LEGENDnyc: In
Our Own Time
LEGEND
was a 3-time winner of the Apollo Theatre's Amateur Night contest where they
performed the Force M.D.'s song "Here I Go Again." LEGEND has
shared the stage with Blue Magic, Heavy D and Kool Moe Dee.
Hello. My name is Robert C. Parducci. Once upon a time, I played keyboards
with LEGEND. These days I am an Automation Specialist in New York City: Lotus
Notes Administrator; Web Site Administrator; and Technology, Development and
Support Services. I have lived and worked in New York City my entire life.
I enjoy Music, Movies, Mensa and Manhattan. Not necessarily in that order,
I just like the way it sounds.
"For the net set, there's no place like a personal home
page. The information on a personal home page is about, well, me, me, me (or
in the case of your personal home page - you, you, you, but that's a lot less
interesting.) 'It's a kick to publish something that can be seen by an audience
of 20 million people or more,' Prodigy President Ed Bennet enthuses. A kick?
If someone gets 20 million hits on their personal home page, I'll let them kick
me." - Chris Oakes, the net. Review of Prodigy's Home Page Creator,
"I Want My Home Page!"
"What's worth doing is worth doing for money." - J. Donohue
"The world is divided into good people and bad people.
The good ones sleep better, but the bad ones have a better time while they're
awake." - Woody Allen
"It takes a long time to understand nothing." - Edward Dahlberg
"It's better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight
like there's no money." - P.J. O'Rourke, Modern Manners
"You could make more money as a butcher." - Frank Zappa, Cosmik
Debris
"If you have an unpleasant nature and dislike people this is no obstacle
to work." - J.G. Bennett
"Everything happens at once. We miss most of it. The kettle boils over
and puts out the fire." - Laurie Duggan, The Mysteries
"Moustache: Great to stroke, fun to pluck. The hairs can be rolled in
the fingertips, curled, bent, and examined endlessly." - John Hughes, National
Lampoon, "The How to Entertain Yourself Guide"
"I can't go away with you on a rock climbing weekend. What if something's
on TV and it's never shown again?" - Lemonheads, Outdoor Type
"Life is just a cocktail party on the street." - Rolling Stones,
Shattered (High School Yearbook entry for Steven Parducci)
"Went to the Apollo. You should have seen them go go go" - Lou Reed,
Walk on the Wild Side
"And I dream about her even in my sleep. Even with her clothes on she's
beautiful..." - Adrian Belew, The Ideal Woman
"Things fall apart; the center cannot hold" - William Butler Yeats
"Men want sex. If men ruled the world, they could get
sex anywhere, anytime. Restaurants would give you sex instead of breath mints
on the way out. Gas stations would give sex with every fill-up. Banks would
give sex to anyone who opened a checking account." - Scott Adams, The
Dilbert Future
"Pass the tanning butter." - B-52's, Rock Lobster
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." - Andy
Warhol
"The end of bigotry will not come when all minorities are judged by the
same standard, but when all bigots are." - A. Whitney Brown,
The Big Picture
"There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased that
line." - Oscar Levant
"Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time." - Steve Wright
"Ninety percent of everything is crap." - Theodore Sturgeon
"Men are jerks. Women are psychotic." - Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
"It says one hundred percent guaranteed, you moron!"
"Mister, if you don't shut up I'm gonna kick one hundred percent of your
ass!" - Judge Reinhold to Businessman, Fast Times at Ridgemont High
"Who are you and how did you get in here?"
"I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith." - Leslie Nielsen as Lieutenant
Frank Drebin, Police Squad
"Only the mediocre are always at their best." - Jean Giraudoux
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
- Arthur C. Clarke
"The great question... which I have not been able to answer... is, 'What
does woman want?'" - Sigmund Freud
"I'd give my right arm to be amibdextrous" - Brian W.
Kernighan
"Against ignorance, the gods themselves contend in vain." - Johann
Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."
- Unknown
"Most
of all Bobs are born Robert. They become Bob by choice; that is they either
choose to be Bob, or choose to accept the name when it is foisted upon them
by others. Almost certainly, every Bob is a former Bobby." - David Rensin
and Bill Zehme, The Bob Book
"An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell
Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger." - Dan Rather
"I can barely stand not being in Japan." - Dick Cavett
"The history of cinema is boys photographing girls." - Jean-Luc
Godard
"I've suffered for my music and now it's your turn." - Neil Innes
"Why would a grown man who's shirt says 'Genius at Work' spend all of
his time watching a children's cartoon show?" - Homer Simpson
"Paranoia means having all the facts." - William S. Burroughs
"You can't take something off the Internet! It's like taking pee out of
a swimming pool." - Joe, NewsRadio
"Singles remind me of kisses. Albums remind me of plans." - Squeeze,
If I Didn't Love You I'd Hate You
"Don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he'd
ever wished for. He lived happily ever after." - Willy Wonka
"Any moron with a pack of matches can set a fire. Raining down sulphur
is like an endurance trial man. Mass Genocide is the most exhausting activity
one can engage in, next to soccer. " - Loki, Dogma
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana." - Groucho
Marx
"We are all of us in the gutter. But some of us are looking at the stars."
- Oscar Wilde / Chrissie Hynde, Message of Love
"The Beatles were so high, they let Ringo sing a couple of tunes."
- Bill Hicks
"I love mankind; it's people I can't stand." - Charles M. Schulz
"It's like the doctor was just telling me - delirium is a disease of the
night. Good night." - Bim, The Lost Weekend
"Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation." - Norman
Augustine
"If it weren't for my horse, I never would have spent that year in college."
- Lewis Black
"You ever dance with the devil by the pale moonlight?" - The Joker,
Batman
"There's no such thing as a free lunch." - Milton Friedman
"How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?"
- Tyler Durden, Fight Club
"People say I'm into black women. Robert De Niro is into black women.
I'm just into women who are real, and they happen to be black." - Bill
Maher
"Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport,
but in earnest." - Bion (~100 BC), from Plutarch, Water and Land Animals