Buffalo Guys, Won’t You Come Out Tonight? NY Observer on the NY hip male obsession with work wear, hitting more blogs than you can shake a stick at. Do any of these labels make their clothes affordable for the working class?
“July 4th free Sonic Youth/Feelies show at Battery Park” – time for finn to curse certain nuptials.
Also, Cluster is playing the the Knitting Factory next weekend.
“The new Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, to be erected in the block bounded by Park Avenue, Lexington Avenue, Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Streets, will have a private railway siding underneath the building, it was learned yesterday. Guests with private rail cars may have them routed directly to the hotel instead of to the Pennsylvania Station or the Grand Central Terminal, and may leave their cars at a special elevator which will take them directly to their suites or to the lobby.”
–The New York Times, September 8, 1929
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“Perforated”
from Through the Panama by Sightings (2007)
from Through the Panama by Sightings (2007)
%s1 / %s2
The new Sightings record is without a doubt their most accessible and probably their most realized. It’s the sixth record, and they’ve pulled back the rawness a bit for a sort of noise kraut disco record as played by a rock band. Yeah, there’s bass and guitar and some drums but once again they manage to deconstruct the music everyone in the city is making and put it together in jagged tangents coming out of both channels that are somehow cohesive. Production is handled by Andrew WK, and he’s helped the band layer a cold, semi-glossy sheen to their rhythmic repetition and violent squeals that gets me thinking Street Hassle era Lou Reed in vibe. I already chucked this in the best records of 2007 bin in the kitchen, so take note.
Shiny plastic on Load and vinyl on Ecstatic Peace.
I’m really hoping there’s an actual, physical “best records” bin in your kitchen.
New York's Alright If You Like...
Quote from a promo email I got today for a new album:
in the words of Vice Magazine, “the favorite guitarist of every musician you like in New York. He’s like the New York music geek world’s secret weapon.”
Hmmmmm.
“Mikey Bones delivers on the promise of a Jerz dude channeling pure insight.” Phew…its been exhausting being the main Jerz dude channeling pure insight around here. Now I can start cutting my insight with baby laxative and spending the profits on bass.
it’s kind of scary that this release party/show/whatever is happening right now about 7 blocks away.
by Lebbeus Woods
(↝via BLDGBLOG)
did you read the thing about how terry gilliam ganked some drawing this guy did for 12 monkeys so he sued Universal and got a big doughpile for his troubs? apparently similar things happened devils advocate and batman.
I thought about trying to coordinate another NYC visit with the Boredoms 77 Boa Drum Show, but it won’t work out. You east coasters should go since it’s free.
Legendary Japanese iconcolasts BOREDOMS, a visionary band who has spent over twenty years pushing itself toward new frontiers, will stage the most extraordinary concert of their career on July 7, 2007. A once-in-a-lifetime performance featuring 77 drummers, and meant to be performed just once (on 7/7/07), BOREDOMS will create 77BOADRUM as a free show in the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park section of Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Located directly on the East River and majestically framed by the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park section of Brooklyn Bridge Park provides an arresting stage for this audacious performance.
Hot People Trying to Look Ugly
…or ugly people trying to look hot.
I’m not sure what’s more embarrassing:
- I watched all of these
- I found them amusing
- I recognized most of the locations
Cookies
“Fresh baked cookies and brownies, only delivered late at night. Do I honestly have to say more? My apartment is technically out of their delivery range (by one block!), but they don’t say what the range is on their website… so I asked really nicely, and they made an exception for me! The cookies and brownies were hot and delicious when they arrived, and a perfect balance between crunchy and soft. And they will bring a whole quart of milk to go with it! They deliver from 8PM-2:30 AM on weekdays and 8PM-4AM on weekends, clearly catering to the college and/or stoned crowds. I was in neither of those crowds when I ordered, but damn, I needed cookies, and they delivered.”
do they deliver root beer floats too?
the burrito place here now does bike deliveries on wednesday nights. it’s amazing.
only wednesdays? wtf?
Until I was about ten years old, I thought that New York was an imaginary city. I remember seeing it everywhere, of course: on TV, in movies, on posters and postcards, and even hearing about it in songs — apparently, it was my kind of town, and it never slept. It really didn’t occur to me that the city was real: even to my young brain, it seemed too mysterious, too complicated, too fantastic, a way-station on the road between Camelot and Oz.
Now that I count myself a resident, I can safely report that New York exists, its magical sense of unreality worn thin by countless morning commutes, irrational parking tickets, and unfathomable cabaret laws. And yet, every once in a while I catch a glimpse of something I can only describe as sublime: a moment that trembles on the brink of mystery and then vanishes, carried away on an unexpected scent, or folded between skyscrapers by the flat, grey light of an approaching storm. In these moments, I see in my fallen metropolis the magic long ago transferred to the invisible cities of literature, and in the crush of her crowds and monuments, a numinous shock of recognition opens a brief window: I sight Lankhmar in her sprawling alleys, Arkham in her sudden bookstores, Minas Tirith in the ruin of her smoking towers. In these flashes, the truth is revealed. The great cities of our imagination exist to help us see our own homes more clearly; they are not windows but mirrors, not doorways to escape but portals of recognition. As Melville said of Queequeg’s home, “It is not down in any map; true places never are.”
clearly we need a quote category. maybe tha should replace link? and it could have one of them giant quote things in the background. yeah, i can feel it.
let’s keep link, but I’d like a quote category too.
i used to think ET california wasn’t real. also ‘minas tirith’ kind of broke me out of my reverie on this dealy. “Verily, in the rumble of the 7th Avenue IRT, do I hear the drums of kazad dum”
I finally picked the paperback of this up on sale a month or two ago.
the article mentions several brands that makes work clothes and prices them accordingly: red wing, woolrich, estex, duluth pack. however, these kinds of clothes are generally difficult to find in nyc. woolrich specifically started a division to appeal to the high end, but they still sell their lower priced clothing as well. as for labels like gilded age, engineered garments, and rag & bone, why would they make their clothes affordable? they don’t sell to that market.
from the review of the rag & bone store linked above:
My question was more about clothing brands than Estex or (the aweosme) Duluth Pack.
Red Wing has been partnered with J Crew for awhile, and I assume these are a more expensive line.
Re: Woolrich, I’m also curious if these boutiques only carry their designer partnership label or the regular catalog.
apparently you can’t deep link into the main woolrich web site shop.
and re: yr question being more about clothing brands, it appears that the extant work clothes brands sometimes start a line for the high end but not vice versa.