Polyester Bride
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Polyester Bride

It was New York City, 5pm rush hour on a Friday. We, Dillan and myself, were somewhere in mid-town needing to go somewhere up-town to drop off the large black equipment we had rented for the shoot.?


The year is 1998, and I have my hand out, trying to find the one free yellow cab out of the sea of taken ones. Dillan is standing next to me, watching and then sits down on one of the oversized equipment boxes, ‘We’re not going anywhere for a while, you might as well sit.’?


Having grown up in rural Michigan, the idea of sitting on a box on a street corner of NYC is both novel and enthralling for me, a great adventure. Following his lead, pull up one of the amps and sit next to him. Years later, that's what's encoded into my memory, this moment of stillness as the city rushes by.


We were leaving a shoot for MTV, (now 维亚康姆 ) where I was interning that summer, of artists that had released albums that summer. That day we filmed Liz Phair in a small guitar shop where ever spare inch of the store had a guitar hung or shoved in it.?


Yesterday, when I was asking the universe to hear song 16, I realized there was only one female singer on the song list. I tucked that observation away, went off to have my day, and when I returned to my condo last night, I turned on a tv drama based in downtown NYC, and the memory of Dillan and I on the street corner emerged, it always makes me smile. Last night I decided to follow the memory to where we were coming from, and that’s where I found Liz, and song sixteen.?

In that small guitar store for that production crew of 10-ish people, Liz had selected a guitar, sat down on an amp, the same on that in a few hours I would use as my rush hour bench, and plays us an acoustic version of?‘Polyester Bride’?off her new album Whitechocolatespaceegg.?


365 Days of Songs Playlist:

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