New York City

New Yawk, New Yawk..... The town so nice they named it twice..... I can think of one word to describe NY.....INTENSE. We spent 3 days there.... After we met the opening act we carried for the rest of the tour, Lamb, it was time to go exploring the Big Apple...The very first thing I did was hop my ass on the subway and head for the Village to find a cyber cafe to get in touch with my friends.... well....no such luck, but I DID find an excellent bagel shop..... As I wandered about in Astor Place and the West Village, a song kept running in my head.... it goes......

"I've been here since ī81
thatīs a long time
And Iīve seen all there is to see
Had a space on Astor Place
had it all once
Now these streets are my reality
Because New York City...
donīt mean nothing
just a good place when youīre running
Lights they cut so bright...
make you bleed
Neon children live their lives there....
Mad magicians....
tinsel nightmares..
still ya know what...
never gonna leave......

It goes on from there..... I swear I walked 30 miles in 3 days, exploring Soho, the Bowery, and Midtown Manhattan....never made it to the upper East Side or Central Park... maybe next time.... Iīm still thinking about moving there, and getting a job on Broadway.....maybe my puppy dog will have to learn how to crap on concrete...... I found myself sitting in the hotel room at noon on Monday, feeling kinda adventurist, after returning from the Village, so..I ran to the local drug store and bought some hair stuff.......ended up with two huge blonde streaks in my hair....... Isn't NY fun! There was another band in our hotel...Brazil's Sepulthra (or something like that). You wouldn't have known it, though...no busses (the Gusgus Bus had to live in Joisey..... poor thing.....) Anyway...the venue was one block south of Times Square, which we walked through on our way there......it was COOL......(Times Square, that is) My best buddy Tricia showed up with a friend Bill...that was cool...havenīt seen her in a friggin YEAR, since she moved to Canaduh, then Joisey.....she lives in Spotswood, btw....a place named after a dogīs boner....... LMAO. Some fartknocker kyped my gloves at the Supper Club..... must have been the dude with purple hair..... That pissed me off....I had JUST trained the gloves to conform to the contours of my hands when they ran away..... The actress Janeane Garafalo was hanging out in the venue that night.... that was cool....4AD threwe a party for us in SoHo after the gig...that was cool...Saw the Siggi/Stephan movie for the first time...here's a hint, guys....camera angles high...not low...anyway... Baldur, the manager/cheerleader has a girlfriend named Ceecee... she showed up in NY that night...she's cool... a  Canaduhian/Icelandix mix.. exotic... LOL.  Went exploring more the next day, invading the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Plaza for the Canadhuian Embassy, among others...  Marko and I ended up at the bar where his lil brother the Actor works... It was pretty cool...in the window box behind me, there was a bunch of film.... all old porno flicks.. LOL Our waitress has another job, too...Sarah is the assistant manager for The Mighty Mighty Bosstones...  Later, after sitting on the roof of the hotel enjoying a little party the hotel management was throwing (hotel roofs in New York are SO COOL at night.... all the lights, and the noise of the streets is way below you...), we went to some little dive in SoHo so Steph could DJ...  I had to escape, running off to the Bowery to find the subway back to Midtown and our hotel.... Hmmmmm... Mayor Rudy must have cleaned the city up..... no graffiti on the subway..... not a thug or bum in sight........ good job, dude......
One last thing....
Lisa...... ya owe me an explanation. I even emailed you the hotelīs phone number.... nothing. Not even a call. (make up some lame excuse about working...I'll understand.....(grins))
Next stop.......Bahston!