Songfight! Boston August 12-13 (I Know My Rights)

A Bootleg · Post by **A Bootleg** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:05 pm

August will rock the me in Boston. Now, which college can I pretend to visit and get a free night's stay?

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:18 pm

I see there's a Coastal Management conference in New Orleans in July. That could put me in about the right place at about the right time...unfortunately my wife has got in first and we're going to a conference for her in NZ in May. 2 conference trips in a year may be hard to swing - shame - I'd really love to go to New Orleans too.

Anyway - it's a long shot - but I'll see what I can do.

mkilly · Post by **mkilly** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 9:19 pm

The White Hat wrote:August will rock the me in Boston. Now, which college can I pretend to visit and get a free night's stay?

Boston's not much of a college town. But I'd recommend Amherst, they're fancy.

edit: scratch that, Amherst is two hours from Boston. Just go with U-Mass. You can sing the Pixies song.

Post by jb » Tue Jan 18, 2005 9:53 pm

Caravan Ray wrote:I see there's a Coastal Management conference in New Orleans in July. That could put me in about the right place at about the right time...unfortunately my wife has got in first and we're going to a conference for her in NZ in May. 2 conference trips in a year may be hard to swing - shame - I'd really love to go to New Orleans too.

Anyway - it's a long shot - but I'll see what I can do.

Is there a New Orleans near Boston, or does your post have nothing to do with the topic?

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 10:26 pm

jb wrote:
Caravan Ray wrote:I see there's a Coastal Management conference in New Orleans in July. That could put me in about the right place at about the right time...unfortunately my wife has got in first and we're going to a conference for her in NZ in May. 2 conference trips in a year may be hard to swing - shame - I'd really love to go to New Orleans too.

Anyway - it's a long shot - but I'll see what I can do.
Is there a New Orleans near Boston, or does your post have nothing to do with the topic?

Closer to Boston than Brisbane is.

Anyway, it only seems to be about 1500km - about the same as Brisbane to Townesville - 'just down the road' as far as I'm concerned

the Jazz · Post by **the Jazz** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 12:24 am

mkilly wrote:edit: scratch that, Amherst is two hours from Boston. Just go with U-Mass.

UMass Amherst, maybe?

I would suggest Berklee except they are stingy bastards with their sleeping space.

the idiot king · Post by **the idiot king** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 1:38 am

mkilly wrote:Boston's not much of a college town. But I'd recommend Amherst, they're fancy.

um, you're kidding, right? boston and cambridge are like the epicenter of education. there are the obvious big ones (harvard, m.i.t., boston university) and also a ton of lesser known ones (umass boston, boston college, emerson, cambridge college, tufts, massachusetts college of art, new england institute of art, etc).

bz£ · Post by **bz£** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 1:48 am

I would hit up Harvard because their dorms are nicer than MIT's, and plus you'd be in Harvard Square when you weren't rocking out.

mkilly · Post by **mkilly** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 2:43 am

the idiot king wrote:
mkilly wrote:Boston's not much of a college town. But I'd recommend Amherst, they're fancy.
um, you're kidding, right? boston and cambridge are like the epicenter of education. there are the obvious big ones (harvard, m.i.t., boston university) and also a ton of lesser known ones (umass boston, boston college, emerson, cambridge college, tufts, massachusetts college of art, new england institute of art, etc).

Man. idiot king, have you never seen This is Spinal Tap?

Ian Faith: The Boston gig has been cancelled...
David St. Hubbins: What?
Ian Faith: Yeah. I wouldn't worry about it though, it's not a big college town.

erik · Post by **erik** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 2:46 am

There's a fine line between clever and stupid.

frankie big face · Post by **frankie big face** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 5:17 am

None of the dates in June would work for me (school and Europe respectively). But July and August are fine.

Thanks for picking dates when the Red Sox are home.

nicegeoff · Post by **nicegeoff** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 12:20 pm

If any of you kids are going to be in Boston this weekend, you should check out the Spinto Band playing at 10 Moore Street on Saturday.

I don't really know what the deal is, but it seems like it's a house party with a fancy website: http://www.10moorestreet.com/ . So yeah, party?

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the idiot king · Post by **the idiot king** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 6:23 pm

mkilly wrote:
Man. idiot king, have you never seen This is Spinal Tap?

Ian Faith: The Boston gig has been cancelled...
David St. Hubbins: What?
Ian Faith: Yeah. I wouldn't worry about it though, it's not a big college town.

i have, but i was too overtired to catch the reference.

adjuster · Post by **adjuster** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 2:32 pm

July and August rock. That also gives me more 'fights to actually try and write for between now and then.

stateshirt · Post by **stateshirt** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 10:35 pm

Yay, songfight boston. I'd like to play this show, please.

john m · Post by **john m** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 10:37 pm

Can I play drums for you?

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 9:34 am

john m wrote:Can I play drums for you?

only if he can play drums for YOU.

Anyways, It would be nice to finally meet you mister SS.

Of course, I'm banking on being there...but it's gonna be tight financially.

thehipcola · Post by **thehipcola** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 10:07 am

woOt! I'm gonna be off work for paternity leave in July and August, so I'm almost certainly gonna be there!

I am jazzed at the prospect of puttin' faces to the namez, yo.

Whoo HOO!

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 6:23 pm

TheHipCola wrote:woOt! I'm gonna be off work for paternity leave in July and August, so I'm almost certainly gonna be there!

The baby's not born yet, right?

I hope I'm wrong, but that looks like a sentence that may come back to haunt you

(NB: last night was my 7th wedding anniversary - which we spent at a 5-star hotel in the city. Much of the evening was spent walking around the hotel lobby trying to calm a screaming 6-month-old who had taken a violently irrational dislike to her baby-sitter)

thehipcola · Post by **thehipcola** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 10:41 am

CR,

I hope you are wrong too...we did have a miscarriage a year ago, and I of course had told everyone under the sun...you'd think I'd learn!

Oh well...nature is nature, what will be will be...I'm exuberantly confident I guess!

I still plan to be there either way!

Cheers!

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 2:43 pm

TheHipCola wrote:CR,

I hope you are wrong too...we did have a miscarriage a year ago, and I of course had told everyone under the sun...you'd think I'd learn!

Oh well...nature is nature, what will be will be...I'm exuberantly confident I guess!

I still plan to be there either way!

Cheers!

I'm sure everything will go well - I just meant that once baby arrives, a lot of you plans may go out the window!

good luck

stateshirt · Post by **stateshirt** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 4:34 pm

john m wrote:Can I play drums for you?

Yes, that would be quite good.

Songfight! Boston August 12-13 (I Know My Rights)

10 moore street

Oooooo... Boston!