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10.04.2005
I heart NYC
Okay, okay, so I haven't been the most ardent or ambitious in doing this thing. Anyway, in tribute and in memoriam of my recently-lost black moleskin diary/journal/etc, I hereby announce my intentions to do this thing more often as a way to avoid "losing" any info in the future.
Today I wandered into a newstand on the Lower East Side and was flipping through a photography magazine when I came across a picture of a girl wearing a blue Cub Scout shirt. It got me to thinking about what happened to mine, then I realized that my mother, who recently moved from my birth-house, probably got rid of it. For a moment I felt lost, not from nostalgic sadness, but from the feeling that some indie-rock hipster-girl probably picked it up at Goodwill and is wearing the merit badges that I earned, not to mention the Den Leader gold epaulet band. Oh well, such is life! I suppose I'll have to keep in mind that sentiment the next time I pick up a Purple Heart or Bronze Star for my leather jacket.
I just returned home from a show at the Mercury Lounge. I really wanted to see a show at CBGBs, since it will probably be closing soon. I know they had a month of benefit shows, but the long-time owner, Hilly Kristal, is not going to renew his lease. Unfortunately, tonight was International Extreme Music night and it wasn't something that really appealed to me but something that would probably make me angry and hope for the place's closing. So instead I went to the ML and saw a pretty decent show. I caught a couple songs of a band with a girl's name of whom the namesake sang real purdy but I can't remember the name now. The next band was King Of France which played an absolutely fabulous show. I can't remeber seeing a band live that played songs that were all equally good with no filler! They were obviously inspired by this XTC/Squeeze/Erasure thing, but even though I don't care for any of those bands, truely enjoyed the songs and music. They were funny without pretention, and played beautiful music. Yeah Yeah! The headliner was a band called Robbers on High Street of which I've heard a bit about in the past year or so. To be honest, I probably would have liked them more if the preceeded KOF, but their songs which reminded me of Radiohead in the way that they take a long time for the songs to develop, kind of made me zone out. I equate the bands to being as such: KOF were Beatles '65, whereas ROH were George Harrison solo in '75. Maybe that means something or nothing, it's just something that came to mind. I think people were way too much into them, if that makes sense either. I don't know, This is all just stuff I thought about as I was zoning out to the ROH. Anyway, it was a wonderful time as I don't get to see much decent live music as I'd like. I'm still depressed over Brian Jonestown Massacre cancelling their Phoenix show. At the last minute I was making mad phone calls between the club booker and their road manager of whom I'm a longtime friend. It didn't pan out in the end and now I'm a little put off about bands and their music. Anyway, before I start a rumble, I'll take this as a time to sign off for now. Rock on!
Today I wandered into a newstand on the Lower East Side and was flipping through a photography magazine when I came across a picture of a girl wearing a blue Cub Scout shirt. It got me to thinking about what happened to mine, then I realized that my mother, who recently moved from my birth-house, probably got rid of it. For a moment I felt lost, not from nostalgic sadness, but from the feeling that some indie-rock hipster-girl probably picked it up at Goodwill and is wearing the merit badges that I earned, not to mention the Den Leader gold epaulet band. Oh well, such is life! I suppose I'll have to keep in mind that sentiment the next time I pick up a Purple Heart or Bronze Star for my leather jacket.
I just returned home from a show at the Mercury Lounge. I really wanted to see a show at CBGBs, since it will probably be closing soon. I know they had a month of benefit shows, but the long-time owner, Hilly Kristal, is not going to renew his lease. Unfortunately, tonight was International Extreme Music night and it wasn't something that really appealed to me but something that would probably make me angry and hope for the place's closing. So instead I went to the ML and saw a pretty decent show. I caught a couple songs of a band with a girl's name of whom the namesake sang real purdy but I can't remember the name now. The next band was King Of France which played an absolutely fabulous show. I can't remeber seeing a band live that played songs that were all equally good with no filler! They were obviously inspired by this XTC/Squeeze/Erasure thing, but even though I don't care for any of those bands, truely enjoyed the songs and music. They were funny without pretention, and played beautiful music. Yeah Yeah! The headliner was a band called Robbers on High Street of which I've heard a bit about in the past year or so. To be honest, I probably would have liked them more if the preceeded KOF, but their songs which reminded me of Radiohead in the way that they take a long time for the songs to develop, kind of made me zone out. I equate the bands to being as such: KOF were Beatles '65, whereas ROH were George Harrison solo in '75. Maybe that means something or nothing, it's just something that came to mind. I think people were way too much into them, if that makes sense either. I don't know, This is all just stuff I thought about as I was zoning out to the ROH. Anyway, it was a wonderful time as I don't get to see much decent live music as I'd like. I'm still depressed over Brian Jonestown Massacre cancelling their Phoenix show. At the last minute I was making mad phone calls between the club booker and their road manager of whom I'm a longtime friend. It didn't pan out in the end and now I'm a little put off about bands and their music. Anyway, before I start a rumble, I'll take this as a time to sign off for now. Rock on!
