Raise Your Glass!

You know that P!nk song – if you’re too school for cool, etc.?  Yeah, its stuck in my head, along with the visual of a black man in a sweater vest singing it for the sound check that preceded the performance of Toxic Mouse – a local  80′s Hair Metal Tribute Band.
That, my friends, is how my night was. As I was watching this spectacle (and, he was pretty good, sweater vest and all), [...]

 

Pirates, Glitter and ARRR!

I’ve always been attracted to the pirate archetype. Not real pirates, the kind who actually go around looting and raping and pillaging, although I may well have some of those lurking on the decaying branches of my family tree, whose ragged leaves whisper of merchant seamen and stolen brides along the coasts of Malacca. No, it was not the dirty old brigands I admired, but the glamorized Hollywood ideal of [...]

 

 

 

Natalie Gelman

Natalie Gelman lives in NYC, plays in subway stations, spammed me, is cute, talented and my kind of girl.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwXSYI4H090
Never Had You
Music and Lyrics by Natalie Gelman
She’s got hair of gold
A bright smile so she’s been told
You can find her every night crying herself to sleep
Quiet on the edge of my curls
I walk out shield-less into the rain
I just want to feel something
Just want to be someone new
Something that has nothing [...]