Sunday, November 07, 2004
A Bloody Mary on the balcony.
Such a pleasant evening, I'd be sitting out on the balcony sipping a Bloody Mary with a splash of hot sauce in it, if I had a balcony. I'll sit outside anytime the temperature hits 50 degrees with no wind, or even colder on a sunny afternoon. My old journals have many brief passages from Cliffwood Beach & Sandy Hook during fall, winter & spring. I've gone to Sandy Hook on bitterly cold days, picked up coffee & a snack on the way, parked facing the bay, never got out of car. A surprising number of people do that.
WFMU record fair today in New York, a huge event with an international reputation, & clientele. But there's still stuff for us "bottom feeders," as DJ Rob Weisberg put it. Caught most of Laura Cantrell's live set. I worked the one-dollar WFMU table, kind of boring, yet nice having the lovely Terre T to look at for three hours. At closing time I helped pack up the stuff & skipped out before the heavy lifting began. Only got a couple of LPs, from the dollar table. A reputable 1963 recording of Vaughan Williams' 6th Symphony, not familiar with the work so this is a preview that'll help me choose a more contemporary CD version. & The Surfmen performing songs of Hawaii. The Surfmen is not a surf band but ace west coast studio musicians who do first rate "lounge" music. Which brings me back to that Bloody Mary I'm not having on the balcony. Drinking grapefruit juice instead, straight up.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
WFMU record fair today in New York, a huge event with an international reputation, & clientele. But there's still stuff for us "bottom feeders," as DJ Rob Weisberg put it. Caught most of Laura Cantrell's live set. I worked the one-dollar WFMU table, kind of boring, yet nice having the lovely Terre T to look at for three hours. At closing time I helped pack up the stuff & skipped out before the heavy lifting began. Only got a couple of LPs, from the dollar table. A reputable 1963 recording of Vaughan Williams' 6th Symphony, not familiar with the work so this is a preview that'll help me choose a more contemporary CD version. & The Surfmen performing songs of Hawaii. The Surfmen is not a surf band but ace west coast studio musicians who do first rate "lounge" music. Which brings me back to that Bloody Mary I'm not having on the balcony. Drinking grapefruit juice instead, straight up.
