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1) birthday coming up
2) life is stressful
3) i haven't seen most of you in a while

~~i was thinking december 2nd (fri)?~~ still waiting to hear if fellow sagittarian birthday girl tokyo rosemary can make it into town that weekend

[edit to add info:
Wednesday, Dec. 7th, 7:30 p.m. - ?
O'Connor's
39 5th Avenue, Brooklyn (bet. Bergen and Dean)
2/3 train to Bergen St. station]

― j b everlovin' r (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 03:40 (twenty years ago)

how about this friday (the 25th)?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)

it's thanksgiving weekend! no one will be around.

― j b everlovin' r (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 03:48 (twenty years ago)

my b-day is later in december.
i like drinks. but i can't drink in manhattan until i am 21. on the 20th.

― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 03:52 (twenty years ago)

i'm cool with drinks in brooklyn wherever ian can get in. :-)

― j b everlovin' r (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 03:54 (twenty years ago)

i think my schedule/budget can only do new york drinks in 2006.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 03:56 (twenty years ago)

it's thanksgiving weekend! no one will be around.

i know! it's the reason i'll be around.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 04:21 (twenty years ago)

I'll be happy to entertain with anyone after the 28th.
Hey, Joe's Pub is hosting two free nights of Flamenco dancing. All ya gotta do is RSVP. Wanna have a FAP at my place of work? I know it's lame, but you're invited.
http://web.joespub.com/caltool/index.cfm?fuseaction=detail&performanceID=1475
http://web.joespub.com/caltool/index.cfm?fuseaction=month

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 04:23 (twenty years ago)

i actually can do something the night of the 30th if people are free... i'm all in favor of mid-week drinking.

― j b everlovin' r (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 06:06 (twenty years ago)

hrm, after i posted that (about the 30th), i got an e-mail entreating me to go to a work-related thing that won't let out until prolly 8:30. dec 2nd is still looking like the best option.

― 'you' vs. 'city hall' FITE (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

I'm coming on dec11!!! SKEET

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

If anyone is interesting in drinking with me on monday nights on the LES, I know a bar where you can still smoke and the bartender likes CRASH WORSHIP and ALEX IN NYC music.

Also, under 21s can drink. I was there till 2:45 am this week and my tab was $3 because I am a regular.

― Occam's Reznor (ex machina), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

Dec 2nd my not-quite-girlfriend is coming to town.... hmmm

― Occam's Reznor (ex machina), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

BRING HER

― 'you' vs. 'city hall' FITE (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

Hey that's great news, LC! Do you still have my #?

Dec. 2 sounds good, too

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

I AM DRINKINBG!!!!

― 'you' vs. 'radio gnome invisible 3' FITE (ex machina), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

i am not, and that makes me sad :( i have just been told to go "have a break"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

'you' vs. 'radio gnome invisible 3' FITE

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre500/e504/e504660vo26.jpg

― 'you' vs. 'city hall' FITE (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

Jody, I will be DJing and playing part of "You" on 12/14.

― 'you' vs. 'radio gnome invisible 3' FITE (ex machina), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

will you also play something from tuxedomoon's you?

http://www.sdcd.com/B2B/jsp/app/images/Scans/722415.jpg

― 'you' vs. 'city hall' FITE (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

I don't even know what that is!

― 'you' vs. 'radio gnome invisible 3' FITE (ex machina), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

gyeah TH i still got yr number! and guess what else? RV. awwww shit...

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

I'll be on the LES for Dec 2nd-4th. I will probably be doing stuff with my brother and sister most of the time since we haven't hung out in forever, but hopefully I can come out for drinks at some point!

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)

i'm not back in nynj until the 7th or so... and then of course i need to get a fake. later FAP anyone?

― nervous (cochere), Thursday, 24 November 2005 05:31 (twenty years ago)

we'll pick a bar that doesn't card.

― 'you' vs. 'city hall' FITE (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 24 November 2005 05:34 (twenty years ago)

i am in nj for thanksgiving weekend, i could be down for a nyc FAP.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 24 November 2005 05:34 (twenty years ago)

If there is ever a Wednesday FAP, I'll try to come. It's my only night off most weeks. (I know, not most people's best night for drinking. Fortunately Lady Sov's on a Weds., yay.)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 24 November 2005 05:36 (twenty years ago)

xp jbr: still puts me around the 7th unfortunately. but yeah. i'll go unshaven for a few days etc

― nervous (cochere), Thursday, 24 November 2005 05:36 (twenty years ago)

the night of the 7th is a wednesday. this kills two birds.

― 'you' vs. 'city hall' FITE (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 24 November 2005 05:38 (twenty years ago)

oh shit
time to figure out for sure when my last final is

― nervous (cochere), Thursday, 24 November 2005 05:39 (twenty years ago)

hopefully i won't need to go to any exciting city council housing forums that night!

― 'you' vs. 'city hall' FITE (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 24 November 2005 05:44 (twenty years ago)

ok, so i'm liking the idea of drinking midweek and i generally think it's funner to get people together on a boring weeknight than waste their valuable weekend time.

if any underage drunks are free next wednesday night (the 7th), can you recommend a bar that doesn't card? in an easy-to-get-to part of brooklyn, maybe on the F train? i like boat on smith street but i forget if they card.

― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

I don't remember Boat carding anyone last time I was there, but a lot of these places are completely intermittent with their carding skillz so I don't want to be held accountable for my last experience.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

shit
carding or lack thereof is going to make or break a dec7 FAP for me

― nervous (cochere), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

I've got a work Christmas do on Wednesday but I could pop in after that so I'd be on the later side (9-10pm). Yay Brooklyn booze-up. Can't help about the carding, soz.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

What!?!?! There's things in Brooklyn worth doing not off the first three L stops!?@?!@?1

― 'you' vs. 'radio gnome invisible 3' FITE (ex machina), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

honestly WHEN OH WHEN WILL I TURN 21

or have enough disposable cash to buy a fake

― nervous (cochere), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

o'connors? not terribly close to the trains, though.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

If anyone is interesting in drinking with me on monday nights on the LES, I know a bar where you can still smoke and the bartender likes CRASH WORSHIP and ALEX IN NYC music.

Also, under 21s can drink. I was there till 2:45 am this week and my tab was $3 because I am a regular.

jon makes this sound like fucking paradise on earth for me but i am slightly scared of him

― nervous (cochere), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

I'd go to O'Connors -- it's not far from the 7th Ave B/Q or that 1/9 stop on Flatbush (don't remember the name, though). Plus it's closer to me than JBR's neighborhood.

Can't booze on Mondays, though, or I'd try the LES smoke-fest.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

next monday is iffy for me. i can, but i have something big going on earlier that day that could totally sap my energy.

― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

Bring lotsa straws.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

o'connor's (apostrophe or no?) it is then.

it's the 2/3 train, but i'm not sure what the stop is.

― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

One of my friend's went home with someone from our monday night bar and didn't turn up for 2 days!

― 'you' vs. 'radio gnome invisible 3' FITE (ex machina), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

One of my friend's went home with someone from our monday night bar and didn't turn up for 2 days!

this could easily be me if i hang out with you guys because i have no way of getting back to nj after 2am or so and very few places to stay in nyc

― nervous (cochere), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

how are you coming in? PATH?

― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

Nerve, where do you live? Is this a train schedule thing?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

i'm down the raritan valley line from newark... i can generally get into newark penn fine with the PATH but there aren't any trains from newark to home until 5 or 6am and i know from being stranded there before that the station police don't look kindly upon drunks

but yeah, i'd probably be taking the PATH in

― nervous (cochere), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

come earlier, have some beers and shots, and take off whenever you need to!

― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

this could easily be me if i hang out with you guys because i have no way of getting back to nj after 2am or so and very few places to stay in nyc

-- nervous (forests.forest...) (webmail), November 30th, 2005 12:03 PM. (cochere) (later) (link)

R U CHIX!@?@#?@!?

haha anyway, I called my friend yesterday and she didn't know if she was in Brooklyn or Manhattan!

― 'you' vs. 'radio gnome invisible 3' FITE (ex machina), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

worse comes to worst, that's why all-night diners were invented! (xpost)

― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

Right, I understand NJT. Well, the 2/3 DOES go to Chambers St, so you can walk over from the WTC Path train easily from there and catch the 2/3 to Bergen St. (not far from the bar in question). Works out all right, all things considered. Have to keep an eye on the clock, that's all.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

Can someone post a googlemaps link to this bar?

― 'you' vs. 'radio gnome invisible 3' FITE (ex machina), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

xp haha sorry jon, no

but yeah, i'm guessing i'd probably come earlier, then try to meet up with one of my nyc friends from school to drink more and convince them to let me stay over. or just leave early and go home while the NJT trains are still running if worst comes to worst

― nervous (cochere), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

how's 7:30 for a rough-estimate start time? that would give people a chance to grab a slice after work, figure out train business, etc.

― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=39+5th+Ave,+Brooklyn,+NY+11217&spn=0.007652,0.020222&iwloc=A&hl=en

― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

That would be fine for me; I'll be a few later as I work in a coal mine and need to shower.

― 'you' vs. 'radio gnome invisible 3' FITE (ex machina), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

i'll be there to entertain all the unfashionable losers who show up early. :-P

― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

I don't know why I am obsessively reading a thread that is making me sad :(

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

Here is a much more helpful google map mashup with subways shown!

POKER SPAM

― 'you' vs. 'radio gnome invisible 3' FITE (ex machina), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

shit i totally forgot to mention that this monday doesn't even work for me. my first monday in the metro area is the 12th if you all are still up for it then

― nervous (cochere), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

I'm sorry, Allz, I wish you could attend. We can toast you, though, right after we toast JB's b-day. (If anyone has your cell no. we could call and toast you over the line.)

Nervous, we're talking about Wednesday, I believe...?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

in summary:

Wednesday, Dec. 7th, 7:30 p.m. - ?
O'Connor's
39 5th Avenue, Brooklyn (bet. Bergen and Dean)
2/3 train to Bergen St. station

subway map
google map

― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

Bah, JBRZ my link upthread pwns both :(*

― 'you' vs. 'radio gnome invisible 3' FITE (ex machina), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

Here is a much more helpful google map mashup with subways shown!

crashed my browser window. :-(

shit i totally forgot to mention that this monday doesn't even work for me. my first monday in the metro area is the 12th if you all are still up for it then

Nervous, we're talking about Wednesday, I believe...?

aye, wednesday.

aww... well, you know how to reach me.

― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

I'm coming on dec11!!! SKEET

ooh lecoq. tiefschwarz is playing on the 15th.

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

i posted on modreq asking for the details to be posted in the thread title.

― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

You never know who might show up for the required "controversy" so beloved in these circles.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

i bet you're a pussycat in person.

― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

thanks for the mod
teeny for god

― jbr's poetry corner (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

Nervous, we're talking about Wednesday, I believe...?

aye, wednesday.

oooh okay
my reading comprehension was terrible earlier

― nervous (cochere), Thursday, 1 December 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)

nervous, if your friend falls through, i'd be more than happy to supply you with a place to crash for the night. i know well the horrors of having to catch the $40 cab from newark late at night because i missed the last train out, so i sympathize. the raritan valley line, she is a CRUEL MISTRESS.

though fwiw i'm not sure i can actually attend this FAP. but let me know anyway.

― joseph (joseph), Thursday, 1 December 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

oh awesome, thanks

i shd probably swap cell phone numbers with a few of the people who are planning on attending, because i highly anticipate getting lost or confused

― nervous (cochere), Thursday, 1 December 2005 00:42 (twenty years ago)

actually unless this goes well past 10:30, i know for a fact i can't make it. my offer still stands anyway.

i'm wondering if the bar jon's talking about upthread isn't the bar i (used to?) DJ at. i have no idea if the dude who bartends on mondays likes "alex in nyc"-type music, but everything else you said pretty much applies.

― joseph (joseph), Thursday, 1 December 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)

Hey, I think I can come to this, maybe not until 8:30 or so. Will Morbius really be there? And Jon? And Brooklyn pavement? The drama.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 1 December 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

i anticipate pandemonium! rioting in the streets!

― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 1 December 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

Happy Birthday JBR! I am not going to be able to make it. I leave work relatively late and as you probably know, Williamsburg to other parts of Brooklyn is not fun.

― Mendoza Lineman (Carey), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

Carey, there is life off the first three L trains stops!

Joseph, W___ W___

― 'you' vs. 'radio gnome invisible 3' FITE (ex machina), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

I leave work relatively late and as you probably know, Williamsburg to other parts of Brooklyn is not fun.

i usually take the bus (the 61, right? i forget) from downtown brooklyn -> wburg, and it's smooth sailing. the subway is a nightmare however. cabs, god love 'em.

― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

oh actually i just realized too that i have to see my friend's band at Mercury lounge that night (deadly snakes) i think they go on next to last so maybe I can catch an F train after that or something and stop by for one drink.

― Mendoza Lineman (Carey), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

carey's the only one of us with a car, too.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

i kinda want to see that show... maybe we can hook up and go out together?

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

haha anyway, I called my friend yesterday and she didn't know if she was in Brooklyn or Manhattan!

-- 'you' vs. 'radio gnome invisible 3' FITE (dr_...) (webmail), November 30th, 2005 12:17 PM.

HHAHAH

Anyway, this FAP sounds like fun.

― Laura H. (laurah), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

i, too, like the idea of rock n roll leading to an irish bar with a fantastic jukebox. i've been avoiding this thread all week because i r being busy, but i like o'connor's and i love music, so it seems like a match made in heaven. even though the new facade on o'connor's is the suck!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

the new facade on o'connor's is indeed the suck.

also, i'd like to see carey have just one drink, heh.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

This seems a good a place as any to ask.

Anyone know any good karaoke places in Williamsburg or Manhattan (LES/WV/EV)? I have friends who want to go this Saturday. If any ILXors comes, they get to see me sing a duet of Journey.

― 'you' vs. 'radio gnome invisible 3' FITE (ex machina), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

This seems a good a place as any to ask.

Anyone know any good karaoke places in Williamsburg or Manhattan (LES/WV/EV)? I have friends who want to go this Saturday. If any ILXors come, they get to see me sing a duet of Journey.

― 'you' vs. 'radio gnome invisible 3' FITE (ex machina), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

EAT A MIC

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

there's an ok place on st. marks, and it has private rooms, but i like this one place on 34th street better (it's on the 7th floor of this building).

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

Yea, I am a bit leary of the place on St. Marks but it is good to know it has private rooms.

― 'you' vs. 'radio gnome invisible 3' FITE (ex machina), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

there's a sushi place on the lower east side, can't remember the name, they do 2-for-1 rolls all the time, and they have a big karaoke room in the back with flashing lights, etc that they let you book for free as long as you spend at least $200 .. i'll try to remember the name of it

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

Ehhhhh....

― 'you' vs. 'radio gnome invisible 3' FITE (ex machina), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

my recommendation is to find a place in koreatown and smuggle in your own booze.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

the place we always used is mbc (or mdc) studios. it usually ended up being about $12 per person per hour for a room.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

I went to a surprising place in Chinatown (WInnie's??) where the hostess would accompnay you on request, which was kind of charming, but they had a two-drink minimum and were military about enforcing it. And there weren't private rooms.

Otherwise Village Karaoke is easy, or Planet Rose on 13th and A is all right but again, yer doing your warbling in public. I'm SURE there are swank joints in K-town as Stence suggested -- and there must be two dozen places to choose from, the signs are right on the sidewalk! Some also have individual rooms set up for Pump, the Korean DDR variant, which is never NOT fun.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

i've had lots of fun at winnie's over the years but in addition to the kind of weak and pricey drinks, you have to pay at least a dollar per song (which you give when you hand in your request) and accusations of the hostess favoring certain customers are always rife. one of my friends, now a singer for a reasonably well-known band, was asked to leave one night after making a huge fuss when "whip it" never came up in the rota.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

some places may be crowded on saturday. i know there is one or 2 places in w'burg but i think they have karaoke on weeknights. village karaoke is prolly the way to go on saturday so you don't have to listen to serious karaoke'ers. there is a place called orange valve down the street from village karaoke that has karaoke in the basement/rumpus room and a 2 drink minimum. we had a fap there once and it was pretty good.

i do not like to drive and then drink and then drive. HSTENCIL.

― Mendoza Lineman (Carey), Friday, 2 December 2005 01:21 (twenty years ago)

hot hot HORSEY

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 2 December 2005 01:30 (twenty years ago)

do you guys think you will still be out late?

haha i guess this is a dumb question but i have a work obligation that night (the depeche mode show)

― maura (maura), Friday, 2 December 2005 03:31 (twenty years ago)

the more people show up, the better chance there is the party will rage til dawn. you have my #, right?

― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 2 December 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)

i don't -- e-mail it to me please!

― maura (maura), Friday, 2 December 2005 03:41 (twenty years ago)

done.

― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 2 December 2005 03:58 (twenty years ago)

This Wednesday, right?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 2 December 2005 04:02 (twenty years ago)

you are correct sir

― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 2 December 2005 04:10 (twenty years ago)

(all the info has been edited into the top post btw)

― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 2 December 2005 04:10 (twenty years ago)

can anyone do lunch tuesday?

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 2 December 2005 04:19 (twenty years ago)

what time?

― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 2 December 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

tuesday!? i'm dumb, i meant on wednesday

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Saturday, 3 December 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

If I can make this, I will be civil. West Side Story fans look elsewhere.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 3 December 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

Morbius
I might meet a man named Morbius
And suddenly that name
Will never be the same
To me

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 3 December 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

i'm really looking forward to wednesday! you guys better show up!

― The Great Pagoda of Funn (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 3 December 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

I will be there. I might bring friends. (To watch my back.)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 3 December 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

(I have two friends who live in the 'hood and both give O'Connors good marks.)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 3 December 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

O-Connor's is awesome. Except for the time I went with bnw and the bartender was mean to us and the people next to us at the bar were too.

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 3 December 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

morbius can beat them up.

― The Great Pagoda of Funn (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 3 December 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

Yes, and I think lauren has been away too long -- it's a 5-10 min. walk from like every subway line ever aside from the F.

Mary if you're talking about the rockabilly guy with the horn-rimmed glasses, he got fired.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 3 December 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

a friendly bump

― The Great Pagoda of Funn (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 5 December 2005 05:05 (twenty years ago)

'Deadly Snakes'?

― the bellefox, Monday, 5 December 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

I nearly came to NYC this week, I would have flown out today in fact. But it was a work trip and sadly got cancelled. One day ... one day.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 5 December 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

West Side Story? I was hoping for some hardboiled, Maltese Falcon, Humphrey Bogart on Elisha Cook Jr. action.

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 5 December 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

There could be Jerome Robbins-inspired balletic moves.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 December 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

will try to be there.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 04:25 (twenty years ago)

O'Connor's is ok except for the time when i popped in there with britishes gf before a bam movie back in september and got in an argument with some dude about hurricane katrina and whatnot. anyway, i don't think i can make it tomorrow pm, unless there's a last-minute change of venue to either sylvia's in harlem, or daddy's. : (

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 04:45 (twenty years ago)

not that i really want to elaborate but i felt like the dude i was arguing with really needed to know that it wasn't just black people who were rescued from the 9th ward, et al.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 04:50 (twenty years ago)

i thought they weren't rescuing pets.

*runs*

― mies van der rohffle (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 05:34 (twenty years ago)

WHITE PEOPLE ARE NOT YOUR PETS.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 05:48 (twenty years ago)

Joel, there's more to Brooklyn than Williamsburg

― GET EQUIPPED WITH METRO CARD (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 05:57 (twenty years ago)

THANK YOU I LIVE IN BUSHWICK>

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 06:16 (twenty years ago)

it wasn't just black people who were rescued from bushwick!

― mies van der rohffle (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 06:18 (twenty years ago)

rescued? from bushwick?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 06:23 (twenty years ago)

WHITE PEOPLE ARE NOT YOUR PETS.

there should be some sorta sign to this effect when folks enter greenpoint ...

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 06:23 (twenty years ago)

polish people aren't white?

― mies van der rohffle (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 06:24 (twenty years ago)

no, they're "ethnic"

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 06:27 (twenty years ago)

that's the point ... "exotic" white people (poles in greenpoint, hasidim in williamsburg, ukrainians in the east village) aren't there to please newcomers to the neighborhoods!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 06:28 (twenty years ago)

HELLOES BROOKLYN HEIGHTS

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 06:28 (twenty years ago)

(my laundrys downstairs)

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 06:28 (twenty years ago)

this is why i don't go to these things ... my attempted jokes always suck :-(

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 06:29 (twenty years ago)

Americans are so obsessed with all this ethnicity stuff!

I wonder what a bam movie is.

I dare say the fap will be very good!

― the bellefox, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

Stenc, you talk to strangers in bars? Ah youth.

Tom'w night's BAM movie is Richard Lester's How I Won the War featuring John Lennon.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

Americans are so obsessed with all this ethnicity stuff!

Because we have actual black people. I'm friends with them, you know!

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

I wonder what a bam movie is.

a movie at bam, duh.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

???

― the bellefox, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

XP to Jon: All of them? So if I mention you to my neighbors, they'll be glad to hear that your Aunt Kathy is feeling better?

See all y'allz on the late side tonight, 9-9.30.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

do we have to spell everything out for ya, pinefox????

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

Stenc, you need to talk me into buying a Saturday plan at Shea this summer. Soon if not tonight.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

IT'S ON BABY

― thor heyerdahl (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

they'll be glad to hear that your Aunt Kathy is feeling better?

I actually have an Aunt Kathy!

http://www.azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/82_folder/82_photos/82_564_heyerdahl_in_peru.jpg

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

THOR

― thor heyerdahl (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

I'm not sure when I'm arriving. I need food first... anything good nearby?

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

Not sure I'm gonna make it, but will try.

― Ken-Tiki (Ken L), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

i can't make it dudes :( :( :( shiiiiit
maybe next week

― nervous (cochere), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

have fun, everyone!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

you should all come! what warms the blood on a cold night better than booze? my russian ancestors survived many a cold winter with nothing but wodka and the skin of newly killed beasts.

― thor heyerdahl (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

Somehow that's reminding me of the Star Trek episode where Mr. Spock shacks up in the prehistoric cave with Mariette Hartley.

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

In which departing from his usual diet and eating the flesh of the woolly mammoth causes early onset of the Vulcan seven-year itch.

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

Tracer, he seemed more standard-issue Vice-esque, though I haven't really committed his looks to memory, but rather his attitude.

I am, however, saddened by the downsizing of glasses-wearing rockabilly gentlemen whatever their field of endeavor.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

xpost

"I have tasted animal flesh and enjoyed it..." Ken, you're evil.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

haha yes!

― thor heyerdahl (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

http://www.starwrecked.faketrix.com/contents/pics/page-4/large-files/Spock-bad-biker-dude.jpg

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

i have last-minute conflict. one of my oldest nyc friends is having a bday party tonight, and since i'm going to the mercury lounge early on i'm not going to be able to make it to o'connors. will someone kiss the jukebox for me?

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

Mary, horn-rim guy was a jerk. He really was. He was responsible for the re-cooling of O'Connor's -- he got the jukebox in, brought his friends, invited a few musical acts -- but he apparently felt that gave him license to yell at people for whatever reason he wanted. I don't know who else you could be talking about, Bart is really nice, although there have probably been others brought in who I don't know.

wow, lauren, that sucks!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

Lauren :(((((

― GET EQUIPPED WITH A TREAT (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

BOOOOOOOOOOOOO

― thor heyerdahl (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

i know, i know. i don't think there's any way around it, though. the friend i'm staying with got tickets for us to see deadly snakes, so that rules out stopping by early and i really have to go to my other friend's thing.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

but i want to have daddy's drinks on friday or saturday...

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

argh i can't do that. i'll probably just stay in harlem all weekend.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

Joel, be a man.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

fuck that.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

Hstencil: yes, I think you did need to spell that thing out, for me at least: what you referred to, in your link, is very obscure where I come from. I mean, no-one has ever heard of it. Of course, you could say that the whole thing is nothing to do with me anyway so I don't need or deserve to have it explained.

All the same, that is odd - 'bam'?

I still think the NYC frenzy for Deadly Snakes is curious. They are another thing that nobody has heard of here, I suppose.

I still think, also, that the fap will be good. Tracer Hand will be present!

― the bellefox, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

BAM = Brooklyn Academy of Music. seems logical enough to me.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

PS, other people are good too, not just Hand. He was just one example.

― the bellefox, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

Eisbar: that does sound logical, but going to a movie at such a place sounds odd.

― the bellefox, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

I must insist, pinefox, that this drumbeat of affection... continue!

My friend Claire, a redhead from Glasgow, visited Brooklyn recently and laughed when she saw the big sign for the Brooklyn Academy of Music. "Bam?? like a wee daftee ned?"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

WAM, BAM, thank you, pinefox!

― Kon-Tiki Reign (Ken L), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

The cinema is a relatively new addition, pf. BAM has been home to world-class music and dance performances since the American civil war. Caruso sang there.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

w/out hstencil, who would play Bill Clinton in Morbius-Jon (Rabin-Arafat) handshake photo?

(j/k ... maybe)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

Yeah. I was trying to find some James Joyce performance angle over there, but I came up short.

― Kon-Tiki Reign (Ken L), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

Goddamn, I can't find the picture of me pretending to be Yassir Arafat.... this will have to do:
http://hn.vnexpress.net/Vietnam/The-gioi/Tu-lieu/2004/11/3B9D84E3/Lo-au.jpg

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

what you referred to, in your link, is very obscure where I come from. I mean, no-one has ever heard of it

no-one except the Royal Shakespeare Company!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

B-b-b-ut what about those who have already bet money on the Rope-A-Dope In The Slope?

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

That's cheap, gabbneb. Have you heard of the Coliseum, or Drury Lane? No doubt some of your favorite American performers have played there, too.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

it was said with good humor; i thought pf was right.

i have heard of drury lane, but dunno what it is.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

i know what the almeida is

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

What is it?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

A. bigger than a breadbox
B. pi r squared
C. Islington experimental-ish theatre place apparently per website also with opera

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps you should have photos propped up of various absent ILX0rs- for instance, that one picture of Ned- like on the Tropicalia album cover.

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

http://www.movie-montage.com/images/upload/828.jpg

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

I've already got Ally printed out.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

You know the impending transformation of Dr. Morbius into Dr. Bromius is kind of scary.

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

In fact, if I actually do make it to this FAP, I will have nothing to say, having already shot my wizad on this thread.

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

Get you, Ken. I'll just ask about your kiddos and you'll go all Pround Papa on us!

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

When I need to go home, can someone point me to the G train? O_o

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

We'll point you to the B48 bus, J, it runs all night and stops at Metropolitan & Lorimer.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

I have yet to master the buses of Brooklyn. But hmm... I think the B48 goes to Lorimer and Broadway right?

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

It goes up Lorimer, so probably to Bway, yes. Although I think Jody mentioned a different bus the other day which is probably more convenient to O'Connor's.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/nyct/maps/busbkln.pdf

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

oh shit the deadly snakes are playing tonite?? is it sold out?

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

The B48 is pretty far away!

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

Would this be too difficult for Jon to do?
Get one 2/3 train at Bergen Street, get off at Hoyt Street
Walk two short blocks to Hoyt-Schermerhorn, get one G train

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, nevermind, the B48 is what I take to Wburg cos it stops by my house. You COULD take the B65 East on Dean to the B48 but that's gotta be stretching it.

Haha, Ken. I know nothing about Hoyt/Sch station but I suspect you are right! The times I have mistakenly gotten off there (due to construction or etc) it has seemed like the middle of nowhere.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

How late are people going to be staying?

― Laura H. (laurah), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

Until other people go home or I fall asleep, I imagine.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

The G train looks like it stops not far from this place...

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

It's a good 15-min walk from the G Fulton stop.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

a good 15 minute walk is good for you

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

i don't even think it's 15 minutes, it's almost a straight shot by the atlantic center, past the u-haul place, and over. too bad i can't go.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

It is like less than 10 actual blocks.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

HELLO

daerest everyone

Can u guys do this again, on the 17th or 18th?

thanks in advance!

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

sure, i think "REMY" will be in town on like... the 13th?

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

ill be in NYC on 12/17!

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

Ally, is Tom coming to break my ribs?

― GET EQUIPPED WITH TOM BOT (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

we should be getting into NYC like at 10 on 12/17! we could do 12/17!

xpost why, are you planning on doing something to piss him off?

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

No, just jokes. Jokes!!!! Is he coming?

― GET EQUIPPED WITH JUST JOKES (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

12/17, can we celebrate my birthday?

i will prob. stop by for a drink or two tonight. a bus down fifth avenue is incredibly simple, and it runs pretty frequently.

― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

yeah he is coming, he doesn't allow me out of his sight. :```(

we celebrate birthday, that sounds good.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

The 17th should work for me, some colleagues are having a bash at um, Red Sky Bar but I think it's missable. Although they did promise a roof garden, ie SMOKING.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

If I wimp out tonight, there's always the 3-way gay rasslefight option w/ Tombot & Jon next time then.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

yeah he is coming, he doesn't allow me out of his sight. :```(

He's just practicing his G-Man training.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

I was about to make a gay joke and Morbius had made it already.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

I was about to make a gay joke and Morbius had made it already. :(

― GET EQUIPPED WITH OLD HAT (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

All right, I'm gonna come by for a drink or two around 8, but no more because Christmas has given me the gift of poverty.

― Laura H. (laurah), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

WE'RE CORSICAN BROS

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

Hopefully there will be a screening at BAM suitable to all parties.

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

I'm already missing How I Won The War, BAM is dead to me now.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

Actually we get in at like 10 on the 16th. The 17th is Saturday, then we wake up and back and go back to the Dick Cutler that afternoon. Trains. Yay.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

when i met tombot, he did not break my ribs. and i have given him reason to do so, if he felt like it.

so the ribcages of all y'all are safe!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

that afternoon = sunday, the 18th.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

I only break the ribs of people I have never actually disagreed with. Hence, RJG + Bryan.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

so the ribcages of all y'all are safe!

http://www.markta.co.uk/alien/screens6/alien_125.JPG

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

I don't know that anyone who knows my face is coming to this, so I could really have some fun heah.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

Oh, god we're drinking at the office :(

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

Hi. I will see you folk 8ish. I look lame today.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:31 (twenty years ago)

I don't know that anyone who knows my face is coming to this, so I could really have some fun heah.

Nobody knows mine either, so I could get there first and be you.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

I could bring a non ILX friend and have them be YOU!

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004CXIG.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

http://www.filmtotaal.nl/images/wallpapers/full/nationaltreasure/4_800.jpg

― GET EQUIPPED WITH TOM AND ALLY? (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

gyspy mothra, I think you are too modest when you say nobody knows what you look like.

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

Apart from a couple pix on whatdoyoulooklike threads, I mean. I haven't met anyone in person. I don't think.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

i'm leaving for this in a few minutes. most of you know what i look like, but i'll be dressed in black and wearing a ponytail.

― thor heyerdahl (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 23:47 (twenty years ago)

the deadly snakes are also playing pianos tomorrow and maxwells sat. i do not think it is sold out since there did not seem to be advance tix.

― Mendoza Lineman (Carey), Thursday, 8 December 2005 01:30 (twenty years ago)

sorry i left early. sleepy.

― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Thursday, 8 December 2005 03:55 (twenty years ago)

i got stuck doing a bunch of dumb-ass shit :(

i am raising a leffe to you, though, JBR, and everyone else!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 8 December 2005 04:40 (twenty years ago)

thanks for the drunk-dial, laurel! (and hi everyone, again.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 December 2005 04:44 (twenty years ago)

OMG IT'S COLD

― thor heyerdahl (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 December 2005 05:19 (twenty years ago)

TOO COLD FOR A JEROME ROBBINS THROWDOWN

― thor heyerdahl (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 December 2005 05:24 (twenty years ago)

tonight, tonight, i'll see my love tonight and for us stars will stop where they are because they're fucking frozen in place

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 8 December 2005 05:27 (twenty years ago)

COLLLLLLLLLD

― thor heyerdahl (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 December 2005 05:35 (twenty years ago)

i missed it :(

but if anyone wants to go to a free gig today (thursday) with me (Francois K is DJing, plus free beer) in soho, lemme know! i have a +4. it's from 6-9 pm.

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 8 December 2005 07:02 (twenty years ago)

Good time all around!

Jon seems to be a sweet lad who kills ennui by being playfully dickish on the intranets (I can't relate AT ALL). I even stole a (manly) (curiously satisfying) hug. Come to NY and get yours, Ned and Dan!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 December 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

Everyone was great! Let's do it again soon, I didn't get nearly enough time to chat up Laura and I purely neglected Ken & Morbius.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 8 December 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

I didn't get nearly crunked enough.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Thursday, 8 December 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

JOHN LILLY ran dolphin research facilities in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Coral Gables, Florida. In the years after Green Bank, Morbius often visited on winter vacations. This allowed him to combine his love of snorkeling with his continuing interest in Lilly's attempts to communicate with these "alien" intelligences.

Marine mammals were a pop-culture phenomenon. There was a TV show, Flipper, about a dolphin as anthropomorphic as those in Lilly's tales -- though a good deal less overtly sexual. Lilly advised Flipper's producer, Ivan Tors, and two of Lilly's dolphins appeared in a movie version of Flipper. Lilly's books on dolphins became best-sellers. His example must have been on Morbius's mind as he forged his own writing career.

In winter 1963 Morbius met "Elvar." Elvar with the voluntary erections. Lilly took Morbius into a room with a large tank of sea water. Elvar poked his head above the water.

"Morbius, this is Elvar," Lilly announced. "Elvar, this is Morbius."

Elvar expertly smacked his head against the water surface. A neat spray of water nailed Morbius in the forehead.

Lilly left Morbius and Elvar alone. The dolphin lolled in the water like a happy dog. Soon Morbius was scratching his belly. The dolphin would periodically dive, swim to the opposite end of the tank, and return for more scratching. Morbius tired of this before the dolphin did. Elvar reared up out of the water, balancing a moment on tail flukes and emitted a single word: "More!"

At least, it sounded like "more." It was a high-pitched monosyllabic squeak.

Morbius went and found Lilly attending some electronic equipment. He informed him, excitedly, that Elvar had said "more."

"Was it in context?" Lilly wanted to know.

"Yes, it was in context."

"Good," Lilly said. "That's one of the words he knows."

* * *

Lilly believed his dolphins could speak English -- not well, of course, and their vocabulary was limited. Morbius was not so sure. He was fascinated by all he saw in Lilly's finny kingdom. But it was never clear what was "real" and what was anthropomorphizing. Lilly sometimes seemed unmotivated to make these distinctions.

Lilly would talk about the great experiments he was going to do. Then another year would go by, Morbius would see him the next winter, and it would turn out that the actual, controlled experiment had still not been done. Lilly would spin another colorful tale. They had been trying out the concept when the dolphin did the damndest thing . . . One year, some of the captive dolphins committed suicide -- or such was Lilly's understanding. Lilly gallantly set the surviving dolphins free. These anecdotes were what made Lilly's books on the dolphin so engaging. But "the really critical scientific tests were somehow never performed," Morbius complained.

Morbius tried to nudge Lilly along. He outlined specific experiments and controls that would actually prove something. It had not even been established that dolphins can communicate arbitrary information to other dolphins. Until then, everything else Lilly did would rest on shaky ground.

Morbius suggested a Bach vs. Beatles experiment. They would teach a dolphin to distinguish between the music of Bach and the Beatles (dolphins have excellent hearing). The dolphin would be rewarded with tasty fish every time it tapped a fish dispenser that was playing Beatles music underwater (say) but never when it tapped an identical dispenser playing Bach.

Then they would introduce a new dolphin that knows nothing about music and how the fish dispensers work. A barrier would now prevent the "educated" dolphin from tapping the fish dispensers. Only the uneducated dolphin would be free to do that. Every time the uneducated dolphin hit the "right" dispenser, both dolphins would get food.

The educated dolphin would then have an incentive to "instruct" the new dolphin on the way to get food. If dolphins communicate, that would be demonstrable (in many tests, with many pairs of dolphins) by the greater slopes of the learning curves.

* * *

Lilly never performed this experiment. He suspected that if dolphins were to learn human speech, it would have to be through "total immersion," through being isolated from other dolphins and living with a human, hearing only human speech.

This naturally entailed "total immersion" for the human, too. Lilly envisioned a flooded house. It would be a home with the comforts of middle-class suburbia, only there would be water in it. Dolphins would glide freely among the human occupants' legs. In such a house dolphins might learn human language. It could even, Lilly speculated, be the foundation of a future utopia in which humans and dolphins would co-exist as equal partners.

A frustrated romance of Morbius's played a small role in Lilly's most famous dolphin study. One night in St. Thomas, Morbius dined at a remote mountaintop restaurant. The hostess caught his eye. She was an attractive young woman with dark hair and a healthy, tomboyish quality. Her name was Margaret Howe. She told Morbius that she was bored. Her job as a hostess was evenings only. She wanted something else to occupy her on the island.

Morbius tried to get Howe into bed. Howe rebuffed him, but the meeting had one result: Morbius introduced Howe to anthropologist Gregory Bateson, who was then running the St. Thomas facility. This led to a job and plunged Howe into one of the most unusual experiments of the 1960s.

In the summer of 1965, Howe lived in the company of "Peter," a male dolphin, 24 hours a day, six days a week in a simplified flooded house. There are surreal photographs of Howe working efficiently at a desk or chatting on the telephone, eyed curiously by a dolphin as her whole environment is sopping in 24 inches of water.

"A dolphin is more like a shadow than a roommate," Howe said. The thing would stay by her all day and never leave. She could talk on the phone for hours. The dolphin wouldn't get bored. It wouldn't leave. As weeks passed, Howe was subject to depression and crying jags. "I have found that during the day I will find any excuse to get out of the flooded room," she wrote in her diary. (Lilly meanwhile was contemplating a flooded car for the future bi-species society.)

Peter began exhibiting courting behavior. He lightly nibbled Howe's legs, getting erections, and rubbing against her ardently. As a matter of expediency, Howe took to giving the dolphin hand jobs. Peter would "reach some sort of orgasm, mouth open, eyes closed, body shaking, then his penis would relax and withdraw." Dolphin libidos being what they are, this had to be repeated two or three times; then, finally, the dolphin could concentrate on its lessons.

That made for a pretty good conversation stopper. Otherwise the experiment's results were debatable. It seemed that Peter learned to say "hello" and "ball" and parrot consonant sounds. When Howe asked Peter to get the ball, he would often get the cloth.

* * *

After this experiment, Morbius visited St. Thomas and played a game of catch with Peter. Morbius threw the ball to Peter, and Peter dove under it and batted it back with his snout. His aim was as accurate as a human's. Then, after a few volleys, the dolphin began returning the ball far to the side of Morbius. Peter was toying with Morbius, performing an "experiment" of his own. Figuring that two can play that game, Morbius retrieved the ball one last time and held it, treading water.

For about a minute, both mammals stood their ground. Peter gave in. He swam into Morbius's side of the tank, circling him, repeatedly brushing past him. This puzzled Morbius. It didn't seem like the dolphin's tail flukes had brushed him. Then he realized the dolphin had a hard-on.

The frustrated triangle of Morbius, Howe, and Peter was worthy of Sartre. There was a further twist. Peter was one of Lilly's ex-actor dolphins. Morbius had been propositioned by Flipper.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Thursday, 8 December 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

I wear my Flipper t-shirt and Jon turns into George C Scott.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 December 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

sorry i missed it, i had 6 last minute houseguests.

― Mendoza Lineman (Carey), Thursday, 8 December 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

The weird thing about that passage is that Lilly's full name is John Cunningham Lilly. Which is, uh, my name, minus the Lilly part.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 December 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

Are we going to FAP while Lauren is still in town???????

― GET EQUIPPED WITH A TREAT (ex machina), Thursday, 8 December 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

When does Lauren leave? WIll a fissure open up and swallow us all if we have a Lauren, a Laura, and a Laurel in the same room? What are the odds that anyone will refer to us by the right names?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 8 December 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

I will.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Thursday, 8 December 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

I sat between Jon and Morbius for a long time without incurring any damage. Sterling Clover thought I was Ken C.

I always thought Dr. Morbius was named after the guy in Forbidden Planet.

Were Laurel and Laura even there at the same time last night? I can't remember.

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 8 December 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't it Laurel who gave me the (entirely unintended but fair) smackdown of transforming my excitement over The Rockford Files DVD into "I need to get that for my dad!" Call me your one-man Boomer Focus Group.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 December 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

i was stuck at work until 10 because of a bursted pipe.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 8 December 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

last night was great! i wish we'd raged against the dying of the light instead of going home early like the wusses we are, but it's cool.

highlights:

-morbius' flipper shirt!
-gypsy's cameraphone baby photo ("wanna see a picture of my kid" moments are ALWAYS classic)!
-cheap drinks!
-jon and ian and laura all being adorable and worthy of their own sitcom

― thor heyerdahl (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 December 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

I found my way to the G, but you guys sent me to the atlantic ave station first. :*(

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Thursday, 8 December 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

but it's only about a block from there, innit?

― thor heyerdahl (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 December 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Damn, *I* told you to go PAST the Williamsburg Bank building! Always listen to the old guy.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 December 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Yea, but I had to backtrack because I forgot that 5th ave turns in Fort Greene.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

Oh you know I don't mean anything by that, Morbs. Hell, *I* like the Rockford Files, my dad and I used to watch it together -- that and Nascar on Sundays.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

Everybody = very nice. Conversations about Rochester w/Jon, parenthood w/Ken, movies w/Ken and Morbs, urban planning w/jbr, Nicholson Baker w/Laurel & Nitsuh. And I got to tell Sterling that he's an excellent writer (not that he needs my endorsement). I got pulled away by some friends from the neighborhood (newlyweds just returned from honeymoon in Buenos Aires). But it was great to meet some ilxors in the flesh.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

I know, Laurel! I think my dad and I used to watch Rockford Files when we'd recovered from screaming at each other over This Week with David Brinkley.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

So, uh, I guess Laurel wants me to tell you guys that I'm going to be in town next Friday to play a show at Rothko. You're of course welcome to come to the show itself (the Damnwells headline), but I might also just try to arrange drinks around there afterwards.

(We go on around 8 and will probably play for around 45 minutes, so the rest of the evening is more or less free -- except I'd like to stay in the area because all my equipment will probably still be in the club until the show's over.)

Anyway. Yeah. No pressure.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

(That's Friday the 16th, btw.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

the Damnwells headline

whoa, that's weird. say hi to alex the main guy for me.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

whoa is everyone going to be in town friday and saturday of next week

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

Who else?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

say hi to alex the main guy for me.

Yeah? I think the first time I heard of them was from Nicolas Z. -- is there a B@rd connection?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

yeah alex and ted from that band went to bard, were in nick's class. say hi to ted for me too, prolly won't be able to make the show.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

I'm always in town, and after I see How I Won the War tonight we may have new grist for our Hawkeye-Hot Lips electricity, Ally.

I saw the Damnwells play often at Great Lakes.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

Who else?

Oh wait, you mean you. I keep forgetting you don't live there anymore.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

yay to everyone who enjoyed themselves!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

ill be in nyc on saturday 12/17!

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

I might be in the city for the weekend of 12/16.

― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

yay, maria! i think that ally and tombot will be in town then, too!!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

I'm supposed to be going to a costume exhibit on the eve of the 16th but I'll get to Rothko somehow, whether I resched. the other thing or combine them. But I'd like to actually see Jay's band. Will advise.

And we are DEFINITELY on for Sat, the 17th. Can we start drinking at, like, 4pm??

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

Man, I wish I could stay for the whole weekend. But we're going to Pittsburgh on Saturday.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

you all should come see my band play at the mercury lounge on tuesday. fuckers.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

I also just found out that Ned, Dan, Spencer, Geeta, Luna, Tuomas, Steve M, Lixi, Ed, suzy, Masonic Kate, electric sound of jim, Andrew, Calum, and Conner Smedley are coming to NYC that weekend as well. Obviously we should all meet up at the Angel's Share.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

Calum?

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

B-b-but TOMBOT, Angel's Share... oh I get it.

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

geir and ethan, too. it'll be like godzilla meets gamara, or something.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

jon and ian and laura all being adorable and worthy of their own sitcom

so true! i try to explain this to ilxors in other cities when i'm inevitably asked if i've ever met jon and ian, but i don't think i do them justice.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I knew Ted of the Dawnwells a little bit as well. Jaymc, everybody you know named Ted I know.

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 8 December 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

i try to explain this to ilxors in other cities when i'm inevitably asked if i've ever met jon and ian, but i don't think i do them justice.

http://www.filmint.nu/bilder/netonly/artikelbilder/matrix/Bill-&-Ted-7.jpg

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

i should just print that picture out and carry it around with me.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

L to R

cutty, dan selzer, laura, hstencil, ddb, sexyDancer, gygax, adamRL

Ian and Me in front.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

hahahahaha OTM and I haven't even met you

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

works quite well.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

ddb as genghis khan is fucking gold.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

genghis khan was the funniest of all of them in that film.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

"socrates"

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

pronounced "sew-krates"

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

yes, we've all seen it.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

Not me! I turned it off after 20 minutes. (Steve Martin did "sew-krates" first)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

that's really sad, morbius.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

Morbius. Come on. The first 20 minutes of the movie are only ok. Not so hot. The rest of it is completely brilliant. You should see Bogus Journey, it's really awful but has these kind of out of nowhere riffs on foreign cinema classics.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

http://www.bide-et-musique.com/images/pochettes/2267.jpg

― thor heyerdahl (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 December 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

Someday I'll try again, if one of you gets me stoned.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 December 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

Dschingis Khan's self-titled song is one of the greatest songs ever recorded.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 8 December 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

L to R
cutty, dan selzer, laura, hstencil, ddb, sexyDancer, gygax, adamRL
Ian and Me in front.

-- GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD

haha OTM!

I had a great time last night! Nice to meet all of you I didn't know, and happy birthday again to JBR. Sorry I took off almost as soon as you got there, Laurel, but I'm sure I'll see you at the next FAP.

― Laura H. (laurah), Thursday, 8 December 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

Is "JOIN THE MARINES" the equiv of the Alaskan Military School???

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 9 December 2005 02:27 (twenty years ago)

omg otm

― jw (orion), Friday, 9 December 2005 04:33 (twenty years ago)

when are we going to have a bill & ted fap (catered by burritoville, for that san dimas flava)?

― thor heyerdahl (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 9 December 2005 07:54 (twenty years ago)

There's talk of a third movie where they're 40ish and potbellied, so that works for me.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

I'm in.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

Keanu Reeves is already 40ish! Also I'm in!

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

maybe we can get keanu reeves to come out?

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 9 December 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

ok dudes seriously do we want to hang out on Saturday?

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

Remy probably won't be here still Saturday. :((((

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

Is anyone going to any of the Keiji Haino shows Thurs-Sat?

12/15 Thursday
8 and 10 pm
Purple Trap
Haino Keiji (voice, guitar) Bill Laswell (bass) Rashied Ali (drums)

12/16 Friday
8 and 10 pm
Fushitsusha
Haino Keiji (voice, guitar, percussion) Trevor Dunn (bass) Mike Pride (drums)

12/17 Saturday
8 and 10 pm
Haino Keiji Duo
Haino Keiji (voice, guitar, percussion) Yoshida Tatsuya (drums, voice)

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

Hell yes, Ally. Should we start with dinner or collect $200 and go straight to the bouze?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

I don't undertstand why you are making a sad face, Jon????

I say go straight to the booze unless people actually can come up with a coordinate for dinner! It's much easier that way, to just name a bar.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

The second to last time I had a dinner fap I ended up with a broken chair, remember Laurel?

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

Uh, no. Where WAS that??

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

aaron w ended up with two broken chairs after the yoko cho dinner fap. he and i found them while drunkenly walking to meet you guys post-meal. somehow he managed to get both of them back to his apartment, but he didn't remember it the next day. until he saw them in his living room.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

dinner at gray's papaya then beer at ___________________

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

there's actually a party at my apartment on saturday but unlike previous parties at my old place, i wanna be nowhere near this one.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

I'll come to the Friday or Saturday show if you want to go, Jon. Do we need tickets in advance?

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

tease us with the house party and then rip it out from under us, i see how it is.

I'm ok with bk or LES locations. i just don't have any actual suggestions.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

dude, if you wanna go there, go ahead, just don't expect to see me, esp. if i'm still sick.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

...

anyway, Laurel, it was at my house! I've refused dinners since then.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

Right, dudes. Who's going to suggest a time and/or venue for Saturday? I nominate time = on the early side so we can hold seats and venue = LES pref. but I'm not going to be picky cos it's too cold to sit outside anyway.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

I was going to ASK if it had been at your house, but then I thought "that's silly, she wouldn't be remarking on HER OWN CHAIR THAT SHE OR HER REVOLVING CAST OF CRAZY THESPIAN FRIENDS MUST HAVE BROKEN."

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

b-but why wouldn't she? anyway, i'm in, i think.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

everyone buy me birthday drinks and i promise i won't puke on you.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

Laurel, you seriously don't remember the circumstances in which my chair was broken? It was broken by an ILXor (not present on this thread) and that is all I will say here!

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

I'll buy you a b-day drink, Ian.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

I'm in for this. Let's go somewhere where we can actually hear each other talk?

― Laura H. (laurah), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

Do we need tickets in advance?

no.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

Laura OTM.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

let's just go to daddy's. anywhere on the lower east side on a saturday night will be a pit of douchebaggery.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

Hear you talk? I get enough of that here on the board -- I just go to FAPs to gaze at your beautiful, beautiful faces.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

A little less conversation, babe -- let's not ruin it.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

i won't be there, but here's a suggestion anyway: vasmay on suffolk & houston (used to be meow mix). cute girl bartenders, strong and reasonably priced drinks, jukebox, and never very crowded, especially if people will be going early. it's really dive-y, though - kind of mars bar lite.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

nitsuh since leaving NY I've become haggard and now resemble Bea Arthur.

daddy's sounds good to me.

xpost I didn't even know meow mix closed!

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

mars bar is soooooo lame.

daddy's is inconvenient for a lot of people.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

Okay now Ally, when you posted that, were you or were you not aware that I have kind of a thing for Bea Arthur? (I have all her albums.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

I'd take Lauren's suggestion, unless anyone objects...? Divey is perfect. I propose a starting bid for 8pm -- let the haggling begin.

(Don't know where Daddy's is but I'd rather LES than Wburg, if anyone's counting.)

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

doods can we name something convenient then since none of it is technically convenient for me so I have no suggestions? i know where daddy's is and i like it=i'm gon say yes to it. i think lauren's suggestion sounds ok but mars bars is kinda lame so that kind of put me off for 10 seconds. 8pm or 9pm is ok by me too, i should be done with my shit by then.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

sorry to be a beyotch but I'm coordinating with some non-ILXors too who are notorious for flaking if I last-minute my plans with them. I am thinking of a place downtown that was ok vis a vis talking-ability and pricing-range but can't remember A) the streets B) what it's called so I'm pretty fucking useless at this game.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

uh-oh. i'm in trouble if vasmay happens to suck that night, aren't i?

xpost - let me clarify the mars bar lite thing. i meant that in a good way, like a friendly neighborhood hard-drinking bar with sassy girl bartenders and a few patrons perpetually asleep in the corner. however, it smells better (usually) and i've never seen a skinhead riot there and they don't let the druggy crustpunks in and you will get in trouble if more than one person goes into the bathroom at a time.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

I'd like go with Lauren's suggestion because she is a treat and the location is good.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

i just wish i could be there.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

no skinhead riots?!?!?! oh then I'm out, etc.

xpost vasmay it is then.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

one more thing about vasmay: there isn't much table seating. there are a lot of seats around the bar, the perimeter windows, and the pool table, but you can't sit around a big table facing each other. i've gone there several times with large groups and this has never been a problem, but it depends on how you want to interact I suppose.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

they don't let the druggy crustpunks in

but but but... how will i get in??

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

Any other problems??!?!?! xpost

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

Tom will just punch people who try to sit, if past experience is anything to go by.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

i'll stop now. i feel like i'm just confusing matters.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

GIS result for "guys everything will be ok" not very reassuring.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

http://www.smdc.army.mil/SMDCPhoto_Gallery/Eagle/Nov04/musical%20chairs-041014-A-1971B-084%20lr.jpg

http://www.4to40.com/images/games/4fun/musicalchair/musical_chair.gif
http://www.10-7.com/humor/photopages/musical%20chairs.jpg

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

I think breaking into small, sodden groups is better for convo anyway, Lauren. Staring at each other across a big table leads to only talking to your immediate neighbor, and what if your neighbor is ME?! Perish the thought.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

We should invade the bar of that chinese restaurant... Although those are well lit so Tom and I will look bad :(

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

"that" chinese restaurant... there are like a dozen of these!

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

I prefer super-well-lit Japanese take outs that inexplicably have cheapo karaoke machines.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

small, sodden groups: too competitive!

nabisco, wd that include Mame and whatever Weill thing Bea did on Broadway?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

but one large group just staring at each other is a recipe for everyone to secretly hate one another.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

fuck it we should just go to daddy's.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

Daddy's is annoying on weekends too.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

i like going somewhere new.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

i don't.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

While I've recommended it before, it's kinda small, it's only low-booths-and-bar-stools, and it's in the apparently-verboten West Village, let me recommend again WXOU Radio

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

http://www.corante.com/mooreslore/archives/images/cat%20herder.jpg

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

wxou is nice. they've got a sister bar in the east village - the tile bar on 7th & 1st.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

so what is the plan? i dont really see anything concrete. just lots of talk about daddy's [which i like]. day? time? details.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

they also have another sister bar called, er, the magician

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

Gods and little fishes, can we agree on a bar? Is anyone flatly refusing to go to Vasmay? I will go to Wburg under duress but it's kind of a pain in my ass esp waiting for the bus home on a cold night.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

Day and time seem to be fairly concrete, def Saturday and either 8 or 9 start time til ???.

the venue controversy is beyond me at this point.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

At this rate, I don't even want to bring up Friday night!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

my recommendation was more of a general one, as it's unlikely I'd make it anyway

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

let's all get forties and drink on the N train.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

best plan ever!

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

The Magician is a no no, I refuse to set foot in there ever again on a weekend.

Don't have any problem whatsoever with WXOU and have always liked it fairly well with the exception of possible smallness? ie if it gets v. crowded that could be bad.

Don't mind Daddy's as a place but have similar transport concerns to Laurel's.

Never been to Vasmay but I see no problem with it.

N Train is accessible to all and convenient to transportation and I have no arguments against it.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

i'm just being a grouch because i hate the lower east side, but i will go there for an hour or two if i must. it just seems that whenever i hang out there for longer than a few hours, i get really angry and sad.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

ATTN JAYMC: remember the thread that Alex NYC started inviting people to FAP with him, that contained photos of myself, Laurel, and Carey? WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THAT BAR WE WERE AT???

You've got 45 minutes.

xpost why?? Though it is yr birthday.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

Jaymc, I have a late-night thing Friday night, but I'm reserving time to come see you guys first. I'll be expecting a cover of "Talking to a Computer."

Apparently it would be most convenient for everyone to just have our FAP online via webcam and AIM??

Ally are you talking about Tom & Jerry's?

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

Yes I am. The spacious place with the cat that roams around and the quaint smoking swinging-bench. Is that Tom & Jerry's?

re: Friday night we don't get in til late on Friday so it's most likely not a thang for us to go out, if we do it wouldn't be for very long :(

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

Yes, Nabisco is right: Tom & Jerry's.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

place with cat = my choice.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I'm sorry -- were you testing Jaymc's magnificent recall of every detail ever mentioned on ILX? Sorry if I ruined that one.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

All right! T&J going once, going twice....

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

Testing AND trying to find a venue. Tom & Jerry's has that delightful cat who sits on top of the jukebox and lets people play with him. Bars w/cats are the bestest.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

I had to look that up, actually.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

Tom and Jerry's is great!

nabisco, I bet I have more Bea Arthur records than you do.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

I would not doubt Rosemary on this point.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

Yes, this cat bar sounds good. Let's just do that. Where is it exactly?

― Laura H. (laurah), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

288 Elizabeth St, it's on the corner of Elizabeth and Houston

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

right past one of those weird mini-junkyard/antiques dealers that sell like broken bird baths and old signs people have stolen.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

there are like 3 of those places on houston. what gives?

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

cats love LES? We used to have a cat in the neighborhood local up on UWS but, uh, a drunk friend of mine played Soccer Practice with the cat and we got permanently banned, for 3 days.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)

The internet really does have a picture for everything, doesn't it?

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

i seem to remember aaron w. picking up an orange chair in front of luna lounge? one night and I told him to rub it with a dryer sheet. I think I thought I was Heloise or something and made that up. If transit strike happens, I am drinking at Daddy's all weekend or that new Irish PUB near Graham that used to be blue lady lounge.

― Mendoza Lineman (Carey), Thursday, 15 December 2005 03:21 (twenty years ago)

Like hstencil, I am still sickish and may not recover in time.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 December 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

If the transit strike happens I'll be at Freddy's or O'Connor's, because I can walk to both in a pinch, crying into my beer for missing Allyzay. Okay, I don't really like beer -- can I cry into a white russian?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 15 December 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

Guys, transit strike is not going to happen.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 15 December 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

y u say that, ally?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 15 December 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

Because if transit strike happens then I will have no choice but to destroy your entire city, one ribcage at a time.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 15 December 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

You may want to pass that on to the union leadership

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 15 December 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=288+Elizabeth+St,+New+York,+NY

looks like jmz,bdfv all get within spitting distance.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 16 December 2005 02:29 (twenty years ago)

Time? 9-10ish?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 December 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

I'm showing around 9ish. Is there a CONTINGENCY PLAN in case of TRANSIT EMERGENCY that I should know of before 5pm today? Fuck it, I gots phone #s.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 16 December 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

ill be there around 9!

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 16 December 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

I have been to Tom & Jerry's!

There seemed to be doubt over whether it was really called Tom & Jerry's.

― the bellefox, Friday, 16 December 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

I believe it is just called "288 Elizabeth St" officially.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 16 December 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

No scheduled transit crisis til Monday midnight.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 December 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

You made my day! So see everyone at 9ish at T&J's Saturday! I am v. excited!

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 16 December 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

I'm going to aim for 10:00. I may or may not be high on TheraFlu Thin Strips.

― Paul Eater (eater), Friday, 16 December 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

Wait, when did we decide on Friday (today)?

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Friday, 16 December 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

Friday?

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 16 December 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

What about Friday? We're seeing Jay's band tonight at Rothko (8pm); social event following is entirely optional and will probably stay at that club or near by. Several people are arriving late and/or cutting out early, some people can't make it at all (Ally & Tom will probably arrive too late & tired, for instance) so it's kind of not an official FAP. Further Qs?

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 16 December 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

Oh, L@UR@H told me Friday because she smokes too much weed. Christ.

xpost: I don't know what I am doing tonight other than seeing Fushitsusha w/ $lady.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Friday, 16 December 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

If we're up to hanging when we get in at like 11 I'll call, if anyone wants to be in teh loop on that (and I don't already have your #) email me their phone #

but I doubt it cos I didn't get any sleep last night to be honest! we'll prolly just brodown in the hotel.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 16 December 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

so uh to clarify peeps email me yr # and also SATURDAY at 9ishy at TOM & JERRY'S or ELSE.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 16 December 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

People were talking about Friday too, Jon. Read one thread!

― Laura H. (laurah), Friday, 16 December 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

uhhhh....

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Friday, 16 December 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

nice comeback!

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 16 December 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

I'm not going to play semantics with her. Clearly there were no concrete plans for anything other than people meeting up with Jaymc tonight versus an actual FAP tomorrow.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH WE ARGUE ENOUGH (ex machina), Friday, 16 December 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

FAP is a terrible word though, I understand her gravitating more towards "meeting up" than "FAP."

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 16 December 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

FANCY AMERICAN PEDANTS

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 16 December 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

gabbneb, you should come, I'll give you a cheesy pen from my workplace. You might think that sounds lame but it isn't, it's special, people always want to steal pens that say company names on them for some reason, and I will give you one, to wave in people's faces at your job.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 16 December 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

gabbneb will be working (like now!) or sleeping, very likely

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 16 December 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

ON A SATURDAY? WHERE DO YOU WORK, SOVIET RUSSIA??? etc

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 16 December 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

I want a pen! Is it a floaty pen?

― Paul Eater (eater), Friday, 16 December 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

I will bring u a pen! I have no idea what this "floaty pen" you speak of is but I doubt it is one them. It seems fairly ordinary, but does come in a box.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 16 December 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

IN USA, YOU WORK ON SATURDAY NIGHT. IN SOVIET RUSSIA, SATURDAY NIGHT WORKS ON YOU!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 16 December 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

Jon:

how about this friday (the 25th)?

-- mookieproof

but i want to have daddy's drinks on friday or saturday...

-- lauren

whoa is everyone going to be in town friday and saturday of next week

-- Allyzay must fight Zolton herself.

re: Friday night we don't get in til late on Friday so it's most likely not a thang for us to go out, if we do it wouldn't be for very long :(

-- Allyzay must fight Zolton herself.

-- Laurel

Jon, when did you stop enjoying pointless pedantic arguments? Or is that only when you initiate them. Also, I wasn't aware that a casual IM query about what you're doing tonight was a substitute for READING ONE THREAD.

― Laura H. (laurah), Friday, 16 December 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes I want to put Jon and Laura together in a snow globe and keep them on my dresser. When I am short on laffs, I will shake them up.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 16 December 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

I saw that episode of St. Elsewhere too.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 16 December 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

Stop by our apartment sometime, Laurel. It is always winter there but never Christmas.

― Laura H. (laurah), Friday, 16 December 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

http://www.gonemovies.com/WWW/MyWebFilms/Drama/citizen_kaneRosebud.jpg
Noize..bud

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 16 December 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

http://home.hetnet.nl/~floaties/pen169.gif

I guess I don't know where you work now, Ally -- I just assumed it'd be something like that.

― Paul Eater (eater), Friday, 16 December 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

hahaha that's not what we do at Sc13nce.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 16 December 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

IN SOVIET RUSSIA, READING COMPREHENDS YOU.

(NO CONCRETE PLANS FOR FRIDAY LISTED THERE DUDE.)

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Friday, 16 December 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

Then obviously it is more the Sc13nce of Murr4y Gell-M4nn than that of Richard F3ynmann, Ally.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 16 December 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

No, I meant floaty pens, it's a bit outdated.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 16 December 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

I never said there were concrete plans. I never told you anything; I asked you a question about your plans. So I think responding like this:

Oh, L@UR@H told me Friday because she smokes too much weed. Christ.

is being a little over-dramatic.

― Laura H. (laurah), Friday, 16 December 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

Snowglobe.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 16 December 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

I notice you aren't contesting my assertation that you smoke too much weed.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH SEMANTIC BLASTER (ex machina), Friday, 16 December 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

"too much"

― Laurah (laurah), Friday, 16 December 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

fuck, why didn't anything happen when i was around?

― remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 17 December 2005 04:14 (twenty years ago)

cuz you only posted abt it on the noise broad and not on ILE?

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Saturday, 17 December 2005 06:28 (twenty years ago)

Was that the 'Bill & Ted' FAP since Tom and I were both wearing "69"?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 December 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

Which one of you is evil Ted and which one of you is good Ted, though?

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Monday, 19 December 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

fuck, why didn't anything happen when i was around?

Dude, you were welcome to join the fun on Friday.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 19 December 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

I think we're both cunning mixtures of good & evil.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 December 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

if anyone wants to get some drinks @ buttermilk tonight, let me know. i am thinking of going over there cuz i had a long day at work (hi joel! you rule!) and have no weed to decompress, so i might need booze.. also, it is there "vinyl siding" night when you can bring records to listen to! yay records!

gimme a holler on AIM, phone or e-mail ya'll.
(or, you know, if you know who delivers weed around deeze parts)

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 02:11 (twenty years ago)

i like how this has become the all-purpose nyc drinking thread.

i'm in for the night... but i'd be up for drinking later in the week.

― it was jody that killed the beast (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 02:15 (twenty years ago)

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 02:24 (twenty years ago)

my friend's party at east side company tonite (same owners as milk & honey). gordon from surface to air, james fucking friedman dj'ing. come if you like

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 02:28 (twenty years ago)

none of the proper nouns in that sentence mean ANYTHING to me, phil. you are from another planet. a planet where everyone wears tight pants.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 02:29 (twenty years ago)

well okay, dont come then

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 02:40 (twenty years ago)

are there any bars here that serve THE BEAST?

http://static.zoovy.com/img/snuka/W200-H200-B000000/milwaukeesbesthat.jpg

― it was jody that killed the beast (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 02:41 (twenty years ago)

it'd be nice to go out before lauren leaves town, hint hint.

milwaukee's best isn't really worth going out for.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 02:45 (twenty years ago)

it is cheap tho.

― it was jody that killed the beast (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 02:47 (twenty years ago)

probably not here. oh wait i take it back, i think maybe they have it at gowanus yacht club, for kinda cheap if i recall.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 02:49 (twenty years ago)

gowanus yacht club? what constitutes a yacht these days, exactly>

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 02:58 (twenty years ago)

All right, people. Are we drinking with Lauren? L, you mentioned Wednesday (which is today!) -- does anyone mind that it's kind of last minute?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 14:49 (twenty years ago)

has anyone been to the bushwick country club before. I feel like I passed it once, but it disappears everytime I look for it. I went to the new PUB on Metropolitan and Graham next to the White Castle. That used to be blue lady lounge. It is call Harefield Road, owned by pencil factory people. there were a lot of people in trousers there. the bathroom was nice though.

― ShawShank Rambo Connection (Carey), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 15:54 (twenty years ago)

has anyone been to the bushwick country club before.

no. what a terrible name. i need to move.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 15:57 (twenty years ago)

phil, i think Special Agent Gene Krupa is starting to get twitchy and angry from lack of "da weed" - either that or he has misplaced his head down the back of his ENORMOUS BAGGY TROUSERS

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 16:00 (twenty years ago)

in any case, if anybody can find him a delivery number it all becomes moot, anyway

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 16:00 (twenty years ago)

Ian, come over to my house tonight and we will deangrify you. I don't know if I'll be going out drinking because I have NETFLIX to watch. Next time though!

― Laura H. (laurah), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 16:11 (twenty years ago)

My drinking options for tonight were Stephin Merritt's shortguy night on 14th St or the Park Slope gayman OINK fest at the lesbian bar ... tho I see there's trivia at Magnetic Field I'm undoubtedly too old for:

http://magneticbrooklyn.com/calendar.php

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 16:51 (twenty years ago)

TRACER HAND YOU KNOW NOTHING OF MY PANTS.

and laura, yeah, i will prob. go to wburg after work today. stop by the record store then convene with jon.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Oh well. Lauren, you have my phone no., would be groovy to see you again before Sat. Call if you get up to anything!

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 17:20 (twenty years ago)

hi, people. i have a cold! i'm afraid that tonight is out for me. but there's tomorrow and friday...

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 18:23 (twenty years ago)

hey lauren. im sure some soon dooboo would make you feel better. though it might give you gas. it always does for me. anyhow, friday is cat's new weekly party at some new place on eldridge street. want to go to that?

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 18:33 (twenty years ago)

daddy's tomorrow? i no work so let's drink.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 18:45 (twenty years ago)

also at cat's party: holy hail, featuring cutty (and cat). everyone should go!

if i'm feeling okay tomorrow night, i think i might go to orchard bar. also, my friend's thing is at southside lounge - psychedelic perversions. ideally, i'd go to both but i have to see how i feel.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 21:50 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah, rat babies death party!

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 21:52 (twenty years ago)

aka bat dance.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 21:57 (twenty years ago)

Hey, I stopped by ESCB last night, Phil, without seeing this. Were you in the back? What is the new Eldridge place?

― Paul Eater (eater), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 22:59 (twenty years ago)

oh! i was sort of all over the place. it was super crowded. wish i had seen you. what time were you there?

i think the place is called Fontanas, between broome and grand. i havent been, but cat said its like three floors, really spacious, and has room for bands. sounds good

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 23:07 (twenty years ago)

I was probably there around 11:30. I stayed pretty close to the door.

Oh, I've been to Fontana's too but I didn't know what it was called. Nice space! These reviews are hilarious.

― Paul Eater (eater), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 23:18 (twenty years ago)

Haha. Marah Ramirez says, "Not that I'm an expert on Andy Warhol or his art, but Fontana’s has a Warholian feel to it. In no other bar/lounge can a still black-and-white movie be playing and not be considered outlandish. ".

I was there at 11:30 too. Oh well. Next time. What drink did you have?

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 23:23 (twenty years ago)

Marah Ramirez, 22, Flushing
Not that I'm an expert on Andy Warhol or his art, but Fontanaâ€™s has a Warholian feel to it. In no other bar/lounge can a still black-and-white movie be playing and not be considered outlandish. At Fontanaâ€™s, however, the movie goes with the electrifying blue and fuchsia walls, the Marilyn Monroe-type photographs, the crystal chandelier, the high ceilings and even the pool table in the back. Whatâ€™s best is that the bartenders are super friendlyâ€”from patiently giving driving directions over the phone to happily exchanging a bitter Boddington for a Corona.

Grade: A

aww, poor little girl got bitter beer face! (haha xpost)

― miss michael learned (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 23:25 (twenty years ago)

i guess pool tables are warholian, maybe if they're in a joe dallessandro movie...

― miss michael learned (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 23:27 (twenty years ago)

"If you like rock/alternative music mixed with an artsy/modern-day hippie-type crowd, this place is for you. Grade: C-"

I had a couple of old fashioneds: delicious!

― Paul Eater (eater), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 23:28 (twenty years ago)

i had the moscow mules. they were the drink special. "only" $6. they were tasty and boy howdy did i get drunk

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 23:29 (twenty years ago)

let's totally go to the southside lounge tomorrow night!

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 23:45 (twenty years ago)

phil, what's a moscow mule?

― miss michael learned (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 23:48 (twenty years ago)

i think its vodka, fresh squeezed lime juice, and ginger beer.

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 23:50 (twenty years ago)

that sounds AWESOME.

― miss michael learned (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 23:51 (twenty years ago)

that, they were. very refreshing.

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 5 January 2006 00:01 (twenty years ago)

Smirnoff sells them in bottles. Long before Smirnoff Ice there were Smirnoff Mules.

― Paul Eater (eater), Thursday, 5 January 2006 00:09 (twenty years ago)

Smirnoff Yakov

― miss michael learned (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 5 January 2006 00:22 (twenty years ago)

In USA, you drink Smirnoff Ice, in Soviet Russia, Smirnoff drink ices you!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 5 January 2006 00:29 (twenty years ago)

Kimda off-topic, but hey check out my new website!!!

Am I Top Or Not?

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 5 January 2006 02:05 (twenty years ago)

now do one for lesbians.

― miss michael learned (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 5 January 2006 02:08 (twenty years ago)

what would it be called?

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 5 January 2006 02:10 (twenty years ago)

haha!!

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Thursday, 5 January 2006 02:16 (twenty years ago)

what would it be called?

am i boss or not

― miss michael learned (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 5 January 2006 02:35 (twenty years ago)

http://www.rollingstonesnet.com/images/She

― miss michael learned (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 5 January 2006 02:37 (twenty years ago)

tell all your gay friends. and your closeted gay friends

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 5 January 2006 02:43 (twenty years ago)

So many 'toppish' bottoms in the world...

(unrelated) Who else likes this Southside hstencil is primed for?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 January 2006 15:39 (twenty years ago)

I've been wanting a Moscow Mule for ages, used it as a work password for a while but never ordered one. I think using crappy mass-marketed ginger ale would just make it nasty so it has to be ordered somewhere that specializes...hooray!

If Stence can convince Lauren to make her appearance at Southside tonight, what the hell, I'll show up.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 5 January 2006 15:45 (twenty years ago)

i think i can make it. what time are people showing up?

― miss michael learned (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 5 January 2006 16:23 (twenty years ago)

i still feel pretty meh today, so i'm not sure if i'll be coming to southside unfortunately.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 5 January 2006 16:48 (twenty years ago)

Oh fer pete's sake, get thee back to bed and rest up. We've got socializin' to do.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 5 January 2006 16:53 (twenty years ago)

i feel like crap too (it's the sort of female trouble i know better than to bring up on ilx), but a drink would probably do me good.

― miss michael learned (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 5 January 2006 17:03 (twenty years ago)

i think i'm going to see "match point" instead tonight. maybe tomorrow night?

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 5 January 2006 17:11 (twenty years ago)

MAKE UP YOUR COLLECTIVE MIND, PEOPLE. I am free Thurs OR Fri and the priority is seeing Lauren before she goes away again but if all y'all make it impossibly difficult I will drink wine at home and read a book.

Speaking of books: JBR, I finally have that one to loan you.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 5 January 2006 17:25 (twenty years ago)

today, tomorrow, makes no diff to me.

― miss michael learned (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 5 January 2006 17:39 (twenty years ago)

the moscow mule is one of the greatest drinks of ever.

(i will be in williamsburg tomorrow night!!)

― maura (maura), Thursday, 5 January 2006 18:14 (twenty years ago)

ts: the moscow mule vs. the dark & stormy

― miss michael learned (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 5 January 2006 19:15 (twenty years ago)

I'm leaving town tomorrow. If something firms up for tonight, I might drop by.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 5 January 2006 19:20 (twenty years ago)

There's a shoegaze party at Belly on Rivington tonight. Don't know much about it but I will probably stop by.

― Paul Eater (eater), Thursday, 5 January 2006 19:48 (twenty years ago)

bump

― miss michael learned (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 5 January 2006 21:00 (twenty years ago)

My schedule still free after about 7 pm tonight and fuck knows I could use a drink. What's a dark and stormy?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 5 January 2006 21:05 (twenty years ago)

ginger beer + dark rum

― miss michael learned (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 5 January 2006 21:05 (twenty years ago)

ILX drank wonderful dark & stormies once at Delbar on upper Columbus.

― Paul Eater (eater), Thursday, 5 January 2006 21:16 (twenty years ago)

i had dark & stormys with ned at a thai restaurant in park slope!

― miss michael learned (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 5 January 2006 21:18 (twenty years ago)

Word from Lauren is that she prefers Friday, in the form of the event mentioned upthread. Anyone still want to hit the bottle this evening? Answers on a 3 x 5 card and I'll check back after yoga.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 5 January 2006 22:48 (twenty years ago)

tomorrow would be GREAT for me... tonight i think i'm gonna hide under the covers and watch lifetime movies and eat takeout chinese.

― miss michael learned (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 5 January 2006 22:52 (twenty years ago)

A few cute friends are going to Belly so I'll definitely be there; come by!

― Paul Eater (eater), Thursday, 5 January 2006 22:58 (twenty years ago)

those running around manhattan on friday night are advised to stop by Happy Endings where I will be DJing downstairs.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 5 January 2006 23:04 (twenty years ago)

i'll come by, dan. for the 6th time in 8 days. oof.

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 5 January 2006 23:12 (twenty years ago)

Ahh, that's what I like about ILX: everyone's so definite! See some of you tomorrow, then -- I'm going home.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 5 January 2006 23:50 (twenty years ago)

http://southsidecallbox.com/ilx/drink.jpg

― miss michael learned (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 6 January 2006 00:47 (twenty years ago)

so is this on for tonight? respond here, or try me on my cell, or something.

― miss michael learned (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:55 (twenty years ago)

Nice to see you Lauren! Sorry I was so wasted. That is the burden of not drinking regularly anymore :(

Today my heat is off and I'm sooooo hungover. The zombies at that Chinese place ate my brain.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Saturday, 7 January 2006 18:53 (twenty years ago)

i'm going to be in wburg the evening of feb 1st (that's a wednesday). i'll be available for beerz after 8 pm. fancy a beerz?

― danielle the animal steel (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 19 January 2006 06:27 (twenty years ago)

haha the 1st is a long way off but i'm hardly ever in the burg anymore so i figure i'll shoot for another bird with the same stone.

― danielle the animal steel (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 19 January 2006 06:32 (twenty years ago)

Which PART of Williamsburg

― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Thursday, 19 January 2006 06:44 (twenty years ago)

i'm volunteering at the barc shelter @ wythe and 1st.

― danielle the animal steel (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 19 January 2006 06:55 (twenty years ago)

it's not a blood drive is it? cuz then we could give blood and get drunk cheap.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 19 January 2006 06:57 (twenty years ago)

haha no, but if you want to make a stop in downtown brooklyn first there's a place to donate blood on livingston street!

― danielle the animal steel (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 19 January 2006 07:00 (twenty years ago)

Anybody seeing Matmos on Friday?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 January 2006 07:23 (twenty years ago)

I think I am!

― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Thursday, 19 January 2006 08:01 (twenty years ago)

Come get at me dog.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:16 (twenty years ago)

I could, I think.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:19 (twenty years ago)

i'm gonna be there, obv. afterwards endless boogie and times new viking at cakeshop!

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 19 January 2006 17:00 (twenty years ago)

yeah, prob. matmos (list???) then endless boogie,

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 19 January 2006 17:16 (twenty years ago)

dude ian you gotta TELL ME these things.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 19 January 2006 17:27 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i meant to ask yesterday or tesday but totally forgot! no big deal if too late, i will shower drew daniel with my love another time.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 19 January 2006 17:28 (twenty years ago)

fuck! I'd love to see Endless Boogies w/ TNV, don't think I can though. Any idea when they'll go on??

― TRG (TRG), Thursday, 19 January 2006 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Endless BOOGIE, not plural!

― TRG (TRG), Thursday, 19 January 2006 18:20 (twenty years ago)

eb at 11, i'm pretty sure.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 19 January 2006 18:50 (twenty years ago)

Grrrr - doubt I can make that.

― TRG (TRG), Thursday, 19 January 2006 21:27 (twenty years ago)

why not? matmos/so percussion set time is 7.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 19 January 2006 21:29 (twenty years ago)

Not because of Matmos but because of prior plans which will probably have me tied up until at least midnight and probably in some far away part of town. If there's a way I can make EB I'll be there.

― TRG (TRG), Thursday, 19 January 2006 21:37 (twenty years ago)

Are Times New Viking before or after EB? They seem like they might be good live.

― TRG (TRG), Thursday, 19 January 2006 21:38 (twenty years ago)

i don't even think i can go to matmos if it's that early :(((((

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Friday, 20 January 2006 00:01 (twenty years ago)

tnv are before.

ian you're on the list now. really, you can't leave this shit last minute if you want in.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 20 January 2006 00:06 (twenty years ago)

i didn't think it would start so early! my fault, i know.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Friday, 20 January 2006 00:09 (twenty years ago)

still waiting to hear about matmos list--if i get on it i'm in. hopefully i'll see you all there.

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 20 January 2006 05:15 (twenty years ago)

Well, I'm actually the guy in charge of the list. Should I know you?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 20 January 2006 06:48 (twenty years ago)

But perhaps I overstate myself.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 20 January 2006 06:57 (twenty years ago)

If I don't have to do postponed birthday drinks with a friend, I may materialize. Doors at 6:30?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 January 2006 15:15 (twenty years ago)

fucking matmos being early :(

― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Friday, 20 January 2006 21:36 (twenty years ago)

you out, Jon?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 January 2006 21:42 (twenty years ago)

Doors at 6:00

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 20 January 2006 22:46 (twenty years ago)

sorry jon, space taken.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 20 January 2006 22:55 (twenty years ago)

For those that came, a clarification: the heap of flesh featured in the video for the first song?
Cow vagina.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 21 January 2006 20:37 (twenty years ago)

Haha.

How was the Endless Boogie / TNV show?

― TRG (TRG), Saturday, 21 January 2006 20:39 (twenty years ago)

BUMMERZ :((

also, laurel -- bad news -- all the glogg was drunk -- 2.5 liters!

argrfhdfhgkg

― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Saturday, 21 January 2006 20:59 (twenty years ago)

oh laurel, some good news. i remember you liking rhett miller, right? there's some GQ party that rhett miller is playing at if you want to go. on thursday. i rsvp'ed for you plus one.

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 21 January 2006 21:27 (twenty years ago)

i dont have your email address. so email me. mine is is the one as my login

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 21 January 2006 21:27 (twenty years ago)

anyone going to this (fri. 1/27 at the anthology film archives)? i'm gonna try to make it.

8:00 Sublime Frequencies and Arthur Magazine present:
Hisham Mayet
NIGER: MAGIC AND ECSTASY IN THE SAHEL
2005, 70 minutes, Beta SP.
NEW YORK PREMIERE!
The filmmaker Hisham Mayet will be present to introduce the screening and take questions.
A celebration of life in the Sahel region of Africa, this film showcases many of Niger's venerable music styles. Tuareg Electric Guitar trance rock, Bori cult dance ceremonies, Fulani Folk, and Roadhouse Gospel Rave-ups are some of the segments included in this latest "Folk Cinema" classic from Sublime Frequencies! Hisham Mayet delivers a spontaneous, raw, and inspiring collection of images, music, and ceremony from a nation mired in poverty and continual post-colonial disappointment. Quoting from Mayet's liner notes: "This is not music as commodity this is music as survival. There is a saying in Niger that goes, 'when we die we know we are going to heaven because we already live in Hell'. Well, I think it's more like the purgatory that we all live in and they sure have managed to transcend with an incredible natural resource: music. Dig it!"
Also screening: Sublime Frequencies Archive Vol. 4: 30 minutes of the patented ethno/collage medium, as well as never-before-screened previews of future Sublime Frequencies films.

― stockholm cindy (winter version) (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 21 January 2006 22:32 (twenty years ago)

How much do you think that'd cost... I might be going to boston... :/

― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Saturday, 21 January 2006 22:51 (twenty years ago)

it'll be under $10.

― stockholm cindy (winter version) (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 21 January 2006 23:04 (twenty years ago)

oh man matmos was awesome!

also: jody i will have a beer with you on wed nite in williamsburg!

― geeta (geeta), Sunday, 22 January 2006 02:30 (twenty years ago)

hi geeta! i haven't seen you in forever.

― stockholm cindy (winter version) (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 22 January 2006 02:52 (twenty years ago)

Phil, I love you almost as much as I love Rhett Miller, but I have a Thursday conflict. I'll email you tomorrow about it just in case the show times work out, but I don't think I can double up and I'll be lugging a kilt & etc with me anyway.

― Laurel, Sunday, 22 January 2006 19:32 (twenty years ago)

wed night--drinks at that good old ilx standby, daddy's?

― geeta (geeta), Sunday, 22 January 2006 22:25 (twenty years ago)

it's a little far from where i'm gonna be... something closer to bedford?

― stockholm cindy (winter version) (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 22 January 2006 23:48 (twenty years ago)

Bedford Ave is for ASSHOLES.

― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Monday, 23 January 2006 00:20 (twenty years ago)

:-(

― stockholm cindy (winter version) (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 23 January 2006 00:32 (twenty years ago)

At some point, I would like to do an ILX night at der Pub, but I gots to find something that would be a nice fit all round.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 23 January 2006 02:25 (twenty years ago)

anything involving alcohol

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Monday, 23 January 2006 04:16 (twenty years ago)

in willmsburg should go to my friend's place buffal0 cantina. becz he's a great guy. and he serves bar-b-q tofu wings.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 23 January 2006 05:28 (twenty years ago)

bbq and tofu go well together, it's the "wings" part that scares me.

― stockholm cindy (winter version) (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 23 January 2006 05:39 (twenty years ago)

don't worry, it's free-range tofu

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 23 January 2006 05:49 (twenty years ago)

sold.

― stockholm cindy (winter version) (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 23 January 2006 05:50 (twenty years ago)

tofu wings?

http://images.anotherbookshop.com/large/0316854875.jpg

― stockholm cindy (winter version) (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 23 January 2006 05:54 (twenty years ago)

my friend is not linda mccartney. but he used to sing in a glam band.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 23 January 2006 06:07 (twenty years ago)

Oh, god I want wings

― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Monday, 23 January 2006 22:03 (twenty years ago)

~~i want the plastic ono band~~

what's the booze situation at buffalo cantina? i googled it and it looks like a straight-up restaurant.

― stockholm cindy (winter version) (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 23 January 2006 22:15 (twenty years ago)

its awful there. don't go

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 23 January 2006 22:19 (twenty years ago)

wanna meet up for barbez? I may be able to provide some entry...
http://web.joespub.com/caltool/index.cfm?fuseaction=detail&performanceID=1623
Drinks at the pub are expensive but heavy pours.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 23 January 2006 22:39 (twenty years ago)

I'm going to my usual Monday night watering hole if anyone wants to gimme a ring!

― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Monday, 23 January 2006 22:43 (twenty years ago)

waah, i can't. i have to get to bed k-early tonight.

― stockholm cindy (winter version) (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 23 January 2006 22:44 (twenty years ago)

"post-cabaret punk chamber septet" :-/

― stockholm cindy (winter version) (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 23 January 2006 22:46 (twenty years ago)

I might be free for a round about 9.30, Jon, but I'll be sweaty! Just warning you.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 23 January 2006 22:48 (twenty years ago)

Don't knock it till ya try it, cindy. Ya listen to the tracks?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 23 January 2006 22:59 (twenty years ago)

oh man, i'd love to check out barbez, but i should do work tonight instead :(

wed night--how about barcade? or pete's candy store?

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 23 January 2006 23:14 (twenty years ago)

yeah the cantina is not long on atmosphere. they have beer (and wine i think). but probly a real bar would be better. the food's good, tho, anytime anyone's in the area. (it is not awful! boo hiss)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 23 January 2006 23:16 (twenty years ago)

pete's candy store wd prob be ok.

― stockholm cindy (winter version) (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 23 January 2006 23:17 (twenty years ago)

Those mp3s are pretty good actually, but this is the worst band photo I've ever seen:

http://web.joespub.com/caltool/nicemedia/images/barbezwebsite.jpg

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 23 January 2006 23:18 (twenty years ago)

I'd like to come out on Wed. though, and I'd like to hang out with you John again. One problem with Joe's for a FAP is that it's a bit difficult to talk. Anyway, please post the final details when you have them and I may try to join.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 23 January 2006 23:20 (twenty years ago)

Um, final details? Okay. Anyone who wants to come to Barbez should email me at the address below. Show is this wednesday at 9:30. You'll have to buy your own meal, but (barring a barrage of requests) I should be able to getcha tix. Holla.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 02:25 (twenty years ago)

soooo... wed night, pete's candy store?

― dancing chicken (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 17:28 (twenty years ago)

Hm, could maybe do. What time?

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 17:37 (twenty years ago)

Pete's Candy Store r00lz

― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 17:42 (twenty years ago)

if its not ungodly late i could be in for this

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 17:43 (twenty years ago)

pete's candy store would be better with more actual candy.

last night i ate two milky ways and a box of jujee fruits.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 17:43 (twenty years ago)

I foolishly left a huge bag of sour patch kids at the girlfriend's. :(

― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 17:51 (twenty years ago)

Hm, could maybe do. What time?

i should be there some time after 8, but you can show up whenever you like.

― dancing chicken (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 17:56 (twenty years ago)

How generous of you! ; )

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 17:58 (twenty years ago)

I have a work 'do for Chinese New Year but happy to hit Pete's afterward.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:00 (twenty years ago)

How generous of you! ; )

well, you DID ask, milady. :-)

― dancing chicken (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:03 (twenty years ago)

Laurel, Chinese New Year is OVER

― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:05 (twenty years ago)

What does that have to do with anything? One of my vendors is serving free drinks & Japanese food, I should complain??

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:06 (twenty years ago)

no, you should take smuggle sushi in yer purse for me.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:10 (twenty years ago)

According to the EXIF/xpacket data in the JPEG the image was taken on

2004:11:23 15:28:59

and

it wasn't actually taken... it was scanned by:

Noritsu SI-1080 Film Scanner Model DLS1640

It was cropped this January in adobe ps cs2.

― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:14 (twenty years ago)

exif data is the new patriot act

― dancing chicken (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:17 (twenty years ago)

Ian, if yr interested there is usually candy at the Beauty Bar on Mondays! (Stephin Merritt psych/pop night)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:18 (twenty years ago)

arrrgh wrong thread

― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:20 (twenty years ago)

i was gonna say!

― dancing chicken (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:21 (twenty years ago)

Where is this candy store?

― Laura H. (laurah), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:22 (twenty years ago)

Williams the Burg

― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:25 (twenty years ago)

Laurel, re last night -- you missed the 'fun' of one of our regular dudes getting kicked out upon entry for being a dick to the bartender last Monday! :xxx

― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:26 (twenty years ago)

near lorimer l stop. passed by it today on the way to work. won't be going tomorrow (in celebration of a month free of alcohol) because i am broke and it ain't no joke.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:26 (twenty years ago)

just an FYI...pete's has quiz on wednesday, it's usually PACKED ceiling to floor with DORKS.

― ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:31 (twenty years ago)

coals to Newcastle!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:33 (twenty years ago)

hahaha

so... daddy's?

― dancing chicken (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:34 (twenty years ago)

(in celebration of a month free of alcohol)

i thot this said a month of free alcohol.

depending on my babysitting duties, i might be able to come find you guys tomorrow. (unless you hide really well.)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 19:13 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, maybe Daddy's is better. Quiz bowl nights are their own thing entirely.

― Laura H. (laurah), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 19:22 (twenty years ago)

If the weather is nice ( i doubt it) you can always sit outside instead of near the loud ass romper room quiz off. I almost spent every night in Pete's this summer because of their blissful AC.

― ShawShank Rambo Connection (Carey), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 19:22 (twenty years ago)

i'm there!

― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 23:26 (twenty years ago)

Aw jeez, I miss all the fun. On the other hand, I got some serious girl-chat/chain-smoking done last night and then about 10 hours of sleep, which was DEEEE-lishus. See folks tomorrow at Daddy's.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 23:29 (twenty years ago)

bumping this

― dancing chicken (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 16:27 (twenty years ago)

what timeish?

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 16:40 (twenty years ago)

bump -- what time window we talking about?

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Jody said around 8, right? Ima be a little late. Ian, am I bringing you sushi?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:48 (twenty years ago)

i'll be there around 9.

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 19:44 (twenty years ago)

Wait: so it's Daddy's, not Pete's?

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 19:56 (twenty years ago)

yes, pete's is having trivia night

― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:22 (twenty years ago)

I got the job I interviewed for so I am going to PARTY

― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Thursday, 2 February 2006 00:19 (twenty years ago)

I got a new job today too. it is my first officey job where i have to go to work everyday at certain times. weird.

― ShawShank Rambo Connection (Carey), Thursday, 2 February 2006 00:34 (twenty years ago)

good thing you got outta that rekkid store, car3y.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 February 2006 00:44 (twenty years ago)

Congrats, Carey! Will you have to postpone the cross-country adventure, though? Having to go to work is such a drag, except when it gets me out of family commitments, like it did yesterday and today. No one can argue with: "Gotta go to work."

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 2 February 2006 01:32 (twenty years ago)

i have to postpone the travel but it is ok since i have to travel a lot for work anyway. I liked to work at the rekkid store a lot, there was just one thing that was really annoying.

― ShawShank Rambo Connection (Carey), Thursday, 2 February 2006 01:55 (twenty years ago)

congratulations carey flembach

i am not going out tonight, obviouisly.
instead my roommate's crush came over and got me drunk on champagne while we wated for rooomate.

long day at work and another one tomorrow combined with paying rent means no beer for ian.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 2 February 2006 02:17 (twenty years ago)

I HAVE TO GIVE YOU CASSETTES.

i was not even looking for a job, but someone i saw at a party set it up. I may still work at rekkid store every so often.

― ShawShank Rambo Connection (Carey), Thursday, 2 February 2006 02:21 (twenty years ago)

NYC will you drink with me, in June?

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 9 February 2006 17:30 (twenty years ago)

oh hell yes! looking forward to seeing you again, tim!

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 9 February 2006 17:44 (twenty years ago)

Not only will I drink with you, Mr Popkins, I will be happy to offer you the use of my very comfy sofa, should you need a crash pad.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 February 2006 17:44 (twenty years ago)

GETTING THE NYCERS TO DRINK, ISNT REALLY HARD BRO.

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 9 February 2006 17:50 (twenty years ago)

omg tim is coming!

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 9 February 2006 19:42 (twenty years ago)

i would drink with you if you were tim@kfc.edu.

and ddb, i haven't seen you in like two months.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 9 February 2006 21:32 (twenty years ago)

tim@kfc.co.uk

― having fun with stockholm cindy on stage (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 9 February 2006 21:37 (twenty years ago)

Yes absolutely! And as a matter of fact I was just looking at Exeter CIty's recent results. Will City finally get out of the Conference this year??

So what's the plan here in NYC?

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Thursday, 9 February 2006 21:43 (twenty years ago)

figure something out by june?

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 9 February 2006 21:46 (twenty years ago)

Well June is right around the corner! But maybe there's some sort of wedding or event that brings Tim to our neck of the woods, other than the Puerto Rican Day Parade.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Thursday, 9 February 2006 21:52 (twenty years ago)

Haha Aaron demonstrates his enviable nose for the controversy: the sordid truth is that I am timing my trip to NYC to coincide with Lee Ann Womack's Staten Island show (June 16th). I'm guessing Lee Ann Womack is not the core of NYCILx's taste, but maybe I'm wrong. I'm worried about it selling out before I have the chance to get tickets.

Other plans: watch lots of the World Cup in boozers in the afternoon; look at some art; see you lot; visit some friends in DC; go and see George Jones play in Pennsylvania. GEORGE JONES!

(Laurel did you get my email a few days back?)

(Aaron: play-offs look possible, automatic promotion less so now.)

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 10 February 2006 09:40 (twenty years ago)

tim i work in west chelsea by all the galleries, so we can go after work on thursday when all the galleries have free cheap wine!

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 10 February 2006 09:56 (twenty years ago)

and check out hot artfags

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 10 February 2006 10:22 (twenty years ago)

Hooray! Though I think Lee Ann is playing on the Thursday.

I'm most excited about seeing you lot.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 10 February 2006 12:44 (twenty years ago)

Tim, not only did I get yr mail, but I responded to it! Fuck my email, I'll send it again.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 10 February 2006 14:35 (twenty years ago)

(My address on here's still live, even though I don't get the chance to check it so often these days. Anything arriving at the address I mailed you from gets wired directly into my brane 24 hrs/day, Monday - Friday.)

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 10 February 2006 14:52 (twenty years ago)

Paging Robot Hopkins's brane! I have re-sent electronic missive; please confirm download to bio-ware.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 10 February 2006 15:02 (twenty years ago)

aaron is alive?

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Friday, 10 February 2006 15:05 (twenty years ago)

Sorry Laurel it didn't arrive, I fear you're getting trapped by the work spam filter (it only sends me notification of what it's caught once a week, stupid electronic quasibrain, or at least stupid meat creatures who operate same). If you try sending to the yahoo address I promise to brave the bright lights of my local internet caff tonight, to see what you had to say. And, if you're unlucky, to respond.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 10 February 2006 16:23 (twenty years ago)

Anything I can change to get through the filter? Or should I use my work address so it's official? I'll cc: the yahoo account just in case but that would be a pain for you, I know how the bright lights burn THEY BURN.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 10 February 2006 16:27 (twenty years ago)

You might try your work address, maybe that will work. Apols for the pain.

The ways of these humang firewalls are unknowable to me.

My local internet caff is OK and cheap but it's not the light it's the SMELL. Maybe I should buy myself a pooter, eh? Oh no that money's going on a ticket for an flight on a aeroplane, or two.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 10 February 2006 16:41 (twenty years ago)

Sent from work account and by god, it had better get through. xoL

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 10 February 2006 17:06 (twenty years ago)

Whoosh!

Clearly our spam filter is some kind of snob.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 10 February 2006 17:18 (twenty years ago)

I hope this includes me.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 10 February 2006 21:05 (twenty years ago)

(the visiting friends in dc part--for some reason it disappeared)

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 10 February 2006 21:06 (twenty years ago)

Mary, so do I. I've dropped you a mail at the address on here, but I don't know whether it's real or made up. Ah, the modern world.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 13 February 2006 11:11 (twenty years ago)

Well I look forward to seeing you Tim! Let me know if you need a place to stay. My couch is literally as comfortable as airport waiting room seats (I think it IS airplane waiting room seats actually), but I can definitely rustle up a bed or air mattress. And maybe I can drag you to a Mets or Yankees game? And then we can drink to City making it out of the conference league (I hope)!

(Hey Yanc3y I emailed you a couple months ago but you never wrote back! I'm hella busy but pretty much alive. Call me!)

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:55 (twenty years ago)

if mets are involved (or if the yankees are playing a team i can root for), i totally wanna be there.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:56 (twenty years ago)

Hi Tim: the address is not true, but if you click on the link it should go through to me. Or, insert my last name, if you know it.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 13 February 2006 20:18 (twenty years ago)

i only know a few of you, but i'm curious if many ILXors are heading out to Optimo @ Don Hill's this Fri. lots of fap-worthy bars nearby.

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Monday, 13 February 2006 20:57 (twenty years ago)

Definitely going to Optimo - maybe Ear Inn b4 for saucing.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Monday, 13 February 2006 21:00 (twenty years ago)

Ear Inn is a classic place, was thinking along similar lines.

might also have dinner there w/ gf. Got to love Valentine's Day gifts that you can enjoy too (don't worry, she's also gettin other stuff)

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Monday, 13 February 2006 22:54 (twenty years ago)

yay ear inn :-) :-) :-)

i always have lots of fun every time i'm there.

― kanye twitty (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 00:19 (twenty years ago)

I am all about going to see the Mets or the Yankees, or whoever really, provided (a) the game doesn't clash with an important World Cup fixture on the telly (it shouldn't) and (b) someone is kind enough to point out one or two of the subtleties of the game(s) to an ignorant offcomer. Do these things tend to sell out or can one buy tickets on the night?

Last time I was in NYC I went to see the MetroStars but I'm guessing that's not the full-on US sports experience.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 16 February 2006 09:47 (twenty years ago)

OK just a small piece of your advice (pls): I want to get tickets to go and see the Lee An Womack show which is scheduled for St George's Theatre (what kind of spelling is that?) on / in Staten Island. Their website says ticket prices tbc, and the box office, a week or so ago, said "ring back in two or three weeks".

Am I missing one trick or should I just sit back and ring again in a week or so?

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 17 February 2006 17:14 (twenty years ago)

Hi Tim,

That theatre looks cool. It looks like you should still wait, but is there any LAW fansite you can get on to appraise you of the moment tix go on sale, or to offer internet pre-sales, or such?

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 17 February 2006 20:48 (twenty years ago)

the ivy league are going to play on thursday at the cake shop.

― youn, Tuesday, 21 February 2006 12:41 (twenty years ago)

Hey Tim.... I'll agree to your requirements about the baseball game as long as a) I can tag along and watch some World Cup with you and b) you don't expect that baseball has the simplicity of footy and it's thirteen rules. For instance, there are some rules (such as the "balk") that I'm pretty sure no one understands. But seriously, I'm sure that hstencil and myself and anyone else who wants to go would be happy to explain the rules.

As far as buying tickets, we could probably buy them ahead of time if you wanted to pick a date, but they're usually available whenever (although big Yankees games tend to sell out). Looks like Mets tickets go on sale at the end of the week. Best analogy between the Yankees and Mets is Man U v. Man City, although the Mets look to have improved quite a bit this off-season. So yeah, maybe we can figure out who wants to go and what date works and somehow by June we'll have organized this thing.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 17:13 (twenty years ago)

That sounds ace! And company to watch the footy would be much valued. I suppose I ought to get on and book some flights, really.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 17:15 (twenty years ago)

BA is very cheap right now.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 18:50 (twenty years ago)

And more room for large gentlemen such as we. Virgin has better telly though. US carriers are arse and may go bankrupt.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 18:51 (twenty years ago)

virgin seating sucks, yeah.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 19:00 (twenty years ago)

what about this thursday? you don't have to drink. you could eat chocolate cupcakes instead. with chocolate frosting.

― youn, Wednesday, 22 February 2006 01:14 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

I'm in NYC for the first time April 22nd - 29th

Obvious and non-obvious tourist stuff that I absolutely must do? Any super-exciting events, gigs etc going on that week? On topic: anyone fancy a pint?

― robster (robster), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

... or just get together on Sunday, April 2, or on Friday, April 7, or on Tuesday, April 11.

― youn, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

(more long range bizniss but if anyone fancies watching England play Trinidad & Tobago in some alehouse somewhere, at noon (or maybe 1pm, timezone calculation's not my game) on June 15th, I'll be fresh off the plane and full equipped with one raging thirst, or perhaps more than one. Sorry for interrupting, Rob.)

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

oh awesome, robster is coming! hm, michael mayer and i think the orb are playing at cielo on the 27th. jamie lidell is playing a couple times. thats all i can think of. but yes, lets get drinks.

tim: june 15th, tim sweeney is playing a set at happy ending. come!

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

hey, so the film forum's been doing this don siegel film festival and next week there's a double feature of madigan and coogan's bluff. anyone want to make a FAP of the april 5th 7:30/9:30 showings? (there's another the day after but i'm going out of town that night.) late '60s nyc, henry fonda and richard widmark and clint eastwood, two films for ten bucks. and if you get there early you can grab a slice at the excellent demarco's pizza on houston, which is partially owned by the di fara's people.

MADIGAN

(1968) By-the-book police commissioner Henry Fonda gives sticky-fingered cop Richard Widmark and partner Harry Guardino just 72 hours to retrieve Steve Ihnat, the hyper, bespectacled killer they let escape. “The color photography continually stamps incidents with the authentic familiarity of various facades and corners of New York,” raved the Times, though much of it was shot on the Universal backlot. 35mm Studio Archive Print.
3:30, 7:30

COOGAN’S BLUFF

(1968) “Eastwood gives New York 24 hours — to get out of town!” Cowboy Arizona cop Clint Eastwood, in the Big Apple to pick up captured fugitive Don Stroud, finds his Wild West methods making him a fish out of water, amid the disapproving glares of local Lieutenant Lee J. Cobb and social worker Susan Clark. 35mm Studio Archive Print.
1:30, 5:30, 9:30

― chillaxing damsel on box art (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

possible, tho I saw that double bill at FF before!

Cindy UG, should I go to Pvt Hell 36 after Old Joy at MoMA tonight? (I've seen Riot in CB 11 before.)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

haha i actually haven't seen private hell 36! i just borrowed the title for my user name once. i was thinking of going to that tonight but i probably won't.

― chillaxing damsel on box art (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

ah see, I assumed! naughty!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

I think they already showed The Big Steal, didn't they?

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

they did, on march 20.

― chillaxing damsel on box art (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, I'd never seen it! a blast!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks for the info, Chiquita ;)

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

haha! Anyway 4 hours is a long time to spend with movies I (and others?) have already seen before when we could be chatting, maybe?

Alternatively, Jacques Tati's godly Playtime is showing again at AMMI on April 7-9, and um, there must be a good bar in Astoria? somewhere?

http://movingimage.us/site/screenings/pages/2006/index_rep_nights.html

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

Oh!

― youn, Thursday, 30 March 2006 23:29 (nineteen years ago)

i'll stick with my original idea. have fun though!

― chillaxing damsel on box art (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 30 March 2006 23:32 (nineteen years ago)

What about Sunday?!

― youn, Thursday, 30 March 2006 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

Phil2, yes! Orb and that sounds excellent as does drinkin'. Is your displayed email addr a real one?

― robster (robster), Friday, 31 March 2006 00:11 (nineteen years ago)

phil did you read the article in the new yorker about hedi slimane? what do you think about dior homme? i think the coats are great!

― youn, Friday, 31 March 2006 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

Did anyone go to see Playtime? Should I go today?

― youn, Sunday, 9 April 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

If you've never seen it in a theater, HELL YEAH.

I'm probably going.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 9 April 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

Phil2, yes! Orb and that sounds excellent as does drinkin'. Is your displayed email addr a real one?

yep! thats my email address. gimme an email when you're around! ill try to think of more fun things.

phil did you read the article in the new yorker about hedi slimane? what do you think about dior homme?

no, i missed it. i like dior but i dont think i could wear it very well, and also i'd feel silly in it

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 9 April 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

i really want to see playtime, but am too not-well and have too much stuff to do. are we ever going to get a dvd?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 9 April 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's among the top 3 films I can't imagine a DVD doing justice to.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 9 April 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

criterion's been planning to re-release their dvd for sometime now.

i didn't know this was playing! i'm probably going to miss it, too many other things to do :(

― joseph (joseph), Sunday, 9 April 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

phil did you read the article in the new yorker about hedi slimane?

once in london i was hanging out with some friends and their friends, and was chatting with some guy named Eddie, and we were all hanging out all nite at a few bars then to some gay party called golf sale, then later i asked what he did and he said he was a fashion designer. i was like ohh thats cute. a fashion designer.. "so what is your label called?" "dior homme". OOF.... "oh...." hedi. not eddie. suzy was there too.

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 9 April 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

that was a fun night. i'll miss george&dragon sundays.

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 9 April 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, Dr. Morbius, I missed the train. (In case you were planning to say hello. Not that I counted on it :) You should come to see The Garden of the Finzi-Continis on April 21. It's free, there's a good-sized screen, and the chairs are comfortable. More info: http://www.yale.edu/cinema/ (xpost)

Yes, he makes sense of short sleeves in suit jackets! You should look at his coats, phil. I'm serious! The article makes him out as the indie kid of fashion - who, momentarily, is on top of the world. (The indie snobbishness as well - now I hate Tom Ford.)

― youn, Sunday, 9 April 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

i couldnt afford dior anyways. but holy shit tom ford is so so so hot.

lauren, when u coming over?

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 9 April 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Playtime last night (first time on the big screen!), which is why I brought it up on the Cache thread and why I will be thinking about every other film in it's terms for a long time. If you've never seen it on the big screen, do every within your power to see it! You will not regret it!

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Sunday, 9 April 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

it's=its, obviously.

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Sunday, 9 April 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

youn, you should go see The World on the 28th

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 9 April 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe I should try to convince the film society to show Playtime and the films by Garrel that I missed. The World sounds interesting!

― youn, Sunday, 9 April 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

NYC - we should drink

maybe, say, on the 23rd?

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 10 April 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

There's drinking tonight if anyone wants to know the secret clubhouse

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Monday, 10 April 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

I will be there, obv. And Jon, I have a present for you.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 10 April 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

Don't think I can make the clubhouse tonight, alas.

I just saw The Garden of the Finzi-Continis on DVD, so a trip to New Haven is out.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 April 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

What's happening on the 23rd?!

― Paul Eater (eater), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

weeeeeeel, me and Vic have decided at the last minute to book 3 nights in NYC for the wedding anniversary, we get in at half ten on the 21st and fly out again at 11pm on the 24th.....

I see above that Robsters' in town too :)

DBA? or has it gone downhill?

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

dba is the same as it ever was, i think. still very good for scotch/whiskey and unique beers.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

some people try to trash that place as sceney or "over" but they are forgetting the Scotch selection.

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

its sceney?

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

sceney = untucked button down shirts and boot cut jeans

― ddb (ddb), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

Whooo! The question is: where are you eating?

― Paul Eater (eater), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

The one thought so far is les halles, but that's only cos Chris loves Bourdain, who isn't even there anymore. We only even thought about coming over this morning, so we haven't had much time to think about it!

― Vicky (Vicky), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

that's great news!

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, three of my favorite london'ites in town at once.

which les halles are you going to?

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

Dunno, which one's best?

― Vicky (Vicky), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

there are a lot better places to eat in new york

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

I know, but it's more of a pilgrimage. And tartiflette.

― Vicky (Vicky), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

oh, i've only been to the one in the financial district. it was really quiet. the park avenue one probably is more lively. is the food the same though? i dunno

there are a lot better places to eat in new york
probably, but its probably more fun to go eat at les halles, where chris is a fan of the chef, than somewhere in queens.

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i've only been to the financial district one, but really quiet is otm. if you want a french bistro place, i think le pere pinard is a lot more fun.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

i've only been to the gramercy location, which was always rammed. food was never less than excellent, but i've not been since ab left.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

since I bought Time out NY this evening I've got a stupid huge list of things to do, whci, once again, I'll never acheive. But among them:

Gray's Papaya (never got roiund to that last time)

Bouchon - cops we'll never get into per se

maybe Mario Batali's place (you can see now that I'm living in dreamland)

We had a lovely meal at Prune last time...... maybe again.

I love the sound of the watermelon pickle and crispy oprok salad at Fatty Crab, the cuban reuben at Mo Pitkins' house of satisfaction and the pork Butt at R.U.B. which feeds 6 (maybe 10)

ooh yeah, has anyone been to Room 4 Dessert? it sounds interesting....

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 10 April 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

a question - Is babbo worth going to? and would we get reservations if so?

we should get off your drinking thread shouldn't we?

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 10 April 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

great nyc food deals - $20 lunch at JoJo and $20 lunch/$35 dinner at the Cafe at Aquavit

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 10 April 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

I love the sound of the watermelon pickle and crispy oprok salad at Fatty Crab, the cuban reuben at Mo Pitkins' house of satisfaction and the pork Butt at R.U.B. which feeds 6 (maybe 10)

if you like pork, you should go to momofuku's noodle shop in the east village. tiny upscale'ish noodle shop with pork belly soup. whoa yum.

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 10 April 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

babbo is so worth going to, even if you have to go at 5.30 or 10.30 or some otherwise inconvenient time.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 10 April 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

lupa is also very, very good and might be easier to get into.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 10 April 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

Momofuku rocks, but you either have to go right when they open or at some weird off-hours, like 3 pm. Otherwise it's mobbed.

But yeah, steamed pork buns. Wow. And great noodles.

Mo Pitkins is okay but I wouldn't call it a must-do. Their deep-fried mac and cheese seems great in theory but is sort of dry in practice.

― Renard (Renard), Monday, 10 April 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

Bouchon is nasty. Check out Uovo!

― Paul Eater (eater), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 02:56 (nineteen years ago)

jesus, I can't type for shit on this keyboard!!

our next problem is when to try for..... Saturday is going to be booked out everywhere, and Sunday is for drinking.... We have to be at JFK at 9.30 on Monday night, we could try and squeeze in 3 courses, but it ain't going to do it justice is it? Vic thinks it would be fine though - folks?

Prety much decided on either Babbo or Lupa (that's where Mark Lardner is, yes?) though. Mind you, I'll probably be eating the whole sodding weekend :)

― Porkpie (porkpie), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 05:45 (nineteen years ago)

since this had become a food thread, I heartily recommend Bar-B-Q way down on 20th in Park Slope (Greenwood Heights, actually:

http://brooklyn.citysearch.com/review/41686946

I had the most amazing smoked ribs there last weekend. And to tie it back in to the thread, it's a pretty great bar.

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

I WILL GO TO BAR B Q ANY DAY OF THE WEEK.
ONE OF THE KITCHEN DUDES IN THERE TALKED TO US ABOUT THE NECROS!!!
ALSO: PULLED PORK!!!

― the unbearable lightness of peeing (orion), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

MY TUMMY HURTS

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

DINOSAUR BBOQ

― Jimmy Mod: My theme is DEATH (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

DINOSAUR BBQ IS FROM ROCHESTER NY

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

Actually Syracuse.

― Paul Eater (eater), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

the nyc version got terrible reviews
I used to like Pearson's in jax heights but it closed

― Renard (Renard), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

IT IS GOOD I ASSURE YOU

― Jimmy Mod: My theme is DEATH (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

huh, never been dere.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

i've never been to babbo :( but here's what you'd be in for at lupa: a small, bustling restaurant with absolutely glittering waitstaff and very very very yummy food, tucked above houston st. in the village ... nice worn old wooden tables. make reservations if you can, and if there's nothing the day you want to go, just turn up. you'll be able to eat at the bar at the very worst and they may find a table for you.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

anyone going to wolfmother or afterparty tonite?

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh let's have a Bar BQ night.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

I used to like Pearson's FIVE BLOCKS FROM MY APT but it closed :(((

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

ART BRUT tonight!

well Bar B Q is 5 blocks from mine. (gabb, if a $20 lunch is a deal no wonder you're on the Democratic Leadership Coucil.)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

i'm going to both, phil.

tracey otm about lupa. it's worth just showing up. also, batali's restaurants are pretty friendly. try calling and telling them that you're in nyc just for the weekend, it's your anniversary, you've always dreamed of eating at babbo etc etc and see if they can do anything for you.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

at Jazz Standard, you can eat bbq from Blue Smoke upstairs while listening to good live music, but the q is merely pleasant, and rather expensive, especially after the music ticket

if a $20 lunch is a deal no wonder you're on the Democratic Leadership Coucil

it's a deal when it's classix by one of the best chefs in the world, and they could get away with charging a lot more.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

and people on the pound considering dinner at babbo and its ilk may be less cost-conscious than you, morbs

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

i'm saddened beyond description that i will never get to enjoy pearson's onion rings again.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

and when you're a food tourist, it's more cost-effective to eat a pricey lunch and a cheap (or no) dinner than vice versa

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

i imagine it's not the last we've heard of pearson's. dude moves around a lot. though you might have to go up to CT or something in the future.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

room 4 dessert is aces. the night i went there was a protest at the falls (which was across the street) so apparently it was a lot busier than usual. but oh man, the whiskey and coke sundae is probably one of the finest concoctions i've ever had ... and pairing it with a cherry margarita (complete w/cherry smoked salt!!) just sent my whole night over the edge.

― maura (maura), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

is it cool to just go there for drinks, or do they prefer people to order more?

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

in Peckham, I had something in a martini glass that included ice cream and chocolate shavings. it was gooood. i guess i don't drink much liquor these days, because afterwards, umbrella-less, i started walking around with my raincoat over my head exclaiming in beavis-isms, to the great embarrassment of my friend.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

girl drink drunk!

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

In Peckham?????

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

yes, that was after we went to a place where you could have pinot grigio with your fish and chips. there were lots of real estate brokers and baby-clothes stores. a more southern part of peckham, i think.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

hmm...

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

the area where i waited for the night bus wasn't very bourgie, tho

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

room 4 dessert is aces. the night i went there was a protest at the falls

wait, is this that kind-of tucked-away place next to eileen's cheesecake?

― joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

that sounds like the bottom end of the Rye, kind of Hopkins-ville.

I think we're sold on Lupa - I'll try and book it tonight/tomorrow.

and for extra awwww factor, we're staying in the same hotel we stayed in when we were over for the wedding :)

― Porkpie (porkpie), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

this is a decent ranking of haute nyc restaurants for reference.

i'll also add craftbar to my recommendations

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 01:21 (nineteen years ago)

oh my, now I'm being swayed by WD-50, but fear the food-wankery is it any good?

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

the menu is certainly exciting. i have the same question.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 13 April 2006 02:33 (nineteen years ago)

it does get a michelin asterisk

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 13 April 2006 02:34 (nineteen years ago)

Is there drinking fun this weekend? Should I bother coming home?

― Laura H. (laurah), Thursday, 13 April 2006 02:52 (nineteen years ago)

read the noise board, raura. i am drinking in park slope friday, people are going to capone's on saturday, and sunday maybe brunch or bbq or beer or all three?

― the unbearable lightness of peeing (orion), Thursday, 13 April 2006 02:57 (nineteen years ago)

but won't your parents be mad if you skip out on easter?

― the unbearable lightness of peeing (orion), Thursday, 13 April 2006 02:57 (nineteen years ago)

we've booked wd-50 for saturday night :) full report to follow, maybe even in Brooklyn on the Sunday!

― Porkpie (porkpie), Thursday, 13 April 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

Gabbaneb I think you have been drinking in East Dulwich. In fact I think you have been to high-end chippy The Sea Cow but maybe not.

Hopkinsville, as I now insist it must be known, is the uncertain area which lurks between the two.

I am now officially jealous of Cabs but that is a good thing because it has reminded me to buy my air ticket for June.

NYC! We must DRINK! And watch football.

(Advance warning: my aeroplane will touch down at JFK 10:55am and an England game I want to see kicks off at noon. I'm resigned to missing some of the game but would like to miss as little as possible. At some point in the next six weeks I'll be asking for advice on an boozer which is (a) sensibly and quickly accessile from JFK in cab or by public transport; (b) definitely going to be showing the footer. I don't know how large or small an ask this is likely to be.)

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 13 April 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

LH: Listen to Ian. I have no plans for Friday unless you count my date with the Alias DVDs but the rest of the wkend is as he says. Eat! BBQ! Drink more beer!

Tim if no one else pipes up we can, of course, ask Ben for venue advice. I wd love to come watch the footy depending on whether I can get out of work.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 13 April 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

yes, it was The Sea Cow! the place where we drank was closer to the train (Peckham Rye) and might have been on the same street, but I'm not sure - modern decor, a small entrance area with a few tables, then stairs to a raised level (containing the bar) just beyond the entrance area and skylights/lots of glass in the back?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 13 April 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

I can't think where that would be, but then I tend to avoid places with moder decor. Or decor of any description, as it goes.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

i am in nyc sat and sun evenings if anyone wants to booze!

― tehresa (tehresa), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

I do. I'll be at Capone's on Sat, and also any other subsequent BBQ/beer.

― Laura H. (laurah), Thursday, 13 April 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

i just handed in my manuscript to the editor. crammed in like 40 pages on the last day. whoops. i need a drink

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 00:19 (nineteen years ago)

What is your book about, Phil-Two?

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

hello New York, this weekend!! has the steering committee (I'm looking at you Tracey Hand) thought up a place to go in.... Brooklyn on Sunday afternoon/evening?

Has the Blind Tiger shut? if so, that's a shame, I liked it there, apart from the toilets.

Also - should we book for lunch on Monday at Les Halles (Grammercy one)?

― Porkpie (porkpie), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

The Bar round by Mr Hand's house is plenty pleasant, I know you will not trust me on this one, but it is.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

you could consider this place

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

yeah the Blind Tiger is closed

I heard it was moving somewhere else but I don't know where

speaking of W. Village is Little Branch ever going to reopen?

― Renard (Renard), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

I was at Little Branch a week or so ago -- hadn't heard about any closing.

― Paul Eater (eater), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha @ gabbneb linking to "the economist"'s city guide!!

moe's is nice as ed says, especially in the afternoons, but it gets rammed on the weekends and there's nowhere to sit.

last night i had a drink at clem's in williamsburg. the bartender got us all drinks on the house after we'd been there an hour or so, and smoking was permitted. so maybe williamsburg's not so bad yet as all that. clem's also suffers, however, from the no place to sit syndrome - there are actually no tables at all.

SO irrespective and irradiatedly, the steering committee has sloshed its magic 8-ball around and the spinning dodecahedron blurrily swims to view:

THE ALIBI, at 242 dekalb ave. i believe that's between clermont and vanderbilt.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

I was at Little Branch a week or so ago -- hadn't heard about any closing

after it first opened they had a water main break, I went by 2 different times (weeks apart) and they were closed.

maybe they have been reopened for a long time by now ... I'm not in that neighborhood very often ...

oh yeah and citysearch says the Blind Tiger is moving to Bleecker & Jones

― Renard (Renard), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

yay!

one last recommendation needed(for now) - we need a bar that will be showing the Liverpool vs Chelsea FA cup semi final. Ideally this needs to be somewhere between Century 21 and Chelsea/soho. (which unfortunately rukes out the 11th street bar, home of the nyc LFC fan club)

― Porkpie (porkpie), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

11th Street isn't between C21 and Soho, but it is between C21 and Chelsea. Admittedly, the bar is much further East, but Nevada Smith's, also on 11th, might be reasonably en route to Chelsea.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

The only place I can think of that meets those strict geographical requirements and is likely to show the match is Nathan Hale's, which is a short walk up from C21.

― Paul Eater (eater), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

there's a chance that this place quite close to C21 might be showing the game

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

so fort greene, then? sigh.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

it's anthropology. c and v have been clear that they want to track down some of the more elusive species of the Outer Reaches.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 03:19 (nineteen years ago)

Tracey? are you taking us to "hoxton"?

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 05:07 (nineteen years ago)

phil-two, if I can get to Metropolitan Saturday I will buy you a MS-completion drink. (I should know by Friday...partyish complications.)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

Nathan Hale's is nice -- try the shepherd's pie if yr peckish. I watched Michael whatshisface off the US team allow a goal RIGHT PAST HIS ELBOW at that bar and the whole place swore to see him dead within a week.

Fort Greene is good with me!

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

Fort greene is full of gentryfiying middle management types encroaching on poorer neighborhoods with good housing stock. Think Clapham.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

think pain in the arse to get to from my house.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

Fort Greene : Lauren :: Heather's : Laurel

:))

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

think pain in the arse to get to from ~~my house~~nearly anywhere.

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

Theres always the G Train.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

F to C no problem!

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

i'm having real issues lately with places that aren't walking distance.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, get one (1) Jay St. Borough Hall, lauren!

Ed is close to the mark w/Clapham but I'd say it's more Brixton, honestly. The middle management types HAVE moved in en masse, and half the brownstones are busily being renovated and people are laying "weed barriers" and resodding their gardens etc. but I can sense the top of the curve has been reached for now and this latest left-over-from-the-90s richification is going to roll back a bit and find an equilibrium (which is what's happened in Brixton from what I can tell)

xpost yes. just who do these places think they are

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

phil-two, if I can get to Metropolitan Saturday I will buy you a MS-completion drink. (I should know by Friday...partyish complications.)

i think freeform five is playing at movida that night, but if not i could always use free drinks

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

Yay! flying out tonight - looks like we're going to break spring for you new yorkers according to the weather people - sorry

― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 21 April 2006 05:30 (nineteen years ago)

yeah phil, i don't know why i thought it was at hiro.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 21 April 2006 05:45 (nineteen years ago)

lansing dreiden is playing at justine & davep's nighttime thing on friday @ donhills. should be good

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 21 April 2006 06:14 (nineteen years ago)

I fly tomorrow - hooray!

― robster (robster), Friday, 21 April 2006 08:00 (nineteen years ago)

Rob you got Chris's phone no. last week didn't you, so we can sort out details for sunday?

― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 21 April 2006 08:02 (nineteen years ago)

Yep. Also confirmed my phone works in Amerika.

― robster (robster), Friday, 21 April 2006 08:10 (nineteen years ago)

We never set a time for Sunday did we? I was planning on getting there around 4-ish.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

FOURISH I SAID.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

I think I will be arriving by car.

― Paul Eater (eater), Friday, 21 April 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

where?

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 21 April 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

THE ALIBI, at 242 dekalb ave. i believe that's between clermont and vanderbilt

Yes?

― Paul Eater (eater), Friday, 21 April 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

You got it. I'm going to start a new thread. I always tend to look right past this one since I've seen it so many times.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 21 April 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

FOURISH I SAID

'bout 6 then?

― Ed (dali), Friday, 21 April 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

ok i like that place.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 21 April 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

22nd from 1pm - 6pm is Taste of Chinatown.

http://www.explorechinatown.com/Gui/Special.aspx?Page=TOC2006Map

though the menus look heavy on stuff like egg rolls, lo mein, general tso's chicken. not so much interesting looking fare.

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 21 April 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

want to go? i'd be up for it.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

yeah i kinda do. ili and i were talking about going. maybe james too, but he wants me to go to the drawing restraint movie afterwards, which i kinda dont want to do

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

you could claim indigestion and skip the movie.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to ToC, too, round 1/2pm, with the girls -- mebbe see yous there?

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

i'll probably still be asleep at 1.

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

i feel it may be time for another BOHEMIAN HALL BEER GARDEN SPRINGTIME FUN FAP.

― flea market economy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 April 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

Did you mean: BROHEMIAN

― GOOGLE DUDE (ex machina), Friday, 28 April 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

yes, i suppose i do.

― flea market economy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 April 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

let's do this next week when the EMP people are back in town.

― flea market economy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 April 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.millennium-ark.net/News_Files/UN_Images/EMP.map.graphic.jpg

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 28 April 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

ah, never been, always wanted ta go there.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 April 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

it's good. you can smoke in the beer garden and it's near GREEK FOOD.

― flea market economy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 April 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

the food they have there is pretty great. schntizels and sausages and things like a that. one friend of ours got laughed at because she ordered a breaded fried cheese cutlet. but it tasted amazing..

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Friday, 28 April 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

i've never tried the food there, but i've seen it and it does look pretty tasty.

― flea market economy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 April 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

a breaded fried cheese cutlet.

haha how is this different from like a big mozzarella stick?

― flea market economy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 April 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

smazeny syr! it's much better than mozz sticks (different cheese, no spices in breading) and pretty much one of the only things vegetarians can eat in the czech republic.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 28 April 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

robster, if youre still in town, i rsvp'ed for you for an adidas/adicolor party at supreme trading. take L train to bedford ave. free drinks. party is early, from 9-11. shoe giveaways. tracksuits too! i lost your phone #. oh well. i dont know your last name, so your name at door is "Rob Stern"..

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 28 April 2006 23:00 (nineteen years ago)

oops. at capones

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 28 April 2006 23:02 (nineteen years ago)

221 north 9th street between driggs & roebling

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 28 April 2006 23:04 (nineteen years ago)

Biergarten, yes! I went once and would adore a good excuse to go back.

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 29 April 2006 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

how about thursday or friday night next week? around 7:30?

― flea market economy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 29 April 2006 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

If it's Thursday, as usual I can't be there until about 10pm. So I prefer Fri. But I'll understand if it's too crowded on a Friday evening for us to bother with and peeps wd rather do Thurs.

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 29 April 2006 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

i don't think they stay open that late. friday's good. wednesday's also good. the website sez the restaurant part is closed on tuesday.

― flea market economy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 29 April 2006 00:45 (nineteen years ago)

My bachelor party was at the beer garden. Love that place to pieces.

― mcd (mcd), Saturday, 29 April 2006 01:33 (nineteen years ago)

citysearch sez theyre open til 2

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 29 April 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

Cheers for the shoe party wrangling Phil! I spent Friday evening at the Guggenheim and then ran into Momus at the Whitney (right after a lady had gone up to him and said 'are you Moses?'). Hi to everyone else I met during the week - next time I intend to see more of you.

― rob stern (robster), Saturday, 29 April 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

ok, friday night, beer garden, 7:30 to whenever.

29-19 24th Avenue, N train to Astoria Blvd.

― jbr with a z (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 03:17 (nineteen years ago)

CONFLICTS WITH MATMOS

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 05:16 (nineteen years ago)

when matmos ends, come 2 queenz

― jbr with a z (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 05:19 (nineteen years ago)

if i wasn't working til midnight i would come. i'm all in favor of gardens of beer.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 05:32 (nineteen years ago)

easy commute from Shea Stadium! has Drew been to Astoria?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

who is going to Matmos? I suggest actually buying a ticket to get into the show, I had to do that two years ago to circumvent the monstrous pay-what-you-want line as Jim O'Rourke was about to go on.

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost)

miz maura dotcom has advised me to make a contingency plan in case we can't get a table in the beer garden... there's another bar nearby (Sparrow; 24-01 29th Street) that's supposed to be good.

― jbr with a z (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

damn, nyilx comes to my doorstep and I will be out of town. next time ...

the Sparrow is not bad, it's the same owners as Tupelo (bar that used to be at 30th and 35th in Astoria)

― Renard (Renard), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

When y'all get together, do you talk about M.I.A. and rockism?

― shookout (shookout), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

What is M.I.A. and can we eat it? (Ans: no.)

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

we talk about burritos.

― jbr with a z (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

When London ILx meets, all we talk about is how funny it is that New York ILx barely ever talks about MIA and rockism.

I mean, what else is there?

Oh NYC, we should drink.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin...Therefore, take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink?...For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

Are we still on for Thurs PM in Astoria?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 4 May 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

Friday.

― the real world meets laguna beach for adults (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 4 May 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

Bah, I can't read.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 4 May 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

revive

― the real world meets laguna beach for adults (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 5 May 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

SO THIS IS ON???

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

yeah

― the real world meets laguna beach for adults (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

ah, I can't tonight but would def like to go there in future.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Just you and me, Jody!!

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

matos and maura might be there.

― the real world meets laguna beach for adults (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

Goody.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

listen up whoever's coming: let's make the start time 9pm and if it's too crowded we'll just go to that other place (the sparrow, on 29th street).

― the real world meets laguna beach for adults (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

UGH WHAT AM I SUPOSED TO DO UNTIL 9 PM??

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

Who wants to have dinner at, like, 6.30 or 7? I'm craving Indian and need to kill time.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

MATMOOSE

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

PAPOOSE

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.ma.ccnw.ne.jp/zoiyoi/images/ph_matamoros/ph_mata%20tcd016.jpg

― Paul Eater (eater), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

NOT STANDING IN LINE TO STAND AT SHOW. Ow ow ow tendons.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

never mind, it's off.

― the real world meets laguna beach for adults (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 5 May 2006 23:05 (nineteen years ago)

Matmomus hensteeth and cowbladder FAP at the Julius last night!

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 7 May 2006 00:21 (nineteen years ago)

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