From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V2 #159 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, May 2 2002 Volume 02 : Number 159 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Unsettling URL ["Douglas Stanley" ] Re: [loud-fans] Unsettling URL [LeftyZ@aol.com] [loud-fans] Putting around ["Larry Tucker" ] [loud-fans] Battle Songs for Children Singing ["R. Kevin Doyle" ] Re: [loud-fans] i learned something today ["me" Subject: [loud-fans] Unsettling URL To be honest with you, I've been whacking my tally a little too much lately. It's gotten pretty hectic down there since someone pointed me to those Liz-Phair-in-her-underwear pictures. However, I must say GW looks pretty hot as Jennifer Aniston. Ooops - Here it comes again. Seriously, someone mentioned the new Uncle Tupelo compilation. I read in a review that the liner notes shed some light on the breakup of Tweedy and Farrar, but I haven't been able to find the notes transcribed anywhere on the net. What's the lowdown? I'd also like to share a proud parental moment with you: As I'm sure you're all aware, 3 1/2 year old girls like to sing. "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star", "London Bridge", etc. Imagine my suprise/glee when while walking through the store the other day, little Allison started belting out "I Am the Cancer" by Sloan. Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Doug S. - -------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 14:09:33 -0700 From: "Andrew Hamlin" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Unsettling URL >>http://www.randomdudes.com/bush/bush.html >Boy if that's not enough to put you off tallywhacking a whole week... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 12:39:06 EDT From: LeftyZ@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Unsettling URL In a message dated 5/1/02 9:35:28 AM, dstanley@broadcom.com writes: << I'd also like to share a proud parental moment with you: As I'm sure you're all aware, 3 1/2 year old girls like to sing. "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star", "London Bridge", etc. Imagine my suprise/glee when while walking through the store the other day, little Allison started belting out "I Am the Cancer" by Sloan. >> My five-year-old daughter and three-and-a-half year old son have lately been favoring us with selected lyrics accompanied by air guitar from "I Hate it Too" by HUM. ....from "You'd Prefer an Astronaut".....a really fine album, btw. ( : ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 14:03:33 -0400 From: "Larry Tucker" Subject: [loud-fans] Putting around Boy, this takes me back to my childhood and those trips to my grandparent's cottage on the North Carolina coast. The beach all day, and as much putt putt at night as I could get away with. I don't know if this was a nationwide thing or not but in the early 60's I remember they had televised tournaments and I dreamed of becoming a putt putt champion and until it finally sunk in (no pun intended) that you had to ace every hole to even have a chance of winning. Holes 14 and 18 are killers! :) - -LT ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 08:11:44 -1000 From: "R. Kevin Doyle" Subject: [loud-fans] Battle Songs for Children Singing In a message dated 5/1/02 6:39 AM, LeftyZ@aol.com writes: <> My friend's three year old is fond of singing a song he calls the "Doo Doo" song. We know it as "The World's Easiest Job" by Game Theory. It is charming, actually. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 21:47:01 -0500 From: steve Subject: [loud-fans] Gothic Archies v. Magnetic Fields The new HarperCollins audio catalog says that music for the recording of Neil Gaiman's Coraline is provided by The Magnetic Fields, but Amazon's picture of the CD case has it as by The Gothic Archies. http://images.amazon.com/images/P/006051048X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg In either case, it might be of interest to fans. The audio release will be out in June, preceding the book by a month. In other Gaiman news, SF Weekly reports - > Gaiman is also busy in Hollywood. Director Terry Gilliam (Twelve > Monkeys) is > in preproduction on the feature-film adaptation of Good Omens, based on > the > novel by Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. Gaiman has also just delivered his > film > adaptation of Nicholson Baker's fantasy novel The Fermata to director > Robert > Zemeckis. Gaiman will also write and direct the screen adaptation of his > Sandman miniseries Death: The High Cost of Living for Warner Brothers. > Warner also has plans to develop Gaiman's comic series Sandman and > Books of > Magic. Miramax, for whom Gaiman wrote the English translation script of > the > anime film Princess Mononoke, has acquired the rights to Gaiman's novel > Stardust and to his short story "Chivalry." The Jim Henson Company > currently > has the rights to Gaiman's novel Neverwhere. Director Henry Selick (The > Nightmare Before Christmas) is adapting Coraline for the screen. Zemeckis doing The Fermata? - - Steve __________ Do you think Americans should ask God to grant George W. Bush the power to fly? House majority whip Tom DeLay, the ability to predict the future? Senate majority leader Tom Daschle, X-ray vision? In a prayer written for the National Day of Prayer, May 2, the Reverend Lloyd Olgivie, the Senate chaplain, asks God to "bless our President, Congress, and all our leaders with supernatural power." He didn't beseech God to endow them with strength and wisdom--a more reasonable request--but to make them superheroes. - David Corn ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 21:38:44 -0600 From: Roger Winston Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Gothic Archies v. Magnetic Fields At Wednesday 5/1/2002 09:47 PM -0500, steve wrote: >In other Gaiman news, SF Weekly reports - > >>Gaiman is also busy in Hollywood. Director Terry Gilliam (Twelve Monkeys) is >>in preproduction on the feature-film adaptation of Good Omens, based on the >>novel by Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. I thought I read somewhere recently that GOOD OMENS has hit a major snag... >>Gaiman has also just delivered his film >>adaptation of Nicholson Baker's fantasy novel The Fermata to director Robert >>Zemeckis. Oh. My. God. I can't believe anyone would try to turn The Fermata into a movie, much less Zemeckis and Gaiman. That is going to be one warped little flick, if it actually does get made. Latre. --Rog ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 21:48:32 -0600 From: Roger Winston Subject: [loud-fans] FRTR track listing (terribly on topic) So, any thoughts on the track listing for FROM RITUAL TO ROMANCE, as posted on the 125records.com website? Looks like an interesting set. I saw my first LF show after the '96 one, so I never got to hear the Miller/Kessel/Weineke/Tittel lineup. I am especially interested to hear the Debaser cover. I was at the '98 show, and I don't remember them doing Baby Hard-To-Be-Around (which I was just listening to the other day and was thinking it would make a great montage song in a teen sex comedy flick) at that one. I would've liked to have had I'm Not Really A Spring and Room For One More Honey from that show on the disc, but oh well. The cover looks cool. No wick for the rested, Latre. --Rog ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 21:38:29 -0700 From: "me" Subject: [loud-fans] i learned something today on the list of things not to say in a room full of programmers: while applying new style sheet info to the entire site - "WOW! i just did a search-and-replace and changed 516 instances!" for bonus points, wait 'til the room goes silent, then add, "WHAAAAT?!?!" i LOVE pulling that kinda stuff around here... and yes, i realy did do that, and yeess i proofed the living pop out of my code... brianna - -- "Drag me, drop me, treat me like an object." - -- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 21:54:02 -0700 From: "me" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] i learned something today > i LOVE pulling that kinda stuff around here... and yes, i realy did do > that, and yeess i proofed the living pop out of my code... unlike my emails, which are REALLY spelled like POOP.... - -- "Drag me, drop me, treat me like an object." - -- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 02:02:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Mitton Subject: Re: [loud-fans] FRTR track listing (terribly on topic) > So, any thoughts on the track listing for FROM RITUAL TO ROMANCE, as posted > on the 125records.com website? Looks like an interesting set. I saw my I'd have to say that "Where the Flood Waters Soak Their Belongings" is a pretty bold pick to start out the album (I assume that track listing is in order.) The first few seconds of many Scott albums are bold, though, so maybe it's par for the course. - --Michael ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 02:08:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Mitton Subject: [loud-fans] Commercial Music Help OK, this has been driving me nuts since around the NCAA tournament. There's a commercial for Clarinex, some new allergy medicine, and it starts with this pretty strong anthem on horns then shifts to keyboard chords when the narrator starts talking. It seems like I should know the song they're using, and it seems like it should be The Who, but I still can't place it. Can anyone help me sleep better at night (by telling me the name of the song, that is)? - --Michael http://www.filmatters.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 02:24:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Sue Trowbridge Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Commercial Music Help On Thu, 2 May 2002, Michael Mitton wrote: > OK, this has been driving me nuts since around the NCAA tournament. > There's a commercial for Clarinex, some new allergy medicine, and it > starts with this pretty strong anthem on horns then shifts to keyboard > chords when the narrator starts talking. It seems like I should know the > song they're using, and it seems like it should be The Who, but I still > can't place it. Can anyone help me sleep better at night (by telling me > the name of the song, that is)? It's from The Who's "Tommy" -- the instrumental bed of "See Me, Feel Me," which probably comes from the overture. Just got back from spending 2 hours with hundreds of screaming ABBA fans at the Fillmore, seeing Bjorn Again, the ABBA tribute band. It's sort of like an alternate-universe ABBA -- if they hadn't been so popular and had wound up on the county fair circuit, this is what an ABBA show might be like. (I actually saw the real ABBA live back in the late '70s.) Still, since the real thing will never tour again, I appreciate the opportunity to see a well-done facsimile... - --Sue ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 23:23:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Gil Ray Subject: [loud-fans] Brendan Benson (don't kill the maraca player) I was really wanting to hate this show, hate this band,hate the songs, and hate all the girls that I thought were gonna show up for the Brendan Benson and the Wellfed Boys show at Bottom of the Hill. Oh great, another pretty boy pop band with ok tunes, that probably couldn't play their way out of a paper bag without pretty boy mentor, Jason Faulkner hovering somewhere nearby, yelling out the chord changes. As middle-age threatens to devour me (lost hair, gained weight,newly acquired bi-focals..you get the picture), I find myself most likely to avoid this kind of music, not being able to stomach the pretty boys that are championing this cute, pop music. My wife loves this stuff and I put up with it. She puts up with lots from me, so when she got us tix for the show, I sorta had to go. I went with her to see Jason Faulkner some time back and while the music was pretty top notch, I kinda hated Mr. Faulkner. Something about the smuggy way he sorta winks at the girls. He's hot stuff and he knows it. He creeps me out. Talented, but...creepy. (yeah, I got issues) So we get to the Bottom of the Hill and unfortunately catch way too much of the 2nd band. They were not cute, or very tuneful.The drummer was very good, but..creepy. Like the guy in the Dave Matthews Band. All chops, no tunes. I don't know their name, and that is a good thing. After spotting and chatting with Mr. Steve ("can we please stay on topic?")Holtebeck, Stacey and I find a great place to hang and watch the headliners, with Scott Miller.(remember him? I'm telling you now that the live Loud Family cd will kick your ass. 2 lineups with varying degrees of cuteness..anyway...). So here comes Brendan and company and I'm a little surprised that the place isn't packed wall to wall with chicks. It's medium filled with both sexes. Hmmm. Well friends, they brought more energy, tunes, cuteness,great hair, great vocals,great everything and just blew my cynical self away. Yes, they are awfully cute. They are awfully thin. Awfully amazing! The playing was spot on, tight as can be. 2 guitars, bass, drums, and here is the kicker: a friggin' dedicated maraca/tambourine player! This guy was killer! He drove the band! Alison had told me of a dedicated tambourine player in the Brian Jonestown Massacre, so I knew they existed, but man! This guy rocked! Brendan himself was a wee bit stoic, but nice enough, The fellow has it all going on for him. The other members brought so much energy and fun, that it all seemed to work just fine. This Benson guy is a force to be reckoned with. His songs are a perfect blend of melody, cool chord changes, dead on harmonies (provided by none other than...the maraca player! Folks, I've had a little experience with tambourines and maracas and they ain't that easy to play! This dude was all over them! For the entire set!) Oh yeah, did I mention they were cute? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V2 #159 *******************************