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A FEW MORE WORDS OF WISDOM from our fearless leader
(ACDA Tour Book -- March 9 - 12, 1995)

• "I'm not sure you're going to wind up there ... I just don't want you near me." 2/22
• "Your brains are not being used for anything except regurgitation." 2/3
• "Line line line line line line, line line line, line line line line, line." 2/21
• "You may have thought you were crescendoing, but you weren't." 2/1
• "If you're sheep, then that's different." 2/3
• "I mean, we're not talking about a Germanic pancake." 2/4
• "You're good enough to make a conductor insecure." 2/7
• "One of the greatest disappointments in life is seeing Old Faithful." 2/21
• "... that volcanic ... organism ... coming at the same time." 2/21
• "Can I have the upper 10,000 parts?" 2/22
• "If you let go like that, in a semi-ragged way, it doesn't matter." 2/22
• "I didn't know the men could do it that loud." 2/15
• "I am not writing this down, because I don't have my pencil." 2/15
• "It's sharper than HECK!" 2/7
• "A lot of times I want it; I just don't want it there." 2/7
• "Please avoid bears." 2/3
• "You're pooping, you're pooping, come on, come on!" 2/4
• Jim: "They are the strangest lot."
  Choir: "Who?"
  Jim: "Munchkins." 2/4
• "Grab that dog by the tail. Spin him around." 2/4
• "Sopranos, can you sound nicer about it?" 2/4
• "Most of you are singers." 12/15

THE LAST MARVINISMS OF 1995 (oh, the finality of it all...)
Winter 1995

Potpourri:

• "I just feel as if I'm talking to pillows." 11/28
• "If you know any former women ..." 10/31
• "Show us your television? ... oh, salvation." 10/31
• "Inhibit me!" 11/20
• "I understand why tenors would have fragile self-images." 11/21
• "I guess I'd better conduct it clearly." 11/20
• "Tenors, in your lovely long lovingly lyricly longingly way ..." 11/20
• "There should be something reminiscent about that note, basses." 11/21
• "Don't sing like pillows!" 12/6
• "Sopranos are glorious, basses are puny." 11/20

From the "Contrary to Popular Belief" department:

• "Tom Kang is not in every slot." 12/6

Jim Marvin School of Self-Defense:

• "If the men are in front of you, kick them very hard." 12/8

Jim on himself:

• "I'm a campfire harmonizer. I'm an embellisher. I'm a beautification-maker." 12/6
• "I'm so neurotic, I can hardly believe it. I can't wait for the turkey. But first the margarita." 11/21

Jim on sex:

• "Oh God! Right there! Every time!" 12/6
• "Did this person grab you?" 12/11
• "Altos seem to want to do it - do it with them!" 12/6
• "This makes my tongue swell." 10/31
• "Ride your stallions!" 12/6
• "The tenor is doing a backwards soprano, upside-down." 11/28

From the "Help! I'm becoming Jim" department:

• "I'm as big as I get." David Halstead, 11/20

And the Marvinism of the Year for 1995:

• "Please react to my finger! ... excuse me." 12/6

WORDS OF WISDOM from our fearless leader

Fall 1994

Jim on Music:

• "Oh, those are measures!" 11/9
• "It's inside of the Schütz, you idiot!" 11/1
• "Try not to say ‘snot' in a nosy way." 10/25
• "Can you bring your pum-pums stronger against your wa-doos?" 10/14
• "Brahms and Schütz -- they're the same thing." 11/2
• "Major major! B-flat! I'm here, baby!" 11/1

Jim on Women:

• "A little more warmth, a little more caressing ... it's a girl." 10/14
• "Sopranos are perfect ... Not true, but good for a cigar." 10/15
• "Real women, not boy pencils." 9/28

Jim on Men:

• "Kendall is perfect." 11/1
• "Basses, say: I am thin. I am weak. I am Clark Kent. Mea culpa." 10/12
• "Do you get it, guys? I mean, you're tenors!" 10/14
• "Basses, don't stick out your veni's." 11/2
• "Men have nothing else to do." 11/2
• "Basses, there is a large furniture experience when you come in." 10/15
• "If you can't sing it, don't make another noise .... It's okay -- you're still a man." 10/15
• "It's better, it's just emasculated." 10/15

Jim on Sex:

• "Don't stuff it in your mouth." 11/9
• "Do you hear? I'm so good at it! I'm really good at it!" 10/25
• "Do it again, do it again, HAR-DER!" 10/25
• "Chuck, would you mind ... faking something?" 10/15
• "If you're feeling pressed, you don't have to dress." 11/2
• "It's pretty good for singing all alone, standing up naked in front of them all." 10/12
• "Gee, he squirted! Gee, I'd like everybody to squirt like that." 10/14
• "Men and women. Both sexes. There are two sexes." 10/25
• "Really hold it, so the basses aren't caught naked." 11/2
• "I love it when you say yes." 11/2
• "Tenors, not quite that much squirt." 11/22
• "Men, fit it in." 11/1

Jim on Family:

• "Now we have Graham. Graham is not a cat." 10/10

Jim's Mental-Aural Images:

• "I think of a ring, then I think of a hamburger." 11/2
• "It's an enormous pumpkin paved with cloth and the top is really big." 10/12
• "Tortoise shell made from cotton ... cotton ball from ear falls on tortoiseshell, of cotton." 10/18
• "It's like a rolling rock, catching no moss ... Come on! Catch the moss!" 10/12
• "Wet sausage." 10/15
• "A moving cow." 10/15
• "Pigeon-dropping ... bass entrance ... the sound of furniture moving." 10/12
• "Brush, brush, brush, with feathers atop a sponge." 10/25

Jim on Jim:

• "It's an emotional problem day." 10/25
• "I have a massive mind that wanders all the time." 10/25
• "I have a very wide personality." 9/28
• "I'm a ridin' cowboy, on my horse." 10/4

Others on Jim:

• "He's a little unclear." Chuck, 11/9
• "Jim conducts very ... large." Chuck, 10/19
• "It must be so hard to be Jim ... just living in a state of perpetual confusion." Alison Kaufman, 10/15

Jim on Death:

• "Yay! They're dead!" 10/15
• "We have these people, they're just dying left and right." 10/15
• "I mean, you are dead now." 10/14

Potpourri:

• "Would you please rip it?" 11/8
• "Okay, let's get down." 11/22
• "Men, don't poop here." 10/12
• "I think it's important to feel those oozings." 10/25
• "I just want rhythmic courage." 10/25
• "Juice it! Juice it!" 10/4
• "Is somebody just sort of humming along, campfire-like?" 10/25
• Jim: "Can you do that, with those funny dynamics?"
  Choir: "No."
  Jim: "Yes you can." 10/25
• "You smack. I really love it, that you smack." 10/15
• "Blessed is my raincoat." 10/15
• "There is a bumblebeeeeeee ... in my lunchbox." 11/22
• "D, as in doily." 10/12
• "E, as in oily." 10/12
• "So it relaxes and juices. Two squeegees." 10/15
• "It's like a little popping spirit here." 10/4
• "Really sweep it -- you're just keeping it in chunky-chunk-chunk." 11/2
• "The point is, it gets more and more painful." 11/8
• "Until the moss ... I mean, that's an unbelievable concept. Makes me want to throw up." 10/14
• "Let it gather moss ... and let the moss cover your mouths." 10/15
• "I am cooking the turkey .... Does anyone know how to cook a turkey?" 11/22

A Few Winners From Fellow Collegiites:

• Michael Friedman: "Boy, those were some bummer angels."
  James Bronzan: "That may just have been because I was singing every note wrong." 12/4
• "My soul is lukewarm." Jeff Bernstein, 10/19
• "Boy, I have lots of resonant space in my head." Jefferson Packer, 10/29
• "There was a lot of breathing going on." Michael Friedman
• "It jostles the ear with pleasant buoyancy." Jefferson Packer, 10/29
• "In the grand spectrum of text, it's vaguely exultant." Jeff Bernstein, 11/16

And the Truth About HRCM Management:

• "Ben's really a ham." Peggy Yeh, 12/6