From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V6 #11 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, January 12 2006 Volume 06 : Number 011 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] still shilling for emusic for no good reason ["don't mine me"] [loud-fans] Remembering the great Wray man [zoom@muppetlabs.com] [loud-fans] Because Steve asked me where my Top Ten Movies list was... [z] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:31:25 -0500 (EST) From: "don't mine me" Subject: [loud-fans] still shilling for emusic for no good reason If anyone cares, not only has emusic been getting TONS of great Cherry Red deep catalog over the past week, but this morning a tantalizing handful of SST reckids showed up. Please don't write me back at this address; this is an outgoing-mail-only address, because addresses I use to post to archived mailing lists aren't safe from spammers. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 23:04:46 -0800 (PST) From: zoom@muppetlabs.com Subject: [loud-fans] Remembering the great Wray man http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5024749 Click on the Terry Gross link for the interview. I can't get the sucker to open, but maybe you can. I first heard this interview whilst motoring through New Hampshire with John Cooper in the summer of 1997, and I tell you, it made my day like no other of my days was made. Threw the 'Mats a dime, in my prime, Andy Winfrey backs embattled US writer Frey Thursday Jan 12 16:34 AEDT Powerful TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey has thrown her support behind embattled author James Frey, saying a national uproar over whether he fictionalised parts of his best-selling memoir was "much ado about nothing". Appearing as a surprise caller on CNN's Larry King Live show after King had gently quizzed Frey for nearly an hour, Winfrey broke her silence over whether his book, A Million Little Pieces, was still a choice of her book club and had her endorsement. She said that even though the facts of the account of Frey's drug and alcohol addiction were being questioned, the book "still resonates with me" and called the controversy "much ado about nothing" because, as Frey told King, the disputed passages make up less than five per cent of the book. Talking to King on the phone just minutes before the show was to end, Winfrey said, "Everyone has been asking me to release a statement, and I first wanted to hear what James had to say and I didn't want that coloured by any personal conversation that I've had". "He's said he's had many conversations with my producers who do fully support him and obviously we support the book because we recognise that there have been thousands and hundreds of thousands of people whose lives have been changed by this book." It was Winfrey's selection of the memoir for her book club that helped make it the biggest-selling nonfiction book in the United States last year, with more than 1.7 million copies sold in a paperback edition. But she had been silent following weekend charges made by The Smoking Gun website that Frey had made up an account that he had spent three months in jail after trying to run over a policeman while on drugs. The Smoking Gun said it could find no evidence of his having spent that much time in jail and that his motor accident consisted of running his car up on a curb. Frey refused to directly confront whether the incident was made up or not and insisted that while some elements in the book were embellished, the book's emotional core was true. "I hope the emotional truth of the book resonates with (readers)," he told King. "I couldn't have written it if I hadn't been through a lot of the things I talk about." He added, "It's a memoir. It's an imperfect animal ... I don't think it should be held up and scrutinised the way a perfect nonfiction documentary would be or a newspaper article." Winfrey appeared to agree, telling King: "Whether or not the car's wheels rolled up on the sidewalk or whether he hit the police officer or didn't hit the police officer is irrelevant to me". She added: "What is relevant is that he was a drug addict, spent years in turmoil, from the time he was 10 years old and tormenting himself and his parents, and out of that history to be the man that he is today and to take that message to other people and allow them to save themselves. That's what important about this book." As for Frey, he insisted: "The essential truth of (my) drug and alcohol addiction is there. The emotional truth is there .... I think you will find people who will dispute every memoir ever written". Readers calling publisher Random House's customer service line were told they could receive refunds if they had bought the book directly from the publishing house. Random House, a unit of German media conglomerate Bertelsmann AG, issued a statement saying that such refunds were standard procedure. Bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc also said it is standard practice to offer refunds for returned books. But Publishers Weekly Senior Editor Charlotte Abbott called the Random House refunds unprecedented. - --from http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=81086 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 23:52:33 -0800 (PST) From: zoom@muppetlabs.com Subject: [loud-fans] Because Steve asked me where my Top Ten Movies list was... And I explained I felt like I missed a lot, but... MYSTERIOUS SKIN (just got finished with it). NOBODY KNOWS (get to see it again in a few weeks). THE HOLY GIRL. THE ARISTOCRATS (warning: no sex, no violence, but some of the most jaw-dropping and possibly gorge-rising language to grace an American film). GRIZZLY MAN (though I didn't love it quite as much as others did). A TREE OF PALME. BOATS OUT OF WATERMELON RINDS. THE PLACE PROMISED IN OUR EARLY DAYS. OLDBOY (not, as my father keeps second-guessing after correctly-guessing, "ODDBOY"). ALL THE SHIPS AT SEA (might be 2004, but what the hell; made by our own Dan Sallitt, and maybe he'll send you a copy). BUFFALO BOY (best first feature I saw for last year). IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL (a tad slick, but I'm a sucker for bios of deranged artists, and the late Henry Darger was perhaps the king of that heap). 3-IRON. YASMIN. LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (Chinese, not the 1948 picture of the same name although it uses the same story; the most gorgeous picture I saw in 2005, most every shot exuding the richness of oil painting). MONGOLIAN PING-PONG. Okay, I hope that helps. More than ten, I know, but I figured I'd keep you running. Also, you'll find only some of the above on domestic DVD and I don't know if you've got an all-code player. Heck, ALL THE SHIPS AT SEA is only available by asking the director nicely...so far as I know... And Steven Soderbergh's BUBBLE makes the first interesting movie of 2006, Andy Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, tillt is gone, and all is gray. - --Lord Byron, from "Childe Harolds Pilgrimage" ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V6 #11 ******************************