Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Robbers Steal The Show
Favorite Tombstone Inscription:
"I told you I was sick!" - The People's Almanac, sometime in the 1970s; even if it doesn't exist, it's a winning idea..
Just broke up the week, with Thomas, at Mercury Lounge to catch Robbers On High Street, the marquee name on an $8, four-act bill. ROHS combine the energy of "new garage rock" with the melodicism and novel song structure of "new new wave." The lead singer is a triple threat: vocal, guitar, and keyboard. Skinny college-aged kids with longish hair, the two leads reminded me of college-age Aaron and his musician friend Mark Fried... Coincidentally, the two leads grew up not far from my alma mater, Vassar, in Poughkeepsie, NY.
From last week’s Onion, my favorite feature, “What Do YOU Think?
Question: “According to a recent study, recreational use of Viagra is on the rise among younger men who don't suffer from impotence. What do you think?”
Answer 1: "Is having sex for 48 hours straight some kind of a game to these people?"
Answer 2: "At last, a medical miracle to eliminate the 3 percent of the time 20-year-olds don't have erections."
Answer 3: "This is what happens when the increasingly conservative young people go emulating Bob Dole."
Answer 4: "Wow, there's an illicit market for these pills? And all this time, I've foolishly been using them to try to satisfy my wife."
Answer 5: "If kids today just pop a pill every time they want an erection, how are they going to learn valuable pussy-eating skills?"
Answer 6: "The young people should just stick to the marijuana and the goofballs and let their elders have their Viagra."
Oh dear. My sister Deena's going to need two foot operations to rebuild her heel, which broke in two in a car crash Sunday. She's in the hospital, and in a lot of pain... :- (
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