From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V18 #143 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, July 26 2010 Volume 18 : Number 143 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Heimat! [Sebastian Hagedorn ] obligatory squid content [2fs ] Re: obligatory squid content [vivien lyon ] Re: Record Club the Third [Tom Clark ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V18 #141 [djini@voicenet.com] re: Feg record club, Nuggets, etc. [M Holden ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V18 #141 [Tom Clark ] reap ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Oscar [Jeremy Osner ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:15:01 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: Heimat! - -- Jill Brand is rumored to have mumbled on 10. Februar 2010 15:33:37 -0500 regarding Heimat!: > I've only seen the first series, but I was OBSESSED with it when it came > out. I still have Episode 9 ("Hermaennsche", which is called "Little > Hermann" in English - I just looked that up) on videotape. I refuse to > erase it or throw it out, even though I'll probably never watch it again. I just watched that episode and liked it a lot. Gudrun Landgrebe is such a beautiful woman! I've always liked her, but in later roles she was often dominant, tough, even hard. I've never seen her be so sweet before. Not sure how well you remember the details, but sometimes I'm having problems with the elliptic storytelling of Heimat. There's a 10-year jump between episode 8 and 9 (and I have seen that the next two are the same), and I just don't get the development of Anton. He used to be fairly sensitive himself, not unlike Hermann, and now he's become a self-righteous bastard, also regarding his brother Ernst. If there were supposed to be shades of that in earlier episodes, I did not catch them. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:51:50 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: obligatory squid content - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:02:20 -0700 From: vivien lyon Subject: Re: obligatory squid content Natalie's mom sent me a link to this article, and I have to say that while I've never been all that compelled to read his stuff, I am now. Even though he looks like a pretentious thug... Also, it looks like a chapter of Natalie's book about Franz Schubert will be posthumously published in a literary magazine called The Battered Suitcase, and there is apparently interest in other quarters in publishing the whole book. Huzzah! This makes me extremely happy, as Natalie was an amazing writer and deserves publication. On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 5:51 PM, 2fs wrote: > > > -- > ...Jeff Norman > > The Architectural Dance Society > http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:25:52 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Record Club the Third - --On 21. Juli 2010 20:27:16 -0400 "Stewart C. Russell" wrote: > o fegs, I give ye: > > > > I'm not even going to tell you what it is. > > If your ears aren't bleeding, and neighbours aren't threatening you with > cudgels, you're not playing it loud enough. Good stuff. Lots of weird energy, and lots of organ back when you couldn't be a successful garage band without one. I especially liked "Blast Off!". It sounds like it wouldn't be out of place on a Man Or Astroman? album. Thanks Stewart! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 09:28:35 -0400 (EDT) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V18 #141 > grutness@slingshot.co.nz said: >>Jill wrote: >>> So Matthew's on Facebook. We could start taking bets on how long > it will >>> take me to break down and get a Facebook account. Oh, I so don't > want >>> to....... >> >>Took me several years and the boredom of sitting at home with a >>broken ankle to succumb - but I'm mostly glad I did (and i've >>rediscovered some friends I lost contact with years ago, too). > > Absolutely! Jill, "social networking" can be only what you want it to > be. For me, it has been amazing, connecting together all the various > areas of my life and bringing me back in contact with people I'd really > missed but whom I almost certainly would never have found again were it > not for the interweb. It's easy enough to set your security settings so > you're not showing "just anyone" anything you don't want them to know, > and you can use it or ignore it as much as you choose, but honestly, > I'm grateful for Facebook's existence! And I used to resist all this > stuff as well! I resisted pretty stubbornly as well, until one of my best friends from high school basically ordered me to join. And she was right, I have gotten a lot out of it. I have my security settings up really high though - no one can "find" me because I used a dummy email to set it up that I don't use for anything else, and no one can "see" me unless they are already friends with someone I know. I accepted a couple of friend requests that I regret, but I just hid those people, so I don't see their posts. Eventually I'll quietly unfriend them. It's not like they get a notification or anything, and they may not even notice. My advice is not to accept any friend requests you are at all dubious about. Also, fegs seem to have welcomed the chance to interact on a very casual basis. 15% of my friends are fegs, and I would guess they account for well over half my interactions. I read the list (and really, will post more - this summer is kicking my ass work-wise, cannot wait for the school year to start and the library to quiet down a little again) for the more in-depth thoughts of my fellow fegs, but if I'm wondering whether Tom Clark is currently enjoying a beer... well, fb is good for that. (answer: almost certainly). Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:56:07 -0700 From: M Holden Subject: re: Feg record club, Nuggets, etc. This was really strange. I had been holding off on the whole record club bit, despite liking the idea, because I have been really swamped lately, and I have a huge backload of CDs to listen to before adding them to the collection (well over 600 at last estimate). I'm not a fan of the Smiths, so that saved time, but Los Shakers were a band I was interested in hearing already, so I ordered a couple of their albums--I had heard a track already on the second Nuggets box set. I was starting to read a recent Feg digest, thinking that it was about time as the list seems to have been dead lately, when I started reading responses to the third selection for the record club and saw several responses to a Nuggets thread. I figured maybe I had skipped a digest or two, but finally found several digests caught up in my spam folder along with a couple of other personal e-mails that had been wrongly filtered. What a pain in the ass. Anyway, the Monks CD was already here in the backlog waiting to be listened to, so it is in my car player now--about halfway through already. I like it a lot, but it is more keyboard heavy than I was thinking it would be. Hope I get a chance to give it a few good listens before it is time to discuss the next one already. Wouldn't mind being added to the list of people suggesting discs to give a listen, but I guess that it will be based partially on participation, which from me has been pretty much "none" lately. I probably would not even have found time to post this, if it weren't for the fact that I'm trying to avoid typing the minutes of this month's community board and open session meetings--how did I get roped into being the secretary anyway? As far as the Nuggets series go, there was the original (classic) 2 LP set--all obscurities and no Louie Louie. The Electric Prunes--Too Much to Dream Last Night was about as mainstream as it got, and of course it had the Balloon Farm--A Question of Temperature, one of my all-time favorites. It was out on Electra Records then re-released on CBS with a different cover, if I have my brain straight here. Then Rhino Records started a vinyl series of various Nuggets-type sub-focal points (i.e.--Nuggets pop, punk, etc.), about a dozen albums or so in all. There was some fairly mainstream stuff on these in addition to all the obscurities. In the 90's, Rhino did a short series of Nuggets CDs (3 in all, I believe), that were like a watered down version of the original idea, and came dangerously close to dropping Louie Louie in there (the Monkees--Pleasant Valley Sunday was included on one disc)--they also had a series of 3 Frat Rock CDs around this time that do include Louie Louie and a lot of other worthwhile stuff. Anyway, Rhino finally got its shit together and started releasing the box sets, which are all pretty awesome and highly recommended. That pretty much covers the basics there... On the recent listing of Robyn in Tucson in September: I talked to someone at Club Congress earlier this year, when Robyn was scheduled to play there and then removed from the schedule. He had told me that Robyn would be playing a festival there in September, and that he would currating one of the stages. The information that I have seen so far seems to show that it will be three days (9/24-26), and include Robyn, the Meat Puppets, and Calexico. Not sure if it will be one of the shows with Joe Boyd. (Actually, looking at an update on the Hitchcock Museum site, it lists him on the 25th with Howe Gelb, Victoria Williams, and Steve Wynn). Looks awesome. Let me know if you want to meet up there, anyone. Lastly, my computer crashed fairly recently, so I lost my contact information for most anyone that I know from the list, so feel free to contact me so I can rebuild the info (James, M. Godwin, Charlotte, Rex, Jason T., Nuppy, etc.) Okay, enough already. My brain hurts, Marc np--Richard Thompson--celtschmerz ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:12:59 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V18 #141 On Jul 25, 2010, at 6:28 AM, djini@voicenet.com wrote: > but if I'm wondering whether Tom Clark > is currently enjoying a beer... Not at the moment, but thanks for thinking of me! :) - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:34:47 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: reap Cartoonist John Callahan, 59. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:20:52 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Oscar I continue to find stuff in the Great Big Torrent that I did not know about. Today I happen on a record called Oscar from 1993 that I've never heard of. Google is not turning up much besides that Positive Vibrations #4 featured a review of the record... Tracks: Interview Wind Cries Mary Polly on the Shore Every Day is Like Sunday Take a Chance With Me Senor Yer Blues Dominoes Calvary Cross Dominoes (again) Chinese-White Wind Cries Mary (again) WTF? 1993 is (I believe) Egyptians recording on A&M; but this does not sound like the Egyptians and if it was on A&M I don't see how it could vanish from the Internet like that. Anybody know where this comes from? Is there cover art for it? 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