Seafood, mama

June 19th 2008 by E..

Over the past few days, there have been a few run-ins between XPN people and crew on Penn’s campus that are filming the sequel to “Transformers”…evidently, they have been shooting the movie in the Philadelphia area for a few weeks now (did the first one take place in Philadelphia, too?)…the crew has taken over some of the parking lots that we use for Free At Noon parking, and have generally been causing scenes (and not in the way they’re supposed to)…Sunday night, there were searchlights playing around the sky all night, and they seemed to be coming from the street below the Walnut Street bridge…after I was done with The Folk Show (which was even more sunshine-hippie-tastic than usual) and catching some of Jesse Ruben’s set with glitterglamgirl, I set out to find what was making the searchlights…

Day 306 - June 15th, 2008

On Monday I was back at XPN for my Y-Rock shift (I’ll post the playlist in a bit)…I was actually going to be there all day and night, since Dad and I (and our friend Steve) would be seeing The Puppini Sisters that night at World Cafe Live…in case you are not familiar with their music, The Puppini Sisters are three young, British ladies who are not really sisters (and only one is actually named Puppini), who emulate a legendary American set of (real) sisters, The Andrews Sisters…while The Puppinis do plenty of close-harmony standards, like “Hold Tight, Hold Tight”, “It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)” and “Tu Vuo Fa L’Americano”, they do many modern songs (and even a few originals) in that style…some of their modern tunes include The Smiths‘ “Panic”, Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights” and even Beyonc