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Eh! any of you still here? yes, its been a few months since Ive posted. Life is still very crazy and very busy and good an so my poor little site sits here patiently, in hopes that I feed it a photo or two. I will, I promise, soon.
Anyways, I thought you guys should know about this newish site that I read every day by my good friend Mr. Gilbert. Its called The Big Ticket (in my opinion, a Fine, Fine name for a site)and its one of those new fangled mp3-blogs plus much more. Show it some love why dont ya.
We ventured out to the east coast for this year's new years eve. Watched some excellent hockey in Connecticut and hung out in NYC for the rest of the time in NYC.
These are a couple shots I took on the Brooklyn Bridge.
This is a window overlooking Central Park from inside of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
A spooky building we found as we walked to...
.. Pete's Candy Store, which is a superb establishment.
New Years Eve: there goes the ball drop:)
After that we hopped on a subway and headed to ....
.. this party, the details were a bit fuzzy but I'm pretty sure they served milwaukee's best, and I'm most certain that we had a great time.
Some of my other favorite spots we visited:
Another year, another list.
Lets start with 12 albums:
12. The Strokes - Room On Fire
11. Ted Leo & Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak
10. Earlimart - Everyone Down Here
09. Libertines - Up the Bracket : An excellent garage rock offering from Liverpool, also they put on a great performance at the 7th St Entry.
08. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell : This album is testement to the power of appreciating a band once you see them in person
07. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People : Most diverse indie album since I can hear the heart beating as one.
06. Steve Malkmus & The Jicks - Pig Lib
05. The Postal Service - Give Up : Started for me with Such Great Heights and had no lows.
04. Andre 3000 - The Love Below : Andre Ben is Prince and Marvin Gaye's love child.
03. The White Stripes - Elephant
02. The New Pornographers - Electric Version : This years best sing-a-long album.
01. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow : Incredible pop that exceded my high exceptations.
My Favorite '03 Cuts in no perticular order:
Camper van Beethoven - Think About me, The Thermals - Brace and Brake, YYYs - Y Control, Atmosphere - Reflections, Andre 3k - Spread, Shins - So Says I, Libertines - Up the Bracket, The White Stripes - Goin Back to Memphis,Ted Leo - The High Party, Postal Service - Such Great Heights, The New Pornographers - The Laws Have Changed
My Favorite '03 Shows
DreDay2003 (Slug & D4) - The 7th St Entry
LFTR PLLR!!!!!! - Triple Rock
white stripes - st paul on july 4th
Radiohead - wisconsin
belle & sebastian - halloween @ Fitzgerald theatre
yyys - 1st ave
The final destination on my whirlwind month of trips was San Francisco.
From the Marin side of thangs
Joe and the Tree
At the beginning of the month Stick and I flew out to the NY to visit our boy Ben. The first day there we trekked across manhattan. We saw the Guggenheim as well as central park:
Alas, fences made viewing the Reservoir difficult.
We walked threw a Woodie Allen movie shoot. As we crossed the well lit bridge I walked right past the infamous director and I found it interesting that I'm taller then Mr. Allen.
The Guggenheim had an excellent Rosenquist exhibit.
What's great about the Guggenheim NYC, is how it puts everyone, who walks up its spiral walkway, on display.
The majority of our fabulous weekend in the NY was spent in beautiful Brooknam. The first night, we had a drink at this excellent bar: Sweet-ups. Oh man, You wouldn't believe how nice it is to go out for a night on the town where smoking is banned at all venues.
Twenty-somethings outside of Enids, a wonderful breakfast joint.
A Birthday party for uncle Ran brought us to denver back in October. Some of the sites included:
A super-cute mule deer
Great Golf
Gorgeous Geese
One day there were a million balloons in our office,
I thought they were a little strange.
They must have thought that we were strange too..
which is why I think they all huddled together away from us. I wonder, who do they work for?
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