From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V18 #110 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, June 10 2010 Volume 18 : Number 110 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Dithyramb [Jeremy Osner ] Thoughts.... [m swedene ] Re: Thoughts.... [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Thoughts.... [m swedene ] Re: Thoughts.... [m swedene ] Re: Thoughts.... [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Tech query [Rex ] Re: Thoughts.... [Rex ] Re: Tech query [kevin studyvin ] Re: Thoughts.... [kevin studyvin ] Re: Thoughts.... [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Thoughts.... [kevin studyvin ] Re: Thoughts.... [Tom Clark ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 21:23:05 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Dithyramb Um, that is to say, "Aviador" by Ditirambo... On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > Say, ye fegs: you might appreciate this Chilean song. "Ditirambo" by > Aviador http://readin.com/blog/?id=2267 > > J ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 22:17:30 -0400 From: m swedene Subject: Thoughts.... I was listening to the Westerberg album 14 songs a couple of days back. It made me think... we need to get some life back here. What if we all picked an album for the week. Listen to it and then email the group about it. What it reminds us of (period in our life, production values, current bands cashing in on a riff or production values). Thoughts? Mike np -> "Lunch" by the Rutles http://www.rutleslunch.net/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 22:21:42 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Thoughts.... Ooh, that sounds interesting. Would there be any restriction as to content or genre? I mean this is the Robyn Hitchcock mailing list but it would be kind of boring for everybody to write up "Element of Light", whereas conversely it might be a lot of fun to hear about people's ahitchcockickal listnin. J On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:17 PM, m swedene wrote: > I was listening to the Westerberg album 14 songs a couple of days back. > It made me think... we need to get some life back here. > > What if we all picked an album for the week. Listen to it and then email > the group about it. > What it reminds us of (period in our life, production values, current bands > cashing in on a riff or production values). > > Thoughts? > > Mike > > np -> "Lunch" by the Rutles > http://www.rutleslunch.net/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 22:35:57 -0400 From: m swedene Subject: Re: Thoughts.... I think we could go with other albums. Maybe we could come up with 4 titles and vote. This way we all listen to the same album and write about it. The albums could be Hitchcock related or his albums, but why limit this. Mike On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > Ooh, that sounds interesting. Would there be any restriction as to > content or genre? I mean this is the Robyn Hitchcock mailing list but > it would be kind of boring for everybody to write up "Element of > Light", whereas conversely it might be a lot of fun to hear about > people's ahitchcockickal listnin. > > J > > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:17 PM, m swedene wrote: > > I was listening to the Westerberg album 14 songs a couple of days back. > > It made me think... we need to get some life back here. > > > > What if we all picked an album for the week. Listen to it and then email > > the group about it. > > What it reminds us of (period in our life, production values, current > bands > > cashing in on a riff or production values). > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Mike > > > > np -> "Lunch" by the Rutles > > http://www.rutleslunch.net/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 22:36:12 -0400 From: m swedene Subject: Re: Thoughts.... it'd be like a book club of sorts. Mike On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:35 PM, m swedene wrote: > I think we could go with other albums. Maybe we could come up with 4 titles > and vote. This way we all listen to the same album and write about it. > > The albums could be Hitchcock related or his albums, but why limit this. > > Mike > > > > > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > >> Ooh, that sounds interesting. Would there be any restriction as to >> content or genre? I mean this is the Robyn Hitchcock mailing list but >> it would be kind of boring for everybody to write up "Element of >> Light", whereas conversely it might be a lot of fun to hear about >> people's ahitchcockickal listnin. >> >> J >> >> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:17 PM, m swedene wrote: >> > I was listening to the Westerberg album 14 songs a couple of days back. >> > It made me think... we need to get some life back here. >> > >> > What if we all picked an album for the week. Listen to it and then >> email >> > the group about it. >> > What it reminds us of (period in our life, production values, current >> bands >> > cashing in on a riff or production values). >> > >> > Thoughts? >> > >> > Mike >> > >> > np -> "Lunch" by the Rutles >> > http://www.rutleslunch.net/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 22:39:24 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Thoughts.... Oh I see, so we're all writing about the same group of songs. That makes more sense than the image I had in mind previously. I was thinking of suggesting Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band "See Reverse Side for Title" for me to listen to and write about but I don't reckon a lot of people here would be that interested in writing about it/ have access to a recording of it. What about something by Dylan? Too obvious? J On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:36 PM, m swedene wrote: > it'd be like a book club of sorts. > > Mike > > > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:35 PM, m swedene wrote: >> >> I think we could go with other albums. Maybe we could come up with 4 >> titles and vote. This way we all listen to the same album and write about >> it. >> >> The albums could be Hitchcock related or his albums, but why limit this. >> >> Mike >> >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: >>> >>> Ooh, that sounds interesting. Would there be any restriction as to >>> content or genre? I mean this is the Robyn Hitchcock mailing list but >>> it would be kind of boring for everybody to write up "Element of >>> Light", whereas conversely it might be a lot of fun to hear about >>> people's ahitchcockickal listnin. >>> >>> J >>> >>> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:17 PM, m swedene wrote: >>> > I was listening to the Westerberg album 14 songs a couple of days back. >>> > It made me think... we need to get some life back here. >>> > >>> > What if we all picked an album for the week. Listen to it and then >>> > email >>> > the group about it. >>> > What it reminds us of (period in our life, production values, current >>> > bands >>> > cashing in on a riff or production values). >>> > >>> > Thoughts? >>> > >>> > Mike >>> > >>> > np -> "Lunch" by the Rutles >>> > http://www.rutleslunch.net/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 20:21:22 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Tech query What's the nature of the cable that comes out of the stereo? Do the stereo outs go down through a Y-adaptor into a miniplug at some point? Or do the stereo cables go straight into some kind of USB whackdollaby? On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 5:00 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > Sending this out in hopes that somebdy in Feg Land with more tech savvy > than > me can enlighten me: Periodically I get around to digitizing some old > vinyl > and/or tape by the simple means of running a line-out from The Stereo to a > USB exterior sound card that translates the signal into .wav files. > Recently I realized that this is NOT WORKING since I acquired this HP > Pavilion laptop, which runs Vista. Any signal I try to run into it through > either of a couple of USB adapters is magically transformed into a MONO > SIGNAL. > > I'm not entirely ignorant (just living in that neighborhood), and I've > tried > tinkering with every setting I can find, but to no avail. The bit of > research I've done on the intranets suggests that this is a Vista problem > but I have yet to find anybody with a workable solution. > > Does this sound familiar to anybody? Know of a quick or not insanely > expensive fix? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 20:29:51 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Thoughts.... I'm totally down. Although it sounds like we might be crosstalking a little bit here... like Idea #1 is everyone picks an album of their own and waxes poeticalistic about it, and Idea #2 is more of the Book Club thing, everyone commenting on a single agreed upon record. The latter is interesting because we all have blind spots, so that some of us will be reminiscing about the record while others are reacting to it for the first time, which is fine and probably even desirable... reminds me of my virgin listen to TUSK a few years back, and that we have fegs who are basically anti-Beatle, anti-REM, pro-Rush and of other counterintuitive stripes. I guess the big fucking question is who chooses the record. Or who chooses who chooses the records or how the choser gets chosen. Yeah, I'm getting lost, too. But there's something in there... - -Rex On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > Oh I see, so we're all writing about the same group of songs. That > makes more sense than the image I had in mind previously. I was > thinking of suggesting Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band "See Reverse Side > for Title" for me to listen to and write about but I don't reckon a > lot of people here would be that interested in writing about it/ have > access to a recording of it. What about something by Dylan? Too > obvious? > > J > > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:36 PM, m swedene wrote: > > it'd be like a book club of sorts. > > > > Mike > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:35 PM, m swedene wrote: > >> > >> I think we could go with other albums. Maybe we could come up with 4 > >> titles and vote. This way we all listen to the same album and write > about > >> it. > >> > >> The albums could be Hitchcock related or his albums, but why limit this. > >> > >> Mike > >> > >> > >> > >> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Jeremy Osner > wrote: > >>> > >>> Ooh, that sounds interesting. Would there be any restriction as to > >>> content or genre? I mean this is the Robyn Hitchcock mailing list but > >>> it would be kind of boring for everybody to write up "Element of > >>> Light", whereas conversely it might be a lot of fun to hear about > >>> people's ahitchcockickal listnin. > >>> > >>> J > >>> > >>> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:17 PM, m swedene > wrote: > >>> > I was listening to the Westerberg album 14 songs a couple of days > back. > >>> > It made me think... we need to get some life back here. > >>> > > >>> > What if we all picked an album for the week. Listen to it and then > >>> > email > >>> > the group about it. > >>> > What it reminds us of (period in our life, production values, current > >>> > bands > >>> > cashing in on a riff or production values). > >>> > > >>> > Thoughts? > >>> > > >>> > Mike > >>> > > >>> > np -> "Lunch" by the Rutles > >>> > http://www.rutleslunch.net/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 20:57:38 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Tech query Nothing that sophisticated - just a heavily-shielded 3.5mm line out of the headphone jack into a USB whackdollaby. Which worked just fine with the previous (stolen-last-summer) laptop running XL and yielded results that sounded just fine to my ears, in stereo and everything; but with all the same exact hardware on the Vista device, nothing but mono. High-quality mono, but still not what we're looking for. Does this suggest anything to you? I sure hope so. On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Rex wrote: > What's the nature of the cable that comes out of the stereo? Do the stereo > outs go down through a Y-adaptor into a miniplug at some point? Or do the > stereo cables go straight into some kind of USB whackdollaby? > > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 5:00 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > >> Sending this out in hopes that somebdy in Feg Land with more tech savvy >> than >> me can enlighten me: Periodically I get around to digitizing some old >> vinyl >> and/or tape by the simple means of running a line-out from The Stereo to a >> USB exterior sound card that translates the signal into .wav files. >> Recently I realized that this is NOT WORKING since I acquired this HP >> Pavilion laptop, which runs Vista. Any signal I try to run into it >> through >> either of a couple of USB adapters is magically transformed into a MONO >> SIGNAL. >> >> I'm not entirely ignorant (just living in that neighborhood), and I've >> tried >> tinkering with every setting I can find, but to no avail. The bit of >> research I've done on the intranets suggests that this is a Vista problem >> but I have yet to find anybody with a workable solution. >> >> Does this sound familiar to anybody? Know of a quick or not insanely >> expensive fix? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 21:02:01 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Thoughts.... I like the pick-your-favorite option myself. So, is it gonna come down to a vote, or just the usual muddly Feg consensus? I like the idea and am happy to jump on whatever train the majority of the kids want to go for. I'm generally pretty good at coming up with a left-field perspective that nobody else would ever pick up on, except maybe for Lauren... On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Rex wrote: > I'm totally down. > > Although it sounds like we might be crosstalking a little bit here... like > Idea #1 is everyone picks an album of their own and waxes poeticalistic > about it, and Idea #2 is more of the Book Club thing, everyone commenting > on > a single agreed upon record. > > The latter is interesting because we all have blind spots, so that some of > us will be reminiscing about the record while others are reacting to it for > the first time, which is fine and probably even desirable... reminds me of > my virgin listen to TUSK a few years back, and that we have fegs who are > basically anti-Beatle, anti-REM, pro-Rush and of other counterintuitive > stripes. I guess the big fucking question is who chooses the record. Or > who chooses who chooses the records or how the choser gets chosen. Yeah, > I'm getting lost, too. But there's something in there... > > -Rex > > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > > > Oh I see, so we're all writing about the same group of songs. That > > makes more sense than the image I had in mind previously. I was > > thinking of suggesting Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band "See Reverse Side > > for Title" for me to listen to and write about but I don't reckon a > > lot of people here would be that interested in writing about it/ have > > access to a recording of it. What about something by Dylan? Too > > obvious? > > > > J > > > > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:36 PM, m swedene wrote: > > > it'd be like a book club of sorts. > > > > > > Mike > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:35 PM, m swedene > wrote: > > >> > > >> I think we could go with other albums. Maybe we could come up with 4 > > >> titles and vote. This way we all listen to the same album and write > > about > > >> it. > > >> > > >> The albums could be Hitchcock related or his albums, but why limit > this. > > >> > > >> Mike > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Jeremy Osner > > wrote: > > >>> > > >>> Ooh, that sounds interesting. Would there be any restriction as to > > >>> content or genre? I mean this is the Robyn Hitchcock mailing list but > > >>> it would be kind of boring for everybody to write up "Element of > > >>> Light", whereas conversely it might be a lot of fun to hear about > > >>> people's ahitchcockickal listnin. > > >>> > > >>> J > > >>> > > >>> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:17 PM, m swedene > > wrote: > > >>> > I was listening to the Westerberg album 14 songs a couple of days > > back. > > >>> > It made me think... we need to get some life back here. > > >>> > > > >>> > What if we all picked an album for the week. Listen to it and then > > >>> > email > > >>> > the group about it. > > >>> > What it reminds us of (period in our life, production values, > current > > >>> > bands > > >>> > cashing in on a riff or production values). > > >>> > > > >>> > Thoughts? > > >>> > > > >>> > Mike > > >>> > > > >>> > np -> "Lunch" by the Rutles > > >>> > http://www.rutleslunch.net/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:05:13 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Thoughts.... Well, a record I might nominate (were I to be nominating records for consideration in this regard) would be Dylan's "World Gone Wrong". Lots of people here might have interesting things to say about it; and it is a record everybody ought to listen to, so in case anybody here has not it would be useful in that connection. J On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:02 AM, kevin studyvin wrote: > I like the pick-your-favorite option myself. So, is it gonna come down to a > vote, or just the usual muddly Feg consensus? I like the idea and am happy > to jump on whatever train the majority of the kids want to go for. I'm > generally pretty good at coming up with a left-field perspective that nobody > else would ever pick up on, except maybe for Lauren... > > > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Rex wrote: >> >> I'm totally down. >> >> Although it sounds like we might be crosstalking a little bit here... like >> Idea #1 is everyone picks an album of their own and waxes poeticalistic >> about it, and Idea #2 is more of the Book Club thing, everyone commenting >> on >> a single agreed upon record. >> >> The latter is interesting because we all have blind spots, so that some of >> us will be reminiscing about the record while others are reacting to it >> for >> the first time, which is fine and probably even desirable... reminds me of >> my virgin listen to TUSK a few years back, and that we have fegs who are >> basically anti-Beatle, anti-REM, pro-Rush and of other counterintuitive >> stripes. I guess the big fucking question is who chooses the record. Or >> who chooses who chooses the records or how the choser gets chosen. Yeah, >> I'm getting lost, too. But there's something in there... >> >> -Rex >> >> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: >> >> > Oh I see, so we're all writing about the same group of songs. That >> > makes more sense than the image I had in mind previously. I was >> > thinking of suggesting Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band "See Reverse Side >> > for Title" for me to listen to and write about but I don't reckon a >> > lot of people here would be that interested in writing about it/ have >> > access to a recording of it. What about something by Dylan? Too >> > obvious? >> > >> > J >> > >> > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:36 PM, m swedene wrote: >> > > it'd be like a book club of sorts. >> > > >> > > Mike >> > > >> > > >> > > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:35 PM, m swedene >> > > wrote: >> > >> >> > >> I think we could go with other albums. Maybe we could come up with 4 >> > >> titles and vote. This way we all listen to the same album and write >> > about >> > >> it. >> > >> >> > >> The albums could be Hitchcock related or his albums, but why limit >> > >> this. >> > >> >> > >> Mike >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Jeremy Osner >> > wrote: >> > >>> >> > >>> Ooh, that sounds interesting. Would there be any restriction as to >> > >>> content or genre? I mean this is the Robyn Hitchcock mailing list >> > >>> but >> > >>> it would be kind of boring for everybody to write up "Element of >> > >>> Light", whereas conversely it might be a lot of fun to hear about >> > >>> people's ahitchcockickal listnin. >> > >>> >> > >>> J >> > >>> >> > >>> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:17 PM, m swedene >> > wrote: >> > >>> > I was listening to the Westerberg album 14 songs a couple of days >> > back. >> > >>> > It made me think... we need to get some life back here. >> > >>> > >> > >>> > What if we all picked an album for the week. Listen to it and >> > >>> > then >> > >>> > email >> > >>> > the group about it. >> > >>> > What it reminds us of (period in our life, production values, >> > >>> > current >> > >>> > bands >> > >>> > cashing in on a riff or production values). >> > >>> > >> > >>> > Thoughts? >> > >>> > >> > >>> > Mike >> > >>> > >> > >>> > np -> "Lunch" by the Rutles >> > >>> > http://www.rutleslunch.net/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:17:31 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Thoughts.... In honor of impending summer (at least in our neck 0' the woods) I'd like to nominate my favorite Summer Record: The Wild, the Innocent, And the E Street Shuffle. On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 9:02 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > I like the pick-your-favorite option myself. So, is it gonna come down > to a > vote, or just the usual muddly Feg consensus? I like the idea and am happy > to jump on whatever train the majority of the kids want to go for. I'm > generally pretty good at coming up with a left-field perspective that > nobody > else would ever pick up on, except maybe for Lauren... > > > > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Rex wrote: > > > I'm totally down. > > > > Although it sounds like we might be crosstalking a little bit here... > like > > Idea #1 is everyone picks an album of their own and waxes poeticalistic > > about it, and Idea #2 is more of the Book Club thing, everyone commenting > > on > > a single agreed upon record. > > > > The latter is interesting because we all have blind spots, so that some > of > > us will be reminiscing about the record while others are reacting to it > for > > the first time, which is fine and probably even desirable... reminds me > of > > my virgin listen to TUSK a few years back, and that we have fegs who are > > basically anti-Beatle, anti-REM, pro-Rush and of other counterintuitive > > stripes. I guess the big fucking question is who chooses the record. Or > > who chooses who chooses the records or how the choser gets chosen. Yeah, > > I'm getting lost, too. But there's something in there... > > > > -Rex > > > > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > > > > > Oh I see, so we're all writing about the same group of songs. That > > > makes more sense than the image I had in mind previously. I was > > > thinking of suggesting Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band "See Reverse Side > > > for Title" for me to listen to and write about but I don't reckon a > > > lot of people here would be that interested in writing about it/ have > > > access to a recording of it. What about something by Dylan? Too > > > obvious? > > > > > > J > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:36 PM, m swedene > wrote: > > > > it'd be like a book club of sorts. > > > > > > > > Mike > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:35 PM, m swedene > > wrote: > > > >> > > > >> I think we could go with other albums. Maybe we could come up with 4 > > > >> titles and vote. This way we all listen to the same album and write > > > about > > > >> it. > > > >> > > > >> The albums could be Hitchcock related or his albums, but why limit > > this. > > > >> > > > >> Mike > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Jeremy Osner > > > wrote: > > > >>> > > > >>> Ooh, that sounds interesting. Would there be any restriction as to > > > >>> content or genre? I mean this is the Robyn Hitchcock mailing list > but > > > >>> it would be kind of boring for everybody to write up "Element of > > > >>> Light", whereas conversely it might be a lot of fun to hear about > > > >>> people's ahitchcockickal listnin. > > > >>> > > > >>> J > > > >>> > > > >>> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:17 PM, m swedene > > > wrote: > > > >>> > I was listening to the Westerberg album 14 songs a couple of days > > > back. > > > >>> > It made me think... we need to get some life back here. > > > >>> > > > > >>> > What if we all picked an album for the week. Listen to it and > then > > > >>> > email > > > >>> > the group about it. > > > >>> > What it reminds us of (period in our life, production values, > > current > > > >>> > bands > > > >>> > cashing in on a riff or production values). > > > >>> > > > > >>> > Thoughts? > > > >>> > > > > >>> > Mike > > > >>> > > > > >>> > np -> "Lunch" by the Rutles > > > >>> > http://www.rutleslunch.net/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 23:48:32 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Thoughts.... I think since Mike brought it up, he should get to pick the first one. - -tc p.s. Just had an absolutely smashing time with Jeff Norman and Chris Franz and assorted compatriots. Yay Fegs! On Jun 9, 2010, at 9:05 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > Well, a record I might nominate (were I to be nominating records for > consideration in this regard) would be Dylan's "World Gone Wrong". > Lots of people here might have interesting things to say about it; and > it is a record everybody ought to listen to, so in case anybody here > has not it would be useful in that connection. > > J > > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:02 AM, kevin studyvin wrote: >> I like the pick-your-favorite option myself. So, is it gonna come down to a >> vote, or just the usual muddly Feg consensus? I like the idea and am happy >> to jump on whatever train the majority of the kids want to go for. I'm >> generally pretty good at coming up with a left-field perspective that nobody >> else would ever pick up on, except maybe for Lauren... >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Rex wrote: >>> >>> I'm totally down. >>> >>> Although it sounds like we might be crosstalking a little bit here... like >>> Idea #1 is everyone picks an album of their own and waxes poeticalistic >>> about it, and Idea #2 is more of the Book Club thing, everyone commenting >>> on >>> a single agreed upon record. >>> >>> The latter is interesting because we all have blind spots, so that some of >>> us will be reminiscing about the record while others are reacting to it >>> for >>> the first time, which is fine and probably even desirable... reminds me of >>> my virgin listen to TUSK a few years back, and that we have fegs who are >>> basically anti-Beatle, anti-REM, pro-Rush and of other counterintuitive >>> stripes. I guess the big fucking question is who chooses the record. Or >>> who chooses who chooses the records or how the choser gets chosen. Yeah, >>> I'm getting lost, too. But there's something in there... >>> >>> -Rex >>> >>> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: >>> >>>> Oh I see, so we're all writing about the same group of songs. That >>>> makes more sense than the image I had in mind previously. I was >>>> thinking of suggesting Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band "See Reverse Side >>>> for Title" for me to listen to and write about but I don't reckon a >>>> lot of people here would be that interested in writing about it/ have >>>> access to a recording of it. What about something by Dylan? Too >>>> obvious? >>>> >>>> J >>>> >>>> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:36 PM, m swedene wrote: >>>>> it'd be like a book club of sorts. >>>>> >>>>> Mike >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:35 PM, m swedene >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I think we could go with other albums. Maybe we could come up with 4 >>>>>> titles and vote. This way we all listen to the same album and write >>>> about >>>>>> it. >>>>>> >>>>>> The albums could be Hitchcock related or his albums, but why limit >>>>>> this. >>>>>> >>>>>> Mike >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Jeremy Osner >>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Ooh, that sounds interesting. Would there be any restriction as to >>>>>>> content or genre? I mean this is the Robyn Hitchcock mailing list >>>>>>> but >>>>>>> it would be kind of boring for everybody to write up "Element of >>>>>>> Light", whereas conversely it might be a lot of fun to hear about >>>>>>> people's ahitchcockickal listnin. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> J >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:17 PM, m swedene >>>> wrote: >>>>>>>> I was listening to the Westerberg album 14 songs a couple of days >>>> back. >>>>>>>> It made me think... we need to get some life back here. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> What if we all picked an album for the week. Listen to it and >>>>>>>> then >>>>>>>> email >>>>>>>> the group about it. >>>>>>>> What it reminds us of (period in our life, production values, >>>>>>>> current >>>>>>>> bands >>>>>>>> cashing in on a riff or production values). >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Thoughts? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Mike >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> np -> "Lunch" by the Rutles >>>>>>>> http://www.rutleslunch.net/ ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V18 #110 ********************************