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there is a hot dog cart on the corner of clinton and stanton that not only has veggie dogs, but offers kimchi as a condiment. KIMCHI! also, ginger iced tea. i heart ny.

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 6 June 2004 06:49 (twenty-two years ago)

In Glasgow we have crazy blind people playing jazzy keyboard versions of 'Long Live Love'. I heart here too. And NY, obviously. Why, Lauren is there!

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 6 June 2004 09:21 (twenty-two years ago)

in nyc there's an old woman subway keyboardist that does a great "girl from ipanema"

― m. (mitchlnw), Sunday, 6 June 2004 09:57 (twenty-two years ago)

lauren what's up with the london trip?

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 6 June 2004 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

if all goes well, probably the 3rd week of july.

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 6 June 2004 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

In that case - come to Glasgow on the 25th and see The Frenchmen! It'll be some kind of fun, I expect.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 6 June 2004 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Lauren, our paths won't cross this time.

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Sunday, 6 June 2004 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I realized recently that I have more friends in NY than in town. In part because people keep moving to NY.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 6 June 2004 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

In Exeter yesterday there were four kids outside a sports shop beatboxing with a small PA!

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Sunday, 6 June 2004 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

EXETER REPRESENT! I hope you joined in, Fishy.

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Sunday, 6 June 2004 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I was busy buying a futon! I should have done a futon rap!

I need a Japanese mat
Because I have a bad back
It's costing three hundred leaves
But will help me get some good sleep
Break it down!

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Sunday, 6 June 2004 18:13 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.usatoday.com/life/gallery/rappers/vanilla.jpg

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 6 June 2004 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

That's so beautiful. I'm welling up here.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Sunday, 6 June 2004 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

hi i'm typing from Time Square EasyInternetCafe just now!!!!

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 6 June 2004 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

+s obv

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 6 June 2004 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

welcome!

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 6 June 2004 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

thank you! this city is mad! and kinda fun!

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 6 June 2004 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

i shall sure to be checking out this kimchi stand with haste.

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 6 June 2004 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I am just a poor boy and my story’s seldom told
I’ve squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles, such are promises
All lies and jest, still the man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest, hmmmm
When I left my home and my family, I was no more than a boy
In the company of strangers
In the quiet of the railway station, runnin’ scared
Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters, where the ragged people go
Looking for the places only they would know
Li la li...
Asking only workman’s wages, I come lookin’ for a job, but I get no offers
Just a comeon from the whores on 7th avenue
I do declare, there were times when I was so lonesome
I took some comfort there
Now the years are rolling by me, they are rockin’ even me
I am older than I once was, and younger than I’ll be, that’s not unusual
No it isn’t strange, after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same
After changes we are more or less the same
Li la li...
And I’m laying out my winter clothes, wishing I was gone, goin’ home
Where the new york city winters aren’t bleedin’ me, leadin’ me to go home
In the clearing stands a boxer, and a fighter by his trade
And he carries the reminders of every glove that laid him down or cut him
’til he cried out in his anger and his shame
I am leaving, I am leaving, but the fighter still remains
Yes he still remains
Li la li..

― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 6 June 2004 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)

i shall be sure to check out those whores on 7th avenue

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 6 June 2004 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

those are models, ken.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 6 June 2004 22:02 (twenty-two years ago)

then where did paul simon's money go?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 6 June 2004 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)

ken where the hell is that internet cafe? i couldn't find one on Times Square!

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 6 June 2004 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

ken, you should try the whores on 14th St and 10th Ave.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 6 June 2004 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

then where did paul simon's money go?

buttsex w/ NYC hos is EXPENSIVE.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 6 June 2004 23:17 (twenty-two years ago)

stevem it's on 42nd ave, next to madame tussaud's. it is in fact an EASY INTERNETCAFE, no less! madame tussauds, easy everything. this times square place is just like london.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 7 June 2004 00:02 (twenty-two years ago)

it may actually be 42nd street

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 7 June 2004 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)

thanks tokyo for the tips!

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 7 June 2004 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Lauren, are you sure you weren't hallucinating? I practically live off of that corner and I have never seen a hot dog stand there . . . though I will look out for it from now on!

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 7 June 2004 00:09 (twenty-two years ago)

but hot dog stands are mobile ... maybe it's moved!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 7 June 2004 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

i eat $2.50 falafel for lunch = NYC is cool.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 7 June 2004 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

today = eating caramel apples and watching 8-year-olds attempt to juggle fire.

nyc roolz!

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 7 June 2004 00:19 (twenty-two years ago)

watching 8-year-olds attempt to juggle fire

oh shit, are you saying they failed?

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 7 June 2004 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)

mary, i thought it was a mirage myself but i assure you that it's quite real. you do not know how much joy i got out of the thought that the group of odious drunken meatheads chowing down kimchi dogs had no idea of the explosive gastrointestinal issues they will be facing today ("yo, this shit's kinda spicy! can i have more ketchup?").

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 7 June 2004 00:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I love NYC too but am afraid I'm probably not going to make it out there again till next February, for my 30th birthday. Instead, I'm eyeing an October trip to London.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Monday, 7 June 2004 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I love the tram between Manhattan and Roosevelt Park.

― aimurchie, Monday, 7 June 2004 02:25 (twenty-two years ago)

The tram's great, but Roosevelt Island itself is kinda weird. I felt like I was in The Prisoner or something the first time I went over there.

I love NY because I just got back from Italy where after 10 days of Italian food (really good Italian food, but still), I was so happy to be home where I can eat 12 different ethnic foods within 3 blocks of my apartment. (We actually did find a pretty good Ethiopian place in Rome, which was a nice break from the endless trattorias, but it took some searching.)

― spittle (spittle), Monday, 7 June 2004 02:54 (twenty-two years ago)

i love it because i've never been

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 7 June 2004 02:56 (twenty-two years ago)

ILE should just be re-christened ILNYC already

― Vic (Vic), Monday, 7 June 2004 02:58 (twenty-two years ago)

my friend, tonight told me of how he saw erol alkan, damian lazarus, 2manydjs, and fc kahuna, in a small bar in new york for 5 dollars. therefore yes, this board should be ILNYC.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 7 June 2004 02:59 (twenty-two years ago)

The tram's great, but Roosevelt Island itself is kinda weird. I felt like I was in The Prisoner or something the first time I went over there.

Roosevelt Island on the whole is kind of a '70s planned-community-cum-social-experiment gone horribly wrong. And yet some of the newer buildings are getting like $3000 for an apartment just because the commute is only a 5-minute ride from midtown.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 7 June 2004 03:29 (twenty-two years ago)

"Roosevelt Island on the whole is kind of a '70s planned-community-cum-social-experiment gone horribly wrong. And yet some of the newer buildings are getting like $3000 for an apartment just because

― aimurchie, Monday, 7 June 2004 04:19 (twenty-two years ago)

i've been working in or living outside of NYC for seven years now, and i have YET to go to roosevelt island. it's interesting, the history of the place.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 7 June 2004 05:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I can have a really good bacon cheeseburger deluxe delivered to me at 4 in the morning (and trust me, I have done so many times)...and I live in Brooklyn! Go NYC! This city, really, it never sleeps.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 7 June 2004 05:34 (twenty-two years ago)

one of the best things about NYC is I can randomly pop in to some bar in Brooklyn and see/hear Dan Selzer dj dance tunes to weirdos at 1 in the morning. Oh and that no one will bat an eye that I've got a baseball glove in one hand and a pint in the other while I'm there.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 7 June 2004 05:37 (twenty-two years ago)

a bar where I'm djing an advertised "madchester and factory funk" night and actually have someone with a british accent request Secton 25's Looking From a Hilltop...lovely.

Thanks for stopping by, btw.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 7 June 2004 06:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, was this the Manchester night last Fri. in Park Slope? Carey and I were there (of course...)

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 7 June 2004 08:07 (twenty-two years ago)

it's the only city i've ever visited that i'd like to live in.

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 7 June 2004 08:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Ronan I was at that show, it was like two weekends after the smoking ban was imposed and the bouncers were weird.. they were letting people out but not letting anyone in.. by the end it was Erol Alkan playing to a room of like 15 people. Felix Da Housecat showed up at like 2am like "what the fa.." and left after 15 minutes. Of course I saw him at The Hole later!

ken, the ladies on 10th ave and 14th street aren't whores

they're not ladies either

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 7 June 2004 10:16 (twenty-two years ago)

My last post was mysteriously deleted right in the middle...probably due to me. Roosevelt Island housed an insane asylum for awhile. it is now closed and will probably become condos.
My favorite story about NY (then and now) is: walking through Central Park with a good friend, chatting, and we reached one of the tunnels...we looked at each other, questioning whether to be nervous. But it was broad daylight, so we walked through and emerged to a group of ethnic men who assaulted us, saying "masage? massage? massage?"
I looked at my friend and said,"Remember when it was "Dime bag? Dime bag? Dime bag?" And we both agreed that we missed the dime bag days.

― aimurchie, Monday, 7 June 2004 11:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I have encountered these massage people in London, about 4 years ago. They are obviously moving from city to city. How disturbing.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 7 June 2004 11:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Agreed, especially when you really want a dime bag. Giuliani did a great job of cleaning up NYC - it makes me miss the homeless people and the drug dealers. The tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to be free.
Lady Liberty is closed due to...terrorist threats - well, she was a gift from France so I don't understand why we haven't removed the damned thing from the harbor. While removing "french fries" from every menu.
Isn't "massage" a French term? We should arrest those bastards for vocalizing anti-American concepts.
I just want a dime bag, OK?

― aimurchie, Monday, 7 June 2004 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

because of the people! native or adoptee, NY'ers are the best.

― lovebug starski, Monday, 7 June 2004 12:03 (twenty-two years ago)

"ken, you should try the whores on 14th St and 10th Ave"

53&3rd/Standing on the street
53&3rd/I'm tryna turn a trick
53&3rd/You're the one they never pick
53&3rd/Gotta make a man sick (sic)

then I took my razor blade
and I did what god forbade
now the cops are after me
but I proved that I'm no sissy
53&3rd...

― lovebug starski, Monday, 7 June 2004 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)

those guys went the way of street pot dealers, I suppose.

― lovebug starski, Monday, 7 June 2004 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

roosevelt island was great! and you can get groceries there for quite a bit cheaper than at upper east side.. and there's a thrift shop there where i bought a wallace & gromit modelling kit for one dollar.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 7 June 2004 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, was this the Manchester night last Fri. in Park Slope? Carey and I were there (of course...)

you weren't there when I was there...

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 7 June 2004 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)

(Mary forgot about me again. Sigh.)

― bnw (bnw), Monday, 7 June 2004 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

what time did y'all leave?

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 7 June 2004 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Where was this Manchester thing?

― Fedo (fedo), Monday, 7 June 2004 13:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Was this at Royale, H? We were only there from 11ish to 12:30ish, or a little after the Manchester DJ went off and the next dj wouldn't play Mary a Morrissey song (shocker).

― Carey (Carey), Monday, 7 June 2004 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

as I stated above, I got there after 1. Was at a dinner party at a friend's house around the corner, and we decided to stop by.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 7 June 2004 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha! I wonder if Dan was the DJ that we decided to leave during.

― Carey (Carey), Monday, 7 June 2004 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

he was the one without the accent.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 7 June 2004 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I think we gave Dan a really long drunkenly written (by me) note written on a book receipt for N4t Hentoff, asking him to play Morrissey for Mary, that was intended for the previous dj who had also received a similar note.

― Carey (Carey), Monday, 7 June 2004 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

i can state with some degree of certainty that dan would never, ever play morrissey. carey, let's get lunch this week.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 7 June 2004 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Can we sit around and eat takeout in our underwear while watching tv with a beer? If so count, me in!

― Carey (Carey), Monday, 7 June 2004 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

difficult in my office, but there is a television so we could give it a go.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 7 June 2004 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I would never, ever play a morrissy song, not even if it was produced by Vini Reilly. Not true, I would, if I had it. I really don't understand when people make requests for songs and I say "I don't have any records by that person" and they think I'm lying, like I have every record ever made with me and can play any possible thing.

For the record, Tony Fletcher invited me to DJ because he usually likes to play late 80s early 90s club records as well as the more traditional "rock" baggy type records and we both imagined what records people were listening to at the time. I played as many Manchester records as Tony, not the Smiths or Morrissey, but 808 State, New Order, Quando Quango, Section 25, 52nd Street etc, and also played many 80s club records and later techno and house records that I assume people like Greg Wilson and Mike Pickering were playing at the Hacienda during the 80s and 90s.

But I apologize for not playing Morrissey a second time. I did give Tony your note, so you may want to take it up with him!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

okay that is kind of freaky that I handed that note to another ilxor and didn't even realize it. (I actually thought you were lying because I figured the other dj's records were still up there.)(But I don't really like Morrissey anyway, I was going it for a certain friend who FORGOT i was even there.)

― bnw (bnw), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

ilxors are everywhere...duke/danh showed up many hours later, not long after hstencil left. Normally I wouldn't go routing through someone else's records. I did give Tony the note, but by that time he was too excited to go ACIEEED!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

they think I'm lying, like I have every record ever made with me and can play any possible thing.

I blame mp3-Jays.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

ha, I'm totally bringing my iPod to the engagement party I'm about to play.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Wait, were you the dark haired fellow or the light haired fellow. I was kind of woozy so I only remember seeing hair and writing long notes.

Byron, were you there?

We need to stop encouraging Mary's Morrissey ways.

― Carey (Carey), Monday, 7 June 2004 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

What nonsense! It needs to be encouraged more!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 June 2004 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Seriously, it is the only way we can get her to go anywhere now. There has to be *some* Moz connection.

― bnw (bnw), Monday, 7 June 2004 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

dude i totally forgot about this! i was drinking at o'connors that night!

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 7 June 2004 19:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Mary was all "I'm staying in, I'm tired, I need to watch Bottom..."

All I had to say was Madchester night and she got on the next plane to New York City.

― Carey (Carey), Monday, 7 June 2004 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

last friday you could've thrown a rock in Park Slope and hit an ILXor.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 7 June 2004 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha ha, what a small world! Of course I didn't forget you, Byron, I just didn't think you would like to be implicated in a Madchester night. In the future, C & I will have to ask the DJ, 'are you an ILXor by any chance?' before passing embarassing notes.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

if it's this guy, LOOKOUT!

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 7 June 2004 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

dan never listens to me when i tell him that his hair looks better grown out.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 7 June 2004 23:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I hate my hair when it's that long. When it's clean it looks something like Larry from Three's Company. And don't talk to me about product. I like short hair. I don't care what you think, you're not the boss of me...anymore.

now to find goofy photo of joel to post online for all to see...

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

visit:

http://www.ijamming.net/

to read about the morissey requests online!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 06:34 (twenty-two years ago)

This makes my day:

though given the increasingly upbeat, nearly delirious mood of the night I was unable to accommodate the requests of the two young female Morrissey/Smiths fans. (What is it with Mozzer and young girls? He's almost old enough to be their granddad!

Carey's youthful aura must have mitigated my 1st generation cred.

A similar thing happened the next night, when we were at a Northern Soul (of course) event -- which Byron really wasn't along for. This girl next to us leaned over and said conspiratorially, "Don't you feel really young . . . I feel like these people really were here in the sixties . . ." I didn't want to answer because I feared I was older than she may have thought . . .

Btw, B. and I were happy to stay at the Royale, making pathetic designs on the non-Mexican Mexican-Morrissey, but C. is not satisfied until she has crisscrossed the East River at least four times of an evening, so back to the subway we went.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 08:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Carey is 12.

― bnw (bnw), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I am NOT a Morrissey/Smiths fan, like that! Mary is a bad influence. Although I do think he is hot. But I just have at thing for tall men in suits with nice hair.

I am a mature 15!

― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 12:23 (twenty-two years ago)

what?

― stockholm aja (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

You didn't think he was so hot May 6 :(

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

some pics from new york

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 10:31 (twenty-one years ago)

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