From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V6 #55 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Tuesday, February 25 2003 Volume 06 : Number 055 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [idealcopy] (Hell in a Cup) At the Shit Awards ["Alex Wise" Subject: Re: [idealcopy] (Hell in a Cup) At the Shit Awards Where was Oasis and Radiohead during this time? - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Hick" To: Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 10:43 AM Subject: [idealcopy] (Hell in a Cup) At the Shit Awards > WIRE has at long last been nominated for a Shit Award, in recognition of the > inspiration they gave to so many plagiarists and retro-preeners of the almost > dead shitpop movement. > > Cut to AWARDS CEREMONY, as Colin Newman and Bruce Gilbert, clad in Bastard > T-shirt and black polo neck respectively, take the podium. Graham Lewis is at > home in Sweden tending his daughters and Robert Grey is off tending his plot. > > "Well, alright, but basically WIRE was always more of a nu-metal band really," > explains Colin, overcome by almost no emotion whatsoever. "The thing that they > all forgot is that its all in the art of stopping." > > "Damn," mutters Bruce, "Must be going deaf. Could've sworn he said it was all > in the art of droppings. That's why I took the opportunity to make this cup > they've given us into a work of ART by filling it with human excrement. Now, > not only does it have visual juxtapositions which are open to interpretation > by the observer, but there is also the element of smell." > > Sure enough a pungent stench ruptures the smokey air. > > "Colin will now demonstrate that a cup can be a bell with the element of > smell." > > Colin strikes the cup with a mallet, sending resonating chinks reverberating > across the hall. The Resonating Chinks promptly form themselves into a group > and play a song with the riff to Champs. > > From the balcony a very drunk Mark E Smith begins shouting, "Notebooks out > plagiarists, idiot groups with no shape or form!" > > Colin gets a bit carried away and sends the cup flying, splattering shit all > over the assembled ranks of hasbeen Britpop bores. They all fall upon each > other, eagerly licking the shit from their clothes. Suddenly Thom Yorke is so > overcome by emotion that he bursts into a desperate little bit of cod-operatic > hystrionics. > > "I'm a creep, I'm just so-so, > What the hell am I doing here? > I don't like shit in me beer! > Am I deep? Am I bozo? > I'll write an Autechrist pyramid song > That sounds a lot more like Elton John" > > "Pack of mongs!" shouts Mark E Smith pulling out a vintage mauser and spraying > bullets into the crowd. Yorke's head is torn in two, and the drummer of Blur > is later forced to go solo from his hospital bed. Smith is promptly awarded a > lifetime acheivement, which he trades in for a half smoked pack of cigs. > > Colin and Bruce take the opportunity to slip away to make tracks at Swim > studio. > > Kickin' Shit Outta Pop > Cracked Machine > Highly Irregular Cyberzine > http://www.webinfo.co.uk/crackedmachine ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 23:21:10 +0000 From: "Jason Rogers" Subject: [idealcopy] Re: Mission Of Burma/Re: idealcopy-digest V6 #51 I can't add much to the review that Dan Bailey hasn't already posted. As said, I missed meeting Dan, but I did end up talking with a couple of guys that I hung out with at the Wire, Chameleons, and Interpol shows; it's funny how we all see the same faces at these events. I mentioned that I'd probably be seeing them at one of the Camper Van Beethoven shows at Echo Lounge in April (I'll try to attend the Saturday night one myself). The Mission Of Burma setlist should be up on the Mission Of Burma site in a couple of days, I'm sure. http://www.missionofburma.com Dan, I have a good version of Dumbells on my copy of Mission Of Burma's Peking Spring CD that was re-released by Taang in 1993. I found my copy on gemm.com for about seven dollars; it's probably available there on a regular basis, I would assume. By the way, if any of you have any remote interest in the Yo La Tengo show here in Atlanta on March 12, let me know, because I'll be there. Jason ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:13:36 -0800 (PST) From: Ari Britt Subject: Re: [idealcopy] (Hell in a Cup) At the Shit Awards OY! I love Radiohead so watchit or I'll make ya listen to Oasis for a week.Ari Alex Wise wrote:Where was Oasis and Radiohead during this time? - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Hick" To: Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 10:43 AM Subject: [idealcopy] (Hell in a Cup) At the Shit Awards > WIRE has at long last been nominated for a Shit Award, in recognition of the > inspiration they gave to so many plagiarists and retro-preeners of the almost > dead shitpop movement. > > Cut to AWARDS CEREMONY, as Colin Newman and Bruce Gilbert, clad in Bastard > T-shirt and black polo neck respectively, take the podium. Graham Lewis is at > home in Sweden tending his daughters and Robert Grey is off tending his plot. > > "Well, alright, but basically WIRE was always more of a nu-metal band really," > explains Colin, overcome by almost no emotion whatsoever. "The thing that they > all forgot is that its all in the art of stopping." > > "Damn," mutters Bruce, "Must be going deaf. Could've sworn he said it was all > in the art of droppings. That's why I took the opportunity to make this cup > they've given us into a work of ART by filling it with human excrement. Now, > not only does it have visual juxtapositions which are open to interpretation > by the observer, but there is also the element of smell." > > Sure enough a pungent stench ruptures the smokey air. > > "Colin will now demonstrate that a cup can be a bell with the element of > smell." > > Colin strikes the cup with a mallet, sending resonating chinks reverberating > across the hall. The Resonating Chinks promptly form themselves into a group > and play a song with the riff to Champs. > > From the balcony a very drunk Mark E Smith begins shouting, "Notebooks out > plagiarists, idiot groups with no shape or form!" > > Colin gets a bit carried away and sends the cup flying, splattering shit all > over the assembled ranks of hasbeen Britpop bores. They all fall upon each > other, eagerly licking the shit from their clothes. Suddenly Thom Yorke is so > overcome by emotion that he bursts into a desperate little bit of cod-operatic > hystrionics. > > "I'm a creep, I'm just so-so, > What the hell am I doing here? > I don't like shit in me beer! > Am I deep? Am I bozo? > I'll write an Autechrist pyramid song > That sounds a lot more like Elton John" > > "Pack of mongs!" shouts Mark E Smith pulling out a vintage mauser and spraying > bullets into the crowd. Yorke's head is torn in two, and the drummer of Blur > is later forced to go solo from his hospital bed. Smith is promptly awarded a > lifetime acheivement, which he trades in for a half smoked pack of cigs. > > Colin and Bruce take the opportunity to slip away to make tracks at Swim > studio. > > Kickin' Shit Outta Pop > Cracked Machine > Highly Irregular Cyberzine > http://www.webinfo.co.uk/crackedmachine Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, and more ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 22:13:14 EST From: MarkBursa@aol.com Subject: [idealcopy] Ebay entertainment Had to share this description with you, as it raised a chuckle..... Description of record for sale on Ebay, written by a chap in California whose rudimentary grasp of how to use a ruler almost matches his knowledge of the UK beer industry ;-) Mark >>CUPOL- GILBERT & LEWIS (WIRE) - Like This For Ages/Kluba Cupol 10" plays 33 1/3 on B side, 45 on A side. On 4AD from 1980 when they churned this stuff out like Whatney's Brewery turned out stout.<< ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 23:06:40 -0700 From: "Paul Ye" Subject: [idealcopy] Re: idealcopy-digest V6 #53 Was gonna bid on that one actually but ebay was filtered at work. No love lost though. There will be another day... paulye >Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 10:47:50 EST >From: PaulRabjohn@aol.com >Subject: [idealcopy] mesmer > >there is a copy of the mesmer variations 2cd up on ebay for $9.99 , ends in >7 >hours and no bids yet. from prices mentioned on here a couple of weeks ago >that sounds like a good deal for somebody.......p > _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V6 #55 ******************************