From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V6 #240 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 Wednesday, November 29 2006 Volume 06 : Number 240 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Happy Mauritanian Independence Day ["Curry, Brendan" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:54:35 -0500 From: "Curry, Brendan" Subject: [loud-fans] Happy Mauritanian Independence Day Slate has a slide show to commemorate the occasion: http://todayspictures.slate.com/20061128/ Brendan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:32:58 -0800 From: "Douglas Stanley" Subject: [loud-fans] More Wowee and Additional Zowee I haven't really been following the digests, so sorry if I missed this discussion: What do y'all think of the newly remastered and expanded 2 disc extravaganza that is the Wowee Zowee reissue? I'm really digging it. It much more listenable than the CRCR treatment. If you like "I Love Perth", wait 'til you hear it live! I hope they'll continue the reissues for at least one more through the Mitch Easter-produced Brighten the Corners. Douglas G. Stanley ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:40:31 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: [loud-fans] More Wowee and Additional Zowee On 11/28/06, Douglas Stanley wrote: > > I haven't really been following the digests, so sorry if I missed this > discussion: > > What do y'all think of the newly remastered and expanded 2 disc > extravaganza that is the Wowee Zowee reissue? I'm really digging it. It > much more listenable than the CRCR treatment. If you like "I Love > Perth", wait 'til you hear it live! I like it - but I"m not sure what you mean by "CRCR treatment": wasn't that reissue pretty much the same idea as this one: reissue the CD, collect contemporaneous b-sides, fill out with miscellaneous live tracks, demoes, and unreleased recordings? I hope they'll continue the reissues for at least one more through the > Mitch Easter-produced Brighten the Corners. Why stop there? I mean, maybe you don't like _Terror Twilight_ as much - but it's the last album anyway. I'm hoping Matador just does 'em all. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:59:08 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: [loud-fans] cultural studies query Okay, so posters went up around campus today advertising a lecture to be given by some guy, subtitled "Female Masculinity in Glam Rock." Okay, fine...but the weird part is, the guy's main focus is...Suzi Quatro. Nothing like focusing on someone who's barely made music for 30 years and is best known in the US for playing opposite Henry Winkler on _Happy Days_. So I found myself wondering, is there any way to take the subject of women "performing" masculinity in rock* with rather more *relevant* and contemporary examples? I could point to the super-obscure No Bra...but that hardly persuades that we're talking about anything relevant to much of anything. * The flyer is full of terrifying academic prose cliches, like "focusing particularly on Quatro's ability to construct multiple subject positions that are ambiguous or mutually contradictory with respect to gender and sexuality" and references to the "paradoxical [role of "female cock-rocker"] that destabilizes the gender codings from which it is constructed and celebrates the polymorphousness and performativity of identity." What kind of party favors does such a celebration demand, I wonder? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V6 #240 *******************************