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Friday, July
23, 2004 at 10:29:08 (EDT) |
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Take this job ... and love it
As I'm sure you all know (since it's pretty much all I've been
talking about all week), Motico
is playing The
Trash Bar tomorrow at 8PM, along with The
Coastal Drag, Tear
Us Apart, The
Quick Fix Kills and Blowfly.
As much as I'm trying to hype this show as it's our first-ever
Saturday night show, we will have another Saturday night show
on August
14 at Pianos.
 Saturday
night shows have been difficult (if not impossible) for us
in the past because Zack's job as a sound engineer meant he
had to work most Saturdays (and lately, every other night
too). But something has happened that will free up weekends
for Motico from now on:
We killed Zack.
No, that's not true. Fact is, Zack got himself a new job!
He's trading in his headbands and leather vest of the sound
trade for a necktie and possibly a cornflower-blue shirt.
Actually he probably won't have to wear that, but I just wanted
an excuse to photoshop his head on a shirt and tie. Congratulations
Zack! Let's all celebrate at Trash tomorrow!
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Thursday,
July 22, 2004 at 15:58:56 (EDT) |
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Tell it like it is
The Neville
Brothers performed at Metrotech today:
I didn't realize that they're actually brothers (Aaron Neville
on far right)
Ah, such fun not to be at work!
The crowd was way into the show
Zack wasted no time in cornering another sound guy
Check out the two big tone chambers for the Hammond organ
Sylvia is nonplussed by the warning on the cigarette box
Ah, Brooklyn!
I used my camera to video some of the performance. But I
got parnaoid and switched it to the lowest quality setting,
so the result is super tiny. But here's The Nevilles doing
The Temptations' "Ball
of Confusion" (MPG, 4.8MB).
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Tuesday, July
20, 2004 at 12:02:28 (EDT) |
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Orders
from the DA
 You
guys may remember, I used to live with a guy named MRK. We both
played in a band along with a guy named Zack. Well all of that
is in the past.
You also might have noticed that recent photographs of a
man resembling MRK have been labeled with the moniker "Buzz
McKinnon." I take it as a sign of great sophistication
on the part of my readership that nobody brought up the seeming
incongruity. Why was MRK suddenly Buzz? Well, no one knows,
really. But one day one Buzz McKinnon rose from what used
to be MRK's bed and he's never looked back. We have embraced
and accepted Buzz McKinnon into the fold, and with this new
blood, other changes must be made.
 It
came down the pike the other day from the head office at Buzz
McKinnon Productions: Now that Buzz is in the band, all the
other band members must comply with their own name upgrades.
Using a powerful supercomputer (the iBuzz), the most appropriate
names were chosen and applied.
Zack became Schlomo "Smoo" Lipshulz, and I became
Arturo Falconetti. Although there has been some grumbling
from below, Buzz assures us these names both illustrate and
elucidate our innate talents. I'm not really sure why I couldn't
just be "Jimmy Legs," but I suppose one more alias
could be useful.
An though David Thomas might get pissed, even Mr Bones has
received his new identity:
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Monday, July
19, 2004 at 15:44:50 (EDT) |
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This is what we've waited for
We've been out of the loop for too long! Motico
is finally playing again, this Saturday the 24th at Trash
in Williamsburg. This is the first time we've actually been
able to play a Saturday show, so we'll theoretically be better
rested than usual. We're playing with a bunch of other worthwhile
bands, but we gotta go on first, so the show starts around
8 PM. In the industry, this is known as "paying your
dues." But look at it this way, even if you have other
plans this Saturday, you can see the show and still do whatever
else you wanted to do. Anyway, you guys gotta check out the
refurbished Trash Bar. It used to be Luxx, but with the renovations
it has a much better atmosphere. It's like a real music club
now instead of that weird faux-lounge thing they were trying
to do before.
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Monday, July
19, 2004 at 10:21:16 (EDT) |
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What's goin' on
While riding my bike around Williamsburg hanging up flyers,
I went by the Navy Yards and again was puzzled by what I saw.
For over a year now I've noticed a bunch of train cars in the
yard that seem really out of place to me. The cars I've been
seeing appear to be from Cleveland, Ohio's Regional
Transit Authority. This is a commuter line that's somewhere
between the subway and the LIRR for Clevelanders.
Note the distinctive 70's era logo
The cars are obviously pretty old, so it's no surprise if
they've been put out to pasture. But why here? Maybe I'm wrong,
but I don't think anybody else uses this logo (unless someone
out there can tell me differently). The only thing I can think
of it maybe Bob Diamond bought them to use for his trolley
car initiative in Red Hook (aw crap, forget that, it looks
like the city screwed
him over).
 In
other news, Sylvia is back from Berlin! I suspect there shall
be another party in our back yard soon to celebrate her return
to the USA. Which reminds me, is the Alibi gonna have another
pig roast this summer? This time we'll schedule the party
around it, so we don't have to try to do both in the same
day.
I wound up the weekend in Greenpoint to see Jason Cady and
the Artificials perform at Eat
Records (which is a kick-ass store for old cheap vinyl!)
The Artificials are a little like Enigma-meets-Jethro Tull-Kronos
Quartet. Plus a mouth harp.
The Artificials
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Monday, July
19, 2004 at 09:11:55 (EDT) |
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Watch out for the witch
Walking around the neighborhood Saturday, we spied this artwork
in the window of a bodega:
I have to assume that a kid did this (despite the proximity
of a big art school nearby). What is this? It's like a penguin-cow-turkey-lion
thing. Whatever it is, it kicks ass. I like how the creature
appears to have some kind of fetus growing inside it. But
the real find was this painting:
The City Witches Return
This is just brilliant. I just hope to god I don't find out
that "The City Witches" is some kind of TV show
or something. I wanna ask why the witch has only one eye,
but then nobody asks Picasso why his figures had only one
eye. Because it's Art! And because he's been dead for years.
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Monday, July
19, 2004 at 08:59:36 (EDT) |
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Gotta get back in time
Matthew and Chris (he hath but a little beard)
 Okay,
so all that stuff I talked about doing? I didn't do any of
it. A friend of mine form high school wandered into town,
thus beginning a weekend of nostalgia and inebriation. Well,
I was inebriated anyway. Chris' visit prompted getting together
with another old high school friend, Matthew, who lives in
the East Village. According to my calculations, there are
6 people from my high school class in the city. Not too bad,
considering how many of my classmates still live in our hometown.
Matthew's highly trained retriever, Charlie
I guess it's equally strange for anybody to hang out with
people you hung out with over a decade ago. Strange because
there have been such long stretches of time apart, but also
strange because it doesn't feel as strange as you think it's
gonna be.
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