People Xmastime Likes - Marah

 guest post by MARLEY



 I was introduced to one of the members of Marah by Xmastime at a bar in Brooklyn. He was not drinking, and Xmastime was, to the point where he eventually fell asleep on the bar at approximately 9:15 pm (sidenote - when Xmastime woke up later, he said one thing to the bartender and then he got kicked out). So me and the guy from Marah passed the time talking and he told me one of the weirdest stories. Apparently, he had made a throwaway comment in some venue about



The Bacon Brothers.

Well, the better known of those brothers apparently took umbrage (I think via email) and the word was out - Kevin Bacon was going to get the guy from Marah. It was a very funny but unsettling story.

To circle the square, I know a guy who I saw not too long thereafter, and he knows Jack Brennan, Richard Nixon's post-resignation chief of staff. Kevin Bacon was preparing to play Brennan in Frost/Nixon and he had met several times with the real Brennan to prepare for the role.



Brennan told my friend that Bacon was a real nice guy and I thought, "sure, as long as you don't disrespect the Bacon brothers."

Anyway, Kids in Philly is one of my favorite albums of all time, and I'll rank it as one of the tops in godihateyourband's poll of Best Albums of the 2000s, which he'll take 7 months to compile and post on his website, and which will elicit, "Wow, where are the blacks and women?"