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An odd night, right before the rain.

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A really excellent show - like watching a bunch of hippies just let it all hang out.  Precise playing, a good selection of songs culled from the past two albums (although where was “No Satisfaction”?), and an appreciative crowd.  One of the audience members in the front row raised his hands to the sky as [...]

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Well damn.  I was looking forward to this show for a lot of reasons, mostly because of all the hype about Psychedelic Horseshit (above), and the fact is that it simply didn’t provide.  All three bands that I saw - less so with Eat Skull, more so with Psychedelic Horseshit - severely tested the notion [...]

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Went to JFK yesterday for the unveiling of the new JetBlue terminal.  To wit:

Quite the ceremony yesterday at JFK Airport, with JetBlue rolling out their renovated terminal to employees, press, special guests, and all manner of dignitaries. Bloomberg was on hand, as were Queens Borough President Helen Marshall, a number of congressmen and senators, Port [...]

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Pea green was cheap.

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It’s been a couple months since volume 1, and I’ve been to far more bars than I have space to discuss.  The highlights:
Hotel Delmano: Williamsburg’s most expensive bar has quickly become a favorite.  Sure, ordering a $13 drink isn’t something you want to do all day, every day, but the quality of the mixed drinks, [...]

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Just finished John Darnielle’s new book Master of Reality, and wow - what a potent little volume.  It’s certainly the most formally adventurous of Continuum’s 33 1/3 series; most of the authors in the series go about profiling their given album by way of Behind The Music-style rockumenting, with plenty of first-person pontification thrown in [...]

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Maybe some sort of pop culture reference that flew over my head?  A little help, please!

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“Forty?  Hah!  I’m fifty years old.  And you know what?  I still got it.”  Timothy lifts his shirt to reveal a six-pack, and flexes.
“Oh Alan, you must meet Paul.”
“How did he get here?”
“Oh he just walked by and someone invited him in - I’m telling you, it’s just like the old Village here.  And he [...]

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