A welcome back and hope you're fully better soon! to Jenny. Belated happy birthday! to Angelique. Jay Smooth, soon to come to Gothamist Interview as soon as I can make up 3 questions!
To start, last week when someone asked me if I went by Candy, I actually restrained from my typical answer: "only if you have a death wish." But, man, second to that has be getting my name spelled wrong. Nick, Nick, Nick...CandIce, kid.
Abe proves that it wasn't just me feeling like club DJs are getting more and more formulaic. I remembered this weekend the missing piece to his riff was the rock phase, usually "Seven Nation Army" before seguing into Nirvana/Smashing Pumpkins/something loud and grungy circa '94 before throwing in the Guns & Roses. Save us from the DJ hacks!
Go check out A Day In The Life if you haven't already. It's utterly fascinating.
A random drop in to Welcome To The Dollhouse revealed that she was yet another ex-HCHSer. Her post about the college process reminded me of the bitterness I felt 5 years ago towards this prick of a college counselor I had. In our meetings, he told me I shouldn't bother applying to places like Wes and Hampshire and all the other little liberal arts colleges I had my heart set on because they were way past "reach" schools. Despite the fact I had a 3.3 GPA, had a newspaper column, sang in the three different choruses through my years at school, had been on the basketball team, and had pretty decent SAT scores, he thought I should stay along the level of Penn State and maybe CUNY/SUNY schools because a lot of other (black) kids there had fared okay with those. Poor little college process wound up me went home in tears and my stepmother ripped him a new asshole. I applied where I wanted to go and got in as I knew deep down I would. And I even resisted the urge to egg that fucker's car. Five years later, he can still kiss my ass.
Speaking of Wes, is there any doubt that a rock band of Americans singing made up French songs with fake French accents have Wes roots? Read the diary of their mini-tour on Slate [via S/FJ]
If you don't read Negrophile, what are you waiting for? Tremendously good shit over there, i.e this article speaking to something I and my school friends know way too much about unfortunately, or this one with selected stories from a book I really want to read; or a Post opinion from the other week that I missed.
And since I'm obsessed with all thing Prefuse and the many other aliases of Sir Herren, the official site is dope as it should be. Anybody up for the Bowery Ballroom show on the 16th?
Posted by Candicissima at April 4, 2004 09:08 PM