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June 19, 2005

Phildanco, Love Camp 7, and Lamahjun

It reeeeeally smells like summer in our apartment right now. Specifically, it smells like our house upstate when there's a big fire going in the fireplace (our neighbors downstairs are grilling something and we have the window open). I think just about every grill in the country is probably being pressed into use today. For Father's Day, we're heading out to Jersey for a cookout of our own, which means we'll miss Seventh Heaven -- the big annual Park Slope 7th Avenue street fair. I got a mug that cracked and a too-small "Breuklyn" tee-shirt last year (and I ate a crepe that I shouldn't have), so maybe this is for the best.

Last night, we saw Phildanco at the bandshell (Celebrate Brooklyn) but missed the first part because a) we forgot about it and b) they wouldn't let me in with a can of Coke. I find this rule to be idiotic. Beer cans I understand -- they don't want rioting drunken idiots crashing the party, even though everyone sneaks wine in anyway and the only rioting going on is by five-year olds catching lightning bugs -- but the Coke can thing pissed me off. Can't they ease up a bit? This isn't an airport. Plus, they almost lost our (small, $6) contribution by doing that. We watched from outside for a bit but the show was hard to see from there so I eventually finished my Coke (don't ask my why I was drinking a Coke in the first place -- very unlike me) and we went inside. The show was great -- it was a very energetic, feel-good, celebrate-life type of performance, and since it wasn't too well attended we snagged some pretty good seats up front.

After that, we headed to Parkside Lounge on Houston to see Love Camp 7, our new friend Dan's band. It was fantastic -- the songs were great, the band has a great sound, and Dan has a good singing voice -- we could actually understand and appreciate the lyrics for once (amusing in the case of a song about an angry bus driver). A couple of songs borrow titles from the Beatles -- Rubber Soul, Abbey Road, Revolver -- and use them for lyrics, which was a nice twist. Each of the four band members can sing well together, and their style ranges a bit. They were pretty polished, too. I'm absolutely not knowledgable about music in general, and I have no musical talent (which is too bad bcz D and I could do some cool stuff together if I did), but I did like this band. Dan flaked and didn't bring CDs or I would have pirated one and posted an mp3 (if it was okay with him).

We hit Bereket on the way home for Lamahjun, which was ooooh-so-goooood and not vegetarian. It's hard not to eat meat in the summer, or when you're near a barbeque. Or Bereket. Mmmmmmmm. I think I'm hungry.

Posted by csageday at June 19, 2005 02:37 PM

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Posted by: Molly at June 19, 2005 04:02 PM