Jeremiah and I are having a great time in Philly! I'm taking him to South St. in Center City Philadelphia today...and I hope to persuade him to eat a cheesesteak. 'Cause we're good at that here.
I never thought I'd say this, but Carson Daly's new late night talk show is good. He's a talented host (as much as I have poked fun at Carson's other show, Total Request Live). He seems to do extensive research for each interview, and has a decent sense of humor. I'm waiting patiently for Simon LeBon to be the featured guest!
The Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center is currently doing War and Peace. I was lucky to get to see it tonight -- the production was fabulous. Great art design, an amazing orchestra, and four hours of awesome Russian operatics. After the show, I had a strange encounter on the subway at 49th St. Some guy had a knife (a very long, sharp one). He was standing on the platform holding it in plain view, creeping everybody out. Eventually, people moved to the far ends of the platform to avoid him. He ended up getting on the same train as me when the subway came, but he kept to himself and got off a few stops later. Very strange.
On the NR subway line, two trains will often run alongside each other until one gains speed and leaves the other in the dust. People in each train usually ignore riders of the parallel train, but I waved at an elderly man and showed him the camera. To my surprise, he smiled back and even posed. Within a few seconds, the passenger behind him pulled out his camera and took a picture of my train! It was very exciting. At any rate -- no pun intended -- here is the somewhat blurry photo of the older man smiling at the camera.
Another train. It's moving pretty rapidly, but I bet there is a lot of photography going on in there!
Chairs and graffiti in Columbus Circle. That could be an awfully cool band name.
Steven Spielberg made some politically correct cuts to the rerelease of E.T. For example - Spielberg said, "There's no reason why the word terrorist belongs in a film like E.T., and we were being glib in the early 80s with Mary saying, 'You will not go out dressed as a terrorist.' Now she says, 'You will not go out dressed as a hippy.'"
In stand-up comedy, you can't go wrong. The bad jokes are good, and the good jokes are bad-ass. My roommate won ten tickets to the New York Comedy Club, so some of us went again last night. That place is damn cool! Despite the often torrential rain on the way up there, we had a good time. I wish I took pictures of the downpour!
This deer statue resides in an East Village public garden.
Duran Duran, Pop Trash
Gary Numan, The Pleasure Principle
Cyndi Lauper, She's So Unusual
Alphaville, Forever Young
The Vaselines, The Way of the Vaselines
Juliana Hatfield, Only Everything
P.J. Harvey, Is This Desire?
The Rolling Stones, Hot Rocks
Frente, Marvin the Album
Destiny's Child, The Writing's on the Wall
The Cars, The Cars
The B-52s, Cosmic Thing
Duran Duran, Arena
The Doors, The Soft Parade Saturday Night Fever soundtrack
L7, Hungry for Stink
The Dandy Warhols, The Dandy Warhols
The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds
Ace of Base, The Sign
The Waitresses, The Best of the Waitresses
Belle & Sebastian, Lazy Line Painter Jane
The Fad, The Fad The New Wave: Pop Music of the Early '80s
Goodbye Girl Friday, Mr. & Mrs.
Naked Highway, Hyperbollocks
Duran Duran, Pop Trash Classic Alternatives: '80s 12" Extended Rare Mixes
Phil Collins, Hits
Genesis, Turn It On Again: The Hits
Ladytron, Light & Magic
Ladytron, 604
The Go-Betweens, Before Hollywood
Beck, Midnight Vultures
Duran Duran, Seven & the Ragged Tiger
Abba, Arrival
The Cardigans, Long Gone Before Daylight
The Psychedelic Furs, All of This & Nothing
Air, Moon Safari
The Knack, Round Trip
Blondie, Parallel Lines
The Psychedelic Furs, Forever Now
The Donnas, Spend the Night
Nancy Sinatra, California Girl
Tatu, 200 KMH in the Wrong Lane
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Organisation
John-Manuel Andriote, Hot Stuff: A Brief History of Disco
Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction
Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
Jean Kilbourne, Deadly Persuasion
Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation
