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Sometimes, New York City seems so far away.
School for the Dead went down to Williamsburg, that's part of Brooklyn, on Friday to play a show. Ken rode with Lesa and I. We called it a field trip. We stopped at a museum called Ikea. We passed historical landmarks, like that sign for Kahoots and that other sign for the Chowder place. We read informative license plates, like "YYYYS" and "Yeahhh". We learned a lot.
When we pulled into our parking spot near our destination of Galapagos, we were happy to see Matthew Zapruder walking down the sidewalk to greet us. He called me "Joey Williamsburg" and pointed at my falling apart fake leather jacket from Zayre.
Ken, Lesa, and I got dinner at the darkest-ever Thai restaurant, it was good but we got sleepy in the low-light and very warm bustle.
Upon arrival at Galapagos we discovered a person in a panda suit, and partook in a performance which involved an accordian, math, an overhead projector, a huge inflatable octopus, a Harry Nilsson song, and two women hanging from the ceiling reading cards which the audience had filled out. During this latter part, Matthew, Brian, Kevin O'Rourke and I stumbled our way through an impromptu performance of the Velvet Underground song "I Found A Reason".
That was all in the show before our show.
Between shows, we sat and visited with some old friends, enjoyed the indoor reflecting pool, and wrote a setlist (tony?).
Soon after, Ari Vais, appeared on the stage to perform a solid set of his hits. Oldies and new numbers and a few covers...any Kinks fans out there? He was great and very Ari.
Next was our set. Thirty five minutes. It was nice. "Screen Door" was requested and so we of course, complied. I think we played a good show, people seemed to be into it for the most part, and afterwards the word was positive. We sold a couple of CDs so it must have been pretty ok. I didn't feel connected to the room or crowd while on stage. I think it was the sound.
It was a cool view from up there...over the audience and over the reflecting pool, out the wall of glass onto the street.
After us, our faves, The Figments, played a wonderful, of course, set. They were larger than life up there in the lights. So nice to see them clearly and brightly. They sounded excellent and in the back of the room where I sat, there were people dancing.
We pretty much took off right after the show and the ride home seemed eternal.
New York, man.
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