A Brooklyn Culture Mafia

[version]

The Louis CK stuff is really funny. Don't believe it for a second.

 

[sus]

27 thouand likes

 

[shakahislop]

i know i've said this on here a million times but podcasts are the replacement for music in terms of what people are into and how much it shapes our identities

there's not much of a way to talk about it though, the vocabulary isn't there

 

[shakahislop]

i saw jesse malin outside 2A on 2nd st eating some noodles the other day. i've got no interest him really except that i saw him play at the oxford zodiac once 20 years ago, i just know who he is

 

[shakahislop]

i saw justin bieber walking through greenpoint once i swear, he looked at me knowingly

 

[shakahislop]

but then i thought i spoke to roy hodgeson outside a pub in dorset, my friends told me the person i spoke to was just some old man that was nothing like roy hodgeson

 

[shakahislop]

i saw adam tooze watching the nyc marathon in williamsburg last year

 

[Leo]

I saw Harvey Keitel walking a dog in TriBeca.

 

[shakahislop]

I saw Lee Ronaldo jumping the queue at webster hall

(to be fair it was Kim Gordon playing so he has the right)

 

[The King of Pussy Gettin]

I don't understand how he keeps going, running a store there at 90 years old.

it's a wonder to behold, and i'll be heartbroken when he's gone, as i reckon ray's is one of the purest, most beautiful remnants of the pre-giuliani era which still exist in that neighborhood.

 

[shakahislop]

one of the first times i took mushrooms i bumped into the white stripes in camden, jack white was very muscular and i was still at school, he deigned to shake my hand like the dignified men we were

 

[shakahislop]

i met boris johnson several times around the same period, four times in a year i think, for various reasons. i asked him why his party had just voted for shrooms to be illegal. he seemed like a buffoon even then, i called him a teddy bear, i asked him why the badgers were paying such high taxes on bacon, I treated him with the right level of respect

 

[shakahislop]

i assisted philip schofiled on and off a small boat while dressed as the toad from the wind in the willows to promote a museum

 

[Leo]

I saw Lee Ronaldo jumping the queue at webster hall

(to be fair it was Kim Gordon playing so he has the right)

I had dinner with Lee and Leah at Odeon.

 

[shakahislop]

HOW DOES HE DO IT?????

 

[IdleRich]

i assisted philip schofiled on and off a small boat while dressed as the toad from the wind in the willows to promote a museum

Is he part of the Brooklyn Cultural mafia?

 

[shakahislop]

Is he part of the Brooklyn Cultural mafia?

i don't know you'd have to ask @suspended, he is the gatekeeper of these things

 

[Leo]

The full story is the wife and I are friends with Alan Licht and Angela Jaeger, and Alan has played with Lee in various groups. We went to see them in their group Text of Light do a performance at the old Whitney, and the six of us went to dinner at Odeon afterwards (Lee and Leah live close by). So, like, two degrees of separation.

 

[IdleRich]

Now that the tall one from Sonic Youth has moved to Stokey every person I know has a story about meeting him in a pub and chatting to him for hours over a few pints - what I'm saying is that the mystique of SY has gone and noone cares anymore.

 

[Leo]

Thanks for raining on my parade, @IdleRich. Harshing my mellow, crushing my spirit.