From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V18 #79 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, April 17 2010 Volume 18 : Number 079 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Propellar Thyme cassette [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Figaro Vim ["Nectar At Any Cost!" ] Re: the Propellor Time Sound [Shane Brashear ] Re: Propellar Thyme cassette [2fs ] Re: the Propellor Time Sound [2fs ] Re: the Propellor Time Sound [Rex ] Re: the Propellor Time Sound ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Chicago for a few days [Jill Brand ] Re: the Propellor Time Sound [kevin studyvin ] IODORH [Rex ] Loopy Garageband tips? [Rex ] Re: IODORH [kevin studyvin ] Re: IODORH [2fs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:36:54 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Propellar Thyme cassette I clicked on that link this morning and did not get a error -- IIRC the price was 14 dollars or so. On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 4:25 PM, wrote: > So I get this e-mail from YepRoc saying there's a ridiculously limited edition > cassette release, > so limited in fact that I get a bad URL error when I click on the link. > > Does this mean it sold out, and how much was it? Vivian Girl cassettes > regular sell for $20+ > on eBay and they aren't even autographed. > > P.S. If your software doesn't support putting up a "sold out" page when an > item is sold out, > you shouldn't be legally allowed to call yourself a software engineer. In > fact, you should > be legally required to call yourself a "dude who makes teh interweb pages". ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:27:36 -0700 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: Re: Figaro Vim maybe it's so well-known as to preclude necessity of mention. if not: "figaro" is the name of robyn's and michelle's cat. or at least was at the time of *Elixir*. if they've still got him, i guess he's getting up in years by now... <<...i've got shitbrains queued up from now 'til mid-september! .>> you weren't aware of that?? many's the time i've proselytised it hereabouts. so much so, i assume all are about sick of it by now. at any rate: yes. given the matters of subject which i tend to favour, it was either this or join up the catholic church. but, y'know, i didn't want my avocation to be something i'd be ashamed to tell my parents about (or what). ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:12:18 +0000 From: Shane Brashear Subject: Re: the Propellor Time Sound I've listened to the new one about 8 times, I guess, and I didn't think of Syd once. I hear a lot of Lennon, and as I was listening to "Evolove" (what a dumb title), I thought that, for whatever reason, it could be Robyn's "Imagine" or something. I don't hate that song, but I do think the lyrics are really really stupid; in fact, I'd make an outrageous claim that "Evolove" is his worst lyric if it weren't for the line about giving Jesus a high five that sort of saves the whole thing. Everything but the chorus on "Afterlight" sounds like Dylan in the Basement, and I think it's my favorite track on the album. In fact, that song made me pull out 'The Basement Tapes' to figure out which song Robyn was ripping off. "Sickie Boy" had to grow on me (not going to be a favorite ever), and I don't like the title track at all. Everything else is solid. The album flows, interestingly as there seem to be lots of references to water. I really like this trio of albums. I haven't heard 'Oslo' in a long time, but I never liked it as much as 'Tarantula' and I think I like this about the same as 'Tarantula'...The lyrics on 'Oslo' just seemed so ordinary to me. There wasn't a single reference to iguanas, was there? 'Luxor' excites me more than 'Spooked'...I'm probably the only one. I don't like the lyrics on 'Spooked' much either. - --Shane _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL :en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:00:13 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Propellar Thyme cassette On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:25 PM, wrote: > So I get this e-mail from YepRoc saying there's a ridiculously limited > edition > cassette release, > What? Why not a limited edition 8-track release? With songs fading out in the middle? Or a limited edition release of the songs as recorded onto bits of melted wax, as inscribed by a knitting needle fastened to an empty can of beans with a piece of string tied to the monitors as the band played? Christ. Limited edition *cassettes*? Hipsters have officially gone 'round the bend into full-on "nostalgia for crappy crap I was too young to have known how crappy it was the first time" idiocy. (See also PBR drinking, etc.) (Say it with me: "I am fucking old.") ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:02:13 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: the Propellor Time Sound On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Shane Brashear wrote: > > as 'Tarantula'...The lyrics on 'Oslo' just seemed so ordinary to me. There > wasn't a single reference to iguanas, was there? > Well no...but that's because the iguana subtext of the entire album would then have been rendered painfully obvious, don't you think? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:45:27 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: the Propellor Time Sound On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Shane Brashear wrote: > Everything but the chorus on "Afterlight" > sounds like Dylan in the Basement, and I think it's my favorite track on > the > album. In fact, that song made me pull out 'The Basement Tapes' to figure > out > which song Robyn was ripping off. It was "Lo and Behold", wunnit? The think I also noticed about that song is that it starts with the lyrics "It's a down beat, the beat goes down", which reminds me instantly of "Heartbreak Beat" by the Psychedelic Furs, which in turn also vamps between the exact same two chords. Robyn has covered the Furs before... so... Now listening to the "Sex Food Death and Tarantulas" version of this tune, which I'd totally forgotten about until just now... different lyrics, yo. Check it out. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 07:29:34 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: the Propellor Time Sound On 10-04-16 20:12 , Shane Brashear wrote: > > 'Luxor' excites me more than 'Spooked'...I'm probably the only one. I don't > like the lyrics on 'Spooked' much either. Yep. Luxor's one of my favourites. It's got a couple of duff ones on it ("One L"? Oh dear), but "Round Song", "Idonia" and "Solpadeine" are spiffy. That album got me through a very rough employment situation. I'm very glad it's around. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 10:24:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: Chicago for a few days Hi Chicagoans, We are going to be in Evanston/Chicago from Sunday morning till Tuesday late afternoon so my daughter can decide if Northwestern is for her. As much as I'd love to meet up with you all, I know that we will be running around with her the whole, short visit. However, if this is where she goes, I plan to visit Chicago a bunch in the future (the only time I was there was for 5 days in 1987, and I loved it). If there is any one thing/place that you think we should do/see on Sunday (our free day) that might impress an 18-year-old (funky is always good), write me off-digest, OK? I'm looking forward to meeting a variety of Michaels in the future. Jill ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 08:08:55 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: the Propellor Time Sound On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 4:29 AM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > On 10-04-16 20:12 , Shane Brashear wrote: > > > > 'Luxor' excites me more than 'Spooked'...I'm probably the only one. I > don't > > like the lyrics on 'Spooked' much either. > > Yep. Luxor's one of my favourites. It's got a couple of duff ones on it > ("One L"? Oh dear), but "Round Song", "Idonia" and "Solpadeine" are spiffy. > > That album got me through a very rough employment situation. I'm very > glad it's around. > > Stewart > Nice to hear somebody championing the Hitchcock album people love to hate... ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 08:59:10 -0700 From: Rex Subject: IODORH Dreamt I saw a video for either a somewhat faster version of "Up to Our Nex" with a long guitar solo at the end, or a normal-speed version of "Om" with a long guitar solo at the end. During the long guitar solo at the end the video showed an anime style single prop plane (with Robyn inside, I somehow knew) climbing high in the sky and then breaking apart to reveal a small spacecraft which then looped down through a waterfall, entered a cave on the side of a volcano and flew out through the top of the volcano. I was very excited by this and looking forward to writing to the list about it. In preparation I took a pencil and attempted to draw the sequence on the wall of my childhood bedroom. I was quickly frustrated by the the fact that I couldn't draw well any more, and that a number of tacky duck appliques on the wall were getting in the way of my drawing. Phone rang and woke me up, In an earlier part of the dream I had been a super American race car driver. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 10:23:24 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Loopy Garageband tips? Hey, anyone got any advice about creating/editing loops in Garageband? Lame-ish program, I know, but it's fast, which counts when you have to crank out a finished recording every day. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:20:38 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: IODORH On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Rex wrote: > Dreamt I saw a video for either a somewhat faster version of "Up to Our > Nex" > with a long guitar solo at the end, or a normal-speed version of "Om" with > a > long guitar solo at the end. During the long guitar solo at the end the > video showed an anime style single prop plane (with Robyn inside, I somehow > knew) climbing high in the sky and then breaking apart to reveal a small > spacecraft which then looped down through a waterfall, entered a cave on > the > side of a volcano and flew out through the top of the volcano. I was very > excited by this and looking forward to writing to the list about it. In > preparation I took a pencil and attempted to draw the sequence on the wall > of my childhood bedroom. I was quickly frustrated by the the fact that I > couldn't draw well any more, and that a number of tacky duck appliques on > the wall were getting in the way of my drawing. Phone rang and woke me up, > > In an earlier part of the dream I had been a super American race car > driver. > Nice. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:04:12 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: IODORH On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Rex wrote: > Dreamt I saw a video for either a somewhat faster version of "Up to Our > Nex" > with a long guitar solo at the end, or a normal-speed version of "Om" with > a > long guitar solo at the end. During the long guitar solo at the end the > video showed an anime style single prop plane (with Robyn inside, I somehow > knew) climbing high in the sky and then breaking apart to reveal a small > spacecraft which then looped down through a waterfall, entered a cave on > the > side of a volcano and flew out through the top of the volcano. I was very > excited by this and looking forward to writing to the list about it. In > preparation I took a pencil and attempted to draw the sequence on the wall > of my childhood bedroom. I was quickly frustrated by the the fact that I > couldn't draw well any more, and that a number of tacky duck appliques on > the wall were getting in the way of my drawing. Phone rang and woke me up, > > Tell us about your childhood, Rex. What do you recall of your mother? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V18 #79 *******************************