Minutes from 04/14/08
Dear Program Board,
I wrote 90% of this email this morning at 3 AM because I was so eager to write to you I couldn’t sleep (that’s love)…
COMMITTEE ELECTION RESULTS:
Concerts: Brenda Malvini
Visual Arts: Charlie Tatum
Lectures: Jamie Simone
Prerelease: Sophia Tarabicios
New Music: Mallory Greitzer
Archivist: Robin Hwang
Membership: Max Zorick
Performing Arts: Kristen Barry
Film: Raisa Glabman
Student Arts: Brigette Hetzer
Publicity: Mary Bullock & Alex Cvetovich
Webmaster: Aditi Rajaram
Exciting or exciting?
Publicity: Brenda wants to enlist you to join her army of publicity guerilla warriors to show people the right way to have a good time, which is of course attending all the PB events (or else she’ll break your legs). She’ll arm you with posters and a list of blogging websites to post and maybe she’ll give you a lil’ kiss if you’re a cutie. There are many events coming up really, really, really soon like…
Off the Grid: We confirmed MISSION OF BURMA (http://www.myspace.com/missionofburma)! If you don’t know them you probably won’t be very excited, but you should get to know them (so you can sing along to the words for real instead of pretending)! We’re waiting to hear back from Illinois, and are still working on tabling. We could use all the help we can get on Saturday, including attendance. Don’t Passover this event!
Student Arts: Allie she said she should have the posters for her event soon, though I don’t know all the details (see occasionally I’ll get distracted at the meetings like today when I kept staring at the light that needs to be replaced on the Washington Square arch). She’ll keep us posted, though. I have faith in Allie Nudelman.
Prerelease: You may know her as China Bay Smith, The Decider, The King of Queens, or perhaps just Oprah, but perhaps the sassiest, most charming lady on PB is screening Forgetting Sarah Marshall this Wednesday at AMC Village East (across from Third North). Be there at 6:30 if you’re working, 7:45 if you’re on the guest list. Seriously.
Concerts: So the She & Him concert is happening April 23rd, Mad is looking for a Stage Manager and perhaps an Assistant Stage Manager to help out with the show since she’s got some learning to do in class. If you go to her meeting tonight at 6:30 she might very well guarantee free admission to the show.
Poets & Writers/Membership: Liz Daly pretended to be Ray Luna tonight, but she didn’t fool us (we’re a smart bunch). She said that the Melissa Plaut event was great and that Poets & Writers went out with a bang; there are leftover signed copies of Melissa Plaut’s book called Hack available for $12 (talk to Liz if you’re interested). She revealed that Ray has a vision for the end of the year party and he believes it involves karaoke. We established that one half of the room was really into it, but the towards-the-door crowd wasn’t really very responsive, though they expressed neither interest nor disinterest. Was it really a crowd of people at all? Or perhaps was it a PAINTING of a crowd of people towards the door!!! Yeah, think about it… You are encouraged to bring your ideas for the end of the year party to Ray. Also PB yearbook pages are going to be available in the office. Fill them out or we’ll fill you out.
(Okay it’s 3:37 am. I really can’t believe I’m doing this.)
Film: Bang! Bang! Bang!
This Thursday: Sweeney Todd.
Next Thursday: I am Legend.
The Thursday after next Thursday: Superbad.
Pause, and swallow. Okay good.
Archivist: Max is not every man, Max is actually one man and therefore can’t be at every PB event ever forever and ever (until May), so he would love your help at events taking pictures and docu-menting (if you slowly pronounce the ‘docu-‘ separately from the ‘menting’ it’s a much more worthwhile word).
Millennium Global Poverty Initiative: Aditi requested funding to send herself to a conference at MIT this weekend dedicated to social justice issues, however the conference was already closed (to everyone else), and after heated debate the proposal did NOT pass. Why? Well let’s discuss: although the conference wasn’t directly related to event planning we established that social justice is something that can be incorporated into events and can give event planning a purpose, like benefit shows, Off the Grid etc. Having connections for this would make planning events of this nature easier and perhaps warrant a greater impact on the community (as more would be involved). However, the fact that the opportunity wasn’t opened to all PB members posed a problem as it would set a precedent for PB as ‘the bank’. Although it didn’t pass something important came out of it: PB is NOT opposed, and, in fact, encourages people to contact PB about going to conferences they think relate to event planning (etc) but it should be something that’s opened to everyone. And you shouldn’t be afraid to speak up at meetings regarding something you may not be comfortable with or fully understand.
Kristen’s Day: Yesterday I caught something so viral the rest of the day couldn’t possibly be carried out in any logical manner… I had a bad case of the giggles. Sometimes the giggles strike after you’ve engaged in illicit activities or when you realize that you’re life is going to shreds (often paired with Mr. panic attack), but yesterday was simply the result of a shockingly boring class followed by several hours of vegetation in the doldrums of the computer lab. When I’d finally emerged my body was so unused to laughter and happiness I just couldn’t control myself. It’s exhausting laughing that hard, I feel like I got a real workout. I’m workin’ on my sixteen pack, you know (yeah I’m upping the ante, I plan on workin’ out so hard I’ll develop ten more muscles than most people have) … laugh now, but just wait (you’ll be green with envy).
Classes: Is anyone taking: Harmony and Counterpoint? Intensive Elementary Spanish? Bodily Fictions? If so, we might be classmates, then you’ll see that I rarely show up to class on time (but it’s not because I don’t want to, my biological clock is ten minutes off, I swear).
Things to consider: crepes (God’s gift to man), the charming aroma of sweat after a show, massages (always, always, always massages), passive aggressiveness, hilariously oversized objects, & me making out with your mom (HOT).
lovelovelove,
kristen i-will-miss-writing-minutes-next-semester barry