From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V4 #183 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, July 5 2004 Volume 04 : Number 183 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Roundup of review swap review reviews [zoom@muppetlabs.co] Re: [loud-fans] Roundup of review swap review reviews [Steve Holtebeck >If someone wanted to hear Stephin's songwriting >without his voice, the >>first 6ths album would be better value for money than >the eight >>guest-vocal songs on a given volume of 69LS. > > I'm in a real minority here, but I don't think the 6ths album is all that > strong songwriting-wise. I think the concept of having semi-famous guest > singers carries a lot of weight, but I thought the writing was a bit > slight > and not really what Merritt's capable of. If you want to hear Merritt's songwriting without his vocals, may I suggest, and I know it's been mentioned before, THE WAYWARD BUS/DISTANT PLASTIC TREES, a 2-for-1 compilation CD of the first two Magnetic Fields albums, featuring Susan Anway's singing and none of Stephin's. I feel madly in love with that in college, still am madly in love with it, and felt deeply suspicious of the stuff after she left, though I eventually got over that. And of course I have to ask, to which 6ths (say that five times quick) album do you refer? So now that escribe's gone blooey, what do we do for an archive? Andy Kobayashi Sets Record for Hot Dog Eating By LUKAS I. ALPERT, Associated Press Writer NEW YORK - For the fourth straight year, rail-thin Takeru "The Tsunami" Kobayashi chewed up the competition at the Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest Sunday, breaking his own previous world record. Kobayashi, of Nagano, Japan, gulped down 53 1/2 wieners in 12 minutes and shattered his own world record by three dogs. In 2002, he had wolfed down 50 1/2. The closest competitor Sunday was newcomer Nobuyuki Shirota, 25, of Tokyo, who made an impressive showing but couldn't cut the mustard with 38 downed dogs. Once again, then, the contest's coveted Mustard Yellow Belt returns to Japan. Since 1996, the Japanese have dominated the competition and only one American  New Jersey's Steve Keiner in 1999  has captured the belt at the signature July 4 extravaganza. The 5-foot-7, 132-pound Kobayashi, of Nagano, Japan, employed his trademark method of snapping the dogs in half before swallowing them to destroy the 19 other contestants. Meanwhile, 105-pound Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas, 36, of Alexandria, Va., could relish two new records: She ate more hot dogs  32  than any other woman and any other American in the contest's history. Eric "Badlands" Booker, a 6-foot-4, 400-pound subway conductor from Long Island who came in fifth with 27 dogs, said he and the other competitive eaters were determined to unseat the Japanese. "We aren't going to stop until we bring the belt back," he told ESPN. Kobayashi seemed unworried. "I will come back next year and try and break the record once again," he said. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 20:09:36 -0700 From: Steve Holtebeck Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Roundup of review swap review reviews zoom@muppetlabs.com wrote: > So now that escribe's gone blooey, what do we do for an archive? http://www.smoe.org/lists/loud-fans No search mechanism (that I know of), but it's fairly dependable, since it uses the same server as the list itself.. - -Steve ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V4 #183 *******************************