They are aware of our problem, and are very helpful...

CMJ is finally over. We made it to one of our scheduled three Friday shows, the Daytrotter.com show. It was at a place on 24th called The Red Door. The guy who runs the place was an early manager for the Stones; every year he repaints the door a different color and the place becomes The (name a color) door. White Door... Green Door...

The stage had buckets above it to catch runoff water from upstairs. Upstairs, incidentally, is the bathroom. Gross.

Also, I locked my camera in the Good Magazine apartment so the few NY photos I've been taking are with my crummy camera phone.



We went to the park and then the Met, where I revisted my favorite section from when I was in NY with my folks, medieval armor.

Pizza time before the Delancey show:


FAO Schwartz dragons


Lego New York


Times Square is busy on a Saturday


The Regency Marriott. Cool glass express elevators.


Good Magazine Apartment on Elizabeth St:

Elizabeth & Prince:

Oops

Because the shuttle from Parking Lot C to Terminal 6 takes 45 minutes to mosey through LAX long-term parking, we missed our flight to NY. There goes one of our 3 Friday CMJ shows.

The Current TV party last night was fun. We played almost every song we know except Ship and Winter. The Eucalyptus video is premiering on Current this week, and Current TV is on the in-flight network on Virgin Air. Maybe we'll see us. Weird.

The Van's in Manhattan (and we're in LA)

I have not updated this since we got to New York. It's been a struggle; multiple shows a day, finding parking for a 15 passenger van, loading and unloading. Show at Delancey last night was really really good.

These pictures are scattered but I tried to keep it in chronological order.

Here's Mike's mom's place on Long Island. It was my first time out there and it's really pretty.



Mike Hughes and Mike Fio outside Pianos:


Pianos:



The second installment of Josh and Mike Looking At Each Other. This place had good pastries:


Man made canyons:


THREE GUYS IN THE CITY!!!


Old man looks at wild art:


Jason's been here for a few days already, staying with his buddy in Queens. He's going to drive back to California with us.


This little tile 8-bit graffiti monster follows me everywhere I go. The first time I saw one was on the side of the road in France with my parents. Then three weeks later I saw one on the wall of the laundromat in Silver Lake, then Jesse started pointing out more of them on Beverly Boulevard. This tiny orange one, one of the smallest I've seen, was on the building across the street from Pianos. Here's their website a world invasion by the space invaders


Here's the first one I ever saw, in France...


Fio's place on 4th St @ 2nd Ave. Jason took this:


New York:



2 CMJ shows in a row + quick shower + drive to airport at 4am =


We're flying the new Virgin American back to LA for one show downtown. This airplane is nuts! It has discotheque lighting (purple and pink flourescent track lights) and 9 inch monitors in the back of every seat. You can chat via text with people in any seat, play video games, watch tv, make music playlists... Or go to sleep.

Newport, Kentucky to Rockville Centre, NY

Mike and Josh, DJs. Lounging around in the smelly gut of the Southgate House in Newport. My favorite photo from the trip so far:


The Southgate House, Newport Kentucky. Full of history, and mold. Not full of people:


Poker (Jesse took this photo.)



Nice band names. This sign is extremely indicative of many things.


Burgers in Newport. "Chain Gang" on the jukebox.




Josh alternately sad about Kentucky swastikas and happy about Hope graffiti:



Cincinnati at sunset:


This sign combo seems very foreboding:


Driving through Pennsylvannia:


Tamaqua, Pennsylvannia is an old coal mining town where Jesse's dad grew up. We went to the old graveyard trying to find his grandparent's graves. It was pitch black and we wandered the plots with flashlights; we found some of his close relatives but no coal-mining Hoys. It was peaceful but scary; no moon; crows barking in the trees, surrounded by thick Pennsylvania woods and old, old coal miner's houses with a light on here and there.

Jesse among the graves with his flashlight:


Chris at the Tamaqua filling station:


Finally. The other coast.

GW Bridge!


Tonight we're sleeping at Mike's mom's house in Rockville Centre, Long Island. Jason is meeting up with us in the morning, and we're heading for the city. 3pm, our first CMJ show at Piano's. Good night...