A lot’s been happening… eh, that’s not really true, it’s just been a little while since I updated. Heh. In a style adopted from a particular Peter Lafontaine e-mail I received years ago during my first weeks as a freshman at Brandeis (if he’s reading this he’s probably thinking, “why on earth would Phil remember this?!”), here are some random highlights/bullet points, as well as some random photos from the ol’ cell phone…
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Finally hired at work. Got the word today. $30k/year, which isn’t a lot, but at least I can start saving up –some- money.
I will be 24 on June 8th! Eek!
I had a whole paragraph written about my recent confusion with the moral to a certain Aesop fable. In “The Fox and the Lion,” a fox becomes increasingly less frightened by the lion who passes by his house every so often, until eventually the fox inquires about the lion’s family and asks “when he should have the pleasure of seeing him again.” Now the moral to this story was written as “familiarity breeds contempt,” which confuses me because that phrase means “the more you learn about someone, the more fault you see in them,” but that doesn’t seem to quite jive with the positivity of the story…
They’re fixing the speaker above my cubicle…which means I’ll be able to hear all that lame shlock muzak they play through it. Awesome.
I realized last night, after talking to Dad on the phone, that I have played all over New York City. Manhattan, Brooklyn… the Village, Williamsburg, Chelsea, TriBeCa… that’s kinda cool. In fact, I just got word Glint will be playing at the Central Park band shell(!) on April 20th for, yes, you guessed it, 4/20-ness. While I may not “support” all that or whatever, there will probably be a lot of people out, weather-pending, and hey, playing in Central Park?! Come on! I don’t even know quite how we did it, but I guess Adam is a sort of “magic man,” in the words of a certain Heart song I’ve been jammin’ to lately…
I had two very contrasting Passover seders/dinners this year… the first was at a palatial home in Creskill, NJ with 40 people (extended family and friends, including Uncle Sam and the crew from Montclair as well as all the Urbachs, who I hadn’t seen in a while), and the second was in Nanuet with just Shanna and her mom for a vegan-friendly holiday dinner at their place…
After the Glint gig at Opus a couple weeks ago we went out in Nyack and danced and drank until 4 AM… I hadn’t done that in a while, that was nice. Between Shanna and hanging out with a new group of girls from a couple streets over, we’ve had a nice little group to go out (and play Scrabble and watch movies) with of late.
I had “forgotten” how much about me is on the internet… upon arriving to the aforementioned 40-person seder, I was greeted by many different people with an “oh I’ve seen your band’s website/myspace/facebook page” and I thought, “eesh! How much do these people already know about me?!” A little unnerving, admittedly…
Passover shopping could not have been easier this year. Having lived in Concord, NH most of my life, we’ve been forced to drive to Boston to find any decent selection of kosher for Passover food, but now that I live close to NYC, there are plenty of Jewish suburbs where the common Pathmark/Shop Rite/whatever has aisles and aisles dedicated to “k-for-P” goodness. Pesachdik frozen pizza? You’d better believe it!
Lots of side projects going on. First gig with the Sabrina Stone side project tomorrow night in the West Village… our friend Michelle V. wants me to record some keyboard tracks in the next few weeks for her new EP/album… I hit the jazz jam across the street again; the players they have there are all so damn good, both the core group as well as the sit-ins… and I jammed with Frankie D. and his “real band,” finally (as opposed to the ever-shifting open mic night group), at Casa last weekend, and it was so goddamn fun I couldn’t stand it. I sat in for the last hour of the gig and jammed on a bunch of Stevie Wonder and classic funk/soul tunes. Again… rippin’ on the organ. So damn fun. That damn bright red keyboard of mine packs a punch. The drummer and percussionist really liked my playing. The band was real tight and people were dancing. I haven’t played like that in years. Did I really get to jam on the clavinet part to “Superstition?” Come on! Who allowed that?! ;)
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Finally hired at work. Got the word today. $30k/year, which isn’t a lot, but at least I can start saving up –some- money.
I will be 24 on June 8th! Eek!
I had a whole paragraph written about my recent confusion with the moral to a certain Aesop fable. In “The Fox and the Lion,” a fox becomes increasingly less frightened by the lion who passes by his house every so often, until eventually the fox inquires about the lion’s family and asks “when he should have the pleasure of seeing him again.” Now the moral to this story was written as “familiarity breeds contempt,” which confuses me because that phrase means “the more you learn about someone, the more fault you see in them,” but that doesn’t seem to quite jive with the positivity of the story…
They’re fixing the speaker above my cubicle…which means I’ll be able to hear all that lame shlock muzak they play through it. Awesome.
I realized last night, after talking to Dad on the phone, that I have played all over New York City. Manhattan, Brooklyn… the Village, Williamsburg, Chelsea, TriBeCa… that’s kinda cool. In fact, I just got word Glint will be playing at the Central Park band shell(!) on April 20th for, yes, you guessed it, 4/20-ness. While I may not “support” all that or whatever, there will probably be a lot of people out, weather-pending, and hey, playing in Central Park?! Come on! I don’t even know quite how we did it, but I guess Adam is a sort of “magic man,” in the words of a certain Heart song I’ve been jammin’ to lately…
I had two very contrasting Passover seders/dinners this year… the first was at a palatial home in Creskill, NJ with 40 people (extended family and friends, including Uncle Sam and the crew from Montclair as well as all the Urbachs, who I hadn’t seen in a while), and the second was in Nanuet with just Shanna and her mom for a vegan-friendly holiday dinner at their place…
After the Glint gig at Opus a couple weeks ago we went out in Nyack and danced and drank until 4 AM… I hadn’t done that in a while, that was nice. Between Shanna and hanging out with a new group of girls from a couple streets over, we’ve had a nice little group to go out (and play Scrabble and watch movies) with of late.
I had “forgotten” how much about me is on the internet… upon arriving to the aforementioned 40-person seder, I was greeted by many different people with an “oh I’ve seen your band’s website/myspace/facebook page” and I thought, “eesh! How much do these people already know about me?!” A little unnerving, admittedly…
Passover shopping could not have been easier this year. Having lived in Concord, NH most of my life, we’ve been forced to drive to Boston to find any decent selection of kosher for Passover food, but now that I live close to NYC, there are plenty of Jewish suburbs where the common Pathmark/Shop Rite/whatever has aisles and aisles dedicated to “k-for-P” goodness. Pesachdik frozen pizza? You’d better believe it!
Lots of side projects going on. First gig with the Sabrina Stone side project tomorrow night in the West Village… our friend Michelle V. wants me to record some keyboard tracks in the next few weeks for her new EP/album… I hit the jazz jam across the street again; the players they have there are all so damn good, both the core group as well as the sit-ins… and I jammed with Frankie D. and his “real band,” finally (as opposed to the ever-shifting open mic night group), at Casa last weekend, and it was so goddamn fun I couldn’t stand it. I sat in for the last hour of the gig and jammed on a bunch of Stevie Wonder and classic funk/soul tunes. Again… rippin’ on the organ. So damn fun. That damn bright red keyboard of mine packs a punch. The drummer and percussionist really liked my playing. The band was real tight and people were dancing. I haven’t played like that in years. Did I really get to jam on the clavinet part to “Superstition?” Come on! Who allowed that?! ;)
Local powerpop duo, our buddies, Frankie and His Fingers at Olives.
...and here they are opening our Opus show.
Yours truly hiding a smile at work.
Aw! Dylan and J relax before our Cutting Room show.
My new little cousin Noah.
I -still- have this much fun with balloons.
A failed attempt at researching lunch.
Rob is the Walrus.
King Rob and his guardian cats. In our apartment.
