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May 7, 2007 By pia

This post is really about music. Being self absorbed serves some good purposes; I can always think of new ways to say the same things about me.

I was going to update my photoblog tonight but tomorrow is supposed to be beautiful and I will go down to Riverside Park where I know I will take many pictures. Though Philadelphia is very beautiful and filled with great buildings, I couldn’t get into photographing the city. I took one picture of the entrance to South Street. Yes, I love Philly rock. I loved Tony Soprano’s references to music he’s way too young to have heard originally. He showed his Jersey roots.

I find 50’s and early 60’s music comforting. It’s summer music like the Beachboys.

I’m from Long Island and would love a battle of Jersey and Island bands and singers, but Jersey has Springsteen and Bon Jovi. We have uh Billy Joel who my mother did think I should marry.

Earth Wind & Fire is going to play at The Beacon. I think I’m going to make Lucia come with me. They bring me back to a time in life when everything was less complicated

My sister and niece were talking about the song that should play when I go to light a candle at her Bat Mitzvah. My niece said “NY NY” would be the most fitting song but I wouldn’t walk up. They decided on Clapton. i suggested “Wonderful Tonight” but my sister vetoed it. The song will be “Leyla.”

I think that love of music serves to unite generations. Though I obsessively listen to one song or one CD for months, I don’t understand people who only like one genre. Most of the people on my wing only listen to classical. I find that pretentious.

But I listened to Warren Zevon’s last real CD “The Wind” for two years straight, with ocassional forays into other artists. “The Wind” helped heal me.

I think North Jersey and the Island are basically the same place, so I guess a battle of the bar bands really doesn’t matter.

But we had The Young Rascals, the Shangri-la’s, and some other cool, cool groups.

I am an Island girl. Give me an Island beach over a Shore beach anytime.

Let me listen to all music.

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Comments

  1. Gay says

    May 8, 2007 at 12:37 am

    I enjoyed this immensely. My music tastes are eclectic, and I love putting my iPod on random and stunning people with what they might get to listen to back-to-back.

    You can never go wrong with Clapton, though. Or Sting. I’m currently hooked on Ten Summoner’s Tales–especially Seven Days.

  2. sir jorge says

    May 8, 2007 at 8:19 am

    I would say my tastes are eclectic, but they aren’t. Eclectic is too soft of a word. I’d say my tastes are extreme. (Metal,Inide,Hardcore,Punk,Ska)

    Although I’ve been known to put in a Miles Davis record, but we’ll keep that between this blog comment and myself.

    good post 🙂

  3. cooper says

    May 9, 2007 at 12:08 am

    Billy is still mine.

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I live in the South, not South Florida, a few blocks from the ocean, and two blocks from the main street. It's called Main Street. Amazes me too.

I'm from New York. I mostly lived in the Mid-Upper East Side, and the heart of the Upper West Side. It amazes me when people talk about how scared they were of Times Square in the 1970's and 1980's.

As my mother said: "know the streets, look out and you'll be fine."

What was scary was the invasion of the crack dens into "good buildings in good 'hoods." And the greedy landlords who did everything they could to get good tenants out of buildings.

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Then I hated everything about the suburbs. Yet somehow I lived in a few great Long Island Sound towns after high school.

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