Minutes from 04/28/08
Dearest Program Board,
These are my last minutes (well days, really) as your “Sexy Secretary Who Keeps All Your Secrets All Locked Up in Her Sexy Secret Box”. I’ll miss having the power of the listserv to write stories to you that blur the lines between fact and fiction and maybe make you giggle while you read them in your 2-3:15 class. If you were to shed a tear, this would be an appropriate time… (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBm7GNU7BlQ&feature=related).
But seriously.
Film: SUPERBAD is this Thursday. Go see it, it’s the last film screening of the semester. pLzkkthx.
Lectures: I could tell by the look in Jamie’s eyes that she was deeply troubled… she said that she loves the people who came to her events (← fact), but she also said (fighting back tears) that she loved the people who didn’t come to her events just as much (← fiction). She wants to love, she really does… but… she just… can’t. Why do you push her away when all she wants to do is love you? The only cure for her broken heart is for more people to come to lectures next year and for the people who didn’t come this year to buy her copious amounts of liquor so she can forget her name, dance naked on the bar, and make out with some guy named Chuck who said he had a motorcycle (he was lying), as all broken heart shall be mended.
Concerts: Mad thanks everyone who came for the She & Him show. The consensus was that She & Him was “pretty okay”. Although it was as if the building were on fire with passion… oh wait, it was on fire! There was a fire on the roof just as we were letting people in! Woops! (http://youtube.com/watch?v=nevgdBcTqOA&feature=related)
(Karl) Ma(r)x: Known as the “father of communism” after writing his Communist Manifesto in 1848, he suggested the alleviation of social evils could only be found through abandoning a capitalist economy and embracing a classless society. He died in 1883. Also has a bunch of pictures from the past several PB events that will make their way to the website.
Membership: PB KARAOKE PARTY FRIDAY, MAY 9TH - RSVP ON FACEBOOK BY FRIDAY! After heated debate, the theme will be “You are a slut. Dress like one.” If you’d like to jazz it up, maybe CE-HOs? CE-BROs? The late Jenna Jameson (missing since Fall ’07)? I think everyone’s hoping that there will be some serious (and perhaps scandalous) makin’ out at this party. Bring your kissy faces. Also due this Friday are your PB Yearbook pages! Holla back (in Ray’s mailbox in the office)!
Student Arts: Last coffeehouse (which was a fundraiser - Who Gives a Buck?) was on Friday! They raised a hundred dollars for Keep a Child Alive (which means 100 people gave a buck!). Special thanks to the Poets & Writers committee for showing up (they only travel in one dangerous pack of literary knowledge and criticism).
Publicity: BRENDA MALVINI! BRENDA MOTHERFUCKING MALVINI! BRENDA I WANT TO HAVE YOUR BABIES MALVINI! BRENDA BRENDA BRENDA! MALVINI MALVINI MALVINI! Brenda Malvini would like to thank everyone who helped her advertise last minute BRENDA MALVINI for the BRENDA She & Him and Off the Grid. Also, if you want to help out with mystery concert (which BRENDA MALVINI will be planning over the summer) shoot her over an email at blm267@nyu.edu. BRENDA MALVINI!
Strawberry Fest: Strawberry Fest is FRIDAY! Yes, THIS FRIDAY, MAY 2nd! If you’d like to volunteer go to the following website http://www.osa.nyu.edu/strawberry/index.php . If you volunteer you get a free TSHIRT! I bet it’s cotton and I bet you’d look wonderful wearing it with your plaid jammies. Also please keep in mind DUELING MECHANICAL BULLS!
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Kristen’s Day (the 3 am barely-coherent babble edition): This is the last time I will summarize my thoughts and feelings in email form and send them out in bulk to the PB listserv (the problem is I have so many thoughts and feelings, just not enough listservs to tell send them all out!). You’re probably wondering if some of these feelings are about you and… they might be (doesn’t that make this more exciting?!?!). Actually they’re probably not about you, unless you think they might be, in which case they probably are, unless they’re really not about you, cause maybe it’s about me? It’s not you it’s me (but it’s really mostly you).
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Best name for an album title: You Think It’s Like This But Really It’s Like This (Thank you, Mirah, you are full of wisdom.)
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Ever scratch yourself with a pen thinking that it isn’t open and then look down to see that there’s a bunch of squiggly lines on your arm? That’s little angels writing you notes, “Don’t forget to floss!”.
Final Note: I know you’re probably all worried about what’s going to happen this summer. Will I be able to see Kristen at all? How will I know what her days are like? Don’t worry, when I abuse the listserv to tell you about shows I’m having over the summer I’ll be sure to include a portion exclusively dedicated to Kristen’s Day (and by then it will be vintage! Lolololzomgz!). But really come to my shows, I’ll play you my ukulele and sing you pretty songs about my feelings. We’ll even chat in the middle, take a break from the ukulele-singing business, talk about life, I’ll thank you for coming, if I’m drunk enough I might tell you I love you (which may or may not be entirely true), and then afterwards I’ll give you a really great hug (like a serious, lower back hug… you know the kind). It’ll be charming! I can’t wait. Oh and if you’re in the city for the summer you can come visit Westchester (also appropriately known as The Bestchester). I can show you that Westchester really isn’t “upstate” and that we’ve got a lot going on besides some rich people spending their money. I’m pretty serious about that, New York Metropolitan Area kids (you know who you are).
lovelovelovelovelove,
kristen barry
PS: Don't forget to keep it real over the summer. Come September it's game time... and you know what that means.