The Peak, 4/24/06: 1974

[RGMike]

Bob Dylan & The Band - Most Likely You'll Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) (live)
Steely Dan - Rikki Don't Lose That Number
Ron Wood - I Can Feel the Fire
Doobie Brothers - Black Water
Robert Palmer - Sneakin' Sally Trilogy
Joni Mitchell - Help Me
Wet Willie - Keep On Smiling
10CC Wall Street Shuffle
Stevie Wonder - Boogie On Reggae Woman
Mott the Hoople - Golden Age of Rock'n'Roll

[Gazoo]

Bob Dylan & The Band - Most Likely You'll Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) (live)
Steely Dan - Rikki Don't Lose That Number
Ron Wood - I Can Feel the Fire
Doobie Brothers - Black Water
Robert Palmer - Sneakin' Sally Trilogy
Joni Mitchell - Help Me
Wet Willie - Keep On Smiling
10CC Wall Street Shuffle
Stevie Wonder - Boogie On Reggae Woman
Mott the Hoople - Golden Age of Rock'n'Roll

Quite a few underplays on that setlist, I'll have to catch the seconds.

[RGMike]

Bob Dylan & The Band - Most Likely You'll Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) (live)
Steely Dan - Rikki Don't Lose That Number
Ron Wood - I Can Feel the Fire
Doobie Brothers - Black Water
Robert Palmer - Sneakin' Sally Trilogy
Joni Mitchell - Help Me
Wet Willie - Keep On Smiling
10CC Wall Street Shuffle
Stevie Wonder - Boogie On Reggae Woman
Mott the Hoople - Golden Age of Rock'n'Roll

Quite a few underplays on that setlist, I'll have to catch the seconds.

Don't think I've EVER heard the Ron Wood. Woulda BOS'd 10cc, natch, in a tie with Mott.

So how goes the job(s)?

[Gazoo]

Don't think I've EVER heard the Ron Wood. Woulda BOS'd 10cc, natch, in a tie with Mott.

So how goes the job(s)?

Time = challenging, but rewarding.  I'm actually working for about 14 of the 16 hours I'm there, though I imagine I'll have more down time as I get a better feel for how fussy I need to be about certain things and what can slide.

Jane = the most embarrassingly easy job I've ever had.  It's like a work-study hall monitor job.  I sit here waiting for proofs -- my first day, I trafficked a dozen, which apparently was way more than anyone expected me to do, as I've only gotten one second-round draft and about 3-4 new proofs each day since.  The material requires very little editing, only the occasional tweak of something to maintain consistency in style.  A godsend of a job, in that it's allowed me ample time to work on my Monkees paper (which I'd hoped I'd have a draft to show you all by now, but I'm still revising).

A&E = about an hour of work from home per week

BKLYN = on hiatus

Index = folded

Voice = spiraling rapidly into hell, Events section (my cash cow there) soon to fold, my tour of duty there seemingly coming to an inglorious end.

[RGMike]

Don't think I've EVER heard the Ron Wood. Woulda BOS'd 10cc, natch, in a tie with Mott.

So how goes the job(s)?

A&E = about an hour of work from home per week

BKLYN = on hiatus

Index = folded

Voice = spiraling rapidly into hell, Events section (my cash cow there) soon to fold, my tour of duty there seemingly coming to an inglorious end.

I don't think I even knew about A&E and BKLYN and Index (?)

As to the Voice -- isn't the Events section, like, the main reason most folks pick up the VV to begin with? Talk about cutting off yer nose etc.  Sounds like an ideal time for someone to fill that void, no? Or has the internet done that already?  You're too young to remember the days of the Soho Weekly News, tho' I'm sure you've heard stories.

[Gazoo]

Don't think I've EVER heard the Ron Wood. Woulda BOS'd 10cc, natch, in a tie with Mott.

It was better than, and would have been a better fit than, at least 50% of Goat's Head Soup.

But my BOS on the replay is a tie between "Black Water," which sounds especially good on an evening when I'm daydreaming (evedreaming?) about Lake Winnepesaukee, New Hampshire; and Dylan & the Band's "Most Likely You Go Your Way & I Go Mine," which I inadvertently ripped off when I fancied myself a songwriter in college.  Oh, what the hell, I'll post the lyrics here.  It's not so embarrassing in hindsight.  Half of it is about a girl who was dating my friend Victor at the time; he'd gone off to Semester at Sea and she started hanging out with me in what felt at the time like using me as a surrogate doll.  The other half is me having read a Dylan songbook and thinking to myself, "I can do that."  Anyway, you can pretty much sing this to the Dylan song and it's exactly what I wanted to do and I've not since figured out how to set it to less derivative music.  Which is why I no longer fancy myself a songwriter.

"Shelly Is the Goddess of Angst"

I'd come to beware
Her contemplative stare
She'd never share the story behind it.
Thinking I didn't care,
She'd only say, "It's there,
You just don't know where to find it."

          I kiss her on the cheek -- she thinks it's one of my pranks;
          Oh, Shelly -- Shelly is the goddess of angst.

Ephedrine princess
Offers faint glimpses
Of the woman she once hoped to be.
She wants me to play
A man who went away
But he does not look a lot like me.

          I tell her I love her -- she mumbles "thanks";
          Poor Shelly -- Shelly is the goddess of angst.

She looks a bit queasy
'Cause life's not that easy
Once you close your Vogue magazine.
I guess I will let
Her to her cigarettes --
They're more comfort than I've ever been.

          In their desperation, wedding bells 'cross the nation all clank
          For Shelly -- Shelly is the goddess of angst.

So maybe I lied
When I told her I've tried;
I've still got some pride left in me.
So I'm not by her side
Instead I'm hitching a ride
On a night when it's rainy and windy.

          We all learn to live with unending hunger pangs,
          But Shelly -- Shelly is the goddess of angst.

[Gazoo]

I don't think I even knew about A&E and BKLYN and Index (?)

I copy edited the final issue of A&E's Biography magazine, and their editor opted to keep me on for his other A&E project, their website; generally once a week I'll edit an interview feature article and email it back to them.

That editor is also the editor of BKLYN magazine, which has been out for about two years; a community/culture mag aimed at the ritzier communities (Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Park Slope) and pointedly ignoring Williamsburg-Greenpoint and such.  It's a quarterly, so I only work with them for two weeks every three months.

Index was an interview and photography magazine that had been out for a few years.  I line edited what proved to be the final issue (quite interesting, getting to make extensive changes on copy).  This makes probably close to a dozen publications that I have been involved with at the time of their demise.  Clearly future employers should keep this in mind when hiring me.