when someone says that to you when you politely ask them what they do it's kind of like oh yeh...cool - the end, i've heard that a million times. i am sure jimmy hendrix got asked that same question, to which in his little head he was always like, you just wait.
i was doing a random job in the freezing cold dead of winter in new york. i was in the basement of the maritime hotel, sticking stamps on these round sets of playing cards that they were sending out as their christmas presents. i used to get ishil to let me stick the stamps on the envelops at ksubs, i was like PLEASE let me not do anything but think about how neat i can stick this stamp on this envelope for just 5 minutes. well, when you have to stick literally a zillion stamps with absolute precision onto a round box in the freezing cold, and there is only one kind of person you maybe think you would like to talk to more, i guess it makes sheltered workshop seconds, maybe pass faster...this is when i met this guy.
there was a bunch of people that would come in to do this job with me, randomly, jen brill and lesley arfin were once upon a time down in this dungeon - why, i don't kind of know, i guess everyone starts off somewhere right?? i can't even remember his name. he invited me to a party, but i didn't go. i was like 'what is your band called', 'crystal stilts' he responds. 'what do you play?' i ask, 'i am the lead singer' he responds...
as i sit and play these songs over and over again almost 2 years after this conversation i do think, why you end up meeting people randomly and then somehow they become a removed part of your life. he asked me to tell him my favourite australian song, to which i responded 'i don't know if you will know it, but cattle and cane' he says 'the go betweens are one of my favorite bands' i now think hmm, maybe i should have gone to that party. ahh well.
it's funny who you meet along the way - but i LOVE this stuff...my stamp licking days have clearly not passed, but hey, here he is - not licking any stamps no more, well maybe on the off festival season he still does.
crystal stilts...
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