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you also missed Vanilla Ice, poor you

― kephm (kephm), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 14:13 (nineteen years ago) link

The Gardener Musuem is excellent

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 16:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes it is very much so.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes. Make sure you check out the big Sargent under the stairs to the left of the arboretum... El Jaleo, I think it's called. Properly it's 'magesterial' but effectively it's 'cool as shit.'

― {Sand in the [vaseline} on the lens] (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Also there is an 80s/electro-funk/etc night at Great Scott's in Allston on Thursday. If you can resist the allure of going to see SUPERGRASS.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link

gardener suggestion thirded (or is that fourthed?)

i worked right around the corner from there

boston is cool. i just don't like bu students, in general. i lived in an apartment building with far too many of them.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 17:30 (nineteen years ago) link

TS: BU students vs BC students

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 17:53 (nineteen years ago) link

i was picked up at a show by a cute BC student, so they have the edge. however i don't really know what they're like in general.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 17:58 (nineteen years ago) link

A DOOM GLOOMY PLACE.

what i love about BC is that it has the best college radio station in the country but NONE of the students ever listen

― kephm, Wednesday, 29 September 2004 18:15 (nineteen years ago) link

the girl who picked me up was a deejay, in fact

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link

no way. too cool for school.

― kephm, Wednesday, 29 September 2004 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link

BC, definately.

― {Sand in the [vaseline} on the lens] (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link

but MIT chix0rs are tops

― {Sand in the [vaseline} on the lens] (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link

"what i love about BC is that it has the best college radio station in the country but NONE of the students ever listen"

Better than Emerson radio? Admittedly I haven't heard BC radio.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 18:53 (nineteen years ago) link

oy yeah, easily. 90.3 the Z

emersons station is good too though.

― kephm, Wednesday, 29 September 2004 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes. Emerson is good too

― kephm, Wednesday, 29 September 2004 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link

kephm almost OTM; I'd say Emerson and BC are equivalent but they're both WAY BETTER than any other game in town.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 19:06 (nineteen years ago) link

i beg to differ. ive been listening to wzbc for 20 years. Emerson doesnt have nearly as much variety.

― kephm, Wednesday, 29 September 2004 19:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm not talking variety, I'm talking about how much I enjoy listening to both.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link

ERS has the same shows on daily (weekdays). that's a bit meh

xpost

really? you must listen to much more a cappella , bluegrass and gospel

― kephm, Wednesday, 29 September 2004 19:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Dan is the acapella king of ILM Boston.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 19:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Boston sucks ass!! Taste NYC's capitalism bitches!!!
-- Ally-zay (sor...), October 17th, 2003.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 30 September 2004 03:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Boston needs a capitalism bitch or two to liven things up.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 30 September 2004 10:15 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/svp/st_org/heightsmen/images/ahana_ball/paul_money_on_the_dance_floor.jpg

― moneyonthedancefloor (kephm), Thursday, 30 September 2004 12:36 (nineteen years ago) link

I liked WZBC too, but I found frustrating how the djs would play 10 songs in a row and then forget to say what they all were in the breaks between songs. Emerson's studios are very nice on the inside - I wouldn't have minded doing shows there. (I am totally biased about boston college radio)

― marianna, Thursday, 30 September 2004 12:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Kephm, if you are in the orchestra, look out for me, and say hello. I will be the one trying to not to subtlely scam my way toward the front. Have you seen any NYC FAP pictures? Well, I don't look like that anymore. I now have a short, boy's haircut.

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 3 October 2004 21:20 (nineteen years ago) link

BC v. BU students...BC students for playing chicken on Comm. Ave. less often, BU students for cars one will likely forever envy and never own. Ultimately a wash though (i.e. neither are big on redeeming qualities [as generalizations go, which undergrads do...?]).

ZBC v. ERS - ERS is a hair more listenable than ZBC can be at times. Although, on average, ZBC sponsors better shows.

Up Beacon Street (over the bridge on your right) from Buckminster is Audubon Circle which has great, cheap eats, the best bathrooms in Boston and decor to match.

― nader (nader), Monday, 4 October 2004 00:43 (nineteen years ago) link

somerville vs. cambridge?

― Remy (x Jeremy), Monday, 4 October 2004 02:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Jamaica Plain vs Allston vs Mission Hill

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 4 October 2004 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link

how recognisable are the places where the public executions are described in A Handmaid's Tale?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 4 October 2004 16:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Boston, why do you wear baseball caps, muscle tees, and shorts to concerts?

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 13:46 (nineteen years ago) link

thats the official uniform of concertgoers in massachusetts.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 13:50 (nineteen years ago) link

because all the clubs are near Fenway

― Professor Challenger (ex machina), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 13:54 (nineteen years ago) link

mary, i didn't make the show cause i was sick. how many smiths songs did i miss?

― kephm, Wednesday, 6 October 2004 13:55 (nineteen years ago) link

About three or four. The Boston crowd loves their Smiths songs. They went crazy for "How Soon is Now" and stared blindly for Moz-solo.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 14:02 (nineteen years ago) link

heaven knows i'm miserable now

― kephm, Wednesday, 6 October 2004 14:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Were you there last night? I was hanging out in front of the Orpheum chatting with some castmembers as the show let out (and actually ran into people I know who went to the concert).

Did you see the "models"?

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 14:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, I was there! I hightailed it out quick though as I had to rush to the Buckminster, pick up my bag, then rush to the C'town bus. Did you see Mozzer leave the theater? What models?

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 14:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I didn't see Moz, alas; we were down by the bagel place near the subway exit.

There were some "models" (ie, painfully thin, unattractive women, and I mean SERIOUSLY unattractive, like missing teeth and cross-eyed pony unattractive) dressed up in goofy, outlandish gear (ie, metallic fabric off-the-shoulder-in-a-Flashdance-stylee blouses with plastic miniskirts and thigh boots with their hair teased out to Connecticut) who were strutting around Boston Common near the Park Street T-station and walking up and down Winter St by the construction around the corner from the theater with a photographer in tow putting them into wildly goofy tableaus. It was very amusing.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 14:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Too bad, I didn't see anyone like that. I did see a lot of guys in baseball caps though, like, everywhere. The Orpheum Mon night was no good--there was an empty seat in the second row, but these people wouldn't let me sit there bc "That's not your seat." Then there was an empty space right in front of the stage but the bouncer wouldn't let me stand there. So I was finally reduced to standing in the second row. Tues was a lot better--they let me sit in the second row and then let me stand right next to the stage, within easy groping distance. I really liked the Public Gardens and Boston Commons--especially with the weather so beautiful when I was there. My favorite thing about Boston? Hello Kitty World on Newbury.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link

what's the name of that ephemera shop on, uh, harvard ave i guess, in allston? the one with cool stationery and metal doodads? or maybe it's closed....

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link

god i've forgotten everything about boston

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh yeah, I forgot about the ridiculous Sanrio store on Newbury! I've never been in there but it always makes me giggle when I see it.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link

i just remember it blinding me with tweeness

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link

i love that store.

― kephm, Wednesday, 6 October 2004 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link

i love all the stationery with totally garbled english phrases

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link

My walkman finally died on the trip up, and I was sooooo tempted to buy the light blue Cinamaroll walkman there, but by some strange force of character, I resisted the impulse.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link

"somerville v. cambridge"

No contest: Somerville.

― nader (nader), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link

(PS, with the noted Cambridge exceptions of the Kendall Square Cinema, Twisted Village, and Chez Henri (where my wife and I got engaged.)

― nader (nader), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 21:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Aw, that's so awesome! I keep intending to go to Chez Henri but we haven't gotten around to it yet.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 21:08 (nineteen years ago) link

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