From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V2 #83 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 Friday, March 1 2002 Volume 02 : Number 083 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] RIP Spike Milligna ["Andrew Hamlin" ] [loud-fans] trophies [Roger Winston ] Re: [loud-fans] trophies ["Aaron Milenski" ] Re: [loud-fans] making campaign finance reform sexy (warning: potentially politically argumentagenic) ["Andre] Re: [loud-fans] trophies [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] [loud-fans] Belligerent Bleeker Bob [Richard Gagnon ] Re: [loud-fans] my very late (curtsey) 2001 best-of list - long ["John Sw] [none] [dmw ] [loud-fans] Fun with words [Richard Gagnon ] [loud-fans] Re: ["glenn mcdonald" ] Re: [loud-fans] trophies [Jon Gabriel ] Re: [loud-fans] trophies ["Roger Winston" ] Re: [loud-fans] RIP Spike Milligna [Stewart Mason ] [loud-fans] Grandmothers [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Re: [loud-fans] Re: [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Re: [loud-fans] Rory Ramone [LeftyZ@aol.com] [loud-fans] Re: your mail [Aaron Mandel ] Re: [loud-fans] Thoughts?? [Dennis_McGreevy@praxair.com] Re: [loud-fans] Loud Family releases OOP? [Sue Trowbridge ] [loud-fans] The Loud family in Newsweek (NS) [Michael Zwirn ] Re: [loud-fans] Thoughts?? ["Andrew Hamlin" ] [loud-fans] comparison shopping [Jer Fairall ] Re: [loud-fans] Thoughts?? [Roger Winston ] Re: [loud-fans] Thoughts?? [Roger Winston ] Re: [loud-fans] Thoughts?? [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Re: [loud-fans] comparison shopping [Jer Fairall ] [loud-fans] Re: "O Brother" [steve ] [loud-fans] something else to waste your valuable computer time [jenny gr] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 06:40:42 -0800 From: "Andrew Hamlin" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] RIP Spike Milligna >For some reason, I thought he was already dead when I got into the Goons >years ago -- wonder how I got that idea. This is terrific news! I have a >full decade of thinking Spike Milligan is alive that I've been neglecting >before I can be sad about him dying. Mr. Milligan wrote his own obituary about twelve years ago, so perhaps that accounts for the feeling. A nice job of it too: http://www.smh.com.au/news/0202/28/html/obituaries1.html Did Sir Secombe do much outside the Goons? Andy BF: People in Boston claim you wrote Astral Weeks when you were living up there, but everything about the album feels like Ireland. VM: No, I didn't write it in Boston. I wrote most of that in Belfast. I was carrying around those songs for a couple of years before I recorded them. One of them was written in '66, some of them in '67. But they were mostly written in Belfast. I think I wrote one of them in New York. BF: Is there a long unreleased track from the Astral Weeks sessions? I read years ago that you didn't include it because it would have made Astral Weeks a double album. VM: Yeah, but it was just recorded on a two-track tape. I never did it in a studio because I realized I couldn't do it again. It's probably thrown out by now. BF: Did the real Madame George recognize herself in your song? VM: Well, no. Because Madame George was about six or seven different people who probably couldn't find themselves in there if they tried. BF: In your 1970 Rolling Stone interview you told Happy Traum that Astral Weeks was a rock opera. Did you really mean that? VM: No. "Rock opera" was wrong. When I did that interview I'd had a few drinks. This is the problem with doing interviews. You see it later and you realize that you said things that were nonsense. That was one of them. I meant that the approach was operatic. [--Van Morrison, from a 1984 interview with Bill Flanagan, (re?)printed in Flanagan's book WRITTEN IN MY SOUL] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 07:45:13 -0700 From: Roger Winston Subject: [loud-fans] trophies Hey, I see lots of talk here about the Gilmore Girls but no discussion of last night's Grammy Awards ceremony. This IS supposed to be a music List, right? I need to know what happened! Did the New Pornographers or the Shins win anything? Did Britney bare her midriff? Latre. --Rog ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 09:50:38 -0500 From: "Aaron Milenski" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] trophies >This IS supposed to be a music List, right? That's why we don't talk about the Grammies. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 07:00:14 -0800 From: "Andrew Hamlin" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] making campaign finance reform sexy (warning: potentially politically argumentagenic) >A state can make it illegal, and they can also make it legal, of course, as >Nevada has (God bless!). Remember, a state can provide *more* civil >liberties to its citizens than the minimum imposed by the Constitution (as >long as by doing that they don't thereby infringe on some other >Constitutional guarantee, and that seems to happen a lot). As good a time as any to plug BROTHEL: MUSTANG RANCH AND ITS WOMEN, by Alexa Albert, a one-time classmate of mine (though she went on to Lakeside Academy and Harvard University, like Bill Gates; unlike Bill, she actually graduated from Harvard). Dr. Albert ostensibly hung out at the Mustang to conduct condom studies, but of course the book wouldn't be nearly so interesting for only that. Delves into the history, and shifting legalities, of Nevada's prostitution laws, amongst other issues. Waiting for Jeffrey to offer Rose fifty bucks to dress up like Princess Leia (and then get out of the hospital), Andy Abraham Cantor argues on behalf of the city, and as much as the justices loved trashing Polidoro, Cantor gets even worse. Scalia opens by musing whether he's just overlooked the cases over the past two centuries that might allow speech restrictions of this breadth. When Cantor attempts to characterize the "beauty" of the law as "content-neutral," Justice Kennedy leaps at him. "You think it's a beautiful idea that I have to ask the government for permission before I can go down the street ... and say, 'I want to talk to you about the situation with garbage pickup?' " O'Connor piles on. "What about trick-or-treaters?" she asks. And later: "What about Christmas carolers? What if you want to borrow a cup of sugar from the neighbors?" What if you're just looking for an excuse to see Ned Flanders' wife in her bathrobe? Cantor has a tough time explaining why such activities might not be implicated. Then Breyer and Scalia wonder whether Jehovah's Witnesses come under the ban on "hawkers or canvassers." "The dictionary says a canvasser is a person looking for a vote," offers Breyer, primly. - --from an article by Dahlia Lithwick at http://slate.msn.com/?id=2062575 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 09:28:14 -0600 (CST) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: [loud-fans] trophies On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Roger Winston wrote: > right? I need to know what happened! Did the New Pornographers or the > Shins win anything? Did Britney bare her midriff? No, no. Yes. Not that I saw the Grammies - but I bet I'm right. And what about the lowriff or the highriff? - --Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::Solipsism is its own reward:: __Crow T. Robot__ np: Swell Maps _Jane from Occupied Europe_ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 10:32:56 -0500 From: Richard Gagnon Subject: [loud-fans] Belligerent Bleeker Bob >Steve wrote: >Rick Gagnon and I had a bizarre experience at Bleecker Bob's last May, >where this one employee (probably the jerk owner) stood in front of the >exit and wouldn't let us leave until after we told him what records we >were looking for, and even our replies of "just looking" was met with an >indignant, "No! What are you looking FOR!" He reminded me of De >Niro's Travis Bickle character in Taxi Driver "you talking to ME?", so I >couldn't get out of Bleecker Bob's fast enough. I'm trying to remember just how Steve and I pulled out of *that* particular death trap; I think we used a variation of Honest Dana's Cdnow scam, which is to request stuff you *know* they couldn't possibly have in stock. Always keep a list of the impossible handy, like Bogart in the bookstore in "The Big Sleep". Despite the near-death experience at Bleeker Bob's, shopping with Steve H. is a highly pleasant experience, a fact that I'm sure several Loudfans can vouch for. Don't miss your turn for anything. Rick - -- "If you die, you do so at your own risk" ******Neil Hannon, "Note to self"****** ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 10:31:19 -0500 From: "John Swartzentruber" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] my very late (curtsey) 2001 best-of list - long On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 23:44:52 -0600, Jack Lippold wrote: > 9. THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS: "Mink Car" *** - I almost wrote these guys off >after 1994's dreadful "John Henry". "John Henry" was their album I was the most disappointed in when it was released. I listened to it again recently, and found that I really liked it. Try it again -- it might not end up being your favorite, but I'm pretty sure it will end up better than "dreadful". ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 10:32:07 -0500 (EST) From: dmw Subject: [none] On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Roger Winston wrote: > Hey, I see lots of talk here about the Gilmore Girls but no discussion of > last night's Grammy Awards ceremony. This IS supposed to be a music List, > right? I need to know what happened! Did the New Pornographers or the > Shins win anything? Did Britney bare her midriff? I was at my songwriter's circle, and the TV was on for some of the time, mostly with the sound down. I can tell you: Dave Matthews played a baritone Danelectro guitar, but that didn't make me like him any better. Dylan's voice, circa now, is really good in this Tom Waits sort of way, but every time Charlie Sexton played one of those xeroxed blues licks I cringed. They did "Cry a While;" when Bawb sang the line with "whiskey" in it a big roar went up from the crowd. Somebody had a rather phenomenal mid-riff, we made jokes about invisible glass corsets and winches behind her pulling her stomach in. I don't think it was Spears though, because above the mid-riff she didn't look as deformedly bulbous as Spears. Some guy had a big hat. Maybe I just missed when they were on, but Gorillaz weren't up for anything? Our pal Bill didn't win for best country instrumental which we thought was a bit of a rip, 'cause what did win was some showboaty thing from the David Letterman show. U2 won stuff for _All You Can't Leave Behind_, which befuddled me, as that record was released in October (31st, I looked it up) of 2000. So it was eligible how? THey were kind of funny about winning, seemed a little embarrassed. Alison Krauss won something that implied she was a "new artist." Nelly Furtatod played a duet with some "hot" guitarist, but we in the room were listening to Pete play two of her new songs instead. I was kinda shocked by how often music i actually at least respect, if not actually like, was mentioned. e.g.: Not sure who it was who accepted the award for the "O Brother" soundtrack, but he wasn't well prepped -- stumbled v. clumsily through a rather muddled little speech about how they never could have won, leaning awkwardly down over a mic somewhere in the vicinity of his sternum. Weirdly poignant; the most real of any moments I witnessed. - -- d. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 10:42:40 -0500 From: Richard Gagnon Subject: [loud-fans] Fun with words FUN WITH WORDS........ Meaningful Misconceptions Abdicate--v., to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach. Carcinoma--n., a valley in California, notable for its heavy smog. Esplanade--v., to attempt an explanation while drunk. Willy-nilly--adj., impotent. Flabbergasted--adj., appalled over how much weight you have gained. Negligent--adj., describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightie. Lymph--v., to walk with a lisp. Gargoyle--n., an olive-flavored mouthwash. Bustard--n., a very rude Metrobus driver. Coffee--n., a person who is coughed upon. Flatulence--n., the emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller. Balderdash--n., a rapidly receding hairline. Testicle--n., a humorous question on an exam. Semantics--n., pranks conducted by young men studying for the priesthood, including such things as gluing the pages of the priest's prayer book together just before vespers. Rectitude--n., the formal, dignified demeanor assumed by a proctologist immediately before he examines you. Marionettes--n., residents of Washington who have been jerked around by Mayor Barry. Oyster--n., a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddish expressions. Circumvent--n., the opening in the front of boxer shorts. - -- "If you die, you do so at your own risk" ******Neil Hannon, "Note to self"****** ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 10:52:43 -0500 From: "glenn mcdonald" Subject: [loud-fans] Re: > U2 won stuff for _All You Can't Leave Behind_, which befuddled me, > as that record was released in October (31st, I looked it up) of 2000. > So it was eligible how? Grammy eligibility for year N is from 10/1/N-1 to 9/30/N. Presumably this dates back to Pony Express days when it could take as much as two months to transport a packet of CDs from New York to Los Angeles. Although naturally Los Angeles was still called Pangaea at the time... glenn ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 07:50:59 -0800 (PST) From: Jon Gabriel Subject: Re: [loud-fans] trophies I only saw bits and pieces of the Grammys show, since I'm FAR too cool to watch the whole thing. All I did see was the "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" medley, "Miss Jackson" by Outkast and the Gospel finale, all of which were superb. In this world of TRL-style McMusic, I think the whole country is relieved to hear something authentic, which is why all three of these performances were so good. I'm surprised that "O Brother" won Album of the Year since it works more as a "greatest bluegrass hits" collection, but looking what it was up against, it probably was the best choice (excepting "Stankonia"). There were about 72 other albums that should have been nominated, but isn't that always the case. Outkast's performace was excellent; I was wondering what outfit Dre would end up wearing. In addition to their great musicianship, it was great to see kids playing in the background and the honest tribute to mothers everywhere. No "bitches" or "hos" in this crowd, thankfully. Gospel was the perfect way to end the evening with some uplift. The mostly white crowd was hilarious as they sat with uncomfortable smiles (I doubt I'd be much different), while a few sisters in the crowd let loose like it was Sunday morning. Al Green wasn't given enough time (2 hours wouldn't have been enough), but it was great to see all these underappreciated artists get a little face time. Glad to review 1/7 of the 3-1/2 hour show, Jon ===== 777777777777777777777777777777 JON GABRIEL mesa, arizona usa inkling communication + design 777777777777777777777777777777 Yahoo! Greetings - Send FREE e-cards for every occasion! http://greetings.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 09:27:21 -0700 From: "Roger Winston" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] trophies Andrew Hamlin on 2/28/2002 7:49:25 AM wrote: > http://music.msn.com/grammy/ Aaron Milenski on: 2/28/2002 7:50:38 AM wrote: > That's why we don't talk about the Grammies. I guess I'm going to have to stop being sarcastic, or start using smilies or something. Sheesh! :0 Latre. --Rog ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 09:45:26 -0700 From: Stewart Mason Subject: Re: [loud-fans] RIP Spike Milligna At 06:40 AM 2/28/02 -0800, Andrew Hamlin wrote: >Did Sir Secombe do much outside the Goons? He had a long career as a pop and light classical singer, before during and after the Goons; he released dozens of albums in Europe, but I don't think any of them were ever released in the states. Interestingly, he doesn't seem to have an All Music Guide entry at all. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 10:57:54 -0600 (CST) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: [loud-fans] Grandmothers On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, dmw wrote: > U2 won stuff for _All You Can't Leave Behind_, which befuddled me, as that > record was released in October (31st, I looked it up) of 2000. So it was > eligible how? THey were kind of funny about winning, seemed a little > embarrassed. Speaking of - wasn't the "O Brother" soundtrack also released during 2000? Are you sure this wasn't last year's Grammy Awards? - --Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html Today's Out of Context Quotation: ::"I mean, I castrated pigs and dipped snuff when I was younger":: ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 11:00:23 -0600 (CST) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re: On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, glenn mcdonald wrote: > transport a packet of CDs from New York to Los Angeles. Although naturally Los > Angeles was still called Pangaea at the time... And here I thought it was Constantinople... (This was not really a joke but it played one on the Internet.) - --Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing.... ::As a result, this country has one of the worst economies in the world. __Neal Stephenson, SNOW CRASH__ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 12:05:04 EST From: LeftyZ@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Rory Ramone In a message dated 2/27/02 8:36:40 PM, jenor@csd.uwm.edu writes: << Agreed on the bracelet thing - to the extent that it was less a plot twist than a plot chute. (If Jess were smarter, he would have claimed to have found the bracelet on the roof just outside Rory's window - as if it had fallen out of the open window.) >> since we are getting into minutiae.....and to show that I'm paying attention..... Rory's room is on the first floor, next to the kitchen....... Left ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 12:18:51 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: [loud-fans] Re: your mail On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, dmw wrote: > U2 won stuff for _All You Can't Leave Behind_, which befuddled me, as > that record was released in October (31st, I looked it up) of 2000. Same day as Stankonia. They're both eligible, as glenn pointed out, but the Grammy producers still managed to screw up and show a cover shot of Outkast's greatest hits record instead, which came out in 2001 (albeit too late for a Grammy nomination even if they'd wanted to!) Dre 3000's outfit was overwhelming. a ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 11:34:42 -0600 From: Dennis_McGreevy@praxair.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Thoughts?? Sent by: owner-loud-fans@smoe.org To: loud-fans@smoe.org cc: Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Thoughts?? jfb, then dana: OK, who will you watch in anything regardless of how bad it is? >>>>>>>>>>>>>> [... Letha Weapons [...] I don't think Letha's making movies anymore, but I still haven't seen all her old films, or her "Married With Children" appearance. <><><><><><><><><><><><><> I think "film" may be something of a misnomer here, unless of course she's appearing Virgin of Guadalupe style when you clean your bathtub. - --D ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 12:34:46 -0500 (EST) From: Sue Trowbridge Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Loud Family releases OOP? On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Jase wrote: > Just asking out of curiosity: have all of the Loud Family releases been > deleted by Alias? Alias hasn't released a new album in over a year so I'm guessing they're no longer servicing wholesale accounts. Interestingly, they do seem to be selling stuff from time to time on eBay under the user name aliasrecords (nothing by the LF so far, though). All of the LF CDs are available via mail order from: http://www.aliasrecords.com/productlistCD.asp I can't vouch for how good their service is, though... There are also used copies of some of their CDs available through Amazon.com. Last time I asked Scott, he said he hadn't received any royalty statements or anything else from Alias in many months. - --Sue ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 07:59:39 -1000 From: "R. Kevin Doyle" Subject: RE: [loud-fans] Are you one? Vallor sends us: http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2002/Jan/08/il/il01a.html We in Hawaii were hoping to keep this our dirty little secret, but it looks like our outstanding Gannet owned newspaper felt the need to share it with the world. Cry. Cry for the children. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 10:10:14 -0800 From: Michael Zwirn Subject: [loud-fans] The Loud family in Newsweek (NS) Did anyone see the promotion in Newsweek in which the magazine shows past covers from years past? The largest single cover article shown features the Loud family, from the PBS series. Michael - -- "When I do the fan dance I'm all the red in China I'm dialing life up on my telescope Fringe and mathematics" Sam Phillips ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 10:16:08 -0800 From: Tim_Walters@digidesign.com Subject: [loud-fans] Argh (very tangentially Scott-related) San Francisco's Musee Mecanique (as shown on the front page of loudfamily.com) is going the way of all flesh: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/02/27/MN225709.DTL This really sucks. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 18:38:50 -0000 From: "richblath" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] RIP Spike Milligna >First; Andrew Hamlin wrote: > >Did Sir Secombe do much outside the Goons? >Then Stewart; > He had a long career as a pop and light classical singer, before during and > after the Goons; he released dozens of albums in Europe, but I don't think > any of them were ever released in the states. Interestingly, he doesn't > seem to have an All Music Guide entry at all. He also spent a lot of Sunday evenings in the UK hosting religious programmes. Richard ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 14:45:54 -0600 From: "Keegstra, Russell" Subject: RE: [loud-fans] actual musical content (including--could it be?-- Sc*tt!) Tim: >Tin Hat Trio are totally acoustic (guitar, violin and accordion if >I remember correctly, which I probably don't) and don't sound at all >like my somewhat unreliable mental definition of acid jazz (electric >piano noodlings over drum loops, basically). My mischaracterization, I had only heard about 30 seconds of them. Now that I have heard more I will probably file them under buy-if-I-run-across- it-somewhere category. >I've been meaning to check out Sleepytime (who are local to me) literally >for years now, but have never done so. Nils Frykdahl's voice comes perilously close to cookie monster territory, but you probably already know that. I finally broke down and bought some Einsturzende Neubauten (Strategies Against Architecture III) after successfully avoiding them for many years. It's surprisingly like what I expected it to be - and now I must get the first two Strategies Against Architecture collections. Russ np: Curve, Gift This fashionable and stylish phone makes you feel to be elegant person yourselves. SGH-A400 has elegant and compact design and you can connect mobile internet with it. This elegant phone can check women's Pink Schedule & Calorie that it helps you to be a woman of sense. Usable wearable Ear-microphone is cool as well as convenient. You can be an elegant queen by owning a SGH-A400 from Samsung. ...from some SPAM received by a friend of mine. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 14:54:26 -0600 From: "Keegstra, Russell" Subject: RE: [loud-fans] actual musical content (including--could it be?-- Sc*tt!) I wrote: >This fashionable and stylish phone makes you feel to be elegant >person yourselves. SGH-A400 has elegant and compact design and >you can connect mobile internet with it. This elegant phone can >check women's Pink Schedule & Calorie that it helps you to be a >woman of sense. Usable wearable Ear-microphone is cool as well >as convenient. You can be an elegant queen by owning a SGH-A400 >from Samsung. > >...from some SPAM received by a friend of mine. I lied, it's actually from Samsung's web site: http://www.samsungelectronics.com/mobile_phone/wireless_terminals/gsm/sgh_a4 00_features.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 21:07:55 -0000 From: "Ian Runeckles & Angela Bennett" Subject: RE: [loud-fans] RIP Spike Milligna OK, well Michael's had this while ago as I keep forgetting the sodding reply all thing. Anyway, MB wrote: > When Harry Secombe died last year, Milligan commented, "Oh dear, that > means I'm next." Ironically there's been a poster advertising campaign for something or other over here (possibly the post office) where Spike is pictured making a comment something to the effect that he's not dead yet... I suppose he's best known for the Goons and I love them, but his Q and Beachcomber series' were wonderful too - completely off the wall, often absolutely brilliant comedy followed by something totally dire and incomprehensible. Most of it completely inexplicable too - whole shows where characters would wander in and out all wearing brown parcel labels, the ghastly family in the kitchen where everything ended up in the curry, joke adverts for ridiculous products like Thread gold Thoroughgrip Garterettes - and people in iron lungsadvertisingg Henson & Bedges cigarettes - how he got away with that I'll never know. He also used to try things out and then stop them half way through - this isn't working, enough! Marvellous man, I'll miss him. Potential entry for top records of 2002 - Parallax Project "Oblivious" - a melodic delight by former Cherry Twister bass player Michael Giblin. Ian Np The Byrds - Preflyte Sessions ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 15:59:05 -0600 (CST) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Thoughts?? On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 Dennis_McGreevy@praxair.com wrote: > > [... Letha Weapons [...] I don't think Letha's making movies anymore, but I > still > haven't seen all her old films, or her "Married With Children" > appearance. > > <><><><><><><><><><><><><> > > I think "film" may be something of a misnomer here, unless of course she's > appearing Virgin of Guadalupe style when you clean your bathtub. Okay, I'm too frightened to do a web search to find out, but: who is "Letha Weapons"? - -j ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 15:11:53 -0800 From: "Andrew Hamlin" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Thoughts?? >Okay, I'm too frightened to do a web search to find out, but: who is >"Letha Weapons"? http://www.lethaweaponsxxx.com/ Uh...Mr. Norman? I almost don't want to bring this up, but in the wake of this and that "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" episode I feel compelled, to point out: You Are Supposed To Be Way, Way Hipper Than Me. Please consult the Loud Fans Charter, Andy Mass Romantic nabbed the #17 spot on the Pazz & Jop Poll's list of albums, while their song "Letter From An Occupant" reached #43 on its singles chart. This year's edition of the Pazz & Jop Poll was compiled from a survey of over 600 music critics from local and national newspapers, magazines and media outlets all across the U.S. For a complete list of the Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll, go to www.villagevoice.com/specials/pazznjop/01/. In other Porn related news, the band has recently finished their second video from Mass Romantic for the track "The Slow Descent Into Alcoholism". The video was directed by Mike Dowse, who also directed the video for "Letter From An Occupant", and features characters from Dowse's independent film, "FUBAR", which was shown at this year's Sundance Film Festival. It's safe to say that the pop song's 3:57 video shows the band's sense of humor along with a much faster descent than the title suggests. The New Pornographers are currently on tour in the U.S. with The Frames (of Dublin) and will be appearing at Noise Pop 10 in San Francisco on March 3rd. [--from a Mint Records press release I got two Mondays ago] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 16:11:01 -0800 (PST) From: Jer Fairall Subject: [loud-fans] comparison shopping What was the name of the site that compares prices at all the various online retailers for you when you search for something? Thanks in advance. Jer ===== Yahoo! Greetings - Send FREE e-cards for every occasion! http://greetings.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 17:45:46 -0700 From: Roger Winston Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Thoughts?? At Thursday 2/28/2002 03:59 PM -0600, Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: >Okay, I'm too frightened to do a web search to find out, but: who is >"Letha Weapons"? The vinyl version of Letha that you yourself can own (for only $251-$416) is reviewed at: http://www.adulttoyreviews.com/dolls/letha.html (Don't view this at work.) Latre. --Rog ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 17:48:46 -0700 From: Roger Winston Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Thoughts?? At Thursday 2/28/2002 05:45 PM -0700, Roger Winston wrote: >At Thursday 2/28/2002 03:59 PM -0600, Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: > >>Okay, I'm too frightened to do a web search to find out, but: who is >>"Letha Weapons"? > >The vinyl version of Letha that you yourself can own (for only $251-$416) >is reviewed at: >http://www.adulttoyreviews.com/dolls/letha.html > >(Don't view this at work.) Sorry, that should've been "latex version", not "vinyl version". Sometimes I just can't see the mountains for the trees! Latre. --Rog ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 19:24:55 -0600 (CST) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Thoughts?? On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Andrew Hamlin wrote: > >Okay, I'm too frightened to do a web search to find out, but: who is > >"Letha Weapons"? > > http://www.lethaweaponsxxx.com/ > > Uh...Mr. Norman? I almost don't want to bring this up, but in the wake of > this and that "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" episode I feel compelled, to > point out: > > You Are Supposed To Be Way, Way Hipper Than Me. > > Please consult the Loud Fans Charter, Quite evidently, then, video games and porn are officially unhip. Ipso fucked-o. - --Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey, preferring fewer visible veins J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::American people like their politics like Pez - small, sweet, and ::coming out of a funny plastic head. __Dennis Miller__ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 18:22:33 -0800 (PST) From: Jer Fairall Subject: Re: [loud-fans] comparison shopping Much thanks to Sue and Michael Mitton for suggesting mysimon.com! 2 observations from the minute or so of the Grammy's that I saw last night: 1. Christina Aguelera's attempt to look like Marilyn Monroe made her look a lot like Traci Lords. 2. It was not at all surprising to see the "Best Alternative Album" award go to the by far the least alternative of the five (Coldplay). Jer ===== Yahoo! Greetings - Send FREE e-cards for every occasion! http://greetings.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 21:50:48 -0600 From: steve Subject: [loud-fans] Re: "O Brother" On Thursday, February 28, 2002, at 09:32 AM, dmw wrote: > Not sure who it was who accepted the award for the "O Brother" > soundtrack, > but he wasn't well prepped -- stumbled v. clumsily through a rather > muddled little speech about how they never could have won, leaning > awkwardly down over a mic somewhere in the vicinity of his sternum. > Weirdly poignant; the most real of any moments I witnessed. T-Bone Burnett? http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020228/161/16y7b.html - - Steve __________ I know that it's cynical, but I feel that civil liberties-for a lot of these people in Congress-are either an inconvenience or a campaign slogan. They care only about money and power. - Wil Wheaton ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 23:43:12 -0500 From: jenny grover Subject: [loud-fans] something else to waste your valuable computer time Tone and Groove online music magazine, is now up and running, so pay us a visit! You will doubtless recognize some of our intrepid authors (and there's still time to join their ranks, if you so choose). http://www.toneandgroove.com/ Jen ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V2 #83 ******************************