From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V19 #170 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, July 13 2012 Volume 19 : Number 170 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Me 'n' the camp moms (less erotic content than you might hope) [Miles] OK, Rex, that's the funniest thing I've read in weeks! [Jill Brand Subject: Re: Me 'n' the camp moms (less erotic content than you might hope) On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Rex Broome wrote: > Forgot to mention that said mom claims to have a "Balloon Man" 7" in her > possession. For what it's worth... > She has to show me her 3" before I'll be impressed. If you know what I mean. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 07:15:55 -0400 From: Jill Brand Subject: OK, Rex, that's the funniest thing I've read in weeks! It's 7:13 a.m and I've already put a coat of paint on our front door. The only report I've ever heard about a rock camp came from Sarah Vowell on This American Life, but this one was just about as good. Thanks for the morning giggle. Jill, lonely on fegmaniax planet > > 2012/7/11 Rex Broome > > > So parents are really talkative to the staff at the musical rock and roll > > academy camp thing they send their kids to. It's true! Just listen, > > friends. > > > > Dramatis Personae: > > -Camp mom, whose older but still very young daughter is playing guitar on > > "You Really Got Me" > > -Me, TV's Rex "Tim" Broome > > > > Me: She's doing fine. The version we're doing is skewing a little more Van > > Halen than Kinks, but hey, we have another band doing "Jump" anyway... > > > > Mom: Oooh, are you guys saying "record machine" in "Jump"? Because you > > know in Aztec Camera's version he says "CD machine". (brief barrage of > > Aztec Camera trivia redacted) > > > > Me: That's cool. I don't think a lot of the other teachers here would know > > who Roddy Frame is, but I'm a big fan of a lot of those forgotten British > > singer-songwriters from that era. Robyn Hitchcock, Andy Partridge... > > > > Mom: Really? Oh, well, you know, I've heard Robyn Hitchcock isn't that > > nice. > > > > Me: Really? I'd never heard that. He's always seemed relatively > > approachable from what I've heard. > > > > Mom: No, nobody I've ever talked to has ever had anything nice to say > > about Robyn Hitchcock. > > > > Me: Well, you know, songwriters can be prickly. > > > > Mom: I know! (Conspiratorially) I sort of find that most of the artists > > I really like are really not nice people... > > > > Me: Wllyaah... I mean, a lot of the best ones aren't. You know, Dylan, > > Lou Reed... hell, one of my favorite bands is The Fall, and nobody in the > > world has anything nice to say about Mark E. Smith! > > > > Mom: (with apparently genuine surprise) Really? Oh, that's funny. > > > > And the moral of the story is... goddammit, I have no idea what the fuck > > ANYONE is talking about any more. Like, ever. > > > > Yours, > > Rex "Tim" Broome, guitar and vocal, The I Have No Idea What the Fuck Anyone > > Is Talking About Band Combo Revue. > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:07:52 -0700 > From: Rex Broome > Subject: Me 'n' the camp moms (less erotic content than you might hope) > > So parents are really talkative to the staff at the musical rock and roll > academy camp thing they send their kids to. It's true! Just listen, > friends. > > Dramatis Personae: > - -Camp mom, whose older but still very young daughter is playing guitar on > "You Really Got Me" > - -Me, TV's Rex "Tim" Broome > > Me: She's doing fine. The version we're doing is skewing a little more Van > Halen than Kinks, but hey, we have another band doing "Jump" anyway... > > Mom: Oooh, are you guys saying "record machine" in "Jump"? Because you > know in Aztec Camera's version he says "CD machine". (brief barrage of > Aztec Camera trivia redacted) > > Me: That's cool. I don't think a lot of the other teachers here would know > who Roddy Frame is, but I'm a big fan of a lot of those forgotten British > singer-songwriters from that era. Robyn Hitchcock, Andy Partridge... > > Mom: Really? Oh, well, you know, I've heard Robyn Hitchcock isn't that > nice. > > Me: Really? I'd never heard that. He's always seemed relatively > approachable from what I've heard. > > Mom: No, nobody I've ever talked to has ever had anything nice to say > about Robyn Hitchcock. > > Me: Well, you know, songwriters can be prickly. > > Mom: I know! (Conspiratorially) I sort of find that most of the artists > I really like are really not nice people... > > Me: Wllyaah... I mean, a lot of the best ones aren't. You know, Dylan, > Lou Reed... hell, one of my favorite bands is The Fall, and nobody in the > world has anything nice to say about Mark E. Smith! > > Mom: (with apparently genuine surprise) Really? Oh, that's funny. > > And the moral of the story is... goddammit, I have no idea what the fuck > ANYONE is talking about any more. Like, ever. > > Yours, > Rex "Tim" Broome, guitar and vocal, The I Have No Idea What the Fuck Anyone > Is Talking About Band Combo Revue. > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:27:50 -0700 > From: Rex Broome > Subject: Re: Me 'n' the camp moms (less erotic content than you might hope) > > Forgot to mention that said mom claims to have a "Balloon Man" 7" in her > possession. For what it's worth... > > ------------------------------ > > End of fegmaniax-digest V19 #169 > ******************************** ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:33:28 -0700 From: Rex Broome Subject: Re: Me 'n' the camp moms (less erotic content than you might hope) On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > I'm having trouble picturing a "brief" barrage of Aztec Camera trivia -- in > my experience the only kind of barrage of Aztec Camera trivia is a lengthy > one. > You can make it slightly briefer if the mom has her kids hanging onto her, and you yourself clearly have another 20-some kids' parents to debrief, and your eyes go even the slightest bit glassy with the threat of stopping talking to her. Or at least that was my read on her... she turned out to be a stranger bird than I'd expected. Apologies to Elizabeth, who has actually been one of my camp moms. Some of them are perfectly even keel, or at least only flustered in completely understandable ways... ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V19 #170 ********************************