So for the past like 4 months or so, The Blow has been my party/dance/dance-party music, and I found out that they were giving a free show here in the city at Fordham & NYU. So on last night I dragged Rel & Parker to the Bronx.
If you want to leave the island of Manhattan, do not take Arielle. She bitched the whole way we went there and got really freaked out and scared for her life. I told her we could go back if we wanted to, but honestly, there's nothing to worry about - esp if we are all together and not being stupid. The area that we got off the subway at was dirty. Its kinda what you think of when you think of the dirty area of a city, and I guess thats what a lot of the Bronx is. I honestly don't know anything about that borough, except that it has an awesome zoo & the white rapper show on VH1 is a big fan of the area. Anyway, its kinda gross, and we walk for 5 min until we see like these fenced in brick fortress. aka Fordham. It looked so oddly placed.
We had to ask a million and 5 people where it was when we got on campus because Rel was still freaking out about getting lost. I thought we actually did get a little lost when we got to the venue. It was in the "Alumni Hall"...which wasn't really a hall at all. It was more like a room. A tiny tiny room w/ a rug and microphone at one end of it. The first set was this woman (I found out later she was Liz Isenberg some ho) and her guitar & she was so random "yea...so then i had to drive to new york which was kind of a drag b/c my radio was stolen. I would much rather ride my bike. but that was stolen too." & who could forget "I make my own granola..ha, I know, I'm a hippie...but then I eat it piece by piece...ah, an oat..." Her music was good, but when you are in a room standing w/ like 83479823476 other college kids who want to dance, its not so good. Mirah, the next one, was good. It was this one girl and her bassist. She told us how her new album was remixed, and kind of hard to do what she does on that live...but she tried. Her band just let out their killer beat boxing skills. It was both hilarious and actually good. I think I might want to get hew new cd. (ps, I just checked out hew wikipedia article, and she seems to be amazingly cool. I mean the 3 trivia facts they have listed are that she was born on a kitchen table, wrote her first song at age 4, and appeared on Double Dare when she was 12.) At the end of the show she was just like "this room is kind of crowded...I'm kind of nervous about what's going to happen when the blow comes on and you guys are going to want to dance...." ha, she was just so cute I loved it. However, I couldn't see a single fucking thing b/c of the lack of stage & I am 5'1. God, I can't express to you how crowded it was. I was stuck between Parker and some other tall guy. It wasn't really hell b/c I was so excited to be blow-n away (haha puns), but I was worried how Rel was feeling the majority of the time. I would just feel so bad if she didn't have any fun & regretted coming with me & wasting her Saturday night. So the Blow came on, aka the amazing Khaela Maricich. She MUST have realized that I was 3 ft shorter than everyone else because she decided that it was bull shit that I couldn't have dancing room in the front or there was no stage and only the 5 people in the front could see her...whatever, same thing. "I'm not sexist, just heightist." Apparently I'm really god damn short. So I was right in the front! W/ TONS OF DANCING ROOM! Which one's better? I have no idea. It was great. I love the way that Khaela dances. I believe the 2 of us together would be a killer combo. I do however put a little more shimmy in it b/c everything can do w/ a bit more shimmy. Anyway, she was just so funny. & did hand motions. God, I love her. I would totally go day for her. & we would have dance parties & I would harmonize with her. I honestly can't think of a better life.
Then we walked back to the subway, and some scary guy was following us. Well, not really, but thats what Rel thought. It was just some white guy with his little dog. We waited for the train for about 1/2 hour, and then someone told us that the train does run on that track...and then had to wait 15 more min for our 1/2 hour ride home. Then I came back and danced some more and fell asleep on alex's bed at like 2 am.