Archive for the tag "muze"

I found Muze listed at FuckedCompany.com, that’s another place I used to work ten years ago.  There was always a lot of controversy there between the workers and management, so I wasn’t surprised to see people had complained about it.  But despite all that, we had a super excellent team back then, and I made more lasting friendships there than almost anywhere else I’ve worked.  One guy who commented on FC actually listed the nicknames of our whole ’93 crew and even gave me a personal shout-out!!  I mean, as one of the NICE people, as opposed to somebody he’d complain about.  I know who it was, too, and I feel the same way about him, and everyone he listed.

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An interview by my old pal Lem Oppenheimer appeared on MusicToday.com, a Virginia-area online zine. It’s still available online but I’m copying the text here for your convenience and searchability. Lem is an old work-buddy of mine from the early Nineties when I worked at Muze in Brooklyn… he was right there when I first sent my music to Drag City. So as a result I think this is one of the best and most factually accurate interviews I’ve ever done. THANK YOU LEM!!

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Photos taken by Chuck Cors sometime around May ’96, on the roof of the old Muze building where we both worked.

Note: This is a journal entry — it was written on paper or on my computer, then transferred to my website, maybe years later.

Well I am Shocked and Amazed that I have neglected writing for so long.  I’ve been involved in a lot of things, and lazy besides.

Ever since I came back from Texas, we’ve had nothing but snow and ice, more snow and more ice — I think three separate snowstorms, making the entire city an ice rink. We had three more inches today, and really, if it rains and turns to ice again I’m gonna get the skates out.  So we haven’t been able to make trips in the car except a few trips for clean clothes & provisions.

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Note: This is a journal entry — it was written on paper or on my computer, then transferred to my website, maybe years later.

And I have the IRS where I want them on the 15th of April 1993, as Arthur would say.  From the 18th of August in 1964 to April 15th 1993, 28 years old so far so good (and so on).

Things are going so well I can’t believe it.  I actually got a big refund on both my NY state and federal tax returns because of the loss we took when we sold the family-property moneypit.  I’m so relieved about that — I had no idea — I thought I was going to owe a lot of money.

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Note: This is a journal entry — it was written on paper or on my computer, then transferred to my website, maybe years later.

God, I have so much to catch up on.  Guess I’ll go backwards.

Just got back from the Mast where I met D. and we sat talking with Cliff and Sam and Godfrey.  Godfrey told us his "Frida" story — the origins of his rather unbecoming nickname.

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