A Deep Dive Into The Sax Sensation: Moon Hooch

It is sometime in the early 2010’s, you live in New York City and you are on your way back home from work. Normally, you take a familiar route, but on this day, you find yourself in a different part of the subway. Echoing deep from within the subway, you hear a throttling commotion of brass and drum. Out of curiosity, you creep closer to get a better view of what’s happening. A golden sheen draws your eyes to the bodies of two saxophones, instrumented by none other than Michael Wilbur and Wenzl McGowen.

STANTON | Aziz, Louie and New York City

In the most recent season of Louis C.K.’s hilariously depressing series Louie, the titular character takes his 16-year-old daughter to a matinee of a “celebrated 1960s play” that stars the dream lineup of Michael Cera, John Lithgow and Matthew Broderick (sadly, this play does not exist and was created for the purpose of the show). During an especially dramatic moment in the performance, Louie looks over at his daughter, Lilly, and notices her messing with her phone. Immediately after the curtain falls, he commences a familiar tirade about her (our) entire generation sacrificing their engagement with the real world in favor of a screen-based lifestyle. In a moment uncharacteristic of the show, Lilly snaps back, explaining that she had been reading up on the play’s production history in order to better understand what was happening onstage. Louie’s reaction is priceless — equal parts pleased by his daughter’s appreciation of the play and shocked by his own false assumptions about her.