let's be honest: most subway performers are nuisances. i want to read and/or spy on people when i'm on the train, and it's ever so much more difficult when feet are flying about my head and/or i'm trying to ignore a loud, off-key song about the jesus (breakdancing crackhead barbershop quartets, i'm looking at you). buskers on the platform, now - those folks make my day. solemn midtown saxophonist taking mancini's "pink panther theme" like a slinky on a long flight of stairs? go on. erhu player treating chinatown to the opening notes of "raspberry beret"? we have yet to meet, but the idea of you lights up my life. here's a variation on the game in which i ask you to match readers with their books: can you pick out the song this fellow's playing? (i'm not at all sure that it's difficult, but joe claimed otherwise.)
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i just called to say i love you.
(not sure i should admit this, but i recognized the song before the start of the chorus. might have something to do with playing it on the piano at age 9!)
I see only a black rectangle. Boo! That said, I love the erhu.
I got nothin', but now I hear it, thanks to Valya!
is the image coming up as a black box? the audio's the point, but still, fie on you, internet! correct, valya; though joe speculated it was the music accompanying snoopy's red baron sequences in it's the great pumpkin, charlie brown, it was in fact "i just called to say 'i love you.'" i believe it segued into "my cherie amour."
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