That story's a few years old, and I remember when it first popped up reading a counter argument by somebody saying that the problem wasn't the quality of the playing, the problem was that Bell was a really lousy busker.
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Friday, 7 December 2012 21:06 (eleven years ago) link
Tragic tale of busker scraping by on $40/hour.
you know no one can busk for 8 hours straight, right
xp: lol J3ff
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Friday, 7 December 2012 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
here is where we talked about this whole thing before
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Friday, 7 December 2012 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
Did he take requests?
― nickn, Friday, 7 December 2012 21:13 (eleven years ago) link
he should have played "The Joker" by Steve Miller Band. people love that song.
― Snoop Lion (crüt), Friday, 7 December 2012 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I hate to tell the guy, but long form compositions aren't really good busking material
― mh, Friday, 7 December 2012 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
<3 crut
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 December 2012 21:18 (eleven years ago) link
playing 'piano man' on violin would have been epic
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Friday, 7 December 2012 21:18 (eleven years ago) link
it's transit station though! people go there to go somewhere else. it's not a hotel lobby where ppl are just bored chilling out with nothing better to do...everyone's on their way to or from somewhere else, there's nothing about the design of those places that encourages you to linger except on a platform waiting for a train
This is a great point, and the next experiment should be, I dunno, a concert pianist (or, ideally, Cecil Taylor) playing in an insanely high-priced hotel lobby, and see who among the moneyed class stops their conversations about credit default swaps to listen.
― and I scream Fieri Eiffel Tower High (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 7 December 2012 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
srsly im sure if he had been on the platform people wouldve noticed that the music is good instead he was in a spot where people hear him for three seconds while walking by, its almost like thats what they wanted to happen
― lag∞n, Friday, 7 December 2012 21:26 (eleven years ago) link
see perception people cant tell if somethings good if they walk past it and dont pay any attention, makes u think
― lag∞n, Friday, 7 December 2012 21:27 (eleven years ago) link
we hung this van gogh by the side of the highway and lets see what happened
― lag∞n, Friday, 7 December 2012 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
i don't know, it's good to be reminded every now and then that i'm a SHEEP maaan. i'd give the author my own version of the pulitzer, if my cloven hooves could hold anything.
― Spectrum, Friday, 7 December 2012 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, I guess we have talked about it before. It just fits right in with the whole Facebook meme/macro vibe. Like, it has that same really infuriatingly smug, sanctimonious tone to it that all this garbage does.
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Friday, 7 December 2012 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
all major news outlets should put out rewritten sanctimonious facebook versions of their stories
― lag∞n, Friday, 7 December 2012 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
Up next: Kim Rhode shoots skeet in the lobby of Symphony Hall.
― SHUT UP AND GET YOUR TURKEY SCIENCE BOOKS (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 7 December 2012 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
it's almost as if a transit lobby and a concert hall are spaces well-designed for their specific human purpose! purposes that people perceive correctly, as they do with their own needs and interests of the moment!
and yes "most intricate piece ev0r" is not good busker jams. i bet if he whipped through bach's greatest hits he'd have upped his take a little
― before and after broscience (goole), Friday, 7 December 2012 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
― lag∞n, Friday, December 7, 2012 3:28 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ha my versh of this was "we set up the stage of bayreuth in the middle of i-80, and, my god, people just drove right the fuck through it. not even lohengrin is a match for americans' need for speed."
― before and after broscience (goole), Friday, 7 December 2012 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
Or just Joshua Bell playing everywhere. "I really appreciating what you're doing, Joshua, but my kids have to wash up and get ready for school, and I have to take a monster crap."
― SHUT UP AND GET YOUR TURKEY SCIENCE BOOKS (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 7 December 2012 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
"Hey Mr. Pulitzer, have you heard of a little thing called false equivalencies?"
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Friday, 7 December 2012 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
it's funny because if the metro train were to smash into one of Joshua Bell's concerts everyone would take notice of it.
― Cunga, Friday, 7 December 2012 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
makes u think
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 December 2012 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
headline would read "JOSH BELL PULLS TRAIN"
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Friday, 7 December 2012 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
wake up, sheeple life moves pretty fast if you don't catch it -- ferris bueller.
― Cunga, Friday, 7 December 2012 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/198408_552040774810507_1431376204_n.jpg
― o_o, Friday, 7 December 2012 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
http://a4.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/132/2790a875316548539e68644ba3218c0f/l.jpg
― before and after broscience (goole), Friday, 7 December 2012 22:06 (eleven years ago) link
lmao @ hippies
― Snoop Lion (crüt), Friday, 7 December 2012 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
lol
also gtfo with this "a tomato has four chambers" isht
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Friday, 7 December 2012 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
goole otm with bananadick
― mh, Friday, 7 December 2012 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
I may have already posted this to this thread but shit like this is really the worst:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Kg9mSYqCFhY/UB9W45uF9qI/AAAAAAAAB3o/teU3YfGD-N4/s640/galaxy+vs+brain+tissue.jpg
― Snoop Lion (crüt), Friday, 7 December 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
THE WORLD OF TRUE EMOTIONS
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Friday, 7 December 2012 22:15 (eleven years ago) link
"an avocado looks vaguely like an old, shriveled breast and is high in monosaturated fats, which aid against post-menopausal breast cancer"
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Friday, 7 December 2012 22:15 (eleven years ago) link
Hmmm
it's awesome that neurons kinda look like galaxy clusters
― Mordy, Friday, 7 December 2012 22:16 (eleven years ago) link
BEHOLD... THE ATHEIST'S NIGHTMARE
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Friday, 7 December 2012 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
I'm pretty sure neither neurons nor galaxy clusters actually glow purple.
― Snoop Lion (crüt), Friday, 7 December 2012 22:19 (eleven years ago) link
http://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs/84117_o.gif
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Friday, 7 December 2012 22:19 (eleven years ago) link
xpost lmao gr80
The word "avocado" comes from the Spanish aguacate which in turn comes from the Nahuatl word āhuacatl [aː'wakat͡ɬ] (testicle, a reference to the shape of the fruit).
― I wish every slot machine had EAT THE RICH printed on it (Crabbits), Friday, 7 December 2012 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
dammit Crabbits I am eating guacamole right now
― Snoop Lion (crüt), Friday, 7 December 2012 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
I was going to do a scrotum reference but the health info behind avocados didn't support it
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Friday, 7 December 2012 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
people who regularly check the ripeness of avocados are better at checking for testicular cancer
― iatee, Friday, 7 December 2012 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
broccoli tastes like ass and looks like a tree
COINCIDENCE?
I think not.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 December 2012 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
avocados contain acetogenins that help your body maintain a tough, leathery scrotum
― Snoop Lion (crüt), Friday, 7 December 2012 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
god's pharmacy
― Snoop Lion (crüt), Friday, 7 December 2012 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
Apropos of nothing, you can always tell when it's a Friday afternoon on ILX.
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Friday, 7 December 2012 22:26 (eleven years ago) link
Pretty sure the "electron" is actually a plasma ball. Either that, or WHERE ARE THE PLASMA BALLS, MANG?
― emil.y, Friday, 7 December 2012 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
In God's pharmacy.
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Friday, 7 December 2012 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
OTM re: friday afternoon ilx
― Cunga, Friday, 7 December 2012 23:51 (eleven years ago) link
Dear Mr. President:
During my shift in the Emergency Room last night, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient whose smile revealed an expensive Shiny gold tooth, whose body was adorned with a wide assortment of elaborate and costly tattoos, who wore a very expensiveBrand of tennis shoes and who chatted on a new cellular telephone equipped with a popular R&B ringtone.
While glancing over her Patient chart, I happened to notice that her payer status was listed as "Medicaid"! During my examination of her, the patient informed me that she smokes more than one costly pack of cigarettes every day and somehow still has money to buy pretzels and beer.
And, you and our Congress expect me to pay for this woman's health care?https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/148284_4319397658046_1265753108_n.jpg
I contend that our nation's "health care crisis" is not the result of a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or nurses. Rather, it is the result of a "crisis of culture", a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on luxuries and vices while refusing to take care of one's self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance.
It is a culture based on the irresponsible credo that "I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me". Once you fix this "culture crisis" that rewards irresponsibility and dependency, you'll be amazed at how quickly our nation's health care difficulties will disappear.
Respectfully,STARNER JONES, MD
― sweetántangó (clouds), Saturday, 8 December 2012 05:18 (eleven years ago) link