From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V18 #50 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, March 9 2010 Volume 18 : Number 050 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Triple disaster [Mark Gloster ] Marmite Jonathan Demme :-) [FurryGreen ] "The Condensed Beatles" ["Nectar At Any Cost!" ] Re: "The Condensed Beatles" [Eleanore Adams ] Filthy Bird [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Filthy Bird [lep ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 11:44:42 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Gloster Subject: Re: Triple disaster James, I've corresponded with you for nearly 20 years on the intertubes. In all of that time, I've only heard two disparaging remarks about you: 1. That your taste is antipodean-band-centric. 2. That you resemble me. Okay, the first one was stated as a disparaging remark, but probably wasn't. If I were you, that second one might be fightin' words. _I_ don't even let people say I look like me. I feel a special kinship with you, as we may have some common heritage, musical taste, etc. Thank you for sharing your story. Please don't be bashful about talking to us individually or in the hive. I'm terrible about reading the digest, but pretty good about reading email (I sound out the words and make my lips move). We all have issues. We're friends here. We shouldn't have to go it alone. Your pal, - -Markg ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:47:01 +0100 From: FurryGreen Subject: Marmite Jonathan Demme :-) Extract from the Jonathan Demme evening: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJJkPO5tc4g ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:47:43 -0800 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: "The Condensed Beatles" . his assessment of *Please Please Me* is kind of astounding. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 21:38:10 -0800 (PST) From: Eleanore Adams Subject: Re: "The Condensed Beatles" I think he did a pretty good job for a non-beatles fan (I am a huge beatles fan and own every album..... and the little steel apple hard drive with the whole collection) ea - --- On Mon, 3/8/10, Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: From: Nectar At Any Cost! Subject: "The Condensed Beatles" To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Date: Monday, March 8, 2010, 7:47 PM . his assessment of *Please Please Me* is kind of astounding. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 11:33:56 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Filthy Bird This is a song that just came to mind -- I like it a whole lot but have not listened to it in a while, and it's lyrics and melody do not invade my consciousness uninvited and at random, the way many other RH songs do... Any thoughts about it? Is is just a non-complex anti-war song, the "filthy birds" are militarists and those who profit from war? Any more nuance I'm missing? Murmuring "Thank you" to the Romsey gravel, J ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:49:54 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: Filthy Bird Jeremy says: > This is a song that just came to mind -- I like it a whole lot but > have not listened to it in a while, and it's lyrics and melody do not > invade my consciousness uninvited and at random, the way many other RH > songs do... Any thoughts about it? Is is just a non-complex anti-war > song, the "filthy birds" are militarists and those who profit from > war? Any more nuance I'm missing? i'm on the same page as you as far as the lyrics go. for an RH song, i've always felt pretty "blah" it. there are a few others on "moss elixir" that i have the same sort of problem with (e.g. "i am not me", "alright, yeah") and it took me awhile to fall in love with the album (led by "the speed of things", "de chirico street", and "beautiful queen.") so aside from my girl-issue with ms. bonet (i'm usually not like that, i swear!), i think the politic sway of the song just doesn't work for me. it's probably like that for me with robyn in general -- i don't think his songs work politically all that well. sometimes they weave between politics and the personal, and i blot out the politics. "filthy bird" feels to me like it's trying too hard to make a statement. oddly (or not), i'm generally interested in what robyn has to say on issues during interviews or song chatter. maybe i've pigeon-holed him, but the songs themselves speak in chunks dream images that work so well for me that perhaps i don't want them pulled down by the weight of the world. shit, now i have to go dig up that david lynch interview where he talks about how and why he thinks of himself as completely apolitical (because he stated his position quite elegantly.) xo p.s. i do like it when robyn prefaces the song with "...and i got so angry about it, i wrote a song." it's probably "storefront hitchcock". p.p.s. musically, "filthy bird": more blah. - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V18 #50 *******************************