NEW YORK CALLING: From Blackout to Bloomberg

[catesta]

"This is not a reunion," said Roth, 51. "This is a whole new band."

"It is totally blowing our minds and I think it will yours, too," said Eddie Van Halen, 52. "It's better than it's ever been."

It's a shame Eddie's fat kid is taking Anthony's place.

Sorry, didn't mean to go off topic, but...

[ghost of miles]

Allen Lowe is a man of many talents--and identities!

[clifford_thornton]

A board member--whom I shall cunningly disguise here as "he who walks in Brooklyn"--has a heavy hand in the proceedings

Clementine?

And his anthologizing is excellent!

This is a great read so far, and having just done a breeze through of NY (first in several years), it really resonated. Unfortunately I wasn't able to meet up with any of our board members while there, but at least got to see the circus that the Bowery has become, even since 2003 when I was last there...

Yeah, all those new buildings. Did you stop at DMG?

DMG was solid - the CD selection is pretty astounding, at least for free music and avant-garde stuff. Apparently they are going to move and become an "appointment only" joint.

[7/4]

I know they might move, didn't know about the appointment only deal. They still have to have someone there to do web sales (aka mail orders).

[AllenLowe]

well, I was thinking of the guy who knocked on people's doors and told them he was giving them a million dollars from an un-named benefactor -

[JSngry]

[JSngry]

The postal service works in mysterious ways, that's all I can say...

Clem, PM me buddy, if you will and/or if you want. I need some info, seafood plate...

[ghost of miles]

Can't wait to read it... radio/writing assignments piled up till Labor Day Weekend, but NYCalling should be here by then & I'll spend the holiday reading it. Might sound weird, but the title kept dialing up Ornette for me... probably because of the two Blue Note CDs (NEW YORK IS NOW and LOVE CALL). I got the Clash reference but forgot about the Jackie.

[.:.impossible]

so are we still pretending that we don't know who edc is? i don't want to ruin it for anyone.

[Guest donald petersen]

hey clement wu is that your brooklyn website? i think i won a prize by knowing where those buildings in the photograph are. i might be wrong but i think it's smith and 9 by the F stop.

[Tom Storer]

so are we still pretending that we don't know who edc is? i don't want to ruin it for anyone.

I had no idea edc "was" anyone, but just reading the thread as it now stands gave me enough ammunition to google his "real identity"--which means no more to me than "edc" or "clementine." Except now I can get the book and have the delicious feeling that while the general book-buying public thinks he's ***** ******, I know that he's really clementine.

[AllenLowe]

I am a camera. Call me Ishmael. To whom it may concern. It takes one to know one. I am you and you are she and...well, whatever -

[AllenLowe]

actually, I'm Jim Alfredson - and he's me; just don't tell our wives -

Nessa is actually Bruce Lundevall; Kart is Leslie Gourse; Chewy is just another psycho off the street; and Sangrey is one of the formerly unknown Marsalis brothers (real name: Zeppo Marsalis) -

[JSngry]

No, I am Pigboy Crabshaw, unresurrected. Or not.

None of my, nor anybody else's, business who I am!

[7/4]

I don't feel like me.

[marcello]

Well I always feel like me.

Got my copies of the books today.

[Indestructible!]

I am Dr. George Butler.

I know, I know... it's all my fault.

[7/4]

Well I always feel like me.

That's the other part of the problem.

Got my copies of the books today.

I'll check it out when I have the funds.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Financial Times review

Q for the Honourable M. Goldberg & others... edc wonders (in slow motion) what's the view of FT is from "over there." a "big deal," middling or just... eh? gracias for any info.

The FT is pretty right wing in its political positioning, as you might imagine, though in its news it strives, I think successfully, to be a "paper of record" as we call them over here.

On the arts front, it's catering generally for the ruling classes, so there's a focus on "Art", which is, of course, politically oriented to the right. I haven't read it since I retired. And I never read the arts pages. My mate at work, a top economist around hereabouts, used to reckon the arts pages, but he sang in a classical music choir, so I tend to feel that that confirms my view. I would expect good, fair, reviews of material that has "Artistic" aims, or which can be interpreted thus. I would expect the FT to ignore other stuff.

Good review, though.

MG

[Jazzmoose]

I don't feel like me.

I haven't been myself for quite a while. But Barb seems to think it's an improvement, so...

[medjuck]

I (fittingly) bought this while I was in NY last month. The introduction is by Berman but the intros to each section are unsigned.

Are they by Berger?

[JSngry]

Yah.

[ghost of miles]

New York Calling bash this Wednesday 9/26 in NYC... I'd swing by, but the WFIU corporate jet is in the shop for repairs. Sounds like a good time.