on 2/1/01 8:12 AM, Catherine McKay at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> --- Michael Paz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hello All-
>> I was reading the paper today and they had a
>> lengthy article about
>> Daniel Lanois's studio closing up for good here. The
>> building is on the
>> market now for $1.5 mil if anyone is interested.
>
> I wish I had that kind of $$$. This sounds like an
> amazing evening - must admit the part I most enjoyed,
> in a sick kind of way is this:
>
>> I sat in one of
>> the big rooms during the evening and played Chinese
>> Cafe on the Grand Piano.
>> Some girl came up to me and asked me if I had
>> written the tune and I told no
>> that Joni Mitchell had written it. "Oh!", she said,
>> "who's that?" I don't
>> think she really wanted to know, it was probably
>> more of a "are you famous?"
>> type of thing.
>
> How do these people get invited to these things, anyway?
They are called hangers on. And they get there by hook or crook. They are
always there. IN spanish we call them paracaidistas.
Michael
