this is getting me pumped!!

saturday 7/18

• siren music festival @ coney island, free
• siren afterparty with francis & the lights, acrylics @ MHofW, $15
• datsuns @ mercury lounge, $15
• circus club/80s prom @ webster, $15/$30

sunday 7/19

• jelly pool party with dirty projectors, magnolia electric company @ the williamsburg riverfront, free
• the clientele @ MHofW, $15
• tragedy (all-metal tribute band to the bee gees) @ The Beach at Governors Island, free
• eugene mirman, michael showalter @ the bell house, $10
• Greenhouse @ VanDam with eugene

monday 7/20

• lunch with lisa
• ny public library
• library at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, near Grand Central
• movie: "beer wars" @ bell house, $20 (beers included!)
• arpline, radiates, electric tickle machine @ le poisson rouge, $10
• derek's band @ silent barn

tuesday 7/21

• paolo nutini @ terminal 5, $25
• malajube @ mercury lounge, $10
• tortoise @ le poisson rouge, $20

wednesday 7/22

• my teenage stride, the drums @ bell house, $10

thursday morning

• giantoid breakfast

to still research:

museums

• natural history
• MOMA (song dong exhibit)
• the met
• guggenheim

places

• ground zero
• statue of liberty
• empire state building
• broadway
• coney island
• cgbg's
• central park
• john lennon's apt building
• hotel chelsea

neighborhoods

• williamsurg
• manhattan
• lower east side

eats

• hot dogs
• mexican food
• bagels

to do

• record shop
• see a movie
• watch a play (avenue Q? @ john golden theatre)
• go to a show
• ride a ferry/ikea
• take photobooth pictures
• meet impose staff
• visit tripwire offices
• see a show taping
• stalk r-patz
• bowling
• thrifting (Fox’s, 923 Kings Highway)
• fleamarket
• clubbing with morgan?

people to see

• derek
• laura
• stephanie
• jeremy
• eugene
• adrian?
• lisa
• chris?
• nat?

music venues

• terminal 5
• music hall of williamsburg
• prospect park
• pianos
• le poisson rouge
• mercury lounge
• the fillmore
• sycamore
• bowery
• bowery ballroom
• webster hall
• the bell house
• union hall
• silent barn
• radio city music hall
• highline ballroom
• hiro ballroom
• studio B
• wellmont

to ask my wonderful hosts

• towel
• pets
• subway vs cab to get to airports
• weather
• closest food store - what else is near you?

"But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses." — Bill Bryson "Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe"