(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4psSt_PhDU)
Big thanks to Gastón for all the work he put into this. Be sure to check out his other work at http://gastónviñas.com.ar/
]]>“It’s not in the nature of stoic Cincinnatians to boast, which is fortunate, really, for they have meager pickings to boast about….Perhaps the biggest thing the citizens of the “Queen of the West” have to tell a tall tale about is the Creation Museum.”
Yes, you read that correctly. As a Cincinnatian, I don’t have much to be proud about except a religious museum located in a different state entirely. The whole article is here.
I had no choice but to put off my work and write a response to the editor. And please, New York readers, don’t take any of this too personally. Cincinnatians don’t laugh at you that much.
As a composer and musician who resides by choice in Cincinnati, I have one thing to boast about: Rust Belt cities like Cincinnati are far more conducive to living as an artist than New York City. Perhaps the moneyed class that Mr. Gill enjoys jet-setting with still believe Greenwich Village is an artists’ haven, but I assure him that those of us creating art in Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and Detroit can’t help but snicker when we realize our monthly rent is less than the cost of a draft beer in Williamsburg. As for further boasting, my mind draws a blank; surely John Roebling was just throwing us a bone when he completed our suspension bridge before his later, slightly larger and more ungainly bridge in Brooklyn; of course the Cincinnati Reds are a good twenty years older than the Yankees, but far more rappers choose the latter as their cap of choice; obviously our Music Hall is situated in the most extensive intact urban historic district in the country whereas Manhattan had the foresight to “renew” several city blocks with a cloistered temple of 60’s International Style megaliths; and without a doubt Zaha Hadid simply forgot where she was when she chose Cincinnati as the site of her first building in America, which the New York Times – no doubt accidentally – called “the most important American building to be completed since the cold war.” I’m sure Mr. Gill picked up on all of this intuitively during the twenty minutes he spent here to write about a museum in a bordering state.
Ah, that felt good. Now back to more important work. . . .
]]>(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfbw9Vobo0Q)
]]>Opening for us will be the mesmerizing and antioxidant-rich Turmeric.
Music should begin around 10pm. All ages, free admission, no reason not to come!
239 W. McMillan St, Cincinnati OH
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