ok ok

Lee has paved the way for re-blogging.. i shall proceed to post my summer up from camping trips, beach trips, coney island and even baseball, md, jen pilmer and all inbetween... ok ok

it's the World Cup's fault

the world cup has been taking up all my internet time... some blogging will follow July 9th. my thoughts regarding the finals are limited to: Italy = suck and my aussie & germany friends agree!

..::taconic camping::..

mum, as promised, alicia and i went up to the Pittsfield, Berkshires in western Mass. for the Memorial weekend and had a really great time. did a long hike and a bunch of short walks. got a taste of the northeast wilderness. camped out for a few nights semi-roughing it! fun... bugs, catapillars and all!

Gigs

The National......: 7/10
The Walkmen.....: 7/10

forgot to bring my cam both gigs and i can't be bothered to do a review. they both had windows of sheer rock joy but only fleeting. i will admit i did turn to alicia after the walkmen played "the rat" and said...."it doesn't get any better than that"... and it was true.... but it wasn't enough... i was expecting more!

9 parts water : 1 part sand

not too many days go by where i see something and think..... gee that was a little weird: yesterday on the train home there was this really strange guy i have seen a few times over the year. one of those peeps who ride the subways for a living and he normally wanders around the car and freaks all out and asks for change. so he gets in the car and sprawls out on the bench and empties his pockets of all his change... a big hand full of quarters a leaves them on the bench. the guy next to him has his ipod on looks at the change an probably thinks that that was his weird quota for the day. so the mental guy gets up and walks down the car and starts asking people for change and then opens the door to the next car and starts car hopping asking for change, leaving say $10 - $15 on the bench.... what's up with the subway car hoppers anyway? straight past empty seats to the front or back of the train and sometimes back again?

coming soon......

while the bizarre rock triangle is still in effect...... (i shall now jump on the bandwagon as not to seem too out-o-date)...... next week i am going to see 2 NYC based bands. unfortunately not so underground.... so finally gonna see The National and then The Walkmen. Webster Hall (uh-oh, it's not t & a nite) rock photos only to follow peeps!

loft pt1

288 west street, 10012.

more tribeca loft stuff... ta pt.2

grant mclennan

firstly grant mclennan was an truely great australian musician. his and the go-betweens songs have an everlasting place amongst those who have heard them. i am lucky to have seen them here in brooklyn june last year with john and pam and they rocked!

Things done

/ Eastern State Pen... Philadelphia last weekend // Walking to Williamsburg, Brooklyn from our place has some amazing free attactions like this tree's plastic installation. A few weekends ago // A snap of a loft we did on Westside Hwy, Tribeca /

Sara Genn is doing some shows in London

People in London.... my friend Sara is playing some inaugural shows in London next week.
In the words of Molly Meldrum "go do yaself a favour" & check it out. Follow the links in my links and listen to some tunes of hers... i reckon i saw her play 20 times last year here in NYC.

http://www.myspace.com/songsforlonging

Upcoming Dates

Date Time Venue City
Mar 30, 2006 10:30 PM The Electroacoustic Club @ The Slaughtered Lamb // London, United Kingdom
Mar 31, 2006 TBA Jazzfly // London, United Kingdom
Apr 4, 2006 8:30 PM The Doghouse Loughborough, United Kingdom

4 days in London pt III

My theory now is that no blog post is complete unless there is a sidewalk shot.... at night with an abandoned object (this case a cart).... flash use necessary.
ahh Dr. Sticky has a 'must do when on Oxford Street pic': http://drleephd.blogspot.com/

4 days in London pt II

Some contact shots at the Tate Modern and uh-oh the back of a cab!

4 Days in London pt I

Well my long weekend trip to London was bloody brilliant. I had such a fun time and I thank all who we apart of the weekend..... especially Alex & Juliette. Lee & Amy came down for Sunday evening and ate Okonomyaki at Lee's fav restaurant. And seeing Chris O, Tanya R, Melanie and David M (even though intoxicated for the most part) was really great.

I got to to a bunch of tourist type stuff including doing a lap of the London Eye, a long walk along the South Bank, Sir John Soan's house, a crazy theatre show below London Bridge, pub, pub & pub, food & more food, markets and walked about 20 miles...... we were super busy all weekend and the weather was cold (not too harsh) but generally sunny or close enough.

Thanks again Alex & Jules for making the trip so brilliant and looking after me!

London Tour 06

You need to hold it down Jack, put your phone back
Quit staring into space and eat your snack, thats that.....

hold yer horses.... that's right..... oi oi oi..... paulies heading to hang out wiv some right geezers for some trans atlantic relations.... in London from march 02 - 06.... not long, gotta work back home & all.

Are we still recording........weellllllll yeah!

Sigur Ros

Picture of Sigur Ros from the nose bleed section at Madison Square Garden Theatre..... by the way, they were f**king awesome!!!!

LES

Beer & whiskey induced pics from Local 138 Lower East Side a few weekends ago..... thanks to you-know-who (not Voldemort)

snow snow snow snow snow

yes it snowed last weekend in biblical amounts!


anyone know why formatting a blog is impossible when you use a Mac?????? why oh why!!!!!

the drones

Just as the Great Snow of 2006 here in New York City started to settle in Alicia and I saw a band from Melbourne at Southpaw down on 5th Ave, Brooklyn called the Drones. My expectations were a little low, having listened to their album I was wondering what was so original about these fellows. We took the punt all the same. Their style was a mix of all things swamp rock, but mostly Kim Salmon, solo, Beast or a Surrealist. A slight hint of Died Pretty and Rob Youngers The New Christs!!!! all good. They did rock out to the small crowd in the big venue.... i bought a t-shirt off them.

Anyway, this for Lee....... The Drones album title from last year goes like this:
Wait Long By The River And The Bodies Of Your Enemies Will Float By

Birthday

Before the seasons change... i had my birthday a few weeks back and had an awesome brunch at Balthazar in Soho.... for those interested the cold weather has finally kicked in and it might even snow..... so they say.



well this shot wasn't my birthday, and they didn't even know it was close..... but my old roomies got together and we went out drinking at good old Freddies... of course!



uptown

New Years

New Years Eve was fun... Alicia and I had just got back from NM earlier that evening then headed uptown to a party and after the ball had dropped we went back to Brooklyn for the rest of the night..... this is a picture of Chris in top flight!!!! Go Chris, I'm proud of ya!

Christmas

Well I had the pleasure of going to New Mexico between Christmas & New Years and stayed with Alicia & her family. We had glorious weather and the scenery was something else.