From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #56 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, February 13 1999 Volume 08 : Number 056 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Elliott Smith Seattle tix for sale..:( [Carole Reichstein ] Re: (Gosh) who would have known? [Eric Loehr ] RE: TLA ["Chaney, Dolph L" ] Re: (Gosh) who would have known? [Dede Davis ] Re: Elliott Smith Seattle tix for sale..sold! [Carole Reichstein ] UPS, gay puppets, Falwell [VIV LYON ] Re: Getting blow jobs from the press [Ken Ostrander ] superchunk comment/merge records and some overused phrases [Ken Sabatini ] OUTED [The Great Quail ] Re: UPS, gay puppets, Falwell ["manitas de platano" ] Re: (Gosh) who would have known? [Eric Loehr ] more madness! [Bayard ] Re: more madness! (Warning!) [Bayard ] Re: the Sultan of App [Aaron Mandel ] Re: more madness! [VIV LYON ] Re: more madness! [Capuchin ] Re: VD (0% RH) [Capuchin ] Re: tubbie time [Eb ] Fwd: [sad but true] the price of fame [Tom Clark ] Re: Fwd: [sad but true] the price of fame [Eb ] Re: Fwd: [sad but true] the price of fame [Tom Clark ] For Ken Sabatini, et al [Eb ] Fegbooks ["she.rex" ] Re: For Ken Sabatini, et al [Aaron Mandel ] Re: "donny was a good man. and a good bowler." [Capuchin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 09:25:40 -0800 (PST) From: Carole Reichstein Subject: Elliott Smith Seattle tix for sale..:( Greetings everyone, Although I'd love to go up to Seattle and see Elliott play at the Showbox, scheduling and money constraints pose a problem--I have a 3 hour drawing class that Tuesday, and I'd fall behind, I fear, if I skipped. Since I'm seeing him at La Luna and Satyricon, I can't complain too much. So! I have a 2/23 ticket for Elliott at the Showbox. He's playing with "No. 2," show starts at 8pm. I paid a ridiculous $17 for the darn ticket (out of state Ticketbastard fees, etc), but I'll gladly sell it for $14 if anybody wants it..I don't know if this show is sold out or not. Eddie! I'm sorry I can't partake of your fabulous chai this time. Well, another time, soon! Viva Seatac! Carole ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 10:07:52 -0800 (PST) From: VIV LYON Subject: Re: TLA - ---James Dignan wrote: > PS - thought for the day: Isn't Barney the dinosaur purple? Does that mean...? Yes, James. It means that Barney is a puppet. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 13:20:33 -0500 (EST) From: Eric Loehr Subject: Re: (Gosh) who would have known? On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, lj lindhurst wrote: > > This KILLS me!! Go go go Insomnboy!!! I have often wondered if there were > other gay men on the list besides myself... > Uh, don't you mean besides yourself and TGQ? Eric, not gay, but in a pretty good mood. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 13:29:38 -0500 From: "Chaney, Dolph L" Subject: RE: TLA > -----Original Message----- > From: VIV LYON [SMTP:vivlyon@yahoo.com] > Sent: Friday, February 12, 1999 1:08 PM > To: fegmaniax@smoe.org > Subject: Re: TLA > > ---James Dignan wrote: > > > PS - thought for the day: Isn't Barney the dinosaur purple? Does > that mean...? > > Yes, James. It means that Barney is a puppet. - -------------------------------------------------------- Actually, speaking of Falwellianism and Barney, I have a theory which is mine. ahem ahem. Microsoft ActiMates Barney(tm) is Revelation 14 fulfilled: the meeting of the Beast (Barney) and the False Prophet (Gates). Dolph still having casting calls for Mystery Babylon -- I'm thinking Mariah (the Pariah) Carey? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 10:31:08 -0800 (PST) From: Dede Davis Subject: Re: (Gosh) who would have known? Eric Loehr wrote: > Uh, don't you mean besides yourself and TGQ? > QUAIL IS GAY?!?! Oh, well, there goes my heart.:`( == Dede "Takin' a ride! Takin' a ride in my pickup; Rollin' around downtown..."--G. Huntley _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 10:11:38 -0800 (PST) From: Carole Reichstein Subject: Re: Elliott Smith Seattle tix for sale..sold! The Showbox Elliott Smith tix goes to the lovely Ms. Cynthia Peterson of the Ballard neighborhood, kind hostess to many a wayward Feg. May she have a lovely evening with the grungy singer-songwriter! :) - -Carole ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 13:34:10 -0500 From: lj lindhurst Subject: Re: (Gosh) who would have known? Eric, not gay, but in a pretty good mood, writes: >> This KILLS me!! Go go go Insomnboy!!! I have often wondered if there were >> other gay men on the list besides myself... >> >Uh, don't you mean besides yourself and TGQ? Hey, you just *OUTED* TGQ!!! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 10:47:49 -0800 (PST) From: VIV LYON Subject: UPS, gay puppets, Falwell Man, I wish this thread had arisen a couple nights ago, when I stayed at my parents' house. They had a book called the Lambda Conspiracy that you'd just have to see with your own eyes to believe. It posits an vast network of gays determined to convert the world to their horrifying, unnatural ways. Most of them are in advertising and entertainment and they're all pedophiles or man-haters. The book is hilariously funny until you realize that there is not an ounce of irony anywhere in it. Damn, I wish could type in an excerpt. Anyway, as soon as I realized what this book was, I took it to my bedroom and hid it under my bed. I'm not going to let my parents read such filth. Vivien _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 14:32:06 -0500 From: Ken Ostrander Subject: Re: Getting blow jobs from the press >>Jerry Falwell just needs a blowjob & >>an enema, in that order, for the next several years. Then maybe he'll see the >>light. > >Alas, I was reading a Larry Flynt interview in Rolling Stone -- that >magazine that lets me know *exactly* how hip and cool I am -- and >apparently, and quite seriously, Mr. Flynt and Mr. Falwell are good >buddies now! So I am afraid that he may be getting all the blow jobs and >enemas his little black heart desires. . . . Personally, I think the only >cure for him is a real big staple gun. > >--Quail . . . ka-CHUNK! ka-CHUNK! i just have the image of reverand jerry in a centerfold with staples through his navel and it sent shivers up and down my zipper...i mean spine. how 'bout ensconcing him in purple velvet and giving him a green purse with matching shoes? ooh baby! does anyone else picture jerry when they hear the word 'teletubby'? how well he does fall. ken "going straight to hell" the kenster ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 14:35:32 -0500 (EST) From: Ken Sabatini Subject: superchunk comment/merge records and some overused phrases Said someone (I deleted the address by mistake) on Tuesday, feb. 9,: >Are you any less of a sell out just because you sound like a lugubrious >mixture of Pavement and Superchunk (guitar-based indie rock with >high-voiced singer who can't actually sing or even vocalise in an >interesting way)? Because they're on an indie label?! What major label >would sign them?! I know this was from a few days ago (equivalent to like 20 digest issues ago, given all the verbosity of late), but a few notes of clarification of this off-hand remark are needed. First off, Superchunk are on an indie label out of choice. My recollection is that they were on Matador records, along with Pavement and others, until around 1991 when Atlantic records bought out or merged or bought a controlling interest in the Matador label. At that time, Mac McCaughan and friends decided to depart and started their own label, the venerable Merge Records, now home to such bands as East River Pipe, Magnetic Fields, Mad Scene, Neutral Milk Hotel, Lambchop, Ladybug Transistor, Superchunk, Portastatic, among others. Show me a label with a higher percentage of great bands and I'll . . . I'll prove that the gambler's fallacy is itself a falsehood. "C'mon jackpot, I'm due for a winner, I'm due I tells ya!" Matador has since broken the partnership, or whatever it was, with Atlantic and has sort of merged with/into Capital records. Where was I? Oh yeah, so Superchunk could have been on a major label, but left out of choice. And secondly, Mac's voice (Superchunk singer/guitarist) is really not so limited. Just listen to him in his other band/project Portastatic. To me, his voice just gets lost in the din of Superchunk, but damn he's got enthusiasm. Portastatic is generally a much gentler approach, which suits his voice well. Ken "still pulling for the little guy: let's go Pepsi, catch up to Coke, catch up to Coke, catch up to Coke!" Sabatini Some of the most overused phrases that i can think of at the moment: "Can't see the forest for the trees" "If a tree falls in the forest and noone . . . " "I think I'm pregnant" "I have an open door policy" "I'll scratch your back, if you scratch mine" "Don't touch me there!" "Think outside of your box" "give me another chance, just another chance, just one more chance--I'll be good, you'll see. I'll be real good." "Don't go there (said while giving someone 'the hand')" "Say it to the hand" "Get the hell away from me, you f*ckin' freak!" "I guess I just squeezed her too hard . . . I . . . I'm . . . I'm sorry." "How about that weather?/Its not the heat its the humidity/Its like a sauna in here sauna in here/etc." "Go on with (pronounced, "which") your bad self." "Ain't nothing but a thang (said whilst smirking)." "Who's your baby's daddy?" "As it is written, so shall it be." "It's like looking into a mirror." "You ain't all that!" "Up your nose with a rubber hose" "I am not a number, I'm a free man" "Hello, friend." "Later, Tater." "Nudge nudge, know what I mean?" I'll stop there.<<--not one of the most overused phrases ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 99 15:02:14 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: OUTED >Hey, you just *OUTED* TGQ!!! Oh, well, I suppose it's time to join the ranks of Russell and LJ and come out of the closet. Not only am I gay, I also *am* Tinky Winky. (Not the character, or course, the actor that plays him.) I got the job when I was touring in England (I was working with the Royal Shakepeare Company at the time, after they had seen me in my performance of "The Normal Heart" at Berkeley). I'm not quite sure why they thought I'd make a good Teletubby, but after the audition, when I slicked down my h'muh feather and put away my acoustic guitar, I could see the looks in all their faces - -- and I knew I was in. Right away I saw an opportunity to strike a blow for gay rights. It was easy enough to bend my Teletubby Antenna into a triangle, that was subtle enough; but they were admittedly a bit perplexed at the purse. I told them that I was just an "American thing," and that seemed to clear it up - -- although I noticed immediately that I was no longer invited to games of rugby, football, or the ever-thrilling cricket. So after I wrapped up the first season I moved back to the States and started picking up some spare money by doing odd jobs -- hairdressing, encoding messages for the Lambda Group, installing track lighting, running packets for UPS, teaching chemistry, and finally working as an Art Director for a New York Fashion Magazine. The wonderful thing about the Teletubby show is that I don't actually need to be in London for the shoots -- the second season was done with me in the States, acting in front of a bluescreen, and a computer later added me to the Land of Happy. So there it is; I hope this is not much of a shock and that you will still all love me and treat me the same. (Not for being gay, of course; but for my "other" job.) Love, - --Quail PS: And just for the record, now that my cover's blown, "LJ" stands for Larry Johnson, and Barney the Purple Dinosaur is so flaming and otrageous that he's fucking obnoxious -- one of those "dress-up in black leather on Gay Pride" queens that give the rest of us a bad name. It's exasperating, really, and he's quite outgrown that ridiculous leather outfit he picked up from HR Puffinstuff in the seventies. . . . . +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ The Great Quail, K.S.C. (riverrun Discordian Society) For fun with postmodern literature, New York vampires, and Fegmania, visit Sarnath: http://www.rpg.net/quail "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." -- H.P. Lovecraft ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 15:17:53 +0000 From: "manitas de platano" Subject: Re: UPS, gay puppets, Falwell Date sent: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 10:47:49 -0800 (PST) From: VIV LYON Subject: UPS, gay puppets, Falwell To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Send reply to: VIV LYON > > Man, I wish this thread had arisen a couple nights ago, when I stayed > at my parents' house. They had a book called the Lambda Conspiracy > that you'd just have to see with your own eyes to believe. It posits > an vast network of gays determined to convert the world to their > horrifying, unnatural ways [snip].... Has anybody else here seen Vitalogy? The book, not the Pearl Jam CD. My mother-in-law has a copy of it. It's a health guide with home treatments for consumption and dropsy and the likes, as well as a hilarious section on morality. The CD cover is right out of the book, including those badly touched- up before and after pictures of that victim of "self-pollution". Pass the mustard plaster, please .... - -- Ross Overbury Montreal, Quebec, Canada ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 15:30:55 -0500 (EST) From: Eric Loehr Subject: Re: (Gosh) who would have known? On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, lj lindhurst wrote: > Hey, you just *OUTED* TGQ!!! > Ah, I see my little trick worked; I didn't know for sure until you just told us so. Larry, it was you yourself who said you were a gay man; any detective worth his prawns, such as my idol, Barnaby Jones (hey, wait a minute! Barney, short for Barnaby, Barney Frank, Barney the purple gay dinosaur...who knew that Buddy Ebsen was gay too?) could have then figured out that your association with TGQ made it pretty damn likely that if you were a gay man, then so would he be. Eric "It's a Raymond Chandler afternoon" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 15:45:23 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: more madness! Better post this before the electricity conks out, it's threatening to... New pictures on my site: (1) REMM: Robyn and elements of Mike and Michael. The boys team up again at the Mercury Lounge! Ladies (and gay guys!), thrill to these gorgeous fellows. (2) GLOF: The Gorgeous Ladies of Feg! Need I say more? (100% G-rated, I promise) And oh yes - happy valentine's day! (1): http://158.72.105.122/gh/bingo.htm (2): http://158.72.105.122/gh/fegring.htm After you peek, be sure to -- hey! Jeme and Eb, don't go to your browsers yet, I'm not finished! -- Be sure to visit my Glass Hotel, it's updated! =b Hey kids! Decode these feg anagrams! In increasing order of difficulty. - -WE'D DIS ThEE, DEED STEW I, DEED WEST I, TWEED SIDE, WIDE STEED, EDDIE STEW - -A GREAT HE-QUILT, EQUAL AT THE RIG, EAT IRAQ HE GLUT, A LEG-HATER QUIT - -A DACCA LYE NON-REPTILE ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 16:01:14 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: Re: more madness! (Warning!) > (2) GLOF: The Gorgeous Ladies of Feg! Need I say more? (100% G-rated, I > promise) WARNING: this photo also contains a couple of UGH (ugly gentlemen from hell.) Shield those peepers! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 17:04:49 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: the Sultan of App On Thu, 11 Feb 1999 normal@grove.ufl.edu wrote: > And do any of you pay attention to any of those "site of the day", "top > 100" sites or internet review services? If so, which ones? www.ntk.net and, to a lesser degree, www.tbtf.com. they're both pretty geeky -- i find enough interesting random stuff just by following the bogus matches search engines give me... a ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 14:08:24 -0800 (PST) From: VIV LYON Subject: Re: more madness! > (2) GLOF: The Gorgeous Ladies of Feg! Need I say more? (100% G-rated, I > promise) Oh dear god. This is a terrible picture of me. My hair actually looks much worse in real life. Vivien _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 14:17:59 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: more madness! On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Bayard wrote: > (1): http://158.72.105.122/gh/bingo.htm > (2): http://158.72.105.122/gh/fegring.htm > After you peek, be sure to -- hey! Jeme and Eb, don't go to your browsers > yet, I'm not finished! -- Be sure to visit my Glass Hotel, it's updated! I don't know about Eb, but you caught me. How'd you know? J. - -- ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 14:20:20 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: VD (0% RH) On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Scary Mary wrote: > Happy Valentine's Day to all my favourite fegs! And Happy Valentine's to you, Mary! Yay! You know, some of my best friends are fegs. Je. PS. Hey Mary... I met your friend at Storefront Hitchcock. She came up to me and asked if I was... well, me. It was rather surreal. - -- ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 14:30:51 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: tubbie time I'm willing to bet that nasty Noo Noo has sucked more than just the floor and furniture. He's the REAL poofter in the Teletubbies gang, if you ask me. Eb, imagining the object of Noo Noo's affection clapping his hands and chirping "Again! Again! Again!" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 15:41:58 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Fwd: [sad but true] the price of fame From USA TODAY/Monday, February 8, 1999: Mariah Carey was one of the first celebrities to comment on the death of the King of Jordan. Mariah told CNN "I'm inconsolable at the present time, I was a very good friend of Jordan, he was probably the greatest basketball player this country has ever seen, we will never see his like again". When told by reporters that it was King Hussein of Jordan who had died and not Michael Jordan, Mariah was then led away by her security in a state of "confusion". ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 16:09:09 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Fwd: [sad but true] the price of fame >>From USA TODAY/Monday, February 8, 1999: > >Mariah Carey was one of the first celebrities to comment on the death of >the King of Jordan. Mariah told CNN "I'm inconsolable at the present time, >I was a very good friend of Jordan, he was probably the greatest >basketball >player this country has ever seen, we will never see his like again". When >told by reporters that it was King Hussein of Jordan who had died and not >Michael Jordan, Mariah was then led away by her security in a state of >"confusion". Are you serious?? Come on, isn't that just another hoax along that famous Carey quote about the African children being thin and attractive, "except for the flies and stuff"? (Or something to that effect.) In other news: People give me heat about posting too many lists, but I just received the results of another quite large Best of 1998 poll in which I participated, and the printout includes top 10s from Brian Wilson, Momus, Juliana Hatfield, Shirley Manson, Rick Nielsen, Tom Petersson, Bun E. Carlos, Scott Miller, Nancy Sinatra (ha! Nancy digs HOLE!) and Tommy Keene. I could post a few of these celeb lists, if there's interest. (Hi Viv.) By the way, the top 5 consensus (the top 50 were listed) was Elliott Smith, Rufus Wainwright, Beck, Eels and Billy Bragg/Wilco. Sheesh, not a bad year for Dreamworks, eh? Neutral Milk Hotel was #27. No Robyn. I must add that I'm fairly dubious about the results of this particular poll, because the participants are centered around the retro power-pop clique and the results make this bias very obvious. John Easdale at #12? Etc. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 16:31:28 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Fwd: [sad but true] the price of fame You're right, I should check my sources before forwarding such slanderous material. So I just did a fairly uncomprehensive search for news stories containing ms. carey + mr. dead guy and could find none. It was pretty funny tho. - -tc On 2/12/99 4:09 PM, Eb wrote: >>>From USA TODAY/Monday, February 8, 1999: >> >>Mariah Carey was one of the first celebrities to comment on the death of >>the King of Jordan. Mariah told CNN "I'm inconsolable at the present time, >>I was a very good friend of Jordan, he was probably the greatest >>basketball >>player this country has ever seen, we will never see his like again". When >>told by reporters that it was King Hussein of Jordan who had died and not >>Michael Jordan, Mariah was then led away by her security in a state of >>"confusion". > >Are you serious?? Come on, isn't that just another hoax along that famous >Carey quote about the African children being thin and attractive, "except >for the flies and stuff"? (Or something to that effect.) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 19:02:44 -0800 From: Eb Subject: For Ken Sabatini, et al Coincidentally, this came in my email today. Aha, so Merge signed the Music Tapes! And those Spinanes singles they're reissuing are GREAT...I'm pleased to have the originals. Eb ***** MERGE 1999 RELEASE SCHEDULE ***** JANUARY 12, 1999 Mrg 150 * cd/lp * SEAWEED * Actions And Indications Mrg 151 * cd * THE MAGNETIC FIELDS * Holiday (reissue) Mrg 152 * cdep * THE MAGNETIC FIELDS * The House Of Tomorrow (reissue) FEBRUARY 9, 1999 Mrg 148 * 7" * SUPERCHUNK * The Majestic b/w Reg Mrg 153 * cd * ASHLEY STOVE * New Scars FEBRUARY 16, 1999 Mrg 156 * cdep * VERSUS * Afterglow MARCH 23, 1999 Mrg 154 * cd/lp * THE LADYBUG TRANSISTOR * The Albemarle Sound Mrg 155 * cd * THE ROCK*A*TEENS * Golden Time APRIL 20, 1999 Mrg 157 cd * SPACEHEADS * Angel Station MAY 18, 1999 Mrg 158 * cd/lp * THE MUSIC TAPES * 1st Imaginary Symphony For Nomad LATER THIS YEAR Mrg 160 * cdep * SPINANES (reissue of their first two Imp Records 7"s plus some other stuff) Mrg 1?? * cd * V/A Merge's 10th Anniversary Compilation That Doesn't Have A Name Yet Mrg 1?? * cd/lp * SUPERCHUNK * TBA [Tour dates clipped] _______________________________________________________ Merge Records merge@mrg2000.com P.O. Box 1235 http://www.mrg2000.com/merge/ Chapel Hill, NC 27514 USA ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 23:20:25 From: "she.rex" Subject: Fegbooks Fellow Fegs, It has been determined that there will indeed be a Fegbooks page, which will be up fairly soon. I am compiling the book/author mentions already posted and will keep the page updated. Anyone who wishes to make a recommendation/comment can either post it to the list or email me directly at She.Rex@lycosmail.com. I will include your comments and credit the recommendations. More than one person can comment on a particular book or author, even after the book has been added, so please post away! Also, if you don't see your comments from early in this thread, please let me know and I will include them in the next update. Thanks! Soon we will know the contents of the Library of Fegtopia! She.Rex - ----------------------- My love's a shadowless horse If I can't get across to you In the alligator rain My heart's all pain for you With my hat in my hand I'm a hungry man for you I got stars in my beard And I feel real wierd for you ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 02:29:43 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: For Ken Sabatini, et al On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Eb wrote: > Coincidentally, this came in my email today. Aha, so Merge signed the > Music Tapes! And those Spinanes singles they're reissuing are > GREAT...I'm pleased to have the originals. i hate to be a grinch, but considering the material for that Spinanes thing *already exists* and yet it's coming out "sometime after May", which is what they said last year... well, it'll be a nice surprise whenever it does appear. a ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 02:18:37 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: "donny was a good man. and a good bowler." On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Capitalism Blows wrote: > > i really think i or lobstie oughta tape you telling the "story to end > all stories" (capuchie and friends in the beck moshpit at bumbershoot > '97) and we can make it an item in the permatree. maybe we could even > videotape it. 'cause you know, as i mentioned last june, it turns out > that jeme is quite good at physical comedy as well. Wanna hear something funny? I don't think I remember a word of that story. In fact, I only have a vague idea of what I was trying to relate. I remember being crammed in very tightly among the Beck fans. I remember accidentally touching a very large man's girlfriend. I remember climbing over a mass to get out. I remember the fellow who's watch told him that Princess Diana had died. I remember those funny little letters that don't spell nothin'. That's about it. > > "just" nothing! he's BREWER FUCKING TOM for fuck's sake! BREWER > FUCKING TOM!! For those of you that haven't met eddie, this is what he's like all the time. > > who you callin' a "peole," you fuckin' hippie? Well, it's a typo... right there with "out" instead of "our". Tom Clark, however, is a peole. And why the fuck do you keep calling me a fuckin' hippie? > > who decreed this, and when?? this won't do AT ALL. do everything in > your power to get him fired, mike. I remember in high school we had to make phoney stock portfolios and track them throughout the year in our Personal Finance class (this was a joke because I don't think more than one or two people in that class will ever own a stock or care about a stock price in their lives). I picked Ecolab stock for a chunk of my portfolio. I didn't even know what they did. I just liked the name. > nearly got us thrown out of the place when you were playing Helicopter > Assault from the ceiling fan. They had to get you down with a spritzer > bottle and a broom.> > why do i believe this? Because it almost always fucking happens. I love Helicopter Assault. Blathering madly, Je. - -- ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 02:44:58 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: A post of negativity This post isn't negative at all. But I loved the subject, so I replied. I have a whole lot of time on my hands this morning. Want a list of my favorite books? I'll give it a shot without really thinking about it. 1. Geek Love - Katherine Dunne. This is my all-time favorite. I've read it several times and the kill-you parts kill me and the slay-you parts still slay me. It's chilling and funny and brilliant and insightful and just enough like real life to make you forget it's ludicrous. 2. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller. Took me a long time to read this, but I loved it. I said "Nathan, I started reading Catch-22 again and it's SO hard... it just bends and twist and agonizingly crawls." And Nathan smiled a huge smile and said "Oh yeah! It's just a big clusterfuck of a book!" He's dead right. 3. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee I don't think this needs one ounce of justification. 4. Of Mice And Men - John Steinbeck Does anyone else think it's funny that Ray Walston played Old Candy in Gary Senise's Of Mice And Men? Mr. Hand played the guy with no hand. 5. The World According To Garp - John Irving I have a certain respect for Garp. There was an honesty in that book that most people don't freely give. Off the all-time-best list, I have my pet writers that I will always read and almost always enjoy. You can count on me snapping up the latest by this author and recommending it to everyone for a few weeks after. These word processors send forth tides of pleasure and thought: William Gibson Tom Robbins Neal Stephenson James Morrow Douglas Coupland Short stories provide most of my favorite reading. Steinbeck and Faulkner and Morrow and Niven and Twain and Asimov. Particular recommendations in no particular order: James Morrow -- Bible Stories For Adults, City of Truth, Only Begotten Daughter, Towing Jehovah. Douglas Coupland -- Girlfriend In A Coma, Life After God, Microserfs, Shampoo Planet. Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash, The Diamond Age; or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer. (I know that's most of his novel output, shut up) Tom Robbins -- Half Asleep In Frog Pajamas, Skinny Legs And All, Another Roadside Attraction, Jitterbug Perfume. William Gibson -- Neuromancer, Burning Chrome, Count Zero. Oh yeah... and while Geek Love, I think, is the greatest novel of all time (including the classics. I used to say Greatest American Novel, but I haven't come up with any reason not to expand that to the world. No, I haven't read everything, but nobody else has either.), the greatest short story is "The Assemblage Of Kristin" in James Morrow's Bible Stories For Adults. I'm pretty sure that if I ever produce recorded output, one band name I will use will be The Kristin Alcott Society. Jeme -- who would really like to reserve The Mandelbrot Set as well for a band name. ________________________________________________________ J A Brelin Capuchin ________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #56 ******************************