Friendship in the Time of New Media
My weekend of leisurely drinking turned into a Sunday of leisurely trying-to-do-schoolwork-with-a-champagne-buzz, which turned into an evening of leisurely reading-fiction-while-drinking-coffee, which turned into an hour of leisurely recording-a-cover-of Tiger Mountain Peasant Song by Fleet Foxes.
Happy Sunday, friends.
Tick Tock - Music By Avi Amon, Lyrics by Max Vernon
Here’s a video from our end-of-semester cabaret at NYU. Its a standalone scene/song from a larger work - just one of the 762 things I must have written last semester… Enjoy!
In the words of my mother, an arbiter of culture and a musical tastemaker, “Avi is just so talented. I really want to— you know, what I want to do? I want to call Ellen and get him on the Ellen show. He’s just so talented, Al.”
Fine, Words with Friends, what do you call it when someone spanks you with his penis?
Thoughts, in chronological order:
(1) Thank god I had just gotten my nails done.
(2) Maybe people will join my book club now.
(3) Yeah… Coketalk would totally join my book club.
(4) She’s a rad bitch.
As Seen Heard on TV: The beautiful and talented Jenny & Tyler.
New Internet Game: whatever you’re searching on Google, add “clip art” to the end and do an image search.
Actually a pretty accurate depiction of what I imagine the people who were in youth group with me to now look like
Let’s play a game! It’s called
Which Thing Did I See At A Thrift Store And NOT Buy?:
Questionable Facepaint Edition
(a) A record of someone performing Al Jolson covers and being generally a little too excited about blackface
(b) A piece of merchandise for the Insane Clown Posse, a musical group
(c) A poster of what I can only imagine is Liza Clownnelli, a performer who portrays Liza Minnelli as a clown
I was clownin’ on a keyboard at home and recorded this onetake of the song “Halo” by my dear friend and personal confidante, Beyonce.
Excuse the sniffles, I was just so emotionally moved by my performance (or maybe it’s that I’m allergic to our dogs. Probably both.) Now I have to go cross off “cover a song by an artist who is literally 100 times more talented that I am using an instrument at which I have sub-proficient skills” from my list of New Year’s Resolutions.
