I played my first open mic night in New York last week at Mix Cafe in Astoria. I sort of got the bug for open mics after that. Here’s where I’ve played so far.

• Mix Cafe – Monday, July 5, 2010
• Shillelagh Tavern – Tuesday, July 6, 2010
• Waltz Astoria – Wednesday, July 7, 2010
• Hell Gate Social – Thursday, July 8, 2010
• Paddy Reilly’s Music Bar – Saturday, July 10, 2010
• Common Ground – Sunday, July 11, 2010
• Cronin and Phelan’s – Monday, July 12, 2010
• Shillelagh Tavern – Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Quick Reviews (continue reading…)

iPod. Acronym: Intellectual Pretender Orating Derivatives.

A person, often a student, who has not developed any unique intellectualisms but will bombastically offer plagiarised arguments and opinions, or repeat verbatim any number of literary quotes or philosophies without any real understanding of them.

Much like the actual iPod media device, which plays back music or video that has been stored on it, but does not create new media by itself, an iPod in the human sense, stores information, but does not have the propensity for the creation of unique intellectual opinion. Could also be described as a Faux-losopher. (continue reading…)

Doing a speak in a video filmed by the Commercial Appeal last night.