Ask Anthony Miccio

What was your first concert, and how was it?

Stop listening to Limp Charlotte and Good Bizkit,
Alex in NYC

A quick look at my record collection will reaffirm I'm quite Americanized.

Why have you sold out your race? Did you learn nothing from Meadow Soprano's attempts to integrate into American society?

Yours truly,

Domenico Francesco Passantino

REM, Monster tour. Starlake Ampitheatre outside Pittsburgh. 15, went with my dad. By sheer coincidence I wound up on the lawn right by one of my better friends in school and his dad. He was a crazed Stipe fan and I was a crazed Buck fan. After opening act Luscious Jackson (whatever) this humongous storm came and (as Stipe put it in his banter, later) "pissed old-testament rain" down on everybody. It cleared up right before they started. I enjoyed it a lot and really liked all the new songs that they later put on Hi-Fi. Everybody sang along with "Losing My Religion" and screamed "LEONARD BERNSTEIN!" during "End Of The World."

Still have and wear the shirt, though only if I'm wearing something over it.

Anthony

I'm only a quarter Italian (paternal grandfather, obv) and me and my sis were the only of his grandkids not raised in NY. Never seen the Sopranos.

I love pizza.

Anthony

Might you ever again write cute romantic dialogues between yourself and Kelly Osbourne, like you used to? I liked that a whole lot.

Greg

Are you from Pittsburgh, then?

always,
-m.

I'm sure inspiration will strike again.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39540000/jpg/_39540215_kelly200.jpg

Anthony

born on an army base in Germany, lived in North Carolina, Colorado and Indiana. Been in State College, PA for about ten years. Moving to Philly in August.

i found my glasses. they were in a free laptop bag that i got from a client for christmas that i didn't need so i stuffed inside a big cardboard box and punted down into the basement. do you like fabolous?

mark p.

glad you found your glasses!

I think Fab is pretty boring. I want to say there was one hit I kinda enjoyed but I can't remember what it was or if it really even exists.

Anthony

Did you see the TRL awards yesterday? After winning the award for "the best band that actually plays instruments" (yes, that's an actual award), Good Charlotte performed "I Just Wanna Live" with Lil Jon. He came and and did a little call and response part before the 2nd verse, and then ad libbed through the rest of the song. It was great. Also, I thought you'd like to know that I saw a couple black girls singing "I Just Wanna Live" on my campus last week.

- Al

I didn't see the awards or even know about them. I don't watch TV. I am hunting a clip of this down right this fucking second. Jesus H Christ I want to hear this. Thanks for the scoop!

Anthony

Should I get Ryan Cabrera's haircut? (Not the color)

1) Should I really see The Omega Code?
1.5) Why particularly?
2) If casting the hip-hop version of Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (a la The Wiz) who would you cast as Willie Wonka and Charlie? (obviously Da Brat will portray Veruca Salt, and Bushwick Bill: all of the Oompa Loompas).

((( in stereo )))
Bobby

1.5. Because its a loopy portrayal of The End Of Days with Michael York as an seemingly saving the world but secretly set on imperial goals and self-deification. Easily seen as a glimpse into Bono's middle age. Michael Ironside plays his toady sidekick (an aged The Edge?) and Casper Van Diem plays the young p.r. dude who must realize what's really happening before its too late. It's a laugh and a half.

2. Slick Rick and Lil Romeo

I'm at a coffee shop and this woman across from me is giggling to herself, clapping her hands, and writing in notebooks obviously inspired by the John Doe notebooks from the movie Seven. How do I approach her re: asking her out?

love
Gear

you a freak magnet. just give her a stare and a smile and she'll ask for your number and hat size in minutes.

Anthony

failure. I smiled at her and asked her if I could "plug my power cord into the outlet" next to her. She smiled and showed me a picture she had drawn of a smiling cat, then took the cord and plugged it in, then resumed scribbling. Never said a word. possibly a mute? she is now face down on the table, laughing, pounding her hand onto the surface, still writing. Next move?

Gear

confess your curiosity as to her amusement and further attempt to engage in conversation. If it fails, unzip and giggle. If that fails, give up.

Anthony

Ken L

it's really dramatic and desparate. He sounds like he's going bananas by the end. Sort of a middle ground between Nick Cave and Alice Cooper. I'm pretty sure I read that it had little connection aside from the name.

Anthony

(btw, I'm leaving work, nothing else will get answered before sometime tomorrow - caveat emptor, gracias)

Peru

Pretty much everybody born on Oct. 4th is really obnoxious: Susan Sarandon, Afrika Bambataa AND Charlton Heston. How about that?

* 1207 - Henry III of England (d. 1272)
* 1471 - Frederick I of Denmark (d. 1533)
* 1507 - Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect (d. 1573)
* 1540 - Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss protestant clergyman (d. 1617)
* 1620 - Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Dutch painter (d. 1683)
* 1644 - Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (d. 1682)
* 1671 - Guido Grandi, Italian mathematician (d. 1742)
* 1685 - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1740)
* 1691 - Arthur Onslow, English politician (d. 1768)
* 1730 - Richard Stockton, American attorney, signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1781)
* 1760 - William Thomas Beckford, English writer and politician (d. 1844)
* 1865 - Paul Dukas, French composer (d. 1935)
* 1881 - William Boeing, American engineer (d. 1956)
* 1885 - Louis Untermeyer, American author (d. 1977)
* 1878 - Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher and economist (d. 1950)
* 1890 - Stanley Holloway, British actor (d. 1982)
* 1896 - Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan, (d. 1951)
* 1896 - Ted Healy, American actor and comedian (d. 1937)
* 1900 - Tom Goddard, English cricketer (d. 1966)
* 1903 - Vladimir Horowitz, Ukrainian pianist (d. 1989)
* 1904 - Otto Robert Frisch, Austrian-born physicist (d. 1979)
* 1909 - Sam Yorty, Mayor of Los Angeles, California (d. 1998)
* 1910 - Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (d. 1934)
* 1914 - Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian, writer, and Librarian of Congress (d. 2004)
* 1920 - Walter Matthau, American actor (d. 2000)
* 1921 - James Whitmore, American actor
* 1924 - Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States
* 1924 - William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 2005)
* 1925 - Bob Boyd, baseball player (d. 2004)
* 1926 - Roger Williams, American pianist
* 1927 - Tom Bosley, American actor
* 1928 - Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian-born actor (d. 1973)
* 1928 - George Peppard, American actor (d. 1994)
* 1930 - Sir Richard Harris, Irish actor (d. 2002)
* 1931 - Sylvano Bussotti, Italian composer
* 1932 - Albert Collins, blues guitarist (d.1993)
* 1935 - Julie Andrews, British actress and singer
* 1936 - Stella Stevens, American actress
* 1939 - George Archer, American golfer (d. 2005)
* 1945 - Rod Carew, Panamanian baseball player
* 1947 - Aaron Ciechanover, Israeli biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
* 1947 - Stephen Collins, American actor
* 1948 - Cub Koda, American singer (d. 2000)
* 1949 - Isaac Bonewits, American author
* 1950 - Randy Quaid, American actor
* 1954 - Martin Strel, Slovenian swimmer
* 1962 - Esai Morales, American actor
* 1963 - Mark McGwire, baseball player
* 1964 - Jonathan Sarfati, Australian-born chess player, scientist, and author
* 1968 - Jon Guenther, American author
* 1979 - Rudi Johnson, American football player
* 1985 - Dizzee Rascal, British musician

* 1289 - King Louis X of France (d. 1316)
* 1379 - King Henry III of Castile (d. 1406)
* 1515 - Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (d. 1586)
* 1542 - Robert Bellarmine, Italian saint (d. 1621)
* 1550 - King Charles IX of Sweden (d. 1611)
* 1562 - Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (d. 1647)
* 1570 - Peter Pazmany, Hungarian cardinal and statesman (d. 1637)
* 1625 - Jacqueline Pascal, French child prodigy and sister of Blaise Pascal (d. 1661)
* 1626 - Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (d. 1712)
* 1814 - Jean-François Millet, French painter (d. 1875)
* 1822 - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (d. 1893)
* 1858 - Michael Pupin, Serbian-born telephone pioneer and author (d. 1935)
* 1861 - Frederic Remington, painter (d. 1909)
* 1862 - Edward Stratemeyer, American author (d. 1930)
* 1877 - Razor Smith, English cricketer (d. 1946)
* 1880 - Damon Runyon, writer (d. 1946)
* 1881 - Walther von Brauchitsch, German Commander-in-Chief (d. 1948)
* 1892 - Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian politician (d. 1934)
* 1895 - Buster Keaton, American comedian, actor (d. 1966)
* 1903 - John Vincent Atanasoff, American computer pioneer (d. 1995)
* 1903 - Ernst Kaltenbrunner, German military officer (d. 1946)
* 1904 - Jimmy Ritz, American actor, one of the Ritz Brothers (d. 1985)
* 1910 - Frankie Crosetti, American baseball player (d. 2002)
* 1914 - Jim Cairns, Australian politician (d. 2003)
* 1916 - Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1917 - Jan Murray, American comedian and actor
* 1922 - Malcolm Baldrige, 26th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1987)
* 1924 - Charlton Heston, American actor
* 1928 - Alvin Toffler, American author
* 1934 - Sam Huff, American football player
* 1937 - Jackie Collins, British author
* 1938 - Kurt Wüthrich, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1941 - Anne Rice, American writer
* 1941 - Lori Saunders, American actress
* 1942 - Karl W. Richter, American aviator
* 1943 - H. Rap Brown, American civil rights activist
* 1944 - Tony La Russa, American baseball manager (St. Louis Cardinals)
* 1945 - Clifton Davis, American actor
* 1946 - Susan Sarandon, American actress
* 1947 - Ann Widdecombe, British politician
* 1949 - Armand Assante, American actor
* 1951 - Charles McMillan, US Air Force officer, killed in the Desert One rescue mission (d. 1980)
* 1953 - Tchéky Karyo, Turkish-born actor
* 1959 - Chris Lowe, British singer (Pet Shop Boys)
* 1959 - Tony Meo, English snooker player
* 1960 - Afrika Bambaataa, American musician
* 1961 - Jon Secada, Cuban-born singer
* 1961 - Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese author and artist
* 1963 - A.C. Green, American basketball player
* 1967 - Liev Schreiber, American actor
* 1967 - Marcus Bentley, British voice actor
* 1976 - Alicia Silverstone, American actress
* 1979 - Rachael Leigh Cook, American actress
* 1980 - Me'Lisa Barber, American track and field sprint athlete
* 1980 - Sarah Fisher, American race car driver
* 1984 - Lena, Russian musician (t.A.T.u.)

obviously, Anthony must hook this up

x-post!

did u just walk past the carroll gardens met y/n

depends are you a fan or a hater

croup,

i haven't looked at your spotify playlists in a while, any particularly good ones lately?

lol

they're all good ones but i don't think i've published any new ones super-recently

Ha, I can't believe I repped for a Simple Plan song I don't even remember on this thread.