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krj
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response 25 of 93:
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Jun 22 15:45 UTC 2001 |
Usually there is no movie at Top of the Park on Friday. However,
tonight the schedule announces "The Wizard of Oz." Music is listed
as "Various Artists, including the Saline Fiddlers Philharmonic."
The Saline Fiddlers are fun.
I don't know anything about Saturday's bands: The Couriers,
playing big band swing, and Kung Fu Diesel, described as
"rockabilly and roots rock."
I've been looking forward to Sunday night since the TOP schedule was
first announced. Performing at 7 pm is Grex's own Katie Geddes
and her band The Usual Suspects. The 8 pm band is Repercussions,
"world music percussion ensemble" -- I never heard of them before.
The Sunday movie is "Dr. Strangelove; Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying
And Love The Bomb," which is often regarded as one of the best movies
ever made. (It's #26 on the American Film Institute's list of Top 100
American films -- oops, it's a British production -- and voters at
imdb.com rank it as #11.)
It's a 1964 black & white black comedy about nuclear deterrence
through the doctrine of Mutual Assured Destruction.
Stanley Kubrick's only comedy; stars Peter Sellers (in three roles),
George C. Scott, Slim Pickens. James Earl Jones has a very small role,
it was his first film. Come revisit the paranoia of the cold war!!
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senna
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response 26 of 93:
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Jun 22 16:37 UTC 2001 |
I'm looking forward to Sunday as well. As I've stated elsewhere, I believe
that tonight (friday) will be TOP's largest attended night of the year.
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other
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response 27 of 93:
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Jun 22 16:48 UTC 2001 |
Featured acts at TOP tonight:
Saline Fiddlers
Gemini
The Chenille Sisters
Dick Siegel
Madcat and Kane
George Bedard and the Kingpins
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bhelliom
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response 28 of 93:
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Jun 22 16:57 UTC 2001 |
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bhelliom
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response 29 of 93:
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Jun 22 16:58 UTC 2001 |
Kung Fu Diesel sounds cool. If anybody see 'em, can you write up
something on them?
I'm not going to able to make it there tonight.
Party at the homestead I've been invited to attend. Can't pass up a
party where you're not responsible for clean up :)
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scott
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response 30 of 93:
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Jun 22 17:33 UTC 2001 |
Notice how Eric avoided mentioning the movie... what are you hiding from,
Eric? Probably it's because you can't actually prove anything which I haven't
already debunked in responses 4, 8, 11, 17, 22, and 25?
(Oops, wrong item. ;P)
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remmers
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response 31 of 93:
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Jun 22 19:43 UTC 2001 |
I'm sure everybody sees through your lies by now, Scott. :)
"Wizard of Oz" is the movie.
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brighn
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response 32 of 93:
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Jun 22 19:50 UTC 2001 |
I wish Scott and John would just stop with the heated ad hominem battles and
stick with the facts.
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krj
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response 33 of 93:
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Jun 22 19:55 UTC 2001 |
That's an awful lot of musicians to cram in before 10 pm.
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senna
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response 34 of 93:
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Jun 22 21:49 UTC 2001 |
That's clearly a biased view.
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tpryan
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response 35 of 93:
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Jun 22 21:54 UTC 2001 |
It would fit if three did 20 minutes, and the other 4 did 30
minutes.
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remmers
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response 36 of 93:
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Jun 23 02:53 UTC 2001 |
Mary and I wandered through TOP between 9 and 10 tonight. I don't
think I've ever seen it so crowded -- what a sea of humanity.
In the Grexer department, we spotted scott, senna, and ea. We
were told that krj and carla were also on the premises, but we
didn't find them.
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gelinas
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response 37 of 93:
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Jun 23 03:20 UTC 2001 |
I saw lots of people I knew, spoke/nodded to a few, but the only grexer I
saw was an other jack-booted blackshirt striving mightily to keep the
trains moving, if not on time. But that belongs in an other item, doesn't
it? :)
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scott
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response 38 of 93:
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Jun 23 04:29 UTC 2001 |
I watched most of the movie but wimped out when it started raining. Spotted
senna, krj, carla, ea, mary, remmers, and other.
It was announced that the crowd was the biggest ever for TOP.
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senna
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response 39 of 93:
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Jun 23 04:36 UTC 2001 |
Where'd you hear that announced? I left shortly before the end, which wasn't
very far away, to get home. Other than that, I spent the entire evening.
I managed to spot dewshine, bjorn, mnetter toriamos, and possibly some other
people I'm neglecting. I'm sure I spotted Joe without realizing it; how many
tall people in soccer jerseys can there be, Joe? :) Say hi next time.
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gelinas
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response 40 of 93:
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Jun 23 04:43 UTC 2001 |
I'll have to keep my eyes more open.
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ea
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response 41 of 93:
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Jun 23 04:46 UTC 2001 |
Thought I spotted Joe as he was walking in, but not sure. Spotted
Dewshine, senna, krj, scott, other, remmers, and I think I missed mary.
Also spotted someone claiming to be a former grexer (aardvark? he was
mumbling) on South U earlier in the evening.
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krj
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response 42 of 93:
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Jun 23 05:03 UTC 2001 |
I hadn't realized that the show would start at 6:30, so when Carla and I
drove in to the parking structure, it was almost filled, and there were
no visible seats. At least I got to hear the last three tunes by the
Saline Fiddlers. After that, the Ann Arbor Observer's 25th birthday
party was a show by most of the biggest local musical performers.
Hanging out with folks at the back of the performance area was sociable,
but it didn't do much for musical enjoyment. If I cupped my hands over
my ears, I could pretty well make out the Chenille Sisters; Madcat &
Kane carried better to the back, and then we moved down to the side
of the stage for the very short set by George Bedard.
I agree with remmers, this was the most crowded I've seen TOP; it was
triggering a mild sense of claustrophobia. It took 30 minutes in line
to get falafel for dinner, and all the other food lines seemed similar.
The crowd thinned quite a bit for the movie; we stayed until the end,
despite the rain shower.
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slynne
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response 43 of 93:
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Jun 23 05:10 UTC 2001 |
Wow, now I am not so bummed that I missed it. I get weird in crowds.
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mdw
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response 44 of 93:
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Jun 23 09:04 UTC 2001 |
I showed up for the very first part of the movie - it was indeed *very*
crowded, and I didn't see anyone I recognized. I left shortly after the
color part started, when some smokers wandered by and reminded me that
clean air was important.
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danr
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response 45 of 93:
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Jun 23 18:41 UTC 2001 |
Silvia and I were there for all the music. It was a great show! I
especially liked Dick Siegel, although they were all pretty good. I
only spotted scott and senna, but we were seated way on the right side
and didn't move around much.
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senna
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response 46 of 93:
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Jun 23 19:31 UTC 2001 |
Too bad I missed folks. There will probably be a movie or two with a larger
crowd than this movie had, but not the music.
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remmers
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response 47 of 93:
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Jun 25 01:19 UTC 2001 |
Stopped by TOP early this evening to hear Katie Geddes' group.
Enjoyed them immensely, as usual. Love their rendition of
the Lennon/McCartney tune "I've Just Seen a Face".
Spotted (in fact, was sitting with) Grexers krj, scott, drew,
aruba, and other.
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mdw
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response 48 of 93:
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Jun 25 04:07 UTC 2001 |
I wandered by TOP much too late to see the usual suspects. Someday I
want to see them, but it just wasn't happening tonight. I did catch the
tail end of an interesting percussion group, saw sea & gang, krj, drew,
other, gelinas, hhsrat, & senna, a short film, and the very start of Dr.
Strangelove, before I decided to take my draining sinuses elsewhere
(smokers...)
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senna
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response 49 of 93:
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Jun 25 04:24 UTC 2001 |
Let's see. Due to scheduling conflicts, I was a bit later than I hoped, but
I still caught krj, drew, scott, ea, dewshine, STeve (I saw him just as
everybody was leaving), mdw (with whom I managed to scare up a short chat),
y, poidog, someone who looked very much like a former freekman, and probably
gelinas among the crowd. You WILL be spotted, joe. You will.
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