My plan was to write during the Met game, but I got too involved in the game. The Mets are now up 8-1 in the 8th I can pull myself away. And with that the Mets go up 11-1. I am an essential member of the Mets. I missed last night’s game and they got trounced. But that’s not what here to talk to you about. I’m here to talk about the draft. No, that’s Arlo. I’m here to talk about Robinson & Rohe. They played last night at Common Ground Coffeehouse in Dobb’s Ferry. That’s not easiest place for me to get to but the show was well worth it, I love the band and I love the venue. Where else am I going to get picked up at the train station by someone holding a sign that says, “Cute Merch Guy?”
How many times have I written about Robinson & Rohe, or Jean Rohe and Liam Robinson separately? Many? What more do I have to say? It’s that after seeing them this often they still make me think. I still get a thrill. I’ll still notice how beautiful their harmonies are. That’s not true, I usually don’t even think about that, I’m usually to too busy thinking about the songwriting and music as opposed to their sound. They made a comment about when you buy their album you also get the beautiful art by Andy Benincasa. My first thought was you get Art, is that Garfunkel? Do you also get Paul Simon? Robinson and Rohe have a Simon and Garfunkel vibe. As Paul and Art sung of Mrs. Robinson should Robinson and Rohe sing of Mrs. Garfunkel? I vote yes. That is why I don’t get a vote.
In addition to being great musicians Robinson & Rohe perform another not quite essential function, inefficient mail carriers. They collect notes, on paper they supply, and deliver them and future gigs. Some are quite specific, to John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt in Milwaukee Wisconsin. Some are more general. I received one last night, it was addressed to “Someone with Crohn’s disease.” Hell, that’s me. I accepted delivery on another one, “To a school of GNAR member.” I had no idea what that meant, I figured it was something weird, and I’m weird, so it’s mean to me. Maybe it had to do with the band Gwar. I saw Gwar once. Even having read it I didn’t get it, so I used to google. I now see I was hasty and misunderstood what it was. Now I found the official School of Gnar Website. “Today, the School of GNAR is here to provide you with adventure-based comedy relief through user generated and internally generated content, as well as encouraging skiers and riders to engage themselves in less serious skiing at their local hill. We are achieving this by providing a Gaffney’s Numerical Assessment of Radness (GNAR) based list of tasks that can be completed by the skier or rider anywhere they want. “I had no idea such a thing existed. Robinson & Rohe is educational.
Robinson & Rohe are also good people that live in Brooklyn and so have to go near my house to get home. I asked for a ride home, they said yes, and I saved about an hour! I was home before 11 instead of after midnight. That was great as my body is still not on a regular schedule. When I got home, I played NERDLE, started reading something in the NY Times and fell asleep with my computer on my lap. I woke up at 3 AM. I then went to bed and slept until 8. Now I’m sleepy again. It’s 7:46 PM. Today’s adventure was a long delayed trip to Aldi, and I just realized I didn’t buy the most important thing I wanted there, cheese curds to make poutine. I need a poutine fix. What am I to do? It’s so hard being me. Looking online it seems like my store is out. They carry it at Target. I could go there.
I have Rosh Hashanah plans. Tomorrow I’m getting an infusion and Tuesday night I’m going to the Met game. Technically that’s after the holiday. I also have to find my way out to Fred’s house in Rockville Centre to pick up my camping gear as I’m going to the Black Bear Music Festival. I might go to a concert Monday night. I’d really like to the question is, do I have the energy to do it? It’s at Pete’s Candy Story, right near my school. Judging by how I feel now I won’t feel up to it.
Wise Madness 