Degrees
Posted on August 19, 2008 by David
Things get wrapped up in Six Degrees of Separation with the assertion that we — we being Manhattan’s one percenters who sell million-dollar art and have dinner parties – have experiences primarily so that we have something to share at dinner parties. I suppose a blogorati search might reveal 792 people who have said the same thing, more or less, replacing “blog” with “dinner parties.” But that’s not the point.
I was reminded of this wrap-up this past Sunday when I watched an old, stocky, bearded, Jewish man take a toke off a joint offered by a younger, thinner, taller, Jamaican-er, dreadlocked dude at Central Park’s free Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings show. Not when old dude proceeded to cough up a lung, nor when the rasta man patted his back to bring him around–that was just good times. Rather it was about 15 minutes later, when old dude’s wife asked rasta man to pose for a picture with her too-short-for-Sutherland husband. Pudding meet proof, I got a polaroid.
It was a real good time, though, lower-80s on the F scale, with soft kisses of wind, and real Stax-soul. Certainly on my top five lists of shows for the year but, as it turned out, not even the best show of the day.
That honor goes to Boat at Cake Shop later in the evening, with about 20 other lucky souls (oops). Catch them on their tour. Buy their album. They make great rough-around-the-edges pop music and have so much fun doing it. I even bought a t-shirt at the show (I believe this is the first time I’ve ever done that).
But that’s not really the point either. I saw Sarah Silverman at Cake Shop before the show, Chris Noth just a few minutes earlier from the window of the M15 (I was in it, rest assured, he was strolling up 2nd), and Sandra Oh the night before unwilling to wait an hour for a table at Frankies (her departure bumped me up the list!). And the point is this: give me a six degree to kevin bacon involving all those actors and I’ll give you free Boat paraphernalia.
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