Chalkhills Digest Volume 6, Issue 42
Date: Monday, 13 March 2000
Chalkhills Digest, Volume 6, Number 42
Monday, 13 March 2000
Today's Topics:
Some Lovely (My Brown Guitar) NOT on the new album?
Wasp Star in Japan
AAAARRRGGGHHH?
Pay attention, class!
Junky Wasp
A Couple of Ramblings
More Mayan Musings...
Cracking up
Guitar riffs, Steely Dan, AW2 and some...
internet radio station
XTC SPOTTING!!!
Re: Foreshadowed Expression Loss
Orgonemania, paraphrasing & contextual nit-picking
Chalker events in Austin for SXSW
SXSW URL
The Bit About the Earth Cooling
There's Orgone in them thar Hills
SD, TD, TVT, Ltd.
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 13:03:38 -0600 From: "Jim S." <jims@inlink.com> Subject: Some Lovely (My Brown Guitar) NOT on the new album? Message-ID: <38CBEA0A.558FBFF7@inlink.com> Someone mentioned earlier that this song was not going to be on Wasp Star. Can anyone confirm or deny? Is there an official song listing for the album? Does anyone else miss the days when XTC albums had more songs on them, such as O&L or Nonsuch? 10 or 12 songs just leaves me wanting even more... Thanks much, -- Jim S. <jims@inlink.com>
------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 12:58:17 -0600 From: "Jim S." <jims@inlink.com> Subject: Wasp Star in Japan Message-ID: <38CBE8C9.8578E3F@inlink.com> With the new album being released early in Japan, how does one go about ordering a copy? And will there be any nifty extras, either bonus songs or packaging? Thanks for any info... -- Jim S. <jims@inlink.com>
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 09:28:44 -0500 From: erik schlichting <eriks@ci.conover.nc.us> Subject: AAAARRRGGGHHH? Message-ID: <38CCFB1C.822D15E4@ci.conover.nc.us> Nick Howorth wrote: "Please shut up about the f***ing Orgone Accumulator...." I wondered how long it would take for this subject to make someone crack. Now I know. Erik
------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 23:47:20 PST From: "Duncan Kimball" <dunks58@hotmail.com> Subject: Pay attention, class! Message-ID: <20000313074721.91745.qmail@hotmail.com> Oh goody! Now we're onto Pre-columbian history! "Wasp Star", huh? Evidently Andy has been digging around in the Meso-American section at the Swindon Library lately. Thanks Phil <philco@micron.net> for clarifying the "Aztec vs Mayan" point. Well made. Can I resist a comment ... on one of my favourite topics? Not bloody likely. >I'd thought our friends down in Mexico would be writing in >to correct everyone..... but I'll do it for them. That's very white of you :p >The Aztec and Mayan civilizations were not the same thing. True enough >The Aztecs, or Mexica as they called themselves, dominated the area >around >what is presently Mexico City. Yeah, pretty much - although the Mexica were only one of many related groups generically referred to as "Aztecs"; the Mexica happened to be the dominant religious/military elite at the time Cortez appeared, but there were numerous other groups (such as the Tarascans of Michoacan) either allied to or subject to the Mexica, some of whom are thought to have been technologically and culturally rather more advanced than the Mexica. Unfortunately they got wiped out by smallpox so we know bugger all aboubt them. >Their capital city was Tenochtitlan, which was completely leveled by >the >gold-seeking bastard Cortes. The Spanish priests came along later >to make >sure the damage was permanent. Well, sort of. Yes, the sacred precint of the city was more or less levelled after the city fell in 1521. All the buildings above ground level were flattened and the stone used to construct new buildings - bits of the original carvings can be seen on the outside of the cathedral. *But* the platform on the which the Templo Major stood is still there and is being excavated right now, with some fascinating results; lots of stuff below ground survived. Also, many outlying areas survived, including parts of the canal network and the marvellous "chinampas" or floating gardens on which they grew their food. These were so fertile thanks to the volcanic soil and their cunning farming practices that they could get three harvests per year. It is important to get this in perspective though. I'm not defending the Spaniards, and it IS one the most awful chapters in human history, but it's not exactly a black-and-white story of poor, gentle defenceless natives being slaughtered by evil whitey. Some of it was pure bad luck. When Cortes and his forces entered Tenochtitlan in November 1519, they were not crucially resisted at first because - as legend has it - the Mexica ruler Moctezuma II (whose name, incidentally means "he who frowns like a lord") believed Cortes to be the fulfilment of a religious prophecy, which predicted that the mythic figure Queztlcoatl - whose skin was the sacred colour, white, and who was bearded - would return from "across the sea" to bring about the end of the era of the "Fifth Sun" in which they lived. But most importantly, Cortes and the Spaniards had help, and PLENTY of it. He had horses, guns, armour, cannon, sure - but he had only about 700 Spanish troops with him. They facing an army of possibly up to 50,000 Mexica troops; and lets not forget that the population of Tenochtitlan is estimated to have been about 250,000 at the time. It was a tall order and Cortez famously had to burn his own ships to ensure his men would follow him. I'm generalising hugely but the conquest was largely possible thanks to two vital factors: 1. Popularity. Most of the subject tribes hated their Mexica overlords with a passion. The Mexica were, it has to be said, not very nice people. Their basic political line was, like the Nazis, terror on an industrial scale. Their tactics when taking on enemies were pretty much your standard Borg routine - romp in, smash away at the opposition with a relentless assault by huge hordes of ruthless, drug-crazed storm-troopers (think of the Sardaukar in "Dune") and then capture as many men as possible to take home to be sacrificed. On a big day, sacrifices of 20,000 were not uncommon. When taking over new cities, they typically sent in an emissary first to demand tribute and give them the "Resistance is futile" spiel. If a town was silly enough not to believe them, they were given a right pasting and then forced to comply anyway *and* to send a vastly increased tribute (including more sacrifices). If they still resisted they were typically massacred to the last person. Friend or foe, it didn't matter. It's reported that when Moctezuma II's brother withdrew from the court, Moctezuma began a so-called "Flower War" against him, which ended with the brother and 2,800 of his court being massacred. So, not surprisingly, the vassal cities were only too happy to chip in to get rid of the Mexica - hence they threw in some 3000 additional troops when Cortez first marched on Tenochtitlan. By the time it fell in 1521, after stiff resistance by the Mexica, Cortez had a force of some 50,000 local allies. Yet even then he very nearly lost; about half his men were killed and he was almost killed himself. 2. Germs. In the long run, the thing which really did for the Mexica and all their various friends and enemies was smallpox. A huge epidemic broke out not long after Cortz arrived and it more than decimated the local people. The population of Mexico in 1519 was estimate at about 25 million; by 1600 it had fallen to just over 1 million. They might well have resitsted the Spanish invasion - and they tried valiantly - but with nineteen out of every twenty people dying, there was just no-one left to fight them in the end. "Exterminate! Exterminate!" BTW May I recommend: http://www.sfsu.edu/~hsa/ex-post-facto/ebert.html Adaptability and the Shock of the New: The Response of the Mexica to Cortes' Invasion by Christopher Ebert Dunks
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:44:16 +0900 From: "John Boudreau" <aso1@mocha.ocn.ne.jp> Subject: Junky Wasp Message-ID: <001801bf8cf4$e83109e0$6a5791d2@johnboud> "Ralph Simpson DeMarco" <sawpit@hotmail.com> wrote: >After the shooting, Burroughs went right to >the police, where it was determined to be an accident. For those of you who are " innerested " , William Burroughs and his wife had NOT often done the William Tell act as someone on the list reported . The first and last time was on the night of Sept. 6 , 1951 . Also , Burroughs was jailed without bail for 13 days and ended up going to trial where he was charged with " imprudencia criminal " , which had a maximum sentence of 5 years . Bill pleaded guilty and was released on bail after his brother arrived from St. Louis with $ 2000 . The sentence was not to be delivered for one year . Before it was passed , in Dec. 1952 Burroughs' Mexican lawyer Jurado murdered a 17 year old youth who inadvertently damaged his Cadillac . He subsequently skipped the country leaving Bill high and dry . Burroughs was shaken down for more $ by the Mexicans so he followed his lawyer's example and split the same month forfeiting his bail money . And according to everything I have read Bill Burroughs was NOT on drugs the night of the shooting ; he ( and his wife Joan ) and been downing drinks since early in the afternoon . WASP STAR sounds like title of a chapter of one of Bill Burroughs' cut- up novels , and is sounding better and better the more I hear it ! Would anyone have bitched about " Big Express " or " NONSUCH " if the list had been around then ? Come on , WASP STAR has got both of those beat , don't you think ? Sushiman
------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 22:29:20 -0800 (PST) From: Molly Fanton <mfanton99@yahoo.com> Subject: A Couple of Ramblings Message-ID: <20000313062920.19321.qmail@web1302.mail.yahoo.com> Dan wrote: <<who the fuck CARES what the actual title is of the next xtc release?? it's a NEW XTC album, fer crissakes!! that's what matters!!!!!! get over it........jeeez! >> Hey, Dan waid for the flaming e-mails to start. I do agree with what you're saying, but why are you doing this? Some people in hear won't change their attitudes about the album title name, they bitch about it no matter what. I think some people in this group would just like things to be the same all the time. No changes. Just lighten up people. It's only an album title name. Oh and to Nick, lighten up dude. Maybe you should take a chill pill or get out more often. If this whole Organone thingy is getting out of control John will kill the posts. Yes, this is an XTC mailing list, but some people (including myself) sometimes post non-XTC things. That happens in any mailing list I'm in. People sometimes post an off topic subject. Usually it doesn't get bitched at like you're doing. Molly Molly's Pages http://www.angelfire.com/mn/mollyfa99/index.html
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 02:25:47 -0500 From: Steve <grenier@cyberzone.net> Subject: More Mayan Musings... Message-ID: <38DF5E79@MailAndNews.com> >From: RNV <rnv@mac.com> > >Funny you should ask. I'm not Mayan, but I play one on TV. Also, I've >read Tintin's "Prisoners of the Sun" dozens of times. Doesn't Tintin's "Prisoners of the Sun" feature Incas, not Mayans? At least it does in the original French version (Le Temple du Soleil). I'll echo what someone stated earlier: who cares what it's called, it's a new XTC album. :-) steve NP: Transistor Blast, Disc 1
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:50:04 -0600 From: "Todd Bernhardt" <todd.bernhardt@enterworks.com> Subject: Cracking up Message-ID: <38CD1C3C.9A6BCADA@enterworks.com> Organization: Enterworks, Inc. Hi: Because the comely, kind and clever Jill Oleson (courtesy of her consort, Steve) has informed me that today is "Uranus Discovery Day," and because Phil Corless had a very informative post in the last issue, I thought I'd engage in a bit of buttlickery: Phil, the new shirts are AWESOME, dude. Mine's a long-sleeve t-shirt in dark green w/white text, and it looks *schweet.* The best Chalkhills shirt by far. Nice work. --Todd "Pass the Listerine" Bernhardt [Attachment omitted, unknown MIME type or encoding (text/x-vcard)]
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:52:41 +0100 From: Johan Ekdahl <johan.ekdahl@programbyran.se> Subject: Guitar riffs, Steely Dan, AW2 and some... Message-ID: <E1FE4AE1AF2DD111885A00A02479F44214FF3B@sofia.programbyran.se> De-lurk. Simon Deane - on the guitar-riff in "No Language In Our Lungs": >Also, is it me or is this the first overtly >Beatlesque song in the XTC oeuvre, cf. the "descending" guitars towards the >end? You're not alone! I'm with You on this one! This is the perfect rip-off of the late Beatlesque sound. (E g "I want You - She's so heavy"). I haven't checked the archives and other places but I assume it's Dave doing it? (Right Mark-in-the-Lighthouse, knower of many things Gregsy-sch?) Reminds me of the video-clip with him and his 12-string Rickenbacker (spelling?). THAT almost made me cry! -- R S DeMarco said: >Only heard a bit of new Steely Dan. It is pretty damn good. And others have had the same opinion in earlier C'hills. Have to admit that i bought it, listened to it once - and was very disappointed. Oh well - if all You folks think it's that good i'll give it a couple of chances... And he continued: >Can't Buy a Thrill, Countdown to Ecstasy, Pretzel >Logic, Katy Lied. Oh, and I do not like Gaucho at all. Fagen's the Nightfly >is far superior. Kamakiriad does grow on you [...] Aja? (!) -- OK, so Apple Wasp volume II will be released a month or so later than previously announced. I can understand the disappointment, but please note that we are still "back on track". It's about a year since AV1. That's not unusual these days, no? Which artist/group releases two records a year (a la early Beatles)? When things lag _after_ AW2 - THEN WORRY! After AW2 its "new material time". After AW2 they've had a shot on both "orchoustic" and "pop-guitarish", and if the figures aren't black enough... Let's hope for the best though! Not that I worry too much! Really interesting artists always gets their nose above water from time to time. This week I will try to get my hands on the new (not so new anymore?) Kevin Coyne CD. Hearing about KC making music again was a veeery pleasant surprise! Re-lurk. /Johan Ekdahl
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 14:45:49 -0500 From: Mark Newberg <mhnewberg@home.com> Subject: internet radio station Message-ID: <38CD456B.4CC86519@home.com> Organization: @Home Network My favorite radio station here in Pittsburgh, Pa has recently begun broadcasting over the Internet and I thought some of you may be interested in listening to this terrific station.. They play some XTC stuff as well as other bands you don't hear on any other station. Here is a list of their top 10 for 1999 to give you an idea of what they play: 1. Beth Orton - Central Reservation 2. Van Morrison - Back On Top 3. Martin Sexton - The American 4. Kim Richey - Glimmer 5. Richard Thompson - Mock Tudor 6. Moby - Play 7. Meshell Ndegeocello 8. Bruce Cockburn - Breakfast in New Orleans 9. Alison Krause - Forget About Us 10. Various Artist - Return of Grievous Angel AV got a Noteworthy Mention http://www.wyep.org/ I don't work for the station, but I am a member. (It's a public station.) Just thought I would pass on a good listening experience Mark Newberg -- Eighty percent of life is showing up. -Woody Allen
------------------------------ Date: 13 Mar 2000 10:57:00 -0800 From: unna@worldmailer.com Subject: XTC SPOTTING!!! Message-ID: <20000313185700.6073.cpmta@c008.sfo.cp.net> Lucky me was channel surfing last Saturday when I happened across a documentry about Las Vegas on The Learning Channel. Just as I was being drawn into the sleazy filth of the Vegas underworld there was a scene showing neon lights being reflected in a puddle of water on the street. And what do you think was playing as the droplets shook the neon reflection in the puddle? Why, River of Orchids, of course! They played the intro up until the vocals about 3 times during the scene! Happy to tell you, Laura
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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 15:56:46 -0500
From: "blueoverall" <blueoverall@popster.com>
Subject: Re: Foreshadowed Expression Loss
Message-ID: <006201bf8d2e$a8b1cd60$ae065c83@us.net>
> A title like Dog Vomit would be better than Wasp Star... >>
> How about "Monkey Puss?" Or "10,000 Nuns and Orphans...Eaten By
> Rats?" With a name like that, it'd have to be good!
> J. D.
call me a traditionalist . ....
but I like that the following albums are foreshadowed by the previous.
e.g. "orange and lemon raincoats . ." in skylarking's ballet for a rainy
day.
then "while some nonsuch net holds me aloft " in chalkhills and
children . .. on Oranges and Lemons
now on to more important things . . .
can someone explain to me, please . . . how is it that I can own three
copies of big express . . 3 cases and one disc???
and black sea . . two cases . .NO discs!!!!
is there some sort of CD stealing XTC fairy that Andy congers??? . . to get
me to buy more copies????
thank god they don't steal vinyl or flexies!!! ;-)
Diane
(yes this is my first post)
p.s. I have a friend who assumed I was into the Partridge Family . . .
'cause I am always rattling on about some guy named Andy Partridge!!!! I
laughed SO HARD!!!
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 12:30:37 -0800 From: Ed Kedzierski <ed.kedzierski@blvdmedia.com> Subject: Orgonemania, paraphrasing & contextual nit-picking Message-ID: <08B5DDC2BABCD311BFC6005004A884B013B543@mgcservices.com> In 6-40, Ralph Simpson DeMarco pulled something I said completely out of context, branding me with a point of view I don't particularly hold. "Way back on March 7th Ed Kedzierski wrote: >>Taking Burroughs' endorsement of orgone as a strike against it on account >>of his being a wife-killing junky seems besides the point; you don't read >>Burroughs to look for role models.>> OK, I know this may be besides the point but "wife-killing junky"? I suggest you read... etc. etc." Within the context of the thread that was already going, when I referred to Burroughs as a "wife-killing junky", I was just condensing into three words what had already more or less been said. Someone mentioned Burroughs' endorsement of orgone, which was then (I believe by Duncan "I still feel too new here to call him 'Dunks'" Kimball, correct me if I'm wrong) criticized on the basis of his reliability, including mention of his drug problems and the death of his wife (I don't feel like fishing through the digests for exact quotes here). I just summed this up as "wife killing junky", assuming that everyone knows the stories, had read the previous posts, and would understand that we were mainly just talking about popular (mis)perceptions here. Maybe I should have qualified this a bit more, but it wasn't really the main point of what I was saying, and besides I thought maybe I should ease up on my habit of adding qualifiers and apologies to everything I say. Perhaps I was wrong. "Sorry". Also note that I didn't say "wife-murdering"; even though accidental (which I have no reason not to believe), he still technically killed her. I'd hate to have to live with something like that myself, but I'm sure there are many things he went through that I can't say I'd be able to handle. Needless to say, I have no intention of making parlour tricks with loaded firearms a regular part of my home entertainment. I have nothing but respect for Burroughs' work, and a great deal of affection for the public persona that may or may not be a fair reflection of the real man (the hat, glasses, gaunt frame, haunted eyes and gravelly monotone has become something of a modern icon of cool, no matter how much of a cartoon it has become, am I going to get shit for saying that? It's only going to get worse, you know; you'll think Peter Weller's a friggin' god when the TV-movie bio starring Mark Harmon as Burroughs comes out...Perhaps there'll even eventually BE a cartoon character based on the Burroughs public persona caricature. Maybe an anthropomorphic dog, like a thin McGruff...) Well, maybe I shouldn't have been so careless about propagating cliches and all that, but I thought we were all on the same page, so whatever. Ed K. XTC content: Looks like everyone's pretty much accepted the name Wasp Star as a fait accompli (I know I have). Saying it out loud with those S's separated by a P is a bit problematical though; when reccomending the album to others, you might want to curb your enthusiasm just a tad, as spitting on people might put them off ;-)
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:04:22 -0600 From: Jill Oleson <Jill_Oleson@kurion.com> Subject: Chalker events in Austin for SXSW Message-ID: <81CC73FC2FACD311A2D200508B8B88AA0D6E1D@KURION_EXCH> Maybe it's not too late (depending on when this digest is delivered and where you live) to see a few of your fellow Chalkers at the SXSW festival in Austin this week: Jason Garcia (from Austin) band: Household Names Thursday March 16, 8pm Gatsby's 409 E. 6th James Driscoll (from Dallas) band: Chomsky (...... yes as in Noam) Saturday, March 18, 5pm Babe's on 6th Street (not part of the festival itself, but playing as part of a North Texas Music Showcase) David Schnieder (from Los Angeles) film: "Hate* *a comedy" (won 2nd place at the Aspen Comedy Festival last month) Saturday, March 18, 10pm Alamo Drafthouse & Cinema, 409 Colorado Maybe we'll see YOU at one of these Austintatious events? I'll be at the free Patti Smith show at Waterloo Park, fer sure, fer sure! Oh, oh! And the Meat Puppets too! Jill Oleson Austin, Texas
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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:14:08 -0600
From: Jill Oleson <Jill_Oleson@kurion.com>
Subject: SXSW URL
Message-ID: <81CC73FC2FACD311A2D200508B8B88AA0D6E1E@KURION_EXCH>
I should have included the link to the South by Southwest
Conference and Festival in the note I sent just a minute ago.
Here it is:
http://www.sxsw.com/2k/splash.html
This event is held *every* year in March. Perhaps YOU should
plan on attending sometime. Hundreds of music, film, and
interactive media events to attend over a three-week period.
It's a blast!
Note: You can buy a pass to attend *everything* or just pay to
attend a select few.
Jill Oleson
Austin, Texas
P.S. When I spellcheck anything that has XTC in it, Microsoft
suggests that I replace XTC with TX. That's the post office's
abbreviation for Texas! Well, boy-howdy! Ain't that special?
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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 18:20:21 EST
From: Hbsherwood@aol.com
Subject: The Bit About the Earth Cooling
Message-ID: <ae.262d594.25fed1b5@aol.com>
> From: "Mark Strijbos" <mmello@knoware.nl>
> Subject: O No Not Again
> BTW: in Dutch "wasp" is "wesp" but little children usually can't say
> that word properly and switch the 's' and 'p' ie. "weps"... does the
> same thing occur with English speaking youngsters?
This was rather famously true of Winston Churchill, if you consider him an
English speaker, which I don't.
Of course, this raises the possibility that the only difference between WASPs
and Wops is a speech impediment, a notion that I for one will be happy to
entertain until convinced otherwise.
("Dear-a Chalk-a-heels, I am molto offendato by-a thees-a eensult-a to my
nationality, regards-a, Carlo Buccarini, and-a Pee-Ess-a, so ees-a my
friend-a, Satanas-a Diabloroni, who weel-a be along-a in a few minutes to
harangue you for several weeks until you're ready to strangle each other.")
> Just try to say that tongue-twisting title out loud a couple of times
I tend to agree with this, and will bet dollars to lire that Waps Star is not
the final name of the album. Anybody up for a little action?
> From: "Simon Deane/Gina Chong" <ginsim@netvigator.com>
> Subject: Stop Press: new AV2 name
> "No Language In Our Lungs" - this probably is the best song on the album
By several heads and a shoulder or two.
> "No Language In Our Lungs" - [is] basically
> saying that we can't properly express our true feelings (and there's also
> that wittyish bit about the instrumental), but this ain't exactly anything
> we don't all know already.
Well, Si and I date back quite a long way on this one, so some of this might
be old hat, but I have to point out that Simon's dry restatement of the theme
of the song gives desperately short shrift to the passion with which it's
presented in the recording. Patently, the intensity of the "I Want You"
guitars and the vehement singing would indicate that "we can't properly
express our true feelings" is a topic of rather vital importance to
Partridge. In fact, implicit in the song is a theme that might fairly be
stated, "We can't properly express our true feelings, *so we use art as a
poor substitute*," which makes things altogether more interesting. (I posted
rather extensively on this in
http://chalkhills.org/digests/show.cgi?digest=Digest.4-114.gz, which
marked the beginning of the Deane/Sherwood _Entente Cordiale_.)
> Also, is it me or is this the first overtly
> Beatlesque song in the XTC oeuvre, cf. the "descending" guitars towards the
> end?
It's not just you. No question, that was the first declaration of things to
come--and what an announcement, eh?.
I'm very amused by Andy attempting to distance himself from "the Beatle
thing" during the buildup to the release of the new record. I understand the
motivation--the Fabs look just a little musty on a List of Influences these
days. It seems just a *teensy* bit late in the day to try to separate oneself
from the perception that the Mersey runs through one's veins--particularly
when one has such skeletons in the closet as Skylarking, Oranges and Lemons,
and huge swatches of Nonsuch and Apple Venus.
> From: "John Boudreau" <aso1@mocha.ocn.ne.jp>
> Subject: The Current State of " Rock "
> Back in the 60's and early 70's they had a genre of music over
> here called " group sounds " . The record companies manufactured goofy
> groups who sung current pop hits in the US in Japanese . The fans of course
> assumed the tunes were original .
John, you wouldn't happen to have any examples of these, or maybe provide a
link to someplace that sells them? No offense to our Japanese friends, I'm
not trying to be culturally insensitive or anything, but this sounds utterly
hilarious. I'm trying to imagine "Whole Lotta Love" done Shatner-style by
Toshiro Mifune, or perhaps "Yummy Yummy Yummy" as imagined by some 1971
groovy hepcat producer from Osaka and performed by a girl-group who also did
backgound vox for Hello Kitty cartoons.
Wes's Terry Tale:
> Terry was observed talking with Brian Eno. Terry was asked the
> next day what they were talking about. "I asked him if he had a
> bottle-opener", Terry says, "and I get a lecture on the history of the
> fuckin' world. After about three quarters of an hour, I had to ask him to
> speed things up a bit because we still hadn't got to the bit about the
Earth
> cooling.
OK. Screw it. I'm done trying to be funny. I can't compete with this.
Harrison "Off to wee-wee in the chips" Sherwood
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 16:47:27 -0800 From: "Hiatt, Randy" <Randy.Hiatt@fsbti.com> Subject: There's Orgone in them thar Hills Message-ID: <F34536084B78D311AF53009027B0D7EA144A18@fsbex01-2.web.boeing.com> Dunks, in his masterful (and final) prosecution of Orgone Energy rests his case on the fact that because there is an associated income related to Orgone and the teaching/training of such devices/thought that it must be suspect. Might you be a Quaker? I saw an experiment (UCLA) that used Orgone energy to create a Kirlian photograph (high voltage photography) over the time span of hours/days rather than the usual seconds. Control experiments showed no image. **** I agree that "come off" is spelled incorrectly. **** Sushiman stated: "To all those who have inquired about new release date in Japan , it isApril 19th ." I recall the Vol1 release was also earlier in Japan, but did that ever come to be? I can't recall. **** Aaron Pastula awoke me to the Kevin Gilberts cover of the Lamb in it's entirety!... Progfest 94.... this is a bootleg (so I may have discovered) but I want it... anyone know how to get it? **** Randy (Mayan Warts) Hiatt http://members.tripod.com/RandyHiatt/ *
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 18:16:12 -0800 From: "Mike Martis" <mmartis@softcom.net> Subject: SD, TD, TVT, Ltd. Message-ID: <00a601bf8d5b$45db3f00$ec43fea9@mmartis> Hi Chalks, Some musings... Ralph wrote: >Only heard a bit of new Steely Dan. It is pretty damn good. Although, it >must be noted that the first four Dan albums are still by far, the best >albums in their catalogue. Can't Buy a Thrill, Countdown to Ecstasy, Pretzel >Logic, Katy Lied. Oh, and I do not like Gaucho at all... Ralph - I agree with your thoughts on the new record, but surely you accidentally omitted Aja from your list of Steely Dan greats. To my ears, it's Fagen and Becker's best. And let me dust off the category of all-time great album sides and further opine that Aja's LP side featuring Black Cow, Aja and Deacon Blues ranks high on my Top 10 list. Spinning off on the subject of tributes, I still say a Steely Dan cover of The World Is Full Of Angry Young Men would have been a priceless addition to Testimonial Dinner. The song just *sounds* like Steely Dan. Finally, I wasn't aware of any XTC/TVT feud. What, short of a random Andyrant, caused such a thing? Respectably, Mike
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