66th & 6th

July 28th 2008 by E..

You might remember “Pea Devendra” from back in March…I suppose he’s off making videos with “Pea Natalie Portman” now, so in his stead, let us welcome a new member of the Silly Things Made Of Food crew…

Day 344 - July 23rd, 2008

Earlier on Wednesday, I watched as The Ting Tings recorded their World Cafe session…it was pretty enjoyable, but it went on rather long…still, I get a kick out of sessions that draw spectating staff into the control room…

Thursday, I began going through my closet and finding fallout from my last three years of high school…it’s funny how things like my drawing-filled notebook, drafts of copy for the yearbook and my assignment books bring back better memories than my yearbook itself does…for whatever reason, yearbooks can never completely capture the day-to-day silliness that was a day in high school…I would say that it almost makes me want to get in touch with the people I shared that time with, but much like I would rather see the Nick Lowe of the 1970s in concert than the Nick Lowe of today, I don’t think that meeting up with the 2008 versions of my classmates would quite do it for me…

Mom, Dad and I went to a new local Kosher restaurant called Max & David’s (though their difficult-to-read logo might make you think otherwise)…we went there with my grandparents, who may or may not have been there before…we happen to be very good friends with the family that owns the place, and they are almost always there to mingle with the rest of the neighborhood that shows up…the food was eclectic, artsy and pretty good, but I said that if I wanted to interact with people the way everyone in there was, I would go to synagogue more often…my people…

Day 345 - July 24th, 2008

On my Y-Rock shift on Friday, I asked for e-mail to help me out with a feature I’ll be doing this coming Friday…I want to feature songs that are sung by someone other than the lead singer of a band…I’m not sure if I want to include guest vocalists (that is, someone who is not in the band at all), of if I want to save those for another time…if you think of any examples of microphone-trading in the indie/alternative world, be sure to e-mail me by Friday!…

And in case you were curious, here’s what I pulled out of my closet on Thursday (I didn’t have a chance to take a picture of them until I got home on Friday)…

Day 346 - July 25th, 2008

Saturday, Mom, Dad and I took a trip to New York City…it was the first time I had been up there in a few years, and the first time in longer than that since I spent a whole day there…we parked around 2nd and 9th and went to Toy Tokyo, Love Saves The Day and got Belgian fries at (where else?) Pommes Frites…we went to Trash & Vaudeville (more accurately, just Trash), where I got a PiL shirt and saw a poster for Black Kids (so it’s not just us)…we took a cab uptown to Times Sqaure and went to the sprawling M&M’s store and the surprisingly lame Hershey’s store…what’s rather cool is that the cabs have TV’s along the back of the divider between the back seats and the front bench with a taxi network on them…such technology!…we then walked to the World Of Disney store, where we bought a lot of stuff for three people who are going to be in Disneyland in 2 weeks (!!!!)…

The main reason we went to New York was so Dad and I could see a performance by XRP…for a few years in the late ’80s and early ’90s, the four guys we saw were offically known as Rockapella…with tenor/professional Jew Sean Altman, high tenor Steve Keyes, baritone/scat singer Elliiott Kerman and the lowest of bass singers Barry Carl, XRP put on a show unlike anything you’d ever see from the group that calls themselves Rockapella these days…their set was comprised mostly of covers, as well as many songs that probably haven’t been performed since this incarnation ended with Steve’s departure in 1991…highlights included “Zombie Jamboree” (with Barry’s “This next song is about an iiiiiiiisland” intro), “Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?” (of course), and ”Flat Tire” (complete with choreography as seen in Spike Lee’s ‘Do It A Cappella’)…

Day 347 - July 26th, 2008

What I love most about New York is how, no matter what time it is, there is always something going on…we were eating around 10:00, and it could just as easily have been 2:00 in the afternoon…when we headed back to our car, there was not a single street that didn’t have people in it…we made a final stop at Search & Destroy, where I got a really ugly vintage shirt for just $18…once I get it dry-cleaned, I’ll wear it all the time because I can…

The three of us were so freakin’ tired after coming home around 3:00 in the morning, yet we somehow made it to a little get-together for my aunt’s birthday and I went to the Folk Show (which was thankfully low key as Gene was at Falcon Ridge this week and Chuck Elliot filled in for him)…

While I was waiting for the train, I was reading the Philadelphia Weekly’s cover story, about a guy named Matt Davis and his musical project, Aerial Photograph…

Day 348 - July 27th, 2008

Goodness knows what is going on this week…

E.

Lyric of the Time:
I’m the changingman - built on shifting sands
I’m the changingman - waiting for the bang
As I light my bitter fuse

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