Sunday, March 07, 2010

There Are Days I Miss New York

Courtesy Cory over at BoingBoing and Making Light, some buskers get an entire Manhattan subway station to help finish off "Hey Jude". Seriously, in all my travels, I have never seen people more reliably capable of spontaneous ... humanity than New Yorkers.


Hey Jude Times Square Subway Station from 39forks on Vimeo.

32 comments:

  1. If I had that to look forward to every time, I'd love it too. I just get cranky cops, cranky people behind counters. Maybe it's the day of the week when I travel to NY.

    Thanks for sharing, I'll rethink my position.

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  2. My experiences with American Big City Folk is that the crankiness is a facade, a shield, a crust. As long as the interaction is job-related ("I'd like a ham on rye". "Does this bus go to Broadway and Taylor?"), the crust is up. Engage any communication out of the ordinary and the crust crumbles away to reveal very pleasant, normal down-home folk.

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  3. It's true. First time I came to New York, I brought all my small-town Southern misgivings with me. But I struck up a conversation with a restaurateur from Long Island at the airport while we were waiting for our cars, and he couldn't have been nicer. And that's been pretty much my experience every time. Oh, sure, there've been some assholes, but no more than you get anywhere else. I love New York.

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  4. Years ago, in one of his stage performances, Robin Williams described "a real New York echo." "HELLO!" he shouted into the concrete canyons. "Shut the f*ck up," replied the echo.

    There is validity in that statement... but we also do things like THIS. I love New York.

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  5. The definitive N.Y./L.A. comparison was done by Evan Dorkin, I feel. He drew a panel of a typical Los Angeles store with a skinny blonde girl behind the counter saying "Have a nice day!" while her thought balloon reads "Fuck you!" Then he drew a typical New York store with a big Italian dude behind the counter snarling "Fuck you!" while his thought balloon reads "Have a nice day..."

    This video underlines Mr. Dorkin's reading.

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  6. Anonymous12:53 PM

    Something tells me in 40 years time you won't get a random crowd to participate in singing a Jonas Brothers song.

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  7. Taking the R train to Times Square (ish -- I know) on NYE 2000, we got an entire car to do the "Ole, ole, ole, ole" song from soccer (and this was before Jose Reyes was on the Mets).

    I live in Chicago now, and as good as it is, this type of impromptu cooperative fun isn't something I think you find here.

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  8. I realize this is short by several months but that video reminds me of when I beat boxed "Close to You" by the Cure with three total strangers at the Alley Cat in Indianapolis.

    Granted... I'm sure alcohol wasn't as involved in this as it was mine.

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  9. Anonymous4:00 AM

    Penyakit ini umumnya muncul karena penderita mengejan terlalu keras pada saat buang air besar. Dengan mengejan terlalu keras, maka pembuluh darah di sekitar anus dapat melebar dan pecah menimbulkan infeksi dan pembengkakan yang berakhir pada masalah wasir atau ambeien tersebut.

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  10. Penyakit kencing nanah bisa disebabkan oleh beberapa faktor seperti seks bebas, penularan, virus hpv, lingkungan, gaya hidup dan lainnya, Maka dari itu kita harus waspada dengan penyakit kencing nanah ini, karena penyakit kencing nanah sangatlah berbahaya, Namun untuk anda yang menderita penyakit kencing nanah, maka anda tidak perlu khawatir,

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  11. Bukan hanya pengobatan medis saja tapi ada juga pengobatan rumah alami yang dapat digunakan untuk menyingkirkan penyakit kutil kelamin ini. Intinya, karena kutil ini muncul di daerah yang sensitif, maka anda harus mencari pengobatan yang terbaik pada kulit Anda dan jika diperlukan juga dibantu dengan tenaga medis yang professional. Sebab dokter akan menjadi sumber informasi yang baik untuk mengobati penyakit ini.

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  12. penyakit yang ditularkan melalui hubungan seks : vaginal, oral dan anal. Juga dapat menular melalui persentuhan kulit dengan daerah yang terinfeksi.

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  13. Sebelum kita membahas tentang pengobatan ambeien, dalam kesempatan ini
    saya ingin menjelaskan sekilas tentang ambeien, agar kita semua bisa
    memahami benar apa itu penyakit ambeien

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  14. Anonymous5:33 AM

    Penyakit kulit adalah penyakit infeksi yang umum, terjadi pada orang orang dari segala usia. Gangguan pada kulit sering terjadi karena ada
    faktor peyebabnya, Antara lain yaitu iklim, lingkungan, tempat tinggal,

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