29.10.09
Overheard-- sort of.
"TOO EASY FOR YOU TO RIDICULE PEOPLE AS "RETARDED" WHATEVER THAT MEANS. IF IT IS YOUR INTENTION TO CALL THEM FUCKED UP INORDER TO SUGGEST UR PERFECT AND A BINARY OPPOSITE THEN CONGRA-DU-FUCKULATION!!! LIFE IS NOT ALL THAT EASY…YOU SHOULD KNOW UR GAY FOR FUK SAKE!"

Comment made on a post about two idiot thieves from the podunk town in Iowa where I lived who, instead of getting ski masks, tried to cover their faces with permanent marker. Go here to see the post (complete with picture).

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7.7.09
Overheard
A violinist and cellist overheard in a crowded elevator in the music building, 7/7:

Violinist: "I think you hit that man in the face with your cello case."
Cellist: "Hey, you made a rhyme!"

"That man" was my choral conductor, Dr. Gray.


Overheard on the bus, 6/19:

"If you remember, that whale that played Willy-- was a girl. And the whale that played his mom-- was a boy."

Don't be mistaken by the childish syntax-- an adult said this.

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6.5.09
Overheard
Here are two quotes I heard during a class I had this semester called "Readings in Music Theory." The professor is notoriously scatter-brained, and this quote is a little taste of that.


"I'd like to phrase that exactly the way you did, but differently."

--KG, 4/15.


"I had juice box wine at the Vatican for lunch."

--my classmate, Michael. 5/5. My classmates and I ended up brainstorming interesting things to represent Christ's blood and body (i.e., juice box wine and Club crackers emblazoned with the face of Christ or the Holy Mother). We're probably all going to hell.

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28.4.09
Overheard
"Nobody wants to rape a guy in a bikini-- except the really twisted ones."

--overheard on the bus, 4/23. What really bothers me about this comment was that it was made during a lengthy conversation about rape between two high school girls.

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6.3.09
Overheard
"Today's programming brought to you in part by... the rhinovirus."
--overheard on TV, 3/6.

"We really like it that you young people like our music."
-- overheard, in reference to us singing along to "Free Bird" at karaoke, 2/27.

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21.2.09
Overheard
One of the reasons I started the "overheard" posts was because I was amazed at the kinds of things people are willing to blurt out in public places. I often astound myself (and I'm sure my family and friends are also astounded) with the things I am not at all embarrassed to say in a crowd. I think people often feel a certain barrier between themselves and the group they are with and those outside of that group. The barrier is large enough that sometimes we don't even consider the fact that "outsiders" might be actively listening to things we only intended for our "insiders" to hear. Today's overheard quotes are great examples of this phenomenon.

"I didn't pay for my nose, you did!"
--overheard in a Thai restaurant, 2/20.

"Yeah, I was telling my coworker yesterday, 'Jesse, I had a dream about you. I dreamed that I pulled down your pants and you had two dicks.'"
--overheard on the city bus, 2/19.

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1.2.09
Overheard
"Yeah, you can wear your frat bullshit all day long in here."
--Overheard 1/16 outside of Nick's (a bar in campus town)

"...and we were sitting by the stage, and all these fat tall people were sitting in front, and Megan..."
--Overheard 1/30 in the music library hallway

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24.11.08
Overheard
The funniest part about this overheard statement is the complete lack of context I have. I was walking down the hall in the ground floor of the Simon Center and I heard a guy talking to his friend:

"... because, first of all, I don't think I'll ever really want to wear women's clothes again, and..."

That's really all I heard, despite my best efforts to nonchalantly crane my neck to hear the rest.

Overheard in the Simon Center, 11/10.

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18.10.08
More Music Laughs
For those NWC alums who knew some of the great conductors there, you are certainly familiar with the sort of metaphors and similies I wrote about in a recent post. I am so happy to discover that conductors everywhere make similar comparisons in a misguided attempt to help the performers. To wit:

"Cut the sound like you are cutting... a tube... of cheesecake."

It was clear that my conductor was desperately searching for the right words. In the end, she couldn't find them, and the singers got a good chuckle.

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15.10.08
Overheard
"I already spent $100 on a gorilla suit, but I can't wear that to a party, because who wants to hang out with a gorilla?"

--Overheard on the bus.

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30.9.08
Overheard
"I threw up in front of my dad once."

--Overheard at the opera.

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25.8.08
Overheard
Overheard in the commons Burger King:

"I think my boyfriend is cheating on me. I found a condom in his room and I knew it wasn't ours because I was on my period."

Overheard outside of the Musical Arts Center:

"I'm not so great at aural stuff... No, not oral. Aural... aural skills, not oral. I have an oral exam later."

This may become its own blog if I keep hearing stuff this awesome.

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