Saturday, June 19, 2004
Art Gallery Loop, Acronym Soup
Saturday afternoon was as lazy as Friday night was rowdy (we saw !!! at Bowery Ballroom, dancing our butts off until 1:30am!). I did a gallery crawl on 24th and 25th streets, digitally snapping my way through splashes of color while bopping to crescendos of musical bliss courtesy of my mp3 player... Here are some of the results... More goodies coming up for my weekend public... I'm off to the gym before it closes, then dinner and we'll see...
BANANA is my Bizness... : - ) With apologies to Carmen Miranda and Mae West, this BANANA is definitely not glad to see me, because it stands for shortsightedness and zoning nazis rather than lust. : - ) This BANANA stands for "Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything".... : - )Other Acronyms in this grouping are:
NIMBY - Not In My Backyard
NOTE - Not Over There, Either
NOPE - Not On Planet Earth
CAVE - Citizens Against Virtually Everything
LULU - Locally Unwanted Land Use
NUMBY — Not Under My Back Yard
GOOMBY - Get Out Of My Back Yard
NIMEY - Not in My Election Year
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"It's easier to get forgiveness than permission" - Anonymous : - )
!!! was incredible - a juggernaut of danceable energy - smart, angry, and fun. More details and cool stuff later. Stay tuned!!!
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!!! was incredible - a juggernaut of danceable energy - smart, angry, and fun. More details and cool stuff later. Stay tuned!!!
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Friday, June 18, 2004
You Have The Right To Wear
Fruit In Your Hat
You have the right to make racy innuendos. You have the right to speak with a thick accent. These are your Carmen Miranda rights! : - ) Born in Portugal, raised in Brazil, and devoured by Hollywood, The Lady in the Tutti Frutti hat was an iconoclast, ahead of her time, and a gay icon throughout the Americas. One day I'll have to visit the Carmen Miranda Museum in the Flamengo area of Rio de Janeiro. Today marks five months of blogging for yours truly... I may have a cocktail party to celebrate my half-year-versary next month....Tonight: !!!... Have a fruitful Friday and a lovely weekend. More fotos, and fun, to follow.... this entry's permalink
Thursday, June 17, 2004
"A politician thinks of the next race; a statesman, of the next generation" - James Freeman Clark
pound-of-cure mode, noun
Troubleshooting a problem that would have been less severe if you had taken steps to prevent it (i.e., if you'd been in ounce-of-prevention mode).
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pound-of-cure mode, noun
Troubleshooting a problem that would have been less severe if you had taken steps to prevent it (i.e., if you'd been in ounce-of-prevention mode).
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Cast a giant shadow... Here's my outline, snapped during Fire Island's late afternoon hours last weekend... This has been a surreal day, beginning with a 6am call from Singapore in which I learned that my boss leaving finance to go write novels and scuba dive... This explained why his boss asked me the other day how I'd feel about living in London... The answer, of course, was that both my customers and the companies are cover are here, in this time zone, not to mention my personal ties (or hope to develop the same)... Stay tuned, this was indeed unexpected, and could shake up this cocktail. I'm seeing !!! tomorrow night with Thomas! To clarify, !!! are a cutting-edge punk-dance group with political overtones, evidenced by two of its signature song titles, "Pardon My Freedom" and "Me and Giuliani Down By The Schoolyard (A True Story)."
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"No man goes before his time – unless, of course, his boss leaves first… " – Groucho Marx
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Wednesday, June 16, 2004
"Perfect vision is for fighter pilots, not rock critics." - Twentyfortyzine, 6/16/2004.
Aaron - off-center in the universe! Remember yesterday's post about Helen Fielding and Franz Ferdinand at Union Square tonight, which I was looking forward to? That actually happened yesterday! Oops...
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Aaron - off-center in the universe! Remember yesterday's post about Helen Fielding and Franz Ferdinand at Union Square tonight, which I was looking forward to? That actually happened yesterday! Oops...
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Intimate And Intense
Kelly's play, "Boy", is wonderful and so is his performance! Don't miss it! Riveting acting, directing, and dialogue make this interpersonal and thematic puzzle of a play into something really compelling. The title character, known only as Boy (photo far left), has fled Iowa for Minneapolis after a traumatic event, on a collision course with a psychiatrist, an English professor, and an unsuccessful thirtysomething creative type (played by Kelly, see black & white photo at left) who he met on the internet. We peel the truth from these characters like an onion, and get ever closer to the emotional bones of the story. That's all I can say without spoilers. Just see it before it closes at the end of the month! Here are three good reviews: CurtainUp.com, TheatreMania.com, and NYTheatre.com. It's at Primary Stages, (212)279-4200, www.primarystages.com.this entry's permalink
Tuesday, June 15, 2004
New York, Center Of The Universe! (though at a humid 89F, we're swimming in it...) Case in point - tomorrow night the casual Union Square stroller can hear Helen 'Bridget Jones' Fielding read from her new book at 7pm at B&N, and then hop over to Virgin Megastore at 7:30pm to see Scotland rock quartet Franz Ferdinand, named after the ill fated arch-duke (see picture left), sing and sign CDs! I may just do both, don't think I won't!this entry's permalink
The Sun Always Shines On TV...
I just completed a half-hour of "media training," taping and re-taping practice questions for a TV camera on our trading floor, and reviewing the results. Now that I'm really thin, the small screen is much kinder to my humble mug. I have the tape, for those of you who'd like to watch me be a 'talking head.' : - ) No alarm could wake me this morning, as my body demanded and received ten hours of overdue sleep! I snapped the picture at left at the royal palace complex in Bangkok, btw. I will be posting more pics to my site's travel pages this weekend.Tonight, I'm seeing the much-praised off-Broadway play "Boy," starring our very own Kelly AuCoin, with Thomas.. Meaning Thomas is coming to see it, not actually performing in it. : - ) Happy Anniversary, Brian and Joe!
Quote Of The Day, from Brent DiCrescenzo, turning the page on his rock critic career: "Explaining why I love a record in the confines of its production, lyrics and instrumental "tightness" without detailing the first time I heard the band's song drifting from bowling alley in Poland or whatever confounds me. "
Wordspy Word of the Day:
mobile speed bump n. A car that travels at the speed limit to force the cars behind to do the same.
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Monday, June 14, 2004
Czech Out This Joke From Christi
This just in from Christi: A Czech goes to the ophtalmologist who shows him a sign with the following
letters
C Z W X N Q S T A C Z
and asks...
"Can you read it?"
"Read it???!!!" answers the Czech, "I even know the guy!"
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We're An American Band...
"Look around, around, the second drummer drowned, his telephone was found..." - Pavement, 1994
"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons." - Woody Allen
"We knew all the answers, and we shouted them like anthems" - Scissor Sisters, 2004
Scissor Fever! My favorite pop group of the moment, Scissor Sisters (pictured left), is back late July in New York for a show at PS1 and a Virgin Megastore Union Square signing. They're even playing Brockton, Mass! (in my lucky Cousin Rich's very backyard)this entry's permalink
Sunday, June 13, 2004
Isn't it great to have Six Feet Under back? : - ) Single-handedly justifying the invention of television for yet another season...
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Sand Dunes, Sunlight and Shady Trees...
Look Ma, No streetlamps and no combustion engines...Just the sound of my sneakers over boardwalk and sand. Fire Island, lovely in any weather, was resplendent on a cloudless day under the white hot sun. Forests of shady trees parallel expansive beach on the forty-mile barrier island. My erstwhile share hosts Chris and Anthony were kind enough to offer a well-needed scenery change. The Pines, as this upscale gay enclave is called, is a somewhat bizarre place. It's a rarified brew of well-heeled hedonism, party boys in various stages of the aging process, and well-toned flesh of every ethnic stripe. And the occasional quieter, older, early-to-bed-and-to-rise types like myself, enjoying the unspoiled nature and often-deserted walkways and beachscapes. 
My hosts are gay, "log cabin" Republicans, and I watched them watch the sunset moments of Reagan's week-long last rites. I'm a moderate and open-minded Democrat, myself, so I exercised restraint and mostly listened. One particular guest was my favorite kind of conservative: the thinking, independent, non-knee-jerk kind that realizes that mulitple views each have their own truth, and is interested in exploring them. This quality is rare on both sides of the political spectrum, so many would rather argue and vent than think and explore. His personal story was also quite unusual, with a dogged optimism and sense-of-self unfazed by a cruel stroke of bad luck. Meeting him made me ponder a few bittersweet and disturbing realities, an unexpected and odd occurrence amid the staccato of the housemates' teasing banter and tacky but good-hearted smutiness. For your viewing pleasure below, the beautiful deck facing the bay and a late-stage sunset. Above right we gather around Chris' delicious london broil and corncob feast on Saturday...
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