From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V6 #68 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, April 6 2006 Volume 06 : Number 068 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Lolita on iToons [Russ Lewis ] [loud-fans] gene pitney dead [Jenny Grover ] Subject: Re: [loud-fans] momentous occasions [robert toren ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 18:16:54 -0700 From: Russ Lewis Subject: [loud-fans] Lolita on iToons Got an hour? I always knew that some universities put their lectures online via RealAudio, but I just found out that Stanford now archives its lectures and radio talk shows on iTunes -- yes, iTunes. And it's free too, the whole damn lecture. Go to for the 50 or so lectures they've accumulated, on everything from menopause to international policy and security to the perception of tyme. But the section I dig is a weekly show on KZSU called Entitled Opinions, which unlike the lectures are broadcast quality and are hosted by lit professor Robert Harrison . You can hear this guy hammer out the Big Questions like the "historical Jesus" to Girard's theory of mimetic desire to the events of the year 1910 (worth hearing just to listen to a 10-year-old guest recite "The Wind Cries Mary"). But my favorite is "Vladimir Nabokov and His Novel Lolita." Can't help thinking that Whatsizname would like that one. Now I just wish they'd do this in England. Oh well, everything starts in California. R.L. The very same ass that carried man across the deserts of time also gave us the brainless hamburger. - -- Capt. Beefheart ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 18:47:48 -0400 From: Jenny Grover Subject: [loud-fans] gene pitney dead http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060405/ap_on_en_mu/gene_pitney ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 18:57:23 -0700 (PDT) From: robert toren Subject: Subject: Re: [loud-fans] momentous occasions >> I'm just waiting a couple of years for Scott to write the song "50" (or would that be "48"?). someone should write new lyrics "Is it because I'm 48 not 45..." Not me, I cant rite - --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2"/min or less. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 18:47:42 -0700 From: "Michael Mitton" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Lolita on iToons > Mary"). But my favorite is "Vladimir Nabokov and His Novel Lolita." > Can't help thinking that Whatsizname would like that one. Somebody on this list once told me that Scott has never read Lolita. Which would surprise even if he hadn't named an album LN. Can that still be true? And it was somebody else on this list who encouraged me to read Nabokov (though he recommended Glory first, not Lolita), which started an obsession that culminated in me failing a general exam because I attended a course on Nabokov rather than the one on which I'd be tested. I stand by my decision. mm ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V6 #68 ******************************