Sociology professor: Did you ever listen to something the first time and like it, and then later on you change your mind? Like a song you listen to for the second time says “fuck all bitches” and you decide you don't like it after that?
Long Island University
New York
Overheard by: Ashley M.
Male student: I feel that this case may have been influenced by the fact that…well, people just hate Michael Bolton.
Seton Hall Law School
South Orange, New Jersey
Overheard by: he's got a point
Artsy queer: You masturbated to the soundtrack of The Nightmare Before Christmas?!
Houghton, Michigan
Overheard by: Midget Goldfish
College guy: I like salsa, but it makes me sad.
Duluth, Minnesota
Overheard by: Nic
Twenty-something dude: When I grow up, and learn how to play an instrument, I’m calling my band he-gina and she-nis.
McKenna’s
Baltimore, Maryland
Black girl to white friends: Black people want to be country, but we don't want to listen to the music.
Harvard Yard
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Overheard by: meems
Professor: They were playing the Rocky theme song while I was trying to think great thoughts.
McDaniel College, Maryland
Chick #1, about techno music blasting from shop: What does this song make you think of?
Chick #2: Being stabbed repeatedly in the eye with a rusty nail.
Chick #1: [Silence.]Chick #2: What about you?
Chick #1: Discos…
Sawnston Street and Flinders Street
Australia
Music history professor, putting a CD in the player: And now we pray to the god of CDs. It’s not good to be a teacher with CDs. They are very stupid things. [Pause.] …It’s not good to be a teacher, perhaps that’s what it is.
Peabody Conservatory
Baltimore, Maryland
Pilot over loudspeaker (riffing on harmonica): This is your captain speaking, (harmonica riff) Welcome aboard, (harmonica riff) Please fasten your seat belts. (harmonica riff) Or we won't be able to leave beautiful Atlanta, Georgia.
(does long, jazzy harmonica riff. Passengers applaud)
Pilot (in Elvis voice): Thank you very much.
American Airlines Flight
Atlanta, Georgia
