Yes, Boston is a wretched hole that sucks the life out
of you with it's neverending stagnation and generic
population. Everyone has a stick up their arse as
well!
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> boston is a boring white bread, blue-blooded,
> conservative, stuffy old
> money, self-important collegiate, military complex.
> but they do have state
> funded road service, i found out!
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> Subject: Re:Boston
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Seth Osmun"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)"Seth
> Osmun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at TIME_INC
> Date: 10/22/99 12:04 PM
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> CORIN writes,
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> You and Michael know I read these things. What are
> you trying to do to my
> lack of self esteem? You guys keep it up and there
> won't be a second
> Pills'record! And Yeah, Boston is really the
> greatest. We have such a great
> history of art and literature here (among other
> things). I can walk right
> out my door and walk 3 blocks to e.e. cummings'
> house and then either turn
> right at Harvard Sq. to get to Longfellow's
> beautiful yellow manse, or take
> the T to Beacon Hill and see the little flat where
> Sylvia Plath lived when
> she first married Ted Hughes. I can go have a drink
> in the bar at the
> Ritz-where Sylvia
> and Anne Sexton used to drink after their poetry
> class at BU adult ed.
> Apparently they used to park in the loading zone
> with impunity as they had
> every intention of getting loaded. I can visit the
> gross alley where Edgar
> Allen Poe was born. I can walk over to the church in
> the South End that was
> the original sight of the Tea Party concert hall. A
> friend of mine who
> drives a city bus told me he saw the Jeff Beck Group
> there and Rod Stewart
> sat down at his table during one of the longer
> guitar solos. Or I can go to
> the Orpheum like I did tonight and see a concert in
> such a wonderful
> acoustic environment that Elvis Costello can have
> them turn off the PA and
> do the last song totally unamplified. And I got to
> have my picture taken
> with him afterwards-which has nothing to do with
> Boston, but that's where
> it happened!
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> I agree, though I'm not in Boston alot , I love that
> city..when a friend of
> mine went to school there we spent the whole day
> walking around Boston
> enjoying the sights..we got to see Bim Skala Bim
> play a free show at
> Faneuil
> Hall and meet them afterward, Went to Alston Beat,
> but did'nt buy
> anything($$$) Went to HMV and cruised the World
> Music section for Latin and
> other stuff, and then went accross the Square to Au
> Bon Pain for eats..only
> in Boston, and it is pretty clean, not counting the
> harbor of course. By
> the
> way I'm WAY jealous that you got to see Elvis
> Costello at the Orpheum..I
> coul'dnt get tickets or a ride in order to
> go...damnit. At any rate do post
> the pic somewhere so we can see it..speaking of
> other realted things, Has
> your band ever covered any of EC's stuff? I always
> thought that Party Girl,
> Accidents Will Happen, or Watching The Detectives
> would make great
> covers...and there are more that escape my memory at
> this moment.Oh well.
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> Seth
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