HR Fotoblogger 2012: July 2008

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Less Artists More Condos

This weekend was a bit slower than usual, but I needed a break after playing host for 11 days straight. Me and Jesus got moritas at the Habana Outpost in Ft. Greene on Friday, after I forgot that I was on the espress train and ended up at the fucking Kingston-Throop stop in the middle of Brooklyn.

On Saturday I went to the DFA Special Disco Version warm-up party at PS1, which I hadn't been to before. It took about an hour to get in, and there were probably like 1500 people there, but it was fun. After that I took the G train to Park Slope and got some dinner at Flipster's and went and checked out the end of the free Ghostland Observatory show in Prospect Park. After that I came full circle back to the Village and went to the would-be Japanther & Team Robes show at LAMC, but Japanther was somewhere between NYC and Connecticut by the time they were supposed to go on, so they had to cancel.

But my Russian friend Anastasiya got in that night around midnight and we went to St. Jerome's on the LES to have drinks w/ Tony & Bex, and then for pizza and weeds and ice cream in alphabet city after that. On Sunday morning we all went brunch at Blue Ribbon Bakery in the Village, which was fantastic. Me and Thumbelinda DJ'd at Hanger last night and now she's on the way over here to cut my hair. And if I don't fall asleep we might go see Wall-E. That's all.

1-5, 8, 9, 12. PS1
6. West 4th
7. Prospect Park
10. Smith & 9th
11. Nostrand Ave
13-18. Team Robespierre

Friday, July 25, 2008

California

My friend Lorena was visiting from California this week, she was staying with me from last Wednesday up until this morning. It was her first time in New York so I gave her the Hassenpheffer tour. We did just about every major ethnicity in the city. Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Indian, American, Italian, Spanish-Italian, Gourmet Japanese, 3 kinds of Pizza.. Is was nice. We also went to a handful of shows, including the Siren Fest on Cone-Zone island and the Liars & Fuck Buttons at The Pool. We forewent Deerhoof at Prospect Park on Friday for a 14-course Korean food extravaganza at Kang Suh Good in Koreatown, with a gaggle of Team Sleepers. There was also a Gallery crawl in Chelsea last week, a viewing of the The Dark Knight on boom boom tea in Times Square on Sunday night. So lots of drinks, food, music, tours, and general fun. I'm going to visit her in California as soon as it gets cold here, or maybe sooner because I have the West Coast itch now. Japanther and Team Robes tomorrow at LAMC and/or The Treefort in Bklyn, and MGMT & The Ting Tings at the Pool on Sunday. And Mother Russia is flying in for the weekend tomorrow. I think thas is all.

1. Eleanor Freidberger is hot
2. Kang Suh Good
3. Hurricane Lorena
4. Cone-Zone Island
5. Ninja Brethren
6. Jaguar Love
7. Surf Ave
10. Pepsi Cartwheel
11. Hayden Panetierre
12, 15. Broken Social Scene
13, 14. Carnival Panorama
17. Chinatown Bust
18. Stillwell Ave
19-21. Fuck Buttons
22. Andrew W.K.
23-33. Liars
34. McCarren Park
35. Mexico Bus
37, 41, 42. Bushwick
38. Paris Vampire
39. Stairwell Graffiti
40. Exit

Other Music

!!!, abe vigoda, aesop rock, aids wolf, air, animal collective, antibalas, the arcade fire, architecture in helsinki, arctic monkeys, at the drive-in, bad brains, band of horses, bat for lashes, battles, be your own pet, beastie boys, the beatles, beck, beirut, belle & sebastian, beulah, big a little a, black dice, bikini kill, black mountain, blink 182, bloc party, blonde redhead, the blood brothers, the blow, blur, boards of canada, bonde de rolê, the books, boredoms, boris, braid, brand new, brazilian girls, the breeders, the brian jonestown massacre, broken social scene, british sea power, built to spill, cake, califone, calla, can, caribou, cat power, celebration, charlottefield, the chemical brothers, chicks on speed, chin up 2x, chromeo, cinemechanica, clap your hands say yeah, the clash, the clientele, clipd beaks, clor, coldplay, constantines, cornelius, css, the cure, daft punk, dan deacon, dance disaster movement, dandy warhols, de la soul, the dears, death cab, dfa 1979, deerhoof, deerhunter, deftones, deltron 3030, denali, destroyer, detachment kit, the dirty projectors, do make say think, the doors, doves, dragons of zynth, dungen, echo & the bunnymen, elbow, elefant, elliot smith, erase errata, escort, everclear, ex-models, explosions in the sky, the faint, the field, the fiery furnaces, figurines, the fitness, the flaming lips, flight of the conchords, fly pan am, fm bats, foo fighters, four tet, franz ferdinand, the french kicks, fuck buttons, fugazi, fujiya & miyagi, the futureheads, gang of four, gang gang dance, the get up kids, girl talk, glassjaw, the go! team, good shoes, gorillaz grizzly bear, group x, head automatica, HEALTH, the helio sequence, hella, holy fuck, hot chip, hum, i love you but i've chosen darkness, iggy pop & the stooges, incubus, interpol, iron & wine, islands, jaguar love, jamiroquai, jane's addiction, japanther, jens lekman, jimi hendrix, joanna newsom, the joggers, jonny greenwood, joy division, the juan maclean, junior boys, jurassic 5, justice, kid 606, kill me tomorrow, king khan & the shrines, king of convenience, kings of leon, kinski, klaxons, the knife, ladytron, lake of dracula, lali puna, land of talk, lcd soundsystem, le shok, le tigre, led zeppelin, les savy fav, liars, the libertines, lightning bolt, local h, the locust, love of diagrams, mia, madvillain, magik markers, man man, manitoba, marnie stern, the mars volta, maserati, matt & kim, mclusky, measles mumps rubella, melt banana, menomena, metric, minus the bear, mirah, mission of burma, modest mouse, modeskeletor, mogwai, moving units, muscles, ms. john soda, muse, my bloody valentine, mylo, nada surf, neon blonde, nervous cop, neutral milk hotel, new young pony club, nine inch nails, nirvana, no ag, nomo, the notwist, nouvelle vague, numbers, the octopus project, of montreal, okkervil river, oneida, ooioo, out hud, oxford collapse, panda bear, part chip, parts & labor, pattern is movement, pavement, phantom planet, pinback, pit er pat, the pixies, a place to bury strangers, the plastic constellations, plot to blow up the eiffel tower, porno for pyros, portishead, the postal service, pre, pretty girls make graves, professor murder, pterodactyl, pylon, q and not u, queens of the stone age, radiohead, the rakes, the rapture, ratatat, read yellow, red hot chili peppers, the redneck manifesto, the rentals, rilo kiley, royal, ruins, saul williams, sage francis, saves the day, the sea and cake, sebastian, secret machines, the shins, the sex pistols, shocking pinks, shooting spires, sightings, silver jews, silversun pickups, simian mobile disco, smashing pumpkins, sleater-kinney, soft circle, sondre lerche, sonic youth, sons & daughters, soundgarden, sparta, spank rock, the spinto band, spoon, st. vincent, stephen malkamus, stereolab, the stills, stone temple pilots, the strokes, sufjan stevens, supergrass, sunset rubdown, supergrass, susu, supersystem, tapes 'n tapes, ted leo & the pharmacists, the teenagers, tera melos, the thermals, these are powers, these arems are snakes, thunderbirds are now!, times new viking, tokyo police club, turing machine, tussle, tv on the radio, the unicorns, the velvet underground, vhs or beta, videohippos, the violent femmes, the walkmen, we versus the shark, the white stripes, weezer, wilco, wilderness, wolf parade, wzt hearts, yacht, xbxrx, yeasayer, yeah yeah yeahs, yo la tengo.

Other Film

american hardcore, 28 weeks later, akira, a clockwork orange, amelie, basquiat, batman begins, the bourne ultimatum, city of god, children of men, the darjeeling limited, dig!, the dreamers, donnie darko, eternal sunshine, fargo, fear & loathing, fight club, goodbye lenin, harry potter, howl’s moving castle, igby goes down, i heart huckabees, just friends, kung fu hustle, lost in translation, margot at the wedding, monty python & the holy grail, napoleon dynamite, pan’s labyrinth, pirates of the caribbean, pulp fiction, ronin, rushmore, secretary, sex & lucia, sin city, shaun of the dead, slc! punk, spiderman, stranger than fiction, the big lebowski, the life aquatic, the royal tenenbaums, trainspotting, y tu mama tambien.

Other Television

arrested development, coupling, curb your enthusiasm, entourage, futurama, family guy, flight of the conchords, frisky dingo, harvey birdman, heroes, home movies, huff, it's always sunny in philadelphia, john from cincinnati, metalocalypse, project runway, sealab 2021, the simpsons, stroker & hoop, the office, the L word, the venture brothers, top chef, dexter, weeds, californication, wildboyz, aqua teen, south park, the daily show, the colbert report, rob & big, buffy, scrubs, that 70s show, everyday italian.

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