These Days: Tuesday, August 25th, 2015
The Time Of Year: Late August is nostalgia in the form of date, school is back or coming back, working is picking up speed, vacations have ended, and the city has one grows a little older and could look back to an earlier time, just yesterday. To quote Lewis Carroll: “Dreaming as the days go by,dreaming as the summers die”
Gossip: Christine Ouzounian, Ben Affleck’s we don’t know what quite now, is the sort of mistake the actor hasn’t made in a long while, a one woman advert for Ashley Madison, 2015, where your indiscretions become common knowledge only worse… because she won’t go away quietly. Reality show star, Bachelorette, tell all Madame: wait and see.
Live: You couldn’t or you didn’t want to be at Jones Beach for Billboards Hot 100 show part two on Sunday? Here is Jim Farber in the Daily News: “DJs as celebrated as Skrillex and Kygo enjoyed prominent sets. Nicki Minaj boiled her presentation down to her most club-thumping songs, while closing performer Justin Bieber ended the day with his own Skrillex collaboration. The synth-rock band Holy Ghost! successful recycled the sounds of antique electronic groups, from New Order to Depeche Mode.Even the classically influenced violinist Lindsay Stirling offered a Skrillex shout-out, crediting his dubstep style with influencing her ungainly mix of styles.
Recorded: Words can’t express how little I enjoyed the two The Fader curated lists I just listened to. “New Songs To Make You Like Country Music” apparently thought Sturgill Simpson and lesser lights might make us enjoy country by boring us to death, and “Songs You Need In Your Life This Week” were either obvious (FKA twigs) or Wrong (Bea Miller).
Sports: New York Mets Captain David Wright returned last night with a home run in the second inning, thereby ending the team’s worries about him messing with the chemistry that has brought them so far this season.
