From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V7 #39 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, February 15 2007 Volume 07 : Number 039 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] yet again [Russ Lewis ] Re: [loud-fans] Good news?? [Jenny Grover ] Re: [loud-fans] Good news?? [Jenny Grover ] Re: [loud-fans] yet again [CertronC90@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] Good news?? [CertronC90@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] Good news?? [Jenny Grover ] Re: [loud-fans] Good news?? ["=?UTF-8?B?V2VzdCBBbnRob255?=" ] Re: [loud-fans] Good news?? [CertronC90@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] Good news?? [Jenny Grover ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:02:24 -0800 From: Russ Lewis Subject: [loud-fans] yet again Good Lord. I just saw the latest Cadillac commercial on CNN, and it features "Punk Rocker" by the Teddy Bears, with guest vocals by Iggy Pop. That makes cruise lines, Jeeps, and Cadillacs that his songs have been used to advertise. He once said it was fine; if anyone wanted to use his music to advertise vacuum cleaners, surf wax, or whatever, it was OK. How about "Dog Food" in the next Alpo commercial. It's really just the incongruity of Cadillacs and Iggy that I'm commenting on. The ad and the full-length video can be seen here: . Don't delay; it's been yanked off YouTube. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:30:35 -0500 From: Jenny Grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Good news?? zoom@muppetlabs.com wrote: > > Okay Jen, I'll bite. What other lists know your prose, and how do they > stay weirdo-free? Now, I never said they were weirdo free. But I'm on two bipolar lists, two writers' group lists (one for a group I belong to here in town; we just keep in touch, abreast of meeting times and literary submission ops, and submit work via email instead of snail mail) and several music lists. This list has the highest percentage of nitpicky geeks in their field of interest (music here, for example). Nowhere else do I read about such things as statistical analyses of music polls, or people compiling detailed databases of all their CDs, or debates over the proper way to alphabetize CDs that's artist names begin with punctuation marks, etc. (Maybe more people on this list have too much time on their hands?) My other lists aren't talking about hatin' on holidays, except a bipolar person who expressed a dislike for Christmas because she tends to be depressed that time of year and can't cope well with family related stresses attendant to the winter holidays (in which case I don't think it's really Christmas she hates, but her illness coupled with unreasonable expectations placed on her by family). And bear in mind I didn't say people on this list aren't nice or fun. If I thought that, I wouldn't be here. But this list is proportionately more male than any of my other lists, and most of the weirdest people I've known on the other lists were also male. Yeah, yeah, I know what you're thinking. The great gulf between the male and female minds-- we each think the other sex is weird and/or at times incomprehensible. Jen ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:41:01 -0500 From: Jenny Grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Good news?? CertronC90@aol.com wrote: > Just for the record, Jenny, I'm coming to terms with my first steps into > middle age > Why do people make such a big deal of entering into middle age? (Mark, are you two steps from the middle ages?) I mean, sure, we're not as wrinkle free, spry, and perhaps not as hairy in the right places as when we were pups, but look at the alternative. Jen ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:54:03 EST From: CertronC90@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] yet again In a message dated 2/14/2007 2:25:28 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, rlewis@nethere.com writes: It's really just the incongruity of Cadillacs and Iggy that I'm commenting on. Well, Caddys aren't the pimp rides they once were, for the Huggy Bears and coupon-clipping, Florida retired Murrays of the world. They went towards a younger audience back in the '90s with the Allante. I've heard Zeppelin in their commercials. Now it's Iggy. Maybe they're going after late Boomers/older Xers now? I noticed yesterday driving by the Chevy dealer that they've put a new nose on the Chevy Aveo. It looks stupid. They're trying to "butch it up" by giving the nose a chunkier look with an out of proportion bow tie logo in the center of the grille. Ford does that with the Ranger truck. They put a huge Ford logo on the back of it to make the guys who get one feel better about having a tiny truck. - --Mark, who heard "I Wanna Be Sedated" last night when calling a customer on their cell (Verizon has music as an option over the sound of ringing) "When your daddy told me 40 years ago, 'We're moving to Greenville, South Carolina,' I should have BLOWN HIM AWAY!!!" {fist clenched} (Mom, not happy earlier about the local water company, and never happy about leaving Atlanta) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:12:18 EST From: CertronC90@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Good news?? In a message dated 2/14/2007 3:41:18 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, sleeveless@zoominternet.net writes: Why do people make such a big deal of entering into middle age? (Mark, are you two steps from the middle ages?) I mean, sure, we're not as wrinkle free, spry, and perhaps not as hairy in the right places as when we were pups, but look at the alternative. The big trade-off: Be 28 and neurotic with great skin and hair or 40 and well-adjusted with miles on the odometer. I would like to go back to April of 2005 physically, the month before it started for me with this weird vertical wrinkle by my nose. I was always jealous of the well-adjusted twenty somethings. - --Mark "Well, everyone is lonely. I don't really feel alienated, but I used to be terrifyingly lonely in my twenties and it just completely, totally, utterly fucked me up. I think thirty to thirty-five are the best years because as you get older, you still feel loneliness, but you know what it is, and you know it'll go away. It's like bruising your leg b it doesn't have the power to terrify you anymore." (Douglas Coupland) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:24:02 -0500 From: Jenny Grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Good news?? CertronC90@aol.com wrote: > > I was always jealous of the well-adjusted twenty somethings. You knew some? ;-) Jen ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:43:45 +0000 From: "=?UTF-8?B?V2VzdCBBbnRob255?=" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Good news?? >The big trade-off: Be 28 and >neurotic with great skin and hair or >40 and well-adjusted with miles on >the odometer. I would like to go >back to April of 2005 physically, >the month before it started for me >with this weird vertical wrinkle by >my nose. In my case it was 28 and suicidal, now 39 and neurotic. Lucky for me 40 is the new 30. ;) At any rate, I seem to be holding up rather well in the looks department -- not inordinately handsome, but apparently youthful. I recently told a 24-year-old co-worker that I hadn't been drafted into jury duty in about fifteen years (I go back next week... how did they find me?), and she asked, wide-eyed, "How old ARE you?" She didn't think I was old enough to have pulled jury duty fifteen years ago! Take THAT, senior citizens! Of course, all those years spent staying out of the sun arranging and re-arranging my CD collection in a windowless room might have had something to do with it. It's a trade-off, that's basically what I'm saying. I'm funny, but not funny ha-ha, West. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:36:40 -0800 (PST) From: Gil Ray Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Good news?? - --- Jenny Grover wrote: > and perhaps not as hairy in the > right places i'm much hairier at work than I am at home. LOL Jenny! Gil (who made his wife very happy by putting a 20 dollar bill in her valentine card!) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:31:00 EST From: CertronC90@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Good news?? In a message dated 2/14/2007 9:43:49 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, glarbleflarb@yahoo.com writes: Of course, all those years spent staying out of the sun arranging and re-arranging my CD collection in a windowless room might have had something to do with it. It's a trade-off, that's basically what I'm saying. All those years I spent baking in the sun as a kid at Lake Hartwell in GA at our lake house (trailer) swimming in PCB-filled soup and only coming in long enough to eat Spaghetti-Os and watch "Tarzan" reruns, along with the years with the top down in my MG (when it ran) and then the Rabbit convertible and then the Metro convertible and then the X-90 with the t-tops out are suddenly kicking my butt. Btw Gil, please feel free to vent about your hair loss. I shouldn't have taken that away from you (if I did). I wish I had the testosterone to go bald, but you have every right to your venting. I think I'll be like Woody Allen in "Annie Hall" when he says he may be one of those old people "wamdering in to the cafeteria with a shopping bag screaming about socialism." (or in his case one of those old people who shacks up with his adopted daughter and plays romantic leads opposite female leads he's decades older than). - --Mark, who has listened to the new Mitch Easter about a dozen times now in the car on deliveries, and lovin' it (oh yeah) p.s. I owe quite a lot to Zoloft for helping unfuck me up--credit where credit is due ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:08:26 -0500 From: Jenny Grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Good news?? CertronC90@aol.com wrote: > > p.s. I owe quite a lot to Zoloft for helping unfuck me up--credit where > credit is due > > Anyone else getting ideas for a new rewrite of "Unbreak My Heart"? 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