things I'll miss about nyc #3

Free concert.

Central Park SummerStage

Feat.
Prefuse 73
DJ Spooky
Talvin Singh
Asha Puthli
Dres of BlackSheep

It's 86 F. Asha is wearing white ostrich feathers. She does a higher-than-CeeLo version of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy". Then coos with BlackSheep's Dres "Yeah" she says "I am the real the black sheep". Finale with "Engine Engine Number 9". Surreal !

Vernon's Depeche

...in his new cd, Vernon tackles one of my fav songs ever. Can't wait to hear it. Here's what the Voice has to say about it...

"A Depeche Mode cover, "Enjoy the Silence," airs chiming octaved guitar in a bluesy then joyous motif, spiced by an oddball whammy bar effect that makes the CD sound like it's changing speed. And just when it seems like everything remotely possible has been wrung from the tune, the man on six-string delivers a forearm smash for good measure at the finish"

He touched Enjoy the Silence, I still can't believe it. It's like laying hands on the forbidden fruit. Oh what a sinful lot are we.

Very few people know it but Enjoy the Silence is the switch you gotta hit if you really wanna see me lose:
- my religion
- my restraint
- my mind

I've done the most stupid things under the influence of that song.
So much fun.

Visual stimulae

exhibit 1: what's left of my near-death experience. I'll call it fleur du mal.
exhibit 2: at East Hampton's IT brunch spot, Babette's, feeling nauseated by the crowd and how seriously they take themselves in between sips of Acai and mammoth bone powder frap, i venture to the bathroom and ... voila'. A nude. Confined, with guilty self-indulgent pleasure, to the only spot where it could be seriously savoured, removed from the pesto and sundried tomatoes omelettes. Vulgar (the pesto/tom omelette). Excelsus (the nude).