An Evening with the Forewords
Ventured out to Nevins Street in Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn this past Friday. I have subscribed to Cabinet Magazine for many years after picking up Issue # 2 at St. Marks Bookstore in NYC a few years back on a particularly fruitful aimless jaunt around Lower East Side, and downtown in general. The space I ventured to on this very bitterly cold night, was Cabinet’s new event space. This would be the very first Cabinet sponsored event I would have attended. I did not know what exactly to expect, but was rewarded after the hour or so presentation of Paul Lukas and Liz Clayton of a sort of ensemble called “Forewords.’ Their talk, and general presentation was pure unadulterated Cabinet in it’s witty, unpretentious, oddly angled/topic-tilted sharp way. I went with a friend of mine, and we had many laughs, and learned much through the slideshow presentation on subjects that ran the zany gamut from odd ball repurposed retail husks from around the country and Canada, the underappreciated secret world of very specific trade magazines, and much more. The two intelligent and really funny presenters, sat on life guard sized wooden chairs that looked mock-imperially down on an audience of about fifty souls. If only they were serving slow cooked red wine with spices such as cardomen and peppercorns thrown in. I did in fact get to sample such a refreshingly spicy, and bone healing drink.
I visited my friends Dan and Tara in Sunnyside Queens after walking through and enjoying a few exhibits going on at the always inspiring P.S 1 in Long Island City. From LIC; I shot down Queen’s Blvd with super hero abandon, and made it to Dan and Tara’s Vintage shop in Sunnyside about 7pm. We not only drank the aforementioned homemade delicious wine concoction, but also made fun of a fictional NYC girl who was throwing a party we were not invited to that night, as well as listen to a bunch of great music in the pleasing environs of the Skillman Ave Store. Dan is a great musician, and I hope he will join MQ, myself and others, in putting together/recording the next and anxiously longed for El Alto record.