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Ex-EaglesplayerRonJaworskiandcoach Dick Vermeil are part of an ownership group establishing an arena football league in China. Yeah! It’s about time China imported one of our cheap knockoffs for a change.
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The white Fishtown construction worker who taunted his black co-worker with a nooseisfoundguiltyofethnicintimidation and is sentenced to jail time plus a visit to theAfricanAmerican Museum.Then it’s off to the Seaport Museum to learn how to make some less offensive knots.
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Police say an aggressive panhandler was scaring families outside the Please Touch Museum.You mean Ol’ Handsy’s not an official mascot?
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SEPTA says its 24-hour service costs $34,000 per weekend. “Hey, we’re SEPTA: The only thing we run better than trains is a deficit.”
COME On in: Marilyn Schmidt acquired the general store in 1998 and restored the local gathering spot to its former glory. now, she’s ready to retire. Maria PouChnikova
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Six Flags GreatAdventure apologizes for denying entry to the ex-Marine wearing a shirt that reads“Keep calm and return fire.” The ex-Marine seemed to take it all in stride, which is what worried everybody.
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Rapper Beanie Sigel is released from a federal prison and sent to a halfway house.Wait,rapper?We thought he was just, like, a famous prison inspector.
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A Delaware man being arrested for a gun charge is accused of kicking a police dog while trying to escape.He has been sentenced to death by the Internet.
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Pat’s Steaks installs the first neon sign in its 84-year history.Geno’s immediately initiates the Vento Protocol, which calls for “the building of a 1,000-foot lighthouse on the roof which shall remain there until such time as science invents the technology to lasso the sun and affix it to an awning.”
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There are no buyers yet for the general store where John McPhee once sat atop a radiator and talked to the “Chatsworth loafers.”
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t 70 years old, when many of her friends had long since retired, Marilyn schmidt took on a huge, labor-intensive project: the restoration of Buzby’s Chatsworth general store, a building dating to 1865 whose glory days as a vibrant social hub in the heart of the Pine Barrens had long since faded. For decades, the store in Chatsworth, N.J., was the only grocery within a 10-mile radius. People who lived deep in the Pinelands, a swath of near-wilderness covering about a quarter of New Jersey, once relied on Buzby’s for kerosene, shoes, food and other essentials, along with a good measure of friendly chitchat. It was here, seated on a plank atop a radiator, that author John McPhee met the local residents who would help shape his 1967 book, The Pine Barrens. For a brief time, the store served as the local post office and sheltered the town’s only telephone. teachers went there to receive their pay in the form of vouchers, and hunters brought in their deer to have them hung, weighed and registered. But when schmidt acquired the place in 1998, it had been vacant for seven years and was in such disrepair that it needed to be gutted.
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With the help of local carpenters, she restored the store to its original condition, making a home for the specialty book/gift shop she’s operated there for the past 15 years. she’s also tirelessly recorded and preserved local history, becoming an “adopted Piney” in the process. But now, at 85, she’s finally ready to relax. In 2011, she put the store on the market for $575,000, but has yet to receive any viable offers. “I keep telling people I want to retire, but they don’t seem to be letting me,” schmidt said, with a hint of exasperation, in an interview earlier this month. as a visitor drives the 40 miles from Philadelphia to Chatsworth, the houses thin out and the woods thicken so that the road is walled by pines on each side. then the forest suddenly vanishes and the town, inhabited by roughly 925 people, emerges ahead, with Buzby’s at its core. stepping into the store today is like walking into a time capsule. Photographs, some of which date to the early 1900s and hang near the cash register, show how little the building has changed. But that’s not what schmidt saw when she bought the place. “It looked horrible. this room here where I have the books, it was covered with moss,” she says. “You would fall through the floor in spots. the kids had broken in and were drinking and smoking upstairs so we had beer bottles, whiskey bottles. It took 30-some Dumpsters to clean up this property, but it was fun.”
The store had been vacant and in disrepair.
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The park formerly known as DilworTh plaza will reopen on sepT. 4 Paul Levy, president and CEO of the Center City District (CCD), announced tuesday that the newly named Dilworth Park (née Plaza, changed to reflect “a much more green, sustainable site”) will open on sept. 4 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and an all-day arts and culture festival. Originally scheduled to open in the spring, the plaza’s reconstruction ran into delays caused by “unforeseen conditions” underground and this year’s unusually brutal winter, he said. all told, the project will cost about $55 million. Dilworth Park replaces what Levy described as “an old maze” of uninviting concrete and obtrusive stairs. the transformation will include a brightly lit transportation concourse, tree groves, flower beds, benches, a café and an 11,600-square-foot fountain that will become an ice-skating rink in the winter. the CCD plans to oversee maintenance and programming at the park under a 30-year lease from the city. Funding for the construction came from the CCD, sEPta and the city, state and federal governments, as well as contributions from charitable foundations and local businesses. the opening-day festivities, organized by the CCD and presented by Comcast, will be followed by two more days of community events. But only about “85 percent” of the park will be finished by the grand opening. Construction will continue on the southern end of the park, and is expected to be completed by mid-October. the café, the Market street entrance to City Hall and the new transporta-
tion plaza will open in september. tuesday’s announcement signals the end of a lengthy planning effort, begun in 2007, to redo the Center City plaza named after the reformist mayor who was credited with reversing Center City’s decline. the new park’s programming will feature weekly concerts, outdoor movies, pop-up designer fashion and crafts markets and open-air dance parties. With the exception of sundays and Mondays, there will be some sort of programming every day this fall, and Levy said he expects that level of programming to continue in 2015. Levy said the old sEPta concourse looked like what you would get “if you gave an architect the challenge of designing a dangerous space.” But, under Dilworth Park, at least, the new sEPta concourse will be brightly lit with clear linesof-sight and new signs to help orient locals and tourists alike. Jose garces will operate the park’s café as another iteration of his Rosa Blanca concept. garces said the café would seat about 35 patrons inside and another 25 outside. the “Cuban-inspired” menu will feature sandwiches, empanadas and salads, all priced about $6 to $9. Its hours are expected to be 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekdays and 11 a.m to 8 p.m. on weekends. the café will have a liquor license, but drinks will be served only after 5 p.m. While perhaps a sensible measure, it seems strange to limit liquor hours in a park in the shadow of William Penn, who made construction of a brewery one of his first priorities after founding his eponymous colony.
A café will sell liquor, after office hours.
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SUNRISE SERENADE: A guitarist from Bucks County performs as if he were on stage, even though the two friends flanking him atop the Art Museum steps were almost the only audience. The image was taken as the sun came up on Saturday. loren Berckey
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first cousins. Metro US has been our landlord since last Sep tember when we moved out of Old City and rented space on their floor in a highrise across from City Hall. We’ve shared a kitchen, and there’s been friendly banter back and forth between the two staffs, but because of the deadlines we face, most of us hardly knew each other. So, on the day last week when the sale of City Paper was announced, there was a lot of “Hello, my name is …” and a pizza lunch as we were welcomed into the fold. Not long after that, the wall of filing cabinets that had separated our two offices was breached. Though both of us are free papers, use gallons of ink and distribute largely via street boxes, our missions are very different. Metro’s is to produce a weekday paper that gives commuters a smart, 20minute read focusing on news, celebrity gossip and sports. I’m a typical reader, catching up on the day’s top local news and trying to finish the sudoku puzzle before my train reaches Center City. We’re more a coffeeshop read, for those with the time and inclination to savor the writing and ponder the ideas. Our longform journalism, such as the saga about the nurse who successfully fought accusations of her father’s murder, aims to put the news in context and bring a national perspective to local stories. We are the first altweekly to come under Metro’s umbrella, and that brings with it all the support and anxiety afforded to a firstborn. Our new owners have told us that they like what we do. We will remain an independent title, free to continue to speak truth to power in our own bold voice. We also will continue our job of discovering new artists, musicians and chefs and being the first to tell readers about them. Our insider’s view of local arts, food and entertainment will remain a big piece of our franchise. The email messages I’ve received since the sale by the Rock family was announced indicate that readers understand our special place under Philly’s journalism sun. Regular readers know, for example, the current criticism of the DA’s civil for feiture program was detailed in a cover story by Isaiah Thompson in November 2012. Last year, a >>> continued on page 8
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she enlisted the help of albert Morison, a local builder who specializes in restoration projects. He had grown up next door to Buzby’s and knew it well. Over the course of a year, Morison and a crew of four restored the place that he had remembered so fondly. “It was the hub of the town, a social place. You saw everyone, young and old,” Morison says. “When I was in high school, that’s where we waited to catch the bus.” During the renovation, older generations of residents would stop by to check on the progress. a few even helped with the restoration. “It was great for me, being part of the town and being able to work on something that’s part of the town history,” Morison says. staying true to the building, schmidt kept the candy counter that McPhee had described in his book: “a glass counter top next to the wooden one had been rubbed cloudy by hundreds of thousands of coins and pop bottles, and in the case beneath it were 22 rectangular glass dishes, each holding a different kind of penny candy.” schmidt even obtained a radiator topped with a specially-cut plank. McPhee had written about how “Chatsworth loafers” would take turns sitting on the radiator, sharing gossip. since the store opened, she said McPhee has visited and noted the radiator’s presence with glee. “Even though we’re in a preservation area controlled by the Pinelands Commission, things still change,” says schmidt. “But this really hasn’t because I’ve preserved it. actually, I went back to what it was originally.” along with selling locally made jams and other New Jersey products, schmidt’s store boasts a sought-after collection of books on the Pinelands, including some that she’s written herself. she says she once was a paper pusher in the pharmaceutical industry, specializing in food and drug regulations. as a private consultant, she wrote a book on pharmacology for Harper & Row, her first foray into publishing. “I figured if they made money, so could I, and it worked out,” she says. “You can if you’re willing to work really hard.” she lived in Barnegat Light, N.J., when she started Barnegat Light Press in 1980 and began publishing seafood cookbooks. she started Pine Barrens Press in the late 1980s. as she was working on Exploring the Pine Barrens, which plots towns, churches, forests and memorials, she discovered there | P h i l a d e l P h i a C i t y Pa P e r |
weren’t any detailed maps of the Pine Barrens, so she decided to create her own. (a large, laminated copy hangs by the cash register.) at one point, she was selling her version by the thousands. It’s no wonder. the 1.1-million-acre tract of land is lined with poorly marked roads and plagued by weak cell-phone reception. travelers who get lost in the remote landscape, only an hour’s drive from Center City, often stop by Buzby’s to ask for directions. “One day I was at the counter and one of the old-timers was there. somebody came in lost and I told them where to go. I drew them a map and they went out, and this man said to me, ‘You’re never going to be a Piney.’ I said, ‘Why not?’ He said, ‘Piney would’ve sent him in the opposite direction.’” through her store she’s been able to meet many older folks, who told her stories about the Pinelands. But many of them have passed away and she’s worried that the history will be lost because it has not been recorded. she’s doing her part to preserve it. Currently, she’s writing a book about the Pine Barrens’ deerhunting clubs, where men gather during the one-week hunting season. “You’ll see the clubs along the road and they’re disappearing,” says schmidt. “the old-timers are dying off, the taxes are increasing, they can’t afford them and the land. and there aren’t that many young people coming into hunting these days.” so far, she’s been able to find more than 200 of the clubs — and she’s only covered half of the Pine Barrens. “It’s hard to find these clubs. the men are secretive about them, they’re hidden back in the woods lots of times because they suffer from vandalism a great deal,” says schmidt. “But I’m an old tax assessor. I go to the tax offices in each town because all the clubs have to pay taxes on their land. I find the clubs and they don’t know how I found them.” although schmidt’s academic background is in the sciences, especially biology and chemistry, she’s acquired a knowledge of history, albeit reluctantly. “I hated history my whole life in school, detested it. … Here I am in the middle of it. I’ve had to learn history from the ground up. … I have learned a great deal, needless to say, in selfdefense because I get questions here all the time,” she says. Rather than seek out the store’s history, schmidt has seen it pursue her. she’s acquired old receipts, photographs and documents pertaining to Buzby’s that a customer spotted in an antique shop. Previous owners dropped by one day to give her an attaché case
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filled with death certificates and original documents for the store when the Buzby family bought it in 1886. another time, when a Buzby descendant threw out old family photographs, a Chatsworth resident recovered the pictures and brought them to schmidt. to ensure this rich, historic collection’s preservation, she’s entrusted it to the stockton College’s library, where it is on public view. schmidt took it upon herself to attend classes to learn how to file a historic-sites application. the highly detailed petition required her to learn a new, architectural vocabulary and document every minute detail of the property. she has successfully placed the general store on both the state and national Registers of Historic Places, meaning the exterior cannot be altered. though she has fought and won battles to preserve Buzby’s, she says she can’t keep up with the day-to-day maintenance much longer. When she retires, she wants to spend her time quilting, doing needlepoint and painting, particularly seascapes. although she expresses this with excitement, there’s also a tinge of sadness. she’ll probably have to move out of the Pine Barrens. “to be a real Piney here, you have to be here for at least four generations,” says schmidt. “the rest will always be newcomers. the only reason I think I was accepted was [because] I restored the town monument and that gave me big points.” (paulina.reso@gmail.com) Editor’s Letter <<< continued from page 7
judge ordered new trials for two men serving life terms for murder not long after reporting in these pages by Daniel Denvir prompted a new witness to come forward. Most recently, we have written about a city police officer who admitted to lying in open court in December 2011, yet has continued to be called to testify in drug cases. Over the years, countless small arts organizations have thanked us for helping them get started. We are a small outfit ourselves, but we have an outsize voice that can get results. As an editor who knows the numbers behind this business, I am grateful that Metro US saw that our differences — the lack of overlapping content, publishing cycles and readership — made us an attractive buy, and has given us new life. With that fresh start, the path ahead for City Paper is clear. We hope every week to create a paper that our readers are eager to pick up and find impossible to put down. (lswanson@citypaper.net)
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IF YOU GREW UP IN PHILADELPHIA, it’s not all that uncommon for your first taste of African food to go hand in hand with your first, very possibly underage, visit to a bar. For a time, in the late ’90s, the Ethiopian restaurants that dot a stretch of Baltimore Avenue in West Philly were the place to go for sharable platters of long-braised collards and peas. They were served atop plate-sized injera, that ubiquitous, spongy, sourdough flatbread that is made for eating with your hands. Of course, these wallet- and vegetarian-friendly dinners were accompanied by plenty of equally affordable frosty bottles of Yuengling at bars that were more concerned about whether you were having a good time than whether you had a valid ID. There are plenty of Ethiopian restaurants still going strong and serving cheap drinks. But if you venture further into West Philly, you’ll find pockets of West African communities where the less familiar cuisines of Liberia, Mauritania, Senegal and Cote d’Ivoire are vibrant. They are a bit off the beaten path, yet ripe with plates that are waiting to be explored.
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he West African restaurant closest to Center City is also the most accessible, with comfortable booths, a welcoming waitstaff and even a credit card machine. While most African spots offer ginger juice on the drinks menu, Kilimandjaro ups the Senegalese beverage game by blending the ginger with your choice of mango or strawberry juices. You can start with fataya,spiced beef patties wrapped in pastry, or the house salad, a crisp plate of lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots and onions topped with poached shrimp in a sweet-tart, mayonnaisey dressing. The go-to at lunchtime is chawarma, an African take on the classic Middle Eastern pita sandwich stuffed with your choice of chicken, lamb, beef or all three. The chicken yassa,a lemony dish of bone-in chicken with onions, vinegar habañero and mustard, is another solid bet along with the thieboudiene, smoked fish stewed with palm oil, chiles and tomato paste.
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f you head west on Woodland Avenue you’ll find African Smallpot, a small storefront serving plates typical of Mauritania (located north of Liberia on the West African coast) as well as a selection of more familiar European fare. Owner Abdarahmane Diop boasts a resume that has taken him from hotels in Nouakchott, the coastal country’s capital, to Italian restaurants in Milan and Glenolden, Pa. At African Smallpot, Diop’s two sons, Adam and Bocar, staff the sunny dining room and guide guests through a menu of Mauritanian classics such as peanut sauce (sauce is synonymous with stew in West African cooking) and shareable platters like lamb dibi. All are meant to be eaten with your hands. The peanut sauce is a rich, golden bowl of bittersweet ground peanuts cooked with pieces of bone-in chicken and plenty of rice to accompany the earthy gravy. The lamb dibi is served on a massive tray with thin-cut chops grilled and topped with sweet and sour, soft-cooked onions and a mass of African Smallpot’s brown rice. This isn’t the brown rice that you get when you opt for healthy at a Chinese takeout; this one is flavored with Maggi, a take on bouillon that makes its savory presence known in so many African dishes. Before leaving African Smallpot with what’s likely to be plenty of leftovers, enjoy the little cup of Mauritanian bitter and sweet black tea that the brothers Diop will hand you as a final gift. Pro tip: Snag a can of Vimto, a red fruit-and-herb-infused soda that’s a purported health tonic.
HOURS: 7 a.m. -11 p.m. daily RECOMMENDED DISHES: Lamb dibi, peanut sauce, chicken yassa
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pened in 2005, Angie’s Kitchen specializes in the foods of Liberia, a West African country located tellingly on the Pepper Coast. The restaurant, named for its now-departed chef/owner Augustine Manyeah, has a colorful dining room that acts as a community gathering space on South 52nd Street. Friends and family come in and out all day, eating, drinking, watching a bit of football or just popping in to say, “Hey.” The menu is broken down into days — with a handful of dishes available on any given day. When I stopped by at mid- afternoon on a Wednesday, waiter Sullivan Nimley was more than happy to enlighten me on the finer points of the palm butter and rice, fufu and soup, palaua sauce and achekeh. Palaua sauce (sometimes spelled pavlava or palaver) is named for the Portuguese term for talking, debating or quarreling. While the etymology isn’t exactly clear, it most likely has to do with the mixed meats from a number of animals (beef, chicken, turkey and goat) that lie beneath the surface in this dark green stew of sweet potato greens with orange flashes of palm oil and a lingering chile burn. The palaua sauce is served with a wooden bowl of fufu, a one-of-a-kind starch made of cassava flour. It’s cooked into what looks like a dollop of polenta and eats like a sticky cloud, bland and comforting, with an off-the-charts gluten content.
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he French influences at Senegalese Le Bercail are written all over the menu, with brochettes of viand (lamb) and poulet (chicken) and sides like riz aux haricots (rice and beans), but the flavors are beautifully African. The whole fish, a menacing-looking tilapia, comes head on with skin fried to a potato chip-like crisp, scored to reveal tender white flesh and topped with a mound of diced onions marinated in vinegar and sugar and a proprietary (i.e. secret) blend of spices. The salad that accompanies the sharable fish dish is dotted with perfectly ripe tomatoes, quarters of hard-boiled eggs and a creamy-sweet dressing that matches the fish almost as well as their delicately vanilla-scented ginger juice. Le Bercail’s take on dibi features paper-thin slices of lamb — bone and marrow intact — grilled to bring out all the savoriness and gamey chew you could want from lamb. Sides include fries and plantains, but their brown (or really, red) rice is the way to go. Broken grains are cooked to a rusty blush and flavored with spices and palm oil.
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o avoid disappointment when heading to Le Baobab, a Woodland Avenue spot featuring plates from Mali, Cote d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso, it’s important to keep in mind that not all their dishes are served every day. This is clearly stated at the top of the menu. So, take a seat, order a ginger juice or a bottle of bissap (a deep-magenta-colored, sweetened hibiscus drink) and ask, “What’s good today?” You’ll be directed to plates of poulet braise, a cut-up half chicken that’s certainly more grilled than braised and topped with that same sweetly vinegared dice of onions served at Le Bercail. It comes with sugary fried plantains and an innocuous-looking housemade hot sauce consisting of slow-cooked jalapeños with garlic and spices that creates a seriously slow burn.
HOURS: 11 a.m.-1 a.m. daily RECOMMENDED DISHES: Poulet braise, whole fish, bissap
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THINGS BREAK DOWN
³ FKA TWIGS (formerly known as Tahliah Barnett) doesn’t make R&B, or at least not the way your daddy knows it. Those who link the British singersongwriter to trip-hop or dubstep are making the point that her taste in production is avant-garde (enough that she works with the likes of Arca) and that her composition style is unorthodox and difficult to absorb or latch on to. Always on LP1 (XL), she is offering herself up: a passage of rhythm you feel in your stomach, a sonic that makes you rewind, a lyric of clarity (“When I trust you, we can do it with the lights on”). Always these things break down, or a new sound effect emerges from the deep bass — the one consistent feature — to disjoint the whole. And the songs move on. All of this signifies as R&B (of the new-wave variety, no doubt) because Barnett’s voice has that familiar thinness of air, touch of sensuality and word- and tone-bending moan that lies at the base of the soaring melisma that has come to define the genre — and which Barnett rejects as a matter of aesthetic survival. If allure is to be measured in vocal runs, emotional excess and feigned loss of control, what can be done that Beyoncé, Mariah, et al haven’t already done? LP1 teaches you how to listen to it, shows glimpses of its confused and lonely heroines, leaves you grasping at its fragments. But even in that illusory atmosphere, two tracks stand out defiantly: “Two Weeks,” a stunning hit allowed to drift just enough off its time signature during the hook to temporarily disorient the ear, and “Closer,” with a choral music delivery that’s a wonder to hear. On these songs FKA Twigs achieves a level of intensity too good for even her to resist. (dotun@citypaper.net)
THE BOMB: Laura Stevenson plays the Barbary on Sunday as part of TWOB Fest. DAVE GARWACKE
[ rock/pop/d.i.y. ]
TOO BIG FOR THE BASEMENT An ambitious D.I.Y. booker launches a threeday music fest — and tries to find a permanent home for his house shows. By Julie Zeglen
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his weekend, The Barbary will be the primary-but-not-only home to TWOB Fest, a three-day music fest featuring more than 25 local and touring artists, both signed and unsigned, spanning genres from hardcore to indie to punk. Headliners include Laura Stevenson, the New York singer-songwriter formerly of punk veterans Bomb the Music Industry!; Ohio’s The Sidekicks and Massachusetts’ The Hotelier; as well as Phillybased bands Kite Party and Marietta. The purpose: to raise money for an all-ages D.I.Y. venue and community space with an intended opening for this fall. (TWOB, by the way, stands for “The Want of Betterment.”) The (often literally) underground music scene has always found Philly a comfortable place for a home, with shows hosted in basements, living rooms and kitchens on any given night. But there’s a void, says Ruben Polo, organizer of TWOB Fest. Polo, a gregarious pierced and tatted 28-year-old from Jersey who now lives in West Philly, has been organizing shows in the city for the past five years — as many as a hundred per year. “It grew more tiresome and tiresome over the years because
houses come and go, and there’s no easy or affordable all-ages spot I can go to,” says Polo, sitting on a porch in West Philly. Unofficial music venues offer many freedoms, including the ability to book any band without fear of having to meet certain profit quotas, because the overhead is nothing. But the downsides should be apparent: wrath from neighbors, burnout from regularly hosting hundreds of strangers in your personal space, fear of theft — “We got robbed for a laptop last year. Stayed paranoid for the first six months of starting to do shows again,” says Polo — lack of home cleanliness and, occasionally, interference from the various powers that be. For example: Up until two weeks ago, the TWOB’s opening-night gig was booked at a show house in West Philly that Polo asked to not be identified. However, the house’s organizers dropped out “due to the landlord cracking down.” Day one’s venue was still up in the air as of last Wednesday. Several organizers of house shows understandably declined to be interviewed for this story for fear of drawing attention to their activities. To make enough money to get the venue up and running “without having to do anything dumb” like making a Kickstarter or Indiegogo, Polo says, is “a bartering system: You give me money, here are these shows. This money that you gave me will help me keep doing shows for you in a normal spot that you’ll always
Polo wants to open a new venue by the fall.
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“I do it just ’cause, I’ve been there,” says Polo. know — and not me always having to put, ‘insert name of house, please message for address,’ and then half the kids are too lazy to ask for the address unless it’s some really awesome show.” It’s common practice not to list the exact location of house shows on fliers or Facebook, for fear of police visits. Polo, who is working largely on his own, has been looking for a space for his dream venue for about seven months, mainly at vacant warehouses near Columbus Boulevard. Besides being reasonably affordable, the space must also be accessible to the showgoers who travel by bike or public transportation. He wants the place to be community-oriented, too, with room for movie screenings and public workshops or classes, comparing his ideas to the now-defunct Secret Art Space of Bethlehem. The booking model would be similar to that of West Philly’s well-established LAVA (Lancaster AVenue Autonomous) Space: According to the building-use policy posted on LAVA’s website, events held there must clearly correspond with its “rebel spirit.” The cost of renting the space is 30 percent of howev-
er much is earned, and if the event is free, donations must be collected. There’s no money to be made in booking house/D.I.Y. shows. But that’s kind of the point. “I do it just ’cause, I’ve been there,” he says. “Going to shows always kept me sane as a kid. It was something to do. I got to hear new bands, do things I love, meet new people. “D.I.Y. is a struggle. Booking shows is a thankless gig. At the end of the day, 90 percent of the kids who come to these shows have no idea who I am, and I don’t care. I don’t need them to. I just want to help a couple people from out of state get to where they need to go next, and hang out with some friends while I’m doing it.” (editorial@citypaper.net) ✚ TWOB Fest, Fri.-Sun., Aug. 22-24, $25 for three-day pass ($8-$12 for individual shows), Fri. venue TBA; Sat.-Sun., The Barbary, 951 Frankford Ave., 215-6347400, brownpapertickets.com.
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A story about an outsider experimental band told in twee indie-pop shades, Lenny Abrahamson’s Frank struggles to find a consistent tone. the title character — played by Michael Fassbender under a large, cartoonish papiermâché head — leads a band of eccentrics with an unpronounceable name who labor over songs only heard by miniscule audiences at sporadic gigs which inevitably end in meltdown. Into this wanders Jon (Domhnall gleeson), a young would-be songwriter with more aspiration than inspiration. Received with suspicion by the rest of the band — especially the perpetually distrustful keyboardist, Clara (Maggie gyllenhaal) — Jon attempts to make Frank’s offbeat songs more listener-friendly and to nudge the reclusive singer-songwriter into something more resembling a career than a cult. Jon’s Youtube diaries of the band’s protracted, isolated recording sessions become a viral sensation, leading to a potentially disastrous gig at south by southwest. the look of Frank is modeled on Frank sidebottom, the similarly masked alter ego of British musician and comedian Chris sievey. Co-screenwriter Jon Ronson played keyboards for sidebottom for a stint in the ’90s, and partly based the film on his experiences. But sidebottom was clearly a comedic character, whereas the film’s Frank is a disturbed soul who hides under the mask and refuses to reveal his actual identity. the character is drawn more from Daniel Johnston, where the bizarre band boot camp is directly inspired by the infamous recording sessions for Captain Beefheart’s Trout Mask Replica. Jon begins the film wandering his neighborhood, composing insipid ditties
narrating whatever scenes he chances upon. His experiences with the band contrast Jon’s ambitions with Frank’s off-kilter inventiveness, which inevitably collide once Jon begins seeing the oddball singer as a marketing gimmick rather than a human being with real issues. But Abrahamson, as well as the script by Ronson and Peter straughan, can’t seem to decide whether Frank is a misunderstood genius or a charismatic crackpot, so the film veers erratically between empathy and ridicule. It’s admirably low-key when dealing with interpersonal band dynamics, but tends to become broad and jeering whenever its scope expands, as if mocking its weird friends when the cool kids are around. —Shaun Brady (Ritz at the Bourse)
LiFe AFteR Beth | D Zombie films have become ubiquitous, cluttering theaters and VOD platforms alike, so it’s about time that the livingdead industry churns out some entries that focus less on the flesh-eating and more on the heart-breaking. I Heart Huckabees co-writer Jeff Baena’s Life After Beth has been loudly trumpeted as a “zom-rom-com” (never mind that Warm Bodies beat it to the punch by a year, and Return of the Living Dead 3 by more than 20), and the idea of viewing the outbreak of the zombie apocalypse through a more personal lens is a good one. But Baena’s script feels like a dashed-off first draft that could use a few other pair of eyeballs — preferably female ones, as Baena uses the title character’s resurrection as an excuse to replay tired “crazy ex-girlfriend” cheap shots. Aubrey Plaza throws herself into the part, especially as her undead instincts start to overpower her humanity, but she’s never allowed a personality of her own. she exists solely through the eyes of her
boyfriend, Zach (Dane DeHaan), who welcomes her return until he starts seeing the flaws in his idealized first love, especially after meeting Anna Kendrick and her usual adorableness. the laziness of its execution means that Life After Beth offers nothing new as either a coming-of-age or a losingof-life story. —SB (The Roxy)
When the Game StandS tall Read Drew Lazor’s review at citypaper. net/movies. (Wide release)
ContinuinG boyhood | a With Boyhood, director Richard Linklater proves himself to be an insightful chronicler of the changes wrought by time on a relationship as he shows one young boy’s growth and maturation over the course of nearly three hours. Linklater’s unconventional approach — filming a short segment each year for 12 years — has been well-publicized, but in practice it never feels like a gimmick. the focus is on Mason (Ellar Coltrane), who is introduced as a 6-year-old pondering the heavens to a Coldplay soundtrack and exits as an 18-year-old college freshman. His older sister samantha, played by the director’s daughter Lorelei, goes from teasing annoyance to jaded teenager to thoughtful young woman. Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke appear as Mason’s divorced parents, who reluctantly settle into maturity, their less-dramatic physical changes showing the burdens and wear of time. What we see are not necessarily the most dramatic moments.
But if nothing in Mason’s experience is particularly novel, it’s stunning to watch how the same truths become new discoveries in each person’s life. —Shaun Brady (Ritz Five)
Calvary | B Director John Michael McDonagh reteams with The Guard star Brendan gleeson for Calvary, where the laughs come with an almost overpoweringly bitter aftertaste. the film begins in the confession booth, where Father James Lavelle (gleeson) is confronted by a victim of childhood sexual abuse who declares his intention to kill Lavelle a week later, as murdering a good priest would make a stronger statement than vindictively killing a bad one. Lavelle spends the next several days attending to his parishioners as he grapples with how to deal with his impending doom. He is well aware of his determined murderer, even as he refuses to disclose that identity to the local bishop, the would-be killer or the audience. gleeson is adept at sketching a character’s history with just a few reactions, so that even those townsfolk who only appear for a scene or two are given a life and a history. unfortunately, McDonagh doesn’t draw them quite so deeply, and ultimately the film becomes a schematic argument about redemption and forgiveness rather than a fully fleshedout story. —SB (Ritz Five)
Get on up | BYears from now, there’s a good chance we’ll talk about Chadwick Boseman’s James Brown the same way we discuss one of Robert Downey Jr.’s most memorable parts in passing: Hey, didn’t Iron
Man play Charlie Chaplin one time? In other words, a meaty biographical role will eventually outgrow its vessel and stand alone as a feather-in-cap point in a superstar’s career. Boseman hasn’t reached the s-word echelon yet, but he has everything — looks, charisma, tangible talent — to indicate it will happen, his take on the godfather of soul transcending the strain surrounding it. Opening with the elderly Brown rushing his office with a shotgun, then leaping back decades to a harrowing plane ride over violent Vietnamese airspace, it’s clear early on that director tate taylor (The Help) has chosen to avoid the boring front-to-back storytelling that so often slows down biopics. But there are still far too many clichéd music-movie contrivances — drugs, drama, infighting, Brown leaning on a sink in deep emotional pain (fave!) — for the flower to blossom fully. —Drew Lazor (Wide release)
maGiC in the moonliGht | C+ Magic in the Moonlight isn’t Woody Allen’s worst movie, but it’s one of his least necessary. stanley (Colin Firth) is a magician who beguiles audiences in between-the-wars Europe with his tricks under the guise of the “Oriental” conjurer Wei Ling soo. Despite the deception inherent in his profession, stanley is obsessed with unmasking the deceptions of others, especially spiritualists like the American sophie (Emma stone), who’s entranced a British dowager (Jacki Weaver). . At some point, it becomes clear that Magic in the Moonlight is meant to be a romance, despite the evident lack of chemistry between its stars and the fact that stanley’s behavior merits
nothing so much as a swift kick in the balls. Firth finds the character’s sympathetic corners,but at its core, the movie seems to think that a man treating a woman with cruelty and disdain is reason enough for her to fall for him. —Sam Adams (Ritz Five)
a moSt Wanted man | aAnton Corbijn’s moody Le Carré adaptation gains poignancy from featuring one of Philip seymour Hoffman’s final performances as günther, whom Hoffman plays with a heavy accent and a heavier weight on his shoulders, the head of a secret german intelligence unit that operates in the moral and legal netherworld. Although A Most Wanted Man is set in the present, Corbijn strands the film in a gray nowhere, the better to depict a landscape that no one, least of all günther, knows how to navigate. the plot, which involves tracking down a Chechen militant who may have trained with Islamic terrorists, is relatively low stakes by espionage-thriller standards, but that’s entirely to the point: What changes there are to be made will be small, and even those will come at a cost. the drama is about personal integrity and trust, not ticking bombs and rogue nukes. though there’s not a shot fired or a body dumped, günther’s struggle is never farther away than Hoffman’s magnificently worn face. —SA (Ritz East)
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podcast “I Like to Movie Movie.” Thu., Aug. 21, 8 p.m. $5. Shades & Shorts, a Summer with Shoestring Gold:
A new, local production company premieres six of its short films. Fri., Aug. 22, 8 p.m., free. As It Is in Heaven (2014, u.s., 86 min.): A chilling drama about a religious cult in which the protagonist is also the villain. Sun., Aug. 24, 4:30 and 7 p.m., $10. Fateful Findings (2014, u.s., 100 min.): Considered a midnight movie hit, this very lowbudget film centers around a computer hacker with paranormal abilities. Tue., Aug. 26, 8 p.m., $10.
martin SCorSeSe preSentS maSterpieCeS of poliSh Cinema International House, 3701 Chestnut St., 215-387-5125, ihousephilly.org. The Saragossa Manuscript (1964, 182 min.): A supernatural quest across the sierra Morena starring the Polish James Dean. Thu., Aug. 21, 7 p.m., $9. The Wedding (1972, 107 min.): ghosts and grudges surface at an unusual wedding celebration. Fri., Aug. 22, 7 p.m., $9. The Illumination (1972, 92 min.): this philosophical bildungsroman launched Krzysztof Zanussi’s directorial career. Wed., Aug. 27, 7 p.m., $9.
SpeCial SCreeninGS PhilaMOCA, 531 N. 12th St., 267-5199651, philamoca.org. Movie Movie live part ii: A time-travel-themed game show by the creators of the film
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self-titled electro-R&B/robosoul record — playing at our most-talked-about but, sadly, temporary playground, Spruce Street Harbor Park. Enjoy it while you can, these temporary pleasures. Soon enough it’ll be time to pack the Pattern guys in dry ice, sell the shipping containers for scrap and burn those hammocks in a CDC furnace. Eventually all we’ll have is the music, the memories and our class-action suit against Garces for Village Burger fraud. C’mon! Who’s with me? Nobody? OK. —Patrick Rapa
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PATTERN IS MOVEMENT FREE | Thu., Aug. 21, 7:30 p.m., with Moon Bounce, Spruce Street Harbor Park, 401 S. Columbus Blvd., delawareriverwaterfront.com. This is Summer Philadelphia 2014 in a nutshell. You’ve got one of the city’s finest musical acts, Pattern is Movement — riding high on this year’s 22 | P H I L A D E L P H I A C I T Y PA P E R |
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PHILLY VS. COMCAST FREE WITH RSVP | Thu., Aug. 21, 6:30 p.m., Media Mobilizing Project, 4233 Chestnut St., 215-821-9632, mediamobilizing.org. “We’re building a movement to hold Comcast accountable both locally and nationally,” says activist Jeff Rousett. “That
starts by telling the untold stories of peoples’ experiences with this media monopoly, in the city where it’s headquartered.” That’s why Rousett and other like-minded individuals are hosting tonight’s Philly vs. Comcast event which features food, drink and a screening of Comcast: Pay Your Fair Share. Their complaints against the cable giant are many: the high cost of cable/Internet, the company’s support for Gov. Corbett, its tax dodges and, of course, that proposed merger with Time Warner Cable. Can anything be done about that? “Public opposition can definitely stop this merger,” says Rousett, citing AT&T’s thwarted attempt to buy TMobile in 2011. “We pressured the Department of Justice and Federal Communications Commission to ultimately reject that merger in favor of the public interest. If we build enough support we will stop
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KEVIN GATES
$18 | Thu., Aug. 21, 8 p.m., with Chevy Woods, TLA, 334 South St., 215-922-1011, tlaphilly.com. There may be no one having more fun being a rapper right now than Kevin Gates. On his latest, By Any Means (Atlantic), he proves harder, smarter and more humane — good luck finding a song more genuinely moving than “Movie” this year — than most of his brethren, trap-rapping and hook-crafting with the best of them, revealing the honesty of his art, the poverty and wealth of his experience, the worthiness of his grind. Modest in the best way, he’ll also tell you what he doesn’t know: “Don’t know no ugly bitches/ Don’t know no broke niggas/ Don’t know no snitch niggas/ Don’t know no bitch niggas.” —Dotun Akintoye
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[ podcast ]
DRAKE VS. LIL WAYNE
PHILADELPHIA PODCAST FESTIVAL
$35-$149.50 | Thu., Aug. 21, 6:30 p.m., Susquehanna Bank Center, 1 Harbour Blvd., Camden, N.J., 800745-3000, ticketmaster.com. Ignore that contentious title; this tour actually features hiphop’s oddest mentor-student pairing, with Drake playing “Grasshopper” to Weezy’s “Master Po.” Lil Wayne has stayed out of rap’s limelight in the last year or so, opting instead to sue, get sued, skate and create his own sports management agency. That will change once he releases the hotly anticipated fifth album in his stellar series The Carter V. To warm us up, he’s dropped the new dark, draggy single, “Grindin” with Drake. For his part, Drizzy — whose Nothing Was the Same was one of 2013’s best — has been dropping singles such as “Days in the East” in anticipation of his own new album. —A.D. Amorosi
FREE-$5 | Through Aug. 24, Tattooed Mom’s, 530 South St.; Philly Improv Theater, 2030 Sansom St.; kurunaverse.com/ppf. In case you missed it, Philly’s become something of a podcast hotbed over the last few years, and new ones are popping up all the time. This year’s Podcast Fest boasts a busy schedule of live tapings, most of which are free. Not sure where to start? Try the titillating “Sex With Timaree,” the enlightening “LesBe Real” (Germantown Radio’s gender-politics chat show) or the entertaining “Story Shuffle.” Probably the hottest thing going in Philly podcasting right now is the fearsome fivesome known as “The Black Tribbles.” They were hands-down the crowd favorites at last weekend’s Philly Geek Awards, and their
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nerdy enthusiasm is infectious. —Patrick Rapa
[ rock/pop ]
$10-$12 | Thu., Aug. 21, 8 p.m., Boot & Saddle, 1131 S. Broad St., 267-639-4528, bootandsaddlephilly.com. Here’s your underrated smash-hit rock show of the week. Boogarins are a clangy, catchy psych garage band from Brazil. Real sweet and rugged Nuggets-type stuff. And Meddlesome, well, you oughta know: They’re a gloriously doomed and druggy rock band from Philly. The more I listen to 2012’s Worried Land, the more I find myself entranced by its heavyhearted drama. They serve a dark master. —Patrick Rapa
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HIEROGLYPHICS $29 | Fri., Aug. 22, 9 p.m., with Ghetto MC, TLA, 334 South St., 215922-1011, tlaphilly.com. Hieroglyphics’ logo is probably more famous than they are. Because the collective was born in the ’90s, and its sound is a kind of verbose, literate (if not to say literary), streettough rapping style laid over beats that present as sophisticated primitivism (Unorthodox samples! The triumph of treble over bass! Jazz!), Hiero-
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DAMA/LIBRA $10 | Sat., Aug. 23, 7:30 p.m., with Air Is Human, U Sco and Nick Millevoi/Brandon Lopez, Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., 215291-4919, kungfunecktie.com. Like a child who combines features from both parents such that she ends up resembling neither, the DNA of both Joel RL Phelps (pictured) and G. Stuart Dahlquist is evident in their new collaboration Dama/ D AV I D E WA L D
BOOGARINS/MEDDLESOME MEDDLESOME MEDDLESOME BELLS
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experimental doom projects hangs over Phelps’ vulnerable, expressive vocals, but the combination sounds like a ritual taking place in a candlelit cathedral, a grand but private act of redemption glimpsed from a precarious hiding place. Their debut CD, Claw (Northern Spy), is rife with organ, chimes and gongs, creating a vast, sacred space for Phelps’ cathartic howls. —Shaun Brady
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SKRYABIN UKRAINIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY CONCERT $45 | Sun., Aug. 24, 8 p.m., TLA, 334 South St., 800-745-3000, ticketmaster.com. The independence of the homeland may currently be challenged, but Philadelphia’s Ukrainian community is ready to gather in song and in protest. Along with Ukrainian favorite Taras Chubai’s gig at the Ukrainian League earlier this week, and Horsham, Pa.’s annual Ukrainian Folk Music Fest this weekend, South Street celebrates with the dark-wave/alterna-electro
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Skryabin. Founded by Andriy Kuzmenko in 1989 and named after the tone-challenging Russian composer Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin, Kuzmenko’s Skryabin ensemble sound is ominously compelling, radically different, yet no less anthemic than the ethno-folk sounds associated with this celebration. —A.D. Amorosi
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UNFOLD ORDINARY MIND WITH NELS CLINE $15 | Tue., Aug. 26, 8 p.m., Boot & Saddle, 1131 S. Broad St., 267-6394528, arsnovaworkshop.com. Ars Nova Workshop loves Nels Cline. They booked him into Johnny Brenda’s earlier this year and have enthusiastically discussed a Cline Fest. Until then, contra alto clarinetist Ben Goldberg’s UOM with Cline, Kasey Knudsen (alto sax), Rob Sudduth (tenor sax) and Allison Miller (drums) will do nicely. Goldberg, a regular on recordings from John Zorn
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[ i love you, i hate you ] To place your FREE ad (100 word limit) ³ email lovehate@citypaper.net 1 YEAR GAY TOGETHER A year ago I met you at the Khyber while I was Djing. I was too drunk to remember your name and made an ass of myself. 2 nights later we ran into each other, danced, made out and then you ripped out my insulin pump and came home with me. Later that week B.M. died and we shared a six pack, watched Clueless and sulked together. Now a year later I’m stupid in love and we’re living together (thanks to a wonderful bed-bug scare where I had no choice but to move in with you and we decided it was most practical). You’re my best friend, my favorite dance partner and I couldn’t be happier with the life we’re sharing. I love you so much. Happy Anniversary.
BE SAFE To Raena, even though you are somewhere in the world I hope you are safe at least! I wish that we could have gotten married but, lying to me and expecting me to believe it was disrespectful! You wanted us to be together forever but, doing what you did and lying to others just because your lie got out of control was absurd. Everyday I think about your safety but, you must realize that it is you who is your worst enemy. Hopefully one day we can get “Married” but, duo to circumstances we have to wait. I always told you that I hated liars so, why become one? It is now that you are not in my world every physical day that I truly miss what we had and what could’ve been.
BYE-BYE NOW! To the ugly bitch downstairs form me! BITCH I know you got a crush on my husband but you gone have to fallback. NO you cannot borrow our fucken carpet steamer again! you got a dude, UTILIZE him. Because bitch I swear if I ever catch you having a discussion with my husband without my consent I’M GOING TO SHOW YOU ONE EVIL BITCH! I will fuck you and ya daughters up OVER MY HUSBAND! naw bitch NOT INSECURE! just checking you bitch because I know how bitches get. And why you at it why don’t you get your nasty fucken trash can out of that hallway downstairs. I came in from work one night and I saw the mice playing hopscotch in the hallway. No wonder my cat wants to get out the door every night. Fall back shorty, Because I will BASH YOUR FUCKEN HEAD IN! Over my husband.you just lucky that the time i caught him in your door talking while you were on your couch, that I didn’t cuss you the fuck out then. My husband gave me the pitiful “please don’t embarass me” face, SO I SPARED YOU. BITCH BE A WOMAN! RESPECT ME OR BE DISPESPECTED!physically!! Bye-Bye now!
DAMN I WANT YOU Mr. Karim, you know who you are I can’t wait to get you in my bed! You are so sexy with your complexion matching mine...damn it looks so sexy when you are caressed with my body next to your...when we come we come together as one....it is such a creamy and sticky treat!! I can’t wait to see you.. I was play
shy in the beginning but now I know where I need to be...and I need you to make me cum! Damn, I get wet thinking about you! You're a sexy beast and we can be sexy together! Love The Red girl!
HE’S MINE To the skank-ass bitch with the huge saggy tits, stop shoving them in my man’s face! You’re a fucking whore and you think no one knows, but when you leave your car at the bar guess what? That means you went home with some guy. I notice, I’m not
glimpsing you help or hinder. Though the image of the subtle rectangular muscle of your forearm brings me to tears. When I get a new gig (or you do), the excruciating agony will finally end. Please let me rip the Band-Aid off this thing. -CEM
MY BUSINESS My business is my business, RIGHT? wrong according to the fucking neighbors you wanna mind my business and I am really getting fucking tired of it! How many hours is it in the dag-gone day!
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stupid. My man would never lay a finger on your std-ridden ass. I don’t like you, I don’t trust you, so take your fugly self out of his face and mine before I knock you out.
MODERN CLONE BOY Sometimes I wonder if I am projecting, that you don’t really feel something. But it doesn’t matter if you do or don’t - and if you do, it’s worse - because it can’t ever be. This doesn’t stop me from being utterly consumed by thoughts of you, every day, every hour. Seeing your name everywhere, hearing your voice... I can’t decide if the rare moments of actually
smellin the dollar dogs as i type this. I want you to be as happy as you make me. I know i don’t always show it, i should more often. Im just a scared emo little bitch thats terrified over the power you have on me. Its pretty intense. Living with you is amazing, I love it. I love sexually harassing you when your gettin ready for work. Its so cute watchin you get all flustered. I really enjoy bein your little suburban housewife, its pretty obvious who wears the pants in the relationship. I know we can work out our stupid little problems, our love is stronger than them. A taste of S&M delights is gonna blow its load in the mouths of philly. There’s gonna be creamy sugar everywhere. Don’t let the gingers get to you, your mine and no one else’s. I'm gonna make some flyers to hand out to all of those douchebags who think otherwise and im gonna kick retard girl in the teeth. I love you momma, with all of my heart. -Your dirty little mexican
How many days out of the week from the time that I leave the house and the time that I put out the trash on the fucking curb do I see your ass and your bullshit! You need some fucking pussy and when my fucking family visits don’t sit outside counting how many people come in and out! Mind your fucking business! And if you think that you are gonna marry one of my good-looking cousins think again! Your ass will never marry into my family if I have something to do with it! I hate you!
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I know we BOTH have a lot on our plates Daddy!! Times are tough for both of us right now. Bottom line... We’re meant for one another!! I think that’s what keeps us going. I love my best friend and want to keep him forever!! I mean.. We are “The Best”! Look how cute we are! Hopefully come Thursday, (like any normal Thursday) You will be reading this to me over dinner. “You kick’n what I’m rollin”?
STANKY DOG THEIF BITCHES You fuckin’ bitches! How dare you rip-off my loving wife!?!this is why I don’t trust anyone,it’s fuckin’ scum bags like you that give good people a bad rep, and on top of that people the bitch had the nerve to wear a “corrections” jacket,these fuckin’ bitches had the nerve to rip-off my girl who has had to battle breast cancer and just had a fuckin’ stroke. You low-life piece of shit you. KARMA BITCH!GO FUCK YOUSELF,YOU WILL GET WHAT YOU DESERVE! Have a nice day!
TICKLE MY FEET Can you tickle my feet...I think that you are cute.. I saw you at the store and you asked me what time it was! Clearly the clock was sitting right in your face but I wanted to play the game with you..but for how long...and are you worth me playing the game with you! I am tired of the fact that you think that I am just going to not fuck you...no I am going to fuck you when I am drunk all the time. and when your girlfriend is not around..I am going to fuck you some more..you need to make a decision and make the shit fast...I am tired of you and I think that if you tickle my feet things will be alot better...who do you think that you are....fucking your girlfriend and fucking everyone else is going to be a real chore... make your mind up already!
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