Bonefish.

October 15th 2007 by E..

I got a call the other day from Jenn Shields, who is the director and writer of the Temple Ambler holiday show (and is a total cool cat if ever there was one)…she realized that all of the songs in the second act are very ballad-y, and wanted to know if I could learn an upbeat tune for her to place in the act to lighten things up…I thought, “Well, what lightens up a mopey act better than a song on the ukulele?”…so that’s what I’m going to do: sing “Mele Kalikimaka” and play along on the ukulele…I was talking with members of the Tin Bird Choir on the Folk Show this evening, and said that I am going to be like the multi-instrumentalist of the holiday show…should be a good time…

Day 61 - October 13th, 2007

Today, Erin and I tried to fight off a bad case of writer’s block, but only succeeded in becoming more obsessed/impressed with the Animal Collective…she decided that I needed a “Peacebone”, um, “button” (referring to the lead single and first track of the band’s new album, Strawberry Jam)…so here’s my Animal Collective “button”:

Day 62 - October 14th, 2007

As you might expect, the “button” didn’t even make it all the way to XPN this evening…though something makes me very happy about the fact that somewhere in Center City, there’s a Post-It that says “Peacebone!” just waiting to be found…

Tonight on the Folk Show, in addition to the Tin Bird Choir, was a girl who performed at World Caf

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