05.28.03
if at first you don't succeed, dust yourself off and try again, we can dust it off and try again...

okay so much activity today. east coast feel me. west coast feel me.

detroit, leave me the hell alone. shopping in detroit. 'nuff said!

first off, field day may be cancelled according to newsday because the organizers failed to file for a permit in time. yoooo, that's sooo wrong. but now newsday has updated their story to include the side of field day organizer andrew dreskin. dreskin says he filed for the permit in march, and that the vote to deny the permit is purely political -- in other words, someone does not want 50,000 people in their nabe. ahem. hopefully things will work out. nothing is cancelled yet, folks. keep your fingers crossed for the sake of beck and radiohead.

nelly wins an ASCAP songwriter of the year award, and his reaction is the cutest, tho not the most eloquent:
"It's kind of crazy because I just started rapping to stay the hell out of trouble, for real. And you know the amazing ride that I've been on is crazy for me and it's crazy from where I come from, and it's crazy for the people around me. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever [think] that I'd be a songwriter...songwriter...get that...that's big."

i was listening to the yes: nyc compilation today via mtv.com. i actually like the unitard's "year to be hated" (aka the yyy's slowing down "our time"). i think the yyy's should keep unitard and throw out yyys. word. btw, i have the "live in iceland" cd that the strokes' live version of "new york city cops" is taken from. i borrowed it from saryn and forgot to give it back. i'm sorry, saryn! i will burn it and give it back to thee one day! julian sounds so good on that cd. it makes me nostalgic for the good ol' days.

speaking of yyys, use their record as a serving tray, why don't you? it's, like, so in style. thanks, nina.

you knew it was going to happen eventually. brendan benson and the wellfed boys will be taping carson daly:
As part of their mini-tour to help promote their mini-album “Metarie,” Brendan Benson and the Wellfed Boys play a handful of shows along the East Coast and drop by NBC Studios to perform on “Last Call with Carson Daly”. The show tapes Tuesday evening, June 3rd at Rockefeller Center in New York. Tickets are free, but on a first come first serve basis. Email now to reserve your priority seating. The ticket email is lastcallaudience@nbc.com. Please put "BENSON" in the subject heading, give your full name, age, and number of tickets you'd like to reserve (limit 4). You will get a confirmation email. You must be at least 16 years old to attend.

05.26.03
we are all made of starfoods

oh starfoods. one of rachel and i's favorite places to eat and drink (she is crazy for the cel-ray cup and i love their bourbon and gingerales), it has gotten even better in the last two weeks! not only have they added EROTIC PHOTO HUNT, they have also brought in a slew of board games! they have totally stolen my heart. i was there on saturday night and ended up staying there until 4 in the morning. dj shorty was playing all of these great early 90s hits that one never hears anymore, and chris sizemore kicked my ass in connect four. rematch! move back to new york, chris! so apparently, i have written about starfoods on my site before. but i didn't expect that when i went there on saturday night that they would actually know who i was. the bartender i wrote about on my site came over to our table and whispered in my ear, "mooners drink for free". sort of confused, i asked him if i had met him before and later on he explained that i had written about his "i'm not a mooner" shirt on my site -- the other starfoods workers had stumbled onto my site after some googling... what a riot! so he gave me a bourbon and gingerale and a free tee-shirt. i love that place. the owner/manager is super-nice, too. everyone go there and order the delicious eggs benedict.

before starfoods, we were having drinks at great jones cafe. paula (folksongs publicist) bought me a "shaggy" -- old spiced #3 gingerale with dark rum. it was so tasty! i talked with caroline from folksongs for the afterlife and david from bootleg remedy for a while. they are all the sweetest peeps. bootleg remedy had just finished a show at joe's pub and they were having celebratory drinks. i have to see this bootleg remedy. they sound like so much fun! here's the part i'm not sure i should reveal... i really liked the bartender at great jones, who was wearing a wfmu shirt and i just knew that he was a musician... but i was told not to talk to him about his former band, a synonym for concrete or something like that... so i think i broke a few smiles from him by talking about the shocking blue songs on the mix he was playing and telling him i'd be back to drink his faboo shaggy. sigh. everyone go there and order the shaggy.

i spent a good part of the night at jco's birthday party (thus, having to miss that boggs show) at congee village on houston and allen. that place is a crazy house with pretty good chinese food. i had a good time. their bourbon and gingerales were okay. they have an entire section of their menu devoted to different kinds of intestines. let's say it's safe to say, i never tried those dishes. i mostly stuck with the vegetarian options on the menu. everyone go there and order the stringbeans.

i also finally saw jco's bf's band the red comes up at the charleston on friday. the lead singer wore white face paint and they ended their set with a cover of sinead o'connor's "nothing compares to you". his voice is a mixture of rolling stones meets g. love meets alanis morissette. this is the funny photo i was talking about before.

this weekend has been pretty good overall. keith and i made a quick trick down to my house in pennsylvania. i gave my sister a belated birthday present -- a paul frank bag and wallet. she had no idea who paul frank was. that was the funniest part of all. is paul frank just a new york phenom???

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