maren

Jim should do whatever he wants -- in the occasional minute he has free!!!!!!!

Interesting -- I don't post on other boards, so I didn't realize that this board's software was so unusual. The "highlight word and click bold or italic" thing is how MSWord works -- and I've been doing word processing for a zillion years, so I knew that, plus the "hold CTRL and use arrow keys" to move from word to word. Pink-collar-job skills. Berigan, did you know that you can highlight something, then click "CTRL X" to delete it or "CTRL C" to copy it, and then in either case you can hit "CTRL V" to paste it in elsewhere? This is helpful for making a list in this board's software: say you've typed in a bunch of points you wanted to make, and you want to make them clearer by "bulleting" them. You can enter them line-by-line after clicking "list" above or just enter the first line then highlight and "CTRL C" the "[ * ]" that makes the bullet and "CTRL V" to paste the "[ * ]" wherever you want

My goodness, the years keep rolling by!!! With love from couw & maren:

This has me trying to remember what I saw with a LOT of basses, all lined up on risers at the BACK of the orchestra... I think Mahler "Lied von der Erde" and Stravinsky "Nightingale" were both on the program...

Grew up in Wisconsin, where it was POP (and a drinking fountain was a BUBBLER -- to us a WATER FOUNTAIN was a big thing in the middle of a park that you looked at and maybe waded in). Our cousins in Texas said "SODA-POP" -- but that may have been for our benefit so we would have a clue what they were talking about -- they couldn't bring themselves to say just "POP" like we did. Moved to Boston and then New York after college and have said "SODA" ever since -- except I usually ask for it by brand name. In Boston, a lot of the natives said "TAWN-IC" (TONIC) as a generic name for a sweetened soft drink (??!!). And among urban African-American gentlemen of a certain age (a little older than me), a "POP" was what you stopped into a bar for. "Let me get a pop.."

"Rushmore" "Election" (yes, I guess I have a twisted view of high school!) I just noticed "Clueless" on the list -- the kids' wealth was so cartoony, it kind of made it more about that than high school for me -- but the successful match between the two teachers moved me to tears! I liked that part from the adult perspective -- the possibility of romance and change blooming in the midst of your arid 9-to-5 rut! Plus, great line from "Cher" explaining to her girlfriends why she's still a virgin: "Well, you know how picky I am about SHOES, and they only go on my FEET!"

I guess "My My Hey Hey (Into the Black)" is really 1979? Otherwise, another vote from me. And -- just about anything from "Double Nickles on the Dime" by the Minute Men!

So many posts to answer! Tonym -- yep, Thomas Dolby -- great! Rachel -- I'm So Bored With the USA? Bev -- "Shipbuilding" was the first song I thought of when I saw the thread title -- but my recollection was that it was even more obscure to people in the U.S. than those Fall songs! Mule -- I'll have to take your word for it, since my birthdate's posted and yours isn't!

I'm late to this thread, so almost everyone beat me to "others": COOLEY HIGH, HEATHERS, and CARRIE... Wonder how the new "MEAN GIRLS" will stack up against HEATHERS & CARRIE? Speaking of mean girls, and Die Feuerzangenbowle, how about: MAEDCHEN IN UNIFORM???

Look but don't touch! With love from couw & maren:

YAY!!!! I've been waiting for this news!!! Zora is absolutely beautiful, and so is her name!!! Congratulations to all of you, and a big to Mrs. AB3!!!

"She Blinded Me With Science"

Larches are SUCH beautiful trees...

Don't know how long ago this was -- but Ron Carter's wife died in 1999 or 2000 after a long and serious illness -- I think it's a good idea to give these "blowing-off" encounters the benefit of the doubt, especially when it's the only one you have any knowledge of, and there's no abusive language involved -- you never know when someone's wife was just diagnosed with cancer (or they just got ditched by the love of their life, or their teenager is in a psych ward on suicide watch, or their parent just died, or the IRS just put a lien on their house as well as every gig they've booked for the next 3 years, or they're just having a truly horrible day) -- and they just have nothing to spare for their audience after making it to the gig and playing. In general, I haven't heard bad things about Ron Carter.

"A treesome..." The man who coined that phrase is an officer and a poet!

Time and cake wait for no man! With love from couw & maren:

Hey....that's not fair. You're cheating. B) You mean I'm saying too many??? Or they weren't POPULAR? They were big on MY radar screen, though...

Was this at the Astor Place stop on the 6 train? If not, it still sounds like some guys who made that stop their home from 1995-2000. Great players -- it always struck me that they were embracing and transforming the thunderous rush of trains coming and going. Which reminds me of some ideas in this New Yorker interview with Mark Stewart (Bang-on-a-Can guitarist-plus):

My favorites probably were already mentioned: "Burning Down the House", many things Prince and Michael Jackson ("Billie Jean"). But taking a cue from Rachel's bravery, how about: The Fall -- "Totally Wired", "How I Wrote Elastic Man" and also, two things I (over)heard on everyone else's radio (and didn't even know who the artists were at the time -- or I might have thought I "shouldn't" have liked them!): "Everything She Wants" (Wham!) "Holding Back the Years" (Simply Red)

So based on what they'd seen go down, the witnesses didn't rise from their seats and walk up to the driver and tell him he might wanna stop the bus? Good question. Maybe that's why the bus was able to be caught-up-to by Brandon, even after he took the time to straighten his wheel and collect himself. Really glad you're okay, Brandon. Rainy Day had good advice about keeping a paper trail of incident reports. Hope the bus company makes good (supervisor coming to the scene is a good sign) -- and if they resist, you're right, a local-TV-news' "Shame on You"-type segment can probably bring them to their senses.

Happy birthday!!!!!

back to cake, with love from couw & maren:

Very good point! I have friends for whom "melody" would be completely the wrong approach (guess their motto might be "I hate jazz -- it's so relaxing!"). Much better, with a hard-core or Sonic Youth fan, to plunge ahead with "Rip Rig & Panic" or "A Love Supreme"...

South side of east 6th Street, between First and Second Avenues (I live further east, between C & D). Although my favorite Indian restaurant in the East Village is on Second Avenue between 3rd-4th or 4th-5th Streets -- Madras Cafe, 79 Second Avenue -- vegetarian South Indian cuisine -- another Organissimo-ite gave it a big recently. I still like Mogador, 101 St. Mark's Place ("8th Street" between First Ave & Ave A) -- Moroccan-ish, reasonably priced (chicken tagine with couscous, olives and preserved lemon for about $10 is a favorite of mine). BTW, the links above take you to a Village Voice repository of a zillion more brief restaurant reviews, plus MAPS!