JANUARY 8, 2012
Joe's Pub New York, NY Jan. 8, 9:30 p.m.
It's an honor to be playing guitar with such mind-blowingly generous and talented co-conspirators! Here's a great description of what we're up to via Bust magazine:
"An all-star lineup of musicians will soon pay a much-needed tribute to the Brian Eno classic, "Here Come the Warm Jets." The legendary album from the former Roxy Music member will be performed in its entirety at Joe's Pub by Joan Wasser (otherwise known as Joan As Police Woman), Vernon Reid of Living Color, Travis Morrison of The Dismemberment Plan, Sohrab Habibion from Obits, Paul Duncan of Warm Ghost, and Don Cippola of Phantom Family Hero. The show is the brainchild of Rob Christiansen, a sound engineer and composer who decided to get the acts together as a birthday present to himself. "Here Come the Warm Jets" garnered critical praise from US and UK music critics when it was released in 1974, and Eno's now best known as the producer for bands like U2 and Coldplay. |
DECEMBER 25, 2011
A Very Merry Un-Christmas to You
The New York Times Sunday Styles
By JESSICA BRUDER
IN the backyard, revelers gathered around a vat of boiling oil and counted down from 10. All eyes were on the 12-pound turkey, suspended by a rope. At “One!” the bird plunged into the fryer and everyone cheered.
It was Dec. 25, 2010, and we were at Project Parlor, the bar my sister opened two years ago in Brooklyn. She had prepared a nondenominational feast for anti-holiday castaways and orphans with nowhere else to be. We ended up slouched around a battered piano like ne’er-do-wells in a Wild West honky-tonk, singing hoarse, half-drunken carols.
It wasn’t Christmas, per se, but why should that matter? My sister and I are what we call “cashews” (half Catholic, half Jewish), with few spiritual allegiances apart from family and food.
Folks like us are a tiny minority, according to a Gallup/USA Today poll conducted Dec. 10 to 12, 2010, with a sample of 1,019 adults. It found that 95 percent of Americans (including 80 percent of non-Christians) celebrate Christmas. Here are some tales about how our tribe — the other 5 percent — spends that day. (continues...)
DECEMBER 21, 2011
I'll be strumming with Lightning Kites @ Otto's Shrunken Head 538 East 14th St. New York, NY Dec. 21, 9 p.m. |
Exciting, death-defying feats over here!