From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V7 #292 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Saturday, October 9 2004 Volume 07 : Number 292 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] Fw: Bless my cotton socks, I'm in the pub! ["Keith Astbury" <] Re: [idealcopy] OT: worst guitar ["Keith Astbury" ] Re: [idealcopy] Fw: Bless my cotton socks, I'm in the pub! [Eardrumbuz@ao] [idealcopy] [OT] Live Swervedriver available [Paul Pietromonaco Subject: [idealcopy] Fw: Bless my cotton socks, I'm in the pub! I've just heard that there's an 80's covers band called... The Beergut Explodes!! Keith np 23 skidoo (the 2000 album - it's not seven songs but it's a real grower) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 11:31:27 +0100 From: "Keith Astbury" Subject: Re: [idealcopy] OT: worst guitar I'm not a violent man, but I would like to punch whoever wrote that!! > The Dec 2004 issue of Guitar World has an article, "The 100 worst > guitar solos of all time". I was struck by one of the early ones: > > #21 Buzzcocks "Noise Annoys" > "You could argue that this song was actually meant to be annoying, but > only a group of idiots would bother to record this dreck and release > it. The Buzzcocks pulled off punk's first hat trick - infantile > lyrics, one stoopid riff, and two (count 'em) crap solos in one tune. > The only good idea is the song's rhyming title, but that's not enough > to justify the immortalization of this steaming pile of poo." > > Some other ones were: > #1 Poison "Guitar Solo" > #57 The Cramps "Garbage Man" > #69 The Ramones "This Ain't Havana" > #80 The Cure "Pictures Of You" > #89 White Stripes "Offend In Every Way" > #100 Michael Jackson "Black Or White" > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 07:25:12 -0400 From: PaulRabjohn@aol.com Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Fw: Bless my cotton socks, I'm in the pub! hmmm , that "beergut explodes" gag dates from garry bushell's oi days in sounds , i think it was one of the many fictitious bands he invented to try and get some dodgy "movement" off the ground (he tried about 4 a year , i think oi was the only one that vaguely took flight). so are this new lot a teardrops type act? looking at gig guides around here it looks dangerously like the tribute band idea is running out of steam. thank god for that , all the old midlands venues seemed to do 90% tributes in recent times hence no room for anything new. still , time yet for a few more horrors i'm sure. so where is bushell these days anyway? havn't seen his ugly mug in ages. p ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 06:24:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Derek White Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Fw: Bless my cotton socks, I'm in the pub! PaulRabjohn@aol.com wrote: so where is bushell these days anyway? havn't seen his ugly mug in ages. p I for one sincerely hope it's at the bottom of a deep, dark well. With the remainder in some left luggage office at Paddington, the right-wing, 'blokey' tosspot. Like Mr A, I'm not a violent sort, but that guy bushell could get my hackles rising almost instantly. Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 14:50:21 +0100 From: "Keith Astbury" Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Fw: Bless my cotton socks, I'm in the pub! > so where is bushell these days anyway? havn't seen his ugly mug in ages. p > > I for one sincerely hope it's at the bottom of a deep, dark well. With the remainder in some left luggage office at Paddington, the right-wing, 'blokey' tosspot. I may have mentioned before that I once stood next to Mr Bushell at a urinal and it is to my eternal regret that I didn't piss on him!! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 06:50:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Derek White Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Fw: Bless my cotton socks, I'm in the pub! Definitely an opportunity missed !! Keith Astbury wrote:> so where is bushell these days anyway? havn't seen his ugly mug in ages. p > > I for one sincerely hope it's at the bottom of a deep, dark well. With the remainder in some left luggage office at Paddington, the right-wing, 'blokey' tosspot. I may have mentioned before that I once stood next to Mr Bushell at a urinal and it is to my eternal regret that I didn't piss on him!! vote.yahoo.com - Register online to vote today! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 07:37:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Ari Subject: [idealcopy] O.TFw: Republicans, Out of Ideas, Ask Prosecutors to Arrest Michael Moore Hope Miles lets this one through........... > From: mailinglist@michaelmoore.com > > 10/6/04 > > Friends, > > You may have heard by now that the Michigan > Republican Party has called for my arrest. That's > right. They literally want me brought up on charges > -- and hope that I'm locked up. > > No, I'm not kidding. The Republican Party, > yesterday, filed a criminal complaint with the > prosecutors in each of the counties where I spoke > last week in Michigan. > > My crime? Clean underwear for anyone who will vote > in the upcoming election. > > Each night on our 60-city "Slacker Uprising Tour" > through the 20 battleground states, I've been > registering hundreds (and on some nights, thousands) > of voters at my arena and stadium events. I then ask > for everyone over 23 who has never voted (or didn't > vote in the last election) to stand up. I tell these > slackers that I understand and respect why they > think politicians are not worth the bother. I tell > them that I may have been the original slacker, and > that I do not want them to change their slacker > ways. Keep sleeping 'til noon! Keep drinking beer! > Stay on the sofa and watch as much TV as possible! > But, please, just for me, on 11/2, I want you to > leave the house and give voting a try -- just this > once. The stakes this time are just too high. > > If they promise me that they'll do this, I give the > guys a 3-pack of new Fruit of the Loom underwear, > and the women get a day's supply of Ramen noodles, > the sustenance of slackers everywhere. > > I then close by having them repeat the 2004 Slacker > Oath: "Pick nose! Pick butt! Pick Kerry." > > It seems to have worked, as each night the volunteer > tables are swamped afterwards with hundreds of new > and young voters signing up to campaign for regime > change for the next four weeks. > > The satire of all this seems to have been lost on > the Republicans. Or maybe it hasn't. The state of > Michigan (where we spent most of last week) reported > that over 100,000 young people recently registered > to vote, a record that no one saw coming. The > Slacker Tour has turned into a huge steamroller with > a momentum all its own. > > So, the Republican Party, to show their gratitude > that so many young people will now be involved in > our system, has demanded that I be sent to jail for > trying to "bribe" students to vote. > > Of course, this would be quite laughable if they > weren't so serious about their charges. But they > are. I may soon be a wanted man in Michigan -- > simply because I convinced a few slackers to change > their underwear and eat a healthy meal of > artificially flavored noodles. > > I thought I'd seen it all this year -- Disney > refusing to distribute the film they paid for, > right-wingers harassing theater owners who showed > "Fahrenheit 9/11," conservative action groups trying > to get the FEC to kick our film ads off the air, the > unnecessary restrictive R-rating that forced > teenagers to sneak in to see it, and all the stupid, > crazy attacks on me and my movie that I've had to > listen to as I watched the public ignore them and > pack the movie houses anyway, where my film was > being shown. And when all that failed, five > different Republican groups made five different > attack dog tapes (oops, "documentaries"!) against me > in a period of about six weeks. But they were all so > bad, so boring, so right-wing, no one wanted to > watch them and they too went away, a sad waste of > good videotape. > > Now, after enduring all this, with no tricks left in > their bag, they've just decided, "Let's toss his > sorry ass behind bars -- him and his noodles and his > gift of clean underwear!" > > My friends, they will not catch me. Though I may be > on the run, and I may never be able to return home > to my beloved Michigan, I make this solemn vow to > you and yours: The slackers of America shall not be > denied their noodles, they will proudly wear their > clean underwear as free Americans, and they will > vote Bush out of office come November 2nd (though > they will not show up to the polls until well after > noon)! > > Stay strong, stay slacker, and please remember to > turn the underwear inside out every three days. As > for the noodles, add boiling water, stir. > > Yours, > > Michael Moore > MMFlint@aol.com > www.michaelmoore.com > > P.S. My favorite moment of the VP debate: Cheney > saying to the moderator that this was the first he > heard that that many black women in America had > AIDS. Clueless. Cheney, for an entire 90-minutes, > only mentioned Bush's name -- that's his running > mate, the "president" -- once. They should have > called this the "President (Cheney) -- Vice > President (Edwards) Debate." > > P.P.S. Tomorrow's letter, as promised for today, > will be about my new book, "Will They Ever Trust Us > Again?: Letters from the War Zone." And thanks, > everyone, for sending "Fahrenheit 9/11" on its first > day to #1 on Amazon. If you find that your store > didn't order enough copies, or to report other > problems, please e-mail Sony Home video at > HeySony@michaelmoore.com. > > _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 10:47:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Ari Subject: [idealcopy] O.T: wake up America http://www.wakeupeverybody.com/EPK/qt/ and read the 'ticker-tape'........... Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 18:30:35 EDT From: Eardrumbuz@aol.com Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Fw: Bless my cotton socks, I'm in the pub! In a message dated 10/8/04 7:32:39 AM, PaulRabjohn@aol.com writes: << all the old midlands venues seemed to do 90% tributes >> good news is i live on long island, less than an hour from nyc...which, in theory, is a great thing. bad news is it gets increasingly difficult to find the time and/or energy to get into the city, especially on worknights. worse news is that long island plays host to about 99.9% crap tribute acts (ie. dave matthews, kiss or gasp...billy joel or journey!). ah, if only i had a 10% chance at seeing a decent local gig...or even a teardrop explodes tribute act! :o) - -paul c.d. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 16:29:50 -0700 From: Paul Pietromonaco Subject: [idealcopy] [OT] Live Swervedriver available Hi everyone, I'm probably the only person on the list who cares, but just in case I'm not, the swervedriver.com website has posted a collection of live MP3s that correspond to the tracks from each of the 4 released albums. The link is here: http://www.swervedriver.com/downloads.asp I normally wouldn't post links to stuff like this, but I believe it has tacit approval from the band. Permission has been given to make copies, but they must not be sold, etc. Audio quality is pretty variable, but it's a nice adjunct to the 4 official CDs. Cheers, Paul ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V7 #292 *******************************