Are the traffic-choked streets of NYC conducive to living and writing?
I majored in landscape studies and cars are the perfect use of the landscape. In New York I’m in the unfortunate position of feeling it’s my duty to know everything going on as I work at Time Out [the New York version]. But I always knew what was going on a week before, so I was out of sync. I’d show up at TKTS [theatre ticket dealership] and wait in line and it wasn’t out yet. I moved to New York to do the 6ths, to be near all those musicians that sing and play in New York, which consists of Dean Wareham and Anna Domino. On the new 6ths record everyone is in Paris, London and Tokyo. So here I am paying two times rent, or not paying, as I’m three months behind. And, lest you get the wrong opinion, the IRS has seized my royalties. How compatible are the roles of music-maker and music-critic? I just think of them as different jobs in the same field. As far as I know nobody has ever bought a record because I recommended it. People have stayed away from records because I said they were tra
