Things are looking grim in my hometown right now. I won't bother linking to all the bad news. Teaneck's been through rough times before and the town will make it through. In the meantime here's a Teaneck playlist, annotated, to keep everyone occupied for a little while as we all hunker down.
Track 1. A schmaltzy way to kick things off, I know, but we're talking Jersey so we need Bruce.
Track 2. The Isley Brothers are from Teaneck. Their record label was T-Neck Records.
Track 3. Dray is THS class of 1988.
Track 4. Donald Byrd lived in Teaneck. "No need to worry 'bout tomorrow, and yesterday is gone." Sounds right to me.
Track 5. Phoebe Snow is THS class of 1968. Her stage name is from a train that used to run through town.
Track 6. The mayor is Mohammed Hameeduddin, THS class of 1991. From what I've read he's providing remarkably good leadership right now.
Track 7. The Wrens are allegedly from Teaneck. This song's title captures the situation.
Track 8. There's no way I'm only including one Isleys song. This one seems appropriate for a quarantine.
Track 9. Chubb Rock name-checks Teaneck (and Das EFX samples it on "Brooklyn to T-Neck").
Track 10. Ricky Nelson was from Teaneck. The title seems appropriate.
Track 11. Name-checks Phillip Pannell.
Track 12. Johnny Copeland lived in Teaneck and the title seems relevant.
Track 13. DMX was arrested for dogfighting and weapons possession in Teaneck.
Track 14. Rufus Reid lives in Teaneck. I went to school with his son.
Track 15. According to the liner notes to "Return of the Boom Bap," KRS-ONE had offices in West Englewood, which is a neighborhood in Teaneck. When I went to the address the office appeared vacant but whatevs, KRS is the don so he's included.
Track 16. Pat Boone lived in Teaneck.
Track 17. Biggie and Lil Kim lived and were arrested in Teaneck.
Track 18. Jodeci lived in Teaneck. All of them, in one house. I suspect the party scene was insane circa 1992 but I wasn't invited.
Track 19. MNDR is produced by Peter Wade. Before he created WonderSound Records, worked with J-Lo and Marc Anthony and Kylie Minogue and Lindsey Lohan and Spragga Benz and Sean Paul and Charlie XCX and Mark Ronson, released an album as Shitake Monkey, and won some Grammys, he hung out with me and did a lot of stupid stuff of questionable legality in and around Teaneck. THS class of 1992 represent. He has a bunch of very strong podcasts on iTunes, mostly dancehall and old school reggae shows from his days as station manager at KWUR. I just don't know how to link to it. Search podcasts for "peter wade".
Track 20. More from Pete.
Track 21. Sarah Bob is an amazing pianist and Artistic Coordinator of the New Gallery Concert Series. And she's simply the best despite being down with me and Pete, more class of 1992. Support NGCS, we need more art nowadays and it's a 501(c)(3) so you can write it off. Tell Sarah zman sent ya!
Track 22. I am aware of no connection between Slade and Teaneck but this seems like the right song to close things out, a message from me to COVID-19.
Monday, March 23, 2020
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That is an eclectic selection, to say the least.
Every time I read something about COVID and Latin/South America, I get a knot in my stomach and wish I hadn’t read it. That region shaping up to be devastated, given a leadership void.
Thankfully there's no leadership void here in the US.
This is awesome. I know Teaneck is in the news at the moment, but everyone should do this for their place(s) of origin.
i'm losing it. just made some comments in the old stream.
it is gross and cold and rainy here. my wife is losing her mind trying to teach 5th graders remotely.
thank god for this:
https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/03/nj-liquor-stores-deemed-essential-will-stay-open-during-coronavirus-shut-down.html
During the daily briefing for NJ, some asshat reporter challenged him on the liquor stores. He dodged the question.
VA Gov just issued order that all schools closed for rest of the year.
I really had hope we’d go back in May.
Hope you and yours with seniors are doing okay.
Thinking of y’all today!
my senior is distraught at that news. no prom. no graduation. it's the right thing to do, but i feel for her. curious how whit's senior is reacting.
It could be worse. No one is being shipped off to Vietnam or Normandy upon graduating.
i made that exact point to her. my timing was perhaps less than optimal.
rob, distraught aside, what's daughter's fresh pandemic ink? guest post or picture, perhaps?
My girl had waived hope of prom and graduation already. She knew what was coming.
And she is very bummed, but she goes to a small school and the kids and parents have agreed to have some facsimile of prom this summer, Good Lord willing and the virus subsides.
I think she is nearly as bummed because she had pared her college search down to two schools (South Carolina and Virginia Tech), and she was slated to spend a weekend at each and then make a final decision. She'll be just fine, of course, but her Type A schedule got thrown a bit.
I used to always tell my kids, when they had trouble deciding something impactless like what t-shirt to wear or what ice cream flavor to order, "Look, you aren't deciding where you're going to college. Come on." Well, now she is, and I probably teed her up for the stress of it.
Quietly, I think she's a future Hokie, but we shall see...
For kids in high school, it’s so exciting to get to senior year. You’re the big dogs, you and your friends are driving, booze, parties, prom, sports, etc. It’s a real dagger to have that disappear. Not sure how you commit to a school and/or decide on college loans in the current environment.
Not sure how kids will be going off to college in five months.
the rest of the year? yikes. that doesn't bode well for tennis season.
ian and i just watched an uplifting film: oldboy . . .
It’s uplifting if you don’t have a daughter.
Apocalypse hobby: I brined chicken breasts on the bone overnight. First time I’ve done a non-Thanksgiving brine since my second kid was born. Only way to grill them, IMO.
Fun grilling weather - 40 and rainy.
I'm not loving folks referring to this as an Apocalypse.
That sort of fatalist rhetoric renders all of the measures we're undertaking pointless, no?
plus, this is a very luxurious apocalypse. i'm drinking a microbrew on the internet. post-nap. listening to math rock. kids are home and safe. it's only an apocalypse if you're a health care worker . . .
Alright, alright. I take it back.
Trump will fire Fauci imminently, right?
Sleepy joe should hire him right away to do daily briefings.
No Fauci at the presser. Donny benched him.
Teaching a 5 year old to read isn’t apocalyptic but it’s pretty miserable.
Nell turned out okay w/o reading!
https://youtu.be/GHbQI2305qw
Weird. I brined a cornish hen tonight
Also did pork belly burnt ends on Sat but admittedly effed it up...I made them burnt burnt ends as I got too caught up in yardqork. Wife also bought ribs today and a Boston butt.
Work is terrible.
starting our family quarantine film festival with dazed and confused. strong.
My catastrophe mustache is still in goatee mode. The stache isn’t quite ready to stand by itself. I have a videoconference job interview on wednesday. Do I keep the wispy patchy goat for the sake of the stache or shave for the sake of the job?
Over/under on men w beards or in process of growing one 1 week ago? 10% 15?
Today....40%? 50?
One of few deaths reported in Fl lives about a par 5 away from us....53 yrs old. Family of 4...and they all have it currently. Do not know them but has everyone here really weirded out. He did have underlying conditions.
that sucks, sorry to hear it.
tangential: is anyone dying w/o underlying conditions?
Sorry, Dan. Not the last show to drop for a lot of us, I’m sure. This fucking thing may well take some people we really love. Tell them now.
Oh. Uh . . . I love you guys.
I’m watching Rhett Miller live-streaming from his basement. Everyone pays what they want. Helping artists recoup a few bucks. Rob watched him Friday and told me about it. Tonight he’s running through the Old 97’s album Too Far To Care. Really really good.
He’s doing this like 3 times a week is anyone’s a fan.
https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-the-dance-be9337092b56
Published by one of Winchester's finest...james wood grad. Some of my boys know him...I do not. Some positives here assuming our govt takes the appropriate steps. Based on tonight's press conference, we're probably fucked. Donald knows best.
It’s one thing to appease your base on gun rights, abortion rights or tariffs. It’s another to appease them on the economy, while telling them to ignore bodies piling up. Only the reddest of red states will follow him to “open up for business.” Every other state will give some form of “um, fuck that” response.
if they don’t want you with the stache, z, you’re too good for them in the first place.
Watching Birx and Barr squirm in misery was amazing.
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