Stephen Mejias

Music editor, Robert Baird, comes over and asks: "How’s it going, chief?"


The "chief" part I take as a compliment. This is a magazine publishing company we’re working for, after all.


"Not bad," I say, while handing him the new Silver">http://www.silverjews.net/">Silver Jews album I purchased last night: "Have you heard this yet? It’s pretty good."


"Oh yeah," he responds, "It’s great. Did you buy this?"

On our way home last night, at your request, we found shelter from the relentless rain near a bit of dancing fire. White candles melted into soft wings and waves and fingertips, beckoning us closer. We sat at the fun table beneath so many beaded chandeliers, and ordered the best drinks in all of Manhattan&#151pineapple coconut mojitos and razzle dazzles&#151which were far too strong, but perfect, nontheless. The older woman in the strange hat offered us one of her piggyback dates&#151stuffed with almonds and wrapped in bacon, sprinkled with Cabrales bleu cheese&#151but we, of course, declined, and decided instead to order some of our own.

Wes sends his "Hola!" from Barcelona:

I was in bed for what felt like five minutes (it was actually five hours) when the little alarm clock let loose its hybrid buzz-chirp: 7am, time to wake up. I stumbled into the bathroom, my mind filled with thoughts of the previous night at Maxwell’s. The fluorescent white light above the cracked mirror blinked on and off for a couple of moments before steadying itself, reminding me of the camera bulbs that flashed while we were on stage. I heard myself think: “We’ll never play a bad show again. That’s all behind us now.”

At the show, there were&#151no kidding(!)&#151five people who came over and complimented me on this here blog. I was flattered. One was Josh">http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/101805asynth/">Josh Gladstone who said he was surprised to learn that he was the first to buy Todd’s At Work CD. And, patting his pant pocket, he added: “I’ve already got it in my iPodhttp://www.stereophile.com/mediaservers/934/index.html">iPod;.” Another was Mike C., of Hoboken">http://www.hobokenrockcity.com/">Hoboken Rock City, who keeps a blog of his own and frequently sends out fun podcastshttp://www.hobokenrockcity.com/playlists.asp">podcasts;.

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