why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk?

we must take time to stop and smell the Kiefer Sutherlands

well, if people say that megan fox was one of the hottest of our age in a couple hundred years, I will feel she has the longevity of Bach

i've seen better heads on a mug of beer

we must take time to appreciate beer

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.

Tragic tale of busker scraping by on $40/hour.

you know no one can busk for 8 hours straight, right

xp: lol J3ff

here is where we talked about this whole thing before

Did he take requests?

he should have played "The Joker" by Steve Miller Band. people love that song.

yeah I hate to tell the guy, but long form compositions aren't really good busking material

<3 crut

playing 'piano man' on violin would have been epic

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.

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

see perception people cant tell if somethings good if they walk past it and dont pay any attention, makes u think

we hung this van gogh by the side of the highway and lets see what happened

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.

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.

all major news outlets should put out rewritten sanctimonious facebook versions of their stories

Up next: Kim Rhode shoots skeet in the lobby of Symphony Hall.

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

we hung this van gogh by the side of the highway and lets see what happened

― 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."

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."

"Hey Mr. Pulitzer, have you heard of a little thing called false equivalencies?"

it's funny because if the metro train were to smash into one of Joshua Bell's concerts everyone would take notice of it.

makes u think

headline would read "JOSH BELL PULLS TRAIN"

wake up, sheeple life moves pretty fast if you don't catch it -- ferris bueller.

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/198408_552040774810507_1431376204_n.jpg

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lmao @ hippies

lol

also gtfo with this "a tomato has four chambers" isht

goole otm with bananadick

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

THE WORLD OF TRUE EMOTIONS

"an avocado looks vaguely like an old, shriveled breast and is high in monosaturated fats, which aid against post-menopausal breast cancer"

Hmmm

it's awesome that neurons kinda look like galaxy clusters

BEHOLD... THE ATHEIST'S NIGHTMARE

I'm pretty sure neither neurons nor galaxy clusters actually glow purple.

http://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs/84117_o.gif

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).

dammit Crabbits I am eating guacamole right now

I was going to do a scrotum reference but the health info behind avocados didn't support it

people who regularly check the ripeness of avocados are better at checking for testicular cancer

broccoli tastes like ass and looks like a tree

COINCIDENCE?

I think not.

avocados contain acetogenins that help your body maintain a tough, leathery scrotum

god's pharmacy

Apropos of nothing, you can always tell when it's a Friday afternoon on ILX.

Pretty sure the "electron" is actually a plasma ball. Either that, or WHERE ARE THE PLASMA BALLS, MANG?