i sing with angela on this song. she is so great.

i was at this party

http://guestofaguest.com/nyc-events/new-yorker-festival-party-kicks-off-event-filled-weekend/

and i met this guy

halloween wonder cabinet

 The New York Institute for the Humanities
& the Humanities Initiative at NYU
present an all-day

Halloween Wonder Cabinet

Curated by Lawrence Weschler

SATURDAY OCTOBER 31, 11 am till 9:30 pm

NYU'S CANTOR FILM CENTER

36 EAST 8TH STREET, NYC

*  Free and Open to the Public  *

Every once in a while, Lawrence Weschler, the director of the New York Institute for the Humanities, and author, among others, of the Pulitzer-nominated Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder (a work of “magic-realist nonfiction” arising out of an investigation of the premodern roots of the postmodern Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles), gets it into his head to contrive a day of sublimely odd, wonderflecked and just plain cool presentations, braided one after the next in a thematic order intermittently evident to himself, if no one else.  This year, he proposes to do so on Saturday October 31, which is to say Halloween.  As you will see from the program below, the first half of the day will focus generally on the stellar, the planetary, the cosmological and the astronomic.  Later in the day, presentations will begin to morph into a consideration of the experience itself of drop-jawed amazement.  Toward the end of the procession, attention will turn to things somewhat more infinitesimal: the molecular basis of smell, insect camouflage, and (to round out the day, Halloween after all) the downright hallucinogenic.

SESSION I

11:00 am  A celebratory fanfare by avant garde, downtown (and well nigh breathless) saxophone player COLIN STETSON 

11:10 am  LAURIE ANDERSON, the celebrated performance artist and hipster sage, will dilate on her days, a few seasons back, as visiting artist-in-residence with the good folks at NASA.  (Note: She will be replacing the previously announced bead-artist Liza Lou in this slot.)

11:45 am  Filmmaker and photographic archivist MICHAEL BENSON will be evoking the entire universe as seen from the point of view of the Hubble and other deep space observatories, subject of his latest book, Far Out, which in turn follows on from his last, the critically celebrated, Beyond, which took the same sort of survey of the photographic legacy of interplanetary space probes.
   
{a short break}

SESSION II

                                                            
1:45 pm  The eminent film and sound editor WALTER MURCH (Apocalypse Now, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The English Patient, The Conversation, etc.) will reveal a whole other side of his famously overbrimming curiosity, which is to say his excavation and systematic rehabilitation of a long discredited theory as to the placement of planets and moons in relation to the bodies around which they orbit, a formula which turns out to accurately predict 85% of such orbits, and which, when properly rejiggered, turns out to coincide with the formula for the Pythagorean octave (talk about the music of the spheres!). 

3:00 pm  DAVID WILSON, the MacArthur winning Jurassic Technologist himself, will evoke the Russian mystical origins of the Soviet space program, subject of a trilogy of heartrendingly lovely short films, a full decade in the making, currently coming to closure at the fourteen-seat Borzoi Theater atop his LA museum.

4:00 pm  A rarely screened short, filmed during the last months of the Khrushchevite Thaw, in which the Soviet master
PAVEL KOGAN trains a hidden camera on a succession of common Russians at the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad, as they gaze, positively awestruck, at Leonardo’s rendition of a Virgin and Child. That film will in turn be coupled with an uncanny set of recent shorts in which JOSH MELNICK trains a highspeed high-definition excruciatingly slow-motion digital camera upon wayfarers on the New York city subway, staring, positively dumbstruck, at nothing in particular. 

5:00 pm  A similar pairing, as in the above, this time two vantages of life on earth; the first in which the renowned avant garde filmmaker PETER HUTTON, of Bard College, trains his attention on the play of light dappling an Icelandic fjord; and the second in which MATT COOLIDGE, of LA’s Center for Land Use Interpretation (sister institution to David Wilson’s Museum of Jurassic Technology) trains his camera out the side of a helicopter for a jaw-dropping twenty-minute single-take survey of Houston’s petrochemical channel, arguably the most ecstatically industrialized swath of real estate in the world.

{a short break}

SESSION III

6:30 pm  New York Times scent critic CHANDLER BURR (The Emperor of Scent and The Perfect Scent: A Year inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York), singing the Nose Fantastic, which is to say plumbing the still mindboggling mysteries involved in how it is that we smell anything at all (complete with blotter-swatch demonstrations).

7:30 pm  Entomologist Extraordinaire MAY BERENBAUM of the University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana (Ninety Nine Gnats, Nits and Mibblers; Bugs in the System; and The Earwig’s Tale: A Modern Bestiary of Multi-Legged Legends), who in honor of the evening’s festivities will consider Insects that Ape Shit (which is to say exceptionally novel, if creepy, insect disguises).

8:30 pm  HAMILTON MORRIS, the disconcertingly enterprising young pharmacopia correspondent of Vice Magazine, will round out the evening by reporting on all manner of oddities (penis mushrooms, Amazonian frog sweat, etc.) that he has ingested and that you might want to avoid.

Please check back for any program updates,
and note that times listed above are approximate at best.

For further information, press inquiries, and to arrange interviews with any of the participants,
contact the New York Institute for the Humanities at 212.998.2101 or nyih.info@nyu.edu

The  NYU Humanities Initiative sponsors research, collaborative teaching, confences, working groups, and outreach by way of fostering a university-wide community in the humanities at NYU. Launched in 2007, its mission replaces and significantly expands that of the former Humanities Council. For further information on the Humanities Initiative, please visit www.humanitiesinitiative.org or call 212.998.2190

The New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU was established in 1976 for promoting the exchange of ideas between academics, professionals, politicians, diplomats, writers, journalists, musicians, painters, and other artists in New York City--and between all of them and the city. It currently comprises 220 fellows. Throughout the year, the NYIH organizes numerous public events and symposia. For further information, please visit www.nyih.as.nyu.edu or call 212.998.2101.

http://nyih.as.nyu.edu/object/io_1255636967929.html

more information than you wanted about intimate huggabroomstik tomorrow

Hey, Party People.
Brook Pridemore here.
Since February 2009, I have had the good fortune of keeping time for
one of my favorite bands on the AFNY circuit.  A group that manages to
straddle psychedelia, classic rock, prog, folk and punk, while
managing to maintain its' own distinct sound, Huggabroomstik have been
around since like 1999, employing a revolving-door lineup that's
included forty or fifty (at various times) of the best New York
songwriters around.

Huggabroomstik have released five albums thus far, all of which whup a
cheetah's ass with a belt sander.  This Friday, October 23rd, I am
pleased to announce that Brooklyn Tea Party will play host to a
landmark event in the long, weird Huggahistory, when the band converge
on the BTP stage to record Intimate Huggabroomstik-the band's live
album of all new songs.

Take as a template Nighthawks at the Diner, Tom Waits' "live" album
that was actually a conceit: Waits and band were performing new
material in front of an invite-only audience.  Consider then the
members of Huggabroomstik your surrogate Waits, and you the fan a
member of the invite-only audience.

Consider this email your invitation.  And get your ass down here.

Here's the Details:
Intimate Huggabroomstik recording party
Friday October 23rd
Brooklyn Tea Party
175 Stockholm St. #303
L Train to Dekalb (or M to Central)
No cover, but bring a few bucks to throw in the hat.

Get here at 8 to "meet and greet" the band.
Recording starts at Ten SHARP.  Due to the nature of the performance,
the door will be locked at ten for the duration of the show, and the
doorbell will be disabled.  If you're not in the apartment at ten,
you're shit out of luck.

Look:  If the keyboard player's not onstage when we lock the door,
then no keyboard.  Sorry, keyboard player.  So be in here by ten.

We would like you to shout and sing along to the end of the new Hugga
classic, "O.U.R. 6."  Here's a tutorial video made by our own Neil
Kelly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9YHXiUKq2c

And also, a weird Muppets video that makes me think of Huggabroomstik.
 We should probably be covering this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN5Mqr6tRlw

See you Friday!
xoxo
b

i drew a comic for the greenpoint gazette

OLD HAT AT GOODBYE BLUE MONDAY MONDAY OCTOBER 26

monday october 26th
@ Goodbye Blue Monday
1087 broadway
nyc

8 mike nicolai
8:45 susan hwang
9:30 you're so pretty
10:15 old hat
11:00 jack lewis/fisherman three

all these emerging writers happen to be my friends. let's go hear them read at the nypl tonight.

Periodically Speaking: Literary-Magazine Editors Introduce Emerging Writers at The New York Public Library New York, NY—The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses [clmp] and The New York Public Library present Periodically Speaking, a reading series providing a major venue for emerging writers to present their work while emphasizing the diversity of America's literary magazines and the magazine collections of The New York Public Library. Each event presents writers from three influential literary magazines—one poet, one fiction writer, one nonfiction writer—introduced by their editors. Program I Tuesday, October 13th, 6 - 7:30 pm DeWitt Wallace Periodical Room, The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd (Please use Fifth Avenue entrance; admittance is free) Vestal Review Vestal Review, America's first magazine exclusively devoted to flash fiction (complete stories of no more than 500 words), began as a quarterly eZine in March of 2000. We now publish twice a year in print; some of the stories from these editions may be read on our webzine as well. We pay our contributors and nominate for web-based and print awards, including the Pushcart prize. For more information about submitting, obtaining past print issues or subscribing, please look us up at: http://vestalreview.net. Editors Mark Budman and Susan O'Neill introduce fiction writer Lincoln Michel. Low Rent In 2008 Low Rent was founded with belief that those heavy, incredibly large journals of fiction and poetry were really great, but smaller, sillier-sized journals would be better (and cheaper). Based in Brooklyn, editors Bill Hughes, Jason Koo, and Robert Liddell tirelessly attempt to curate collections of two stories and six poems by new and emerging writers from all over the world. When you can find them, a copy of Low Rent can be had for a very small price, a few dollars—as though the recession might've always been in style. Editor Jason Koo introduces poet Leigh Stein. Tin House Tin House is a ten-year-old bi-coastal (Brooklyn, New York and Portland, Oregon) literary magazine. Tin House has been honored in Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, Best American Poetry, O'Henry Prize Stories, the Pushcart Prize Anthology and numerous other anthologies. Editor Rob Spillman introduces nonfiction writer Montana Wojczuk. Mark the next Periodically Speaking programs on your calendar: Tuesday, November 10th, and Tuesday, December 8th. We're featuring editors from the publications Salamander, 32 Poems, Confrontation and more. . . . This series is made possible in part by support from the New York State Council for the Arts, a state agency; The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; The National Endowment for the Arts; The New York Public Library; and Friends of [ clmp ], a diverse group of individuals committed to supporting independent literary publishing.

OLD HAT AT BROOKLYN TEA PARTY - "SAY WHEN NEXT TIME" SANGRIA EVANGELISM

OLD HAT AT BROOKLYN TEA PARTY. FISH TACO KOKOMO. 10/3

thanks yoko!

old hat show at brooklyn tea party (10/03) by yoko

see them all: http://www.flickr.com/photos/yokokikuchi/

o.u.r. sick tutorial