From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V18 #35 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, February 18 2010 Volume 18 : Number 035 Today's Subjects: ----------------- hi. my name is lauren, and i'm a robyn hitchcock fan [lep ] Fw: [AVALON] Dance is the Drug ["Jeff B" ] Re: hi. my name is lauren, and i'm a robyn hitchcock fan [Sebastian Haged] Re: hi. my name is lauren, and i'm a robyn hitchcock fan [Christopher Gro] Barbican 9th March [hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] Re: Albums so perfect, you may (almost) gloss right past them... [Christo] Re: Albums so perfect, you may (almost) gloss right past them... [Jeremy ] Re: hi. my name is lauren, and i'm a robyn hitchcock fan [lep ] Re: Reap [Stewart Russell ] Re: Albums so perfect, you may (almost) gloss right past them... [kevin s] Re: Hats off [James Dignan ] Re: hi. my name is lauren, and i'm a robyn hitchcock fan ["edwardofsim@ti] Re: hi. my name is lauren, and i'm a robyn hitchcock fan [kevin studyvin ] Re: television top 5 thread [hsatterfld@aol.com] Re: hi. my name is lauren, and i'm a robyn hitchcock fan [kevin studyvin ] Re: Hats off [hsatterfld@aol.com] Reap [Jeff Margrave ] Re: Albums so perfect, you may (almost) gloss right past them... [2fs Subject: hi. my name is lauren, and i'm a robyn hitchcock fan hi list, yes, i'm inventing topics because everyone damn well knows that we'll never see eddie on facebook. i'd answer sweeney's post but that's a Big Question; sometimes, i love all my music equally, and this is one of those days ("the man at the centre of the motorcade can't choose between coffee and tea" - of course some of my music is more equal than other music.) you're all (allegedly) robyn hitchcock fans, so my conjecture is everyone on the list is a bit...quirky in one way or another. so 'fess up. my suggestion: give us one to three quirks, and nothing really gross or illegal (N.B. these are just guidelines - who am i to box you in?) i'll start: 1) when setting a digital alarm clock, i never set the wake-up time to any multiple of 5 minutes, e.g. 8:00, 8:05, 8:30 are out. even worse, i almost always pick the minutes to be a prime number, e.g. 8:07, 8:23, 8:53. 2) i fucking hate wind chimes. 3) i don't think i've ever made it through one of robyn's liner notes "stories". who the hell writes these things? they're like thickets of brier patches. as ever, lauren - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:41:42 -0800 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: Disharmonious Conflict Hell-Ride too bed wesley willis wasn't there to write a song about it... . ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:18:46 -0700 From: "Jeff B" Subject: Fw: [AVALON] Dance is the Drug Next stop--the Singularity! Jeff B. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Colette Robertson" To: Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 5:09 AM Subject: [AVALON] Dance is the Drug > Interesting Roxy Music/David Bowie mashup by DJ Lobsterdust. > > > > http://djlobsterdust.com/index.php/mashups/david-bowie-vs-roxy-music/ > > > > Cheers, Colette > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:25:10 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: hi. my name is lauren, and i'm a robyn hitchcock fan - --On 17. Februar 2010 20:16:20 -0500 lep wrote: > you're all (allegedly) robyn hitchcock fans, so my conjecture is > everyone on the list is a bit...quirky in one way or another. so > 'fess up. my suggestion: give us one to three quirks, and nothing > really gross or illegal (N.B. these are just guidelines - who am i to > box you in?) I'm sure I have them, but I don't think I'm self-aware enough for this excercise :) In other RH news, I listened to the Decemberists covers of RH songs that someone posted recently. I like them a lot! Some sound uncannily like our man himself and some were the first-ever live versions I'd heard, e.g. "Messages Of Dark". Which leads to the 823d entry for "misheard lyrics that I actually like better than the real ones": In said song, where it goes "There you are, like a spider in a ...", I always heard "ballroom", which is so much cooler than the prosaic "corner". So fuck you, Colin Meloy, for ruining my illusion! PS: sorry for hijacking your thread, Lauren ... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:58:00 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: hi. my name is lauren, and i'm a robyn hitchcock fan On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, lep wrote: > you're all (allegedly) robyn hitchcock fans, so my conjecture is > everyone on the list is a bit...quirky in one way or another. so > 'fess up. my suggestion: give us one to three quirks, and nothing > really gross or illegal (N.B. these are just guidelines - who am i to > box you in?) I dunno, I think a lot of people will be reluctant to post their own quirks. Too much risk of coming across as either oblivious or self-satisfied. And even worse, there's the risk that someone will respond "You think *that* is your quirk? What about [x]?" where [x] is something you thought passed unnoticed, or even something you were rather proud of.... One of my quirks ... well, this might not count as a quirk, exactly, but I have a personal rule against wearing a musical artist t-shirt to a performance by that artist. I'll even carry a newly-purchased t-shirt in my hand all evening rather than put it on at the show. Another quirk: I traditionally watch the Buffy episodes "Surprise" and "Innocence" sometime near my birthday every year. You know, just to get into the cheerful birthday mood. Another quirk: I like Robyn Hitchcock. - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:52:11 +0000 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Barbican 9th March Just received the following. What hope is there if even a cultural citadel like the Barbican doesn't know the difference between "its" and "it's"? "Tue 9 Mar "Songs In The Key Of London "From the bustle of the music halls to the riot of the punks - tonight is a celebration of London's iconic songs from some of it's most extraordinary talents . "Hosted by Phil Daniels, featuring Chris Difford, Blaine Harrison, Robyn Hitchcock, Jools Holland, James Hunter, Natty, Rico Rodriguez, Andy Serkis & Chaz Jankel, Chas Smash, Peggy Sue, Suggs, Glenn Tilbrook, Kathryn Williams & more. "Part of EAST More info http://event.barbican.org.uk/t/1345839/1205198/22884/0/ Book http://event.barbican.org.uk/t/1345839/1205198/29661/0/ - - Mike Godwin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:39:20 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: Albums so perfect, you may (almost) gloss right past them... On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, Michael Sweeney wrote: > ...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... I think it makes sense, for what that's worth. Why it happens is another question. But I have a theory as far as Desert Island lists go. IMO it doesn't show the existence of different categories of music, or of favorite-ness, so much as it indicates a general problem with the Desert Island Discs format itself. At least for someone like me, who perhaps takes the question too seriously. Your DID are supposed to be the 5 (or whatever) albums that you are going to listen to exclusively for a long period of time, right? So they can't just be your top 5. You also need variety! Variety of artists, variety of genres, variety of styles and moods. So you might consider 4 Beatles albums to be your all-time favorites, or even "perfect" ... but do you really want to limit all music recorded after 1970 to just one slot? Probably not. So your DID list immediately starts diverging from your favorites or essentials list. And then you start wondering if you really want to listen to nothing but rock for the next ten years. And shouldn't you have some more cheerful tunes? Or do you already have too many? ... Pretty soon you're kicking your choice for best album of all time off the list to make a better rounded overall collection. Of course there's also the school of thought that says your DID should be all triple-gatefold LPs, so you can use them to construct a lean-to shelter against the blazing tropical sun. Mind you, I hate choosing favorite lists of anything. My mind prefers working more along the lines of broad categories of love, like and dislike; or else listing the pluses and minuses of an album (or whatever) without trying to rank it against other albums. So my opinions about list making might be worth only slightly more than my opinions about NASCAR or The Real World. - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:44:39 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Albums so perfect, you may (almost) gloss right past them... On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Christopher Gross wrote: > My mind prefers > working more along the lines of broad categories of love Amen to that, brother ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:50:28 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: hi. my name is lauren, and i'm a robyn hitchcock fan Chris says: > On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, lep wrote: > >> you're all (allegedly) robyn hitchcock fans, so my conjecture is >> everyone on the list is a bit...quirky in one way or another. so >> 'fess up. my suggestion: give us one to three quirks, and nothing >> really gross or illegal (N.B. these are just guidelines - who am i to >> box you in?) > > I dunno, I think a lot of people will be reluctant to post their own quirks. > Too much risk of coming across as either oblivious or self-satisfied. And > even worse, there's the risk that someone will respond "You think *that* is > your quirk? What about [x]?" where [x] is something you thought passed > unnoticed, or even something you were rather proud of.... yeah, i realized i had a dud a bit after i posted it. i think i emphasized the "quirk" part too much - i mean, i like to keep it light and "quirk" probably has a weirder connotation than i intended. > One of my quirks ... well, this might not count as a quirk, exactly, but I > have a personal rule against wearing a musical artist t-shirt to a > performance by that artist. I'll even carry a newly-purchased t-shirt in my > hand all evening rather than put it on at the show. > > Another quirk: I traditionally watch the Buffy episodes "Surprise" and > "Innocence" sometime near my birthday every year. You know, just to get > into the cheerful birthday mood. > > Another quirk: I like Robyn Hitchcock. you get the idea! xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:04:00 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: Albums so perfect, you may (almost) gloss right past them... Jeremy says: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Christopher Gross wrote: >> My mind prefers >> working more along the lines of broad categories of love > > Amen to that, brother > i only ever talk about my favourite albums, never the "best" albums. i tend to believe that my love of whatever i love is not up to me, and so i can never seem to argue that there's an objective reason for others to think well of what i like. i mean, i can tell a good album from a bad one, and a good book from a bad, but as far as "best", i'm at a loss. things don't change much for me, so, for now, i'll just post a list i posted awhile back. it's my last post on this digest: http://fegmania.org/archives/fegmaniax/v16.n319 oh, from another post on that digest, looks like i was in full spike mode. speaking of which, has anyone else heard that james marsters is supposedly joining the cast of "caprica"? except now sebastian says it's in trouble, and i still don't know from what (ratings? it seems kind of early, and, anyone, what the hell does syfy cable expect out of their ratings?) xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:57:32 -0500 From: Stewart Russell Subject: Reap Gordon Lightfoot, 71 - -- http://scruss.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:05:24 -0500 From: Stewart Russell Subject: Re: Reap Okay, only a couple of papers are reporting this, and others say he's okay. On 2/18/10, Stewart Russell wrote: > Gordon Lightfoot, 71 > > -- > http://scruss.com/blog/ > - -- http://scruss.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:34:32 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Albums so perfect, you may (almost) gloss right past them... > (ratings? it seems kind of early, and, anyone, what the hell does syfy > cable expect out > of their ratings?) > I've never trusted those fuckers since they cut The Invisible Man. I loved that show. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:28:11 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: Hats off Onbe additional comment... while I recommended Roy Harper to Robyn fans, I didn't indicate a good starting point. I'd probably start with "Folkjokeopus" - it's probably the most Robynesque, in an "Eye" sort of way. 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: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:35:53 +0100 (GMT+01:00) From: "edwardofsim@tiscali.co.uk" Subject: Re: hi. my name is lauren, and i'm a robyn hitchcock fan Hey Lauren, it's no dud in my book, I like the quirk thread just fine. 1) I'm a "freaky eater," or at least my workmates think so. Won't eat pie, won't eat gravy, won't eat beans, won't eat probably a majority of things that my mates here in Lancashire all eat. Don't even get me started on steak pudding, steak and kidney pie, black pudding, mushy peas, ... 2) When we're driving, and we pass a truck loaded with bales of hay, or there are bales of hay visible in fields alongside the road, I always go, "Hay!" and point, and people look to see what I'm 'hey'ing at, and then realise that, yes, once again, I'm pointing at hay. This will absolutely never stop amusing me. (And p.s., some of you are going to do this the next time you're in a car with a friend / partner and drive past some hay.) 3) I guess I just say weird shit and don't realise it. A colleague of mine who is working only temporarily in our office has been making notes of phrases I "always say," and a couple of days ago she read them out to me. My favourites of the ones she'd written were, "My brain hurts," "This is the part of the movie where I scream," and "I have bursts of optimism, followed by periods of total despair." So there you go. peace and love, Edward ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:29:46 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: hi. my name is lauren, and i'm a robyn hitchcock fan > 1) I'm a "freaky eater," or at least my workmates think so. Won't eat > pie, won't eat gravy, won't eat beans, won't eat probably a majority of > things that my mates here in Lancashire all eat. Don't even get me > started on steak pudding, steak and kidney pie, black pudding, mushy > peas, ... > > I can sympathize with avoiding all the stereotypically English stuff, but beans? Lots of fiber & protein packed in there. Soaking for 24 hours before cooking breaks down a lot of the sugars that your body turns into methane or whatever. Especially for the non-meat-eating crowd (which I'm definitely not of) beans are an enormously valuable food. And cheap. > 2) When we're driving, and we pass a truck loaded with bales of hay, > or there are bales of hay visible in fields alongside the road, I > always go, "Hay!" and point, and people look to see what I'm 'hey'ing > at, and then realise that, yes, once again, I'm pointing at hay. This > will absolutely never stop amusing me. (And p.s., some of you are going > to do this the next time you're in a car with a friend / partner and > drive past some hay.) > > This is a perfect example of the kind of stuff that breaks me up. As the late Michael O'Donoghue once said, "'Sophomoric' is just the liberal word for 'funny'." > 3) I guess I just say weird shit and don't realise it. A colleague of > mine who is working only temporarily in our office has been making > notes of phrases I "always say," and a couple of days ago she read them > out to me. My favourites of the ones she'd written were, "My brain > hurts," "This is the part of the movie where I scream," and "I have > bursts of optimism, followed by periods of total despair." > These are similar to the sort of remarks that have traditionally endeared me to co-workers, not to say cow-orkers. You're in good company. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:24:21 -0500 From: hsatterfld@aol.com Subject: Re: television top 5 thread >http://www.cafepress.com/+twin-peaks+mugs > >I've got a Twin Peaks Sherrif's Department coffee mug. > >Michael B. I love the Garmonbozia mug they sell at http://www.twinpeaksfest.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:31:14 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: hi. my name is lauren, and i'm a robyn hitchcock fan > My favourites of the ones she'd written were, "My brain > hurts," "This is the part of the movie where I scream," and "I have > bursts of optimism, followed by periods of total despair." > Not to mention "my brain hurts!" is vintage Python. Get in the vase!!! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:32:26 -0500 From: hsatterfld@aol.com Subject: Re: Hats off James Dignan wrote: > 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? "Year of the Cat" may not be representative of Mr. Stewart as it is an Alan Parsons production, but I like records engineered by Parsons in general. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:07:16 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Margrave Subject: Reap Dale Hawkins http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/arts/music/18hawkins.html?hpw "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:19:49 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Albums so perfect, you may (almost) gloss right past them... On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:34 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > > (ratings? it seems kind of early, and, anyone, what the hell does syfy > > cable expect out > > of their ratings?) > > > > I've never trusted those fuckers since they cut The Invisible Man. > It's still on. It's just invisible. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V18 #35 *******************************