Wednesday, April 23, 2003 12:50 pm

Dr. Finbar Consults an Irridescent Eel 


Dear Carbon-Based Lifeforms,

Welcome.

THIS WEEK

This week we will be doing squat (as opposed to squats). Our drummer 
Pete (the man with three arms, four feet, one tentacle and two 
antennae) is enjoying a well-earned holiday in New Zealand, and has 
probably forgotten about us already. Our treasurer, Dr. Sam, has 
informed me that Pete absconded with the entire proceeds from our 
evening at the Vibe Bar last week; we hope he enjoys the two beers...

LAST WEEK

Last week we played at the Vibe Cafe Bar in Smith St., Fitzroy. Some 
of our friends observed that we are making progress, and that we are 
approaching competence (asymptotically). Many thanks to Ash for 
bringing his birthday celebrations along, and to Dave for being our 
sound engineer for the evening and taking some atmospheric photos, 
which we'll put up on our website soon.

We'd also like to thank Jessica Paige (http://www.jessicapaige.net) for 
playing on the bill with us. If you missed her this time round, she'll 
probably be playing with us again some time (if she consents, that 
is). We may not be able to afford her services for long though, so 
make sure you see her (with us) while you can!

MP3 OF THE WEEK

It's finally happened. We decided that we needed a theme-song. Every 
good TV show has a theme song. OK, we're not a TV show, but we wish we 
were. So we've written a song in honour of our semi-mythical friend, 
Dr. Finbar, who is, incidentally, becoming more and more real every 
day. You can download it from:

http://www.geocities.com/friskylichen/songs.html

It's rendered in glorious 40kbps mono sound (well, at least that means 
that the download comes in at under 1 Meg). We urge you to download it 
while you can. We suspect that once Dr. Finbar hears the song, he will 
call his lawyers immediately. And who knows what will befall us 
thereafter.

DR. FINBAR LITE

Since we have some new subscribers to the list, it seems opportune to 
mention the fact that there are two versions of the Dr. Finbar Mailing 
List. Aside from this version, there is Dr. Finbar Lite. Dr. Finbar 
Lite was created primarily for people who have hotmail accounts and 
who, therefore, obviously already receive many, many emails from many 
different (and usually unsolicited) sources. The email you are now 
reading is sourced from Dr. Finbar Verbose. Dr. Finbar Verbose is to 
Dr. Finbar Lite as casserole is to broth. So if you prefer broth, then 
send a return email to this address with the words "Dr. Finbar Lite" in 
the main body of the email, and we will take your fork from you and 
give you a spoon.

NEXT WEEK

Next week we unveil the newest installment of our "popular" Dr. Finbar 
competition series. So be ready for it...

Have an halibut,

The Dr. Finbar Trio