From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V18 #91 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, May 8 2010 Volume 18 : Number 091 Today's Subjects: ----------------- roger WHO? (OT) [Terrence Marks ] Q for NZ James [2fs ] joss, dan, and ira (0% RH) [lep ] Robyn on my blog (YET AGAIN), sort of (YET AGAIN) [Rex Subject: roger WHO? (OT) > Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 17:17:07 -0500 > From: 2fs > > Second, The Late Mr. Smith's legion of wool-hat-wearing, non-hair-washing, > self-dramatizing dweebs: get over it. No one wanted to tear down your wall > as an expression of anti-Elliott whatever; it was just dumbassitude raised > to an annoying power. I agree completely. I mean, it merits a "Dude, not cool". But they make it seem like Roger Waters personally selected that site. Like he's some kind of evil mastermind. Sitting behind a giant desk*, stroking a white cat. Telling his henchmen how he's personally selected the sites for his posters as part of his fiendish plan to totally diss Elliot Smith, the only person who stood between him and world domination**. *: I picture the desk being made out of unsold copies of "Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking", glued together like legos. **: Ok. Someone has to write a fanfic where Elliot Smith and Maxwell Smart team up to fight Roger Waters and the forces of (Raio) KAOS. Ok, I just read his apology (http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/art-of-music/roger-waters-apology-elliott-s/). The "But Elliot would've totally agreed with me" is a bit much, but hey. Roger Waters. Terrence Marks ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 21:49:26 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Q for NZ James So there's some Facebook group about a "new Australian flag" - is this a real thing, or what? (Figured you'd know if anyone here would...) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 01:45:18 -0400 From: lep Subject: joss, dan, and ira (0% RH) whedonites, i went to download this week's (free!) episode of "this american life", and, lo and behold: mr. joss whedon AND mr. dan savage featured on the *same* episode. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/379/Return-To-The-Scene-Of-The-Crime and, if you go, i also recommend the video of joss's performing his song about DVD commentaries. it's adorable. i think the episode's available through saturday (feel free to correct me.) xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 09:05:43 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Robyn on my blog (YET AGAIN), sort of (YET AGAIN) For those keeping score... wait, that's a dumb expression; those keeping score would already know, and the point of information should really be addressed to those *not* keeping score, and really, I guess it's a pretty tired turn of phrase anyway, but whatever... today marks Robyn's record-setting fourth appearance on 39-40: http://thirtyninefortycovers.blogspot.com/2010/05/50-bells-of-rhymney-by-robyn-hitchcock.html But technicalities reign supreme: for all those appearances, I've still only covered one RH *composition*. The neat part about this one is that I reinstated a lost verse, which makes me feel all important and shit! Love on ya, Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 13:06:47 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Robyn on my blog (YET AGAIN), sort of (YET AGAIN) Great song -- some stuff I found out about it last year: http://www.readin.com/blog/?id=1413 J On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Rex wrote: > For those keeping score... wait, that's a dumb expression; those keeping > score would already know, and the point of information should really be > addressed to those *not* keeping score, and really, I guess it's a pretty > tired turn of phrase anyway, but whatever... today marks Robyn's > record-setting fourth appearance on 39-40: > > http://thirtyninefortycovers.blogspot.com/2010/05/50-bells-of-rhymney-by-robyn-hitchcock.html > > But technicalities reign supreme: for all those appearances, I've still only > covered one RH *composition*. > > The neat part about this one is that I reinstated a lost verse, which makes > me feel all important and shit! > > Love on ya, > Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 22:23:47 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Robyn on my blog (YET AGAIN), sort of (YET AGAIN) On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > Great song -- some stuff I found out about it last year: > http://www.readin.com/blog/?id=1413 > Good read... looks like we covered some but not all of the same research ground. I wondered after the fact if the "missing verse" was dropped from the Byrds version for the line "Even God is uneasy", seeing as how eyebrows were still raised a few years afterward when Brian Wilson wrote "God Only Knows". It wasn't cut for time; the first verse is repeated at the end of the song. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V18 #91 *******************************