Death by U2
My coworker is blasting a bad cover version of “We are the world” and I’m trying to drown it out by blasting U2’s album ‘Boy’.
Come Fly Away……..
Last night, my boyfriend took me out on a date (dinner followed by a Broadway show!). He picked me up at work, and we walked aimlessly down 9th Avenue until we found a restaurant that looked visibly appealing. We decided on eating at Bocca Di Bocco, a cozy Italian restaurant with a rustic wood interior and walls lined with wine bottles. The food was delicious, the wine was cooling, and the atomsphere was warm and pleasant. We were enjoying dinner so much, we didn’t realize we had 10 minutes to get to the show.
We got there just in time! The show is basically the song catalog of Frank Sinatra (played by an onstage big band) with dancing choregraphed by Twyla Tharp. I have to say I enjoyed the second half of the show more than the first half. The beginning of the show played all of his ‘big band’ songs, trumpets blaring, large crescendos, bravado style singing and the dance was very ‘Broadway/musical theatre’ for lack of a better term. The music in the second half (One for my Baby; My Way) lent itself more to the fluid choreography. My only negative comment is there was one dancer, Rika Okamoto, whose dancing was so awful and significantly sub-par in comparison to the rest of the dancers, that I couldn’t stand anytime she was on stage. As a professional dancer, you need to use and feel every limb….all the way down to the tips of your fingers and toes. This one dancer Rika only felt an overall feeling, and her limbs had absolutely no fluidity to them at all. Overall, she sucked.
I really enjoyed the show, and if you love to dance, I would definitely recommend Come Fly Away!
I stumbled upon these guys while they were playing on the subway platform after I attended a show. In most cases, I usually pass subway performers because they generally aren’t very good. But something made me stop with these guys…perhaps it was their unusual arrangement (trumpet, tuba, snare drum), maybe it was the bull horn the lead singer was using….but I stopped at listened for a good 15 minutes. They were awesome!!! I dropped my business card in their trumpet case and figured I would never hear from them again.
They wound up playing the Mercury Lounge on Saturday night, which I braved the frigid tundra of Grand Street to attend. And they were great!!!
If you get a chance to see the, please go because they are super entertaining!
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Daydream - Beach Fossils
**Good little jam to end the day**
I’m obsessed with “Pants on the Ground”…….
this isn’t the original, but I love how it was easily and quickly turned into a hip-hop song. In fact, Riot in Paris quoted it at their show on Friday night.
I hate that I missed this show last week…..DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT.
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Please Don’t - Santigold & David Byrne
I just saw the Talking Heads concert DVD ‘Stop Making Sense’ a couple of days ago, and I’m currently obsessed with anything David Byrne is involved in.
He’s such a weirdo. I love him.
Whirring - The Joy Formidable
I’m kind of obsessed with the song at the moment.
I LOVE SADE.
It’s that simple.
