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I’ve totally seen this guy. Found it remarkable that his head seemed to naturally settle at a 90 degree angle to his body.
August 24, 2010
August 23, 2010
The apartment is on Henry Street near Catherine Street. Rent stabilized. Near Bowery, East River and Manhattan Bridge.
A broker is handling the lease. So you will need first, last and her fee, which is probably negotiable. The rent maybe not so much. It has already come down from $1,265.
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If only I hadn’t just signed the lease for a new place.. This sounds like a damn fine deal.
August 20, 2010
August 19, 2010
Neal triggered a beloved memory when he posted a Cornershop song. Luna Lounge on Ludlow Street, 1997: Tully, Randy and I were kicked out after we put “Brimful of Asha” (embed above) and Neutral Milk Hotel’s “Song Against Sex” on endless repeat and danced around the place. Granted, we were the only ones in there at the time but this was probably the third night we had done it. I was later banned for 6 months but that’s another story for another time.
August 18, 2010
Have you ever been walking around in Lower Manhattan and noticed a trail of paint on the sidewalk?
About 3 years ago, one of my friends in school decided to follow the trail around, and noticed that the trail produced the image that you see above; a strange-looking rendering of what appears to be the word “momo.” MOMO is the name of an artist that used to be based in NYC, and sure enough, the one responsible for “tagging his name” across the width of Manhattan.
After requesting a meetup, MOMO told my friend that he accomplished this task by fixing 5 gallon paint buckets to the back of his bike, poking a hole in the bottom of the containers, and riding though the West Village, SoHo, Greenwich Village, East Village, and Alphabet City. It appears that this all happened in 2006, which means that some parts of the line have been covered up with roadwork and redone sidewalks, but most of the line is still visible.
To me, the interesting thing about the line is how similar and different it is to regular graffiti. Essentially, most graffiti writers enjoy seeing their name on things, and the bigger they can get it, the more visible their tag is, the more people will notice their presence and witness the artist conquering their city. MOMO created the largest tag in New York, yet the scale of his work here, so massive that it can’t all be viewed at once, means that thousands of people will walk on it each day and never even notice it. It’s simultaneously the biggest and smallest statement I’ve ever seen an artist make.
MOMO made a video about the line which you can see here.
If you ever walk over it, now you’ll know what you’re looking at.
August 16, 2010
August 13, 2010
This is trouble. Pizza joint just opened up next door. And yes, I do live above my landlord, the last gravestone business on the Lower East Side. However hard you think you are, I’m harder.
August 11, 2010
The One Where David Arquette Crashes Our LES Rooftop Poker Game
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From time to time in the summer months, a group of us gather on my rooftop on the Lower East Side to play poker. Last night was one of those nights — Ken, Jesse, Daryl, and Jordan all showed, as did another old vet of this game: Josh Rappport, in town from England. We’ve all been friends since college, so it’s a convivial affair.
The game had gotten underway, the sun had just set, and Jordan had finished relating the epic tale of losing out on a Park Slope apartment when we heard yelling from across the way. My building is just across the street from The Hotel on Rivington, and that’s where the sound was coming from. Some dude in his hotel room had spotted our poker game and was shouting, “CAN I JOIN YOUR POKER GAME?” over and over. And over and over. Eventually, the dude stopped shouting, and the game carried on.
Ten minutes later, a random guy appears on my roof. “Hey, I’m the dude that was shouting from across the street.” Awkward moment. Then Daryl says, “Hey, I recognize you.” Uh, it’s David Arquette. He wants to play poker.
More here.
