i can feel my heart go “oh oh oh oh oh oh ohhhh”

On Sunday night, two of my cravings were satiated: Cafe Habana and Paper Raincoat.

To keep up with the spirit of the weekend of freedom, I met up for a late dinner with Judy, Dave, Angela, and Amber at Cafe Habana to be followed by a secret set at Rockwood, the aptly named band, “Cardboard Bikini”. Heh!

Needless to say, I was starving and while everyone else got the grilled corn, I added a mushroom burrito to my order. No, seriously, the best grilled corn ever. It’s slathered in butter, topped with cheese, sprinkled with cayenne pepper, and complimented with a lime slice. It’s a cob of perfection. And I totally housed the burrito as well, I was starving! And a hungry Mir is not a pleasant Mir… I highly recommend stopping by the take-out window if you find yourself near Prince Street.

We headed to Rockwood taking a shortcut on Urine Street. It’s not really called that, but it should.

Rockwood was at capacity for Paper Raincoat and though we found spot with a clear eyeline, it was also exactly behind where The Tall People decided to be. They also blew kisses.

To summarize, The Paper Raincoat is the collaboration between Amber Rubarth and Alex Wong who have solo career and also play with others in the NYC “scene”. The songs are a narrative about a fictional group of people in NYC when pieced together will be like a novel…or perhaps a movie, or musical theatre… I’m being cheeky.

The show was sweaty and great with minor technical confusions. Since it was a “secret show”, they tried to rename their songs as well. Such as “Mystic Rain Part 1″, “Mystic Rain Part 2″, “Knight Rider”, and lots of songs with “love” in the title. They played the hits and everyone sang along and clapped and whooped and hollered. Good times. The more I see them, the more they fill The Weepies gap. I like them a lot, though I do have a gripe with the word “sound” in almost every song.

CD release on Oct 6 with Elizabeth and the Catapult (love love love!) at Joe’s Pub. See you there?

Here is my favorite song of theirs:

And here is the song they end with:

finally liking my iphone

So after having my iPhone for about a month and a half, I’m finally liking it and making it work for me.

I still hate the fact that it doesn’t make work as easy as the Blackberry (200 email message limit and the search function doesn’t apply to the body of the email) but I was able to skirt around it by setting up and masking a gmail account. Sucks though because if I want to reply to an email from my work account (as opposed to the gmail account I set up), I have to activate my work mail. Sigh, but at least I can retrieve email that’s more than a day old now. Granted, I wouldn’t have this issue if we had email that was supported by a Microsoft Exchange Server, but that is out of my control.

Though I had aim on the iPhone, I installed a new app so I can have all of my chat applications on my device. Fun, now I don’t even need my laptop until I’m actually doing some real work.

In other news, insomnia sucks. I haven’t slept well in over a week despite massive doses of Ty PM. Too much on my mind I guess. And the few hours of sleep I got last night left my right side of my ribcabe soooooooorrrreeeee. I can barely move. Needless to say with the soreness and tiredness, I did not get in my six mile run this morning, but I’m ok with that since I’m ahead in the training schedule.

Off to go through songs with YV…rehearsing at Rockwood. I wonder if anyone will look down on me for having wine at 1 pm during the workday….

think i’m going to go and take you dancing

I’m absolutely worthless. I think I either need to build my tolerance, or be sober, there doesn’t seem to be a happy medium. Or perhaps I need to stop boozing on an empty stomach…a beer and three and a half glasses of wine later and my face is numb.

YY played Rockwood again last night, and again the room was packed. This time less cougars, more strangers – always better. I met up with Dan and Emily a bit earlier than the set to catch up and trade stories. Dan schooled me a bit in my new iPhone. As you all know, I was a massive advocate for Blackberry until my Bold decided to be a fucking douche and be lame and quit on me, so iPhone for me! We Loopt it up and now I’m a better person because of that. And we Bumped.

The band played well, no “Blackbird”, but we got “Oceanbird” along with a few other deeper cuts and the usuals. I recorded two songs with iPhone’s Voicenote which came out pretty ok. Not perfect because of the chatter and we were in the back, but still, very cool and easy. They are below for download if you wish you were there. And if the links don’t show up, try the widget on the right, I’m still working on this.

Someone To Love, Someone To Hold: http://www.box.net/shared/p845hfovht
Saturday Night: http://www.box.net/shared/9gqp4afmfn