Archive for April 16th 2008

And on the lazy days the dogs dissolve and drain away

April 16th 2008 by E..

Of all the Jewish holidays out there (and I’ll have you know that there are many), I dislike Passover most of all…my aversion to it is due to a number of completely rational reasons that can hardly be argued with…first of all, there is barely anything for me to eat…even though I don’t eat much anyway, what I do eat is all but off-limits during the eight weeks days of Passover…secondly, Passover doesn’t just last those eight days, because there are the weeks leading up to it when the house is cleansed of all non-Passover foods, leaving me with a limited amount of stuffs for about 10 days before Passover even starts…this year in particular, I have a grudge against Passover because the first Seder falls on the same night that Lou Reed is playing at the Electric Factory…between you and me, I’m still trying to figure out a way to go, but it might be pretty tough…oh, what a bad Jew you are, Lou…and finally, no one ever knows when Passover is…television networks are the worst offenders, since their lack of a grasp on the way a lunar calendar functions causes them to air “The Ten Commandments” sometime in February, and never actually during Passover…

Are there any plus sides to Passover?…I guess, but unfortunately I’ll be too hungry to recall any of them…

I suppose it gives our shelves a chance to be cleared for a change…

Day 242 - April 12th, 2008 Let my cookies go

On a lighter note, Sunday night’s Folk Show was a lot of work, and a lot of fun…my buddies Boris Garcia were in to perform live, and to promote their (still) upcoming album, Once More Time Into The Bliss…since I’ve worked with them so many times, I had no trouble setting them up and getting the mix ready for air…during one of the soundcheck songs, I hear this unusual sound that I had never heard in their songs before…I look up, and Bud Burroughs is wielding a small accordion…I was talking to him about it afterwards, and he referred to it as the “Babe Magnet”…

Day 243 - April 13th, 2008 I love when you squeeze me

After they were done their performance, I ran upstairs to World Cafe Live to fetch the Angel Band and David Bromberg, who had just finished a concert…we got them on in the last 40 minutes or so, and it could not have gone any better…as much as I don’t like rushing to get something like a band set up or a soundcheck done, it’s very satisfying when a session that spontaneous works out…

Monday was a little less eventful…both of my classes were canceled for one reason or another, but I still had to come back to Ambler to register for classes for the Fall…it’s so weird that, by the time I start those classes, I’ll be halfway done my college time…my how time flies…

Day 244 - April 14th, 2008 no title, just registration

In case you can’t read them very well, my classes are “Light, Art and Nature” (a physics course, of all things), “Intro to Radio Performance” (incidentally with the same teacher I have now for “Intro to Radio”), “Youth Culture” (clearly a class on killing dogs) and “America in the 1950s” (”Leave my elevator alone!”…wait, they were from the ’60s)…it should be an interesting semester, since I’ll be living at home and taking all of my classes at Main Campus, with the exception of “Light, Art and Nature”, which is at Tyler, Temple’s Art School in Elkins Park…and yes, I turned down taking “Death and Dying” as an elective…

Last night, I went to see Jason Collett at World Cafe Live…Jason is an on again/off again member of Canadian pop militia Broken Social Scene, but has a few solo records out…his newest, Here’s To Being Here, is pretty darn good, and the show was terrific, too…I was actually there to manage the Y-Rock table with fellow ex-World Cafe intern-turned-Y-Rock DJ Melanie…we had a great time talking about all sorts of stuff, from the music we play to how the station works to silly things we’ve seen at concerts…Jason and his band did a nice long set, and he signed a poster of himself that I grabbed after the show…

During one of the last songs, Jason picked a flower from a vase behind him and plucked petals from it before tossing the flower into the audience…

Day 245 - April 15th, 2008 shotgun

Still technically being Tax Day, Dad and I saw postal workers lined up along Market Street collecting tax returns…and, of course, there were plenty of people taking them up on their helpfulness…also, there were people holding up Ron Paul ‘08 signs…is it just me, or didn’t he drop out of the race a while ago?…oh bother…

I’m at the help desk now, so if you need any help with your desk, you know who to ask…

E.

Lyric of the Time:
See how we are
Gotta keep bars in between us
See how we are
We only sing about it once in every twenty years

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