From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V2 #137 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 Sunday, April 14 2002 Volume 02 : Number 137 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] A'ight Blah ! ["Vallor" ] [loud-fans] DC-area loudfans (completely non-Scott, and non-music related) ["triggercut" ] [loud-fans] Official notice: weird, weird music video to be on the lookout for [Michael Zwirn ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 12:58:02 -0400 From: "Vallor" Subject: [loud-fans] A'ight Blah ! > On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Aaron Mandel wrote: > > I'm not sure about Greg The Bunny (the one episode I saw had really awful > > writing) but the Andy Richter show has really surprised me -- I'm now > > loathe to miss it. The weird thing is that, as with Undeclared, they seem > > to be showing the episodes out of order! (In both cases, a relationship > > that started in the pilot was established-but-in-trouble in the next > > episode aired, but then incipient again in the third or fourth.) The first Greg The Bunny I saw was brilliant in concept and fairly good (but not great) in execution. It was where the show within the show (Sweetknuckle Junction) got an EXTREME make over and was changed to SK2000. Count Blah, trying to come to grips with his new name was a riot. The second episode I saw was forgetable and as I recall a bit misguided. Saw the amazingly smart "Changing Lanes" last night and I can't say enough good things about it. Addressing issues of a similar nature to the great "Crimes and Misdemeanors" (Ben Afflek's character even paraphrases a pivitol monologue from C&M), but Changing Lanes does it with greater subtlety and impact (and that's saying alot). The trailers focus on the revenge aspect but the movie is much more than that. Speaking of ethical questions, I have some stuff on eBay (a Game Theory Dead Center LP, some Field Mice related stuff, Scrawl, Charalambides, Gualdalcanal Diary at Your Birthday and more. Sorry for the self promo but I have my eyes on an amazing Irish Bouzouki ! http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItems&userid=cassetto Also, I wouldn't normally be so loudmouth but I also have a recent solo album (no CD's just LP's) out under the name Clarinette. It was released last month by the Ecstatic Yod label and might appeal to those of you attracted to improv, drone and fairly out there avant stuff. Kindly- Dan Vallor ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 18:57:56 -0500 From: "triggercut" Subject: [loud-fans] DC-area loudfans (completely non-Scott, and non-music related) Here's the deal--my company wants me to transfer into one of our locations in McLean VA, basically part of the Northern Virginia megaplex. My question, as I mull the offer-- Where's a decent place to live in that area? I've heard horror stories about the Beltway commutes, about absurdly overpriced rents, and the like. I already did the "moving in cold to a community I don't know" when I moved a few years ago to Chicago and found that unless you know the lay of the land so to speak, you end up getting referred to shiny new prefabbed apartment complexes that are ridiculously overpriced. Curious as to whether there's any better alternative to that in the Northern Virginia area if anyone in the DC area is in the know... Please reply off list to reduce the clutter, too. Thanks in advance for any advice! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 00:30:11 -0400 From: Dave Walker Subject: [loud-fans] Best. Obituary. Ever. Watch the linewrap... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$FRUI4UYAAG0TXQFIQMFCFGGAVCBQYIV0? view=DETAILS&grid=&targetRule=10&xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F04%2F09%2Fdb0903.xml -d.w. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 21:33:04 -0700 From: Michael Zwirn Subject: [loud-fans] Official notice: weird, weird music video to be on the lookout for Michael Mitton and I were at an all-night Mexican restaurant last night after the Shins concert, and a Spanish-language music video channel was on. I was totally transfixed and engrossed by one particular offering: a Mexican rock singer named Alfredo Casero, doing a song came "Shimauta." This song is entirely in phonetic Japanese (that's right), with an epic-length video of anime interspersed with video of his band playing. The anime has some space colonization theme, and the music goes from rock instrumentation to dancey to all electronically-modified vocals. It's absolutely enthralling in its weirdness and I highly recommend it. Michael - -- "Quarry miners, fisherman In my town of Bethlehem Picket fences, church at ten No stars above my Bethlehem" Paula Cole ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 01:11:19 -0400 From: Overall_Julianne@isus.emc.com Subject: RE: [loud-fans] Best. Obituary. Ever. He may have had interesting adventures in life, but he died at 59 of alcoholism and emphysema. Basically, the guy drank and smoked himself to death. How pathetic. > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Walker [mailto:dwalker@freeke.org] > Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 9:30 PM > To: loud-fans@smoe.org > Subject: [loud-fans] Best. Obituary. Ever. > > > Watch the linewrap... > > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$FRUI4UYA > AG0TXQFIQMFCFGGAVCBQYIV0? > view=DETAILS&grid=&targetRule=10&xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F04%2F09% > 2Fdb0903.xml > > -d.w. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 22:15:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Jon Gabriel Subject: [loud-fans] Re: Official notice: weird, weird music video to be on the lookout for - --- Michael Zwirn wrote: > a Mexican > rock singer named Alfredo Casero, doing a song came > "Shimauta." This song is > entirely in phonetic Japanese (that's right), with > an epic-length video of > anime interspersed with video of his band playing. Thanks for the tip -- I'm always on the lookout for interesting "rock en espaqol." Theoretically, you can view the video at http://www.elestigma.com.ar/ . Unfortunately, it won't let me view it on my Mac (it keeps trying to install the PC version of Real Player). I did find an MP3 of the song at www.unomp3.com. It's plenty odd, alright. Based on my poor command of Spanish, Mr. Casero seems to be of Argentine extraction, fwiw. BTW, I've found it difficult to find file-sharing software that works on the Mac platform. I've been using LimeWire (Gnutella) a bit, but it is slooooooow. Any better software out there? Yo pienso soy volteando Japonis, Jon ===== 777777777777777777777777777777 JON GABRIEL mesa, arizona usa inkling communication + design 777777777777777777777777777777 Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 00:31:27 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Official notice: weird, weird music video to be on the lookout for On Saturday, April 13, 2002, at 11:33 PM, Michael Zwirn wrote: > I was totally transfixed and engrossed by one particular offering: a > Mexican > rock singer named Alfredo Casero, doing a song came "Shimauta." Google's translation from Sony Music Argentina - Homemade Alfredo is one of the most important artists, in all the sense of the word, that it has arisen in the Argentine scene in the zltmos years. Owner of an exceptional humor showed his talent as musical and the last years he demonstrated to be an ancestry actor (as they demonstrated to his televising participation in "Vulnarables" and "Guilty to it"). In this new titled album "Cassaerius", Alfredo gives a new return of spiral to its art and it gives an album to us that it captivates from first the second e irremediably forces to us to listen to it time and time again to continue discovering things. From the impressive "Shimauta", first single of the album, where Homemade Alfredo sings in perfect Japanese, passing through romantic "How You Crazy Dire'" (classic of the repertoire of Sandro) or "Loves" or their impeccable standard version "I Remember You" to amused "the Pizza With me" and "My Combi". Detail Of Disco Shimauta (Song of the Island) Shimauta (Song of the Island) Critical moment Mix With (Avec) My Combi Pizza With Me Any Thing You Will Dance As I Say To Yoy Crazy Loves I To Remember You The Grapes Gambertuni Dancing In The Rural Society - - Steve __________ "Miyazaki's latest animation feature (co-winner with 'Bloody Sunday' of the Berlin Golden Bear) more than justifies his status as Japan's most revered culture hero. What starts out as a fine example of the through-the-looking- glass kids' adventure genre becomes almost Shakespearean in its lyricism, breadth of vision and humanity." - Tony Rayns, Sight & Sound ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 22:59:41 -0700 From: Michael Zwirn Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re: Official notice: weird, weird music video to be on the lookout for On 4/13/02 10:15 PM, Jon Gabriel wrote: > Thanks for the tip -- I'm always on the lookout for > interesting "rock en espaqol." Theoretically, you can > view the video at http://www.elestigma.com.ar/ . > Unfortunately, it won't let me view it on my Mac (it > keeps trying to install the PC version of Real > Player). Man, that did evil things to my PowerBook. Macintosh users, beware. Jon and Steve, Thanks for all that information on the singer and the song ... it's pretty out-there. Of course, I may have been more impressed than Michael Mitton was... but I found it breathtaking, really. Michael - -- "Am I repeating myself to tell ya that dreaming is what's left of psychedelia?" The New Pornographers ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 01:04:52 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: [loud-fans] so, who's a lycanthrope, then? On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, dmw wrote: > On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Roger Winston wrote: > > > Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey on 4/12/2002 4:28:57 AM wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Roger Winston wrote: > > > > > > > At Thursday 4/11/2002 11:33 PM -0500, Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: > > > > >Nothing has come through from the list today. > > > > > > > > > >Let's see if this does. > > > > > > > > Sorry... no, it didn't. > > > > > > Damn - that means you won't be able to make a wisecrack about it. > > > > Nor will I able to view your pithy rejoinder to said wisecrack. Bummer. > > > but at least i'll be spared the whole spectacle of > self-referentially-clever one-upsmanship! Actually, doug, you won't: you see, the very fact of your having read that post, and having responded to it, means that-- Oh. I get it. I'll shut up now. - --Jeff, thinking that "one-upsmanship" has a different meaning entirely in the British Navy J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::the popularity of the gruesome FACES OF DEATH video series is ::apparently so great that a children's version is in production, ::to be called FACES OF OWIES. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 01:08:17 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: [loud-fans] TV On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Joseph M. Mallon wrote: > Best new show, hands down. Okay, I know what this phrase *means*, of course...but what the hell does it *mean*? So if there's some doubt, can we say "best new show, hands up"? Or perhaps "best new show, hands in a sort of sideways posture halfway between up and down"? Language is funny. - --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 ::sex, drugs, revolt, Eskimos, atheism:: ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V2 #137 *******************************