Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Day 34: Goodbye Blue Monday. Brooklyn, NY. 4-7-08

We were fortunate enough to be able to spend two nights with my friend Steve. I’ve known Steve since my last year of high school, so a little while…something I was pondering as I walked around Greenwich Village with him in the afternoon. It was nice to be able to hang with him and chat, and he was nice enough to treat me to a gelato while Cam and Eric worked away at a coffee shop. We had spent the morning checking out the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn, a neighborhood considered very hip right now that has fallen into gentrification quite quickly and was even spoofed in an article by the Onion while we were there. We saw a baby rat, the dirty waterfront, a huge building being built for condos, and ate thai food for breakfast/lunch.

Our show in Brooklyn brought us back to a venue called Goodbye Blue Monday. It’s a cool little bar/junk shop that hosts free music. We had a fun time playing there again. Inspires a real Beat ambiance. Subway rattling past every 7 minutes or whatever. We played a pretty loose/psychedelic set. It was fresh. Really fun. Played 'snowglobe' for the first time all tour.

After us, two members from a band called Starcode played a set of acoustic interpretations of their rock songs. Good guys. Got a kick out of what they added to the room. After them, a solo ambient/laptop set from Up The Turrett brought the
evening to an appropriately strange close. Marty and Steve both came out again to see us. Fun to have them there. Marty and Cam headed into Manhattan after the show to visit one of the oldest bars in Manhattan, while the rest of us headed back to Steve’s apartment in seek of rest.

reporting for all of us finn rigginses:
lisa simpson

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