Achtung Baby!

Mr. Nabokov had Strong Opinions, but one person ain't listening

+ NPR: Nabokov Novel to Be Published, Against Dying Wish
+ Dear Dmitri Nabokov: Don’t Burn Laura! Let Draft Gather Dust (2005)
+ Wikipedia: "The Original of Laura"

Summation: It was like LCD Soundsystem's "All My Friends"

A definite highlight of my trip was attending an appearance by Amy Poehler and Fred Armisen at the SoHo Apple Store store. So best! Here's the podcast of it:

Songs that remind me of this trip...

+ LCD Soundsystem - "All My Friends" (live)
+ Santogold - I’m A Lady
+ Pulp - Common People (Live)
+ PRINCE - KISS music video
+ The Strokes - Reptilia (Live)
+ Like A Virgin - live
+ M.I.A - Paper Planes (live)
+ Franz Ferdinand -  Take me out  (live)

What New York used to be

//The Kills: What New York used to be

Dawn in New York has
  four columns of mire
  and a hurricane of black pigeons
  splashing in the putrid waters.

Dawn in New York groans
  on enormous fire escapes
  searching between the angles
  for spikenards of drafted anguish.

Dawn arrives and no one receives it in his mouth
  because morning and hope are impossible there:
  sometimes the furious swarming coins
  penetrate like drills and devour abandoned children.

Those that go out early know in their bones
  there will be no paradise or loves that bloom and die:
  they know they will be mired in numbers and laws,
  in mindless games, in fruitless labors.

The light is buried under chains and noises
  in an impudent challenge to rootless science.
  And crowds stagger sleeplessly through the boroughs
  as if they had just escaped a shipwreck of blood.
"A Poet in New York" by Federico Garcia Lorca

//The Magnetic Fields: The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side

Away for a few days. You know where.

New York City spread herself before you

+ Suzanne Vega : New York Is A Woman
+ Lou Reed: New York Telephone Conversation

[ She's The New York City Skyline ]

Rion

One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes--I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life.
Frank O'Hara

[ The Damnwells: She's The New York City Skyline ]

+ Preview of THE NEW YORK FOUR

you're like New York City

"Alvy, you're incapable of enjoying life, you know that? I mean you're like New York City. You're just this person. You're like this island unto yourself."

+ Ghostland Observatory - Sad Sad City "(live)

discipline

Reader, I am anxious about
your discipline
are you constant as me?
Otherwise, burn this book
Go to the movies
if you aren’t doubled up with laughing.
Leonard Cohen

[ Spain: It's So True ]

Extinction

The progress of an artist is continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
T.S. Eliot

+ X-Men Reload: Remember When...?
+ E is for Extinction
+ Living Colour - Cult Of Personality (live)

So for the time being, I'm being patient

+ Elvis Costello and the Imposters "I Know" @ The Architectural Dance Society
+ Fiona Apple: Green Chimneys intern

you were kissing me once more than once