Subject: song with guest appearance by singer
from Men at Work
Just trying to remember the name of that song... saw the video on
MTV a long time ago...it's really bothering me.
—JB
Dear JB,
We're pretty sure you're confusing the singer of Men at Work with
the singer of Men Without Hats, and that the video in question is
[James--please insert some godawful heavy metal song and artist here].
—Yo La Tengo
Any plans to put up an online shrine to Art
Shamsky?
—David Cohen
We are very psyched to be receiving email from a former member of
Country Joe and the Fish! As most of the people visiting this website
are no doubt aware, left-handed batter Art Shamsky , born October
14,
1941 (making him one year younger to the day than Sir Cliff Richard),
joined the Mets in 1968 and played with them through 1971. His Mets
career statistics are:
G AB H 2B 3B HR R RBI BB SO SB BA SA 406 1186 316 48 11 42 133 162 127 141 4 .266 .432
Interestingly, his stolen base total was the result of stealing one
base
in each of his four seasons with the Mets. His best year was 1969,
naturally, when he had Met career highs in home runs (14), batting
average (.300), and slugging average (.488), in addition to matching
his
career best in stolen bases (1).
Keep 'em coming -
Mark
McMurray among others has asked us when to expect the next issue of
the Yo La Tengo Gazette.
After an unfortunate incident at a holiday party at which Ira was
accused of Xeroxing his butt (charges, he requests we point out, that
were entirely circumstantial, with nobody coming forward as an actual
eyewitness), Yo La Tengo's photocopying privileges were revoked, necessitating
an indefinite suspension of the Yo La Tengo Gazette. We will endeavor
to use this web site to bring you the same high standard of coverage
that you came to depend on the Yo La Gazette for.
Chris Macri among others wants to know if we have any plans to release
the movies and music from The Sounds of Science together on VHS or
DVD.
It's definitely something we're thinking about and hope to do in the
future (on DVD certainly—don't know about VHS, it seems so '90s,
so Steve Vai, so Alastair Galbraith). Meanwhile, if you look hard
enough, videos of the films of Jean Painleve are out there on VHS,
and we know a DVD is in the works (all with the original scores).
Or if you have access to a computer, you can try http://www.lesdocs.com.
Dave Montes writes, towards the end of a long email — some might
even suggest too long: "I know it's a moot point now, but just
to satisfy my curiosity, was anyone in the band (James, I'm looking
in your direction) approached to be on "Ally McBeal"? .
. . Something about a cameo, a part about a lawyer that doesn't do
work but instead does really wacky, absurd stuff, has their imaginings
visually represented, wears some clothes and junk... pretty avant
garde for tv."
"Ally McBeal"? Not to my knowledge. Perhaps you are thinking
of "Veronica's Closet"? A few years ago, Georgia was approached
to do a one-off as Wallace Langham's sister? Or maybe it was the Bernie
Mac Show — James recently got a call-back to be the neighbor
kid that knocks on Bernie's door every week or two and asks if he
too can be adopted, although he pronounces it "apopted."
If you watch your "Banacek" reruns, you can see Ira as a
young boy, on Episode 17: After the Killing Stopped; he's the one
who says "What's the matter, Mr. Banacek," although he pronounces
it "Panacek."
And finally James has obtained a restraining order, so no more looking
in his direction.
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American League
Chicago White Sox
010 000 101 3 9 1
Tampa Bay Devil Rays 000 000 000 0 4 2
Garland, Foulke(9) and Fisk; Rupe, Kent(7), Yan(9) and Flaherty.
W-Garland (5-1), L-Rupe (3-3), S-Foulke (2)
HR-FThomas (5)
Cleveland Indians 002 000 000 2 10 0
Boston Red Sox 500 002 00x 7 12 1
Sabathia, Riske (1), Shuey (6) and EPerez; Lowe, SKim (8), Urbina
(9)
and Fisk
W-Lowe (5-1), L-Sabathia (3-3), S-Urbina (2)
HR-Ramirez (4)
Mark
McMurray among others has asked us when to expect the next issue of
the Yo La Tengo Gazette.