If you have ever been to the Rose Bar at the Gramercy Park hotel in NYC you will know the space isn’t huge. So when I heard that The Black Keys were playing a private show during New York Fashion Week I pretty much flipped my lid. I have seen the Akron duo about 25 times and this was by far the best venue / arrangement I have ever seen. I was so close that I could have reached out and grabbed Patrick’s ride cymbal.  Not to mention the Tequila was on the house; needless to say I was fully out of commission the day following the show. My video from the night is below — sound quality suffered due to my proximity. Enjoy!

An amazingly packaged envelope arrived in the mail yesterday from the Levi Strauss & Co. archive. I opened it up and there is a photo with a blue bandanna tied with string. On the bandanna it said. “Who was Grayson Ozias IV and where is his fortune?” Huh? I’m confused, so I hit google with “Grayson Ozias” and it returns some cryptic results like a Twitter profile, a Craigslist posting and then some PR related stuff. It seems the folks at Levi’s buried $100,000 somewhere in America and you can have a chance at discovering it via their website. After some digging (pun intended), this Ozias guy and the whole buried treasure seems to be a big ole scavenger hunt. But who couldn’t use 100K right now? Sure will buy you a lot of LVC…