Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 21:24:21 -0400
From: Salvatore Compoccia <compoccia@aol.com>
Subject: Re: New Jersey is...and isn't
>Yes, I lived in Jersey, also and went to school in Philly, but originally from NY. Don't >worry Sal, I won't be coming to your Brooklyn neighborhood. LoL.
>Kitt, being very silly.
Ah, don't worry Kitt. I think the roughest guys from my old neighborhood are now either in jail or dead!
Sal (only slightly exaggerating)
Salvatore Compoccia
compoccia@aol.com
Back to topDate: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 12:47:18 -0400
From: Joseph Brennan <brennan@columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: Barry, the Healer
> http://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz/goss/553825/Wired-Bee-Gees-Barry-Gibb-
> try-unite-Oasis
--quote--
“You can’t survive in a group if it’s not. My brothers didn’t want
me to launch a solo career and, from a young age, I looked out for them.
--unquote--
I think Barry is referring to 1968, when he told the music papers he
thought he'd go solo in a year or so, or maybe even some earlier date. It
might have been healthier for him if he did. He takes some justifiable
pride in saying "I looked out for them" but it was a burden too. At what
age is it time to stop?
In the Clive Anderson interview I was surprised at how strongly Barry still
resented Robin's 1969 solo work, after all those years, and it showed how
much he hated the unfairness that Robin could just go off and do his thing,
exactly what Barry wished he could do, if he'd been free of the yoke of
responsibility. What a mess of emotions the three had for each other.
Never work with family, they say!
--Joe Brennan
Back to topDate: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 13:08:09 -0400
From: Joseph Brennan <brennan@columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: New Jersey is...and isn't
My destiny wrote:
> I've heard PA being referred to as Midwestern-like and, perhaps parts of
> Western PA are--but having lived there for 16 years, I found it quite
> diverse.
We took a road trip this summer, all over Pennsy, and aside from
Pittsburgh, which as someone said is the new Portland (Oregon!), clean and
high tech and artsy (yes that Pittsburgh), this Jersey boy did feel like he
was in the Heartland. Altoona? Johnstown? "Little" Washington? Titusville?
Clearfield? And all the woodsy and farming places in between, and the
drooping buildings in washed-up towns with names like Belle Vernon and
Fayette City, and the highway lunacy of Breezewood, and the desperate Trump
signs along the road. Oh, we loved it all. I'm just saying... it sure isn't
the east coast.
> According to Jersey state and cultural policy, if an outsider makes a
> stupid remark about any part of New Jersey, then watch out.
I feel it's the stupidity of the remarks, more than the remarks.
--Joe Brennan
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