Comments on: Listening to Bach on the subway

By: lisa t.

lisa t. — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:55:31 +0000

“Total eclipse of the heart” is my favorite karaoke song.

I think my first actual record was shaun cassidy’s da do ron ron (about 1978). but my first purchases on vinyl were depeche mode’s ‘speak and spell’ and– get this juxtaposition– the monkees– more like 1983. none are on my ipod today, by the way.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 04:17:07 +0000

Bryan,

I followed up the Joan Jett 45 with Bonnie Tyler’s ‘Total Eclipe of the Heart’. And today I bought a copy of Spin magazine at the bookstore. That’s enough embarrassing reveals for today.

By: nicole

nicole — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 03:20:20 +0000

…. “I realize the wrong track could utterly destroy me at this sensitive point in the morning.” i love this — how true. I have a ton of classical music on my ipod and have been listening to Mozart’s C- Mass a lot since I heard it at the SF Symphony a few months ago. But sometimes when I put the ipod on shuffle, I’ll go from, say, a kicky tune by Jem to Vivaldi’s Gloria, and it jolts me out of my morning-bus fog. Like, does my ipod *know* what’s going on in my head this morning??/

By: Bryan Waterman

Bryan Waterman — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:20:23 +0000

i think you’ve dropped that one before, now that you’ve mentioned it again …

By: Miller

Miller — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:09:08 +0000

bryan, i only wish i could have had the pleasure of meeting you or, better yet, being one of your students. i’ll cross my fingers when PhD application time rolls around as i await the reply from nyu (i’m pretty sure that’s where you teach?), though i won’t get my hopes up too much given how competitive it is.

i’ve contemplated revealing my true identity, but am still a bit shy and comfortable hiding behind my unimaginative pseudonym. (a copy of henry miller’s tropic of cancer is perched by my computer. viola!) i must admit, though, that i had no idea i was that mysterious. fun!

i will give another small breadcrumb: though never one of your students, i am a former student of one of these brilliant whatsiters.