Crazy prog medleys are bound to occur!
from <a href = "http://www.asiaworld.org">asiaworld.org</a>:
"Tour Dates - The Four Original Members of Asia
Monday, 15 May 2006
The Four Original Members of ASIA--Geoffrey Downes, Steve Howe, Carl Palmer, John Wetton--have announced the following confirmed dates for their September 2006 US tour."
<b>Boston - Thursday, Sept. 7</b>
Signs are pointing to me being there, tickets on sale a week from tomorrow.
<strong>It's a conspiracy!</strong>
To clarify, I was trying to press upon the point that most corporate and University cafeterias are owned by Aaramark or some other clone of Aaramark, and they're all the same.
I was (obscurely) trying to make the point that they call the cafeteria's Sebastian's or Tony's in order to give them an original, bistro-esque feel, less Soviet and Industrial than "The Caf" that people went to in the 1970s for lunch.
However, because employer food service is a monopoly, I'm sure that the names were vetted in multiple marketing and paid phone surveys to groups of people in specific demographics paid to determine if they would rather eat at a place called: a. Sebastian's, b. Frank's, and c. Mike's.
And it's kind of embarassing and funny that we both work in a place that has a Sebastian's based on all that research. And finding out about it is kind of like exposing a thinly-veiled Orwellian fraud. We haven't thought about it because we really just don't care-- we only go to these places because they're easy and we're bored.
And and and, in fact, the 1970s "Caf" probably was more homemade, healthier, cleaner, had better benefits to Caf staff, and was WAY WAY WAY more original than today's corporately cloned "Sebastian's."
So, MF DU-- what do they have for lunch today at your Sebastian's? It's probably the same thing on the menu as mine...
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It does sound like from their website that there are other cafeterias - I know there is one around the WTC / Seaport area (a stone's throw from where the Radiohead show was @ the Pavilion) but I am curious about your cafeteria - where is it?
Obviously, unlike "Frank" or "Mike," "Sebastian" is a name that no red-blooded American parent would name his/her child. It sounds much more European and therefore much more sophisticated, cultured. Think creme brulee rather as opposed to apple pie.
But then again, why not "Henri's" or "Paolo's" or "Vivian's"? All I can think is that they're trying to evoke the hedonistic aristocratic decadence of "Brideshead Revisited."
Are there other famous Sebastians I'm not familiar with who might have influenced the branding of the cafs?
Off the top of my head, I'm thinking Johann Sebastian Bach...or Sebastian Bach of Skid Row. You have both ends of the spectrum there.