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

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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

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