It's autumnish

Öysters!! Here we are at an annual Oyster Fest in (conveniently) Oyster Bay, a quaint little town up-state. Or up-Island, to be more precise, about 1.5h from The City, along Long Island Bay. The day was pleasant, the town was full of festival revelers, and the oysters were damn good! ;)


The concert calendar this fall has been quite busy, with CBGB's, and then a couple of excellent shows at Roseland. Plus this weekend the Knitting Factory will host 3 whole floors of ska...


Here's some olde AIR95 alumni. Dan was in town (read: couch surfing at my place) to search employment and accommodations. He found both, and will start in November. Another greenhorn in the City! We also met up with Masa, the designer of Staten Island's 9/11 memorial (a pic here)


And finally, my brand-spanking-new knee brace for sports. They charged $1250* for this, while you can buy it online for <$500! But what do I care, since the insurance covers it all! I'm planning to try some light frisbee tossing tomorrow, not all-out ultimate yet. But getting there :)
*For that price, one would hope they'd do something about the rather nasty chafing behind the knee!! ;P

Happy halloween etc!
peace
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Nu-Haven

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These are from a quick daytrip up to New Haven, CT, a.k.a. Yale university. The campus is nice, and that seems to be pretty much all there is to the town. I wanted to check out some Louis Kahn landmarks, but unfortunately the Art Gallery is under renovation. The Center for British Art, just across the street, was open, and was quite pleasing (2nd picture from right).
Nearby, in New Canaan, is the Glass House by Philip Johnson, but that'll have to wait for another excursion :)

Cheers
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Farewell to CBGB

Past week I finally got to go to CBGB proper. I had been to the neighbor 313 space a few times before, but hadn't seen the main space. What a dive it is! A lot smaller than I expected, basically it's just a converted ground floor of a basic NYC townhouse, 25' wide and 100-150' long. So the space wasn't originally conceived as a performance space. Now the stage is under 20' wide, in the back. To go to 'backstage' and bathrooms you have to pass the stage. The upside of the size is the intimacy and athmosphere. There were no fences 6' from the stage, like in so many places today. This allowed Fishbone's Angelo to stagedive repeatedly. I remember back in Nosturi, a few years ago, he had to climb over the fence first, somewhat precariously :) Anyway, the gigs were great: Outernational had a good ska going, but Fishbone really blew the bank. It was pandemonium, in a good way! Too bad CBGB will close for good this month, it'll be missed.

In other news, it'll be 6 months since the knee surgery, this week. I'll have my last physiotherapy session :) The knee's maybe 80-85% healed. I can jog, but it does get achy when I jog for 25-30min or more. So ultimate-style full running, turning and jumping is still ways off, but getting there.

Keep it kool!
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