Dec
18th
Fri
18th
Nice booty(z).
Dec
17th
Thu
17th
Dec
9th
Wed
9th
A Review of The Bible, By ZW Johnson
The Bible
by God
This is probably a really great book, but not if you have to read it nonconsecutively, a few randomly chosen chapters at a time, and then are made to memorize tons of individual verses by rote by your Bible teacher for a grade in a class at a private Christian school which will actually affect your high-school GPA and, conceivably, affect your chances of getting into a good college and ultimately leading a successful life.
But honestly. Imagine reading Harry Potter, all fun and shit, and then being like “Oh shit!” because you remember that you have to memorize large passages of its text and recite them verbatim for a test next week. By the time you hit your sophomore year in highschool, you’d probably be all like, “Fuck you, J. K. Rowling. I don’t even believe you exist.”
First snow of the year. One of the joys of not caring about the weather report is waking up to find your exterior world transformed.
Dec
7th
Mon
7th
Amanda this looks great! When is it?
MUSIC: there will be acoustic music all afternoon featuring:
12-1 David Elohi
1-2 Barry
2-3 Paul Sentz
3-4 Dave Alpert
4-5 Chris Wilhelm
5-6 Dan Blakeslee
6-7 David Wax (and suz)
7-7:45 Dave Godowsky
7:45-8:30 Alice Austin
FREE wine and coffee!
Location: 438 Somerville Loft #4, the big brick wharehouse building directly to the right of “Market Basket”. Entrance is in the back. (there is a graveyard in the front.
Dec
5th
Sat
5th
I love it!! Can Phil Dupre take some pictures of you making the dresses? My nieces will love to see photos you at work…
and Mini d.aMa dress. First time making a 2year old size dress. It is fun! For Jacobs’s nieces.
So excited for this!! It looks amazing, Amanda!!
getting dresses ready for Jacob’s family. Messy studio.
Dec
1st
Tue
1st
I just ran into Ronen V randomly on the street in midtown. I think he owns this city.
Nov
30th
Mon
30th
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Music Monday: The Baker Brothers - Don’t Turn Your Back On Me
Around the time I did the score for Brick, I was living in a beautiful little apartment on the coast of Bournemouth and right in the midst of a thriving weird little music scene. It felt like the social life in town revolved around a little cafe called Blu. During the day they served the best grilled Halloumi salad I’ve ever eaten. During the night they turned into a full-fledged, dancing-on-the-tables, beer-on-the-floor, clothes-on-the-benches party.
My wonderful friend Chris Pedley (seen stateside as the bassist during the autumn Annasthesia tour and as the upright bassist for the Brick score) and his band The Baker Brothers were the driving force behind those nights, and when Chris asked me to do the lyrics for a new song they were working on, I jumped at it. So, out came this tune.
I had just spent a lot of time in Williamsburg finishing the Annasthesia record and my imagination was fresh with images of getting of the L train at Bedford so I loosely wrote the words around that feeling. A bit of New York by way of the Baker Brothers self-described country bumpkin dirty funk jam.
The track here is from a live album recorded at the Jazz Cafe in London a long while later, so it sounds quite a bit slicker (find the original here featuring Chris Mears on the chorus), but I still haven’t been to a party in London (or New York, for that matter) that rivals the vibe of The Baker Brothers at Cafe Blu.
Nov
28th
Sat
28th
Lunch in New Orleans.
