Entries tagged with 'music'
Gothamist has a good bit about limited-edition punk-rock pizza boxes at Pizza Shop on Avenue A. The first 1,500 punk-rock pizza boxes will feature an image of the Clash on them. The next edition will be the Ramones, Gothamist says. And Grub Street reports that Pizza Shop has commissioned Arturo Vega, the dude who did the Ramones' logo, to design its pizza box. Very cool. 110 Avenue A, New York NY 10009 (at 7th Street; map); 212-614-9798
Posted by Adam Kuban, October 24, 2007 at 11:30 PM
Morrissey. If you're familiar with the man and his music, the word mope springs to mind long before mozzarella does.
Although, with nicknames like "Moz" or "Mozzer," you might be excused were you to search for a pizza connection to the former Smiths frontman and lyricist. Such was the case this morning when I plopped down at my desk after having seen the man in action at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom last night.
In fact, the evening started with a couple slices of pizza at nearby New York Pizza Suprema. Doors opened early for the show, so my fellow fans and I wanted something quick and easy as we were already a bit late. I won't go into Suprema details here; suffice it to say that the place kicks out a satisfying slice when you're hard up for good pizza near the Madison Square Garden–Penn Station area. (You can read Ed Levine's take on Suprema here.)
What I'd like to do now is connect the dots between the savory slice and the supreme Smith himself. What follows are those odd intersections where pizza meets Morrissey and Morrissey meets pizza.
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Posted by Adam Kuban, April 3, 2007 at 7:00 AM
An awesome email from the Slice inbox today:
Dear Slice folks,
My name's James, and I'm a fan of your site. Waaaaay back around 2001 or 2002, I wrote and recorded a song. It's called "Dom," and it is about a certain pizzaman in Brooklyn, about whom you know a little something. It's a little out of date now.
Listen to "Dom":
Dom
I know the guy that makes the bestest pie in town
His ass is not under the bridge
You will not find him in Coney Island
You will not find him in Bay Ridge
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Posted by Adam Kuban, November 13, 2006 at 10:15 AM
We recently got an email from songwriter Thomas Ventiquattro II alerting us to his new song "Take a Pizza to Lunch." You can hear a sample of it here. (Depending on your computer's settings, link may open in iTunes and begin playing music.)
Posted by Adam Kuban, November 22, 2005 at 1:28 PM
From the November 28, 2005, issue of People magazine, a.k.a. the "Sexiest Man Alive" issue:
What, you thought we were interested in Matthew McConaughey?
And aren't Slice's editors the luckiest people in the world: A source brought it to our attention that Tricia Yearwood was on last Wednesday's Martha show and that pizza came up. Our tipster tells me that Ms. Stewart asked Ms. Yearwood if she had gone to any parties after the Country Music Awards. Ms. Yearwood said that she just went back to the hotel and ordered pizza. "What kind of pizza?" Martha asked. "Ray's, I think?" Yearwood replied.
Next time y'all visit our city, contact Slice, and we'll point you to some real famous pizza, yer durn tootin'.
Posted by Adam Kuban, August 22, 2005 at 12:50 PM
I want you to know that:
" ... The Pixies' first gig was on a Wednesday night at Jack's Lounge in Boston, for which they were paid $17. Black says he was so nervous his legs shook. 'I remember I wrote the lyric to this song called Break My Body a few hours before, on the steps outside a pizza place in Harvard Square. I hadn't finished it, but we knew how to play this music, so I wrote a quickie lyric. The lyric may, in fact, show that if you were to look at it today ...' "
Speaking of the Pixies and pizza: A San Francisco pizza joint with Pixies on its jukebox (and lots of other good stuff, too).
Misfits that fit [The Guardian, via The Morning News]
Little Star Pizza
Posted by Adam Kuban, July 13, 2005 at 4:00 PM
In our previous entry, we talked about a modern-day urban explorer, the Lonesome Hero, who in turn spoke a little about Russia and pizza by way of explaining his "Pizza World Tour."
And so, speaking of pizza in Russia and Russians and pizza, and pizza world tours, we bring you a crazy little song by Psoy Korolenko, a "singing professor, dancing scholar, and academical bodysinger" from Russia.
Mr. Korolenko sings a song about pizza, which our pal Cyrus alerted us to. (He found it here.)
"Have you listened to it yet?" Cyrus asked me repeatedly.
"Not yet."
"You have to listen to it. You'll love it."
He was right. Mr. Korolenko does a pizza world tour via his song, namechecking various countries and cities worldwide while playfully describing their pizza.
"The pizza from Texas, you pay no taxes," he sings. "The pizza from Poland is like polka," or "Das Pizza von Berlin, you gotta break the wall."
It's silly, it makes little sense, but it's fun. Have a listen.
Download: "Pizza," by Psoy Korolenko
"Pizza" lyrics
Psoy Korolenko MP3 page
About Psoy
Posted by Adam Kuban, December 16, 2004 at 10:00 AM
The last time Slice was at Di Fara, our eagle-eyed metro editor, Seltzerboy, noticed the shop's crew writing orders on a nifty new notepad (above). On previous visits throughout the years, we had observed proprietor Dom DeMarco simply jotting down orders on whatever was at hand—often a paper plate or the take-out box a pie was destined to inhabit on its journey home.
At one point during this visit, Dom's daughter left the pad unattended while she was in back. We saw our chance and moved in, enticed by the words "DiFara's Freehand Recipe." Would we be able to copy Dom's secrets and return the pad before Maggie reappeared? Sadly, no. She came back out front and caught us ogling the deck of papers, which, upon closer inspection, carried a free-verse poem rather than the culinary key to perfect pizza.
The poem's author was listed as "The Sticker Dude," and its words not only painted an accurate picture of the Di Fara experience but also had us saying, "This Sticker Dude dude must be a Di Fara fan." Our hunch was that the pads were an unsolicited token of appreciation for Dom's pies on the part of the dude.
A quick e-mail to Joel "The Sticker Dude" Cohen, who runs Ragged Edge Press, confirmed this:
You've basically figured out the scene. I'm a printer/poet/graphic artist and a fan of Di Fara Pizza, and was inspired to do the memo pad after seeing an interview with Dom in the New York Times. The pads were a gift, not ordered.
Mr. Cohen, who was labeled with this nickname after selling stickers at Grateful Dead shows, says he manages to make it out to Di Fara about every two weeks—whenever he's in the neighborhood.
Slice has plans for stickers and T-shirts at some unspecified time in the near future, and though we're often stubbornly D.I.Y., if we can't pull off the merch ourselves, we'll see about availing ourselves of the Sticker Dude's services. It's always good to give business to a kindred spirit.
On another note, while perusing the Ragged Edge site and learning about the genesis of the "Sticker Dude" moniker, we were reminded of The Pizza Tapes, a collaboration of the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia along with David Grisman and Tony Rice. Legend is that, in 1993, a pizza delivery boy stole the freshly recorded tapes of the Garcia-Grisman-Rice sessions off Mr. Garcia's counter while bringing pizza to the outsized guitarist. The tapes made their way into the Dead-tape trading scene shortly thereafter. Mr. Grisman was initially peeved, but in 2000 he released an official album of the recordings, its title a nod to the crazy-fingered knave who nabbed the jams. Its cover, a nod to the classic take-out pizza box.
Posted by Adam Kuban, February 10, 2004 at 2:09 PM
Any of you who are Ween fans may already know this, but back in Aught 2, the band was hired to do the jingle for Pizza Hut's Insider pizza. As you might recall, that was the pie in which The Hut hid the cheese inside. Says Ween:
Earlier in 2002 we were hired by the largest advertising firm in the country to write music for a Pizza Hut commercial. Pizza Hut had hired them to come up with a whole new image to promote their new Pizza, "The Insider" which had all the cheese inside the crust. In keeping in line with their new cutting edge image, the agency hired Ween to do the music, and we delivered in a big way. Unfortunately, they didn't like a single piece of the 6 tunes we submitted and they had us rewriting the song every day for a couple of weeks before they hired someone else. In my opinion, it is one of the best tunes we wrote all last year.
Listen to the jingle
"Where'd the Cheese Go?" (mp3)
"Where'd the Cheese Go?" (Explicit Re-mix) (mp3)
