From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V19 #80 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, October 8 2011 Volume 19 : Number 080 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: How do you work this thing? [Miles Goosens ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 10:20:03 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: How do you work this thing? I get 'not judging a band by its fans,' and I belong to a couple of subsets myself (the Cure, the Smiths/Morrissey) where I wouldn't identify myself to a new acquaintance as a fan right away lest they think they're going to be subjected to my dire death-dirge poetry, which I'll be reading to them from my ER bed as I recover from my fourth botched suicide attempt. But I have never had a particular negative association with the R.E.M. fanbase, at least before the new wave of shallow strummy yuppies who came into the fold after OOT and Automatic. So this caught me a bit off guard. On 10/8/11, lep wrote: > Hi List, > > I've been meaning to chime in on R.E.M., basically just to say that, > since "Monster" is my favourite R.E.M. album, I've recused myself from > the discussion (I had a long-standing problem with R.E.M. fans, as I > did with Smiths fans, and kind of stayed away from the band until I > saw the wonderful black & white documentary of the "Monster" tour. > Just a ten-second clip of Stipe (who I mistakenly called Stripe for > years) singing "Wichita Lineman" was enough to swing the mistake I had > made of judging a band by its fans. > > My condolences to all of you who loved the band more than I did. > > I, for one, hopes Stipe is recruited to read audio books and narrate > documentaries as he has one of the most gorgeous speaking voices I > know of. > > BTW, ken o's blog paid respect to "Maggie May" to-day: > http://supergroovydeliciousbite.blogspot.com/2011/10/maggie-may-reason-to-believe.html > > which took me back to eddie's proposal that Rod Stewart is perhaps the > best male vocalist: > http://www.fegmania.org/archives/fegmaniax/v17.n010 > > ...but really it just me an excuse to remember that there's some pop > songs that still make me cry. > > November 19th -- see Jimmy Webb on a family outing, or haul my ass up > to Brooklyn? God only knows. > > as ever, > lauren > > -- > "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha > - -- over a year of feeling guilty about not blogging enough! http://readingpronunciation.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V19 #80 *******************************