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Vegan Missionaries
Home has many shapes and forms. This particular evening, in Green River, Wyoming, it came in the form of the Coachman Inn, yes, but more the huge sky and rock formations that surrounded the cluster stop on the way to the great Flaming Gorge. But morning brought us back onto I-80 West, heading to our [...]
Life Recap: 10 Best Shows So Far (I.N.P.O.)
Bon Jovi/Tesla, Nassau Coliseum, Long Island, 1987: I was 9. Let’s keep this in perspective. Faith No More, Roseland Ballroom, NYC, 1992: Ozzy Osbourne, Paramount Theater at MSG, NYC, 1993 Built To Spill, Tramps, NYC, 1997 Unwound/Blonde Redhead, Kill Rock Stars/CMJ Festival, NYC, 1997 Elliott Smith, Time Cafe, NYC, 1998 Modest Mouse, Knitting Factory, NYC, [...]
I Left My ღ in Chicago
In Chicago again for the Pitchfork Music Festival I realizedI kinda, like, love Chicago.ღ But moving onward to food, something far more translatable to the written word… I took the opportunity to squeeze in some vegan eats in before, between and after musical acts. As was the case last year, the festival itself provided me [...]
Cinderella and Cinderella
When I was a tween watching Headbangers Ball, I internalized the possibility that long-haired metal guys could infiltrate my daily life and save me from the tedium, save me from, say, school, or an arguing father. It seemed completely rational to me that Twisted Sister might show up to help convince my folks to let [...]
this wilderness up in my head
Animal Collective hosted an enormous party for 3,000 of their disciples at Terminal 5 last night. The show- from the third floor balcony, next to the 7 foot speakers and above the undulating sea of fans- was awesome. Not so much as in “radical dude!” but as in I was in awe the entire 2 hours they played. [...]
Bright Light!
MogwaiWilliamsburg Hall of MusicApril 29, 2009 The I’m-Too-Short-To-Take-Good-Pictures-At-Shows Collection
Birthdays and Nights.
Although I was caught in the act of sneaking in my vegan chocolate stout cake to be served after dinner, Wok Man played the clueless part as best he could. Birthday dinner was at Lodge, one of the many eateries in the hub of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The vegan ravioli, one of their seasonal vegetarian dinner [...]
Sounds Like Brooklyn: Beirut
The Brooklyn Academy of Music‘s Howard Gilman Opera House is a wonderful place to see a show. Even more so, to see the instrumental bliss of New Mexico’s Beirut and their cacophony of accordion, trumpets, ukulele, and glockenspiels. And even more so, to see the amazing band supported by the Vassar College orchestra. The seated show in [...]
2001: A Spiritualized Odyssey
I think the Almighty Sound is a band from Minneapolis. Despite several webpages I am still not sure. Anyhow, they created 2001: A Spiritualized Odyssey, unique film project that pairs Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey with the J. Spaceman’s space rock. The coupling is a fantastic fit, a higher brow Wizard of Oz/Dark Side. Spiritualized compliments [...]
The Zlatne Uste Golden Festival
In the basement and auditorium in Good Shepard School in the high reaches of Manhattan’s northern-most neighborhood, I partook in a wonderfully unique experience: the Golden Music Festival, an annual collection of Balkan music, dance and art. Inside the monotone school in Inwood I was transported to the streets of southeastern Europe, roaming the halls [...]
NY Resolution #1: Without music life would be a mistake. (Nietzsche)
2009 Resolution #1: Hear more new music. Fresh songs for fresh memories. I miss buying music. Music you can delicately pull from an lp sleeve, lay gently on a record player, wait the 2 seconds of cracklin’. I miss spending long hours in record shops. Those priorities, those discretionary funds. Today, without Joe giving me music, I’d [...]
