I’m hooked! On the music from Rodrigo y Gabriela. They played at Terminal 5 last week, which was the kickoff to their North American tour. Their music touched me so much the first time I heard it that I had tears rolling down my cheeks… they play with such urgency and beauty, as if their lives depended on it.

Simply incredible.

No picture to prove it, but I saw STARS last night! While I was on 6th Avenue & 12th Street!!!

Granted there were only 2, and they were tiny… but still enough to make me giddy

Cross

Saw this on my way to work the other day in the financial district.
Scrap metal or cross?

Mad Men @ Times Sq

Mad Men @ Times Sq.

Mad Men Season 3 Premiere, Time Square, August 16, 2009

Merce Cunningham

A legend in the New York (and international) dance world has just passed away. Although I’m not a big fan of dance (and kind of fell asleep watching documentaries of him and John Cage in my art school years), I’m still saddened by the passing of a genius.

I was in the San Francisco Bay Area this weekend, where the weather was extremely nice, the sky super blue, and the people crazily nice.

I returned to New York to thunderstorms and a downpour, and the first thought that crossed my mind as I emerged from the muggy subway was: I really, really love New York.

Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night

I don’t know about other people, but I have a not-so-secret spot that I go to whenever the bullshit in life drives me crazy. I go and stand in front of Vincent Van Gogh’s classic The Starry Night at MoMA (which is an otherwise boring museum unworthy of the $20 admission fee).

David Byrne's Bike Rack by MoMA

When I first read this Times article about the awesome bike racks installed by crazy genius David Byrne, I swore to myself I’d trek all over town to take a picture of every single one of them.

And then…

BAM

So… I’m gonna deviate a little bit and talk about my adventure into Brooklyn.

Make no mistake.  I am not a fan of any outer boroughs, even Brooklyn, the most recent darling of hipsters and artists and anybody who tries to be cool.  There are only a few things/events/people that can make me willingly leave the comfort of Manhattan.  BAM is one of them.  Or more specifically, the shows they offer.

Guggenheim

The ‘renovated’ Guggenheim was an ‘interesting’ experience.  I wasn’t impressed by much of the stuff they had.  What caught my eye were phrases that were carefully crafted and placed along the winding walls of the museum.