Aspects of Tom Otterness' "The Real World", Rockefeller Park, Battery Park City.

















Hey, remember when he killed that dog? That was weird, wasn't it?

Leave work, stop and get some groceries, walk down to my block to find...this.

I ask some people standing in front of my building if they know what's going on. Apparently, they tell me, the building next door to mine is the "secret downtown location" where IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is to be serving out his house arrest sentence.





After sitting around for two hours waiting for SOMETHING to happen, suddenly all the photographers and news vans just pack up en masse and leave. So...did it happen? I have no idea. All the news programs are talking about it like it did, so I'm guessing either there was a last-minute change of plans, or this whole thing is some sort of decoy or misdirection.

Ack, I'm going for my run.

Matt Nathanson, Joe's Pub, NoHo.







Setlist:
1. To the Beat of Our Noisy Hearts
2. Modern Love
3. Bare
4. Still
5. Somewhere to Hide
6. Room @ the End of the World
7. All We Are
8. More Than This
9. New Coats and New Hats
10. Faster
11. Detroit Waves
12. The Boxer
13. Come On Get Higher
14. Alison

Ari Hest live album taping, Rockwood Music Hall, LES.

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Webster Hall, East Village.

Twin Shadow, Webster Hall, East Village.

Big Troubles, Webster Hall, East Village.

Ari Hest, Hiro Ballroom, Chelsea.

Bess Rogers, Hiro Ballroom, Chelsea.

Jess Ruben, Hiro Ballroom, Chelsea.

Zach Hurd, Rockwood Music Hall, LES.

Not a clue who these people were, what they were doing, what what they were looking/waiting for, but they certainly were loud.

One day, I want to do an entire "angry Steve" series. If he lets me. He won't let me.

Whatever they're doing to the Brooklyn Bridge, it sure is ugly. What is this, Farewell to Manzanar?

Everyone,

As many of you know, I've been debating for a very long time whether or not I wanted to leave NYC and move back to the west coast. Well, now the one or two of you who know the truth can stop keeping quiet about it - I have moved!

Yes, I am back on the west coast, though to NoCal this time rather than the SoCal of my youth. I've been settling into the SF scene (such as it is) for the last two or three weeks now, and blogging duties had been secretly handed over to my good friend Chewie (not his real name, or so he tells me) for almost all of the last month - did you notice? Exactly.

What will the future hold? There's not a person on earth who can tell you that. Maybe I'll start a new blog. Maybe I won't. Maybe I just won't tell anyone about it. Maybe I'll just get drunk on apple wine. Until I get it figured out, though, Chewie has assured me that this particular blog will soldier on, and for reasons known only to him will even continue on under the same name. Chewie's weird like that.


See you in the world,
mike.



PS. :D

RBNY vs. Seattle Sounders FC, Red Bull Arena, Harrison, NJ. 1-0 victory!

Zach Hurd, Rockwood 2, Lower East Side.

Ari Hest, with Doug Yowell, Apple Store, 14th St.