New York City is for sellouts

my dad was born in stuyvesant town

cred alert

the neighborhood has really changed since then

i bet he could find his way around tho

this is the only thing i could find for ny boxed wine

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/18/opinion/18colman.html?_r=1&em&oref=slogin

hm.

t is up with ppl who every time their home state is mentioned (in a song, on tv, in conversation briefly, whatever) they like get excited and make a deal about it?

hahaha! I definitely do this, I dunno why though. watching tv I'll be all "oh hey wau the st. louis arch" or "ooh look the Mizzou columns" when I'm WATCHING A MIZZOU GAME like duh of course they show the columns

boston is the least mentioned big american city in rap lyrics ever

st. louis never used to get mentioned much except for "Jus Like Compton" and that one Ice Cube track. but now they've got Nelly and Chingy.

"now" meaning five years ago

omg i totally forgot about nelly.

haha i mean i guess what i was thinking of was like, the last hold steady show i went to, the minneapolitans kept like knowingly looking at each other and loudly singing the mpls refs -- and i was like, we are at a hold steady show, how long are you guys gonna be entertained by minnesota references? the answer: a really long time!

then i was thinking, perhaps i am jaded because it is not very weird or unusual to hear/see ny references? but still.

thanks for coming those who came, it was an ok night, crowd came and went.

Andy was brought in to bartend when the Rapture started going on tour. He is great people. He was playing with White Magic for a bit then, what's he up to now?

I never played Love Buzz but probably everybody else who came around did. That was definitely a Fitz joint too.

lol is the andy u guys are talking about "magic" andy m4cle0d? he drums for brightblack morning light now, or at least he used to. i met in him in LA two years ago. small world!

yeah I think the hold steady draw that reaction more than most, though ..... they're kind of trying for it? I can hardly think of a show where craig didn't either wear a twins hat or jersey or both or at least talk about the twins onstage

we went to that dvd taping of theirs a month or so ago, it was pretty funny seeing a rock show in some weird fancy wall st. bank building the day after the stock market tanked

xposts

also black squirrels are kinda cool. I saw one last time I was in Sunnyside.

the last time i saw the hold steady was at terminal 5. the reason i have not yet purchased tix to their show in a few days is because it is, yet again, at terminal 5. that place can bite my ass.

never seen a show there ... don't plan to if I can help it

it's TERRIBLE. i mean, you have to wait on a line to GO OUTSIDE. i'm not kidding!

it is my goddamned right as an american to go have a cigarette in the middle of "stevie nix" and i'll be damned if terminal 5 is going to stop me.

I'm going to the thursday show and anticipating suckage

that's the same andy, max. another "whoa" small world moment.

Terminal 5 won't let you outside to smoke?

Serves me right for going to see the Decemberists, then.

bordoms in the round at terminal 5 was perfect - place cracked me up - i felt like i was abt to get into a dance fight the whole time

dan andys an indie session man now hes played w/like 1m bands - i cant keep track - maybe love is laughter and some other bands currently?? i just wore my og white magic tshirt yesterday - and yah max same guy

you are allowed to go outside to smoke if you wait on a line because they only let like 3 ppl outside to smoke at one time -- it is in the middle of BFE, what is this about? thankfully it is really difficult and expensive to get a drink there so i wasn't really drinking at all = reduced interest in smoking anyway.

i can see how boredoms would be good there because, you know, it is a damn nightclub cavernous space, but seeing a rock show there sucks. it is just my least favorite show space and i've got issues with it.

tonight was a nice night to be out in new york.
last day of summer?

i got a real goddamn bargain on a Nurse With Wound record, then I got drunk. wooooo.

I went to King Yum in Forest Meadows. New York's only 50+ year old american chinese and polynesian restaurant. I had an egg-drop and wonton soup, an egg roll, and a really good dish that involved white meat chicken, pineapple, and a "sweet and pungeant" sauce that was set on fire. It was actually really good. Friends got the chow mein, which was not as good. My lady-friend and I shared a drink called a "Taboo for Two". Yes, it was served in a bowl with two straws.

http://offthebroiler.wordpress.com/2006/07/17/nyc-dining-king-yum/

only problem is we couldn't get seated in the tiki room, though the chinese room wasn't much less kitschy.

sorry, "Tabu for Two".

i would like to come to NY for like a week with nothing to do but hang out and see stuff. almost every time i've come to nyc it's been for something specific and i've had to be in a certain area and worry about being somewhere at a certain time and getting out of the city by a certain time to go somewhere else.

we may not always see eye to eye, nick, but you can sleep on my couch for ONE (1) night and i'll take you to the best diner in brooklyn.

awwww

r u talkin abt toms

hey this has nothing to do with plant bar but it tangentially related to the lol original topic of this thread: what is up with ppl who every time their home state is mentioned (in a song, on tv, in conversation briefly, whatever) they like get excited and make a deal about it?

Paul Simon's Live in Central Park record always reminds me of this. Every reference:

"There is a girl in New York City..."
"AGHGHGHGH!!!!!!"

thanks ian

i think that type of stuff is kinda sweet

yeah ice craem i am talkin about toms. if yer in the hood and want to meet me and my boy there at noon let's do it.

yr gogin to toms in a half hour?

yeah.

yokay! i might be like 15 min late

I get kind of excited when Michigan comes up because I'm always sort of surprised the rest of the world knows where it is. I know this is stupid, but when I lived there I didn't know where the rest of the world was, so....

Apart from Detroit; everyone knows (or thinks they know) Detroit.

hey ice cream i tried to webmail you my phone number, but if it didn't work, just look for the two dudes eating breakfast.

i think ill recognize u

aw, tom's... i would kill for some fishcakes and eggs.

i want to go i hate my job

I love Tom's crabcakes! I had a milkshake there once and it was bad, though. Milkshakes should never involve ice. I may have complained about this before.

i want to go i hate sitting in lecture

tom's has the best goddamn pork sausages.

do u guys want to swing by my office in suits and pretend to be important clients who have to take me out to lunch

do you have an expense account?

cuz i sure don't.

gdamn max get in a taxi and treat us to some corporate lunch ffs