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Issue of Dream Spray Magazine, December Dates
Normal Love will be playing Big Snow Brooklyn (12/12), Rochester (12/13), Polyhaus in Toronto (12/14), and Hudson, NY (12/15, venue TBA).
When NPR, FOX, and VICE merge in to one network, catering to all the dumb dumbs born to baby-boomers, this is the kind of music coverage you can expect. Originally aired on Princeton radio, trannies, psychics, prostitutes, Verizon employees, and more analyze the most recent full-length released by Normal Love, on DREAM SPRAY MAGAZINE.
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New York Dates/New Member
NL is very pleased to announce the addition of Max Jaffe as a new drummer and member! We will miss the amicable departure of Eli Litwin from the band.
Also, we just returned from a three-week North American tour, filled with a slew of New Music America-supported events and shows. Normal Love will be reporting on much of this very soon.
Some performances in the near future:
October 28, 2012 Normal Love at The Paper Box, with MERMORT sounds film (Tokyo, Japan), Child Abuse, Killer BOB, and Procatrosist (Mick Barr, Weasel Walter, Joe Merolla, Eston Browne)
November 1, 2012 Normal Love at Zebulon, with Bunny Brains and Nels Cline.
March 2, 2013 Normal Love at the Stone
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Full Album to Air on Princeton Radio’s ::DOUBLEPLUSGOOD 5PM, THURSDAY, 9/27
Listen live here (click “listen now”) at 5 PM.
Hosted by Normal Love’s own HONDA 98.6, and punctuated with real reviews given by psychics, prostitutes, construction foremen, trannies, oh my. Expect digitally squelched audio. NL set out on a sweeping hunt throughout the US and Canada, recording various reactions to the group’s most recent album, Survival Tricks, which you can hear in its entirety on 103.3 WPRB, and streaming at 5PM. Merch is still available, so buy copies of the vinyl and CD before never.
Funded in part through New Music USA’s MetLife Creative Connections
program.
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August Tour Dates/Summer Plans
FUNDED IN PART THROUGH NEW MUSIC USA’S MET LIFE CREATIVE CONNECTIONS PROGRAM, on their August, 2012 tour, Normal Love will be presenting a slew of shows, digitally squelched Q&A’s, penetrating interviews, and radio shows featuring FOX news-esque soundbites of NORMAL people reviewing the group’s recent record in:
07.27.12 – Philadelphia, PA – AUX (with Crash Course in Science, Psychic Teens, Coqui, Young Leaves, Hurry)
07.31.12 – Brooklyn, NY – Death by Audio (with Sightings, Tim Dahl/Elliott Sharp/Weasel Walter, MV Carbon)
08.01.12 – Providence, RI – Machines (with Magnets)
08.02.12 – Allston, MA – Gay Gardens (with Guerilla Toss, Bees)
08.03.12 – Montreal, QC – Playhouse Cabaret (with Wicked Crafts, Carnal Veil)
08.04.12 – Meaford, ON – Electric Eclectics Festival
08.06.12 – London, ON – Sweet Magic London Festival
08.07.12 – Milwaukee, WI – TBA
08.08.12 – Madison, WI – Dragonfly Lounge
08.09.12 – Minneapolis, MN – Hexagon Bar (with Hasps, Miami Dolphins)
08.10.12 – Lincoln, NE – Knickerbockers (with Touch People, Fuchsia Minutia, Woven Symbol)
08.11.12 – Lawrence, KS – Jackpot Saloon (with Grandi Flora, Oils)
08.12.12 – St. Louis, MO – Lemp Arts (with Rick Weaver)
08.13.12 – Fayetteville, AK – Lightbulb Club (with Egyptr)
08.14.12 – Hot Springs, AK – The Exchange
08.15.12 – Memphis, TN – Lamplighter Lounge
08.16.12 – Chattanooga, TN – Sluggo’s North (with The Stacker Three)
08.17.12 – Lexington, KY – The Sidecar (with Wretched Worst, Live Island)
08.18.12 – Cincinnati, OH – The Comet (with Wasteland Jazz Unit)
08.19.12 – Chicago, IL – City Build Festival at Cobra Lounge
08.20.12 – Cleveland, OH – Now That’s Class (with Drake-Henry-Scheible Trio)
08.21.12 – Ithaca, NY – The Space (with Daads, Brian, Temuchin)
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TRUE STORIES
Trannies, psychics, prostitutes, and more analyze the most recent full-length released by Normal Love:
(Carmen)
Carmen: Scream Too
by HONDA 98.6
One Thursday night in March, two friends and I narrowly avoided being falsely incriminated in an underage prostitution sting operation. It all started, when I set out for a questionable night, with some audio gear, a point n’ shoot Canon camera, and my old pocket knife in case things got weird. After mentioning an idea for a music review project, my friend and boss at the time, Grace, and her neighbor Chris — a taxi driver by trade — offered to go cruising around in a zip car with me for tranny prostitutes. I was hoping to play them some tracks of my solo music, and my band Normal Love off of an iPod while recording their opinions on what they heard.
Chris knew all the spots where people hooked. We headed uptown to about 125th street and 3rd ave. In that area, if you were a woman, walking by yourself, it meant only one thing. And if you were a man, it meant three things. It was the bleakest of the bleak.
I saw one of the scariest specimens of human life that night; this muscular-looking male prostitute, wearing a black bandit hat and cape. After making eyes at us, he ducked in to a pedestrian tunnel with a John.
Then we saw this one young girl hooking on the corner. The three of us slowed down, and pondered her as a surveyee for this music-interview project for a few moments. Then, we all realized that she looked WAY too young. Imagine if a cop drove by, and took us in for soliciting a minor. SHIT, we thought. We kept driving. We drove around and saw a few women hooking on various corners. I thought to myself, these people would definitely do this project, but they just looked so down on their luck. We were driving around the neighborhood in circles, when we came across the same underage girl again. We noticed just around the corner, obscured from John-soliciting-dar, were two police cars, with lights turned off, waiting silently to bust the next piece of shit to approach her. We drove off.
PHEWWW, we said, and kept driving. The cops were just around the corner, and if this wasn’t a sting operation waiting for us, it was a huge coincidence.
It was about 2:30 A.M..The vibe in the car between the three of us was a bit defeatist. We couldn’t find anyone that seemed right for the job. Better go find some exhibitionist-y, in your face trannies in lower Manhattan, we thought, as the scene uptown was GRIM. We didn’t want to have anything to do with it, even if we were simply paying those people to listen to music, and not, you know, give us sex in exchange for our money.
When we headed back downtown, we found much more luck. First, we saw a weird yuppie-looking couple in the West Village, walking passed our car at a red light. The man yelled at the female in a very sober voice, “Feebie, your vagina is OUT OF CONTROL.” He gave us a weird look as if we were the mutants, and kept walking. Then we see a few tute-ish-looking candidates for the interview, including this future-drogenous Thriller-extra of a thing. Trudging along like a star-trek alien-slut, she was our gal, but she slinked away. We drove around for a while looking for her, turning every single corner, until BAMMM, we came across Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Walking down the street, I ran out of the car at him.
“Excuse me, Phillip Seym”
“HuhhQuaaaa” he belts out, interrupting my name -call.
He gave me the cold shoulder and walked away. I still don’t know how to explain the sound he made at me, but it was somewhere between a duck’s quack, and a karate sound.
We continued on. Chris told us how surprised he was that there weren’t way more trannies hooking around lower Manhattan, as they were usually buy one get one free in the West Village at that time of night. Then, when we were stopped at a red light, finally, we found Carmen.
I popped out of the car and explained to her the details of the project, offering $20 to just listen to some music and talk about it, and then have her photo taken and published online.
“Yeah ok, sure. You’re not a cop, are you?”
I said, “No. we don’t want any sex, in any form. It’s just a straight-up the music project.”
Then she got in. This is what she said about the music:
C I think of a stage play. I don’t know if you saw Scream 2 before?
H98.6 Yeah, I did.
C But I just think of that scene, where Neve Campbell’s a theater student, and she’s doing her rehearsal for the performance. That’s what I thought of. That’s what I think of.
H98.6 That’s good.
C Cassandra, that’s the character and the play [in Scream 2]. See, I’m into my movies. I’m a horror-type, fan. I’m thinking about Carrie, and the scene in the school, when she just starts making s$%t happen. That’s what I’m thinking about right now. That’s what this song is like.
H98.6 Are you into Sissy Spacek?
C YES.
[More music being played...]
C It reminds me of the busy streets of New York…
H98.6 Yeah?
C Construction. Non-stop. Just, the city never sleeps. Yeah, ta haha, it gives me….New York.
H98.6 OH?
C It’s very kitchen…like pots and pans. I know this sound, because I’m a very eclectic person, myself. I’m trying to think of the sound. It sound like a piece of foil. There’s a type of paper that make that same sound.
[More music being played...]
C I think, like, Cirque du Soleil.
H98.6 You know that they’re doing The Eternal Michael Jackson, Cirque du Soleil right now?
C Oh, lord.
H98.6 I just saw this poster and it’s this weird image of MJ’s face with all of these dancers and saxophones exploding out of it. It looks good.
[More music playing…]
C OK. Now I’m hearing like modern dance.
[More music playing…]
C Very Lady Gaga-ish.
Born in the basement of a Radio Shack off the Jersey Turnpike, HONDA 98.6 of Normal Love is a poser born in the year 2085. He survived a post-present Verizon-ocracy via a childhood of fist fights, food stamps, and fender amps. Things he’s into: Verizon babes, scrambled head banging, Dorito sunburns, Zapp and Roger, Test Department, Screamin Jay Hawkins…You get the picture.
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Psychic Tanya
by HONDA 98.6 of Normal Love
As I trolled around my former residence of almost 5 years in South Brooklyn for the trashiest psychic I could find, I went from storefront to storefront. seeking out any neon sign that mentioned the words “psychic,” ‘tarot card,” or “palm reading.”
You’d be surprised at how hard it is to get a professional mystic to agree to listen to some music on an iPod for a price, and give you their cosmic analysis of it. I must have been rejected by 3 or 4 of the most rundown looking clairvoyant businesses in the remote neighborhoods of Bensonhurst and Bath Beach, Brooklyn, before finally coming across Psychic Tanya on 86th street. She was miraculously down to do it, and said the reason the others rejected me was because “no real gypsy would ever let you take her picture” (taking a photo of the listener was a necessary component of the project).
Here is her take on some of my solo music and my band, Normal Love.
PT It sounds scary
H98.6 It is scary ?
PT Yeah…No no I don’t do that. No no, I don’t like evil stuff. I fight evil…Ya know what this is? Drug music.
H98.6 Drug music?
PT You understand what I’m talking about?
H98.6 Yeah.
PT I’m a mother, I wouldn’t agree on that…I like this part. There’s some parts I like, some parts I don’t. There was one part I didn’t like that was scary – the first one you put on, but I can’t lie. It’s nice, but it’s not for me. I feel like you can get hypnotized by it.
H98.6 That would maybe be a compliment.
PT No. We invoke Jesus’ name. You know what it sounds like? You know when a band’s getting ready to start? They have to get warmed up or something. Yeah like a tune up they’re getting warmed up like a band. That’s what it sound like.
H98.6 Haha.
PT You’re here to hear me listen to this. That’s not a very good thing what you’re doing, I’m telling you. Lemme tell you why. I’m not a DJ. I don’t do songs.
H98.6 That’s the whole point. BECAUSE you’re not.
PT OK It’s interesting. You wanna see what other people have to say about it.
H98.6 Exactly, exactly. I don’t care about DJ’s. There’s too many people making music, talking about music.
PT And I wouldn’t want my son to hear it either, because I have one that has a drug habit and in rehab. And this right now? It’s offensive to me, but I don’t want to hurt your feelings. It’s nice, I like it, but I wouldn’t want my kids to hear it. You understand? I got four suns. The youngest one is 18.
[Listening more]
PT This is good for theater. Its nice for restaurants. Its nice I’m not gonna lie.
H98.6 It could be anything. There’s no wrong answer. You could hate it. You could love it.
PT How do I know? This is not the music I [usually] hear. I hear Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey, Barry White. It sounds like it’s in a movie, and the movie’s going through a jungle, You understand what I mean, like through a jungle, like seeing cave people. That’s what it sounds like.
H98.6 Cool. OK. And then one more passage.
PT I’m sorry I’m not giving you the right advice but that’s what I think it sounds like…
[Listens more]… Belly dancers will maybe dance to it, I don’t know. We bring belly dancers to weddings.
H98.6 Where are you going to weddings?
PT Gypsy weddings. When my sons get married or my friends get married or relatives.
H98.6 Yeah, I’m not married. I’m probably not gonna get married for a while.
PT My husband can help you with this. Want me acks him?
H98.6 No, I’m not looking to get married. I wanna be single for a while.
PT No haha not for marriage, my husband can help you with the songs! He’s good at these type of things. …
H98.6 OH! Hahaha. No I want your opinion…You know, less and less marriage happens these days. 40% of people are born out of wedlock.
PT What’s that?
H98.6 Only 40% of people are born to people who aren’t married.
PT A woman don’t even need a husband no more, they just go up to the sperm bank, come home, and they’re pregnant…[Trying to give a reading] So you do have a temper, you do get along with people, and you also hold a lot of feelings inside. Sometimes you give more to other people than what you give to yourself.
H98.6 That’s maybe true?
PT Not maybe true, it is the truth. But be careful in the long run, not to spend too much time with other people because you might hurt the ones you love.
H98.6 Right.
PT Like your mother, your father, your husband, your wife, your children, You pay attention to other people, help them, but don’t just concentrate on other people and leave them behind. ‘Cause you give so much dedication to other people you forget about the one’s you love.
H98.6 Yeah.
PT Could I continue your reading?
H98.6 I’d rather my fortune be a surprise.
PT You’re one of those types, you’re scared?
Born in the basement of a Radio Shack off the Jersey Turnpike, HONDA 98.6 of Normal Love is a poser born in the year 2085. He survived a post-present Verizon-ocracy via a childhood of fist fights, food stamps, and fender amps. Things he’s into: Verizon babes, scrambled head banging, Dorito sunburns, Zapp and Roger, Test Department, Screamin Jay Hawkins…You get the picture.
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Tiffany works at Andy’s Hair Salon on 18th Ave in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
H98.6 so, what do you think?
T It sounds like a village dancing. Sometime for the holiday, like some kind of festival. And then they have people, like 10 or 20, go around in a circle. They have a mask and a costume. Something like that, haha.
[More music playing...]
T Haha, the music’s funny. It feel like when you playing a game, and the music’s coming on and off, on and off, on and off, that you feel like you freeze all the time.
H98.6 Like a video game?
T Right. So it’s not like music, it’s more like game music.
H98.6 But it’s freezing all the time.
T It’s pulsing on, off, on, off.
H98.6 Is there a specific video game that you’re thinking of?
T Um, I would say Diablo. It’s a computer game.
H98.6 Oh I think i remember it. When is it from?
T I would say ’98. The year 2000 the second one come out.
This one sound a little bit like scary-themed. That you have, um, imagining that it’s real but it’s not. How you call that?
H98.6 When you’re imagining something?
T You feel like you see something but people don’t see them
H98.6 Hallucinating ? Like you’re on drugs?
T Yeah.
T This one sounds like the pre-concert. Before the singer starts to sing the song, and in the middle, like for 5 or 7 minutes there are instruments and women dancing. In Hong Kong. They play this kind of music in between [singing]. They (the musicians) give the singer a break.
[More Music playing]
T It sounds like Chinese funeral music.
[More music playing...]
T It sounds like a speaker that’s praying. Like a church theme. Like church song, but that one’s for individual not for whole group.
[More music playing...]
T I have no idea. No, the music doesn’t sound right.
Born in the basement of a Radio Shack off the Jersey Turnpike, HONDA 98.6 of Normal Love is a poser born in the year 2085. He survived a post-present Verizon-ocracy via a childhood of fist fights, food stamps, and fender amps. Things he’s into: Verizon babes, scrambled head banging, Dorito sunburns, Zapp and Roger, Test Department, Screamin Jay Hawkins…You get the picture.
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Andy’s Hair Salon
Tiffany works at Andy’s Hair Salon on 18th Ave in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
Listen to her and others’ thoughts on NL’s music on the radio show, True Stories.
When NPR, FOX, and VICE merge in to one network, catering to all the dumb dumbs born to baby-boomers, this is the kind of music coverage you can expect. Originally aired on Princeton radio, trannies, psychics, prostitutes, Verizon employees, and more weigh in on the most recent full-length released by Normal Love.
Andy’s by Honda 98.6
H98.6 so, what do you think?
T It sounds like a village dancing. Sometime for the holiday, like some kind of festival. And then they have people, like 10 or 20, go around in a circle. They have a mask and a costume. Something like that, haha.
[More music playing...]
T Haha, the music’s funny. It feel like when you playing a game, and the music’s coming on and off, on and off, on and off, that you feel like you freeze all the time.
H98.6 Like a video game?
T Right. So it’s not like music, it’s more like game music.
H98.6 But it’s freezing all the time.
T It’s pulsing on, off, on, off.
H98.6 Is there a specific video game that you’re thinking of?
T Um, I would say Diablo. It’s a computer game.
H98.6 Oh I think i remember it. When is it from?
T I would say ’98. The year 2000 the second one come out.
This one sound a little bit like scary-themed. That you have, um, imagining that it’s real but it’s not. How you call that?
H98.6 When you’re imagining something?
T You feel like you see something but people don’t see them
H98.6 Hallucinating ? Like you’re on drugs?
T Yeah.
T This one sounds like the pre-concert. Before the singer starts to sing the song, and in the middle, like for 5 or 7 minutes there are instruments and women dancing. In Hong Kong. They play this kind of music in between [singing]. They (the musicians) give the singer a break.
[More Music playing]
T It sounds like Chinese funeral music.
[More music playing...]
T It sounds like a speaker that’s praying. Like a church theme. Like church song, but that one’s for individual not for whole group.
[More music playing...]
T I have no idea. No, the music doesn’t sound right.
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Funded in part through New Music USA’s MetLife Creative Connections
program.
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Psychic Tanya
When NPR, FOX, and VICE merge in to one network, catering to all the dumb dumbs born to baby-boomers, this is the kind of music coverage you can expect. Originally aired on Princeton radio, trannies, psychics, prostitutes, Verizon employees, and more weigh in on the most recent full-length released by Normal Love.
Psychic Tanya on NL’s music.
Psychic Tanya
by HONDA 98.6 of Normal Love
As I trolled around my former residence of almost 5 years in South Brooklyn for the trashiest psychic I could find, I went from storefront to storefront. seeking out any neon sign that mentioned the words “psychic,” ‘tarot card,” or “palm reading.”
You’d be surprised at how hard it is to get a professional mystic to agree to listen to some music on an iPod for a price, and give you their cosmic analysis of it. I must have been rejected by 3 or 4 of the most rundown looking clairvoyant businesses in the remote neighborhoods of Bensonhurst and Bath Beach, Brooklyn, before finally coming across Psychic Tanya on 86th street. She was miraculously down to do it, and said the reason the others rejected me was because “no real gypsy would ever let you take her picture” (taking a photo of the listener was a necessary component of the project).
Here is her take on some of my solo music and my band, Normal Love.
PT It sounds scary
H98.6 It is scary ?
PT Yeah…No no I don’t do that. No no, I don’t like evil stuff. I fight evil…Ya know what this is? Drug music.
H98.6 Drug music?
PT You understand what I’m talking about?
H98.6 Yeah.
PT I’m a mother, I wouldn’t agree on that…I like this part. There’s some parts I like, some parts I don’t. There was one part I didn’t like that was scary – the first one you put on, but I can’t lie. It’s nice, but it’s not for me. I feel like you can get hypnotized by it.
H98.6 That would maybe be a compliment.
PT No. We invoke Jesus’ name. You know what it sounds like? You know when a band’s getting ready to start? They have to get warmed up or something. Yeah like a tune up they’re getting warmed up like a band. That’s what it sound like.
H98.6 Haha.
PT You’re here to hear me listen to this. That’s not a very good thing what you’re doing, I’m telling you. Lemme tell you why. I’m not a DJ. I don’t do songs.
H98.6 That’s the whole point. BECAUSE you’re not.
PT OK It’s interesting. You wanna see what other people have to say about it.
H98.6 Exactly, exactly. I don’t care about DJ’s. There’s too many people making music, talking about music.
PT And I wouldn’t want my son to hear it either, because I have one that has a drug habit and in rehab. And this right now? It’s offensive to me, but I don’t want to hurt your feelings. It’s nice, I like it, but I wouldn’t want my kids to hear it. You understand? I got four suns. The youngest one is 18.
[Listening more]
PT This is good for theater. Its nice for restaurants. Its nice I’m not gonna lie.
H98.6 It could be anything. There’s no wrong answer. You could hate it. You could love it.
PT How do I know? This is not the music I [usually] hear. I hear Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey, Barry White. It sounds like it’s in a movie, and the movie’s going through a jungle, You understand what I mean, like through a jungle, like seeing cave people. That’s what it sounds like.
H98.6 Cool. OK. And then one more passage.
PT I’m sorry I’m not giving you the right advice but that’s what I think it sounds like…
[Listens more]… Belly dancers will maybe dance to it, I don’t know. We bring belly dancers to weddings.
H98.6 Where are you going to weddings?
PT Gypsy weddings. When my sons get married or my friends get married or relatives.
H98.6 Yeah, I’m not married. I’m probably not gonna get married for a while.
PT My husband can help you with this. Want me acks him?
H98.6 No, I’m not looking to get married. I wanna be single for a while.
PT No haha not for marriage, my husband can help you with the songs! He’s good at these type of things. …
H98.6 OH! Hahaha. No I want your opinion…You know, less and less marriage happens these days. 40% of people are born out of wedlock.
PT What’s that?
H98.6 Only 40% of people are born to people who aren’t married.
PT A woman don’t even need a husband no more, they just go up to the sperm bank, come home, and they’re pregnant…[Trying to give a reading] So you do have a temper, you do get along with people, and you also hold a lot of feelings inside. Sometimes you give more to other people than what you give to yourself.
H98.6 That’s maybe true?
PT Not maybe true, it is the truth. But be careful in the long run, not to spend too much time with other people because you might hurt the ones you love.
H98.6 Right.
PT Like your mother, your father, your husband, your wife, your children, You pay attention to other people, help them, but don’t just concentrate on other people and leave them behind. ‘Cause you give so much dedication to other people you forget about the one’s you love.
H98.6 Yeah.
PT Could I continue your reading?
H98.6 I’d rather my fortune be a surprise.
PT You’re one of those types, you’re scared?
HONDA 98.6 is a poser from 2085. He plays in the band, Normal Love, and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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Carmen
When NPR, FOX, and VICE merge in to one network, catering to all the dumb dumbs born to baby-boomers, this is the kind of music coverage you can expect. Originally aired on Princeton radio, trannies, psychics, prostitutes, Verizon employees, and more weigh in on the most recent full-length released by Normal Love. Listen to Carmen’s comments about NL on the radio show, True Stories.
Carmen: Scream Too
by HONDA 98.6 of Normal Love
One Thursday night in March, me and two friends narrowly avoided being falsely incriminated in an underage prostitution sting operation. It all started, when I set out for a questionable night, with some audio gear, a point n’ shoot Canon camera, and my old pocket knife in case things got weird. After mentioning an idea for a music review project, my friend and boss at the time, Grace, and her neighbor Chris — a taxi driver by trade — offered to go cruising around in a zip car with me for tranny prostitutes. I was hoping to play them some tracks of my solo music, and my band Normal Love off of an iPod while recording their opinions on what they heard.
Chris knew all the spots where people hooked. We headed uptown to about 125th street and 3rd ave. In that area, if you were a woman, walking by yourself, it meant only one thing. And if you were a man, it meant three things. It was the bleakest of the bleak.
I saw one of the scariest specimens of human life that night; this muscular-looking male prostitute, wearing a black bandit hat and cape. After making eyes at us, he ducked in to a pedestrian tunnel with a John. Then we saw this one young girl hooking on the corner. The three of us slowed down, and pondered her as a surveyee for this music-interview project for a few moments. Then, we all realized that she looked WAY too young. Imagine if a cop drove by, and took us in for soliciting a minor. SHIT, we thought. We kept driving. We drove around and saw a few women hooking on various corners. I thought to myself, these people would definitely do this project, but they just looked so down on their luck. We were driving around the neighborhood in circles, when we came across the same underage girl again. We noticed just around the corner, obscured from John-soliciting-dar, were two police cars, with lights turned off, waiting silently to bust the next piece of shit to approach her. We drove off.
PHEWWW, we said, and kept driving. The cops were just around the corner, and if this wasn’t a sting operation waiting for us, it was a huge coincidence.
It was about 2:30 A.M..The vibe in the car between the three of us was a bit defeatist. We couldn’t find anyone that seemed right for the job. Better go find some exhibitionist-y, in your face trannies in lower Manhattan, we thought, as the scene uptown was GRIM. We didn’t want to have anything to do with it, even if we were simply paying those people to listen to music, and not, you know, give us sex in exchange for our money.
We headed back downtown and drove around for a while. Chris told us how surprised he was that there weren’t way more trannies hooking around lower Manhattan, as they were usually buy one get one free in the West Village at that time of night. Then, when we were stopped at a red light, finally, we found Carmen.
I popped out of the car and explained to her the details of the project, offering $20 to just listen to some music and talk about it, and then have her photo taken and published online.
“Yeah ok, sure. You’re not a cop, are you?”
I said, “No. we don’t want any sex, in any form. It’s just a straight-up the music project.”
Then she got in. This is what she said about the music:
C I think of a stage play. I don’t know if you saw Scream 2 before?
H98.6 Yeah, I did.
C But I just think of that scene, where Neve Campbell’s a theater student, and she’s doing her rehearsal for the performance. That’s what I thought of. That’s what I think of.
H98.6 That’s good.
C Cassandra, that’s the character and the play [in Scream 2]. See, I’m into my movies. I’m a horror-type, fan. I’m thinking about Carrie, and the scene in the school, when she just starts making s$%t happen. That’s what I’m thinking about right now. That’s what this song is like.
H98.6 Are you into Sissy Spacek?
C YES.
[More music being played...]
C It reminds me of the busy streets of New York…
H98.6 Yeah?
C Construction. Non-stop. Just, the city never sleeps. Yeah, ta haha, it gives me….New York.
H98.6 OH?
C It’s very kitchen…like pots and pans. I know this sound, because I’m a very eclectic person, myself. I’m trying to think of the sound. It sound like a piece of foil. There’s a type of paper that make that same sound.
[More music being played...]
C I think, like, Cirque du Soleil.
H98.6 You know that they’re doing The Eternal Michael Jackson, Cirque du Soleil right now?
C Oh, lord.
H98.6 I just saw this poster and it’s this weird image of MJ’s face with all of these dancers and saxophones exploding out of it. It looks good.
[More music playing…]
C OK. Now I’m hearing like modern dance.
[More music playing…]
C Very Lady Gaga-ish.
HONDA 98.6 is a poser from 2085. He plays in the band, Normal Love, and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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New full-length CD/LP, Survival Tricks.US/Canadian August Tour. New Member.
Normal Love’s long in the making full-length, Survival Tricks, is available. Buy it! Vinyl on Bryan Day’s Public Eyesore . CD on Weasel Walter’s ugEXPLODE label. NORMAL LOVE on FB.
The group will be mutating your cities throughout August, 2012, starting in New York at Death by Audio on July 31. More on that soon.
We are unfathomably amped to announce the addition of a new member, Rachael Bell, singing and playing sampler!
Haoyan of America directed a music video for the song, Lend Some Treats. No use in explaining.
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