maren

I'm so sorry to hear this, Randy. You and your family (and I guess especially your Dad, too, since we've "met" him here on the Board) are in my thoughts and prayers. Try to take extra-good care of yourself in the coming days and months. (I'm realizing now that I'm saying this to Ghost, Rooster and MikeWeil, too.) All the best.

Emboldened by JazzMoose, who said: I'm posting my own spam here -- I'm singing in the chorus at this Carnegie Hall performance on Friday, May 14, 7:30 PM: BACH St. Matthew Passion David Randolph, Conductor Randal Rushing, Tenor Kevin Deas, Bass Claire Stadtmueller, Soprano Monica Zerbe, Mezzo-Soprano Steven Tharp, Tenor Kerry Henderson, Baritone St. Cecilia Chorus and Orchestra If anybody's interested, rear balcony tickets are only $15!!! As far as I know, Monica Zerbe is unrelated to Hannes Zerbe ( to couw). And FYI, the bass who will be singing the role of Jesus, Kevin Deas, sang in the recording of Anthony Davis's X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X.

That one falls into the special category of "too disgusting to even mention". Five minute major penalty... No kidding!!! Was it the summer of 1976? It played constantly while I was waitressing at this restaurant in Madison (Chuck Nessa may remember -- Ella's) and is irrevocably linked to filling up a million little paper cups of cole slaw and stacking them on trays. "Workin' up a appetite" indeed! Blech!

Yeah, I would stop. It's easier. Sets a better example for my kid, too, if I'm shopping with him. I agree with everything Dan said (did you ever think you'd hear that?!). Plus, once as I was leaving Macy's in a crowd, the alarm beeped wildly but no security guard was there to ask anyone to stop. Figured it wasn't me. Got home and found that the pants I'd bought (that my son needed to wear to family event IMMEDIATELY) had an extra hidden tag. One of those big plastic disks that you can't take off yourself without ruining the garment! The clerk had already removed TWO at checkout, so it wasn't HER fault that someone had committed security overload on this item! (Stanley Kowalski unpacking Blanche's bags in Streetcar: "What have we here -- a solid gold dress, I believe!") Anyway, it would have saved me a round-trip-and-a-half if a security guard HAD stopped me!

I wish, but the cost of the plane tickets would probably not be included, right? By the way, did you post this in the live show forum? I think board members are entitled to a little 'formed pork product' on occasion... No, airfare not included. But you don't have to listen to a condo sales pitch... Guess maybe I'll post a spam-let in Live Shows -- so as not to hijack the posting of meaty spam here!!!

Japanese spam?

No -- I only WISH I had $500 to contribute to WBGO!!! There's a Maren who does some music programming at Symphony Space (also not me!) -- maybe it was her?!

family of Hannes? Monica was born in Toronto, Hannes in Dresden? Distant cousins? The bass who will be singing the role of Jesus, Kevin Deas, sang in the recording of Anthony Davis's X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Happy birthday, Joe!!! VERY late, sorry! But maybe you're still partying?

Actual VIRTUAL (oxymoron) Spam from me: I'm singing in the chorus at this Carnegie Hall performance on Friday, May 14, 7:30 PM: BACH St. Matthew Passion David Randolph, Conductor Randal Rushing, Tenor Kevin Deas, Bass Claire Stadtmueller, Soprano Monica Zerbe, Mezzo-Soprano Steven Tharp, Tenor Kerry Henderson, Baritone St. Cecilia Chorus and Orchestra If anybody's interested, rear balcony tickets are only $15!!!

Wall-O-Spam:

Hey Dmitry -- how will I recognize you??? I'm wearing white pants, a black suit jacket, and a pink t-shirt that says "California: As Seen on TV"

I'm reading this thread with my fingers over my eyes, like a kid in a horror movie!!! (oops -- muskrat love? DON'T THINK!!! you light up my life?? QUIET!!!) I settled on quoting this because THANK GOD, I don't even KNOW any of these!!! I must admit to a fondness for the maligned Donovan songs on this thread, however!!! "ee - lec - trickle bo - NANN -a zbound to be the very next crayayaze"

Oy ge-fucking-valt! Medical, arts, or social/educational funding???!!! This sounds SO-O-O-O familiar to me -- but at least for this week I escaped the clutches of glitches, barely... Won't recount them 'cause just thinking them through would bring back the headache they caused... Rainy Day? As in, "let a smile be your umbrella"??? Sounds like it's been one of those days when the umbrella gets blown inside out!!!

Ain't that the truth! My son started sleeping through the night when he was 3 weeks old! But years 15 through 20 (he'll be 21 in September) have been another story entirely!

Me too! Don't know what led Evan to this thread, but I'm thankful for it! Beautiful work, Jon!

GAS??? could be many things but in this context I refered to the Great American Songbook. You know the stuff by Porter, Kern, Gerswin etc!! Thanks!

Don't mean to hijack this serious topic with jokes -- just saw a news story that Ray Charles' studio in Los Angeles will be dedicated by the city on April 30 as a historic landmark, with a big event. Does seem like the kind of honor that might be inspired by knowing someone's on the decline and wanting to give him something while he's still able to enjoy it.

That's the first thing I thought of when I read the title of this thread? ("A Great Day in Harlem", right?) That story cracked me up! I hear music in my sleep, too... When I'm actually deeply asleep and dreaming, it's usually a clear single-line melody, which I can remember when I wake up. But sometimes, when I'm in that falling-asleep state -- or that not-sleeping-well-half-awake state -- it's really like an aural hallucination, and it's VERY complex, kind of free-jazz-meets-20th-century-symphony -- very full sound -- half the time it's like it's just playing, and then I get the sense that I can shape it -- "compose" the phrases, "conduct" the dynamics. The music is exciting but the feeling is weird -- seems to coincide with being a little sick -- fever from the flu or something -- or being really "wired" for some reason. Then I've also had the experience of literally talking with someone, like on the phone before I fall asleep, about a tune we're both trying to remember -- and then waking up with the melody in my head.

Natalie Cole??? Nancy Sinatra??? Karen Mantler??? Pyeng Threadgill??? New York's local NBC weatherwoman Audrey Puente??? Oh, you mean Anoushka Shankar???

I'm afraid this stupid question might not be noticed on the "Stupid Questions" thread, so -- I'll ask it here, right where I felt stupid! What is(are) GAS???? Great Art Songs? Golden Age Standards? Goofy Acronym Syndrome?

In that case, what you saw was TEST, with Sabir Mateen & Daniel Carter on reeds. And Tom Bruno on drums? (TEST) Thanks, Pete C and PhillyQ!!!

Good point! In my early years living in New York, playing in bands at places like CBGB and Mud Club, that music was either cheap or I'd be on a guest list. Jazz -- I waitressed at the Tin Palace and heard a lot of great things. Classical -- hang out at the front door of the Lincoln Center halls and get offered ticket stubs by corporate poseurs in evening dress splitting at the very first intermission -- especially for any music written after 1890! Saw a great series of the Bartok String Quartets that way, and most of the operas "Lulu", "Wozzeck" and "Mahagonny"!