Summer is Gone; A Recap of August
T.I. and Mary J. Blige at Capitale
If you visit this site regularly you will notice that I have barely updated this summer. 2010 has been a year for major changes and maturing (if you can believe it) in a sense. After hitting a plateau in every sense of the word with my previous job of nearly 4 years, I left for greener pastures to work with film (in particular The Angelika Film Center.) One aspect of my job will be overseeing their social media (You can keep up with me by following @AngelikaFilmCen and reading blog updates at AngelikaBlog.com) It’s all very fun and exciting and engaging which is amazing but hard to juggle along with the blog, my social life, family life and real life. I contemplated putting Tastes Like Caramel on a hiatus indefinitely (I did informally), but as I’ve said before this blog is a creative outlet for me. There is no monetary incentive here but it’s the passion I feel about art, music and film that keeps this alive. I have a lot of history on these pages so I intend to keep it alive. I intend to continue to have fun, go to shows, interview bands and write about it here.
Now that I’ve gotten that out of the way… my summer was great but uneventful. I started the new job so my head has been focused on doing the best I can but now that I’m up to speed I should be able to do more fun things and share those experiences with you. I cannot believe it is September 1st! Here are a few highlights from August since I was so M.I.A. in the blogosphere.
August 16th: T.I.’s very first post-jail concert at Capitale.
Mary J. Blige, Cam’Ron, B.o.B., Keri Hilson, Swizz Beats all performed with T.I. for a 3 hour long show presented by AXE at the swanky Capitale venue! Free hors d’oeuvres and drinks, wardrobe changes and did I mention MARY J. BLIGE! Wendy Williams and Ciara (accidentally touched my back when going down the stairs) were also in attendance.
Class Actress at Mercury Lounge
August 19th: Class Actress and Brahms at Mercury Lounge
Early in the afternoon I stopped by Virgin Mobile Live to hang with Abbey Braden for an on-air interview and to my surprise Class Actress aka Elizabeth Harper was in studio. In case you forgot I was interviewed her at Brooklyn Bowl in April during the Kylie Minogue encounter! Elizabeth is always pleasant in person and onstage, which we saw later that night at Mercury Lounge. Brahms played an incredible and visually infectious set following Class Actress. They’re on my list of bands you must see in 2010!
August 21st: Crystal Castles deathmatch at Terminal 5
Photo-pass issues at Terminal 5 for Crystal Castles (no surprise) so I didn’t even bother taking pictures from the audience, in fear that my camera would be destroyed. Amazing fun, annoying crowd, loud, chaos and epic moshing. Check out my review/pictures/video from their show at Irving Plaza if you don’t believe me.
mp3: Crystal Castles – Insectica
mp3: Class Actress – All the Saints
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