The lovely Sam Miller plays her sad, beautiful, country-style songs under the name “Redbeard” at the riffRAG issue 2 launch party last weekend. Redbeard are so awesome, you should ask Sam to play in your town soon: http://www.myspace.com/redbeardband
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Thermoses at City Reliquary
City Reliquary bills itself as “your community museum.” Though I have yet to go in, this thermos collection caught my eye tonight. When I first walked by two people were already taking pictures, so not wanting to look like the fool, I waited until I walked by the second time. I love things like this in NYC…
Rose Melberg and Andi
Rose’s new songs are just so beautiful- I feel like she’s less “twee” than she used to be and writes sweet, solid, pop songs about living, loving, loss and refinding yourself and love again. At this show Andi joined her singing back up and so did a nice young man playing electric piano. Rose had to borrow a guitar and then fasten the guitar strap with Jennifer’s shoe lace. Here is is joking that there better not be a fire, because Jennifer would be out of luck. It makes me feel happy that Rose has been making good music for so long and is still at it… it’s pretty cool.
Jennifer and Andi
Jennier was my housemate for about 4 months when I first moved to Portland and I admired Andi’s old band since I was a tender 17 year old just starting to be obcessed with New Wave. Here they are in Cake Shop enjoying soy hot chocolates (the perfect drink for the new cold weather).
Me and Andi
Looking pensive and pleased with our tea cups…
Carolin Mak Installation Floor
Last night I quickly stopped by the opening reception of a show at PS 122 in the East Village to see my former colleague Caroline Mak’s installation in their foyer. This photo doesn’t reveal the obcessive detail of the piece- paper doilies cut out and pasted on the wall to create vintage looking “wall paper,” but I love how her pieces surround you- they create an environment that almost feels living and breathing in a space using industrial and household materials. Caroline is giving an artist talk at the riffRAG launch party next week and I’m totaly excited.
Five Minute Band
Eric- Guitar
Diego- Morrissey like lead singer
Me- Drums, I guess… or maybe we have a drum machine and I play bass…
Tya- not shown, manager, photographer, stylist
Passtime- eating crepes and sitting on trash cans on the Lower East Side… and looking tough
Apron
I don’t know really what else to say besides the fact that I actually was cooking, not doing feminist performance art (though one could argue that because we are always performing our genders and because I identify as a feminist the way I move through my days is always feminist performance art… maybe).
“Winning a bike race”
I tried to hoist my bike over my head in jubilition, but I didn’t quite get there. The badage on my hand is from tripping on the sidewalk after watching a Shoalin Kung-Fu documentary. Lesson: don’t try to imitate Kung-Fu masters while skipping down the uneven, sloping sidwalk in the dark.
LJ “winning a bike race”
LJ looks like the totaly awesome tough girl she is after I instructed her to act like she was “winning a bike race.”
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