. But Twin Peaks eluded me. I remember seeing the Pilot on the big screen at the SF Film Festival in the early 90s but no one I knew then had a TV so I had no access. Is it worth re-visiting? I mean after all my years of anti-TV I have embraced Joss Whedon completely so I shouldn't be so rigid as to leave out Lynch on TV, right? And yeah, I'm a Bones fan - watch it on iTunes. Can't help it, for so many reasons. Oh, I used to watch midnight reruns of X Files at my mother's house when I was visiting back in the 90's. I remember being intrigued. Another show worth watching? In art school in the 80's I had a teacher who insisted we go to his house and watch Miami Vice for the "look and feel." At the time I was unaware that Michael Mann was the show's creator and I admit, it was pretty amazing to look at. Never saw enough to get what was going on with the writing or characters however. The line between film and TV seems to blur all the time. And a book suggestion along with lep's: "Detours and Lost Highways: A Map of Neo-Noir" Foster Hirsch I found it a compelling read. And then there is The Prisoner... - - c ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:34:27 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: television top 5 thread (was Re: hey you sci-fi hepcats (100% caprica =0% RH))) Hi Carrie, - --On 10. Februar 2010 04:13:53 -0800 cgalbraith wrote: > OK, while I'm not a TV owner nor watcher, I will admit to being > introduced to some TV over the years. But Twin Peaks eluded me. I > remember seeing the Pilot on the big screen at the SF Film Festival in > the early 90s but no one I knew then had a TV so I had no access. Is it > worth re-visiting? abso-fuckin'-lutely! > I mean after all my years of anti-TV I have embraced > Joss Whedon completely so I shouldn't be so rigid as to leave out Lynch > on TV, right? Right. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:44:34 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: television top 5 thread (was Re: hey you sci-fi hepcats (100% caprica =0% RH))) - --On 9. Februar 2010 15:13:11 -0500 lep wrote: >> Breaking Bad >> Friday Night Lights >> Sons Of Anarchy >> Mad Men (I know you've already tried that) >> Lost (despite some misgivings) > > thanks for the list. i've actually become a "mad men" convert. and > it's such a gorgeous show that i can't even manage to dim it down by > watching season 3 on *.avi, so i'm waiting for the DVD release. :) Glad you like it. > i though "friday night lights" was a kevin costner movie. It's actually a Billy Bob Thornton movie ... both the movie and the series are based on a landmark sports book describing Texas high school football. But the TV show is about so much more than that! I guess it helps if you don't mind football, but actually football isn't the center of the show at all. It's about the characters and it's about the socio-economic environment they live in. It's filmed in a very spontaneous way, with lots of handheld camera and (apparently) improv performances. It's really, really great. > sebastian, if you give rankings to these five shows, this looks a bit > a bit like your top 5 list. I left out the sitcoms, because those to me are sometimes very good, but I'd never rate them as high as dramas. Otherwise I would've mentioned at least The Big Band Theory. > so you folks with televisions, chime away. i'd be interested in > knowing people's top 5 show for shows that are currently being run, > but if you're television-less and watch on DVD, that'd be only > slightly less interesting. or hell, go crazy and make two lists. and > if you're really bored, or just want to keep facebook from drowning > out the voice of the fegList, make a third list for ALL-TIME BEST > SHOWS EVER. All-time best is hard, but I guess I'd say: Twin Peaks The Wire Deadwood Whedonverse (if I have to choose one it'd be Buffy) My So-Called Life ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:51:45 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: television top 5 thread (was Re: hey you sci-fi hepcats (100% caprica =0% RH))) - --On 9. Februar 2010 15:31:07 -0500 Jeremy Osner wrote: > Hey Lauren, have you watched "Heimat"? I've watched episodes 1 and 2 > so far, it's definitely in the upper echelon of TV series if the rest > of the series holds up to the standard they set. Narrative of a rural > Rhineland family from the end of WWI through the 80's. Jeremy and I chatted about this on Facebook. I'm ashamed to say that I haven't watched it yet. The series takes place not very far from where I live. It was a huge event when it came out in 1984, but I was 16 at the time and not really interested in such things ... it's currently in my Lovefilm queue, so I hope to watch it soon myself. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:26:19 -0500 From: Caroline Smith Subject: Re: television top 5 thread (was Re: hey you sci-fi hepcats (100% caprica =0% RH))) On 2010-02-09, at 3:13 PM, lep wrote: > Sebastian says: >> --On 8. Februar 2010 16:42:24 -0500 lep wrote: >> >>>> I agree, but it looks as though it may not live long ... >>> >>> where did you hear such lies? LIES i tell you, all LIES. >> >> :) >> >>> oh god, i'm going to end up with no shows to watch except NOVA and >>> frontline and charlie rose and bbc news. i'll probably get subsumed >>> into PBS. i'll live sesame street, if i'm lucky. it's nice there. >> >> I know you're not entirely serious, but I feel still moved to list those >> remaining shows that I consider essential: >> >> Breaking Bad >> Friday Night Lights >> Sons Of Anarchy >> Mad Men (I know you've already tried that) >> Lost (despite some misgivings) I'd add Dexter as essential. It's really compelling television. Season 4 has been the best yet, but it would be best to start with season 1. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:59:42 -0500 From: "Leftenant Reg?" Subject: Two Soft Boys torrents o'er Demonoid Hopefully this isn't a redundant post. Two Halves and Portland Arms, both lossless FLAC file sets. If anybody needs a membership pass to get in there, e me. Mark ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:02:12 -0500 From: "Leftenant Reg?" Subject: Re: Two Soft Boys torrents o'er Demonoid Allow me to correct myself ...that's if anybody needs a invitation code, e me On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Leftenant Reg? wrote: > Hopefully this isn't a redundant post. > > Two Halves and Portland Arms, both lossless FLAC file sets. > > If anybody needs a membership pass to get in there, e me. > > Mark ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:26:43 -0500 (EST) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Re: Propellor Time Lauren writes: > > jeff 2fs says: > >> 2) Is "Propellor" a British spelling, or what? ('Round these here yankee >> parts, we write "propeller"...) > > oh, another british spelling for me to add to my annoying faux british > spelling habit. > > ...only now i have to start to talking about helicopters more (or i > could take up talking about boats, but helicopters are way cooler.) > Or beanies! Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:40:56 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: television top 5 thread (was Re: hey you sci-fi hepcats (100% caprica =0% RH))) On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Sebastian Hagedorn < Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de> wrote: > -- > > i though "friday night lights" was a kevin costner movie. >> > > It's actually a Billy Bob Thornton movie ... both the movie and the series > are based on a landmark sports book describing Texas high school football. > But the TV show is about so much more than that! > FWIW, the book is about so much more than that as well. I haven't seen the movie or the show, but the book is primarily about the socioeconomic impact of football-mania in Texas... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:51:08 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: Propellor Time djini@voicenet.com says: > Lauren writes: >> >> >> >> ...only now i have to start to talking about helicopters more (or i >> could take up talking about boats, but helicopters are way cooler.) >> > > Or beanies! > In crossed thread "news", beanies remind me of David Lynch. Well, "Blue Velvet" -- close enough. xo ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:00:10 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: Holy Fucking Crapshit! On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: > > > my understanding is that -- his totally famous quote notwithstanding -- > jefferson was rather in favor of laws punishing those engaged in "seditious > libel". > > caveat: i'm FAR from an expert on the topic. perhaps chris g. would be > able to help out? I am, of course, an expert on everything. Except for those things where I'm not. If you're thinking of the notorious Alien and Sedition Acts, they were passed during the Adams administration, before Jefferson became president. TJ opposed them and, when he became president, pardoned all those who were convicted under them. I don't know of him ever advocating punishment for "seditious libel," but for all I know he might have. Jefferson is one of those cases where you can usually find something he said or wrote to contradict what he said or wrote at another time. He could have penned that Walt Whitman quote about contradiction and vastness. - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:41:23 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: REAP On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:48 PM, FS Thomas wrote: > Jack Murtha (D PA) > > Not feeling bad about this one, really. > Nor is Wiley Drake: http://totalbuzz.freedomblogging.com/2010/02/09/buena-park-pastor-prayed-for-murthas-death/29903/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:02:09 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: REAP On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:48 PM, FS Thomas wrote: > > Jack Murtha (D PA) > > > > Not feeling bad about this one, really. > > > > Nor is Wiley Drake: > > http://totalbuzz.freedomblogging.com/2010/02/09/buena-park-pastor-prayed-for-murthas-death/29903/ > About the only comforting thing about these ignorant snake-handlers is the fact that what they insist on calling "Christianity" isn't. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:57:07 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: "Fool on the Hill" in Swedish http://thebeatlescompleteonukulele.blogspot.com/2010/02/056-fool-on-hill-we-are-soldiers-we.html J ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:33:37 -0500 (EST) From: Jill Brand Subject: Heimat! Jeremy wrote: "Hey Lauren, have you watched "Heimat"? I've watched episodes 1 and 2 so far, it's definitely in the upper echelon of TV series if the rest of the series holds up to the standard they set. Narrative of a rural Rhineland family from the end of WWI through the 80's. I've only seen the first series, but I was OBSESSED with it when it came out. I still have Episode 9 ("Hermaennsche", which is called "Little Hermann" in English - I just looked that up) on videotape. I refuse to erase it or throw it out, even though I'll probably never watch it again. I believe that it is available on Netflix; it's amazing. Is there anyone else here who doesn't watch anything specific on TV? I don't have any "shows" (as in "My three shows are....."). I am an avid watcher of outdoor team sports on TV (baseball, football, and soccer mostly), but there is no show that I have access to that I care to watch. We got HBO for free for a while, and I got totally hooked on Big Love (it reminded me of Twin Peaks in a way), but now I'll have to wait until my turn on the library's waiting list for Season I. So let me tell you about our big Boston blizzard. Public schools in almost all cities and towns were canceled today. Boston University let us out at 2 p.m. Right now (3:30) there is snow dancing through the sky, but there is absolutely nothing (as in zero, zip, nada, nichts) on the ground. It's an embarrassing day for meteorologists around here; my husband is lying low. Jill ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:31:03 -0600 From: Bret Subject: didn't see: Charlie Wilson's Reap ... 76 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:56:18 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: television top 5 thread (was Re: hey you sci-fi hepcats (100% caprica =0% RH))) My take on it, leaving bootlegs aside: 1) Marquee Moon 2) Adventure 3) Television 4) The Blow-Up 5) Live at the Old Waldorf Goddamn that never gets old. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:02:48 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Propellor Time > 2) Is "Propellor" a British spelling, or what? ('Round these here yankee > parts, we write "propeller"...) Oddly I had just the opposite instinct, that "propeller" was the UK version. I always start to spell the (UK) artist name "Propellerheads" as "Propellorheads", until I remember that I'd been wrong the last time I did that. But I also do the same thing with the (US) artist Shoes' album "Propeller", so maybe I'm just confused and/or pretentious. Talking of which, I've been adding artwork to my iTunes, which is a massive task and involves looking up tonnes of images. The interesting little sidelight is seeing what suggestions google offers up for half-finished artist names. I should have been writing them down... the one that comes to mind right away is how, when typing the word "Pretenders" into the search box, Google suggests the word "pretentious" up until you hit the "d". Which at first seems reasonable, since many people do indeed write the word "pretentious" on the internet. But at second blush, I have to wonder... who goes *searching* for it? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:08:12 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Holy Fucking Crapshit! On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > On Feb 9, 2010, at 6:30 PM, Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: > > > speaking of being blewn away; still trying to get my mind around lobstie > > and rexie never having heard *Dark Side O' The Moon* all the way through. > > quite the accomplishment (for better or worse)! > Naw, easy as pie. Possibly because I didn't have any older siblings or older neighbor kids around me? And also because I sort of moved right into pop music on the indie side and almost immediately absorbed the punk-derived faux-contempt for the Floyd. Later on, when the snottiness wore off, I looked at the tracklist and realized I'd heard it all, just not in order, thanks to second-hand classic rock radio and laserium shows at Frostburg State... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:36:53 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: colin covers robyn notes the following cover MP3s: * The Decemberists  Tonight (the Soft Boys) * The Decemberists  Chinese Bones (Robyn Hitchcock) * The Decemberists  I Feel Beautiful (Robyn Hitchcock) * The Decemberists  I Saw Nick Drake (Robyn Hitchcock) * The Decemberists  It Sounds Great When Youre Dead (Robyn Hitchcock) * The Decemberists  Madonna of the Wasps (Robyn Hitchcock) * The Decemberists  Messages of Dark (Robyn Hitchcock) * The Decemberists  Uncorrected Personality Traits (Robyn Hitchcock) Stewart (found on metafilter, which seems the sort of place that fegs could infiltrate) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:49:06 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V18 #28 >\<**PS: No, I don't like Arcade Fire or Outkast.> > >but what about buck 65? I ain't givin you no buck 65 you goddam loch ness monster! erm...sorry... not sure what came over me then. 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, 10 Feb 2010 19:08:08 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V18 #28 James Dignan wrote: > > erm...sorry... not sure what came over me then. Don't fegpost stoned, James. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:11:27 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V18 #28 On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > Don't fegpost stoned, James. Poor advice. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:46:57 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: television top 5 thread (was Re: hey you sci-fi hepcats (100% caprica =0% RH))) On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, lep wrote: > so you folks with televisions, chime away. i'd be interested in > knowing people's top 5 show for shows that are currently being run, > but if you're television-less and watch on DVD, that'd be only > slightly less interesting. or hell, go crazy and make two lists. and > if you're really bored, or just want to keep facebook from drowning > out the voice of the fegList, make a third list for ALL-TIME BEST > SHOWS EVER. I have a television, but haven't had cable TV since May. The only current shows I've bothered to keep up with via Hulu, iTunes or Internet piracy have been: 1. Dollhouse - great despite its missed potential (but of course I'm a drooling Whedon fanboy so I *would* say that, wouldn't I?) 2. Mad Men - great 3. Breaking Bad - great; caught part of season 2 back when I still had cable 4. True Blood - NOT great, but good cheesy fun So that's not even five. I'd like to see Torchwood: Children of Earth, but can wait for the DVD. Same thing with Caprica (I haven't even watched BSG: The Plan yet). I occasionally watch Stewart and Colbert online, but not regularly, so they don't really count for this list. And I've recently caught up with seasons 1-3 of Dexter, via Netflix, but haven't seen this year's episodes yet. I guess that's more of a list #2 thing. List #3, all time greatest shows? I haven't seen enough shows to judge. I'm more comfortable listing personal favorites. You could probably guess: 1. Joss Whedon shows. Buffy remains my first love and all-around favorite, but Angel, Firefly and Dollhouse each surpass it in certain respects. 2. Battlestar Galactica. The new one, obviously. 3. The Big Four HBO series: The Wire, Deadwood, Six Feet Under and the Sopranos. That's in order of my affection. If ranked by quality, The Sopranos would have to go ahead of Six Feet Under. 4. The Simpsons (though I haven't watched it regularly since about 2002) 5. Futurama 6. Freaks and Geeks 7. The Shield 8. Breaking Bad and Mad Men, mentioned above. What are they smoking at AMC? Whatever it is, I want some. 9. Veronica Mars 10. The original Life on Mars Old favorites that I'd probably still love if I went back to them: Twin Peaks, The X-Files, Dr. Who, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Hill Street Blues, maybe ST:TNG Shows that I've watched extensively and enjoyed even though they really aren't good enough to make the above lists: Stargate SG-1, Rome, Sons of Anarchy (season 1), Torchwood - --Chris "BIG fucking nerd" the Christer ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:05:11 -0800 From: cgalbraith Subject: Re: television top 5 thread (was Re: hey you sci-fi hepcats (100% caprica =0% RH))) On Feb 10, 2010, at 4:46 PM, Christopher Gross wrote: > > 1. Joss Whedon shows. Buffy remains my first love and all-around > favorite, but Angel, Firefly and Dollhouse each surpass it in > certain respects. > 2. Battlestar Galactica. The new one, obviously. > 3. The Big Four HBO series: The Wire, Deadwood, Six Feet Under and > the Sopranos. That's in order of my affection. If ranked by > quality, The Sopranos would have to go ahead of Six Feet Under. > 4. The Simpsons (though I haven't watched it regularly since about > 2002) > 5. Futurama > 6. Freaks and Geeks > 7. The Shield > 8. Breaking Bad and Mad Men, mentioned above. What are they smoking > at AMC? Whatever it is, I want some. > 9. Veronica Mars > 10. The original Life on Mars > Except for #1 on this list I've not seen the others but I have to add: Homicide: Life on the Street Law & Order: Criminal Intent (But only for Vincent D'Onfrio, he's incredible) Friends have loaned Season 1 for both of these on DVD and I have to say, I found them both intriguing. - - c, who holds Angel dear to her heart but otherwise agrees with CG's #1 sentiments above ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:50:49 -0500 From: FSThomas Subject: Re: colin covers robyn Stewart C. Russell wrote: > > notes the following cover MP3s: > Rockstar. I follow that blog on occasion and I'm disappointed I missed that... - -f. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:31:27 -0500 From: Stewart Russell Subject: reap Designer Alexander McQueen, 40. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V18 #29 *******************************