I'm heading up to Tufts this weekend for the Amalgamates 25th anniversary celebration. The Mates are a coed a cappella group that I was in for three of my four years at Tufts and whose alumni and members have been a part of my life ever since. People are coming in from all over the world to celebrate and sing, and I'd be shocked if I have much of a voice left after the weekend. Can't wait to see everyone!!! Oh, and apparently there's a football game?
Last night I was at a bar on 10th Street called Black and White. It's nothing special -- a dark, loud, dive-y bar between 3rd and 4th Aves, a little too loud for my taste. When I walked in, I thought that I had probably raised the average age of the place quite a bit, but at least they were playing the Clash -- Police and Thieves. Turns out there was a DJ, playing some fantastic 80's music. It literally sounded to me like she had taken my personal box of mix tapes -- the ones that I had taped off of the radio on WLIR back in the day -- and put them on her iPod: New Order, Joy Division, Tones on Tail, the Cure, Depeche Mode, and more. If she had played it at a volume that had actually allowed me to hear my friends, I would have stayed all night.
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