From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V18 #37 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, February 20 2010 Volume 18 : Number 037 Today's Subjects: ----------------- unreap, and reap! [James Dignan ] quirks [Jill Brand ] more on quirks [Jill Brand ] "is he live or dead"? [2fs ] Re: quirks [vivien lyon ] Re: quirks [michael wells ] Re: quirks [kevin studyvin ] Re: quirks [2fs ] end of an era [2fs ] Re: end of an era [vivien lyon ] Re: quirks ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: quirks ["edwardofsim@tiscali.co.uk" ] RE: quirks ["Marc" ] Fwd: television top 5 thread [michaeljbachman@comcast.net] Re: quirks [Caroline Smith ] Tangled [Jeremy Osner ] Re: quirks [Randall Riebe ] Fwd: hi. my name is lauren, and i'm a robyn hitchcock fan [michaeljbachma] Re: hi. my name is lauren, and i'm a robyn hitchcock fan [vivien lyon ] Silence and Darkness [Jeremy Osner ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:09:01 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: unreap, and reap! Seems that the news reports of Gordon Lightfoot's death may have been a little exaggerated... Kathryn Grayson, however, has gone. 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 21:19:13 -0500 (EST) From: Jill Brand Subject: quirks Christopher Gross wrote: "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." Me too, me too, me too. Another quirk - I HATE talking to people who have earbuds in their ears, whether the music is on or off. I just think it's fucking rude. Jill ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:26:46 -0500 (EST) From: Jill Brand Subject: more on quirks Carrie Galbraith has just officially freaked me out (but that's OK). You and my daughter should get together over this shared drink thing. The other day I took a sip of her water at a food court 'cause I didn't have any. OMG. The having never seen a Star Wars thing also freaked me out a bit. However, the most I've ever seen of the Simpsons is 5 minutes of an episode, so I'm right there with you on that. These are really fun - keep 'em rolling. Jill ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:38:02 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: "is he live or dead"? Ozzy Osbourne needs to know: so is Gordon Lightfoot alive, dead, or hanging out with Schrodinger's cat waiting for someone to open the box, open the box, open the goddam box? (And now I'm wondering if there are any other feg posts including Black Sabbath, Gordon Lightfoot, The Fall, and quantum physics - you'd think there'd be reams of 'em, but you never just know.) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:01:21 -0800 From: vivien lyon Subject: Re: quirks That's not a quirk, Christopher, that's an ironclad rule. People who break the rule are legitimately subject to eye-rolling. On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Jill Brand wrote: > Christopher Gross wrote: > > "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." > > Me too, me too, me too. > > Another quirk - I HATE talking to people who have earbuds in their ears, > whether the music is on or off. I just think it's fucking rude. > > Jill ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:20:29 -0600 From: michael wells Subject: Re: quirks Must disagree. You are freely entitled to wear *previous tour t- shirts* of the playing band if: a) it is at least 10 years (or 5 tours) old, and/or b) you are creating waves of sexual tension with it So it's entirely appropriate to pull out that "Hemispheres" tour for a current Rush show, or don a Skynard tube top (presuming you can...support such an endeavor). Also, Soft Boys tees are always in good taste at Robyn shows! Michael "my 80's tees are about the size of a handkerchief at this point" the Michaelster > On Feb 19, 2010, at 9:01 PM, vivien lyon wrote: That's not a quirk, Christopher, that's an ironclad rule. People who break the rule are legitimately subject to eye-rolling. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:39:09 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: quirks > So it's entirely appropriate to pull out that "Hemispheres" tour for a > current Rush show, or don a Skynard tube top (presuming you can...support > such an endeavor). > Yuk, yuk, yuk. > > Also, Soft Boys tees are always in good taste at Robyn shows! > Or anywhere else, really. > > Michael "my 80's tees are about the size of a handkerchief at this point" > the Michaelster > > FWIW a designer told me back in the 70s to never ever put anything in a clothes dryer if you care about it because, shrinkage aside, the heat causes fibers to break down and shortens the life of the fabric something fierce. I've always lived by these words of wisdom & my stuff lasts forever or until my wife makes it mysteriously disappear because she's tired of looking at it. > > > > On Feb 19, 2010, at 9:01 PM, vivien lyon wrote: > That's not a quirk, Christopher, that's an ironclad rule. People who break > the rule are legitimately subject to eye-rolling. > At the very least. There's also the treatment Bluto afforded Stephen Bishop's guitar in Animal House. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:20:12 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: quirks On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:20 PM, michael wells wrote: > Must disagree. You are freely entitled to wear *previous tour t-shirts* of > the playing band if: > > a) it is at least 10 years (or 5 tours) old, and/or > b) you are creating waves of sexual tension with it > The latter is, of course, an exemption to nearly every otherwise inviolable fashion rule. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:22:23 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: end of an era Since she's announced it at her Facebook page, I don't think it's out of line for me to post it here, but... Congratulations to Vivien Lyon on her engagement! The sound you hear is a horde of male fegs heaving enormous sighs of disappointment. And probably not a few female fegs too... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:29:35 -0800 From: vivien lyon Subject: Re: end of an era On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:22 PM, 2fs wrote: > Congratulations to Vivien Lyon on her engagement! > > Thanks, Jeff! The sound you hear is a horde of male fegs heaving enormous sighs of > disappointment. And probably not a few female fegs too... > Your flattery makes me blush and preen. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 07:29:43 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: quirks Maybe I should let Catherine add her observations, but I'll admit to being very particular about my spoons. The shape and balance point, the overall heft, must be just right. The wrong spoon with my breakfast and I'm grouchy all day. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:20:08 +0100 (GMT+01:00) From: "edwardofsim@tiscali.co.uk" Subject: Re: quirks scruss@gmail.com said: > >Maybe I should let Catherine add her observations, but I'll admit to >being very particular about my spoons. The shape and balance point, the >overall heft, must be just right. The wrong spoon with my breakfast and >I'm grouchy all day. "I must find the perfect spoon." - - Salad Fingers ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:04:44 -0500 From: "Marc" Subject: RE: quirks Stewart wrote: <> Are you sure it's not just a big "When I Was Dead" reference? Marc ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:11:11 +0000 (UTC) From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Subject: Fwd: television top 5 thread - ----- "lep" wrote: > From: "lep" > To: hsatterfld@aol.com > Cc: fegmaniax@smoe.org > Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 12:22:56 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: Re: television top 5 thread > > On Feb 18, 2010, at 7:24 PM, hsatterfld@aol.com says: > >> 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/ > Have you been to one of the TP Fests? > I'd nearly kill for a Cooper FBI windbreaker/coat, but I imagine B > they're illegal to wear outside the privacy of one's home. > xo > PS: I'm on a major Lynch bender. He's given up donuts and pie. B The B > latest interview I read, he was on a protein / non-donut diet for B > weight loss. I think he still drinks coffee as last I checked, he has B > his own brand which he sells on his website. I've beenB gettingB 1 pound each of the favored and non-flavored Mud Of The Month selections from this place for the past six years, locatedB near the Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes on the shores of Lake Michigan. Highly recommended. http://www.coffeeguys.com/ B Michael B. NP The Boo Radleys - Everything's Allright Forever ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 10:01:58 -0500 From: Caroline Smith Subject: Re: quirks On 2010-02-20, at 7:29 AM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > Maybe I should let Catherine add her observations, but I'll admit to > being very particular about my spoons. The shape and balance point, the > overall heft, must be just right. The wrong spoon with my breakfast and > I'm grouchy all day. > > Stewart Most importantly, do you prefer to be on the inside or the outside? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:02:58 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Tangled She was working in a topless place when I stopped in for a top I said I was missing half of my face She said, you came to the wrong shop. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:09:46 -0800 (PST) From: Randall Riebe Subject: Re: quirks Being diagnosed with OCD, my quirks are too numerous to get into........... But I have to mention this since it's been festering in my mind since this thread first popped up- When people, particularly newscasters, use the word "plucked" when describing a mountain or water rescue. I really can't express how much this actually angers me. Vince ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:42:11 +0000 (UTC) From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Subject: Fwd: hi. my name is lauren, and i'm a robyn hitchcock fan - ----- "lep" wrote: > From: "lep" > To: "a sweet little cupcake...baked by the devil!" > Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 10:17:14 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: Re: hi. my name is lauren, and i'm a robyn hitchcock fan > > jeff 2fs says: > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Christopher Gross wrote: > > > >> On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, lep wrote: > >> > >> B you're all (allegedly) robyn hitchcock fans, so my conjecture is > >>> everyone on the list is a bit...quirky in one way or another. B so > >>> 'fess up. B 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?) > >>> > >> > >> 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. > > > > > > Absolutely. Somehow that seems tacky - I mean, obviously you're a fan, or > > you wouldn't be there... > agreed. B i tried to wear to wear my bowie shirt to every show. > obviously, if it was a bowie show, i wouldn't, but he tends to play at > venues either too large for my tastes, or else sells out in several > seconds. > > Incidentally, bands wearing their own t-shirts? Very tacky. > except steely dan? > i liked that for like a year, every photograph of elliott smith had > him wearing a willie nelson shirt. B it may be kind of gross, but maybe > one has to be a bit gross to really put get their point across. B which > in mr. smith's case might have been "I NEED HELP", as opposed to > "willie nelson. B cool." > the only time saw him, he had a homemade shirt that said "i > metal." B also, no lie, some guy at the show or some NY show had *made* > him an acoustic guitar and given it to him. > > My quirks? I mean, other than any exhibited here in profusion? > > > > Hmm...when I pick up free newsweeklies and the like, I never take the top > > one. I don't know why. > i do the same thing. B and since i spend 90% of my time analyzing my > thoughts and actions, i know why -- i always suspect there's something > missing from the top one(s). B like someone just grabbed their needed > few pages of it (e.g. the pages asian women with oddly large breast, > offering "body shampoos") (closely located to the "savage love" which > is most of the reason i'm picking it up anyone) and stuck the rest of > it back. B ideally, i grab from ~1/3 of the way down the pile. > > In restaurants, bars, and other public places, I'm very uncomfortable if I'm > > seated in such a way that the majority of the room is behind me. (Rose > > theorizes that in a previous life I was a mobster killed in a restaurant who > > didn't spot the gunman coming in, and that's why...) > here, too. B i'm suspicious of people, so i like to see what i'm > getting. B in general, crowded restaurants freak me out, and i like a > corner table, or at least a wall table. B one gets a better view of the > situation that way. > > Also, I enjoy beer. Oh wait - that's not a quirk. Substitute "Revolution 9" > > for "beer." lep came back with: > i don't drink beer. B and i don't listen to "revolution 9" (it scares > me.) B i always skip it, and get freaked out if i forget to. B i should > actually reburn the cd without it, just to stay safe. From the land of Win ona Ryder (Petaluma, CA), comes my current favorite brew (that might be too hoppy for some) : http://www.lagunitas.com/beers/ipa.html My current favorite white, from the state of Washington : http://www.ste-michelle.com/wines/eroica/release/280 My current favorite red: http://store.consiliencewines.com/product/13 Michael B. NP Televison's Lunaesque album, officially know as Televison s/t 1992 album. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:24:02 -0800 From: vivien lyon Subject: Re: hi. my name is lauren, and i'm a robyn hitchcock fan Lauren, I really like this thread. Maybe it's because it allows one to talk about oneself shamelessly. But really, I think it's because it's made Michael Sweeney into some sort of a charmingly neurotic literary character. In my head, that is. I don't think of myself as having a lot of quirks - everyone else does kooky things as well, it all seems to balance out in the end. Like Carrie, I don't like eating or drinking after anyone - I do make an exception for my beloved, but that's it. When someone offers me some of what they've been slobbering over, I invariably recoil and it's really hard to graciously recover from that. Like Michael, I tend to go through phases with food, where I'll eat the same thing for weeks, until eventually I tire of it. I'm like a toddler that way. I also eat the same thing at many of the restaurants I frequent, and I too feel similarly invaded when the waitstaff anticipates my order. I'm like, "What, I _could_ have wanted something else! You don't know me! I _am_ capable of change! Fuck you!" And like Tom, I never listen to the artist I'm about to see live on the way to the venue. Just seems silly. But unlike Tom, I have had many lapses in paying attention to this list. Years have gone by (law school, I'm looking at you) where I had no time to read a single post. But though I'm almost never around, for the past five years I've read a fair portion of the threads and I still feel connected to you guys. Hell, I've known many of you for over 10 years. I feel an attack of nostalgia and sentimentality coming on, so I'll stop typing. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:29:17 -0600 From: michael wells Subject: Best-of-Decade Lists: Rock & Americana On Feb 6, 2010, at 10:37 AM, Great Quail wrote: > Quail's Highly-Subjective Best-of-Decade Lists: I> . Best 10 Rock Albums of the 'Naughts: I offer 15: The Life Pursuit (Belle & Sebastian) Tinfoil Thoths - Music from the Globe of Fegs (various artists!) Now Here is Nowhere (Secret Machines) Vapor Trails (Rush) Strangers (Ed Harcourt) Love is Hell (Ryan Adams) Funeral (Arcade Fire) Electric Version (New Pornographers) The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone (Apples in Stereo) Hissing Fauna, are You the Destroyer? (Of Montreal) Nextdoorland/Side3 (The Soft Boys) The Subversive Sounds of Love (Frisbie) Haughty Melodic (Mike Doughty) Real Blasty (Kyle Andrews) Into the Woods (Dag Juhlin) plus 5 really, really good but really hard to categorize: Ghost Rock (Nomo) Heavy Mellow (Chris Coco) Legs to Make us Longer (Kaki King) Skeleton Key (Typewriter) Love is Simple (Akron/Family) 15 really good songs: "Turn a Square" (The Shins) "I Don't Wanna Shine" (The Orange Peels) "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" (Jet) "Vertigo" (U2) "Feel Good Inc." (Gorillaz) "Blue as You" (Shawn Mullins) "Candy" (Poi Dog Pondering) "Think I'm in Love" (Beck) "Nowhere Again" (Secret Machines) "The Adventure" (Angels & Airwaves) "Finding Out True Love is Blind" (Louis XIV) "They're On to Me" (Ari Hest) "One Horse Town" (The Thrills) "The Seeker" (Rush) "Chasing Cars" (Snow Patrol) 15 Folk-Traditional-Americana: The Spirit of the Staircase (Paul Curreri) Miles from the Lightning (Jeffrey Foucault) The Animal Years (Josh Ritter) Kitchen Radio (Peter Mulvey) The Knuckleball Suite (Peter Mulvey) Virtuoso Fingerstyle Guitar (Doyle Dykes) Flowers & Liquor (Hayes Carll) Borderland (Tom Russell) Live as I'll Ever Be (Chris Smither) Kane, Welch, Kaplan (s/t) Strange Conversation (Kris Delmhorst) Duets (Stephen Dawson & Diane Christiansen) Poet - A Tribute to Townes van Zandt End of Amnesia (M. Ward) Best tribute: A Case for Case - A Tribute to the Songs of Peter Case MW ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:51:25 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: quirks On 10-02-20 08:20 , edwardofsim@tiscali.co.uk wrote: > > "I must find the perfect spoon." > - Salad Fingers There are certain elements of Salad Fingers to my character, and coincidentally, I do have a brother called Kenneth. On 10-02-20 09:04 , Marc wrote: > > Are you sure it's not just a big "When I Was Dead" reference? Nope. "Spoon Heft" - as a fellow sufferer called it - has always been important. I think I've found my near ideal in a spoon with Korean soup spoons. Korean steel chopsticks are also my precision eating utensil of choice. I am also a creature of extreme habit - I had the same lunch every day for four years (tuna sandwiches), and ate the same breakfast cereal (Weetabix - though without singing) for upwards of 30 years. On 10-02-20 10:01 , Caroline Smith wrote: > > Most importantly, do you prefer to be on the inside or the outside? Different kinda spoon. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:07:10 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Silence and Darkness Have any of you Herzog-lovers (thinking here of Lep though possibly not of Sebastian) seen "Land des Scheigens und der Dunkelheit"? It might be even more gripping than Stroszek. I posted a clip of it here: http://readin.com/blog/?id=2152 and am thinking about writing something a little later about how I reacted to the chain of conversation among and between the deaf and blind characters, J ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V18 #37 *******************************