Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

is there a correlation between not feeling she is hot and being a douche at the parking lot?

I would put Mr. Martha Quinn Is Not Hot more in the category of the people who run the gate rather than the ones who man it. He was not one of the Cool Kids.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

He and I swapped our church memberships. He felt more at home with the frigid sherry-drinking Anglican women and men who only show passion when their lawn is invaded by the small papist hordes. While I like being surrounded by warm, passionate women and hordes of small papists.

The Anglo-Catholics at the Old North Church may be frigid, but the Episcopalians in California are freaky-deaky, man. Think of the most pierced CYO camp counselor you know -- that's basically every Diocese of California woman under age 35.

I know the Catholic Archbishop of Boston goes around calling himself "Cardinal Séan" and hip stuff like that, but it's got to feel weird for you when Cardinal Dolan likened gay people who come to church to people who sit down at a dinner table with dirty hands. It was shit like that tipping the balance for me -- I lost interest in being a conscientious objector in my own religion.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Not Bob

Rumors of 1981 -- Martha Quinn was one of the "angels" in the video for "Centerfold" by the J. Geils Band. Denied, but come on, man -- look at that chick! Of *course* it's her!

Can't believe that Straight Dope hasn't addressed this burning issue. Unless it has and Fenwick's search missed it.

J. Geils... Name a band that:

1. Was together longer;
2. With fewer hit songs;
3. Or fewer memorable songs;
4. Or fewer albums the names of which anyone can remember;
5. Or a less memorable name, and is yet;
6. A ubiquitous, immediately recognizable reference to everyone under 60.

Peter Wolf's solo work? It'll get a review in the New Yorker. Why? I can only assume a lot of people are still confusing him with Ray Davies.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

J. Geils... Name a band that:

1. Was together longer;
2. With fewer hit songs;
3. Or fewer memorable songs;
4. Or fewer albums the names of which anyone can remember;
5. Or a less memorable name, and is yet;
6. A ubiquitous, immediately recognizable reference to everyone under 60.

Peter Wolf's solo work? It'll get a review in the New Yorker. Why? I can only assume a lot of people are still confusing him with Ray Davies.

He was fucking Faye Dunaway for a bit there. That'll get a bar level singer some press. Like say if GWNC starting fucking GGG, we'd have to make him a-list.

[Flinty_McFlint]

The Flaming Lips and Manic Street Preachers. What do I win?

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

He was fucking Faye Dunaway for a bit there. That'll get a bar level singer some press. Like say if GWNC starting fucking GGG, we'd have to make him a-list.

I think GWNC is more the freaque attican anglican type.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

Uh, the fact they were having a First Communion party, plus the fact that they didn't seem particularly cowed by a Protestant clergyman telling them to GTFO?

I suggest nailing your complaints to their door.

[Not Bob]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

J. Geils... Name a band that:

1. Was together longer;
2. With fewer hit songs;
3. Or fewer memorable songs;
4. Or fewer albums the names of which anyone can remember;
5. Or a less memorable name, and is yet;
6. A ubiquitous, immediately recognizable reference to everyone under 60.

Peter Wolf's solo work? It'll get a review in the New Yorker. Why? I can only assume a lot of people are still confusing him with Ray Davies.

They do have -- pardon the oxymoron -- regional super-stardom among people whose musical tastes were formed in 1978. (See e.g. the older brother my ex girlfriend from Beverly, MA.)

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

He was fucking Faye Dunaway for a bit there. That'll get a bar level singer some press. Like say if GWNC starting fucking GGG, we'd have to make him a-list.

Faye Dunaway still thinks he wrote "You Really Got Me" and "Celluloid Heroes."

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Not Bob

They do have -- pardon the oxymoron -- regional super-stardom among people whose musical tastes were formed in 1978. (See e.g. the older brother my ex girlfriend from Beverly, MA.)

Really? I thought Aerosmith* was the only true MA band. (Other than Boston).**

______
*The band with the greatest number of immediately memorable hits everyone wishes they could forever forget.
** Which if I took the time to Google, I've a suspicion I'd discover were from San Diego.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Not Bob

They do have -- pardon the oxymoron -- regional super-stardom among people whose musical tastes were formed in 1978. (See e.g. the older brother my ex girlfriend from Beverly, MA.)

Pedro Lupus remains highly identifiable around here. You can run into him in the bar of the 4 seasons all the time.

[Not Bob]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

The Anglo-Catholics at the Old North Church may be frigid, but the Episcopalians in California are freaky-deaky, man. Think of the most pierced CYO camp counselor you know -- that's basically every Diocese of California woman under age 35.

I know the Catholic Archbishop of Boston goes around calling himself "Cardinal Séan" and hip stuff like that, but it's got to feel weird for you when Cardinal Dolan likened gay people who come to church to people who sit down at a dinner table with dirty hands. It was shit like that tipping the balance for me -- I lost interest in being a conscientious objector in my own religion.

If the wingnuts can have cognitive dissonance re the church's teachings on the death penalty and social justice, then I can (mostly) ignore the abortion, birth control, and gay marriage stuff. Easy enough to do when one (rarely) goes to Mass at a Franciscan church in the poor part of East Podunkville.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

He was fucking Faye Dunaway for a bit there. That'll get a bar level singer some press. Like say if GWNC starting fucking GGG, we'd have to make him a-list.

You guys are old.

And I'd never heard of this Martha Quinn women before today.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

J. Geils... Name a band that:

1. Was together longer;
2. With fewer hit songs;
3. Or fewer memorable songs;
4. Or fewer albums the names of which anyone can remember;
5. Or a less memorable name, and is yet;
6. A ubiquitous, immediately recognizable reference to everyone under 60.

Peter Wolf's solo work? It'll get a review in the New Yorker. Why? I can only assume a lot of people are still confusing him with Ray Davies.

The Grateful Dead.

[Not Bob]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Really? I thought Aerosmith* was the only true MA band. (Other than Boston).**

______
*The band with the greatest number of immediately memorable hits everyone wishes they could forever forget.
** Which if I took the time to Google, I've a suspicion I'd discover were from San Diego.

They would be the "just another band of of Boston" who were steady national superstars. Geils would be the Southside Johnny to the Springsteen of Aerosmith. (With, uh, Bon Jovi as the Boston? Yeah, that'll work.)