6.29.2004
On This Day, Yesterday
These are the other significant things that happened on my birthday, which was yesterday:
.2004. Iraq for Iraqis - "Let Freedom Reign! And kick ass!"
.2003. Outfielder Gabe Kapler goes 4-for-5 with two doubles and a triple in his Red Sox debut. For anyone who cares, this is the song Kapler has chosen for his Fenway at-bats. I kid you not.
.1977. These were the songs dominating WABC ("The Greatest Top 40 Radio Station of All Time") the day I was born.
.1969. The Stonewall Riots. Thirty-five years later, Queer Eye.
.1966. "President"John Cusack is born.
.1964. Mark Grace, former Cubs great and one of baseball's heaviest smokers, is born in Winston-Salem, NC.
.1930. Pat Morita is born.
.1914. Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated. World War I ensues, more or less.
.1902. John Dillinger is born.
.1712. Jean-Jacques Rousseau is born. Two-hundred-and-sixty-eight years later, Flowers in Asphalt, the debut album from German prog-rockers Rousseau, is released.
.2004. Iraq for Iraqis - "Let Freedom Reign! And kick ass!"
.2003. Outfielder Gabe Kapler goes 4-for-5 with two doubles and a triple in his Red Sox debut. For anyone who cares, this is the song Kapler has chosen for his Fenway at-bats. I kid you not.
.1977. These were the songs dominating WABC ("The Greatest Top 40 Radio Station of All Time") the day I was born.
.1969. The Stonewall Riots. Thirty-five years later, Queer Eye.
.1966. "President"John Cusack is born.
.1964. Mark Grace, former Cubs great and one of baseball's heaviest smokers, is born in Winston-Salem, NC.
.1930. Pat Morita is born.
.1914. Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated. World War I ensues, more or less.
.1902. John Dillinger is born.
.1712. Jean-Jacques Rousseau is born. Two-hundred-and-sixty-eight years later, Flowers in Asphalt, the debut album from German prog-rockers Rousseau, is released.
6.23.2004
"Hey bro, you want to see what's in this box? No? Okay, cool then."
Second place (outside of a UPS Store): "Hey, do you know where the record label is? There's supposed to be a label office around here - do you work for the label? I thought you might be opening demos or something. We're trying to drop off our demo and we're looking for a record label."
THIS THURSDAY [6.24]:
ME.
DJ P.NICE.
THIS SATURDAY [6.26], A SOMEWHAT BIRTHDAY PARTY:
STRAIGHT OUT OF OAKLAND, THE MOST FEARED HIP-HOP WRITER...EVER, DJ O-DUB.
ALL THE WAY LIVE FROM NEW YORK CITY, ONE-HALF OF THE INDO-PAK ATTACK, JAZZBO AND HIS COLLECTION OF DANCEHALL, HOUSE, NEPTUNES AND 1980s SOUNDS.
AND ME.
Enormous Room [www.enormous.tv]
567 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge / Central Squre
AIN'T NOTHIN' FUNNY - WE LOOKIN' LIKE HAMMER BEFORE HE LOST HIS MONEY.
THIS THURSDAY [6.24]:
ME.
DJ P.NICE.
THIS SATURDAY [6.26], A SOMEWHAT BIRTHDAY PARTY:
STRAIGHT OUT OF OAKLAND, THE MOST FEARED HIP-HOP WRITER...EVER, DJ O-DUB.
ALL THE WAY LIVE FROM NEW YORK CITY, ONE-HALF OF THE INDO-PAK ATTACK, JAZZBO AND HIS COLLECTION OF DANCEHALL, HOUSE, NEPTUNES AND 1980s SOUNDS.
AND ME.
Enormous Room [www.enormous.tv]
567 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge / Central Squre
AIN'T NOTHIN' FUNNY - WE LOOKIN' LIKE HAMMER BEFORE HE LOST HIS MONEY.
Labels: ACTUAL CONVERSATIONS
6.11.2004
"I might even have me a cappuccino, fuck it"
Back from Los Angeles with a much darker left arm. Big ups to The King and Zankou. Happy birthday to Pokey Reese.
A Hollywood waiter spending his break at Record Surplus: "The whole time, the only on there I couldn't stand was (looks around carefully) Harrison Ford. Asshole. Major asshole. I can't stand that guy, he's such an asshole."
An octogenarian on the train: "Best mammogram I ever had. I had visions of, you know, the doctor saying, 'You know are machines are the best ever.'"
A mover-and-shaker on JetBlue: "If we can't get Paul Rudd, we're fucked. I'm counting on Paul Rudd."
Guy behind me at Edison Fieldhouse, possibly the worst ballpark I've ever been to: "This is ANAHEIM. Go back to Boston. (With Lil Jon-by-way-of-Chappelle affect) O-KAAAAIIIIIIY?"
"Just play me anything from Queensbridge."
"Birdman--BRRRRRR--he's fly in any skin color."
A Hollywood waiter spending his break at Record Surplus: "The whole time, the only on there I couldn't stand was (looks around carefully) Harrison Ford. Asshole. Major asshole. I can't stand that guy, he's such an asshole."
An octogenarian on the train: "Best mammogram I ever had. I had visions of, you know, the doctor saying, 'You know are machines are the best ever.'"
A mover-and-shaker on JetBlue: "If we can't get Paul Rudd, we're fucked. I'm counting on Paul Rudd."
Guy behind me at Edison Fieldhouse, possibly the worst ballpark I've ever been to: "This is ANAHEIM. Go back to Boston. (With Lil Jon-by-way-of-Chappelle affect) O-KAAAAIIIIIIY?"
"Just play me anything from Queensbridge."
"Birdman--BRRRRRR--he's fly in any skin color."
