From: owner-bomp-digest@xnet2.com (bomp-digest) To: bomp-digest@xnet2.com Subject: bomp-digest V2002 #35 Reply-To: bomp Sender: owner-bomp-digest@xnet2.com Errors-To: owner-bomp-digest@xnet2.com Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send e-mail to majordomo@xnet2.com with "unsubscribe bomp-digest" in the body X-Bomp-web-site: http://www.bomp.com X-BompList-Administrator: efd@xnet2.com bomp-digest Tuesday, January 15 2002 Volume 2002 : Number 035 This is the digest version of the Bomp list. ***HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE:*** Send an e-mail with the words "unsubscribe bomp-digest" to majordomo@xnet2.com or go to . Here's what people are yacking about in this digest: Re: coen bros "Lenny Smith" Re: Recent funny films "Lenny Smith" re: anderson & coen bros pekka.laine@yle.fi Re: Where Birdmen didn't really fly zone65 Hey London! "Kate Hodges" GRITS N GRAVY & PURPLE PUSSYCAT THIS WEEKEND "rob@newuntouchables.com" Dirty Water Club - London Boldface Grits n Gravy & Purple Pussycat This weekend "rob@newuntouchables.com" Re: Toilet Boys "Andrew Stewart" Pirates CD Boldface The Toilet Boys... Boldface I wish! Was Detroit Cobras at Court Tavern Jahna Demand Re: Long Ryders "Crawdaddy Simon" Re: Hardskin Shake6677@aol.com Re: Long Ryders David Re: blue things Shake6677@aol.com Re: Blue Things/Preflyte Byrds David Coyle Re: coen bros Shake6677@aol.com Re: Pirates Japan Jeff Kopp The Warriors Rat Pfink Translated liner notes from Japanese???? "Lindholm, Jeffrey" RE: Translated liner notes from Korean???? "Lindholm, Jeffrey" Re: Mike Spenser "Jeroen Vedder" Re: The Warriors "Lenny Smith" Re: The Warriors Iam Fuzzco online retailers in the UK? "Lan Tu" Re: The Warriors "mykel" died pretty "mykel" Re: The Warriors "Lenny Smith" Re: The Warriors Rat Pfink Re: The Warriors "Lenny Smith" Re: The Warriors "mykel" RE: The Warriors "McGowan, Rob (SD-EX)" RE: The Warriors/Oh Brother "James" Fw: MOORE, ROCKER SHOWS FOR MIDWEST! "mykel" Attention San Fran Bay Area Bompers: Live show TheReedGuy@aol.com Re: I wish! Was Detroit Cobras at Court Tavern Rob Farrell ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 05:06:02 -0500 From: "Lenny Smith" Subject: Re: coen bros "bryan" wrote: > > i'm one of the very > > few people i've ever talked to who actually dug the hudsucker proxy as well. > > I dug it too. The only movie of there's I haven't taken to that much was The > Man Who Wasn't There, but I need to see it again. I didn't realize that there was much in the way of negative responses to The Hudsucker Proxy; I thought it was a hell of a lot of fun too. Haven't caught TMWWT yet, but I'm looking forward to it. "O Brother" was good fun, too, but the BEST adaptation of Homer's Odyssey is still Walter Hill's "The Warriors." Lenny ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 05:09:16 -0500 From: "Lenny Smith" Subject: Re: Recent funny films "samantha wilson" wrote: > Also, "Series 7" - has anyone seen this satire of > reality TV shows? Jesus, talk about BLACK humour. I > don't generally watch reality TV (preferring > unreality, myself) but this film duplicates the dodgy > production values, the ridiculously serious > contestants, the shamelessness and general lack of any > redeeming features that are so central to this TV > genre... except the contestants all kill each other as > an added bonus! I must admit, I was one of the few > people in the cinema who was laughing That's a pretty funny experience in itself, isn't it? My friends and I were the only ones howling with laughter at "Trainspotting" and "Happiness," too, hehe... Everybody else was pretty appalled... ; ) Lenny ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:33:51 +0200 From: pekka.laine@yle.fi Subject: re: anderson & coen bros Joe Emery @xnet2.com on 14.01.2002 17:04:28 Please respond to bomp@xnet2.com Sent by: owner-bomp@xnet2.com To: cc: Subject: re: anderson & coen bros i'm with Andrew. i think these guys are hysterical. i thought bottle rocket was awesome (to whoever asked, it's love's "alone again or" that they use in that movie). i thought wes anderson was terrific as an idiot living in a fool's paradise and refusing to believe he wasn't a genius despite all the signs around him. w/ some of the idiots i work with that really struck a chord w/ me. :) some friends of mine saw rushmore in the theater -- i think a lot of people thought it was gonna be some high school teenage flick like american pie before seeing it. they said they were falling outta their chairs laughing... but were the only people in the theater laughing at all. i've actually started to like rushmore more and more w/ each viewing. i don't think the film's pretentious at all -- rather, i found it to be a coming of age parody about a hopelessly pretentious kid. for what it's worth. i also really dug royal tenenbaums. highly dysfunctional bizarro family hijinks. re: coen bros i prefer their earlier movies but still think they're great. miller's crossing is as perfect as a movie can be (and if you dug miller's crossing, check out the old alan ladd/veronica lake flick the glass key -- dashiell hammett novel miller's crossing was losely based on). i'm one of the very few people i've ever talked to who actually dug the hudsucker proxy as well. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I like it too. A lot actually. I'm really glad I saw it in a good theater too. I love the visuals. the alienated vibe doesn't bother me at all . I think's Newman's performance is hilarious Pekka ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 21:59:17 +1100 From: zone65 Subject: Re: Where Birdmen didn't really fly > Joe, > > I' ve just ordered the four volumes (I think that it's an only vinyl release) > for the equivalent of $10 each. Quite cheap considering that they are imported > from Oz.... > > Michele My understanding is they were made in Germany or Holland - the contents are booted from Aussie boots like Ugly Things, Pretty Ugly and Devil's Children, etc. No honor amongst thieves, I guess you could say. - -p markmann ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 11:08:19 -0000 From: "Kate Hodges" Subject: Hey London! HOTWIRE MY HEART You may like to know that London rock n roll revolutionaries, THE HOTWIRES are playing on Wednesday 16th January at 'the rock and roll club' at the metro bar 19-23 Oxford Street - 8.30pm - till 2am (bands on first then DJs till late). It's £5 on the door or £3 if you download a flyer from the band's website www.thehotwires.com. The Hotwires wire together raw garage riffs, strangulated lonely planet poetry and a heavy soul rhythm section to devastating effect and it's your only real reason to leave yer house this month. You know it makes sense... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 13:21:08 -0000 From: "rob@newuntouchables.com" Subject: GRITS N GRAVY & PURPLE PUSSYCAT THIS WEEKEND Hi Folks, A quick mention for two happenings this forthcoming weekend. FRIDAY 18 JAN The Grits N Gravy sessions resume with Resident DJ's Dr Robert and the Rev Nick Hudson + Special Guest Rachelle Piper spin the very best in Dancefloor Jazz, Club Soul, R'n'B, Boogaloo and Ska from 9-2am At the Pleasure Unit, 359 Bethnal Grn Rd, London, E2 (5 min walk from Beth Grn Tube) Adm £5 / No admission after midnight. SAT 19 JAN The Purple Pussycat R'n'B Club, Cask & Glass Cellar club, Orchard St, London. W1(tube Marble Arch) Resident DJ Dr Robert joined by Graeme Very (Brighton) & Carlo Sesto (Pisa, Italia) for some rip roaring R'n'B, Club Soul, Psychedelia, Garage, Freakbeat and Hip Hammond Grooves. plus Live performance from Pop Art Modsters THE IMPACT!!!!!! Doors 9.30-2.30am/ Adm £5 Cheers rob ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 13:40:05 +0000 From: Boldface Subject: Dirty Water Club - London Here are the first dates at the club for 2002: FRIDAY 25th JANUARY - Yet another great band from the land of the rising sun! Link Wray licks and garage-punk whomp from Tokyo boys THE MAD 3. They're supporting one of my fave bands on the scene right now, a group with several singles and an album on the Poptones label, BEACHBUGGY. FRIDAY 8th FEBRUARY - It's the fifth anniversary of the Dirty Water Club and this year's first appearance of someone who's been with us all of the way, Mr Billy Childish, previously with his Headcoats and now with THE BUFF MEDWAYS. Support will probably be from THE DISCORDS who, of course, are also "second to no-one". (And don't forget to ask your local record store for Thee Headcoats' "Live At The Dirty Water Club" albumout now on Damaged Goods.) FRIDAY 22nd FEBRUARY - Another Medway group that's been with us for some years now, THE SOLAR FLARES. Graham Day and Allan Crockford played a date down in the Medway Towns with the original line-up of The Prisoners over the holiday period. And judging by the brilliance of that performance they're gonna be on top form tonight. And with the addition of Parsley on organ we can expect them to be a more than adequate replacement for those legendary Prisoners. Support to be confirmed. The Dirty Water Club is at The Boston, Junction Road, London N19 More info at http://www.dirtywaterclub.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 13:33:27 -0000 From: "rob@newuntouchables.com" Subject: Grits n Gravy & Purple Pussycat This weekend Hi Folks, A quick mention for two happenings this forthcoming weekend. FRIDAY 18 JAN The Grits N Gravy sessions resume with Resident DJ's Dr Robert and the Rev Nick Hudson + Special Guest Rachelle Piper spin the very best in Dancefloor Jazz, Club Soul, R'n'B, Boogaloo and Ska from 9-2am At the Pleasure Unit, 359 Bethnal Grn Rd, London, E2 (5 min walk from Beth Grn Tube) Adm £5 / No admission after midnight. SAT 19 JAN The Purple Pussycat R'n'B Club, Cask & Glass Cellar club, Orchard St, London. W1(tube Marble Arch) Resident DJ Dr Robert joined by Graeme Very (Brighton) & Carlo Sesto (Pisa, Italia) for some rip roaring R'n'B, Club Soul, Psychedelia, Garage, Freakbeat and Hip Hammond Grooves. plus Live performance from Pop Art Modsters THE IMPACT!!!!!! Doors 9.30-2.30am/ Adm £5 Cheers rob ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 08:58:09 -0500 From: "Andrew Stewart" Subject: Re: Toilet Boys I saw them in Ottawa a couple of years ago and it was a pretty fun show. If anyone is considering booking these guys (? not sure about the singer hehe) make sure you have a high ceiling and good ventilation. The firetrucks were arriving as we were leaving. Andrew ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 14:05:19 +0000 From: Boldface Subject: Pirates CD >I'm listening to a CD by The Pirates that I just received from Trippin' > Elephant Records out of Japan. It was recorded live in Japan in Nov. >of 2000 and is a pretty hot CD. Has anyone else heard this? It's got >the original lineup of Mick Green, Johnny Spence and Frank Farley. Yeah, Wilko Johnson gave us a copy of it (along with one of his own band on the same label) last year some time. The Pirates seem to be one of those bands that always seem to sound great on live recordings. Out Of Their Skulls has got to be one of the top ten live albums ever. Hey, Colin B, how do you think the Wilko Johnson CD compares to the live at the DWC (unreleased) CD. - PJ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 14:06:45 +0000 From: Boldface Subject: The Toilet Boys... Steve Coleman said: >Hmm, perhaps they might appeal to a certain Jewish American now living in >London Town. The band, that is. I think you need to elucidate. Beats76@aol.com said: >.Definitely go see 'em! Where are they playing? They opened up for Cheetah >Chrome last summer here in Boston and they were the most "entertaining" band >fire...literally... Lynn They're playing the Garage at Highbury Corner, London N7 on January 26th. I was informed about this actually by a friend who's into "metal" stuff and he reckoned I'd like them... Thanks, Jason, as well. Last night I asked a friend if he knew them and he tells me his new girlfriend works at the venue and I'm on the guest list. Excellent! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 11:11:46 -0500 From: Jahna Demand Subject: I wish! Was Detroit Cobras at Court Tavern John! I wish we were playing with the Detroit Cobras - that would be an awesome bill! I think Iam Fuzzco posted the show... it was another Warsaw happening out in Bklyn - with the Fleshtones. I don't recall the date, but I'm sure Jon Weiss will chime in with the info if requested, yes? That night will definitely super rock - although we're not on the bill. We *should* try to set something up at the Court, though - that's a fun place! Our upcoming shows are as follows: 1.18.02 Continental NYC w/reno's men, bullies, turbo ac's & waldos - we're up first at 9:15 1.26.02 Abbey Lounge Somerville MA w/downbeat 5 & the konks - we're up first at 9:45 Thanks! Jahna on 01/15/2002 5:00 AM, john trembly wrote: > Hi, > Someone, I think it was Jahna of the Demands, posted her band's upcoming tour > dates and one listed them as playing the Court Tavern soon with the Detroit > Cobras as co-headliners. I asked Dennis of the Blisters about this today (he > books the shows there) and he knew nothing about it. Can whoever it was that > posted this tell me more? Dennis is interested in booking the Cobras. > > John > > www.izzymusic.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:11:51 -0500 From: "Crawdaddy Simon" Subject: Re: Long Ryders David wrote: > I have never heard anything by the Long Ryders, but > I'd imagine I'd be a belated fan Hey David, I usually read all your posts and I think you could really get into the Long Ryders! The "Anthology" double-CD came out on Chronicles/PolyGram in 1998 , with 40 songs and liner notes by David Fricke. No overkill there, as you're actually hit by the remarkable quality and constancy of their body of work. Highlights include "Born To Believe In You", "I'll Get Out Somehow", "Capturing The Flag", "Basic Black", "17 Ways", "Gunslinger Man", the NRBQ/Groovies number "I Want You Bad", "The Light Gets In The Way", etc. Probably my fave 1980s band along with Green On Red and Died Pretty! Crawdaddy Simon N.P.: Gary Stewart - "Single Again" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:52:37 EST From: Shake6677@aol.com Subject: Re: Hardskin jerk@club-internet.fr writes: << I remember reading something about the death of a drummer in Maximum RNR, but wasn't that a joke (Spinal Tap style) or something? >> no, the guy from lush killed himself and he definitely played in the band. lee/dead flowers - --- http://fade.to/DeadFlowers http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/rosesonyergrave ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:28:35 -0600 From: David Subject: Re: Long Ryders on 1/15/02 11:11 AM, Crawdaddy Simon at crawdaddy.simon@sympatico.ca wrote: > Hey David, I usually read all your posts and I think you could really get > into the Long Ryders! > Probably my fave 1980s band along with Green On Red and Died Pretty! Is there more than one David posting? I have Native Sons and have actually been playing it a lot lately. My brother had Two-fisted Tales which he preferred and I didn't like as much. Haven't heard it in at least ten years though. didn't Sid Griffin move to Scandinavia where he is revered as a demi-god, or something like that? Now Died Pretty, there's a band! That four song Ambergris record was excellent, and the Free Dirt album topped it. Then they just sort of seemed to repeat themselves. Or am I wrong? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 13:28:56 EST From: Shake6677@aol.com Subject: Re: blue things Euphorik6@aol.com writes: << there's a lot of jangle on there, most certainly, but also some early psychy stuff, too. great harmonies, lots of energy, very cool CD, kind of a cross between the first 2 byrds' LPs, "a hard day's night" and some of the weirder moments on revolver, from what i recall. >> this is a pretty on-target descrip. the collection -- on rewind -- is excellent. lee/dead flowers - --- http://fade.to/DeadFlowers http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/rosesonyergrave ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 10:52:40 -0800 (PST) From: David Coyle Subject: Re: Blue Things/Preflyte Byrds I kinda dig the Blue Things CD, especially considering it sounds a lot better than the Collectables things that had been out for years. The stuff reminds me of the kind of album the Byrds would have made if they had decided to go back to their roots after "Notorious Byrd Brothers," without going the "Sweethearts Of The Rodeo" route. Or something the Beau Brummels would have done had they finished their third Autumn album, and Autumn hadn't sold out to Warner Brothers. After 1966, they began to get a bit more psychedelic to varying degrees of success, although their last single, a version of "Somebody Help Me" backed with a New Vaudeville Band-style number "Yes My Friend" (complete with megaphoned vocals) paled in comparison to the original stuff. I'd recommend getting the Collectables comps only if you truly dig what you hear on the Rewind CD and want to delve deeper into the vaults and the folkier roots of their sound. I like the new Byrds "Preflyte Sessions" disc. It's a very attractive, well-packaged and annotated set, although it's a bit of a completist's specialty. You could settle for the recent single-disc import of the original "Preflyte" album, or you could track down Rhino's "In The Beginning" CD if you're merely curious about the earliest Byrds sessions. But if you're a big Byrds fan, and you don't mind up to three or four fairly similar versions of the some of the same 18 or so tunes, you can't go wrong. Plus, the accompanying booklet gives a fascinating glimpse into the story behind those early recordings and the burgeoning California folk-rock sound. I have to throw my hat into the ring behind the previously unreleased David Crosby version of "Get Together," which is probably now my favorite take on that song. It's quite a bit more upbeat than the best-known Youngbloods version, with a Latin feel that reminds one of a Trini Lopez record. And Roger McGuinn's 12-string solo on one of the unreleased versions of "You Movin'" is wild, even compared to the amazing solo he would pull off a few years later in "Eight Miles High." All in all, it's a great way for Sundazed to start out a year that holds the promise of a lot of great reissues on the label. Dave __________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 13:53:56 EST From: Shake6677@aol.com Subject: Re: coen bros vze3c488@verizon.net writes: << but the BEST adaptation of Homer's Odyssey is still Walter Hill's "The Warriors." >> lenny, as usual, you nail it! this is one of my fave films of all-time... lee/dead flowers - --- http://fade.to/DeadFlowers http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/rosesonyergrave ------------------------------ Date: 15 Jan 2002 12:58:26 +0000 From: Jeff Kopp Subject: Re: Pirates Japan On Tuesday, January 15, 2002, "mohair" wrote: > >Trippin' Elephant also did a Wilko Johnson Band (in fact I >think it was recorded the same night) release as well that is >the same as the Pirates but with a red cover! I guess you have >to see it but Kopper will know what I mean. >Also very good. While I can easily get into The Pirates CD I just didn't care for the Wilko Johnson one that much. >My only gripe w the CDs would be that they don't sound intimate >enuff. Good point. Does sound pretty distant. Must not have been a board mix. >Still Pirates and Wilko nuts will want them both. No doubt in my mind. >Mine came with stickers. What about yours Jeff? No stickers, but mine came on Sunday! Thought that was pretty weird... >Anyone heard the KWACKER EP Mick did w TMGE? Pretty rockin' >and MGE almost keep up w Mick. Didn't get that one (is that also on Trippin' Elephant?), but I did get a stack of TMGE releases, too, a couple dating back to '96. Amazing stuff. That and a GREAT CD by a band called Jighead (Jig "Mojo" Head), also on Trippin' Elephant. kopper The Wayback Machine http://www.garagepunk.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 14:07:53 -0500 From: Rat Pfink Subject: The Warriors He didn't quite nail it. "The Warriors" is definitely a cult classic, but it ain't based on Homer's Odyssey. The film is an adaptation of Sol Yurick's novel which was based on Xenophon's "Anabasis"... At 01:53 PM 01/15/2002 EST, you wrote: > >vze3c488@verizon.net writes: > ><< but the BEST adaptation of Homer's Odyssey is >still Walter Hill's "The Warriors." >> > >lenny, as usual, you nail it! > >this is one of my fave films of all-time... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 14:15:14 -0500 From: "Lindholm, Jeffrey" Subject: Translated liner notes from Japanese???? Hey, I've got two CD reissues of the Icelandic band Trubrot, which features previous members of Thor's Hammer. They're on the Japanese Si-Wan label. Anyhow, does anyone know if there's a translation of the liner notes on the web, or would some kind soul who reads Japanese be kind enough to translate the notes for me if I send a copy of them? Would appreciate it. I've been very interested in Iceland since trip there last fall. Thanks. Jeffery Lindholm jrl6b@hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu University of Virginia Health System Marketing and Communications ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 14:20:25 -0500 From: "Lindholm, Jeffrey" Subject: RE: Translated liner notes from Korean???? Sorry for my foolish Americanism. The liner notes are in Korean! Jeffery Lindholm jrl6b@hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu University of Virginia Health System Marketing and Communications > -----Original Message----- > From: Lindholm, Jeffrey > Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 2:15 PM > To: 'bomp@xnet2.com' > Subject: Translated liner notes from Japanese???? > > > Hey, I've got two CD reissues of the Icelandic band Trubrot, which > features previous members of Thor's Hammer. They're on the Japanese > Si-Wan label. Anyhow, does anyone know if there's a translation of the > liner notes on the web, or would some kind soul who reads Japanese be > kind enough to translate the notes for me if I send a copy of them? > Would appreciate it. I've been very interested in Iceland since trip > there last fall. Thanks. > > Jeffery Lindholm > jrl6b@hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu > University of Virginia Health System > Marketing and Communications > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 22:03:44 +0100 From: "Jeroen Vedder" Subject: Re: Mike Spenser On 14 Jan 2002 22:58 wrote: > From: Steve Coleman <<.... his arrival in the UK in the seventies, hooking-up with the Count Bishops (calm yourselves Jeroen and Colin!)...>> > *** I think we'll be OK, we've taken a second tablet. > Jereon? Jereon? Second tablet?, I swallowed the entire bottle and then spend an hour quietly gazin' at my Portuguese Bishops 45s tryin' to gather my wits. But yeah, I think I'll be OK. I *am* wondering tho' why Mr Coleman never mentioned this before?. Oh well, if he doesn't feel like sharing that kinda info with us, I guess there's no reason why I should tell him that there's somebody on this list why *might* have a video of an early 80s Fleshtones appearance from Belgium TV.... Besides, you wouldn't be really interested now would you Steve?. Cheers, Jeroen ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 17:28:36 -0500 From: "Lenny Smith" Subject: Re: The Warriors "Rat Pfink" wrote: > He didn't quite nail it. "The Warriors" is definitely a > cult classic, but it ain't based on Homer's Odyssey. The film > is an adaptation of Sol Yurick's novel which was based on > Xenophon's "Anabasis"... I haven't read the Yurick novel nor any Xenophon, but I can tell you that the movie parallels the plot of The Odyssey pretty much to the letter. From the Oracle--the babe on the radio whose mouth is all you see--to the Lizzies, who threaten to bewitch 'em, to a Scylla and Charibdis situation where they gotta choose one of two perils, to say nothing of the overall struggle to return to their home turf, if you look, there's a parallel to pretty much each and every episode in the Odyssey, and IIRC, they come up in the same order, too. It's been too long since I've seen it to lay it all out, but I suspect Hill combined Yurick's novel with Homer's structure, because the more you look for parallels to The Odyssey, the more you find. It follows Homer FAR more closely than the Coens did, for example. Lenny ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 14:36:35 -0800 (PST) From: Iam Fuzzco Subject: Re: The Warriors - --- Lenny Smith wrote: > > "Rat Pfink" wrote: > > He didn't quite nail it. "The Warriors" is > definitely a > > cult classic, but it ain't based on Homer's > Odyssey. The film > > is an adaptation of Sol Yurick's novel which was > based on > > Xenophon's "Anabasis"... > > I haven't read the Yurick novel nor any Xenophon, > but I can tell you that > the movie parallels the plot of The Odyssey pretty > much to the letter. Yeah, see, "Anabasis" is also an ancient greek myth/story, following a similar plot. "Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land and property in Scillus, where he lived for many years before having to move once more, to settle in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C. The Anabasis is his story of the march to Persia to aid Cyrus, who enlisted Greek help to try and take the throne from Artaxerxes, and the ensuing return of the Greeks, in which Xenophon played a leading role. This occurred between 401 B.C. and March 399 B.C." For more info: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/xenophon-anabasis.html And BTW: Who in The Warriors is the Cyclops??? __________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 17:44:11 -0500 From: "Lan Tu" Subject: online retailers in the UK? Can anyone point me towards decent online retail sites in the UK? Whatever happened to CD Paradise anyway? lan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:52:17 -0600 From: "mykel" Subject: Re: The Warriors > > I haven't read the Yurick novel nor any Xenophon, but I can tell you that > the movie parallels the plot of The Odyssey pretty much to the letter. ummm, no cyclops in the warriors....or would that be the guy heading the gang deb van v was with?? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:54:12 -0600 From: "mykel" Subject: died pretty > Now Died Pretty, there's a band! That four song Ambergris record was > excellent, and the Free Dirt album topped it. Then they just sort of seemed > to repeat themselves. Or am I wrong? > i wouldn't say that you're wrong, just that i don't agree....in fact, one of my stumbling blocks has been that they seemed too eager to go in other directions, rather then just repeat the last album (which, being a lazy fucker, i'd have preferred). course, they've always managed to win me over but the newest one (everydaydream) sounds like way too much work...synthetic dance music?? yeesh, but i fear it'll start to sound good if i give it some time....but this time i'm not gonna do it, haha. my fave is DOUGHBOY'S HOLLOW, despite the inclusion of the best song gordon lightfoot never did (satisfied). later ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 18:11:01 -0500 From: "Lenny Smith" Subject: Re: The Warriors "Iam Fuzzco" wrote: > And BTW: Who in The Warriors is the Cyclops??? I knew someone was gonna ask, but I'd have to watch it again to be sure. There are no memorable eyegougings that I recall... ; ) Lenny ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 18:32:12 -0500 From: Rat Pfink Subject: Re: The Warriors The Coens didn't follow Homer much at all. I think they just threw that "Based on Homer's Odyssey" in at the beginning, along with a couple references like the sirens and the cyclops, as a goof, kinda like the whole "This film is based on true events" joke at the beginning of "Fargo"... At 05:28 PM 1/15/02 -0500, you wrote: > >It follows Homer FAR more closely than the Coens did, for example. - ----------------------------------- | Rat Pfink ratpfink@akamail.com | - ----------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 19:37:37 -0500 From: "Lenny Smith" Subject: Re: The Warriors "Rat Pfink" wrote: > The Coens didn't follow Homer much at all. I think they > just threw that "Based on Homer's Odyssey" in at the > beginning, along with a couple references like the sirens > and the cyclops, as a goof, kinda like the whole "This > film is based on true events" joke at the beginning of > "Fargo"... I read an interview with them where they said pretty much exactly that, without QUITE coming out and admitting it... ; ) Lenny ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 18:41:57 -0600 From: "mykel" Subject: Re: The Warriors kinda like the whole "This > > film is based on true events" joke at the beginning of > > "Fargo"... which reminds of that woman who froze to death looking for the "fargo" booty....shouldn't laugh, i guess, but still...another nominee for the darwin awards. np: the finkers FRESH SET-O-PRINTS ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 19:48:35 -0500 From: "McGowan, Rob (SD-EX)" Subject: RE: The Warriors Their are more than a couple of references . . . References to Homer's Odyssey: The names of George Clooney and Holly Hunter's characters (Ulysses & Penelope); the one-eyed Big Dan as the Cyclops (blinded with a burning pole); the three girls by the river as the Sirens; Ulysses' wife marrying someone else when he comes home; the old-man disguise; the changing of one of Ulysses' companions into an animal; the Baptists as the Lotus-eaters. (imdb) Seems like more that just a goof. - -Rob - -----Original Message----- From: Rat Pfink [mailto:ratpfink@akamail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 3:32 PM To: bomp@xnet2.com Subject: Re: The Warriors The Coens didn't follow Homer much at all. I think they just threw that "Based on Homer's Odyssey" in at the beginning, along with a couple references like the sirens and the cyclops, as a goof, kinda like the whole "This film is based on true events" joke at the beginning of "Fargo"... At 05:28 PM 1/15/02 -0500, you wrote: > >It follows Homer FAR more closely than the Coens did, for example. - ----------------------------------- | Rat Pfink ratpfink@akamail.com | - ----------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 20:01:03 -0500 From: "James" Subject: RE: The Warriors/Oh Brother "Their are more than a couple of references . . . References to Homer's Odyssey: The names of George Clooney and Holly Hunter's characters (Ulysses & Penelope); the one-eyed Big Dan as the Cyclops (blinded with a burning pole); the three girls by the river as the Sirens; Ulysses' wife marrying someone else when he comes home; the old-man disguise; the changing of one of Ulysses' companions into an animal; the Baptists as the Lotus-eaters. (imdb)" The old blind man piloting the train car at the beginning of the film who just about predicts the ending of the movie struck me as the equivalent of a Greek oracle, too (especially as oracles tended to be blind in Greek myth, IIRC). I don't quite remember if there was a similar figure in the Odyssey (read it in college), but I wouldn't be surprised. James ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 19:23:48 -0600 From: "mykel" Subject: Fw: MOORE, ROCKER SHOWS FOR MIDWEST! not usually much to cheer about (show-wise) here in the midwest but scotty moore and lee rocker works for me. boohoo to you coastal cats. FEB. 8TH CLEVELAND, OH BEACHLAND BALLROOM FEB. 9TH DETROIT, MI MAJESTIC THEATRE FEB. 11TH CHICAGO, IL SCHUBAS FEB. 12TH OMAHA, NE MUSIC BOX FEB. 13TH MINNEAPOLIS, MN CABOOZE FEB. 15TH KANSAS CITY, MO GRAND EMPORIUM FEB. 16TH MEMPHIS, TN LOUNGE AT GIBSON GUITAR SHOWCASE ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 22:38:15 EST From: TheReedGuy@aol.com Subject: Attention San Fran Bay Area Bompers: Live show In a warehouse in the Mission district on February 9th a band called "Charles Atlas" will be playing. Check out catacombs.org for more info (address time etc). This place normally does gospel music but they have a secular show once a month with some cool bands from the San Francisco area playing. The place is very low key and only holds 100 people so it's basically like seeing a band in a large rehearsal space with trippy lighting and a good sound system. Here's a review of the band: CHARLES ATLAS, "TWO MORE HOURS" > There is no person in this band with the last name of Atlas. This is a project sort of thing from Charles Wyatt, Chicago resident who strummed the guitar strings for San Francisco's slow-core charmers "Dart" as well as performed with Piano Magic on "A Trick of the Sea" as well as the collaborative single with Low, "Sleep at the Bottom". This CD is a collection of tracks improvised from various sessions of Charles tinkering around and then sending the tapes off to friends to add other bits and pieces. Friends who have added tinkerings to this CD include Alan Sparhawk of Low, members of Buddha on the Moon, ISAN and a couple more friends. The result is an unsurprisingly blissful and melodic, spacious and trancey, beautifully crafted and varied CD. The first track starts the disc off in a more traditional sustained guitar sound, with loops and mesmerising delay effets. The rest of the disc jumps around between more electronic sounds and backwards drum samples and loops, ending on a > pretty and serene piece for acoustic guitar, piano and droney effects. Never for a minute does this sound amateur or half-assed, Charles Atlas could sure as hell teach some of the noodly ambient dronesters out there a thing or two about VARIETY (something all too rare these days). This one will be a hard one to come across in average stores and I suggest just sending an email to Mike at StarStar records out of Milwaukee at mstar@execpc.com. This disc is highly recommended. - Jon Whitney Reed ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 23:17:01 -0500 From: Rob Farrell Subject: Re: I wish! Was Detroit Cobras at Court Tavern I forwarded this email to Dennis Marmon of The Blisters - who is also the booking agent @ the Court. If anyone wants to book a show @ the Court Tavern - their website is http://www.courttavern.net - -Rob Jahna Demand wrote: > John! > > I wish we were playing with the Detroit Cobras - that would be an awesome > bill! I think Iam Fuzzco posted the show... it was another Warsaw happening > out in Bklyn - with the Fleshtones. I don't recall the date, but I'm sure > Jon Weiss will chime in with the info if requested, yes? That night will > definitely super rock - although we're not on the bill. > > We *should* try to set something up at the Court, though - that's a fun > place! > > Our upcoming shows are as follows: > > 1.18.02 Continental NYC w/reno's men, bullies, turbo ac's & waldos - we're > up first at 9:15 > > 1.26.02 Abbey Lounge Somerville MA w/downbeat 5 & the konks - we're up first > at 9:45 > > Thanks! > > Jahna > > on 01/15/2002 5:00 AM, john trembly wrote: > > > Hi, > > Someone, I think it was Jahna of the Demands, posted her band's upcoming tour > > dates and one listed them as playing the Court Tavern soon with the Detroit > > Cobras as co-headliners. I asked Dennis of the Blisters about this today (he > > books the shows there) and he knew nothing about it. Can whoever it was that > > posted this tell me more? Dennis is interested in booking the Cobras. > > > > John > > > > www.izzymusic.com > > ===> To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe bomp" to majordomo@xnet2.com <=== ------------------------------ End of bomp-digest V2002 #35 **************************** ===================================================================== You've been reading bomp-digest, the digest version of the Bomp list. To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe bomp-digest" to majordomo@xnet2.com