Anyone go to the Blonde Redhead show at McCarren park yesterday?  How was it?  I feel like I’ve seen them so many times already and it just didn’t seem worth a day sweating it out in an old dried out pool.  So, friday night I stayed out pretty late.  I think it was around 4:00 when I started heading home.  When i get on the train theres no one else in the car.  I’m resting my legs across 3 seats and my head is leaning against the wall, you know, homeless style.  I’m sorta zoning out at this point, but still listening to the train station announcements.  When I hear ‘Ft. Hamilton Parkway’ I snap out of it and realize theres a girl sitting in the seat across from me lining the bottom of her foot up again the bottom of mine.  I realize at this point that I was staring right at her for what was prolly several train stops not even realizing it.  I’m not sure how long the whole footsie thing’s been going on or why she’s smiling at me like that.  Do I know this person from somewhere?  Did I start a conversation with her?  I’m obviously in no state to try to figure these things out, so I jump up and sort of mumble, “uh…this is my stop…hu….see ya?”  She just sits there smiling at me.

Named after Australian painter Jane Deputy’s definition of outsider art — art by prisoners, loners, the mentally ill, and other marginalized people, and made without thought to imitation or presentation — South London via Australia’s ‘Let’s Buy A Van’ make brilliantly simple, cleverly stupid art-punk. Tagged by NME as part of the “Big New Art Music” scene that also includes bands such as Ferdinand Bloc and Franz Party, as well as other bands from Let’s Buy A Van’s South London/Outback locale. The band alleges that they began writing songs five minutes after they formed, including their single Let’s Start A Band, which featured lyrics like “hey, Let’s start a band, and get girls to jack us off with their hands.” Let’s Buy A Van recorded a demo, ARTSTICK, that attracted the attention of Fried Chicken, which signed the band and then released Let’s Start A Band in spring 2007. Around the time of the single’s release, the band played a string of dates, including a set at the Rock Against Bad Art show. 

http://www.r8e8r.com/mp3r/upload/letsbuyavan/let’s%20buy%20a%20van.mp3

that bio is from the myspace page.  although it may sound like something I’d write, its not.  I gotta apologize for this one, but I couldn’t resist.

btw, happy belated birthday Noelle!

-mark

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