Tonight I went to Crash Mansion to see some bands and artists, one of the bands on the bill was a artist named EJ. Now EJ has been around the New York scene for the last five years, she had a mention on Gawker and a few friends of mine (who are some mad talented musicians in their own right) played with her awhile back.
Now here is the part where I get a bit Paula Abdul on this girl's ass!! If she is reading I'm trying to be honest without being mean, think of this as constructive criticism.
This girl is trying to do alt grunge rock and she just shouldn't be. Her voice isn't conducive rock, think Britney trying to be Patti Smith with a bit of Pia Zadora in her rock phase back in the 80's thrown in and you'll get the idea of EJ's sound. Her lyrics lend themselves better to dance music then they do to grunge rock music, she could be HUGE if she was doing dance music I can totally hear her songs with a techno beat behind it playing at a dance club on the south shore of Long Island or Staten Island or a gay club in Chelsea. If she wants to do rock I would suggest to her that she has someone with more experience in that field to help her with her lyrics and maybe go with a more new wave 80's type of sound, ala' Blondie or solo Jane Weidlin (girl if you are reading this download "Fur" and "Rush Hour" for some inspiration and download some Lana Lovitch, Grace Jones and Rachel Sweet while your at it), grunge rock is something she should stay away from!! She could even go in a pop rock direction ala Avril Lavigne or in that whole AC jazzy pop Vanessa Carlton way
So girl I'm not trying to be mean, but your lyrics and voice don't lend very well to the type of music your currently performing. If you take my advice I think you can be the next big thing!! And a positive about last night, you have an amazing backing band!!
Onto the next item:
Rosie O'Donell announced yesterday that she is leaving "The View" in June. I really didn't get the full details of the story. But last night when I came home I saw the tail end of that story on the news and of course that asshole Donald Trump had have a press conference to give his reaction to the story. Man I hate that guy, I always hated him!! I find him to be such an obnoxious prick!! He is so freaking' creepy and such a jerk!! I remember reading an interview with him during the whole Monica Lewinsky scandal and he said something along the lines of "the world would be more forgiving of Clinton if he had an affair with a better looking woman" and then I remember he called into Howard Stern while his wife Melina was pregnant and was like she better not get fat. And he really made himself look like a total jackass during this whole feud with Rosie O' Donell and Barbara Walters, he sounded like he was about 10 years old!! I'm surprised his PR people didn't pull him back and say you know what maybe you should just keep your mouth shut. I cringe when I hear this man talk about the war in Iraq and other current events, cause I'm a news geek like that I watch Larry King and when Trump was on he was going on and on about how he and his wife had some soldiers who were disfigured and maimed in the war to their house in Florida and his wife kept saying how beautiful they were, I was thinking to myself, yeah those soldiers were more then likely male cause if they were female Trump would pay for them to get plastic surgery to make them look like supermodels!! I can't stand the man!!
While we're on it Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan and the rest of that ilk really need to go away!!
Lindsay I'll cut some slack cause I feel really bad for the girl it seems as if she doesn't have all that great of a support system, from all I've read it sounds like she has the stage mother from hell and a father who has been in and out of jail. But it seems like I know more about her private life then I do her body of work, I did like her in "Mean Girls"! Paris just needs to go away for good! She strikes me as being the hugest cunt, I don't think she is beautiful or sexy, nor is she all that talented, music, acting and her sex tape proved all that. I think what bothers me the most about her is that young teenage girls look up to her, this is a woman who was made famous by a sex tape and acts dumb cause she thinks it's cute (big pet peeve of mine!) do parents realize this!? I realize that there have always been socialites through the ages who have gotten famous, but they have always carried themselves with class, dignity and intelligence and have always done something. And then the other one is Kim Stewart daughter of Rod, she just skeeves me and I read that she maybe dating Caleb from Kings of Leon, your band has offically jumped the shark and sold out when your linked with either Paris Hilton or Kim Stewart or if either shows up at your show!! That is the last time Paris, Lindsay and Kim will ever be mentioned in this blog again!
Okay I'm done ranting and giving constructive criticism for the day!
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Happy Administrative Professionals Day!
So every year on Administrative Professionals Day (aka Secretaries day, which is today) us Admins get $100 each from HR. I was so happy to get my money!! It made up for the shitty morning I had at work, I'm living the Devil Wears Prada with a certain co worker, who thinks the world revolves around her and I'm her PA! For all of you in charge be nice (always) to your administrative assistants!!!
Last night I finally got to watch this past Sunday's episode of "The Sopranos". For all who haven't seen the episode stop reading right now! ***SPOILERS****
It's hard to say if Paulie is going to be whacked. As I have said in my previous Sopranos posts the genius of David Chase is that he makes it one way and you think that it is going to go that way and it goes a completely different way! After watching this past week's episode and last week's episode it made me think that Tony is going to get whacked in the end by either Christopher or Paulie. Or that the feds are finally going to bring the entire Soprano family down, I think someone is finally going to squeal and tell the truth about that body that was found in the house in Newark. And how freaky was it that they decided to air the story line with the Asian mental patient and Uncle Junior a few days after the VT shootings!? The actor that played that part looked a little bit like the VT shooter. It was pretty pathetic to see Uncle Junior in that wheel chair at the end, I really think he is going to be the one to squeal on Tony about the body in the house in Newark.
Okay you can go back to reading the blog now.
Tomorrow there is a Streetwave show at Otto's Shrunken Head. The bands playing are:
Mr. Jello Drain
The Band of Gold
Conversation Killers
The Vanities
The One and Only Typicals
Otto's is located at 538 E.14th Street at Avenue B, the fun begins at 8:15pm tomorrow night and there is no cover. Come have a funky frozen drink in a tiki head glass and enjoy the really great garage punk!
Last night I finally got to watch this past Sunday's episode of "The Sopranos". For all who haven't seen the episode stop reading right now! ***SPOILERS****
It's hard to say if Paulie is going to be whacked. As I have said in my previous Sopranos posts the genius of David Chase is that he makes it one way and you think that it is going to go that way and it goes a completely different way! After watching this past week's episode and last week's episode it made me think that Tony is going to get whacked in the end by either Christopher or Paulie. Or that the feds are finally going to bring the entire Soprano family down, I think someone is finally going to squeal and tell the truth about that body that was found in the house in Newark. And how freaky was it that they decided to air the story line with the Asian mental patient and Uncle Junior a few days after the VT shootings!? The actor that played that part looked a little bit like the VT shooter. It was pretty pathetic to see Uncle Junior in that wheel chair at the end, I really think he is going to be the one to squeal on Tony about the body in the house in Newark.
Okay you can go back to reading the blog now.
Tomorrow there is a Streetwave show at Otto's Shrunken Head. The bands playing are:
Mr. Jello Drain
The Band of Gold
Conversation Killers
The Vanities
The One and Only Typicals
Otto's is located at 538 E.14th Street at Avenue B, the fun begins at 8:15pm tomorrow night and there is no cover. Come have a funky frozen drink in a tiki head glass and enjoy the really great garage punk!
Monday, April 23, 2007
The Second Coming
Didn't hit Eat Records yesterday wound up sticking around the LES. I had to run some errands and one of the things that I had to do was food shop for the week. Normally I go to the Associated on Ave C to do my food shopping, but of course everyone knew this was inevitable...... Whole Foods has opened up a branch on the Bowery and I had to check it out yesterday. I apparently wasn't the only person who wanted to check out Whole Foods on the Bowery! It was packed and you would have thought it was the second coming by the amount of people in that store yesterday! The store inside is really nice, they have a ice cream counter and a pomme frites counter.
As I was doing my food shopping I had to laugh cause every hipster and yuppie NY stereotype was at Whole Foods in the Bowery yesterday. As I was waiting to get my lemon sorbet there was a group of kids who where in their twenties waiting on line behind me and I think the girl in the group was the DJ from MisShapes Leigh. If it wasn't Leigh it was her twin cause this girl had the same black angled haircut, with the pale skin and red lips and the same black swing dress with flats. Anyway her friend had this real snobby speaking voice and he was saying how the last time he had rice sorbet was a year ago when he was in Japan. Then as I went to the check out line there was a couple standing next to me and they had a daughter who looked to be about a two years old, both mom and dad looked like they stepped out of the Polo catalogue! Not only did they look like they stepped out of the Polo catalogue, they also looked like the type that have to send their kid to a certain pre school cause she has to go to that school cause if she doesn't she won't get into Harvard! They were speaking french to the kid and she was answering back. The kid was really cute, I was just thinking in my head as I was watching this couple it would be great if this kid totally rebelled when she got older and either went all hip hop or punk on her parents asses!! And during my food shopping experience I noticed the Rachel Zoebot girls, usually these are the girls who come down to the East Village and Lower East Side from uptown for brunch on the weekends, but yesterday they were checking out Whole Foods! The Rachel Zoebot girls ware the skinny jeans with the vests and beads, they also wear the swing dresses with flats and leggings and beads and they wear the giant Jackie O. sunglasses.....I was wondering and thinking to myself as I was shopping do all these people live on the Lower East Side and OH MY GOD CBGB's used to be across the street from this place, I used to play on that stage and my friend Sean used to get me drunk there, I can remember Atlantis and his food cart, I can remember we had to walk down the Bowery in a big group after a certain hour cause it got real sketchy and people used to be able to buy blow (I never did, yuck to drugs!) where the Whole Foods is now, is the Bowery now the new Times Square, is Disney coming in next?? I'm food shopping at Whole Foods in the Bowery!? Does that make me old, a sell out or just really very punk rock!?
This week is a busy music week, two GNYC shows tomorrow and wednesday. Once I know schedules I will post them here.
And I just read that The Cutting Room maybe closing due to some issues the place is having with it's landlord!? Has anyone else heard or read anything about this???? If it's true it would seriously suck, cause that means places to play in Manhattan are becoming few and far between! I like the Cutting Room I like that room (hard to fill unless you have a following) I like the fact that when you go there you see someone different, I like the service (the biggest complaint I hear about that place is the service is nasty, I've never encountered that) and I like the food there but most of all I like the fact that Chris Noth is there all the time and you get to look at him!! One of these days before the place closes (if that rumor is true) I'm gonna work up my nerve and buy Chris Noth a drink!!
As I was doing my food shopping I had to laugh cause every hipster and yuppie NY stereotype was at Whole Foods in the Bowery yesterday. As I was waiting to get my lemon sorbet there was a group of kids who where in their twenties waiting on line behind me and I think the girl in the group was the DJ from MisShapes Leigh. If it wasn't Leigh it was her twin cause this girl had the same black angled haircut, with the pale skin and red lips and the same black swing dress with flats. Anyway her friend had this real snobby speaking voice and he was saying how the last time he had rice sorbet was a year ago when he was in Japan. Then as I went to the check out line there was a couple standing next to me and they had a daughter who looked to be about a two years old, both mom and dad looked like they stepped out of the Polo catalogue! Not only did they look like they stepped out of the Polo catalogue, they also looked like the type that have to send their kid to a certain pre school cause she has to go to that school cause if she doesn't she won't get into Harvard! They were speaking french to the kid and she was answering back. The kid was really cute, I was just thinking in my head as I was watching this couple it would be great if this kid totally rebelled when she got older and either went all hip hop or punk on her parents asses!! And during my food shopping experience I noticed the Rachel Zoebot girls, usually these are the girls who come down to the East Village and Lower East Side from uptown for brunch on the weekends, but yesterday they were checking out Whole Foods! The Rachel Zoebot girls ware the skinny jeans with the vests and beads, they also wear the swing dresses with flats and leggings and beads and they wear the giant Jackie O. sunglasses.....I was wondering and thinking to myself as I was shopping do all these people live on the Lower East Side and OH MY GOD CBGB's used to be across the street from this place, I used to play on that stage and my friend Sean used to get me drunk there, I can remember Atlantis and his food cart, I can remember we had to walk down the Bowery in a big group after a certain hour cause it got real sketchy and people used to be able to buy blow (I never did, yuck to drugs!) where the Whole Foods is now, is the Bowery now the new Times Square, is Disney coming in next?? I'm food shopping at Whole Foods in the Bowery!? Does that make me old, a sell out or just really very punk rock!?
This week is a busy music week, two GNYC shows tomorrow and wednesday. Once I know schedules I will post them here.
And I just read that The Cutting Room maybe closing due to some issues the place is having with it's landlord!? Has anyone else heard or read anything about this???? If it's true it would seriously suck, cause that means places to play in Manhattan are becoming few and far between! I like the Cutting Room I like that room (hard to fill unless you have a following) I like the fact that when you go there you see someone different, I like the service (the biggest complaint I hear about that place is the service is nasty, I've never encountered that) and I like the food there but most of all I like the fact that Chris Noth is there all the time and you get to look at him!! One of these days before the place closes (if that rumor is true) I'm gonna work up my nerve and buy Chris Noth a drink!!
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Faces and Places
YAY!! It's finally spring here in New York City!!!
Last night was a busy one from moi, I started the evening at Desmond's Tavern watching the very fun Dr. Mary play. For all who have never been to Desmond's it's a dive Irish bar on 30th and Park that has live music, you kinda need to sit in the back area cause if you sit up close you get very overwhelmed by the sound and it is very loud.
Despite the sound issues with Desmond's, Dr. Mary delivered a great set they were really tight and on and a lot of fun and they got great response from the audience who demanded an encore!!
From there I headed over to the R Bar to meet my friends Diane, Barbara and Renee. It was Barbara's birthday last night. The R Bar is on Bowery and Prince and it's a fairly big bar and they have a bar area and in the back they have a lounge area and they have poles for dancing. The poles are a lot of fun to get up on and do your thing. My friend Barbara is an instructor at the S Factor studios and my friends Diane and Renee take classes with her and it's just amazing to watch them get up and do their thing on the poles. They look so beautiful and make it look so effortless!! The music at the R Bar is really good, it is a mix of pop, rock and hip hop. From there Barbara, Renee and Diane were heading over to the Pink Elephant in Chelsea and I decided to stick around the LES.
When I hit 4th Street I decided to go and check out the KGB Bar. It's really cool, it's on E.4th b/w 2nd and 3rd and it's one flight up. And when you go in the walls and curtains are red and the walls are decorated with all sorts of Soviet Union era memorabilia. It's very small inside and kinda looks like an old school EV bar would have looked way back in about 1920, it's a very cool after hours place.
From there I walked into Bua on St. Mark's b/w 1st and A and said hi to my friend Billy who was behind the bar, didn' t stay very long cause it was too packed! I headed over to Criff dog and got my blt dog and cheesy fries and then went home and fell asleep. All in all a really fun night spent with good friends!
Oh and I'm checking out Eat Records today in Brooklyn, so expect to see a write up on that place tomorrow.
Last night was a busy one from moi, I started the evening at Desmond's Tavern watching the very fun Dr. Mary play. For all who have never been to Desmond's it's a dive Irish bar on 30th and Park that has live music, you kinda need to sit in the back area cause if you sit up close you get very overwhelmed by the sound and it is very loud.
Despite the sound issues with Desmond's, Dr. Mary delivered a great set they were really tight and on and a lot of fun and they got great response from the audience who demanded an encore!!
From there I headed over to the R Bar to meet my friends Diane, Barbara and Renee. It was Barbara's birthday last night. The R Bar is on Bowery and Prince and it's a fairly big bar and they have a bar area and in the back they have a lounge area and they have poles for dancing. The poles are a lot of fun to get up on and do your thing. My friend Barbara is an instructor at the S Factor studios and my friends Diane and Renee take classes with her and it's just amazing to watch them get up and do their thing on the poles. They look so beautiful and make it look so effortless!! The music at the R Bar is really good, it is a mix of pop, rock and hip hop. From there Barbara, Renee and Diane were heading over to the Pink Elephant in Chelsea and I decided to stick around the LES.
When I hit 4th Street I decided to go and check out the KGB Bar. It's really cool, it's on E.4th b/w 2nd and 3rd and it's one flight up. And when you go in the walls and curtains are red and the walls are decorated with all sorts of Soviet Union era memorabilia. It's very small inside and kinda looks like an old school EV bar would have looked way back in about 1920, it's a very cool after hours place.
From there I walked into Bua on St. Mark's b/w 1st and A and said hi to my friend Billy who was behind the bar, didn' t stay very long cause it was too packed! I headed over to Criff dog and got my blt dog and cheesy fries and then went home and fell asleep. All in all a really fun night spent with good friends!
Oh and I'm checking out Eat Records today in Brooklyn, so expect to see a write up on that place tomorrow.
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