Sinner's Alley Happy Hour (Part 1)

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<p>Birthday love to Alu!!! I remember last year. :slight_smile: </p>

<p>I am heartened by this year’s general theme, because though the Pretty Fairy may fly away despite our best efforts, we have a little more control over the Edgy Fairy. If we want her, she can be there forever!</p>

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<p>Congrats to musicmom’s son on the new job. I guess it is now safe to convert his old bedroom since he will have new digs.</p>

<p>Alu,</p>

<p>A belated happy birthday to you. Has it been a year since we said to hell with the pretty fairy? We’re women and finally settling and making piece with the skin we are in. Who needs pretty when we’ve got edgy, beauty, brains and above all mother wit?</p>

<p>Remember Chicky is a New Yorker where just doing you is fashionable and amd going to your own beat makes you a standout. Just take those chanels off the top of your head, put them on your face and party like a rock star!!</p>

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If the birthday girl says we do it, then we do it. …</p>

<p>So then, where is the corner for the Clueless-and-didn’t-know-it gang such as moi? I thought cc and Sinners Alley were my insurance against aging into cluelessness, but now I know better :(.</p>

<p>UI? TMBG?</p>

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<p><em>help the aconym challenged</em></p>

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<p>Alu: new jacket and jeans? I’d say fashionable for fifties. Happy birthday. Open a magnum!</p>

<p>So much depends upon a jacket and jeans
in their birthday boxes and then worn by Alu!</p>

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<p>UI = User Interface
TMBG = um, They Might Be Giants?</p>

<p>And gawldarnit mythmom if you didn’t just write a short poem that only caused me a little sniff of sentiment - “So much depends…” Don’t it just.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LMoplcpRJM[/url]”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LMoplcpRJM&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Party Like a Rock Star! The Edgy Fairy rocks that song! “We 'bout to change that game;).”</p>

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<p>Oh, Alu—you must be right about TMBG – around the Astro-home, we always said the whole name. Astrogirl had Swarthmore on her early college list, because it was a world of geeks AND They Might Be Giants had a concert there the year before. I must admit, I can sing along with a few of their songs. Of course, D’s favorite was (OK everybody…sing along), “The sun is a mass of incandescent gasses, a gigantic nuclear furnace…” Of course, both daughters have gotten questions right on tests thanks to knowing the words to all their songs. Maybe I’d better save my vocal chords for Karaoke night in the Alley.</p>

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<p>Congrats to Musicmom’s son. Chicago is a great place to visit!</p>

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<p>My best friend at the time (~1985?) was crushing hard on John Flansburgh so I saw MANY live TMBG shows. Does anyone else remember their “dial a song?”</p>

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<p>Isn’t this cute? Is this really TMBG?</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdAtHMJSx_w[/url]”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdAtHMJSx_w&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Saw TMBG this summer with 14 year old S. He was so excited. Right up by the stage. </p>

<p>Suspect that one show cost me six months of hearing. By then I’ll have stopped listening to people anyway…</p>

<p>Dial a Song was cool. </p>

<p>There is a great TMBG documentary available through Netflix: <a href=“http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Gigantic_A_Tale_of_Two_Johns/60027709?trkid=189533&strkid=957430033_0_0[/url]”>http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Gigantic_A_Tale_of_Two_Johns/60027709?trkid=189533&strkid=957430033_0_0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Music Videos: <a href=“http://www.netflix.com/Movie/They_Might_Be_Giants_Direct_from_Brooklyn/70027392?trkid=189530&strkid=957430033_2_0[/url]”>http://www.netflix.com/Movie/They_Might_Be_Giants_Direct_from_Brooklyn/70027392?trkid=189530&strkid=957430033_2_0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Alu,</p>

<p>That song is from a TMBG kiddie’s CD/DVD called “Here Come the ABCs”</p>

<p><a href=“http://wm05.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3pfixqrdldhe[/url]”>http://wm05.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3pfixqrdldhe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Happy birthday, Alu!</p>

<p>I’ve never heard of TMBG before.</p>

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<p>NYMomof2,</p>

<p>TMBG have been Brooklyn residents since the 80s.</p>

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<p>We’ve got the Poetry Corner in the Cafe.</p>

<p>Here in the Alley, we should have cry-in-your-beer or single malt songs.</p>

<p>I’m going to nominate a song I put in the Poetry thread.</p>

<p>Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen</p>

<p>But there are others…</p>

<p>Ooh Child - Beth Orton
Good Year for the Roses - Elvis Costello
For Elise - The Cure
Cannonball - Damien Rice
When a Man Loves a Woman - Percy Sledge
Moon River - Louis Armstrong
Wish - Pearl Jam
I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You - Tom Waitts</p>

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<p>The Boxer – Simon and Garfunkel
Sunday Morning Coming Down - Kris Kristofferson
Wake me up when September Ends – Green Day</p>

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<p>Graceland - Paul Simon
Miss Misery - Elliott Smith
Company - Rickie Lee Jones</p>

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<p>Stars by Janis Ian as sung by Barbara Cook
Marika by Jaques Brel as sung by Judy Collins
Who Knows Where the Time Goes by Sandy Denny
Like a Bird on a Wire Leonard Cohen
Visions of Johanna Bob Dylan
Across the Universe John Lennon/Beatles</p>

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<p>Cry in your beer songs?</p>

<p>Home by Michael Buble
(but don’t tell mootmom I listen to that stuff; it’s not edgy enough :p)</p>

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<p>Lonely girls - Lucinda Williams</p>