Finally!
Re: The Village Voice's Best Of NY issue:
Best use of potatoes? French fries at Eisenberg's, honorable mention: French fries @ Scenic. Nope. Best band with a glockenspiel? They Might Be Giants. Everyone knows that. Uh, no. It appears I'm wrong. Best potty-mouthed, guitar-slinging comedian? Mary Prankster. Duh. Oh, wait. Though Mary now resides in Manhattan, she's not a comedian. The Knitting Factory won best rock club bathroom--I guess there's a reason we refer to it as "The Shitting Factory." I love the line about how you can rest a drink on the tank and not have to worry about the ghoulies coming for it. Probably that's because the Ghoulies are usually down the hall playing the Tap Bar, or downstairs in the Old Office. So I don't get it. It's nice that the club that used to have 3 toilets and 1 "urinal" for the enitre 3-floor venue, both men and women, can win best rock club bathroom. They must be so proud.
Papa Christgau is usually unintelligable and strives to impress with his vocabulary (I wonder if he makes words up or uses them incorrectly just to see if anyone's paying attention but I stop reading after a while) but he did give Coldplay a dud-of-the-month rating. Chuck Eddy's most recent list of shoutouts was built around a Crazy Frog album. Nick Sylvester is the sarcastic hipster (though his review of the Bravery--"Everybody Wang Chung Tonight"--was classic) and even though the categories in the "Best Of" section are made up by staff writers and are "entirely subjective and (since nobody votes against them) completely unanimous" (nothing like democracy in action) the Voice finally got one right.
Congratulations to ZAK from Team Spider for winning "Best Old Man Living The Punk Lifestyle." (The full review and nice writeup of Team Spider can be found on the Voice's site under "Characters.") Of course the Voice finally hit the nail on the head because that category probably doesn't have any other competition. But, credit where it's due. Good one, Village Voice!
And no, you're not seeing things. Team Spider really did play The Living Room on Ludlow Street this past February as part of their TSunami Relief Metrocard Tour 2005.
Best use of potatoes? French fries at Eisenberg's, honorable mention: French fries @ Scenic. Nope. Best band with a glockenspiel? They Might Be Giants. Everyone knows that. Uh, no. It appears I'm wrong. Best potty-mouthed, guitar-slinging comedian? Mary Prankster. Duh. Oh, wait. Though Mary now resides in Manhattan, she's not a comedian. The Knitting Factory won best rock club bathroom--I guess there's a reason we refer to it as "The Shitting Factory." I love the line about how you can rest a drink on the tank and not have to worry about the ghoulies coming for it. Probably that's because the Ghoulies are usually down the hall playing the Tap Bar, or downstairs in the Old Office. So I don't get it. It's nice that the club that used to have 3 toilets and 1 "urinal" for the enitre 3-floor venue, both men and women, can win best rock club bathroom. They must be so proud.
Papa Christgau is usually unintelligable and strives to impress with his vocabulary (I wonder if he makes words up or uses them incorrectly just to see if anyone's paying attention but I stop reading after a while) but he did give Coldplay a dud-of-the-month rating. Chuck Eddy's most recent list of shoutouts was built around a Crazy Frog album. Nick Sylvester is the sarcastic hipster (though his review of the Bravery--"Everybody Wang Chung Tonight"--was classic) and even though the categories in the "Best Of" section are made up by staff writers and are "entirely subjective and (since nobody votes against them) completely unanimous" (nothing like democracy in action) the Voice finally got one right.
Congratulations to ZAK from Team Spider for winning "Best Old Man Living The Punk Lifestyle." (The full review and nice writeup of Team Spider can be found on the Voice's site under "Characters.") Of course the Voice finally hit the nail on the head because that category probably doesn't have any other competition. But, credit where it's due. Good one, Village Voice!And no, you're not seeing things. Team Spider really did play The Living Room on Ludlow Street this past February as part of their TSunami Relief Metrocard Tour 2005.
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