Wow. A new book from Woody Allen.
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23
May
John Flansburgh from They Might Be Giants does an interview with Gothamist here, ahead of the band’s new album, The Else.
“You both reside in Brooklyn but in different neighborhoods, isn’t that right? Please name one or two things that make you feel a little jealous of the other John’s neighborhood.
Park Slope has real trees and real architecture, but the unintentionally overheard conversations of Williamsburg are priceless.”
TMBG’s venue song for the Stone Pony, Asbury Park, New Jersey is here.
16
May
Was at Joe’s birthday on Saturday night in a large pub back up in Rathfarnham. Talk about American-style, bling obsessed surroundings. Was it my imagination or did the display case outside the bathrooms contain bottles of Brut and Cristal champagne? And did the car park have a bunch of characters cruising around playing booming music like they had been parachuted in from the OC?
Discussed politics (in Ireland, America and France) with Kathryn and Mark, in the smoking area, which seemed to be lined with a kind of heavy cling film.
Wandered home later, to my parents’ house, and as I walked I saw ahead of me the bobbing tail of a fox, sniffing around for food in the green spaces around Marian Road.
08
May
“This job is done via phone so a good telephone manor is absolutely essential. ”
Ad for job on Nixers.com.
05
May
So, in the end, after everything I wrote about Dando earlier in the week, I was able to secure a phone interview with him. I did it on Thursday afternoon, after spending the morning at a particularly bizarre and exciting Fianna Fail press conference. Hmmm… it was a strange day. Then, after ten minutes of talking to him, Evan Dando hung up on me. Here‘s what we talked about before it went pear-shaped.
04
May
My profile of Lemonheads frontman Evan Dando is in today’s Belfast Telegraph here. More on my attempts to try and interview Dando soon…
