The room will be completely bare, but for a huge speaker embedded in the wall. And through that speaker will come nothing but Paul Simon’s greatest hits. 24/7.
AAIIIIEEEEEEEEE!!!
Processed Cheese Food and Wonder Bread.
Hey, Zarathustra! You have GOT to read the Floyd Collins story! Click on this link right away!
http://home.fuse.net/cavern/floyd.htm
{hee hee hee…that’ll keep him in nightmares for months to come…}
Hey Uke, are you into Floyd Collins?!?
I’m a very big Floyd fan myself. Some day I want to do a documentary about the guy.
Small personal hijack to Uke – Are you aware of all the Battle of Brooklyn events happening near you this week? I’m gonna try to make most of them. Feel free to contact me if you’re interested.
No floor.
Except for a tiny little ledge you can grab onto at the last minute, as the absolutely dizzying spectacle of how deep this pit is is finally thrown from your brain by the sudden realization that you’re about to start falling.
After that, it’d be real easy to make me talk. To get me to say anything coherent or tangible, well, that’s a different story…
stuyguy: Somebody just did a documentary about Floyd…it premiered last year in Bowling Green, Kentucky. You can buy a copy of the video for about twenty bucks; there’s a PO box in Cave City you can write to. Take a peek at this too:
Floyd Collins tee shirts! I GOTTA have one! The epitome of eclectic bad taste!
Yes. I admit that I love Floyd. I have a copy of the “Ballad.” I own TRAPPED! in hardcover. I named my firstborn “Floydina.” Someday I hope to die in the Floyd manner. His sad tale is an inspiration to us all.
Shall we start a new thread for Floyd buffs, so that we all may gather together here, and spread the word of Floyd?
Sure, start the Floyd thread. (But I gotta leave the board soon though – things to do.)
I too have TRAPPED! (soft cover though) and the “Ballad” which, I’m sorry to say, I found a little too painful (musical theaterwise, not Floydwise… you understand what I’m saying, right?) to listen to more than once. Some day when I’m feeling strong and understanding I’ll give it another shot.
Have you seen the doc? Is it any good?
(And you are joking about your daughter, right?)
You didn’t respond to my B.o.B. question. Some fun stuff is happening in the next few days. Are you going? I am.
“Someday I hope to die in the Floyd manner.”
[getting out shovel] I think that can be arranged . . .
My Room 101 would be showing an endless loop of Jim Carrey films, all directed by Oliver Stone.
Room 101
Introduction to Economics
700 other people in arena seating - all asleep.
Nope. Just learned about it today. Seems like a worthwhile twenty-dollar expenditure, though. Tell ya what…you buy it, lend it to me, and I’ll give you my review. <grin>
(Yes, I was kidding about my daughter. Also about owning a hardcover of TRAPPED! I’ve got the trade paperback, just like everybody else, but it’s a better edition anyway…it includes the epilogue where the authors sneak back DOWN INTO Sand Cave, and realize “Hey! There was no reason the rescue teams couldn’t have kept bringing food and water down to Floyd!”. Can you believe the book WAS published as a hardcover, and by a major U.S. publisher, too? Times sure have changed since 1979!)
By “Ballad,” I meant the 1925 quickie “Floyd Collins’ Fate,” released by Dandy Records. I assume you’re talking about the stage musical Floyd Collins. I own the CD too, and I’ve never listened to the whole thing either.
Maybe I’ll start a Floyd thread tomorrow…rackensack has challenged me to explain why William Carlos Williams is a major American poet over in the “Worst Line of Poetry” thread, and the idea of tackling that has left me exhausted.
re: Battle of Brooklyn. Nah…I’m leaving on vacation on Friday, and I’ve got a hellish week of preparation ahead of me. No time for fun.
Ike—
Is “Floyd Collins’ Fate” the same ballad as on that cassette of Disaster Songs I loaned you? Or are there TWO Floyd Collins ballads?
DAMN! I knew I forgot something!
{Ahem.} My copy of “Floyd Collins’ Fate” was dubbed from an incredibly nifty album of disaster songs lent to me by Eve.
The one about the wreck of the U.S. Navy airship Shenandoah was particularly toothsome.
If you go to the Floyd Collins Website, there’s a photo of the original 78 rpm release of “FC’s Fate,” which is how I knew the original record label.
This talk of FC has sent me scampering to my Floyd file, which I haven’t looked in in years.
Is the song you’re talking about “the Death of Floyd Collins” by Rev. Andrew Jenkins & Irene Spain? I’ve got the sheet music. (I once had a date with the girl who was the right-hand gal for the prez of Shapiro, Bernstein – the age old music publishing firm who published the song; I mentioned my interest in FC and she sent me a xerox of the music from their files.)
In any case, it – and the other songs – sound boffo. What other disasters are songified on the recording???
I didn’t ask why he’s major, just why he’s one of your favorites. Influence alone makes him major. If that makes your task any more manageable . . . .
Boy bands. You know, the kind that only sing(?) sappy love songs in falsetto.
They make my skin crawl.
Spiders.
shudder
Those gap kids commercials where the children sing Van Halen’s You Really Got me Now in this tone: “Giiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirrrrrl… yoooouuuuuu reeeeeeeeaaaaaaaalllllly goooooott meeeeeee nooow… you got me ssssssssoooooo…”.
ugggghhhhhh… shudders
Bugs of all kinds. That, and a guy who never shuts up, and wants to talk to me about something that I have NO interest in. This sounds surprisingly like my office, though.
“You Really Got Me” was originally done by the Kinks, not Van Halen.
Stuyguy—
I’ll have to bring that cassette in tomorrow and let you know what’s on it. I remember fictional songs like “In the Baggage Coach Ahead” and “The Baby on the Doorstep,” as well as real-life songs about Little Marion Parker, Jesse James and (the creepiest, because of the outcome) Mary Phagan.
I got it through an online company, so I should be able to give you a source for it, too.
I’m with Falcon. Spiders–lots of 'em. If Room 101 were the cabin of an airplane, that would make it even worse.