From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V4 #263 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 Saturday, September 25 2004 Volume 04 : Number 263 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Stamey "VOTE" song ["Larry Tucker" ] Re: [loud-fans] 1985 redux [JRT456@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] 1985 redux ["Tim Walters" ] [loud-fans] Emmy notes [Miles Goosens ] Re: [loud-fans] Emmy notes [Michael Mitton ] Re: [loud-fans] Emmy notes [Stewart Mason ] Re: [loud-fans] Emmy notes [Roger Winston ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:20:44 -0400 From: "Larry Tucker" Subject: [loud-fans] Stamey "VOTE" song Here'a a couple of links for some free music. Mike Nicholson has a new Chris Stamey song called "VOTE" at the Sparklefest website. www.sparklefest.com And Tim Lee has four outtakes from his latest release, and I think a career best, called INDISCRETION. I saw Tim play last Thursday night and he's never sounded better. www.timleemusic.com Larry ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:24:06 -0400 From: "Larry Tucker" Subject: RE: [loud-fans] Stamey "VOTE" song > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-loud-fans@smoe.org [mailto:owner-loud-fans@smoe.org] On Behalf > Of Larry Tucker > Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 9:21 AM > To: loud-fans@smoe.org > Subject: [loud-fans] Stamey "VOTE" song > > And Tim Lee has four outtakes from his latest release, and I think a > career best, called INDISCRETION. Uhhh I meant NO DISCRETION. Larry ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:52:07 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: [loud-fans] 1985 redux At 08:22 AM 9/22/2004 -0400, LkDylaninthmvies@aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 9/22/04 1:41:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time, >sleeveless@zoominternet.net writes: > > >> Is there someone who loves the Thrills? I got suckered into picking up >> that album (thankfully at a very low price) and I almost couldn't stand >> to listen to it all the way through. Could they be less Thrilling if >> they tried? >> > >I can't listen to that one all the way through, either. It's kind of boring >after awhile. How many times does one need to say "Santa Cruz," anyway? I've been less than impressed with 'em myself, though my probability of liking them was pretty low from the start, since their sound is not really my kind of sound. They're opening for both of the Pixies shows we're seeing, so they'll have a chance to do the live conversion thing. >I'd be >more than happy to give the fates my Thrills CD if I could have my Lyres one >back. I always liked the Lyres just fine, but not as much as I liked their similarly retro-minded contemporaries Plan 9. Boy, there's a band that never got any press... Since I finally replied to a descendent of the 1985 thread, I will cop to being the party who made the four-CD '85 retrospective, though it was sweet of Jeff to leave my fogeyish authorship anonymous. It was originally conceived for a Loud-Swap for Jer Fairall, but I loved it so much that I ended up foisting it on probably too many of my pals. I'm currently planning at least a double-CD "bonus beats" comp that will repeat *no* artists from the first four discs. It remains my favorite musical year ever, but in the interest of full disclosure, yes, it was my senior year of high school and first year of college, so apply salt as needed. For what it's worth, the ostensible subject of our list told me that 1985 was the *worst*-ever year for music. Take out Madonna and I resemble that Bowling for Soup song way too much, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 11:06:55 EDT From: JRT456@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] 1985 redux In a message dated 9/24/04 10:59:46 AM, outdoorminer@mindspring.com writes: > > I always liked the Lyres just fine, but not as much as I liked their > similarly retro-minded contemporaries Plan 9. Boy, there's a band that never got > any press... > I recently came across another band called Plan 9, which reminded me of how much the original band had been forgotten. Actually, there were a other Plan 9s even back when Plan 9 was at its highest profile. I last saw them live in '98, and with the core duo of Eric and Debora still together (last I heard, and rivaling Lux and Ivy), I guess there's still a chance we'll hear from them again. They released a 45 from that time on Worrybird that didn't get much press, either. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:18:19 -0700 (PDT) From: "Tim Walters" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] 1985 redux Miles Goosens wrote: > I always liked the Lyres just fine, but not as much as I liked their > similarly retro-minded contemporaries Plan 9. Boy, there's a band that > never got any press... Maybe nobody wanted to interview five guitarists at once. - -- THE DOUBTFUL PALACE Free exquisite music http://www.doubtfulpalace.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:49:57 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: [loud-fans] Emmy notes Wow, no discussion of it lo these many days later? I'm always a sucker for awards shows -- the awards themselves are largely irrelevant (though I'm always delighted on the rare occasions that people I like win them), but they're a nice excuse to see women in fancy get-ups. * Was ANGELS IN AMERICA all that? I don't know (and hope that it is), but it sort of had the SCHINDLER'S LIST "righteous cause" air of inevitable overrating. I'm sure Netflix will enable this pay-channel non-subscriber to find out for himself. * Can we blow up Meryl Streep and Glenn Close now? Please? I know the Farm Film Report blowed up La Streep years ago, but it didn't take. * Conan O'Brien *killed* in his bit he did before presenting. Concise, assured, acid-tongued, spot-on. * I never want to see any of those SEX AND THE CITY women again. Even the once-resurgent Kim Cattrall has lost her mojo, looking weather-beaten and bronzed in an Old Showgirl kind of way. * I'd join in the rejoicing over ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT winning Best Comedy, except I only managed to watch two or three of them and wasn't blown away. However, I plan to catch up on the many episodes I missed via the eventual DVDs, so I might well become a big fan. * It's not Emmy-connected necessarily, but the first time I saw Dr. Phil, I thought it was Jeffrey Tambor playing a self-help guru. And every time I see Dr. Phil, I still think it's going to be Jeffrey Tambor. * Best dressed, and stunningly so: Mary Louise Parker, looking just as post-partum luscious as she did at the Golden Globes, and Laura Linney. Also some stunningly hot plus-size women among the wives of the honorees. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:06:51 -0700 From: Michael Mitton Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Emmy notes I would say "Arrested" was the best comedy of last year. Certainly the only new comedy I found that was worth watching. Seeing the magician, lothario brother ride around on a Segway is alone worth my time. Or seeing the psychiatrist turned actor excited about his "gig" directing a high school play. Or watching him take acting lessons from Carl Weathers. Oh, and there's no laugh track! Anyway, this has nothing to do with the Emmy's (but thought of it from Miles' post), but I know that a few people on this list often go to the Toronto film festival. Did anyone see, I think it's called, "Hotel Rwanda"? I've been haunted by the events there since reading Gourevitch's stuff, so I'm really hoping the movie does it justice. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 23:07:26 -0400 From: Stewart Mason Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Emmy notes At 01:06 PM 9/24/2004 -0700, Michael Mitton wrote: >Anyway, this has nothing to do with the Emmy's (but thought of it from >Miles' post), but I know that a few people on this list often go to >the Toronto film festival. Did anyone see, I think it's called, >"Hotel Rwanda"? I've been haunted by the events there since reading >Gourevitch's stuff, so I'm really hoping the movie does it justice. We didn't see it, but it won the People's Choice Award and was generally well-reviewed. Also, the local papers were having a fine old time reporting on co-star Nick Nolte's hijinks around town. Apparently he kept sneaking beers into screenings. Except for the shorts programs, which never get beyond the festival circuit, here's what we saw, in rough order of how much I liked it. They're all winners, though -- this was one of the strongest festivals I've ever been to. THE LOVE CRIMES OF GILLIAN GUESS (new film by Canadian director Bruce McDonald (HIGHWAY 61, ROADKILL, HARD CORE LOGO, the TV series TWITCH CITY), about a real-life woman who became a media celebrity in Vancouver in the mid-'90s: she was a juror in a murder case who slept with the defendant. It's a completely original, almost surreal, film and it's McDonald's very best work. Stars Joely Collins, Phil's daughter, and has a soundtrack by Broken Social Scene, including a cover of Josh Rouse's "Love Vibration" redone as a Bollywood-style musical number.) SAVING FACE (Chinese-American romantic comedy with Joan Chen as the newly pregnant 48-year-old mother of a young surgeon who can't tell her family that she's a lesbian) ZEBRAMAN (New one by Japanese cult director Takeski Miike, about a middle-aged man obsessed with a quickly-cancelled TV show of his youth, who dons a homemade version of the hero's outfit and goes off to start doing battle in Tokyo's suburbs. Saying more would just spoil the weirdness.) IT'S ALL GONE PETE TONG (A mockumentary by the writer-director of a wonderful Canadian movie called FUBAR, about a pair of aging metalheads. This one is about an Ibiza club DJ who's slowly going deaf. It won the award for best Canadian feature.) MALE FANTASY (Written and directed by Blaine Thurier, the keyboardist in the New Pornographers. Set in Vancouver's aging-bohemian community, very loose and improvised-feeling in a very '70s Cassavetes sort of way, and does an excellent job of creating a worthwhile film with no truly likable characters.) THE WORLD (Chinese film set in a real-life amusement park that's got replicas of all the world's great landmarks. Unremittingly depressing, but worthwhile.) A WHALE OF A TALE (Documentary by Peter Lynch, who did the great PROJECT GRIZZLY, about a whale bone that was found in Toronto as they were constructing a new subway stop.) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 22:40:17 -0600 From: Roger Winston Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Emmy notes At Friday 9/24/2004 09:49 AM, Miles Goosens wrote: >Wow, no discussion of it lo these many days later? I'm always a sucker >for awards shows -- the awards themselves are largely irrelevant (though >I'm always delighted on the rare occasions that people I like win them), >but they're a nice excuse to see women in fancy get-ups. I don't think I've ever seen an Emmy telecast, though I never miss the Academy Awards or the MTV Movie Awards. Like the Grammys, the Emmys just seem to me to get it All Wrong. >* Was ANGELS IN AMERICA all that? I don't know (and hope that it is), but >it sort of had the SCHINDLER'S LIST "righteous cause" air of inevitable >overrating. I'm sure Netflix will enable this pay-channel non-subscriber >to find out for himself. I mostly enjoyed AiA, but thought it a little too in love with itself, if that makes any sense. It was all about the dialog, so if you like clever dialog, you'll probably enjoy it. A bit too talky for me. I'm a sucker for Pacino, so I had to watch it regardless. >* I'd join in the rejoicing over ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT winning Best Comedy, >except I only managed to watch two or three of them and wasn't blown >away. However, I plan to catch up on the many episodes I missed via the >eventual DVDs, so I might well become a big fan. Hopefully the DVDs will come with an alternate audio laugh track. Ha ha, just kidding! LOL I just found out today that Todd Fancey of the New Pornographers has a solo album out, called FANCEY. Anybody heard it and care to weigh in? Latre. --Rog - -- Distance, Redefined: http://www.reignoffrogs.com/flasshe ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V4 #263 *******************************