From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V2 #108 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 Tuesday, March 19 2002 Volume 02 : Number 108 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] apropos of nothing... ["The Imperial Butt Wizards" ] [loud-fans] Metal And Reed Exact [Michael Bowen ] Re: [loud-fans] swap review: MILES TO GO (pt. 2) [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffr] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:13:47 -0800 From: "The Imperial Butt Wizards" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] apropos of nothing... > What's this under your dirty boxers? > > Um, that's a stinger missile. > > OK, no problem, *that's* a defensive weapon, no doubt about it. i dunno - i find the idea of keeping a missile in your underwear pretty offensive. but i find most guns pretty un-offensive (nonoffensive?) i have a photo of a sign in goreme, turkey at barbecue restaurant with a grill outside. the sign on the grill says "If you want, you may cook yourself." and i've got a photo of a WC in germany which proudly boasts "These toilets were construed for your enjoyment" I had less trouble getting through Japanese Customs with the same > mag tapes (this was in the late 80s), even though those people were > pointing machine guns at me. while trying to get back into the istanbul airport at about midnight, a guard (who spoke almost no english) noticed my amateur radio (a little handheld) and got a little twitchy with the machine gun. i showed him my international permit and laminated license and he saw the class notation - TECHNICIAN. he apparently recognized the word and thought i was there to repair something (all i had with me was a military back pack) and sent me on my way with a salute and many apologies. very weird. - -- monkeys are funny. look at one and you will laugh, the hilarity http://students.washington.edu/dglasser/monkeys.html - -- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 21:27:01 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: [loud-fans] swap review: MILES TO GO (pt. 2) At 06:00 PM 3/18/2002 -0700, Roger Winston wrote: >At Monday 3/18/2002 04:58 PM -0600, Miles Goosens wrote: > >>Joe has to be thinking at this point, "So he liked Penelope Houston and >>not any of my other recommendations, hrmph." Well, hold your horses, and >>pshaw. And such like. > >The only reason I do a cursory glance at these tape swap reviews is because >I'm hoping someday someone will say to someone else "Your taste >sucks. This is the worst mix tape I've ever received. I hope to God you >never have me in the swap again. This tape is so bad that I'm afraid to >even tape over it, in fear that the replacement music will become infected." Rog, since you're a bud and all, I'll relieve you of the burden of reading those damnable reviews by running what you just wrote as the entire text of my next swap review. You can thank me later -- as soon as I remember which Jenna Jamison "films" I don't have on DVD yet. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 22:41:39 -0500 From: Janet Ingraham Dwyer Subject: Re: [loud-fans] swap review: MILES TO GO (pt. 1) At 03:59 PM 03/18/2002 -0600, Miles Goosens wrote: >Donnie Iris, "Ah Leah" >Though I've become familiar with this song over the last ten years, I can't >remember if I ever heard it back when it was a top 25 hit in... 1980? >1981? I do remember seeing him in magazines like CREEM while folks tried >to figure out if he was underground or not. Anyway, this is a great song >that sounds the way I always wish ELO would have -- the processed layered >vocals on the chorus a la ELO, but a lot more guitar and overall punch. Is >anything else by him this good, or does he look all Elvis Costello but play >all Corey Hart? Can't help you, Miles, having never knowingly heard any Donnie Iris numbers besides this'un, but I must say this has gotta be among the most disarming, whap-on-side-of-head inclusions on a loud-swap yet. And the opening track, what's more. Joe, I salute you. You are a genius. loud-fans is just one damn thing after another, janet ps - is there still a hyphen in loud-fans? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 22:39:37 -0600 From: steve Subject: Re: [loud-fans] what you can get me for christmas On Monday, March 18, 2002, at 04:43 PM, John Cooper wrote: > For some reason the Republican party is full of such double-take names. > Tom DeLay, Dick Armey. Local SubGenius (schismatic) preacher Buck Naked had a good rant about the Dick Armey Corps. I guess he'll have to come up with something new now that Dick will be off to make some money. Armey's son Scott is in a runoff (ie, the real election) for the Republican nomination in Dick's old district. Will life imitate art? - - Steve __________ The generally dismal quality of America's mass-marketed pop music is an esthetic national emergency. - Lorraine Ali & David Gates, Newsweek ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 23:38:03 -0600 From: steve Subject: [loud-fans] Cambodian Rocks http://www.theworld.org/archive/glohit/2002/03/04.htm http://www.theworld.org/archive/glohit/2002/03/13.htm I got the above album from Amazon after hearing about it on The World. It's beyond great, provided you liked the Indian musical number featured in Ghost World. This one is still on order - http://www.theworld.org/archive/glohit/2002/03/05.htm - - Steve __________ As for "encouraging people of good will to remain silent in the face of evil," there's only one prominent person trying to intimidate legitimate critics into shutting up about actions they feel to be both wrong and deeply un-American at present. He is, unfortunately, the attorney general of the United States. - Jacob Weisberg ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 00:47:51 -0500 From: Michael Bowen Subject: [loud-fans] Metal And Reed Exact Reed's 'Machine Music' gets classical reworking http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hollywoodreporter/music/brief_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1430144 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 23:54:08 -0600 (CST) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: [loud-fans] swap review: MILES TO GO (pt. 2) On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Roger Winston wrote: > The only reason I do a cursory glance at these tape swap reviews is because > I'm hoping someday someone will say to someone else "Your taste > sucks. This is the worst mix tape I've ever received. I hope to God you > never have me in the swap again. This tape is so bad that I'm afraid to > even tape over it, in fear that the replacement music will become infected." Considering that, oh, 75% or more of swap tapes never get reviewed at all, that may well be the typical reaction. We're all just pretending to be too polite to say so, though. The solution, obviously, is to intentionally make the worst mix tape you can - so that other person with abysmal taste will love it. And then you laugh at them. Ha ha. speaking of which, sort of...I have no idea whether my intended recipient actually recip'd my last swap mix, or whether the Canadian government confiscated it, thinking it might be bootleg bacon - but I have two not quite right CD-Rs of the mix (some tracks missing, order changed, some glitches) available. (A track listing of the actual CD - along w/cover art I forgot to reduce in size after scaling down the resolution...doh! - is at http://www.artofthemix.com/FindAMix/getcontents.asp?strMixID=22782) I will send these CD-Rs to the first two people who write compelling limericks about a medieval heretical sect of their choice. Now please me! - --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 ::As long as I don't sleep, he decided, I won't shave. ::That must mean...as soon as I fall asleep, I'll start shaving! __Thomas Pynchon, VINELAND__ ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V2 #108 *******************************