Filmmaker Bette Gordon on Times Square: "it is neon, but it’s this commercialized Toys R Us neon, which I think is sad. I miss the grit. I miss the reality. I miss the back alley feel of the old Times Square. It’s always been touristy during the day, but at night it had this secret glow, this secret glimmer, and you could feel like you were participating in a more secret world." [LM]
See the films of Bette Gordon at Anthology.
April 26: Buy Two Boots pizza and help save East Village poetry institution A Gathering of the Tribes from landlord greed. All pizza proceeds to Tribes. Then party with open mic at 6pm. [FB]
A sort of ironic nostalgia?
More gloss for the Bowery gold rush. [EVG]
See "On the Bowery" tonight. [BB]
A new blog captures Staten Island in photos. [CSI]
Sad to hear about the death of L.J. Davis, author of A Meaningful Life, the tale of a brownstone Brooklyn gentrifier in the 1960s. [Forbes] & [NYT]
That pic is too funny - yours?
ReplyDeleteyeah, i was trying to think of something funny to say about it, but i think it speaks for itself. perhaps someone could come up with a good caption...
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ReplyDelete"Hi, I was calling to see if you if you had gotten in the new iPad 3 that comes in the shape of an eight track tape yet?
(Sorry, it's all I got! Anybody else?)
Marty, thanks for stepping up!
ReplyDeletei was thinking of something like: "Jeez, my dad told me to listen to this 'mix tape' thingy he made, but I don't hear a sound."
@Jeremiah: Ha ha ha! Good one!
ReplyDeletei like the 8-track iPad, though. the first "adult" album i ever bought for myself as a kid was an 8-track. Blondie.
ReplyDeleteGreat scene from “Cheers” when Cliff brings in his 8-track answering machine.
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