Live: Yeah, I blew off the Met recital -it was freezing? But now I have just one thought in my mind, Bennett and Gaga at Radio City on Friday. Will it be good? I loathed the album but I can’t help feeling that this will be a really great show, it will be a magic evening of American Standards by a pro and a protégée. Meanwhile, Active Child’s new album is very good: sort of ambient indie pop and he is performing at MHOW (sold out but it should be easy enough to buy one).
Recorded: Yes, Tuesday’s here. The aforementioned Active child is pretty darn good but the day belongs to Hudson Mohawke and James Taylor. Moroder is back on the table, a coupla others…
Sports – I have to stop betting on the damn Yankees, who are in second place as I write. Blackhawks beat the Lightning for the Stanley Cup so there is always that.
New York: Really, can’t we dump all of these Albany lawmakers so deep in corruption they can’t even sign off on an extension on the rent control rules. Incidentally, the same thing happened in 2011 and why did no one hear anything about that. Wanna guess? Because Bloomberg didn’t throw us all into a panic.