Stubby Phillips wrote:I just found this thread, and while I really want to be there, it ain't gonna happen. Not enough vacation time, and with the wife and kids -- it ain't gonna happen. After all the fun at SpudFest I really want to jam (sans 'equipment failure'), but here's to Spud, Rabid, 'tross and everyone else having a good time!
Sorry you can't make it, Stub. We'll be sure to rock extra hard to make up for your absence.
Hey, did we ever decide if we were gonna do the sloshed Karaoke thing?
Title 19 - US Code - Chapter 12 (Trade Act of 1974)
SUBCHAPTER III
§ 2416. Monitoring of foreign compliance
"... no limitations shall be placed on the import of RAWK into the United States by any entity or individual."
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So no worries about customs CR...
(just be careful that you leave all of the rawk at SC, otherwise there are pretty stiff tariffs for carrying it back out of the country)
Caravan Ray wrote:Here it's considered fairly rude to sit in the back. Especially a single man getting into the back of a cab. It's an egalitarian thing - like you are treating the cabbie as a servant or something. You should always sit in the front.
And we also never tip - again, it's a reaction against the servant/master thing. It's considerd insulting, or patronising to tip someone.
I gather I'll have to learn to do the tipping thing in the USA though
I think here it's a matter of control. If you sit in the back, you are in the cabbie's domain, and he is in control of you. If you sit in front, it's a little like you're trying to usurp command of the vehicle.
As for tipping, people who receive tips here usually get paid on the assumption that they'll receive tips. Like commission. So waitstaff at restaurants get a very small hourly wage in anticipation of the tips they'll earn. To some extent, it puts your earning potential in your own hands. Like that episode of Taxi where Jim is the best cabbie in the history of New York for like a month, in order to earn enough to buy this enormous rack of televisions. He has a thermos of coffee in the back for his patrons and everything. The rest of the gang is quite nonplussed by his transformation from a slovenly, semi-sane freakazoid into UberCabbie. Louie is, of course, delighted.
seeing Danny Divito on TV again the other night made me wish they'd make a new Taxi series.
No In-N-Out in Santa Cruz, huh? drag... presumably I'll fly into Oakland or San Jose, though, and get some. God I miss In-N-Out.
"It is really true what philosophy tells us, that life must be understood backwards. But with this, one forgets the second proposition, that it must be lived forwards." Søren Kierkegaard
I havent posted at all yet have I? Ill definetly be there and playing my little heart out. BUt I do have a question. Are many people going to be playing solo? Cause I was thinking about just playing a little solo acoustic/piano set, but if there are rockin bands surrounding me, I think it would be boring for me to do solo. Also, is there going to be a piano there? Woo!
Also I can play bass, guitar, sing some back up vocals, piano, or even if your desperate enough, drums for anyone who hasnt already found their team of musicans to rock the night. Cant wait!
