From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V18 #174 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, September 11 2010 Volume 18 : Number 174 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Record Club #7 -- Too Late to Die Young [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Record Club #7 - Jeremy ["Stewart C. Russell" ] is this thing on? Plus: iTunes query [2fs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 18:04:13 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Record Club #7 -- Too Late to Die Young My fave is currently "King Kong Frown". And I love "Tubular Belgians in the Cornfield" but that is very much a song I have to be in the right state of mind to appreciate. Vague resemblance to "Interstellar Overdrive" maybe? And KKF totally has me thinking of John Lennon at moments. One or two of their songs seem a little bit too earnest possibly. But in general yeah, a lot of fun. Not totally clear on the personnel, I have this record by virtue of its being part of the Great Torrent in the Sky, it's under the "Guest Appearances" category. Occasionally I think I am catching Robyn's voice, or its possible that one of their singers just has a voice similar to his. The percussion absolutely slays me. J On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > -- Jeremy Osner is rumored to have mumbled on 8. > September 2010 07:16:28 -0400 regarding Record Club #7 -- Too Late to Die > Young: > >> I'm breaking the "no Robyn" rule of record club a bit, as he appears >> on some of these songs. The record is Departure Lounge's "Too Late to >> Die Young", from 2002. http://www.box.net/shared/ttqebqedyh (click the >> "Download Folder" link to get everything zipped together.) > > I listened to this twice today, and the first time *really* started in the > arrival lounge (cf. my Facebook status), although that was an ill-fated > adventure that left me with a King Kong frown just a few minutes later. My > experience of the record was probably influenced by the various moods I went > through today, but generally speaking I liked it. Quite a lot. Time will > tell how much I will eventually listen to it in the future, but I'm > definitely glad to have heard it and to have it in my collection. My > personal favorite, perhaps owed to my predominant mood, is "Alone Again And" > b the title itself is pretty cool, and the song has the right level of > melancholia for the day it's been. On which songs does Robyn appear and in > what function? > -- > Sebastian Hagedorn > Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 KC6ln, Germany > http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ > "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 18:16:46 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Record Club #7 -- Too Late to Die Young Yep, and now that you mention it, Alone Alone And is quite sweet as well. I think I was not paying attention to it because it came right after "Love Song" which I find distracting. J On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > > I listened to this twice today, and the first time *really* started in the > arrival lounge (cf. my Facebook status), although that was an ill-fated > adventure that left me with a King Kong frown just a few minutes later. My > experience of the record was probably influenced by the various moods I went > through today, but generally speaking I liked it. Quite a lot. Time will > tell how much I will eventually listen to it in the future, but I'm > definitely glad to have heard it and to have it in my collection. My > personal favorite, perhaps owed to my predominant mood, is "Alone Again And" > b the title itself is pretty cool, and the song has the right level of > melancholia for the day it's been. On which songs does Robyn appear and in > what function? > -- > Sebastian Hagedorn > Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 KC6ln, Germany > http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ > "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 18:38:49 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Record Club #7 -- Too Late to Die Young Like, I would be surprised if the guitar at the opening of "Silverline" were not Robyn's. "Over the Side" is one I don't really get the point of. Is it like a gloating song, we're on the ship that's still sailing, [rather than the one that just sank, ha ha, losers!]? J On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > My fave is currently "King Kong Frown". And I love "Tubular Belgians > in the Cornfield" but that is very much a song I have to be in the > right state of mind to appreciate. Vague resemblance to "Interstellar > Overdrive" maybe? And KKF totally has me thinking of John Lennon at > moments. One or two of their songs seem a little bit too earnest > possibly. But in general yeah, a lot of fun. Not totally clear on the > personnel, I have this record by virtue of its being part of the Great > Torrent in the Sky, it's under the "Guest Appearances" category. > Occasionally I think I am catching Robyn's voice, or its possible that > one of their singers just has a voice similar to his. The percussion > absolutely slays me. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 20:10:01 -0500 From: "gene@hopstetter.com" Subject: Re: Record Club #7 - Jeremy > From: Jeremy Osner > Subject: Re: Record Club #7 - Jeremy > > It's cool, me and Kevin are using the new kernel's atomic operations. Is that the new Atomic Poodle function in C++? Watch your values so you don't get caught in a permed_horse loop. For example: int s=5, u=6; int z; z = kenny_g(s,u) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:34:45 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Record Club #7 - Jeremy On 10-09-09 21:10 , gene@hopstetter.com wrote: > > Is that the new Atomic Poodle function in C++? I'm reading an O'Reilly book that says that C++ is a very old language. Stewart (who'll have none of that newfangled Algol 68 nonsense) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 14:39:50 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: is this thing on? Plus: iTunes query Is there any way to tell iTunes to keep the playback level constant for the course of an album *but* use Soundcheck generally? Other than going into preferences and switching... It's useful to have Soundcheck on when I'm shuffling - but then when I play a whole album, particularly when there are segues, it's jarring when the levels adjust because the overall level of one track is different... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V18 #174 ********************************