I am heading home after seeing the NY Neo-Futurists. I love them. I cannot help it. They deliver something special when they start their timer and deliver their plays. Sincerity, generosity, compassion…tonight was a perfect example of the qualities I love most about their shows.
I’m moving to Williamsburg…that is, I have moved, and the process […]
Kevin Rudd is the leader of Australia’s opposition Labor Party. BBC.com has a story that ends with something that gives me hope for all of humankind–at least the beer drinkers.
Kevin Rudd went to the club in Manhattan in September 2003 during a visit to the city as a UN observer. Mr Rudd has […]
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Jake Armerding
I love it when I take the right turn instead of the wrong one. I didn’t get out today because I didn’t feel like it. That simple, actually. If I could have dealt with laying on the couch, I would have done that. But I did vow to get off my ass and […]
“…no indication of any connection to terrorism…”
These seem to be the words we’ll be hearing every time something awful happens now that we live in the age of the global war on terror. Law enforcement, the military, and the press all seem to be in on the same game. There have been many terrible events […]
I finished reading T.C. Boyle’s latest book “Talk Talk” riding home on the A train yesterday. I have been a fan of Boyle’s since I read his first novel “Water Music” a quarter century ago. “Water Music” is bold and brilliant. “Talk Talk” is razor-sharp and tough-as-nails. Boyle is a master […]
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I work in the periphery of the film industry. One of the productions we are working with in town was shooting tonight over on the east side and I stopped by to assist with some equipment issues. Once my work was done there and everyone was happy and hopeful (when you leave people, you should […]
From their website:
The Carolina Chocolate Drops are a group of young African-American stringband musicians that have come to together to play the rich tradition of fiddle and banjo music in Carolinas’ piedmont. Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson both hail from the green hills of the North Carolina Piedmont while Dom Flemons is native to sunny […]
I took a walk this afternoon through lower Manhattan and at one point I decided to take a rest in City Hall Park. By the central fountain I saw a little rat trying to climb the side of the fountain. He didn’t look well. He was convulsing, and I noticed there was a small streak […]
I went to a show last night at the Blender Theater on E. 23rd Street in NYC. I’ve written elsewhere about Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová and their work in the film “Once” and on the record “The Swell Season.” They were in town last night playing music from the film and album. Hansard is […]
I have written two previous posts about Gogol Bordello over the last couple of days. They played two nights here in their home base of NYC. The following notes I scribbled this afternoon while waiting to meet a friend:
Gogol Bordello is absolutely fucking great. There was not much different between the two nights. This shows […]
