philadelphia

[Chuck=Zero]

Originally Posted by sppunk

I wish the market was open Sundays.

Oh yeah, forgot about that.

One of the standard tourist things to do is to do the run up the Art Museum steps like Rocky, but few actually decide to check out the Philadelphia Museum of Art (open all weekend). Though I'm not an art conoseur, I enjoy my visit whenever I go there, it's not huge like New York's Met where you need most of the day to see it all.

I don't know anything about the bars & clubs in the downtown area, but I've heard a lot about Johnny Brenda's, a bar with live music. It was actually in a recent Rolling Stone as one of Philly's hot spots.

[KrazeeStacee]

Originally Posted by pale_princess

tom hanks with aids

That's what I thought of when I saw this too. Mark had never seen it so I got it on our Netflix and we watched it a few nights ago. I cried.

[pale blue eyes]

I agree with a lot that was already mentioned in the thread as far as it being nice as far as public transportation (SEPTA rail at least) and the tourist-y stuff is all in one place for the most part. South Street is a must and a lot of the music venues (Trocadero, TLA, Electric Factory) are near each other also. I cannot personally vouch for any cheese steak place, they all look the same and sort of gross to me. I wish I could be of more help.

[jenniferkate]

the only things i remember loving about philly are tattooed mom's, the mutter museum and the white dog cafe

[sweetmusk]

at the art museum in philly, they have the last artwork marcel duchamp ever made! you see it by peeking through a hole in a wooden door. the rest is a surprise.

[pink_ribbon_scars]

this is the thing with the naked woman inside. i know that work.

[mpp]

so liz what are you going in philly?

[Nimrod's Son]

Originally Posted by mpp

so liz what are you going in philly?

sicko

[pink_ribbon_scars]

Originally Posted by mpp

so liz what are you going in philly?

man i dunno if i'm going or not. i'm such a waffler. the idea is to go to the university of pennsylvania school of design's admissions open house on Monday 10/29. it would be to find out more about the landscape architecture program and the admissions process. but thom doesn't want to go with me, and it would be expensive, and i'm fucking itred of traveling, so i'm not sure if i'm going or not. i've waited long enough that plane tickets have gone up a lot, but i still haven't decided.

i was thinking i wouldn't apply for admission this go-round, but this would at least get me in the right mindset, and it would assure me that i'm doing the right things that will help get me in the door. i can't figure out of i could get into Penn and Harvard, etc, or not. i mean, Swati majored in gender studies and had a gpa as bad as mine, and she got right into Columbia's International Relations program. so it's clearly not impossible. if i could get in this admissions round, i should just fucking go already. but i want to be sure that i don't apply looking like an idiot, and i also sorta need to pay off some debt before i get myself into a three year grad school situation, so waiting to apply until Jan 09 might be smart.

i don't know. i just want to go to a good school and be an awesome landscape architect and change things. i'm asking a bit much, bt i want it to happen.

also, i want to go back to a honest to god real city, with grime and crime and concerts and stuff. and philly sounds good and it's so close to nyc!

[sppunk]

Liz, my sister-in-law is attending Penn for green architecture. She graduated w/ her Masters in Architecture from UT Arlington and is now working on something there. Would you like me to get some info for you?

[pink_ribbon_scars]

woah, thanks for the offer. let me figure out what i'm doing about this admissions info session, and then i'll know how an alliance with your sister-in-law could best help me (without wasting her time with my waffling!). i really appreciate that you mentioned this.

[distance]

Originally Posted by pale blue eyes

South Street is a must and a lot of the music venues (Trocadero, TLA, Electric Factory) are near each other also.

i'm pretty sure the only "real" music venue on south street is the TLA (now the fillmore -- yay for stupid renaming). electric factory isn't by south street. it's pretty close to the starlight ballroom, though. i have no idea for sure where the trocadero is, but i don't think it's at south street.

[jenniferkate]

Originally Posted by distance

i have no idea for sure where the trocadero is, but i don't think it's at south street.

chinatown

[pale blue eyes]

Originally Posted by distance

i'm pretty sure the only "real" music venue on south street is the TLA (now the fillmore -- yay for stupid renaming). electric factory isn't by south street. it's pretty close to the starlight ballroom, though. i have no idea for sure where the trocadero is, but i don't think it's at south street.

I didn't say on South Street, I said around South Street. They're not that far from each other is what I meant not that they are all next to each other or something.

And they renamed the TLA?

[dean_r_koontz]

at night i hear the blood in my veins. it's as black and whispery as the rain on the streets of phiiiiladelphia na na an ana n na nanaana nanananaaannannanana. AINT NO ANGEL GONNA GREET ME: IT*S JUST YOU AND I MY FRIEND. AND MY CLOTHES DONT FIT ME NO MORE ID WALK A HUNDRED MILES JUST TO SLIP THIS SKIN

so did karl connor try to rape you?

[~♥Christine♥~]

lol, OMG!
I totally tried to read that word like 5 times before I knew what that said xDD
No Joke!
I forgot that was a place!
lol

[~♥Christine♥~]

Originally Posted by dean_r_koontz

at night i hear the blood in my veins. it's as black and whispery as the rain on the streets of phiiiiladelphia na na an ana n na nanaana nanananaaannannanana. AINT NO ANGEL GONNA GREET ME: IT*S JUST YOU AND I MY FRIEND. AND MY CLOTHES DONT FIT ME NO MORE ID WALK A HUNDRED MILES JUST TO SLIP THIS SKIN

so did karl connor try to rape you?

West Philidelphia, born and raised!
On the playground is where I spent most of my days!
Chillin and Relaxin, Relaxin all cool
Shootin some B-Ball outside of the school
When a couple of guys who were up to no good
started making trouble in my neighborhood!
I got in one little fight and my Mom got scared and said
"Your moving with your Aunty and Uncle in Bel Air."

[dean_r_koontz]

<3 woot woot!

[dean_r_koontz]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!

[pink_ribbon_scars]

Originally Posted by dean_r_koontz

so did karl connor try to rape you?

me and kc have had some crazy times, but no attempted rapes have happened, or not that i know of.

[distance]

Originally Posted by pale blue eyes

I didn't say on South Street, I said around South Street. They're not that far from each other is what I meant not that they are all next to each other or something.

And they renamed the TLA?

they're trying to make 'the fillmore' a chain. i'm not 100% sure if it's related to the previously existing fillmore venues in SF and denver. they renamed irving plaza now (but everyone still calls it irving plaza) which i guess might be ok if it were at the location of the old NYC fillmore, but it's not. TLA is renamed and i believe a venue in detroit was renamed as well. i'm sure they have more on the way that they're planning to buy up and rename as well.

nevermind, just double-checked. they're all related now.
fillmore is owned by livenation/clearchannel (but LN just split from CC right?).
it's now something like "the fillmore at TLA" or "the fillmore philadelphia at TLA"
irving plaza is nwo "the fillmore at irving plaza".