Being from The Bronx means never having to say you're not

[bohemia]

Has anyone ever checked out alumni from their schools on Wikipedia? I know my own high school was pretty lame with the alumni. But I went looking through all the schools my friends went to, and omg. Dudes, I did not realize all these people went to school in the Bronx. The list of people from The Bronx is sketchy, at best because it includes people who randomly lived in The Bronx for a period of their lives, but graduates? Oh man.

I knew about Edgar Allen Poe dying here, obviously. I pass the damn cottage of his every day, along with Regis Philbin Avenue. I knew Martin Scorcese and Regis Philbin both went to Hayes. I knew about Bobby Darin and all those Rat Packer-ish dudes at Bronx Science-- but I didn't know about George Carlin!

And Don Adams and Ace Freely at Clinton? Jon Cryer and Jon Favreau at Bronx Science? ALSO AT BRONX SCIENCE-- JAMES KYSON LEE. BRONX SCIENCE IS LIKE, RIGHT NOW TO MY COLLEGE. SO. MUCH. WIN. I wanted to run around my room like, "Ando went to school in the Bronx!"

And then my dad wanted to look up his schools, and we found tons of people like Derek Drymon (from Spongebob), Carlos Saldanha (Ice Age director), Gerard Way, Jared Leto, Keith Haring and Basquiat (which I knew about, I just forgot-- dad says the SVA hallways were full of Haring's art)! Michael Giacchino and Bryan Singer too. DUDE, and that's just the college. My dad's high school? Basic font of creativity.

I love New York. It never ceases to amaze me. Like, Yunjin Kim, Method Man, Randy Savage and Robert Loggia are all from Staten Island, wtf? I LOVE YOU NEW YORK.

Also, nemo_88, look! The Bronx has Swedish connections!

Anyway, why am I still up? It's already tomorrow and I have a Russian final at 1pm plus an online essay exam. Wish me luck!

Lia

P.S. Oh, hey, it's totally my dad's birthday now! Happy Birthday Dad! And my nephew's birthday is tomorrow.

Comments

[splits_thesky]

YUP!! ...I...DON'T REALLY HAVE AN OPINION ON HER, BECAUSE WHEN EVERYTHING WENT DOWN WITH HER I WAS LIKE, "YOU KNOW, I LOVE THE MUSIC, I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT THE DRAMA-RAMA, 'CAUSE THAT'LL JUST RUIN EVERYTHING", SO I JUST SORT OF - SKIPPED IT.

HAHA, SAME!! WE WIN, OBVZ. :D

[bohemu.livejournal.com]

AHAHA, I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHY SHE MENTIONS SHE "FELL IN LOVE WITH GABRIEL" IN ONE SONG...

OBVIOUSLY!

[splits_thesky]

...WAIT, SHE DOES????? WHAT.

[bohemu.livejournal.com]

IDK, THAT'S WHAT I SAW SOMEWHERE WHERE SOMEONE WAS ASKING ABOUT THE LYRICS AND I WAS LIKE, "LOL WUT?" I HAVE YET TO HEAR IT MYSELF THOUGH...BUSYSOBUSY

[splits_thesky]

WAIT, LYRICS TO WHAT, THOUGH????

[bohemu.livejournal.com]

HER MYSPACE SONGS? IDK WHICH ONE THOUGH. I MEAN TO LISTEN TO THEM TODAY BUT ... I WAS WATCHING OTHER SHIT.

[splits_thesky]

........WAIT, SHE HAS SONGS??????? *IS SO BEHIND, APPARENTLY*

[bohemu.livejournal.com]

WWW.MYSPACE.COM/ELISAJORDANA! IDK WHICH IS THE ONE WITH THE QUESTIONABLE LYRICS THOUGH. I'LL LISTEN TO THEM LATER...

OH HAY, DID YOU KNOW GYM CLASS HEROES COVERED "UNDER THE BRIDGE?" I RANDOMLY FOUND IT (AND THE THE DEPARTED SCORE SOUNDTRACK, WHICH I DID NOT HAVE!!) THE OTHER DAY TRYING TO GET SOME MUSIC ON MY EMTPY MACBOOK ITUNES.

O HAY, I JUST ASKED SOMEONE.... AND IT'S THIS SONG:

[splits_thesky]

I DID!! BECAUSE IT'S ON ONE OF THOSE "PUNK GOES..." CDS, AND I FUCKING LOVE THOSE THINGS. I HAVE, LIKE, A MILLION RANDOM SONGS FROM THEM, HAHA.


....OKAY, WOW. FIRST OF ALL, THAT SONG IS GIVING ME BRAIN DAMAGE. AND SECOND, OOOOOOOOMG, DRAAAAAAAMAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

[bohemu.livejournal.com]

OOOHH. I'VE NEVER HEARD OF THOSE... I THINK. LOL I DON'T EVEN KNOW.

I ACTUALLY LIKE SOME OF THE OTHER SONGS, BUT THAT ONE...... UHH. LOL, I KNO!

[splits_thesky]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk_Goes... !!!!!!

[bohemu.livejournal.com]

OKAY I REALLY WANT THOSE NOW. I HAVE A THING FOR COVERS, AND ESPECIALLY THE 80S, 90S, POP AND ACOUSTIC ONES, SAKFDSGFHJ I'M ALSO LOLING AT THE IDEA OF PUNK GOES CRUNK. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[splits_thesky]

THIS IS ALL I HAVE (IT'S ALL OF THE 90S, AND THEN JUST MISCELLANY)!!!!!!!

[bohemu.livejournal.com]

AWESOMEEEEEEEEE. I'VE BEEN GOING THROUGH YOUTUBE TO SEE IF I FIND ANYTHING I WANT RANDOMLY ATTACHED TO A VIDEO. I KEEP SEEING YELLOWCARD'S "EVERYWHERE"... EVERYWHERE, HAHA

[splits_thesky]

...HEY, SPEAKING OF WHICH, WHAT DO YOU USE TO RIP YOUTUBE SHIT?? BECAUSE ALL OF MY THINGS HAVE BEEN CRAPPING OUT ON ME. :(((((

[bohemu.livejournal.com]

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