Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat: Last week was unusually busy, which is why I didn't post much news to The Dawn Patrol. I had two job interviews (for different jobs), two seders, one sister in town, one witty newspaper headline, and one play--"War Music," for which I did publicity--in its final week of production. Okay, I know you're wondering about the headline. It was for an item about a study which showed that drinking two cups of coffee a day did not cause a serious increase in blood pressure: "Coffee doesn't do latte harm".
I did find time to dream this past week, and my dreams were pretty strange. Thursday night, just after the second seder (with its three glasses of wine), I dreamed that I was hanging out in some anonymous New York City nightclub with Lenny Kaye. Now, I did notice the Patti-Smith-guitarist/record-producer/influential-rock-historian's photo in The New Yorkera couple of months back, and I remember seeing him MC a Cavestomp show a year or two ago, but, with all due respect, he hasn't entered my mind other than those times. Even more strangely, an hour after waking, I got a call out of the blue from New York Post theater critic Donald Lyons, asking about "War Music". He asked me what I did besides theater publicity [a reasonable question, since he probably knows all the theater publicists in town and had never heard of me]. When I told him I wrote liner notes for reissues, he said, "Really? I have a good friend who does that—Lenny Kaye..."
This week, I'm finishing liner notes for a Sundazed reissue about which I am very excited. I'll save the details until the notes are finished, but it's for the first-ever U.S. reissue of an album by someone with an innocent face...
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