Last night The Silver Ages made its triumphant New York City debut with the Swedish pop star Jens Lekman. Amazingly, the packed crowd (1200+) listened attentively and appreciatively to our set of obscure 60s pop. 1760s pop, specifically. Jens and his band of Swedish beauties were kind, generous and put on one of the most commanding and unassuming performances I've seen in years. The New York Times agrees. For the encore he brought us onstage to back him up on 'Paris, Paris', a bouncy number mostly in French. Super fun. See it. Again. From a different angle. Heresay. The Philly show was great as well. Here is video of that.
Still more self-congratulation: I played a 503-point Scrabble game last week, including a 203 point play. I wouldn't normally toot my own horn so blatantly, but come on, that is a truly planet-aligning move ('belaying', on two triple word scores, with the 'y' on the double letter, plus the 50 point bonus) giving me the best game of my young career. Is it possible to have a scrabble career? What's the tournament circuit like? Are there back-alley scrabble gangs? Imagine 'Hud' only with more dictionaries and a complete lack of hyphenated words.
Late breaking: I'm sitting in with Gianmarco Cilli's wonderful band tonight (10/28) at the Khyber on trumpet and percussion. Mitch Fiction and the Buried Beds are also performing, there will be buckets of love in the room.
Inspiration for all us guilty liberals can be found here. How Orwellian can we possibly get? A new benchmark.
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