From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V7 #83 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 Tuesday, April 3 2007 Volume 07 : Number 083 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Jen Trynin ["Larry Tucker" ] [loud-fans] new look, same great taste [Scout82667@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] new look, same great taste ["Roger Winston" ] Re: [loud-fans] Jen Trynin [AWeiss4338@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] Jen Trynin [zoom@muppetlabs.com] Re: [loud-fans] Jen Trynin [AWeiss4338@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] Ted Leo [Miles Goosens ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 09:47:56 -0400 From: "Larry Tucker" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Jen Trynin Thanks Andrea. I'll have to pick up her book. Larry On 4/2/07, AWeiss4338@aol.com wrote: > > For any fans of her. I got to interview her for Tone&Groove, and > she proved > very nice as a person, even if her answers don't reflect that. > _www.toneandgroove.com_ (http://www.toneandgroove.com) . > > Andrea > > > > ************************************** See what's free at > http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 10:53:39 EDT From: Scout82667@aol.com Subject: [loud-fans] new look, same great taste My other list name got targeted by spammers by some dumb internet moves on my part, so it's gone. Even though I was a Cub Scout in the '70s (I quit disillusioned because my Denmother was always drunk and cancelling the meetings), that isn't the origin of this moniker. Scout is a character in Coupland's LIFE AFTER GOD, and that's my birth date. - -Mark np: Luna THE DAYS OF OUR NIGHTS (I bought the Aussie edition of this back in th' day, since it didn't come out in the states until months later, and the high end is muffled on it--I wonder how many generations removed from the master tape this thing is) ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 09:30:54 -0600 From: "Roger Winston" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] new look, same great taste Scout82667@aol.com on 4/2/2007 8:53:39 AM wrote: >My other list name got targeted by spammers by some >dumb internet moves on my part, so it's gone. > >Even though I was a Cub Scout in the '70s (I quit >disillusioned because my Denmother was always drunk >and cancelling the meetings), that isn't the origin >of this moniker. Scout is a character in Coupland's >LIFE AFTER GOD, and that's my birth date. Good thing you learned your lesson. Because it's ALWAYS a good idea to include your birthday in your e-mail address and advertise it as such. Now if you could just work your social security number in there too... Latre. --Rog - -- FlasshePoint, yet another blog among millions: http://www.flasshe.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 10:09:42 -0700 (PDT) From: "Joseph M. Mallon" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re: The Mitch Easter experience On Sun, 1 Apr 2007, robert toren wrote: > Did anyone here see the Amoeba show? Joe? Stacey said > it was good - ~100 people came to see them, and > afterward the store employees said Mitch&band were > some of the nicest folks to ever play an in-store > there - afterward Joe and Sue went out with the band > for Mai Tai's - but maybe Joe will tell that story? Sue tells it much better than I could: http://interbridge.com/weblog It was great to see them live, and spend time with them. I wish they could stay longer, but such is the life of a touring musician. Joe Mallon jmmallon@joescafe.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 15:09:48 EDT From: AWeiss4338@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Jen Trynin In a message dated 4/2/2007 10:49:13 AM Eastern Daylight Time, batchain@gmail.com writes: Thanks Andrea. I'll have to pick up her book. You're welcome. I recommend her book highly. Andrea ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 21:27:26 -0400 From: scout82667@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] new look, same great taste Rog, I guard my social security number like it was soylent green. I won't even enter it on my/a phone in public places where someone could figure out the keystrokes, and I don't keep it in my wallet. I also don't keep my bank account numbers in my wallet, and I use a shredder regularly. You mean I have to be concerned about THIS as well? Good God. Well, I'm not. If they want my identity THAT badly, have at it. Maybe they'll pay on my student loans while they're out being me (and maybe they'll have a better love life while they're at it as well). What I did was fill out a consumer survey and got assaulted with offers for everything from all sorts of companies, which I think of as spam. Honestly, if someone's trying to get MY identity, then they really need to look for someone with more potential monetarily. My credit ain't that awesome. You're not going to get much issued to you, I promise. - --Mark - -----Original Message----- From: rwinston@tde.com To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sent: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 11:30 AM Subject: Re: [loud-fans] new look, same great taste Scout82667@aol.com on 4/2/2007 8:53:39 AM wrote: >My other list name got targeted by spammers by some >dumb internet moves on my part, so it's gone. > >Even though I was a Cub Scout in the '70s (I quit >disillusioned because my Denmother was always drunk >and cancelling the meetings), that isn't the origin >of this moniker. Scout is a character in Coupland's >LIFE AFTER GOD, and that's my birth date. Good thing you learned your lesson. Because it's ALWAYS a good idea to include your birthday in your e-mail address and advertise it as such. Now if you could just work your social security number in there too... Latre. --Rog - -- FlasshePoint, yet another blog among millions: http://www.flasshe.com ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 19:14:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Phil Fleming Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Jen Trynin I second that motion. :) It was strange reading it though... In most cases, I know exactly who the pseudonyms are.. some of them I knew for a short while back in the mid 90s. Andrea, the station I work for actually has a copy of TRESPASSING. I can see why she never really included it in her discography... it barely sounds like the Jen we all know and love. - --- AWeiss4338@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 4/2/2007 10:49:13 AM Eastern > Daylight Time, > batchain@gmail.com writes: > > Thanks Andrea. I'll have to pick up her book. > > > > > You're welcome. I recommend her book highly. > > Andrea > > > > ************************************** See what's > free at http://www.aol.com. > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get your own web address. Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/?p=BESTDEAL ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 22:36:38 EDT From: AWeiss4338@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Jen Trynin In a message dated 4/2/2007 10:26:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time, spin_jen@yahoo.com writes: I second that motion. :) It was strange reading it though... In most cases, I know exactly who the pseudonyms are.. some of them I knew for a short while back in the mid 90s. Cool. I got some of them too, and guessed at more. What were these people like? From the book, they are quite colorful. Andrea, the station I work for actually has a copy of TRESPASSING. I can see why she never really included it in her discography... it barely sounds like the Jen we all know and love. I beleive it, from what Jen said about it. It sounds like it was very much a folk album. Andrea ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 20:37:08 -0700 (PDT) From: zoom@muppetlabs.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Jen Trynin > It was strange reading it though... In most cases, I > know exactly who the pseudonyms are.. some of them I > knew for a short while back in the mid 90s. > Cool. I got some of them too, and guessed at more. What were these people > like? From the book, they are quite colorful. Which reminds me--I pegged the punk godfather in Anne Thomas Soffee's NERD GIRL ROCKS PARADISE CITY, but I need some help with the Virginia sensation crack addict who sleeps in his childhood bedroom, with the cowboys on the curtains. Anybody ID him? Now that Deep Throat coughed himself up... Andy "I think we should forcibly sterilize anybody with an IQ of 90 or lower." - --a cow orker's perspective on preserving civilization (which would involve sterilizing me, but I didn't say anything) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 23:42:05 EDT From: AWeiss4338@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Jen Trynin In a message dated 4/2/2007 11:37:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time, zoom@muppetlabs.com writes: > It was strange reading it though... In most cases, I > know exactly who the pseudonyms are.. some of them I > knew for a short while back in the mid 90s. > Cool. I got some of them too, and guessed at more. What were these people > like? From the book, they are quite colorful. Which reminds me--I pegged the punk godfather in Anne Thomas Soffee's NERD GIRL ROCKS PARADISE CITY, but I need some help with the Virginia sensation crack addict who sleeps in his childhood bedroom, with the cowboys on the curtains. Anybody ID him? Now that Deep Throat coughed himself up... Never read the book, so sorry not to be of help. Andrea ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 02:17:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Ted Leo doug, then Jeff: >> I'm working on a real review for which the precis is roughly: >> >> 1. While TL plays to his core strengths on several tracks, he's >> adventurous >> enough to abandon them almost completely on a few songs, which I think is >> admirably gutsy. The early critical groupthink, which I take to roughly be >> "another superbly-crafted album that breaks little new ground for TL, ho >> hum" annoys me; I'm inclined to think it's more about the inability of >> critics to explore the ways in which this album is _not_ just >> more-of-the-same in a soundbite-friendly format than it's about TL's >> alleged >> failure to take artistic chances. > > >The head of that nail must be hurtin' - because you just hit it square on. >I'm not a huge reggae fan (read: I kinda hate it) but damned if he somehow >didn't make that track sound good and smooth like v. early reggae and >proto-reggae (the genre name for which escapes my mind). Even though I like >a lot of the songs on STS, somehow I never really warmed to it as much as to >either of its two predecessors: this one seems likelier to be up there with >_Hearts of Oak_. For one thing, there was sometimes a sort of screechy sound >to Ted's vocals on the last one - less of that here. Apologies to those on the list who saw this in slightly different wording earlier today, but here goes my "me three" to these expertly-expressed paragraphs: Having just spun the new Ted Leo in its entirety, I am pleased to report that it's album-of-the-year-worthy to my ears. SHAKE THE SHEETS was very good but was also a bit too similar to its two predecessors, but as Jeff and doug have pointed out, LIVING WITH THE LIVING injects some much-needed sonic variety into the mix, very successfully so in my opinion. I'm usually more fond of variety than other folks (I remember a review of an R. Stevie Moore album where the writer said "I can't imagine wanting to listen to this many kinds of music in one sitting," and when I read that I thought "that's exactly why I love R. Stevie Moore - the insane variety!"), so take this with a grain of salt, I guess. While LIVING WITH THE LIVNG sports no "Ballad of the Sin Eater" centerpiece, the songs on this 'un are are all smart, catchy, and memorable. We're just out of March, and I already have two potential #1's for 2007 between this and Mitch Easter, so I'm pleased to no end. But the best thing about LIVING WITH THE LIVING is the way the outro of "The Lost Brigade" appropriates the outro of a Flock of Seagulls' "Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)." It's recontextualized and reinstrumented, mind you, but it is so there. When I discovered this nifty thievery today, I must have smiled a mile wide. later, Miles ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V7 #83 ******************************