From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V3 #101 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 Monday, April 7 2003 Volume 03 : Number 101 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] no chat? ["jer fairall" ] [loud-fans] fleet (ns) [Dana Paoli ] Re: [loud-fans] fleet (ns) ["G. Andrew Hamlin" ] Re: [loud-fans] fleet (ns) [Stewart Mason ] Re: [loud-fans] fleet (ns) [Roger Winston ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 22:54:32 -0400 From: "jer fairall" Subject: [loud-fans] no chat? Usually the chat is hoppin' by now. Where is everyone? irc.eskimo.com #loudfans Jer Easter Cards free at Care2.com: http://www.Care2.com/send/cateaster1.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 03:58:31 GMT From: Dana Paoli Subject: [loud-fans] fleet (ns) I don't remember if it's out yet or not, but I was reading an article on the new Fleetwood Mac album (sans Christine McVie) which describes it as their new "Tusk" and I wonder if anyone has heard it yet. A new "Tusk" would be a good thing, I think. Been reading the new McSweeney's and The Believer, and wishing that both were as good as I wish they were. Interesting that the Believer gives credit to the NY Press as being one of the two major contributors to the era of critical snarkiness that we now inhabit. I wonder if the Press has already published a snarky rejoinder to that yet, or if it's upcoming. I'm not sure how I feel about the 10 foot tall counter in the McSweeney's store, but I'm leaning towards being annoyed by it, if that's not too snarky of me. Also, I was going to get snarky about the fact that no one at Barnes and Noble knew what McSweeney's is (the store is located about 8 blocks away from the Park Slope B&N) but after a brief survey, I realize that snarkiness is not in order. And lastly, I'm wishing that there was some cheap way to get the BBC station for one hour on Sunday nights, in order to watch Coupling, so we wouldn't have to bother our friend Justine every week. - --dana ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today Only $9.95 per month! Visit www.juno.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 21:14:44 -0700 (PDT) From: "G. Andrew Hamlin" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] fleet (ns) > I don't remember if it's out yet or not, but I was reading an article on > the new Fleetwood Mac album (sans Christine McVie) which describes it as > their new "Tusk" and I wonder if anyone has heard it yet. A new "Tusk" > would be a good thing, I think. I was ready to pay no attention, but now... > And lastly, I'm wishing that there was some cheap way to get the BBC > station for one hour on Sunday nights, in order to watch Coupling, so we > wouldn't have to bother our friend Justine every week. Your friend Justine, she knows not of the VCR. I've also heard about these "DVD burners" from "Aqua Teen Hunger Force," from which I can gather all the news I need. The Yank remake's landing soon, Andy "The Lift" Bird song in the morning air but also the whirr of my neighbor's lift as it raises him in his wheelchair onto the bed of his truck. Not someone to pity, he locks the wheels in place and like a gymnast on parallel bars manages himself from his seat and then in a move too quick to see disappears, though because I've been there beside him I know he's on all fours crawling to the tailgate where he swings over the edge and continues in the dirt of the drive. Sometimes when I'm in the yard pulling weeds or admiring sunlight through leaves the electric whirr of the lift, followed by its silence, breaks through and then the hoof-slap of palms on the ground, the scrape of shoes pulled along by his strength and then I see him as I did the first time, hoisting a chain saw, by block and tackle, and then himself, into the blighted tree towering between our yards and which, limb-by-limb, branch and trunk, he cut down and stacked. - --Michael Collier, from http://slate.msn.com/id/2080980/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 00:35:41 -0400 From: Stewart Mason Subject: Re: [loud-fans] fleet (ns) At 09:14 PM 4/6/2003 -0700, G. Andrew Hamlin wrote: >I was ready to pay no attention, but now... > >> And lastly, I'm wishing that there was some cheap way to get the BBC >> station for one hour on Sunday nights, in order to watch Coupling, so we >> wouldn't have to bother our friend Justine every week. > >Your friend Justine, she knows not of the VCR. I've also heard about >these "DVD burners" from "Aqua Teen Hunger Force," from which I can gather >all the news I need. Yeah, but see, recording a tape for someone who isn't paying your digital cable bill: that's stealing. You might also check out your local PBS stations, as one of the ones here runs Coupling every Friday night as part of an otherwise uninteresting block of British sitcoms. Of course, you need to contribute to your PBS station: otherwise, that's stealing. >The Yank remake's landing soon, Or not, apparently: the original writer/producers (the team behind CAN'T HARDLY WAIT and JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS) have bailed, replaced by a minor late-period member of the Cheers writing staff, and the pilot (based on the episode where everyone has dinner at Steven and Susan's and everyone thinks Jane's therapist is her new girlfriend) has been recast and reshot three times already. Even if it does finally make it onto the schedule -- unlikely now that Friends has reupped for a 10th season -- it'll be pulled for November sweeps and cancelled by December. Not sure why they're bothering: even besides the fact that they couldn't get away with half the themes and language, the structure of US sitcoms, with their commercial breaks, doesn't lend itself to the kind of bizarre formal experiments that are in nearly every episode of Coupling. So why not just write a whole new show? S ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 22:54:07 -0700 From: Roger Winston Subject: Re: [loud-fans] fleet (ns) At Monday 4/7/2003 03:58 AM +0000, Dana Paoli wrote: >And lastly, I'm wishing that there was some cheap way to get the BBC >station for one hour on Sunday nights, in order to watch Coupling, so we >wouldn't have to bother our friend Justine every week. The first season of Coupling is out on DVD. Even though I have BBC America on my satellite, the only way I've seen the show is from the DVD. I like to watch things in order (especially important with a show like Coupling), so I'll probably just watch the DVDs as they come out instead of risking tuning in and seeing something from the third season or whatever. Any opinions on the new Idlewild or Placebo yet? I've got both and have only sampled them so far, but have really liked what I've heard. Damn these short weekends. Latre. --Rog ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V3 #101 *******************************