The YZA

The Telephones, who are one of my favorite local bands in New York, have hit the big time and are playing the Blender Theater next week. Fronted by triple-threat Jesse Adelmen, they play tuneful, rowdy rock songs that you possibly might hear at a bar, but will more likely be hearing at a venue with a marquee. Go see them play:

The Telephones
Monday 21 Sept, 9:30PM
Blender Theater (23rd St. and Lex), NYC

It’s almost 2010! I realized the other day that The Internet cannot be “undone”. There’s no going back to life as it once was before the existence of The Internet, as much as I might fantasize about that. Short attention spans will continue to be rewarded, and memes will spread even faster than they ever have. I spend lots of my waking hours thinking about The Internet, and how I will try to avoid its intoxication. Meanwhile, I’m checking my email and Facebook pretty damn regularly.

To try to combat the fatigue caused by inundation of Internet novelties, I am leaving it behind for a few months. I know, I know: from the regularity of these blog postings, it might appear as if I had already left The Internet behind already, surfacing twice a year to update a web log that’s supposed to inform people about my life. The truth is, I find it obnoxious when people broadcast incessantly (that means you, Dave Hill), so I choose not to pollute The Internet any further with mundane drivel. It’s a hopeless cause, and maybe I’ll come around and start posting all the time, but it won’t be any time soon.

I’m going out to California for a few months. I’ll be living in the desert in a home with little-to-no The Internet access. I’ll be working on purely creative and self-improvement endeavours, including and certainly not limited to: music, writing, reading classics, and learning the Butterfly stroke. I’m turning 30 years old in less than two weeks, and my time is now.

So, get ready to hear even less from me! Or maybe I’ll send Twitter updates from my cell phone every fifteen minutes about how quiet the desert is.