NYC Playin’ & Fallin’

Per architecture expert John Hill on his Archidose blog, South Manhattan is looking like a pretty fun summer installation stroll with David Byrne’s Playing the Building at the Battery Maritime Building and Olafur Eliasson’s NYC Waterfalls at and near the Brooklyn Bridge less than a mile from each other…DOPE!

Goldberg & Chabon: A post-Someting

A little chat between good-lookin’ boyz! Lots about hummus, a little about hackysack and the Jews in Hollywood.

Bloggingheads.tv Rules

Daniel Levy on the diavlog
[Yes it's been forever, all 3.5 of you reading. I've little excuse for this, it's just magnified itself as I sit here dormant on a contract job, so hopefully I'll have lots of downtime to do stuff like this and make music, etc. all the other crap I've been thinking of [...]

Hell of more music…

Heard about Joseph Bertoluzzi’s plan to play the Hudson Bridge in ‘09 on BBC Radio News aligns him well with David van Tieghem literally playing New York City, and Einstruzende Neubauten playing urbanity in general, although he’s going much more ambitiously, looking to play a 45-60 minute suite to be played live with twenty percussionists. [...]

Sleep dep & Gitmo

Read all about this basic experiment with sleep deprivation. It’s pretty remarkable what the body goes through.
Then, as Sullivan relates, imagine the worst effects multiplied up to six-fold, and you get an idea of what’s been happening regularly to prisoners at Gitmo. Pretty sick.

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Jay-Z & Da Jews
Between the anti-antisemitism PSA he did with Russell Simmons, and his rent-out of his 40/40 Club for a UJA Federation happy hour, Hova’s proving a true friend to us yids.
Not so sweet in Croatia
Yup, they got sugar packets with der Fuhrer’s face on ‘em. Booyakasha!
Sirius shows XM the ring
Stern, Dylan the DJ, [...]

Watch, While Seated

It’s a lovely group video blog facilitated by top-notch renaissance man Michael Murphy, of  While Seated and Unphotographable fame.