ASK TEHRESA

you know, i ask myself this all the time, and i still haven't quite figured it out. perhaps it has something to do with his swedish upbringing? they do things different there, i hear. though, i guess if that were the case, he wouldn't have so much trouble with ikea products.

sorry i couldn't help more,

-t

I think i've got a handle on it!
Thanks for asking!
A+++ would watch again!

TZA

no lutefisk?

Ps - I love DAIM! where to buy in NYC-proper

my spell 'wood', 'y no d?' or 'zoof!' (without any of the punctuation, naturally).

yes, i slept much later than i meant to (snooze button totally won the alarm battle today).

have you looked in fancy grocery stores for daim candies?
i wouldn't be shocked if whole foods carried them... also, is there a predominately swedish area in the city that might have a grocery store geared towards swedes? i will do some research.

ian,

yer totally welcome dude. glad you enjoyed it. i will make crepes some day :)

-t

2008 rap politics

T/S you vs. this dude

TZA,

My work just caused me to meet the acquaintance of a woman called "Tez." Has anyone ever called you this? What do you think of the nickname?

roxy,

as far as i can remember, no one has ever called me tez, though an in-depth search of the ilx archives may find one instance... it does not seem that far off.

here are a few things i have been called:

theresa: this is my name. lots of people call me this.

t: my aunts and forksclovetofu, occasionally sleep call me this.

tehrza: it lasted a while, mostly in online context.

tza: started as a shortened form of tehrza, has caught on both online and in real life, with people who do not even know about ilx!

reesie: high school and some college peeps called me this. it was part of my aim name for approx. 8 years.

tess: high school principal is the only person ever to call me this, but i liked it when he did. he made it special.

t-bone: only little sister is allowed to call me this. it is the companion to her nickname, juice bar (don't ask).

ter: my voice teacher in college called me this. it is for when you are too lazy to say "teri" which is ridic because that is already a nickname (though i guess when you think of tza it's not that bad). i did not like it so much, and my mom once said that if anyone ever called me teri, she'd cut their tongue out.

tez sounds kinda neat! like tza and tess mixed together. i'm not sure i would really be too keen on it for everyday use, though.

probably more than you ever wanted to know,

t

So you are a 'tuh-ree-ssah' and not a 'tear-aze-ah'?

the rza, the gza, the tza

over the river and into therese

(sorry)

michael,

this is why i wish everyone knew the international phonetic alphabet. my name is pronounced [tərisə].

also acceptable: [tɜrisə]

ah IPA, how annoyed yet happy I am that I never actually formally studied you

I lvoe the nickname "tza," but maybe I will be the sole person to call you "Tez."

T-boogie,

Solfege: yay or nay?

daniel-san,

it has been so long since aural thrills class, i don't even remember! all i know is that solfege is a hell of a lot easier than the number system where scale degree 2 is actually three because scale degree 1 1/2 is 2. asl;dgjkad/.g.

what are your feelings on the matter?

t

tehresa,

how do you feel about people who regularly quote movies and tv shows?

when someone decides to quote entire movie scenes to you, how are you supposed to react? will they take it personally if you don't laugh?

thanks

al

I found the hand-gestures hella-annoying but I have to credit having a choir teacher in high school who diligently taught it to all of his students with giving me the foundation I needed to learn how to sight-read. Nowadays I use a hybrid system where I analyze a piece based on the chords in its progression and figure out where I'm singing in relation to the root using a 1-8 scale.

So, qualified yay.

^^^ this is how I play music too dan

piano player yeah!

admiral,

i must admit, that i have some tolerance for quoting, as i have been guilty of it myself on occasion. i do not, however, have any fondness for constant quoters. i appreciate witty or insightful original content far more than any ability to recall scenes of films or television shows. you didn't ask this, but i especially can't stand it when people drop relatively generic lines from songs and expect you to know them, or when they drop really obscure lyrics and get all pretentious if you don't have any clue what they're talking about.

entire scenes have their place once every few years or so. i admit that my little sister and i used to re-enact a particularly melodramatic scene from forest gump, though we never performed them outside of my bedroom. my other sister and i also used to do the karate kid scene with the crane kick. in both of these cases, the re-enactments were, i believe, the result of not having cable or video games and being bored. i think it is perfectly acceptable not to laugh, though they will probably take it personally or judge you. but: that is their problem, and you can walk away knowing that they are ridiculous and you are awesome.

does this answer your question?

t

Got it, I have a friend whose family pronounces it [təreza]

we never really had to do hand gestures, but we did have to conduct while sight-singing. no one told me until my final one semester that i had one of the meter patterns wrong. way to go, expensive school teachers!
xpost

yes, and i have known a [trisə] before, too!
xpost

little kids reenacting scenes is fine and probably awesome in general.

i don't understand why constant quoters think THEY are funny when they quote a funny or "funny" line from something. last year, several people at my work would quote borat and think it was hilarious. thankfully that has died down.

VERRA NAHCE

yes im quite annoyed of that too

Bruno's funnier...

tza when are we gonna live in the same place again so we can hang

GIGGITY GIGGITY!!

tza how much time is there btw end of school and departure for se megafap

cause, u know, drinks

lingbert,

regarding borat, i have some mixed feelings. you see, my brother-in-law bears quite a striking resemblance to mr. cohen and is quite good at the borat/bruno impressions. other members of my family have encouraged this behavior and i have even received voicemails from "borat" before, well after the funny factor had reached its expiration date. i humor him because he is my sister's husband and a generally great dude, but anyone else, i would probably roll my eyes at (in a very obvious/dramatic fashion to be sure they noticed).

i hope this does not make you think less of me.

t

harbl,

first of all, you should stop living in weird places along i-90 like rochester and cleveland (although the road should get some props for ending in seattle).

i encourage you to consider taking a peak at ITR: TELL ME WHERETO I SHOULD MOVE when planning where to take your board examinations.

i think it is imperative that we establish some sort of penalization structure for failed hang out attempts, though, so we do not repeat rochester05.

<3,

t

mookieproof,

your question is a little bit difficult to answer, since i am not leaving from new york to go directly to sefap, but i will fill you in anyway. my finals are done next thursday, and i am flying to south carolina after work on friday. from there, i will go to atl for 12/21 epic sefap (it's a palindrome!).

as you can see, it's pretty tight in terms of beverage consumption time, BUT i would like to give advance warning that i will be attempting to wrangle people together for birthday drinks after i return on the 28th or sometime in the new year (perhaps in conjunction with a pre-inauguration bash).

missing u,

t

t-money,

i live in columbus, although i have a special affinity for I-90 because i have spent so much time on it, and my little brother is on the other end of it. i promise not to move to boston, however, and neither should you. i am going to loltimore!!!!

<3,

hrbl

i am one mile from the other end of i90 right now!

?

harbl,

i am so sorry for mistaking this!!! don't i feel silly!!? columbus is still weird. i have also spent a lot of time on i-90.

perhaps we can hang out in loltimore if i ever visit my sister and aforementioned b-i-l in d.c. (if they don't move to boston lol!). alternately, i encourage you to visit new york sometime.

t

jergins, you are unsure of this fact?

yeah we can have a loltimore FAP w/ eman but he probably won't come (it is a mystery) so i'll get a cardboard cutout of darth vader and put an eman nametag on it

i would be down with that. do you think there is some way we could get the starter of this thread to make a celebrity appearance (<3)?

we could get a cardboard cutout of someone else and put a different nametag on that. more pints 4 us

but cardboard cutouts can not cook nuevo cuisine, now can they?

unless they ARE the nuevo cuisine...

tza,

why eat cardboard?

your friend,

jergins do you want to come to the cardboard FAP too? you're invited

tza should i get an iphone tomorrow

yeah duh

its gonna be less money to pimp my kia sportage for sefap though

jergins,

Pica (not to be confused with PICA) is a medical disorder characterized by an appetite for largely non-nutritive substances. why bc corrugation look intersting.

t

yeah we can have a loltimore FAP w/ eman but he probably won't come (it is a mystery) so i'll get a cardboard cutout of darth vader and put an eman nametag on it

― harbl, Friday, December 12, 2008 8:32 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

dont forget to invite the talented mr shipley

roxy,

how much are iphones now? you should probably just get one. i have an ipod touch and it is very nice and it'd be cool to not have an ipod and a phone. on the other hand, i am so sick of everyone and their fucking iphones!!!

t

tza, others,

can I come to imaginary loltimore fap, I have not been there in ages.

tomboto,

sure, why not!? but this time don't make gf mad!

t

lol - thanks tehresa! (I actually wasn't mad.)
I also have an ipod touch which I love and am very happy to be a non-iphone owner. oops I don't have a question...

that is ok, you are welcome on this thread any time, for any reason!
i'm glad you weren't mad -- i would have been!!!!

we should be able to plan some kind of momentous inaugural get-together, what with the bars being open 24/7 and all. and knowing we have ipod touches might be a big plus since it was impossible to get a text or call out on election night! way too many people on the streets. with enough beer none of this will matter.

vq(t), i don't think less of you. i think equally to how i thought of you before.

lingy,

this is good to know! unless you thought poorly of me before, in which case u_u

before i thought you were tops

oh yay!

it's almost midnight on friday t

you got plans?

pwv,

i am taking a wee break from drafting right now, then i have to get back to work. i would very much love to be out and about with a glass of wine in one hand, but alas, it is not allowed this evening.

what about you?

t

pappawheelie is a world-class party girl

i am getting that impression!

wait papawheelie is a lady?

yes and she is v pretty

teh, what time would you and laurel like to sup this saturday night?

also, would other nyc noisers like to sup w/ us in brooklyn this saturday night?

we are going to edgy vinegar hill byob restaurant

i am working on drink number like i fucking know

but i do plan on finding a dancefloor in about 45 minutes. probably in bklyn

gbx, i've yet to grow into becoming a lady

xp

i don't know what is happening anymore, around here

papa i'll be in NYC january 18th we should drink and go out dancing (no homo)

jergs, i'll do my best to no homo while agreeing to your meetup

reachout

no promises ;))))))))))))))))))))

;)

more like jerkin' and pappaboner

should be a good time for all lingy

why do we call get-togethers faps?

HEY KEEP IT CLEAN ON MY THREAD

actually no, it's ok! lol

My threads babay

*fap* *fap* *fap* *fap* *fap*

i'm actually serious. I know what the Fark lol definition of a "fap" is, but why does ILXors call meet-ups FAPs?

the answer used to be in the FAQ - FAP = fancy a pint

fancy a pint.
lolbritishes!

xpost!

it's a britishesism

fancy a pint, whiney

briteshes...

haha, xpost

the other definition is less disgusting to me.

yeah, masturbation is funtime

sorry t :(((((((

attn tza,

how do i keep from hating the nutcracker music, knowing i'm going to hear it at least once a day for the next two weeks?

thanks friend,

it's just pyotr wishing you a merry christmas jergins

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Portr%C3%A4t_des_Komponisten_Pjotr_I._Tschaikowski_%281840-1893%29.jpg

pyotr

PYOTR

plop yr own teh rza

jergins,

i take the route of submission. better to just let yourself go and get into it, be ready to predict the quirky notes, etc. it will be over soon and you'll move on. this is the technique i take, especially with something like the nutcracker. get lost in the nostalgia! last year, i submitted to nutcracker because i knew it was the only way i'd get through 10,000 kids in 3 days. i recently let myself get sucked into la bohème, which was over the monitor all week at work. you allow yourself to be silly and hum it for the 2 weeks, then resume life as usual. proof: i spent all day humming the same 3 bars of bohème but i am back to normal now, just 6 hours later!

funny side factoid: my sister was all lol because the buffalo philharmonic had the nutcracker on their excerpts list!!

tz, i want to audition for this in january:

http://www.angeleschorale.org/join/index.asp

what should i sing? i do well with mezzo/alto 1.

jody,

what is your singing experience? have you sung oratorio before? do you have a favorite hymn? how flexible is your voice (do you like doing runs, or are you better with sustained melodies)? i may have some ideas, but i want to make sure they are a good fit!

we can talk about this some this evening, as well. as far as time, i will come whenever works for you!

t

tehresa,

i have a similar question. i miss choral singing, and have some time on my hands such that i could commit at least in the short run. however, it has been nearly 15 years since i sang in a chorus, and i was never anything like solo quality. know anything about the ny choral society, including whether i have a chance? is there a good alternative (of similar scale) you know of? i can sight-read (tho i might have to refresh my memory a little bit), but don't have perfect pitch or anything. i have, however, already sung at least one work on their spring carnegie hall program, and probably still have the music somewhere. any thoughts?

gab

ps i am a baritone/first bass.

hey gab,

great question. i've actually been meaning to look into the choral scene, as i will also have some time on my hands soon and i really miss singing bach! i don't know too much about ny choral society, but why not give it a shot? if it's not the right fit, you can ask them to recommend a more appropriate group at the audition. a coworker mentioned a choir called khorikos that he suggested i audition for, and that he is auditioning for as well. i'm not up on their details, though.

if all else fails, you, jody and i can just form our own choir! middle voices rule!!!

hope this helps!

t

very quotatious,

why are you so awesome? what are some tips you have on being awesome?

thanks,
and what

and what,

that's very kind of you. too kind, i would say!

if pressed, i would say that my awesomeness is the result of a combination of factors including bits of inherent aptitude to awesomeness, drive, intelligence and a lot of luck.

it does not hurt to be a little bit of a weirdo and to be able to own that weirdness, especially if you are a middle child struggling to make yourself stand out.* this will get you far even after you have left the nest are out in the big wide world striving for greatness.

i am also awesome because i will be attending SEFAP and that is an automatic +77 awesome points -- a generous bump to the 47 or so awesome points i acquire daily.

it's a little hard to quantify awesomeness, even with a points system, but i hope this was somewhat enlightening!

<3,
t

*if you are not a middle child i do not want to hear any arguments on this one. you do not know what it's like and never will!!!!

i am not a middle child but i think nuturing your own weirdness applies to only children like myself as well, combined with only talking to adults when you're a lil kid

another tip is to develop a passion for something about which your peers are clueless. they will be really impressed when you start dropping science, and think you are more awesome than you are.

t,

what are your theories about the oldest child? is it possible for one to awesome or are they forever lame

thx,
h

one to be awesome, i mean

Tehresa,

What do you do if you just remembered you did something really bad, probably illegal, a few years ago? Like felony bad?

http://i38.tinypic.com/21x6jd.jpg

karl, i don't think tza has the expertise to answer this question. i do.

Harbl, you have to help me. I'm sick of listening to this police scanner every afternoon.

karl,

take a deep breath and turn off the scanner. just don't tell anyone what you did. especially not the cops. justice is on your side.

this is not legal advice,
harbl

harbl,

i tend to think the oldest child gets more credit than is due. you see, there is a parental bias towards thinking that whatever the oldest child does is some groundbreaking new venture -- even for everyday things like going to work. i remain unimpressed.

as a result of growing up with such a double standard, oldest children tend to have overinflated egos and tend to think they know better than the rest of the world. this is unacceptable, and not awesome at all.

if you are an oldest, i do not mean to offend, it's just the way it is. i urge you to analyze the behaviors and activities of middle children and try to emulate them in whatever way you can.

sorry if my real talk is not more reassuring,

t

karl,

it's ok, you can tell me. what did you do?

Check out Pinehurst, Idaho on google maps. And then see Kingston, Idaho, to the west? There used to be another town, between those two, on highway 90. I fucked up Tehresa...I fucked up!

karl,

it's ok, you don't have to worry. no one gives a shit about idaho!

:),

t

t,

do you hate potatoes? also, do you like hitler?

yrs,
gb

t,

furthermore, what were hitler's feelings toward potatoes? after he had all the russian jews killed, what happened to their wodka distilleries?

I can't believe neb is a bass!

get-b,

i do like potatoes, but i much prefer a yukon gold to any idaho spud! (lolcanada)

preliminary research has not come up with much other than that hitler apparently stole somebody's potato.

http://redbullhsmp.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/ahsmp2.jpg

i am inclined to think he was a jerk all around, especially if he in any way fuxored liquor production.

as a peace offering, i am fully prepared to share a potato dish of your choice at dinner this evening.

t

roxy,

i know, right!?

lol,

t

lol

t,

google shows this:

It was Leo Burnett Bangkok that came up with the idea of using Adolf Hitler's image in ads to sell potato chips in Thailand. Posters for the chips suggested that eating the snacks would transform even Hitler into a fun-loving, likable character. We were curious how anyone at Burnett could think that was funny. "We find nothing funny about that ...

and this:

Adolf Hitler, one of the greatest mass murderers in history, is remembered by his secretary as a kind and paternal man who ate little aside from mashed potato and passionately loved his dog.

jbr,

good info!

so where does this leave us re: idaho? i'm gonna say, karl didn't commit such a bad offense!

t

oldest children tend to have overinflated egos and tend to think they know better than the rest of the world.

ha! i can't really argue with this, and also, thank you for clarifying exactly why my sister (she's the middle sister) hates me.

horseshoe,

she does not hate you, she resents that you've gotten special treatment over the years/think you are better than her.

t

oldest children tend to have overinflated egos and tend to think they know better than the rest of the world

this is because we do

you are totally right, and you should write a book about birth order + its consequences

i feel kinda sad that she has me figured out

this is because we do

― very very serious (gabbneb),

loltypical!

tza, why won't my Che DVD play?

Gabb is otm here

yeah i gotta say, there's a reason we were born first

morbius,

are you trying to play it in a dvd player? those discs don't work in vcrs.

in jest,

tza

que, max, you realize you're just proving my point and making asses of yourselves, right?

that is the horrible inevitability of birth order

^^typical middle child response, getting all defensive xpost

your point is undermined by the fact that harbl and horseshoe have already admitted i'm correct on this matter.

Self-hating firsts

fwiw i would never even want to be in any way like my sister (middle child)

^^^also typical. eldest children are often feel threatened by the middle because, although they are constantly told how great they are, they see the truth.

Mr. Que OTM. I cannot imagine being married to a non-firstborn. The others are all monumentally needy pains in the ass. As for striving to be more like middle children: r u crazy lady.

I guess r u crazy lady is my question. Also: what kind of pizza should I get tonight?

the weird thing is, my youngest sister also thinks she knows better than the rest of the world (we bond about this.) she is probably less obnoxious about it than i am, though.

i am biologically a youngest child but logistically an only child -- i have an older half-bro that didn't live with us most of the time. so i've always considered myself an only child. and i liked it that way -- more time alone, less competition for attention, no having to "share," etc.

even though he is not the eldest, this is the equivalent of that moment in arrested development when michael bluth is going on and on about what a saint he is because he won't sabotage gob's relationship with marta. lindsey tells him he's too good and he says, "and what do i get out of it?" and she says, "well, that sense of superiority." and he's like, "yeah, that is nice."

in other words, tehresa otm.

birth order psychology = phrenology for hipsters?

quincie,

you awful people deserve each other, so have at it.

re: pizza, i don't care what you get, but i hope you choke on it.

with love,

t

tza (and roxy),

i put together an audition tape with a loltenor bro of mine

let me know if you have any advice

'neb

gab,

pretty solid! they'd be fools to turn you down. your friend, on the other hand, could use a little more practice, though. i'd also recommend he tone it down a little. i don't know how to say this gently... it just may not be the right path for him.

good luck,

t

here's something from my reel:

lovely!

in addition to "ah! mio cor" (handel) as we discussed, "caro mio ben" was the one i was trying to remember. also "che tu m'ami" is another one you could try. "caro mio ben" would have more in the way of sustained lines, though. i encourage you to work on the a section of "ah! mio cor" because it is way cooler than the other two. let me know if you need help!

dinner was lovely! so good to see you :)

t

haha i've sung "caro mio ben" SO MANY TIMES

and i am v. drunk right now. cheers!

i am too! oops!

CARA SPOSA ppl not ah mio cor lol sopranos!

only child is the way to go

other ppl with only kid questions feel free to bump ASK TOMBOT

late to the game: your answer does not count!

if you're late, you might have another kid comin

I was out overachieving

tza, what's the appropriate response to my employers blocking Facebook? (new today)

(i'm thinking drink like a fish at the holiday party tnite, and take full lunch hours outside the bldg every day w/out fail)

c) grow the fuck up and realize nobody over 25 should be on facebook?

I'm glad you've finally changed yr name, lil cumstain

so you just hate clinton cuz last time your cum stained anything that wasn't the "add a post" box under my name he was still president right

are you guys both only children

morbs,

the appropriate response is acceptance. you really shouldn't be on facebook at work anyway unless your job requires social media marketing efforts. i suggest acquiring some internets at your residence, where you will be free to facebook to your heart's content with out fear of content monitoring.

aside from that, i think it is incredibly healthy to take a full hour's lunch break each and every day and wish i could do the same. it is also highly recommended that you drink like a fish at your holiday party regardless of the status of your facebook privileges because free booze!!! rite?!?

t

well, I shdn't be on ILX either.

sayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

why couldnt they have banned ilx at work

morbs,

another approach would be to go to your bosses and tell them that having facebook blocked greatly interferes with your ability to flirt with sexy singles in your area. how are you supposed to senselessly fritter away the last hours of the workday without a little flirting?

ethan,

how bad is your hangover today?

t

haaaa

at least i dont have to work

ice-skating later :D

remember, thin ice is the most fun.

"It seems the virus problems encountered may be linked to MySpace and facebook so these sites have been temporarily blocked until they sort out the trouble."

well at least their not concerned about productivity impacting your internet film critic career!

should you really be checking facebook while operating on patients?

I think FB is necessary so our acct executives can coordinate college football outings w/ their corporate clients.

Tertiary activity is necessary relief after a few hours w/ UTIs.

why are you telling us this

UTIs?

urinary tract infections (the texts that I work with are pleasure-reading)

should you really be checking facebook while operating on patients?

guffaws

a lot of my ex bosses are on fb

mark foley

mostly girls btw

tombot otm

Hmm, gabbneb and I are both baritones.

hmm

*HMMMMMMM*

Less hmms more questions!

t,

are you done w/ school yet? i finished today. we shd have our simultaneous drinks soon.

if not i am truely sorry for your lots

luv,
c

schwwwwww i am not done yet!

i ahve to finish a project tonight OH NO! and then i have some homework to do tomorrow night for a class that i already did my final in wtf is that about!?

but perhaps simultaneous drink then! or friday evening when i am at the airport bar before my flight!

also if you send me yr digitz you can drink along with SEFAP on sunday.

t

what makes you more real than me?
WHAT MAKES YOU MORE REAL THAN ME, TEHRESA?!

lol @ phone drink along

schwwwwwww i am drinking a wine. working tomorrow, going to aeropuerto friday.

xp!!!! KARL MALONE

http://i38.tinypic.com/21x6jd.jpg

u look good man

which part?

We may need to poll this

let's have simultaneous flughafengetränke on friday!

unless you are flying in am (i have to wait for after work wait no during work because it is holiday party before i leave but after work for making it count)

KARL MALONE,

get the fuck out, i am so more real than you - you're obviously a shop!

cordially,

t

it would be funny if we were in laguardia at the same time because i'm connecting there

omg

how did you know i was flying out of there and not one of the others!?

i guessed that it is more common for a relatively short domestic flight to fly out of laguardia?

or out of newark bitchezzz

hmm intersting

i think you are a witch!

yeah true but it lg is still the best guess xp i am a witch yes

i like lg best because is closest to my house!

oh nm my lg flight departs at 3:30

;_; my office party doesn't even start til like 4:30!!?!?

i may be stuck in LGA forever tomorrow

yeah it's pretty much supposed to snow like hardcore dammmmn

whatever we're all just gonna get drunk. maybe i will make my bday party an lga party! i know for a fact there's a bar outside security.

it would be cool if pappawheelie showed up to the party

what if we all went to diff terminal and it was waiting for godot oh no

machines were mice and men were lions once upon a time. but now that it's the opposite, it's twice upon a time.

what does that mean

it means your infinity in you is the reality in you.

much obliged

much indulged

http://pages.ripco.net/%7Esaxmania/sights/moondog.JPEG

tza, are you happy Ben Brantley hates Pal Joey?

morbs,

very, if only because it *maybe* makes up for his love letter to dividing the estate.

But here it’s not easy to differentiate between a character’s distancing herself from her bad behavior and an actress’s distancing herself from a bad production.
ZING!

happy xmas tehresa

<3 you too, harbl!!

tza, must I sacrifice end of Celtics-Lakers so niece can watch "Mickey's Christmas Carol"?

morbs,

i had to sacrifice it because dinner was served. bro-in-law was distraught. apparently we missed a grebt (horrible) ending. u_u

drinks sunday?

t

oh, i saw the end.

Sunday I'm going to see Sandra Bernhard @Joes Pub! (kinda early)

LOL

I hope she's still lol! The last few years she's seemed more kissass than kickass.

hi tehresa

on last.fm, cutty and i have VERY HIGH musical compatibility. does this mean we have to date? im not sure of the etiquette in this situatioan.

thanks in advance,
max

isnt that a question for "pfunkboy"

i trust tehresa on matters of etiquette

someone should start a poll of all the "ask ____" threads on noise

VERY HIGH

max,

while a VERY HIGH compatibility does not require that you date the compatible party and, in actuality, it would be quite difficult to date every "friend" with which you have a VERY HIGH rating (unless you listen to really obscure stuff no one has ever heard of, in which case, stop being so freaking pretentious, you douche!), i think you will find that if you just give it a chance, dating cutty could be the very thing that's been missing in your life.

with <3,
t

tz

I do not have VERY HIGH compatibility with anyone. :( Does this mean I will never find happiness?

chtaboy

apparently the thing missing from my life is . . . Steve Shasta

i think the thing missing from my life is a flask.

you have VERY HIGH compatibility with a flask

actually, i think it's SUPER

srsly tho max showed up on my neighbors list.

i asked him to go dancing but he hasn't responded yet.

say yes, max!!!!!

i had wait for tehresa's ruling

lol i actually think the only person with higher compatibility than cutty is my actual girlfriend

cutty come to this

http://www.clubstudiob.com/__data/cdaa35c9a5e4ab48634a877424d2e6aa.jpg

studio b lol

homie are you gonna come see lindstrom in new york or are you going to make fun of the venue

I want to be VERY HIGH right now

max do you smoke w33d

like my bro crutis

look at my last.fm playlists and guess

going to see DJ live lol

sigh

actually no one has commented yet on the most LOL thing on the poster which is LINDSTROM SPONSORED BY COLT 45 -- COMPLIMENTARY COLT 45 FROM 10-11PM

once harbl and jw were two of my highest neighbors, and elmo was also there. now lingbert is my only ilx neighbor.

sleep used to be one of my top neighbors, now the #1 slot is ... max, lol

also someone named mookie-flavored who is apparently not the same as mookieproof

also someone named pussy9000

my neighbors consist of 59 swedish people and blueski

yeah i don't know any of my neighbors anymore. they all seem to be from switzerland, which i think is a bad sign. i'm bored of what i listen to lately, too.

u forgot cutty lol
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i am frequently 'friended' by italians and brazilians hmm.

actually cutty is not one of my neighbors, im totally serious, its 90% swedes, a couple weird americans, a german dude, blueski, and my girlfriend

weird you are one of my top 10 nabes

harbl, we never had a drink together. let's do this soon! (i am inspired by max/cutty <3)

weird you are one of my top 10 nabes

yeah it's kinda strange that I have max in mine but not cutty ... and max doesn't have either of us. mystery.gif

max, I'm sorry I chuckled at Lindstrom. Come eat lamb w/ me.

the hurt is too deep morbs, i dont know if ill ever get over it

I was going to come up for Lindstrom but Studio B status was so up in the air so I didn't commit and now I am kinda bummed.

you should come anyway!

Yeah I should but I am already committed to work now. Sometime in February looking good, though!

Tza,

Which of these should I read next?

The Gutter and the Grave
New Black Mask Quarterly #1
Girl in Landscape
Days of Obligation
The Gunslinger
You Can't Go Home Again

hoos,

imma go purely on instinct here cause i don't know any of those... but i will say girl in landscape sounds very intersting and possibly intriguing? does the lady blend into the bushes? how does this work? please report back.

t

hey whaddaya think about this
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/ten_things_theaters_need_to_do_right_now_to_save_themselves/Content?oid=691862

T

u were correct! finished book last night it was aweseom

jergs,

we discussed that article a bit here: We really don't care about theatre do we?

i am definitely all for audience involvement, booze, and perks like childcare that make going to performing arts events easier/more attractive to younger audiences.

with economic developments since that article, i would add a few more thoughts.

re shakespeare: fuck you, dude, it's ok to do shakes. it's good stuff. people like it. it's too risky to alienate your white-haired subscribers. even if they will not sustain you forever, you NEED that money now. and as open as i am, i'd take shakes over most new plays i've seen in the past few years.

this also goes for your idea that everything must be a premiere. sorry, but that's not economically viable. as painful as it is, every theater company must do their christmas carol or south pacific or nutcracker (for dance co's) or whatever to bring in the revenue necessary to do the unknown premiere works which you will undoubtedly lose money on, regardless of how well they are reviewed or perceived among the theatrical elite. i also think it's silly to discuss theater as a whole and then focus on fringe companies. they follow different models than your standard off-broadway and regional companies. off-off and fringe type stuff can afford to take more risks because they are inherently scrappier than multi-million dollar organizations that have a lot more riding on a failed production. the good thing is places like lct and roundabout have started doing studio/lab productions that allow new playwrights' works to be premiered at prominent companies, but in smaller, more experimentally-friendly spaces.

real estate is important, and it's key to find spaces with long term potential, either ones that you may be able to to buy at a later date if you can't afford to do so now, or ones for which you are 99% sure you can renew the lease when it expires. moving is costly. as for artist housing, i don't know. there are lots of great resources such as mcdowell colony and resources like new dramatists or fellowships that provide artist housing or workspace for authors/creators. i think it is important to remember that administrators are often underpaid and work far longer hours than a lot of the artists. where is their protection? (yes, this is a self-serving argument!) aside from the often overpaid figureheads of prominent arts orgs (though many of the highly paid top execs are not necessarily overpaid imo - you have to take into account that their role as public figures often brings in a large percentage of contributed income that more than covers their salaries), administrative staff often gets paid a pittance, and is more subject to economic woes than the artists, whose wages - and, in many cases, job security - are protected by union agreements. it's funny that the dude sees unions as a threat at the same time he is pushing for artist benefits!

ok, i will stop now.

t

hoos,

what was the deal with the lady in the landscape? was she a shapeshifter?

t

sorta! like she doesn't take her medicine and weird shit happens that has fucked up ramifications for everyone in her martian colony

there are all kinds of metaphors about this john wayne type dude whose "shoulders cut the air" and whose slow gestures seem to make him "part of the landscape" the book is basically The Searchers set on Mars imo

lol

Girl in Landscape is a science fiction novel by Jonathan Lethem. It is meant to evoke the classic Western film The Searchers (1956)[citation needed].

clearly my analysis is not original

haw!

Call me tz

So I can ask, verbally.

what, now?

i said call me tz

Followed by "So I can ask, verbally."

oh ok. what's up, tz?

here's a question:

happy birthday?

wahoo!

Love you, visit us when you can.

couldn't find a tza HB thread! will this do? i guess that is a question.

i couldn't find one but i didn't want to start one bc treat others as you would like to be treated

I don't think I have one :(

But thanks, y'all. Miss you, morbs!

tehresa what is ur new year's resolution?

I am feeling pretty good about stuff these days so I think I'm going with:
A) get a job/more freelance clients
B) lose more poundage
C) run 10k
D) make more effort to be social/make friends
D1) stop being romantically retarded
E) hike more