From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V7 #277 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 Saturday, December 8 2007 Volume 07 : Number 277 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] An off-topic query about comic crime novels (I did try to fGoogle it, I swear) ["outbound-only email address" ] Re: [loud-fans] An off-topic query about comic crime novels (I did try to fGoogle it, I swear) ["Stewart Mason" <] Re: [loud-fans] An off-topic query about comic crime novels (I did try to fGoogle it, I swear) ["outbound-only email address" ] Re: [loud-fans] liner notes quote [Scout82667@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] liner notes quote [Gil Ray ] Re: [loud-fans] liner notes quote ["bradley skaught" Subject: [loud-fans] An off-topic query about comic crime novels (I did try to fGoogle it, I swear) In the past I know we've talked about Block's Burglar books, Westlake's Dortmunder novels etc. I recall reading a heist/caper novel in which a motley assortment tries to knock over a casino safe with a scheme that involves bringing a tank full of sleeping gas to dump into the casino's ventilation system. I thought it was a Dortmunder novel, but I can't match it up with any of the plot summaries, so at least something about my memory must be faulty (maybe it was just a sub-plot, maybe it wasn't a casino, etc.). Does this sound familiar to any of the onlist comic mystery aficianados? Many thanks. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 09:05:46 -0700 From: "Roger Winston" Subject: [loud-fans] Relevance Forwarded from a former List member: >------- Original Message ------- >If the LF list still exists, and if they actually ever >talk about the Loud Family, and if mankind should survive, >they will find the following cartoon *almost* relevant: > > > >...Jeff Norman > >The Architectural Dance Society > http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:09:24 -0500 From: "Stewart Mason" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] An off-topic query about comic crime novels (I did try to fGoogle it, I swear) There's a casino heist near the end of the Dortmunder book WHAT'S THE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN? (basic synopsis: Dortmunder tries to take down Donald Trump.) I don't recall sleeping gas, but I do remember the casino scenes being the first place I heard the urban legend that casinos pump extra oxygen into the gaming rooms. Does that jar anything? S - ----- Original Message ----- From: "outbound-only email address" To: Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 9:40 AM Subject: [loud-fans] An off-topic query about comic crime novels (I did try to fGoogle it, I swear) > In the past I know we've talked about Block's Burglar books, > Westlake's > Dortmunder novels etc. > > I recall reading a heist/caper novel in which a motley assortment > tries to > knock over a casino safe with a scheme that involves bringing a tank > full of > sleeping gas to dump into the > casino's ventilation system. I thought it was a Dortmunder novel, > but > I can't match it up with any of the plot summaries, so at least > something about my memory must be faulty > (maybe it was just a sub-plot, maybe it wasn't a casino, > etc.). Does this sound familiar to any of the onlist comic mystery > aficianados? > Many thanks. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 12:00:58 -0500 From: "outbound-only email address" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] An off-topic query about comic crime novels (I did try to fGoogle it, I swear) Stewart helped out: >> the casino scenes being the first place I heard the urban legend that >> casinos pump extra oxygen into the gaming rooms. Does that jar >> anything? Bingo. Thanks much! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 11:03:17 -0800 From: "Steve Holtebeck" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Power Pop book finally out On Dec 1, 2007 2:24 PM, wrote: > The JDC taped a Rubinoos > album for me, describing them as "hapless." He says "hapless," I say > "recklessly passionate." The older I get, the more convinced I am of the greatness of the Rubinoos. I saw them last night (opening for Jonathan Richman at the Great American in one of their once-a-decade local shows), and they're still as great as they ever were. I know their cover of "Tonight" from the Shake Some Action book was "previously on CD" because I have it (on the RASPBERRIES PRESERVED tribute). "When I wrote this song in 1978, I never imagined I'd still be singing it in 2007, and definitely didn't think I'd be able to sing it in the same key. We'd like to dedicate this song to a Canadian friend of ours" - -- Jon Rubin, introducing "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" last night at the GAMH. - -Steve ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 13:10:18 -0800 From: "Steve Holtebeck" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] liner notes quote On Dec 5, 2007 4:48 PM, wrote: > Reading Stephen Duffy's liner notes to the superbly done PARADISE CIRCUS > reissue, I like what he says about The Lilac Time, which could pretty much wrap > up the fate of GT and many other bands of the era: "Charm wasn't ever going to > sound like a hit single in 1989." > > "We would pack up and drive off to play to a handful of students in some > post-industrial slum town." Sound familiar, Gil? > > About the only difference I can see between them across the sea and GT here > is that the handfuls here all joined Loudfans at some point. The main difference I see is that the Game Theory albums aren't being reissued. Does anyone have any thoughts on the latest Lilac Time album? It doesn't seem to be domestically or digitally available in the USA yet. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 16:48:55 -0500 From: "Michael Bowen" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] liner notes quote On Dec 7, 2007 4:10 PM, Steve Holtebeck wrote: > The main difference I see is that the Game Theory albums aren't being reissued. Going back to the CD reissue topic of last week, I remember someone saying that the LN master tapes are being held incommunicado; is that true of the rest of the Game Theory records? MB np: Robbie Fulks, "Roots Rock Weirdos" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 23:22:49 EST From: Scout82667@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] liner notes quote In a message dated 12/7/2007 4:17:30 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, sholtebeck@gmail.com writes: The main difference I see is that the Game Theory albums aren't being reissued. If GT got the loving reissues these LT records got, I think it would stir up some renewed interest in the band. The Stephen Duffy and the LT album KEEP GOING from 2004 is still in regular rotation with me, and I see it as one of my top ten of "the tens." They reissued the first three with different covers, kind of like the Felt reissues from a few years back. Trivia: Duffy named the band from a Nick Drake lyric. Quote from Duffy in the liner notes to the MUSIC IN COLORS reissue (a failed solo record from the early '90s): "After recording with the Velvet Crush and Mitch Easter in North Carolina I went to a bedroom in Skagway, Alaska, and waited to be dropped." Sad, because "Natalie" is such an excellent single on the record, and one of Duffy's best, up there with "Bank Holiday Monday." - --Mark **************************************Check out AOL's list of 2007's hottest products. (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop00030000000001) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 22:21:18 -0800 (PST) From: Gil Ray Subject: Re: [loud-fans] liner notes quote wrote: > "We would pack up and drive off to play to a handful of students in some > post-industrial slum town." Sound familiar, Gil? Yes. Weird...we would sell out a club in Ann Arbor and play to 20 people in Detroit. Chicago great, Milwaukee terrible. Hoboken fabulous, NY not. Regardless, I for one loved the handful. Married one! Gil ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 22:42:14 -0800 From: "bradley skaught" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] liner notes quote > Does anyone have any thoughts on the latest Lilac Time album? > It doesn't seem to be domestically or digitally available in the USA yet. Pretty disappointing. I was hoping the time off would lead to a refreshed Lilac Time, but it's just rather dull--melodically and lyrically dull. That reissue series was beautifully done, though. Speaking of reissues, the Holsapple/Stamey album is back in print. B ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 02:04:40 -0500 From: Jenny Grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] liner notes quote Gil Ray wrote: > Regardless, I for > one loved the handful. Married one! > Wait, Gil... are you saying Stacey is a handful? ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V7 #277 *******************************