hey folks,
more news from planet brooklyn (i could learn to love
this). for those of you that missed it, i had fun
playing at halcyon (live on the wizeb, babay!), they
are really, really good people. they let me play as
soon as i showed up (cool!), and seemed to really vibe
on the tunes. i had to run out of there to go home
drop off the tunes and then head up to midtown to see
my first play on broadway (they say the women treat
you fine on...) "topdog/underdog" starring wik-wik the
mighty mos def and wikkidy-wikkidy-wik jeffrey wright.
man, it was nice to see the room full of brothers &
sisters of many complexions (ok, mostly black, but
come on--that's still good) and obviously from
different parts of town, not just what i would expect
the usual b'way crowd to be (mostly white,
monied-types). that's an inexperienced outsider's
expectation, so if i'm completely off base, educate me
brother or sister (off-list, please).
after that we went on what will be forever known as
the "food odyssey." i think the play let out at 11pm
to unexpected rain--well, i didn't listen to the
weather forecast, so there you go. we shelled out $15
to those truly entreprenurial souls vending
umbrellas--one of the few benefits of capitalism (hi,
steve!)--$5 for the small fold-up type, and $10 for
the long, masculine, non-folding model--sorry it's the
testosterone. we ducked into a japanese restaurant
for tea, sake & tempura while we debated where to have
a "real" meal. a little note from experience about
the "a & c" lines--after 12m they run express from
59th to (sit down for this) 125TH STREET!!! so after
our little sidetrip to harlem (w/o leaving the
station), we wound up in the 80's on the upper west
side looking for an italian restaurant that turned out
to be niko's (which i think is actually greek), but of
course we got there about 12:30 after they closed.
after a bit of fretting and indecision, we decided to
walk to lincoln center (broadway around the 60s?) and
ended up having a beer, cheese and sausage at
fiorello's (i think?). this place was in my
companion's words "frufru", so we weren't gonna have a
meal there. after she assured me that little italy
"goes all night" we asked for directions (which train
to take). we wound up on canal and lafayette at about
2:30 in the morning (somewhere you *don't* want to be)
trying not to look lost although we had *no idea*
which way to head. in situations like that, i look
for a street that i know (that also doesn't look
dodgy). we walked up b'way to houston and then asked
for directions. some godsend of a person mentioned
going down spring to mott st. so we finally got to
little italy about 3am and found 2 bars and a clam
house that were open. my companion doesn't do
shellfish, so we went to the bar--what else do you do?
as we were walking back up to houston (on lafayette
this time) to catch the train home, we saw puck fair
(owned by the venerable danny mcdonald of swift's
hibernian lounge) and since we know the owner we
decided to stop in and have a drink (again). so
naturally we ended up leaving there after 4--closer to
5, i think--to head for an atm to catch a cab to a
*wonderful* diner that our bartender anthony turned us
onto--florent!! this place is in the meat packing
district, and has a neon sign in the window w/the
name. above that is a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT NAME. the
food is really good, *and* they have a bar (fade in
"lush life" here)!! it's on some street that starts
w/a g (i'm not even going to attemt to remember) just
east of washington and about a block or 2 south of
13th st. anyway, the trip was worth it, and then we
walked to the 14th st. station and headed home to the
bk...
opaline tonight for freeskool (85 avenue a btw 5th &
6th, under takahachi restaurant--mark b says they have
great sushi). see you tomorrow folks,
-t
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