Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Baby, it's you



In case you haven't seen it yet... there's a really entertaining piece on Eden & John's East River String Band in The Wall Street Journal:

Both musicians hail from Queens. They met 14 years ago when he was the manager at Forbidden Planet comic-book store on Broadway. Ms. Brower was a new hire.

"He would prank call me from the office and I fell for it every time," she said, noting that it wasn't always easy to tell the difference. "We'd get questions like, 'Who do you think is stronger: the Hulk or the Thing?' That'd be a real call at the store."


Read more about John's new release, "Baby, How Can It Be? Songs of Love, Lust and Contempt from the 1920s and 1930s," over at the home of Slum Goddess (um, Eden, if you didn't make the connection...)

Read the Journal article here.


PS
It's the Hulk, right?

[Photo via Slum Goddess]
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4 comments:

  1. esquared™December 9, 2010 at 10:17 AM

    more important question, who's faster, speedy gonzalez or the road runner?

    <3 the slum goddess and john's east river string band. used to frequent forbidden planet. eden may have tended on me then. just maybe.

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  2. AnonymousDecember 9, 2010 at 2:15 PM

    Nice piece--but I don't think Eden is 38 years old.

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  3. Eden BeeDecember 9, 2010 at 9:55 PM

    Hey-I just saw this! Thanks grieve! If I get rich and famous I'm buying the entire block mars bar is on and make like ten mars bars.
    Anonymous-God Bless You!

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  4. EV GrieveDecember 9, 2010 at 10:21 PM

    @Eden Yea!

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