From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V7 #427 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, June 24 2008 Volume 07 : Number 427 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Comedian George Carlin dead at 71 [Paul King ] Re: [loud-fans] Comedian George Carlin dead at 71 ["Tom Marcinko" ] [loud-fans] 1973 [Gil Ray ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:52:27 -0400 From: Paul King Subject: [loud-fans] Comedian George Carlin dead at 71 Not a musician, but I am sure most people on this list have heard of him http://tv.msn.com/tv/celebritynews/george-carlin-dies/?GT1=7703 Paul King ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:15:13 -0700 From: "Tom Marcinko" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Comedian George Carlin dead at 71 Bipartisan usually means that a larger-than-usual deception is being carried out. - -- George Carlin On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 3:52 AM, Paul King wrote: > Not a musician, but I am sure most people on this list have heard of him > > http://tv.msn.com/tv/celebritynews/george-carlin-dies/?GT1=7703 > > Paul King ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:40:26 -0700 From: "Andrew Hamlin" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Earl Muntz bio > I have a mid-90's documentary about people who still cherish their 8-tracks, > called "So Wrong They're Right"; everything in it is vaguely silly, but in a > harmless, sweet kind of way. I don't recall any mention of Muntz, though, > as it isn't so much about history as it is about a benevolent fetishistic > nostalgia. See if they have it at your local video store; otherwise, I'm > sure it's on Netflix... everything else is. To my pleasant surprise, Russ Forster's SO WRONG THEY'RE RIGHT can, in fact, be ordered from Netflix. Of course, "everything" is a big word. No Netflix availability for, say, Forster's second film TRIBUTARY, plunging into the world of tribute bands; or of Brett Ingram's MONSTER ROAD, a study of animator Bruce Bickford I'm putting on my short list for Best Films Of The Past Twenty Years: http://www.brettingram.org/ ...and you'll find a more comprehensive study of the 8-track thing here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereo_8 Waiting for prerecorded reel-to-reel tapes to come roaring back, Andy Ellison: There are times when I am terribly presumptuous, to visit my personal feelings on other people's way of living a life. In truth, I'm very egalitarian in that way. I'm an elitist because I think there are too many stupid people in the world. But one must not pity them; one must take an AK-47 and kill them. You just need to kill as many stupid people as you can find. Go out in the streets and ask them if they have ever heard of Guy de Maupassant. No? Bam, you're dead. Have you ever heard of Bessie Smith? No? Bam, you're dead. Beyond that, I think it is really smartass of me to be cranky at people for not being as good as I want them to be. I have, I suppose, a very peculiar love-hate relationship with the human race. As a concept, the human race seems to be a very workable idea. When you get down to the individuals, most of them need a ball-peen hammer to the middle of their forehead to make them move even as a slow pony. I figure any species that is capable of writing "Moby-Dick" and painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling and putting people on the moon does not have to settle for novels by Judith Krantz, McDonald's toad burgers and movies like "Dumb and Dumberer." What is that Latin phrase? Spero melior -- I hope for better things. I have a very low tolerance threshold. It's one of my many, many flaws and I get cranky with people. Nelson: Really? Ellison: Oh, piss off. Jesus, Nelson. - --Harlan Ellison, from an interview with Andrew O'Hehir and filmmaker Erik Nelson at http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/03/13/ellison/ . Nelson's documentary study of Ellison, DREAMS WITH SHARP TEETH, is completed and the filmmaker currently seeks a distributor. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:24:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Gil Ray Subject: [loud-fans] 1973 Damn, I'm loving these! http://www.125records.com/loudfamily/mwh/1973.html Gil ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V7 #427 *******************************