From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V1 #254 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Thursday, October 4 2001 Volume 01 : Number 254 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] LoudList representing! [JRT456@aol.com] [loud-fans] UVS [Chris Prew ] [loud-fans] Freedy ["Max Germer" ] Re: [loud-fans] Freedy [Roger Winston ] Re: [loud-fans] LoudList representing! [Dana L Paoli ] [loud-fans] Movies? ["O Geier" ] Re: [loud-fans] Movies? [Cyndy Patrick ] Re: [loud-fans] Movies? [Dana L Paoli ] Re: [loud-fans] Movies? ["glenn mcdonald" ] Re: [loud-fans] Movies? [Jer Fairall ] Re: [loud-fans] LoudList representing! [Sue Trowbridge ] Re: [loud-fans] LoudList representing! [JRT456@aol.com] [loud-fans] white stripes on tv (ns) [Dana L Paoli ] Re: [loud-fans] a mulleted nation mourns ["Andrew Hamlin" ] Re: [loud-fans] Freedy [Dan Sallitt ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 07:37:48 EDT From: JRT456@aol.com Subject: [loud-fans] LoudList representing! Is it the defense of our capitalist system that marks the "Quote of the Day" as being from one of our own? Actually, it's the long-simmering high-school resentment of girls with skinny blonde butts. But, yo, it's still representing.... http://lucianne.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 08:09:54 -0500 From: Chris Prew Subject: [loud-fans] UVS So, why is it no one ever told me that the first Ultra Vivid Scene record sounds an awful lot like a lost Game Theory record circa Blaze of Glory/RN? Even the production, the trebly snares and all, gave me that vibe. A pleasant listen...despite being about 12 years behind its time.... Actually, you probably did tell me....I don9t always listen to what I9m reading. Chris ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 09:27:32 -0400 From: "Max Germer" Subject: [loud-fans] Freedy I love the new Freedy Johnston. It's a little more in the vein of *Can You Fly*, kind of rougher around the edges but with gorgeous songwriting intact (and a cute cover of "Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes"). His amazing guitarist Cameron produced it. I highly recommend. Max > Mark, who heard the new Freedy Johnston album playing in the Barnes and Noble > coffee shop at an earsplitting level the other day. Opinions? It was so > loud, I couldn't see how anyone could ignore it, yet people were slurping > away their beverages and chating away unphased. It sounded good to me. No > big earth shaking change in style, but so what? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 8:29:40 -0600 From: Roger Winston Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Freedy "Max Germer" on 2001/10/03 Wed AM 09:27:32 MDT wrote: > I love the new Freedy Johnston. It's a little more in the vein of *Can You > Fly*, kind of rougher around the edges but with gorgeous songwriting intact > (and a cute cover of "Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes"). Does Stewart know about that? Later. --Rog (No, I don't actually have a mother-in-law, since you need to be married first to have one of those. I think.) - -- When toads are not enough: http://www.reignoffrogs.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 11:05:37 -0400 From: Dana L Paoli Subject: Re: [loud-fans] LoudList representing! BTW, speaking of JRT and blonde girls, I pass on this bit of celebrity gossip: Shari's friend Evan, the playwrite, who's staying with us until December (when his play goes into production off-Broadway) 2nd acted Phantom of the Opera a couple days ago. He was lucky enough to find an empty seat in the front row, which by itself was pretty great. But, to make things even better, he noticed, sitting to his left, seven very cheap looking blonde women and a very creepy looking old man. Evan reports that by the end of the musical, most were in tears. JRT, do you know your bosses schedule and can you confirm/deny? I can't imagine who else it could have been. - --dana ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 15:09:19 +0000 From: "O Geier" Subject: [loud-fans] Movies? I expected a barrage of posts about 'Zoolander', but none?? Didn't see, and doubt I will, looked too much like Basketball and anything Tom Green pollutes. 'What does it mean, Number 6?' 'It means what it is' - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 11:43:58 -0400 From: Cyndy Patrick Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Movies? > I expected a barrage of posts about 'Zoolander', but none?? Didn't see, > and doubt I will, It's actually pretty good (Jerry Stiller, who I usually like, being the only truly off-putting element in the movie), with a decent laughs-to-movie ticket dollars spent ratio, and a few scenes that are making me chuckle days later. It's certainly no "Bubble Boy" (my latest mistake when I was desperate for a silly film). - -Cyndy ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 11:48:44 -0400 From: Dana L Paoli Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Movies? It was pretty funny, in the usual Ben Stiller way: no one else does pop culture parodies more accurately. On the other hand, it's definitely one of those expand-a-sketch-into-a-full-length-movie films. I laughed a lot at two of the bits (one involving a Macintosh with a hard-to-find "on" switch) and sort of snorted appreciatively throughout. There's no good reason not to wait till it hits video, that I can think of. The main problem with it is that, very clearly, Ben Stiller kind of wants to be a part of the fashion industry, which takes a lot of the power out of his satire. I really like Owen Wilson, even though he seems to play the same character in every movie. - --dana On Wed, 03 Oct 2001 15:09:19 +0000 "O Geier" writes: > I expected a barrage of posts about 'Zoolander', but none?? Didn't > see, > and doubt I will, looked too much like Basketball and anything Tom > Green > pollutes. > > 'What does it mean, Number 6?' 'It means what it is' > > - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 11:56:06 -0400 From: "glenn mcdonald" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Movies? > I expected a barrage of posts about 'Zoolander', but none?? A small Boston LoudFan delegation attended this admittedly dubious-looking "comedy" over the weekend. Personally, I was unexpectedly well amused. It is not an incisive film, by any means, and we agreed that it didn't feel as short as it actually was, but structurally speaking it's more like a Pink Panther or Naked Gun movie (although not as manic as the latter, and Ben Stiller isn't quite Peter Sellers) than like Tom Green or the Farrelly brothers. It's not primarily crass or reliant on shock value, it's just filled with jokes. I recommend it. Good light, if belated, summer entertainment. I'll give a somewhat more guarded recommendation for _Serendipity_. John Cusack is John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale is adorable, but the story is inane to no good end, we're given no sane reason to root for the main characters to get together except that they're the main characters, and why the filmmakers felt obliged to pound Beckinsale's appeal into our heads with enormous Hollywood mallets (including a slow-motion wind-blowing-bottom-of-shirt-aside-to-reveal-navel shot that engendered more than one snort of disbelief), I don't know. But the film breaks even, for me, on the strengths of any scene with Jeremy Piven as Cusack's excitable best friend or Eugene Levy as a stiff Bloomingdale's clerk, and a couple hilarious fake music videos for Lars, Kate's character's goofy Andreas Vollenweider-ish musician boyfriend. Be forewarned, though: as a placid New York movie it's vividly pre-9/11, and the irrelevant skyline shots and fly-overs, which I assume were intended just as scene dividers, are now tense and distracting. glenn ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 09:13:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Jer Fairall Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Movies? Speaking of movies, has anyone seen THE DEEP END and can give me any good reason to go out of my way to see it? Jer np: Atom & His Package, s/t ===== Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http://phone.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 09:18:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Sue Trowbridge Subject: Re: [loud-fans] LoudList representing! NY POST/PAGE SIX... (Oct. 1, 2001) [Hugh] Hefner, making a rare visit to New York to be roasted by the Friar's Club... While in New York, Hefner has pumped money into the lagging tourism economy. Thursday night, he took his eight girlfriends to Suite 16. Friday, after the girls went shopping and sightseeing, he treated them to "The Phantom of the Opera." "We have gone out a lot [since the attack]," Hef said. "If you don't try to recoup some sense of your life, then you play into the hands of the enemy." But unlike other celebs, they have not flocked to the "newest VIP spot" - Ground Zero. "I don't want to go down there. I guess many want to witness history, but it is real enough for me. I don't need to see [Ground Zero]." - --- Dana L Paoli wrote: > BTW, speaking of JRT and blonde girls, I pass on this bit of celebrity > gossip: > > Shari's friend Evan, the playwrite, who's staying with us until December > (when his play goes into production off-Broadway) 2nd acted Phantom of > the Opera a couple days ago. He was lucky enough to find an empty seat > in the front row, which by itself was pretty great. But, to make things > even better, he noticed, sitting to his left, seven very cheap looking > blonde women and a very creepy looking old man. Evan reports that by the > end of the musical, most were in tears. > > JRT, do you know your bosses schedule and can you confirm/deny? I can't > imagine who else it could have been. Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http://phone.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 16:18:44 +0000 From: "O Geier" Subject: [loud-fans] Frighteningly apropos http://www.theonion.com/onion3735/coke_mandatory.html 'What does it mean, Number 6?' 'It means what it is' - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 13:02:10 EDT From: JRT456@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] LoudList representing! Hey, Sue Trowbridge gets faster results than the PR folks at the Mansion. I'll just add that anyone who refers to the Playmates as "cheap" has obviously never had to include them in a monthly budget. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 15:30:15 -0400 From: Dana L Paoli Subject: [loud-fans] white stripes on tv (ns) The White Stripes will be appearing on Letterman on 10/10 with an extra member. Details at: http://www.nme.com/NME/External/News/News_Story/0,1004,44344,00.html - --dana ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 17:08:31 -0700 From: "Andrew Hamlin" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] a mulleted nation mourns >>d) Whoever it is that makes that purported chocolate soda is deeply fucked >>up. > >Canfield. The only version I've ever seen is the diet one. I shudder to >think. 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[--from http://home.houston.rr.com/surrenderownz/auction.htm ] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 20:16:10 -0400 From: "glenn mcdonald" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] a mulleted nation mourns > Cragmont Diet Chocolate Mint Soda Thanks, I had successfully blocked out all memory of this abominable substance until 23 seconds ago. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 17:32:01 -0700 From: "Andrew Hamlin" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] a mulleted nation mourns >Thanks, I had successfully blocked out all memory of this abominable >substance until 23 seconds ago. 23 Skiddoo... No Tab, but I got THE BEST OF EDDIE MONEY, Andy "She felt more afraid than she had ever felt in her life before, as if she had seen the grim figure of the Black Reaper himself, complete with hour glass and scythe. If the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse had ridden through that cellar she could not have intensified her fear, even for them. If 666, the Great Beast, had appeared in its malevolent horror and diabolical fury, her fear could only have remained static. The muzzle of the gun at the back of her neck was like a finger pointing towards eternity." - --from SPECTRE OF DARKNESS by John E. Muller (aka R. Lionel Fanthorpe) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 19:44:20 -0600 From: Stewart Mason Subject: Re: [loud-fans] a mulleted nation mourns At 08:16 PM 10/3/01 -0400, glenn mcdonald wrote: >> Cragmont Diet Chocolate Mint Soda > >Thanks, I had successfully blocked out all memory of this abominable >substance until 23 seconds ago. In Cragmont's defense, I have fond memories of their "sparkling punch." Weren't they Safeway's house brand? S NP: LIVE PEACE IN TORONTO 1969 -- Plastic Ono Band ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 21:00:36 -0700 From: "Andrew Hamlin" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] a mulleted nation mourns >In Cragmont's defense, I have fond memories of their "sparkling punch." > >Weren't they Safeway's house brand? Still, I think. >NP: LIVE PEACE IN TORONTO 1969 -- Plastic Ono Band Side One or Side Two? On unrealted notes, did anyone tape yesterday's "Buffy" premiere? And why is Jobriath not in print anywhere in the known universe? They tell me Bowie ripped off HIM, Andy "Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle." - --Michelangelo, as quoted by C. C. Colton in LACON ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 00:36:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Mitton Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Movies? On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Dana L Paoli wrote: > of his satire. I really like Owen Wilson, even though he seems to play > the same character in every movie. If you're looking for something to like about Wilson, along with director Wes Anderson, he co-wrote "Rushmore" as well as the upcoming "The Royal Tannebaums" which by the preview looks to be as smartly eccentric as "Rushmore" was. In the For What It's Worth department, Ebert and Roeper singled out him in their "rising star" episode a couple weeks back. Gimme back my Pop-Shoppe Pop, Michael ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 01:11:03 -0400 From: Dan Sallitt Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Freedy I like the new Freedy too. Song for song, it's not as strong as some of his albums, but the sound and overall feel are really nice. And "Radio for Heartache" is excellent. - Dan > I love the new Freedy Johnston. It's a little more in the vein of *Can You > Fly*, kind of rougher around the edges but with gorgeous songwriting intact > (and a cute cover of "Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes"). His amazing > guitarist Cameron produced it. I highly recommend. > > Max > > > Mark, who heard the new Freedy Johnston album playing in the Barnes and Noble > > coffee shop at an earsplitting level the other day. Opinions? It was so > > loud, I couldn't see how anyone could ignore it, yet people were slurping > > away their beverages and chating away unphased. It sounded good to me. No > > big earth shaking change in style, but so what? ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V1 #254 *******************************