From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V2 #189 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 Wednesday, May 29 2002 Volume 02 : Number 189 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] About A Boy ["Aaron Milenski" ] Re: [loud-fans] Sharples - Tool of the Devil (fwd) ["me" ] Re: [loud-fans] From McSweeney's [Aaron Mandel ] Re: [loud-fans] From McSweeney's [Dave Walker ] Re: [loud-fans] About A Boy ["Andrew Hamlin" ] Re: [loud-fans] About A Boy [Michael Mitton Subject: [loud-fans] About A Boy I just saw the film yesterday and thought it was great, a better adaptation than HIGH FIDELITY. Is there anyone here who both saw the film and read the book who would be willing to discuss a few plot points with me? Please e-mail off-list, since I don't want to post any spoilers. Aaron _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 10:18:37 -0700 From: "me" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Sharples - Tool of the Devil (fwd) > >I think it would be sheer lunacy > >to ban felt tip markers. Besides, you'd have to ban Post-Its and > electrical > >tape, too. > > I'm reminded of various local efforts to ban spray paint sales to teenage > persons, back in street graffiti's heyday. successfully accomplished in the bay area, more or less (read: most stores). although when i overheard two low-teen boys in ACE hardware whispering about which kind of fuel would best ignite a house, and ended up in line in front of them (they were carrying two 5 gallon buckets of kerosene), and mentioned it to the clerk, she chuckled and rang them up when their turn came. true story. sorry about the run-on. - -- "Drag me, drop me, treat me like an object." - -- - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Hamlin" To: "John Sharples" ; "Sharing...caring..." Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 8:47 AM Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Sharples - Tool of the Devil (fwd) > > Are we are ready to play "Find The Floppers" in this year's World Cup? > > Andy > > "high effect economize on energy sculpt unique > > whole electron circuitry, blue-chip no noise devise, tallness economize > electricity, fixing convenience, sculpt be pleasing to the eye, have both > perch stop lamp!/s function, pure and fresh air!/s at one time, furthermore > can decorate your love car, have practicability and expedience." > > [--from http://www.chinajinlida.com/pages/products/e-HY-2000A.htm ] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 10:30:00 -0700 From: "me" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Sharples - Tool of the Devil (fwd) they also have one that not only "tone up god's image immunity" but steals your car: JLD?2000B car appropriative minus ion air pure and fresh machine neat! > "high effect economize on energy sculpt unique > > whole electron circuitry, blue-chip no noise devise, tallness economize > electricity, fixing convenience, sculpt be pleasing to the eye, have both > perch stop lamp!/s function, pure and fresh air!/s at one time, furthermore > can decorate your love car, have practicability and expedience." > > [--from http://www.chinajinlida.com/pages/products/e-HY-2000A.htm ] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 13:06:51 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: [loud-fans] Re: A good year for music! On Mon, 27 May 2002, Aaron Mandel wrote: > On Mon, 27 May 2002, Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: > > > But then, it's your ears listening - so go to. > > If I'm remembering my Shakespeare correctly, "go to" means more like "up > yours" than "go ahead". Good thing I'm not Shakespeare, then. - --Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::part of your circuit of incompetence:: ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 13:12:09 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re: A good year for music! On Tue, 28 May 2002, Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: > Good thing I'm not Shakespeare, then. Not only am I not Shakespeare, I can't even keep my lists straight... Anyway, some content: Rose and I saw _Insomnia_ the other night. Thoughts? - --Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html ::In terms of the conjunctures of cultures, [LA is] less like a salad bowl ::and more like a TV dinner with those little aluminium barriers keeping ::all the vegetables in their places. __Catherine Ann Driscoll__ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 11:15:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Jon Gabriel Subject: [loud-fans] From McSweeney's From the ever-odd McSweeney's site... [http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/trends.html] MUSIC INDUSTRY TRENDS NOT YET OVEREXPOSED. By John Moe - - - - - - Trance Tuba Self-Deprecating Hip Hop All Dog Bluegrass Mild Salsa Teamsta Rap Immature Adult Contemporary Back Hair Metal Gangsta Polka Amino Acid Jazz Despairaoke Barbershop Quartet Core Psychedelic Chamber Groups Hard on the Outside But with a Squishy Nougat Center Core Graduate School Rap Halfway-House Music Reasonable Speed Metal Jazz-Crap Fusion Blank Tapes ===== 777777777777777777777777777777 JON GABRIEL mesa, arizona usa inkling communication + design 777777777777777777777777777777 Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 14:24:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: [loud-fans] From McSweeney's On Tue, 28 May 2002, Jon Gabriel wrote: > MUSIC INDUSTRY TRENDS NOT YET OVEREXPOSED. > By John Moe > Self-Deprecating Hip Hop What the hell, man? The rest of them are jokes or outright puns. This is something that's pretty common if you bother looking for it at all. I just don't get people sometimes. I mean, yeah, it's not overexposed, but in the company of the rest of the list... a ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 14:39:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Dave Walker Subject: Re: [loud-fans] From McSweeney's Aaron Mandel said: > > On Tue, 28 May 2002, Jon Gabriel wrote: > > > > Self-Deprecating Hip Hop > > What the hell, man? The rest of them are jokes or outright puns. This is > something that's pretty common if you bother looking for it at all. I > just don't get people sometimes. I mean, yeah, it's not overexposed, > but in the company of the rest of the list... "What's Up Fatlip?" by Fatlip, which is amazing track, sprang to mind immediately when I read the original list. -d.w. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 17:22:17 -0700 From: "Andrew Hamlin" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] About A Boy >I just saw the film yesterday and thought it was great, a better adaptation >than HIGH FIDELITY. Is there anyone here who both saw the film and read the >book who would be willing to discuss a few plot points with me? Please >e-mail off-list, since I don't want to post any spoilers. I'm not finding too many masterpieces filmwise this year (musicwise either), but I enjoyed ABOUT A BOY quite a bit, though like Aaron, I wondered about a few things (perhaps not the same things). I'd certainly enjoy an on-list discussion of the film, with spoiler spaces. So that's what XTC was on about, Andy "It said something about Taco Bell, and there was something in there like 'Jimmy, who stole my sandwich, who stole my sandwich?'" - --Vanya Akraboff, on a note found in a box of Willy Wonka's Runts candy on from an on-campus at the University of Washington, as reported by Randy Trick in the UW Daily, May 14, 2002. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 23:28:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Mitton Subject: Re: [loud-fans] About A Boy On Tue, 28 May 2002, Andrew Hamlin wrote: > I'm not finding too many masterpieces filmwise this year (musicwise either), > but I enjoyed ABOUT A BOY quite a bit, though like Aaron, I wondered about a > few things (perhaps not the same things). I'd certainly enjoy an on-list > discussion of the film, with spoiler spaces. How about starting with the spoiler-free topic of the music. The film was the first I'd heard of Badly Drawn Boy, and it didn't get me at all interested in going out and buying their stuff. It didn't seem very distinctive to me. Are their soundtrack tunes typical or atypical of the rest of their music? My name is Simon, - --Michael ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 01:10:12 EDT From: AWeiss4338@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] About A Boy In a message dated 5/28/02 11:35:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time, mlmitton@phoenix.Princeton.EDU writes: > How about starting with the spoiler-free topic of the music. The film was > the first I'd heard of Badly Drawn Boy, and it didn't get me at all > interested in going out and buying their stuff. It didn't seem very > distinctive to me. Are their soundtrack tunes typical or atypical of the > rest of their music? > > Typical, but it was good background music. I have his album Hour Of Bewilderbeast, which is very good, and more distinctive. Andrea ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V2 #189 *******************************