I'm getting proper restitution this week. Escaping the fascist weather patterns and reckless driver set here in KY for totally different versions of both in NYC.
My brain is spinning on a punk rock axis, I've missed so many good shows since moving here and my patience is being rewarded twice this weekend.
Thursday night I get to see Love is All at the Cakeshop in the Lower East Side. Love is All is my favorite new music band that plays derivative disco-punk-James Chance-No Wave-we thought it should of stopped with Erase Errata-type shit. . .
They are from Sweden(which is all too common these days), they're fucking really talented and their holler girl, Josephine, has unlimited energy and a crackle pop voice peerless in our day.
Cakeshop is super small, too. The intimacy levels are through the roof there. We DJd QXBXRX there when Partyline DC played and I would accidently sodomize people just trying to get a drink.
myspace.com/loveisall8
Friday night, we get to go see Teenage Jesus and the Jerks at some club on Manhattan
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks is one of my favorite older music bands that plays totally destroyed No Wave-noise type shit and they've actually been deemed the band that MURDERED rock n' roll. Their holler woman is Lydia Lunch and if you don't know who she is. . . well, you're tired.
They're the kind of band that upon first listen everything glowed black and I screamed, "THERE IT IS! I FOUND IT! THE SOUND I'VE WANTED TO HEAR MY WHOLE LIFE!"
"Orphans" has locked itself into a top position for "Best songs of ALL TIME". Yet, it is kind of beyond a song. . .
This is a one-time only reunion show for the release of that new NY NO WAVE book. I guess Thurston Moore is playing bass in the band, too. Good for her.
myspace.com/teenagejesusandthejerks
This is also my birthday weekend, so you can donate any amount of money in MY name to the charity of your choice.
Oh, and I'm pretty much walking again, but I'm gonna miss my little percocet friends. They were really good to me.
2 comments:
I'll check those bands out. Lately I've been listening to a lot of Pandora, since they are one of the companies who have negotiating my possibly working for them. Pretty cool site ... it's been fun seeing what sort of music the selection mechanism thinks I'd enjoy (so far it's been pretty accurate!)
I relate to the narcotics. This morning I FINALLY got that beginning-of-a-hernia repaired. So I'm on my fav pain cocktail of Vicodin/Advil at the moment. So far this is a piece-o-cake. The only other times I've had anesthetic and pain meds were wisdom teeth extractions (Vicodin/Advil), a "Turbinate Reduction" to open space in my nasal passages (was quite interesting to hear the sound of frying bacon come out of my face when they burned the extra tissue away!), morphine for kidney stones (with Vicodin/Advil chaser) and this last procedure. By far the stones were the worst. The others were nowhere close.
Hope you have an enjoyable time on both Coasts ... and that you get fully mended after the recent mishaps. I swear. Encounters with windshields ... and F150s in crosswalks. What a streak of poor luck! :(
The guy in the red T for the "Love is All" pic has some resemblance to my first BF. :)
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