i think the five minute drive to his grandparent's house in the subaru might be my favorite part. belongs on the *worst anecdote ever* thread.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
i once wept like a schoolgirl driving home from work the day my grandmother died and "hollywood swinging" came on the radio but you don't see me trying to work it into any listicles.
― idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:49 (eleven years ago) link
And really, it's not just a song.
...it's not a fucking song!
― C:\GAMES\KEEN\KEEN4E.EXE (clouds), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
Misspelt Mingus song title. Axe this fucker to death.
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
I really liked the image of him already at his grandparents house with So What less than half over, sitting in their driveway "blaring" the record while his grandparents are staring out the window like "what the hell is Joseph doing out there?"
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
honestly would prefer maudlin personal anecdotes to eight-hand regurgitation of Intro To Jazz class material
― da croupier, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
i mean it's POSSIBLE for a random twentysomething to have a touching anecdote involving a mingus album, far less likely they have any information/insight wikipedia doesn't
― da croupier, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
you know he was sitting in his car in the driveway in the rain because he was dreading the fact that he actually had to hang out with his grandparents and help them, like, change lightbulbs or something. not because his life was being changed by a jazz record.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
once I was pulling into a grocery store parking lot and "It's Still Rock and Roll To Me" came on the radio and I was too lazy to change the station so I kept listening to it until I parked
― paula boradwell (crüt), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
this dude probably passive-aggressively sits in driveways for thirty-five minutes because he "has to hear the rest of this record" all the time
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
maybe if he'd actually talked to his grandparents he might have found they had first-hand stories to share about the genius of dave brubeck.
― idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
alas, now they are worm food.
this morning as i parked the car in the garage at my office building, i heard the first few notes of surrender by cheap trick. slight disappointment arose within me when i realized it was not the version from budokan. yet i still listened because it's a good song. cried a bit or something, memories.
― sug ones (omar little), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
I've performed with Dave Brubeck twice btw, I just wanted to throw that out there </insufferable>
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
last week i was smoking a cigarette in the parking lot outside of where I was working that day and the prodigy's breathe came on right when I was done with the cigarette so I turned the radio off and walked towards the gate I had to go through but some public works guys had parked their car near the gate and they were blasting the rest of breathe by the prodigy and when one of them asked me for a cigarette I said I was out
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
there was a Police song playing in my car earlier today, I forget which one
― paula boradwell (crüt), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
one of his "classical" reviews (of an ennio morricone album) features the phrase "Yo-Yo Ma and his aching cello"
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
godfather of the upright cello
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
i don't have a car or else i'd go out and sit in it and listen to a whole album right now. maybe the well-tuned piano.
― idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Yo-Yo_Ma_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_Davos_2008.jpg/220px-Yo-Yo_Ma_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_Davos_2008.jpg
my cello, oh how she aches
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
xp or maybe it an AC/DC song playing in the police car that took me away from the house whose driveway I sat in for 30 minutes blaring music -- lol, my grandparents are dead, totally forgot
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
hurtingchiefWow, thank you for the great introduction to this music called "Jazz." Miles Davis, huh, I will have to check that guy out. Glad the Voice is still around to shine a light on the hidden corners of the music world.
― super perv powder (Phil D.), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
one time after i hooked up with a girl, i was driving in my car and 'you got lucky' by tom petty came on the radio. funny, that.
― sug ones (omar little), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
my dad used to sit in the car with the radio on after pulling into the driveway, but he was an alcoholic
― C:\GAMES\KEEN\KEEN4E.EXE (clouds), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
i was going to turn this whole thread
whitesnake - "here i go again"
into a voice pitch. maybe i can now.
― idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
I heard a Yo-Yo Ma cello performance that was so aching I accidentally drove off the road and crashed into my grandparents' house
― paula boradwell (crüt), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
i killed my grandfather while listening to albert ayler.
― idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
now that's journalism.
― paula boradwell (crüt), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
you weren't sure he was going to survive, so you put on Spiritual Unity
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
gave in and went to the first page, went "oh fuck no" and backed away
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
sorry guys i'm writing this from jail i meant to tell you.
― idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:03 (eleven years ago) link
twist ending
― sug ones (omar little), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:03 (eleven years ago) link
When I first put on Herbie Mann - Memphis Underground, I was PISSED. What is that shrill, experimental sound?
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:03 (eleven years ago) link
did people really fuck to take five
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
When I first put on Stravinsky's "Le Sacre du Printemps," I was pissed. Where was the melody? Then I threw a chair and booed.
― super perv powder (Phil D.), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:06 (eleven years ago) link
So the Village Voice is paying their writers in Skittles now? Because that seems to be how they attracted the talents of this fine scribe.
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:06 (eleven years ago) link
i'm pretty sure i was conceived to chuck mangione's "feels so good"
― idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:06 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― paula boradwell (crüt), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:06 (eleven years ago) link
Skittles beat what some place pay.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQxpK5tTW7Df0OVNt_Gj6O5g6YDn5CW3mOO0vnm4vSfioh8rRpJPA
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
most of us are actually paid in marshmallow "circus peanuts" these days
haha omg
― idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
josh that is fucking creepy
this bottomlessly horrid listicle is producing psychic mind-melds between ilxors now
― idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
"Be warned though, there is experimentation happening here."
I think I saw this written on one of those doorknob things at a hotel.
― Evan, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
There's something happening but you don't know what it is, do you, Mr. Lapin
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:18 (eleven years ago) link
i heard amy goodman rambling on and on about bbc sex scandal in the car this morning and then i heard katy perry and then i yelled at my kids. it was raining.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:18 (eleven years ago) link
I like how he confuses "raucous" with "ruckus" in the Mingus bit. Well done.
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
it's still not as bad/horrifying as "jive"/"jibe"
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
where be thy jives now?
― C:\GAMES\KEEN\KEEN4E.EXE (clouds), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
Oh man, I fucking hate when people do that. But it's so common that "jive" is about to overtake "jibe."
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:21 (eleven years ago) link