From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V18 #34 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, February 17 2010 Volume 18 : Number 034 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Hats off [James Dignan ] Though my name is "Eb", I'm known in certain circles as "Mammoth Hot Springs" (consider purchasing a session with me if you'd like to know why!)... [] Re: Hitchcock Times - Issue 1 [2fs ] Albums so perfect, you may (almost) gloss right past them... [Michael Swe] Re: Albums so perfect, you may (almost) gloss right past them... [Jeremy ] Fwd: television top 5 thread (was Re: hey you sci-fi hepcats (100% caprica =0% RH))) [michaeljbachma] Re: Albums so perfect, you may (almost) gloss right past them... [Jeremy ] Elizabeth Jade [James Dignan ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:56:20 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: Hats off > > One thing that did surprise me is that some of Harper's early work > > sounds like - of all people - Al Stewart, someone whose music i have > > often regarded as a bit of a guilty pleasure. Anyone else here like > > Al's music? > >As in "Year of the Cat" Al Stewart? If so, the wife likes him quite a >bit. Seems a bit dated to me. That's the one. His later work is pretty MOR, and the production is very 70s (especially the use of saxophone for instrumetal breaks), but the earlier stuff is far folkier and still pretty appealing. And - - for all it's datedness - few have improved on the mental image conjured up by that opening line of YotC. 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: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:42:11 -0800 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: Though my name is "Eb", I'm known in certain circles as "Mammoth Hot Springs" (consider purchasing a session with me if you'd like to know why!)... i had thought, perhaps mistakenly, that the colonial era was an especial interest of yours. for what it's worth, i was basing my "understanding" not upon a given quote, but upon passing remarks in longer pieces regarding free speech -- one by chomsky, one by (RIP) zinn. let's see... . . fegs, do yourselves a HUGE mega-big favour and check out jeremy burke. . i hate myspace like the fucking devil; but so far as i'm aware, it's his only site. kinda reminds me at times of the crooked jades -- only way more consistent. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:27:18 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Hitchcock Times - Issue 1 Thou art rock, Poster? On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:09 AM, ART ROCK POSTER wrote: > ----- Forwarded message from Hitchcock Times > ----- > > Subject: Hitchcock Times - Issue 1 > From: Hitchcock Times > Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:12:25 +0000 > > Behold Issue 1 of the Hitchcock Times: > > http://www.robynhitchcock.com/mailout/mailout1/ > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:37:28 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Albums so perfect, you may (almost) gloss right past them... This thought hit me after a connected-from-long-ago very close friend (yes, via F/B) asked for a "desert island" list of fave records....How there are passionate or semi-automatic choices the even we, dedicated music fans that we are, can reel right off...(for me, that goes "Tusk," "Quadrophenia," "London Calling," "Eye," "Sgt. Pepper," "Revolver [orig. British ver. (which, after 35 yrs of saying that, I guess I don't have to anymore, what with the common restoration of the UK vers of the Fabs' early catalog)], and "IODOT"...) ...But...then a few other things struck me - about therebeing records that we love - that we consider so perfect - that we might not address them in the same way...might not have them immediately float to mind as our favorites... For example, for me, there is not one tiniest bit of anything wrong with AND I truly love beyond any reasonable nature of the matter these "perfect" LPs: "Underwater Moonlight," "Avalon," "English Settlement," "Blood on the Tracks," "The Beatles [White Album]," "John Lennon Plastic Ono Band," "All Things Must Pass" (OK, the "Apple Jam" disk is FAR from perfect, but...c'mon! the rest of a perfect double album by the "Quiet" guy!), "London Town," "Blue," "Hejira," "Making Movies," "Madman Across the Water," "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot," "Being There," "Berlin," "Animals," "Kid A," and "Amnesiac"... ...And, OK - maybe I just spewed out a today version of an unranked top 25 of my faves...but, my point (uh...wait - there it is!) is that the rest of those I might not regard as my INSTANT top picks for (say...) 5 d.i. disks, but...I also consider them to be perfect AND oh-so-essential. (And, especially the first 4 or 5 of them I mentioned, well...none of them instantly spring to mind as my first-to-mention faves, but...they are intensely perfect to me!) ...Hmm - make sense? Any at all? Or maybe it's just me and my mind...which has - frankly - been a bit disturbed lately by external forces and emotional happenstances. Oh well - as usual, smoke 'em if you got 'em...and discuss amongst yourselves... Michael "I'm sure there are SO MANY I forgot to include...the Reed and P.Floyd ones didn't come to me until late - and in no way are those minor picks for me at this..." Sweeney ps - my list got so big that it likely distorted my original intended meaning, but...I ain't gonna trim it...so, just imagine I just mentioned like the R.Music, S.Boys, Dylan, Lennon, and one of the Mitchell records...(if that helps at all...) (sigh...truly weird times here inside of me...looks like I picked the wrong decade to quit SO MANY things (a la Lloyd Bridges in "Airplane!")...) _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469230/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:05:22 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Albums so perfect, you may (almost) gloss right past them... A record I just found out about last week but which I'm pretty well convinced is on my list of essential records, is Steve Earle with the Del McCoury Band, "The Mountain" (1999). On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Michael Sweeney wrote: > This thought hit me after a connected-from-long-ago very close friend (yes, > via F/B) asked for a "desert island" list of fave records....How there are > passionate or semi-automatic choices the even we, dedicated music fans that we > are, can reel right off...(for me, that goes "Tusk," "Quadrophenia," "London > Calling," "Eye," "Sgt. Pepper," "Revolver [orig. British ver. (which, after 35 > yrs of saying that, I guess I don't have to anymore, what with the common > restoration of the UK vers of the Fabs' early catalog)], and "IODOT"...) > > ...But...then a few other things struck me - about therebeing records that we > love - that we consider so perfect - that we might not address them in the > same way...might not have them immediately float to mind as our favorites... > > For example, for me, there is not one tiniest bit of anything wrong with AND I > truly love beyond any reasonable nature of the matter these "perfect" LPs: > "Underwater Moonlight," "Avalon," "English Settlement," "Blood on the Tracks," > "The Beatles [White Album]," "John Lennon Plastic Ono Band," "All Things Must > Pass" (OK, the "Apple Jam" disk is FAR from perfect, but...c'mon! the rest of > a perfect double album by the "Quiet" guy!), "London Town," "Blue," "Hejira," > "Making Movies," "Madman Across the Water," "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot," "Being > There," "Berlin," "Animals," "Kid A," and "Amnesiac"... > > ...And, OK - maybe I just spewed out a today version of an unranked top 25 of > my faves...but, my point (uh...wait - there it is!) is that the rest of those > I might not regard as my INSTANT top picks for (say...) 5 d.i. disks, but...I > also consider them to be perfect AND oh-so-essential. (And, especially the > first 4 or 5 of them I mentioned, well...none of them instantly spring to mind > as my first-to-mention faves, but...they are intensely perfect to me!) > > ...Hmm - make sense? Any at all? Or maybe it's just me and my mind...which > has - frankly - been a bit disturbed lately by external forces and emotional > happenstances. Oh well - as usual, smoke 'em if you got 'em...and discuss > amongst yourselves... > > > > Michael "I'm sure there are SO MANY I forgot to include...the Reed and P.Floyd > ones didn't come to me until late - and in no way are those minor picks for me > at this..." Sweeney > > ps - my list got so big that it likely distorted my original intended meaning, > but...I ain't gonna trim it...so, just imagine I just mentioned like the > R.Music, S.Boys, Dylan, Lennon, and one of the Mitchell records...(if that > helps at all...) (sigh...truly weird times here inside of me...looks like I > picked the wrong decade to quit SO MANY things (a la Lloyd Bridges in > "Airplane!")...) > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. > http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469230/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:14:25 +0000 (UTC) From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Subject: Fwd: television top 5 thread (was Re: hey you sci-fi hepcats (100% caprica =0% RH))) http://www.cafepress.com/+twin-peaks+mugs I've got a Twin Peaks Sherrif's Department coffee mug. Michael B. - ----- "lep" wrote: > From: "lep" > To: "a sweet little cupcake...baked by the devil!" > Sent: Tuesday, February 9, 2010 11:45:58 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: Re: television top 5 thread (was Re: hey you sci-fi hepcats (100% B caprica =0% RH))) > > tc saus" > >> ALL-TIME BEST SHOWS EVER. > > > > Seinfeld > > Twin Peaks > thanks for your lists. B 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.) > i recently bought a book of interviews with david lynch (highly > recommended for any lynch fan, along with the class "lynch on lynch"): > http://www.amazon.com/David-Lynch-Interviews-Conversations-Filmmakers/dp/1604 732377 > which has put me on a major lynch bender. B i've watched "muholland > drive" (i was compelled, as always), "inland empire" (b. and i were > totally creeped out, again), and "the elephant man" (i was sad, > again), as well as the great "stories" extras on the "eraserhead" dvd. > at any rate, i *thought* i would rewatch at least the first season of > twin peaks during the blizzard. B i didn't get to it, but i did spend a > few minutes deeply perplexed as to how there was ever a time when a > major network (was it ABC?) gave *david lynch* a *television show*. > that's almost as strange as the 1970s having existed. > i was still living at my parents, and i have such vivid memories of > running upstairs when "twin peaks" would come on, and later, watching > it with my boyfriend-at-the-time. B as these things tend to go, neither > of us was struck by the oddness of what was actually going on (*david > lynch*...*having a television show*) (i imagine because the 1990s and > the 2000s hadn't happened yet.) > i still can't bring myself to part with the "twin peaks" VCR tapes i > recorded. B i mean, they have the "twin peaks" commercials, and > everything. B well, not commercials *for* "twin peaks" -- the > commercials they played during "twin peaks". B you know i mean. > not to mention i haven't seen season 2 in so long that i probably > forget 80% of what happened. B but i know for a fact that it was a lot > fucking stranger than what happened during season 1. > (BTW, i just looked up the start date for "twin peaks" and it was 8 > april 1990. B you can argue all you want, and you may even be right, > but regardless, i'll always consider "twin peaks" part of the 80s.) > > I reserve the right to augment this list at any time. > naturally. B lists change. B that's why it's a bad idea to laminate them. > xo > -- > "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." B -- the buddha I've got a Twin Peaks Sherrif's Department coffee mug from Cafe Press. http://www.cafepress.com/+twin-peaks+mugs I still have my pre-recorded VCR tapes of the pilot and first season and various DVD releases. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:37:45 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Albums so perfect, you may (almost) gloss right past them... (A different way of phrasing the "desert island" thought-experiment: If you wanna get stranded on my desert island, here are some records you ought to enjoy listening to...) On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > A record I just found out about last week but which I'm pretty well > convinced is on my list of essential records, is Steve Earle with the > Del McCoury Band, "The Mountain" (1999). > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Michael Sweeney > wrote: >> This thought hit me after a connected-from-long-ago very close friend (yes, >> via F/B) asked for a "desert island" list of fave records....How there are >> passionate or semi-automatic choices the even we, dedicated music fans that we >> are, can reel right off...(for me, that goes "Tusk," "Quadrophenia," "London >> Calling," "Eye," "Sgt. Pepper," "Revolver [orig. British ver. (which, after 35 >> yrs of saying that, I guess I don't have to anymore, what with the common >> restoration of the UK vers of the Fabs' early catalog)], and "IODOT"...) >> >> ...But...then a few other things struck me - about therebeing records that we >> love - that we consider so perfect - that we might not address them in the >> same way...might not have them immediately float to mind as our favorites... >> >> For example, for me, there is not one tiniest bit of anything wrong with AND I >> truly love beyond any reasonable nature of the matter these "perfect" LPs: >> "Underwater Moonlight," "Avalon," "English Settlement," "Blood on the Tracks," >> "The Beatles [White Album]," "John Lennon Plastic Ono Band," "All Things Must >> Pass" (OK, the "Apple Jam" disk is FAR from perfect, but...c'mon! the rest of >> a perfect double album by the "Quiet" guy!), "London Town," "Blue," "Hejira," >> "Making Movies," "Madman Across the Water," "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot," "Being >> There," "Berlin," "Animals," "Kid A," and "Amnesiac"... >> >> ...And, OK - maybe I just spewed out a today version of an unranked top 25 of >> my faves...but, my point (uh...wait - there it is!) is that the rest of those >> I might not regard as my INSTANT top picks for (say...) 5 d.i. disks, but...I >> also consider them to be perfect AND oh-so-essential. (And, especially the >> first 4 or 5 of them I mentioned, well...none of them instantly spring to mind >> as my first-to-mention faves, but...they are intensely perfect to me!) >> >> ...Hmm - make sense? Any at all? Or maybe it's just me and my mind...which >> has - frankly - been a bit disturbed lately by external forces and emotional >> happenstances. Oh well - as usual, smoke 'em if you got 'em...and discuss >> amongst yourselves... >> >> >> >> Michael "I'm sure there are SO MANY I forgot to include...the Reed and P.Floyd >> ones didn't come to me until late - and in no way are those minor picks for me >> at this..." Sweeney >> >> ps - my list got so big that it likely distorted my original intended meaning, >> but...I ain't gonna trim it...so, just imagine I just mentioned like the >> R.Music, S.Boys, Dylan, Lennon, and one of the Mitchell records...(if that >> helps at all...) (sigh...truly weird times here inside of me...looks like I >> picked the wrong decade to quit SO MANY things (a la Lloyd Bridges in >> "Airplane!")...) >> >> _________________________________________________________________ >> Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. >> http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469230/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:13:21 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Elizabeth Jade Hi all- Alice raised an interesting question earlier today - is "Elizabeth Jade"'s name in some way inspired by the names of Mick Jagger's daughters, Elizabeth and Jade Jagger? If not, do we have any idea where the inspiration for the name came from? 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") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V18 #34 *******************************