New York Color

That's what I'm supposed to write about here. The "color" of New York. So I'm risking my job here with this post, but I do remember that YM is also a music blog, so hopefully I can sneak this post in without much protest from the publisher. Maybe I can add some NY Color by adding a small note about my dad who arrived in nyc in 1972, and lived on 2nd ave btw 51st and 52nd in a time when Cartier Love bracelets were $280 and came with Cartier's signature on the underside. So that's a small bit of NY color, and the photo at right should count too, for the Kennedy tie in what with Caroline's bid for a Senate seat here.

Speaking of $280.00, that comes to $1,373.48 adjusted for inflation in 2007, though today a Cartier Love bracelet will set you back $3,600, which can be a pleasant reminder of just how much of a nice fucking we are all getting, every which way you look. If these was a team post, Andrew would add some poignant words right here about stagnate wages, weakening of unions, classism run amok, destruction of the social contract, etc..putting a nice big bow on my accusation about getting screwed. But it's not a team post, so he didn't write anything. You get it anyways though, right?

So yah, I want to write about music too. I just read an article in the WSJ about some kid named Ben Hur, and how he sold a lot of albums because some blogger in Kentucky blogged about him on his live journal. I want to help ppl sell albums as well, I like music, and this is a music blog, so I wanted to try this mp3 blogging out.


Did you know that the above song is the original, and the one we all know by Laura Brannigan was a cover? Yup, Italians.