RTP-area local music and culture

[Ben Spiker <Ben.Spiker AT CheshirePark.com>]

This is getting crazy. I can't lurk no more. Yes, there is an enormous,
brand-new TV by the pool table facing the bar. It is beautiful and perfect.
I watched the last moments of Carolina-Texas the night of the Torch release
party on it. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: naught AT nil.com [SMTP:naught AT nil.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 2:36 PM
> To:   ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject:      Re: cradle & hoops
> 
> grady AT ibiblio.org wrote:
> > At the risk of just repeating what Anne said, I was there last weekend 
> > (what, 9 days ago?) for the Torch CD release party, there was some sort 
> > of game on, and I had absolutely no trouble seeing anything on the 
> > screen. It appeared to be perfectly clear.
> > 
> > Are you guys getting old? Did Frank or somebody focus the projector? 
> > Does anybody really care? Has anybody been to the Cradle since Saturday 
> > 3/20 to provide us a third datum for our curve?
> > 
> 
> Well, yes, I am indeed old--I played Siberian Khatru in public when it was
> still new (the tune, not the public).  But I still think we can't be
> talking about the same set.  This one is up high on the wall to the right
> of the bar, facing slightly back to the bar.  I don't recall that it was a
> projection TV, but I do recall very distinctly (this was during the late
> NFL playoffs) that I could barely make out what teams were playing, and
> couldn't see stuff like numbers at all.  More like some floaty pastel
> colored ghosts swishing around on the screen.
> 
> Mike Babyak 
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