Achtung Baby!

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)

Marvel + NYC

iFanboy Episode 59 - Super Cities: "with the trusty Marvel Comics Guide to New York City in tow, iFanboy takes to the streets to visit the famous Marvel Comics landmarks of New York City."

Being that I rode the Staten Island Ferry quite a bit last year, this show caught my attention.

+ Cat Power: New York, New York @ Later... with Jools Holland

Dear New York City

manicho

Sam Shepard: Dear New York City from "Spalding Gray - Life Interrupted: The Unfinished Monologue"

+ Rufus Wainwright - The One You Love (unedited)

Home, Away From Home

+ HELL, I STILL LOVE YOU NEW YORK MIX @ I Am Fuel, You Are Friends

+ Mark Ronson “Oh My God” Video

" It don't matter to me
'Cos all I wanted to be
Is a million miles from here
Somewhere more familiar"

// Leaving New York

[ R.E.M. - Leaving New York (live) ]

the one about the last Misshapes party

Songs that my pal considered highlights and made the kids go wild:
+ Killing In The Name ( Live in L.A )
+ Girls just wanna have fun ( live in Paris )
+ Back That Ass Up (Remix)
+ New York City Cops ( live Fiji Festival )
+ Gimme More
+ Freedom

// A global nightlife brand tries to grow up // We have the book // "it was amazing" // the grand finale // The Last Night of Misshapes: Hip, Post-New-Wave and Through // Misshapes Ends, Hipsters Divide

[ New York ]

[ Richard Ashcroft - New York ]

Song Selection by Martin

// Away Message: Gone to NY for a few days

NY, NY

[ New York, New York - Frank Sinatra & Tony Bennett ]

//Away Message: Back to the Big Apple for a few days//

[ New York Is A Woman ]

Away Message: Gone to New York for a while

+ Suzanne Vega - New York Is A Woman @ Womenfolk

U2 by the Brooklyn Bridge

// U2 - New York (Live)

[ Elephant ]

One of the absolute favorite parts of my New York City trip was going the the MoMA. The exhibit I liked the most was "Douglas  Gordon: Timeline". Especially "Play Dead; Real Time" which looked like this:

+ Elephant Man
+ Bring on the dancing elephant

+ Damien Rice - Elephant

Back

+ I had no idea chances were high that I would hear a Texas band ( The Toadies ) at MisShapes.
+ "Mother Courage and Her Children" was pretty good.

Vacationist

Time for a little east coast vacation.........

[ U2 - City of Blinding Lights - Brooklyn Bridge, NY ]

[ Tori Amos - Dream On - B of A Pavillion, Boston, MA ]