Memorable quotes from posts

[Tom Storer]

It's not too early to get this one going. Nothing new right this second, but I'll start by quoting the first post of the archived version:

Sometimes people say things in their posts that are just great, and I always wish I could remember them all. Let this thread be the place to store quotes from posts. Please, don't post frivolous stuff of your own, just other people's pithy words, with full attribution! I'll start with this one from H.L. Jones :

"Man if jazz is dead there is some jammin ass Ghosts."
- post 76 in thread "Is jazz dead?" (05-31-2001 / 09:04 PM)

Edit: I just realized the posts aren't numbered here like they were in the old joint. At the bottom of each post it gives the date and time, we'll just have to use those.

[Ron Thorne]

Thread title: How do you fight a speeding ticket?

1. Monte Smith
03-13-2003 / 12:56 AM

A cop got me dead to rights today doing 49 in a 30 zone. He's right. He's got me by radar. I am sure I was committing the crime.

So how do I fight it in court?

[Tom Storer]

"Bring all the personal baggage to the art (as creator or reciever) you want, but if that's ALL that's 'there', what do you have other than the equivalent of a newspaper clipping or a foo-fooey boo-hooey chop suey diary entry? If that's all there is to art, then the phone book is a fukkin' priceless masterpiece suitable for framing! There needs to be more to it than that, I think. The establishment of the self is indeed necessary, but after that is accomplished, it's time to give it up and turn it loose, and let it be a new day. So let a man come in and do the popcorn."

Jim Sangrey, post #91, Alley thread "Separating the art from the artist" (03-20-2003 / 12:54 PM)
(Yes, this is from the old Speakeasy.)

[Tom Storer]

"War is dangerous. But then, so is smoking."

- Monte Smith, in The Alley/The War Thread, March-25th-2003 03:21 PM EST

[Tom Storer]

"Christ, it's live on Fox!"

- Monte Smith, in The Alley/US Military Is In Baghdad, April-5th-2003 05:10 AM

[Pete C]

Tom, where are the archives?

[Tom Storer]

Now searchable via the section entitled "The Archives."

[Paul B]

We can't forget Steve Reynolds' claim that Mujician is "the greatest improvising ensemble in the history of improvised music."

I suspect he's changed his mind by now...;--)

Bye-ya.

[walto]

Tippy absolutely rules!

"Geez, remember the first time you used Noxema? I felt so grown up. It's like face whiskey for adolescent girls. Camphorific! But back in '82, it was leaving behind enough waxy residue to buff the neighbor's vintage Pacer so I stopped."



From the childhood sex symbols thread, 5/8/03

[Tom Storer]

It is news to me that a public school can be allowed to be absolutely totalitarian in its self-appointed police powers over students and their behavior "anywhere in the United States or a foreign country." This is not "en loco parentus." This is en parentus loco. Insane parenting, in short.

- Gary Sisco, post #67 in The Alley/Piss Test, May-8th-2003 09:38 PM EST

[SinginSumo]

"...the shit that we broke in Iraq."

- Monte Smith
Thread: The Real Looting Has Begun, post #24, 18 April 2003.


Just another in an ongoing pathological series of ill-considered, utterly insular and unbelievably insensitive posts.

[walto]

"Sweet creamery butter is so so good! Is there an animal we love more than the cow?

moooooooo

Bossie, I raise my burger to you."


The "Suit to Ban Oreos" thread, May 15th, 2003.

Tippy, of course.

[Tom Storer]

Farts may not kill you, but I wouldn't want to go to a club, and certainly not a restaurant, where farting was encouraged.

- Pete C, post #18 in The Alley/Joe Jackson sounds off on smoking ban, May-19th-2003 08:22 AM EST

[Enforcer]

This thread cannot boast of any credibility whatsoever until someone unearths a long lost gem I've contributed somwhere along the way. I expect diligent research to commence immediately.

Spewing worthy fodder for any discussion of memorable events on a startlingly regular basis,
Larry

[Jimmy Cantiello]

Larry's right. Here's one from the old board that deserves to be reincarnated:


From the "Will Rod Stewart Ever Die" thread at the Alley:


Larry Nagel 02-05-2003 / 01:43 PM

"Tonight's The Night" is without question one of the worst pieces of phonic sh** ever to drop out of the ass of the recording industry.

[Enforcer]

I've always had a lot of respect for you, Jimmy. But now, I think you've just become my favorite person. Period.

Loyal to a fault but only conditionally,
Larry

[bluenoter]

Sorry, I'll try to post the other interview I found, in which [Kenny] "G" expresses a newfound admiration for Ayler and Sun Ra, signs up for recorder lessons, and then has his lips sewn together.

--Tanager, #57 in Branford on Jazz vs Smooth Jazz in Speak Out, May-23rd-2003 09:44 AM

[Tom Storer]

I got Tisdale , Boney James and George Howard right along side of my William Parker and Matt Shipp in my record collection. Why because I JAM TO IT ALL. Labels don't bother me because if I don't dig it I ain't got to buy it or listen to. If another cat is feeling somthing else JAM ON BROTHER AND ENJOY. The world I roll in is big enough for it all.Peace and all that.

- HLAW, post #31 in Speak Out/Branford on Jazz vs Smooth Jazz, May-22nd-2003 02:19 PM EST

[mke]

Underhound, from "For those of you with kids -- they like that shit?" (or something similar):

Recently while in the car with my 5 year old daughter I caught her quietly chanting from the back seat:

"We travel... the spaceways... from planet ... to planet..."


May-31st-2003 04:17 PM

[Jimmy Cantiello]

From the "Uppity Women" thread in the Alley, Salvador Dali Lama offered this gem.

"I mean damn, I'd vote for that fucked up bald guy from the goonies before Hillary."

[mke]

mone peterson

post #47 from "meshell ndegeocello jazz???"

Forget about her music and her looks, what about that name? You can't go wrong with a last name like that. I'd marry her just to be Moné Ndegeocello.

June-9th-2003 07:51 PM

[Tom Storer]

Any disc with Q-Tip rapping and Oprah Winfrey doing spoken of Maya Angelou's Poem "I shall not be moved" over Clarke's Bass-line rates high on my list.

- HLAW, post #44 in The Top Ten/Top cds 2003, May-4th-2003 11:47 PM EST (with reference to Stanley Clarke's "1, 2 to the Bass)".

[jazzfiend]

"With no think box, I bet the Hemp crop took a serious hit in Vermont."


HLJ, post 19, thread title: Sisco back online, 6/24/03. With reference to Gary's computer breakdown. (Alley thread)

[bostontricky]

Scalia said that the ruling “effectively decrees the end of all morals legislation,” and would pave the way for “judicial imposition of homosexual marriage, as has recently occurred in Canada.”

Does this mean that a Judge could force me to marry Scott Dolan? I hope he can cook.

Clay Fink, 6/26/03, post #15, "Gay sex ban unconstitutional"

[Tom Storer]

Swing and you soar with eagles. Suck, and you suck alone.

- RainyDay, post #25 in Speak Out/Wynton - Does he suck or not?, August-29th-2003 07:25 PM EST

[mke]

Bands tighter than a pair of size 8 short/shorts on a size 16 ass.

- HLJ #5 from "Dave Holland Quintet - Extended Play, Live at Birdland"

[walto]

"I may be overly influenced by having heard the Ciccolini first, but the whole piece seems to radiate the beautiful stasis of a cold evening, breath lingering in the air."





Brian Olewnick on a Satie piece, August-29th-2003 09:17 AM, WAYLT thread.

[steve(thelil)]

Yeah, but he misspelled "Cincotti"

[Brian Olewnick]

B-U-K-K-A-K-E

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

from the Looking For Like-Minded People thread:





Chuck Nessa September-9th-2003 at 06:26 PM


Read enough posts here and you will learn no jazz fans are "like-minded" - each one holds the secret.