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Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Welcome To 7 North

I started my new jorb last week. I'm working at NYU/Bellevue's Sleep Disorders Clinic. AKA Teeeeam Sleep. Theres a Pulmonary Function Lab on 7 North in Bellevue that's attached to the Sleep Clinic, and then a private clinic a few avenues over on Madison and 26th, which is called Sleep West. Or Omar's. I'm officially working as a Research Coordinator at Omar's, but I'll be splitting my time between there and Taco Bellevue. The Madison Ave office is a block from the park and Shake Shack and the Flatiron Building and lots of young professionals. Sleep Medicine fits my background almost perfectly, and I'm working with portable EEG machines and Neurocognitive Profilers and whatnot. And sleep monitoring programs with names like Minerva and Sandman. They are sending me and Nikia (the other research coordinator) to California on Monday for to train us at this company called Advanced Brain Monitoring. We're going to be in Carlsbad, CA (near San Diego) from the 12fth to the 14fth. And we're staying at the Grand Pacific Palisades Resort & Hotel in Carl's Jr. for 2 nights. Dani and B will also be in Cali then, but in SF and LA whereas I'll be in the south near Mehico.

Speaking of America's Mexican, I had a pretty good Cinquo de Mayo. I went to go see Pattern Is Movement, Sightings, and Fuck Buttons at the Merc Lounge, but ducked out after P is M to meet up with Maya and go to her little bro's new apt in the East Village. It was on 2nd and 2nd, which was a few blocks from where I schwas. Her bro and his friends were grilling out and making very strong margaritas on the roof deck of the building with 360° view of the LES and Alphabet City. I have 2 videos from the Pattern Is Movement show (I have a 4 GB memory card in my Nikon now and can record for days). I think they are the only band that I've seen both at Cave 9 and the Cake Shop. There's no pictures yet b/c I'm still trying to set up wireless transfers with my new laptop. It's not working. Cheers.

Friday, April 25, 2008

Red Socks Poughkeepsie

Me and Bellini went to the Foals show yesterday at the Bowery Ballroom. I think it was her first time there, we met up with Maya and 2 of her friends and had drinks in the downstairs lounge until the Epochs started. They werent bad, and the last 2 minutes of most of their songs were really good. But the rest was sort of a standard frat-rock. The dudes themselves looked like they went to Birmingham Southern and it had the feel of an ATO party from my stoney heyday. But you can do whatever you want when you open for Foals and have a guaranteed enormous crowd watching and waiting for the band after you.

Foals went on a little after 11, and we somehow got good spots in the crowd even after me and Belinda went downstairs for another round of drinks after The Epochs got done with their set. There were a bunch of Britons in the crowd last night, and we were talking to a few Londoners who were occupying the same space in the crowd with us. Foals played just about all of their best songs. I got videos for Balloons, Olympic Airways, and Red Socks Pugie. But they also played Cassius, The French Open, Hummer, Mathletics, Heavy Water, Two Steps Twice, and Electric Bloom. And everything sounded marvelous. Definitely the best show of this year so far.

1-12. Foals

Foals - Balloons

Foals - Olympic Airways

Friday, April 18, 2008

Dracula Musical

I heard back from the jorb interview I had last week. I was offered a 1-year contract as a Research Coordinator at NYU/Bellevue's Sleep Disorder Clinic (aka Team Sleep) with a 35K/year salary plus benefits. And they're sending me to San Diego next month for a brain training seminar. I've been in kind of a hibernative naptosis for ahwhile, so I was pretty happy about being gainfully employed again after 4 months.

I went to go see Forgetting Sarah Marshall this afternoon after I heard the news. Is was good. Jackie from that 70s show and electric fingers lady from Heroes and Mike from SLC Punk. And Pual Rudd. Can't go wrong, really. There was also a 'Silent Rave' in Union Square this afternoon., and it had just started when i got out of the moviefilm. It was basically just a bunch of people w/ iPods dancing to their own music, or something to that effect. There's some pictures of it below.

1-9. Silent Rave @ 14th Skreet/Union Square

Thursday, April 17, 2008

So Post All 'Em

Me and Lexie went to the show at Studio B last night. We got some dinner at Enid's on Manhattan Ave near McCarren Park before that. YACHT and Parts & Labour were on the bill, but it was about 1/3rd the size of a normal show there. And they rearranged the space so looked less like a dance club and more like a normal one. I somehow didn't have to pay to get in, and was kind of enjoying the small club vibe (as opposed to the packed-as-fuck vibe like the last time i was there, for the HEALTH/Crystal Castles show a couple of weeks ago). The first band was a little weird, but P&L and YACHT were both good, as per usual. And both had added hot new female members to their respective bands. As you can see below. It definitely seemed more like a prom/highschool dance/private party than a show at 'club studio b'. Their rooftop garden opens soon, so that should interesting if they actually deliver on the promise of a 2nd level with a retractable roof.

1-9. Parts & Labor
10-15. YACHT

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Time Flys When Youre Having Rum

I went to the Young Associates party at the Chelsea Art Museum yesterday. My friend Maya helped set it up, there were a lot of people there and 2 open bars stocked full with beer, wine, and 2 kinds of rum. Dark rum, ginger ale and a splash of tonic water makes for a excellent cocktail. I had about 5 of those. And Friends with Benefits were DJing. French Kicks on Tuesday.

1. Chelsea Graffiti
2-10. Friends w/ Benefits YA Party

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Foals

I took a walk through the Village this morning. Got a bite to eat at Gray's Papaya on 6th ave, then walked down to w8th, and then back up to Broadway and went to Other Music to get my ticket to the Foals show at the Bowery Ballroom on the 24th. There was a street festival on W4th and some kind of NYU drum circle thing happening in Wash Sq. Park. I got a few shots of that, and the park and street festival, got some $1 chicken satay w/ peanut sauce, and came back here. I'm very escited about the Foals show. Young Associates Party at the Chelsea Art Museum tonight.

1-6. Wash Sq. Park/Street Fair

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.