Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Open Mic night at Brooklyn Bean.



So after a sip and a bite and a nice little walk, Zartosht and I strolled into the two empty seats at the front of the packed cafe. It felt just like life drawing class, except they don't have their liquor license just yet so.... It was like life drawing was back in college. Canal Bar lies just an avenue south, and since I'd been there the two nights before, I had faith that it would still be standing there in an hour or so, stocked full of cold beer. Precisely at the aforementioned time, right at the beginning of an atrocious rendition of Ave Maria by a sweet, sweet woman, Z stumbled to the exit with his sketchpad leaving me alone with the rest of the crowd. I could hear him coughing as he passed me, but I knew all too well it wasn't a cough, in fact, I could picture him outside laughing to himself out loud while smoking a cigarette. Doing my best to disguise my impending laughter, I became overwhelmed with the markings on the coffee table, as if examining it for the first time. I studied them as I would a teenager laying his eyes on his first playgirl centerfold (one in ten folks, one in ten!!!)
I somehow managed to contain myself, but just barely. I didn't post any drawings of her, because, well, I didn't draw her. I was just pretending. These two, however played some great guitar and sang some beautiful songs!

4 comments:

Lovelace said...

Great story, sweet sketches.

:: smo :: said...

you and your napkins!

PHIL! i'm NOT in new york. honestly i have no idea what the hell i'm doing. i'm in seattle right now...was in LA the week before. my money situation is pretty bad [read: i'm broke]... and i'm lookin' for work. so right now my options are stay on tour till i get back east; drop off in LA and hope to find a decent job or work a shit job for a bit; come back to NY and freelance; or go back upstate to Rochester and be a professor at my old college [?]...

kinda ridiculous really...for the time being i'm on tour playing guitar again, doing some freelance character design...

what've you been doin?!

Will said...

Cool story man. Great drawings as well.

Phil said...

thanks guys!