From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V18 #51 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, March 10 2010 Volume 18 : Number 051 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Filthy Bird [kevin studyvin ] Re: Filthy Bird [Christopher Gross ] Re: filthy bird [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] what c d [m swedene ] Re: Filthy Bird [2fs ] Attention Fegs in or near Hamburg or Berlin! [matt sewell ] Re: what c d [FSThomas ] Animal collective [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] RIP Corey Haim [m swedene ] fegWords [lep ] 45 minutes of Robyn interview [FurryGreen ] Re: Filthy Bird [lep ] Re: Filthy Bird [kevin studyvin ] Re: RIP Corey Haim [kevin studyvin ] Re: fegWords [kevin studyvin ] Re: fegWords [lep ] Re: what c d ["Stewart C. Russell" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 14:17:42 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Filthy Bird > 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. > Ditto. > > 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.) > Where? Where? > > 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. > And now, for some reason, you've got the Banshees' "Painted Bird" stuck in my head. Of course that's not necessarily a bad thing. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 17:33:58 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: Filthy Bird I have a very vague memory of asking the list, sometime around '99, if "Filthy Bird" was about the Kosovo war; and replies to the effect that Robyn said it was inspired, so to speak, by the earlier Bosnian civil war. FWIW (which might not be much, given the usual quality of my memory). - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:05:33 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: 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? I've always seen it as being an anti-war song pretty specifically about the Balkans. "The chessboard" is the nickname of the national arms of Croatia, as well as being a fairly clear analogy of a battlefield. The "clouds in the sky in the shape of you and I" I always take to refer to the circular white on sky-blue map of the world of the UN's flag, as flown by peacekeeping troops. The connection with Romsey, though (not far from Winchester), I don't get. 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, 9 Mar 2010 18:28:52 -0500 From: m swedene Subject: what c d anyone on here on it? I have read amazing things about it. Mike ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 19:03:40 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Filthy Bird On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Christopher Gross wrote: > I have a very vague memory of asking the list, sometime around '99, if > "Filthy Bird" was about the Kosovo war; and replies to the effect that Robyn > said it was inspired, so to speak, by the earlier Bosnian civil war. No, your memory is defective. He said it was about Bozo the Clown and some uncivil whores. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:02:41 +0000 From: matt sewell Subject: Attention Fegs in or near Hamburg or Berlin! So no Robyn gigs... but look on the bright side: you can still smoke indoors and you've got two whole Anton Barbeau gigs in one week. 12th of March in Hamburg's Hasenschaukel, then Intersoup in Berlin on the 13th. Those unfamiliar with what an Anton Barbeau actually is can have a look (not to mention a listen) here: www.myspace.com/antonbarbeau Cheers, Matt _________________________________________________________________ Send us your Hotmail stories and be featured in our newsletter http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 21:09:23 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: what c d On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:28 PM, m swedene wrote: > anyone on here on it? > I have read amazing things about it. > > More cluelessness here: Which CD are you talking about (and "what CD" is pretty much unGoogle-able...)? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:24:28 -0500 From: FSThomas Subject: Re: what c d 2fs wrote: > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:28 PM, m swedene wrote: > >> anyone on here on it? >> > I have read amazing things about it.More cluelessness here: Which CD are you talking about (and "what CD" is > pretty much unGoogle-able...)? > Amen, I'm not the only one who didn't get it. - -f. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:35:07 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Animal collective Just been listening to Animal Collective's album "Feels" - does anyone know whether Andy Partridge was involved in it at all? It has his stylings all over it, and some of the backing vocals sound so much like him... 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 Mar 2010 09:39:50 -0500 From: m swedene Subject: RIP Corey Haim http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6292T720100310 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:05:35 -0500 From: lep Subject: fegWords thanks to Markg for my new vocabulary word: antipodean. i find this wikipedia page kind of fascinating: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipodes i think the fascination has something to do with the the cool list of external links. i like globes. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:21:43 +0100 From: FurryGreen Subject: 45 minutes of Robyn interview Hi everyone from some years ago on German TV... on the of the Soft Boys when they were pretty *ROFL*, creativity, his novel (!) and much more... awesome interview, 45 minutes of Robyn. (And thank you to the guy on u-tube who uploaded it!) Parts 1-5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuckda6l3Q4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iiiyEi0J-A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxqxHtUJuIk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvLQZMw35pU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr5EOQD7W-I Angelika ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:39:30 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: Filthy Bird kevin says: >> 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.) > > > Where? Where? i haven't found it yet but i'm having fun looking for it. it's somewhere in here: http://www.amazon.com/David-Lynch-Interviews-Conversations-Filmmakers/dp/1604732377/ and i thought i was finished my lynch-fest. as it turns out, my 25-year old cousin is watching "twin peaks". sigh. young folks meeting dale cooper and audrey horne for the first time. i mean, you can't buy that kind of fun. BTW, i like the amazon reviewer's mention of the line in "blue velvet" applying to lynch's movies: sandy to jeffrey: "I don't know if you're a detective or a pervert." xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:05:50 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Filthy Bird > and i thought i was finished my lynch-fest. as it turns out, my > 25-year old cousin is watching "twin peaks". sigh. young folks > meeting dale cooper and audrey horne for the first time. i mean, you > can't buy that kind of fun. > > BTW, i like the amazon reviewer's mention of the line in "blue velvet" > applying to lynch's movies: sandy to jeffrey: "I don't know if you're > a detective or a pervert." > It's a fine line. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:11:50 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: RIP Corey Haim On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:39 AM, m swedene wrote: > http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6292T720100310 > I hope somebody's looking after Corey Feldman... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:13:03 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: fegWords On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:05 AM, lep wrote: > thanks to Markg for my new vocabulary word: antipodean. > > i find this wikipedia page kind of fascinating: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipodes > > i think the fascination has something to do with the the cool list of > external links. i like globes. > > Always been partial to globs myself. It's a Dali thing. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:28:49 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: fegWords kevin says: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:05 AM, lep wrote: >> >> thanks to Markg for my new vocabulary word: antipodean. >> >> i find this wikipedia page kind of fascinating: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipodes >> >> i think the fascination has something to do with the the cool list of >> external links. i like globes. >> > Always been partial to globs myself. It's a Dali thing. then there's gropes: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/nyregion/10massa.html i apologize for posting in the "current events" section; i tried to resist but i've failed. i think it will have worth it if only for the line: "even as he acknowledged he was guilty of using salty language in the privacy of his home and office. " "salty language" - what century is this guy in? this guy sounds like a dan akroyd skit. i'm looking forward to hearing all him on the next savage love podcast. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:12:25 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: what c d > Amen, I'm not the only one who didn't get it. It's a torrent site. Stewart ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V18 #51 *******************************