I love my friends.

Artie for:
Having the balls to sing cabaret and bring down the karaoke house.

Juliana for:
Completing law school and taking the NY bar examine and giving me something to drink in honor to last night, to our future trips to Punta Del Este.

Radim For:
Completing your thesis and soon receiving your masters, thus giving me a reason to belly dance and take a hit from your hookah pipe last night; to our future trips to Black Sea Coast.

Amada and Laura for:
Being present at the gathering of the tribes since you two are a couple of trips.

Nancy and Sherese for:
Being unemployed giving me the opportunity to buy you guys some drinks. Anybody out there got jobs for a Spanish interpreter/NY city tour guide and a Screenwriter/ writer extraordinaire.

To everyone I know and love,
Shalom

This weekend I am trying to hit the beach before heading to South Africa.
I want to look like I come from the motherland. By the way I'm just posting Friday and Saturday since my plan will be to clean my apartment and sleep on Sunday.

Friday 8.18.06

Beautiful/Decay Issue Release Party & Second Annual Video Festival feat. DJ Rob Swift
Tribeca Cinemas (54 Varick St, 212.941.2000), $5, 8pm-4am, Open bar from 9-11pm. Highbrow low-art culture zine Beautiful/Decay celebrates the release of Issue P at its second annual Video Festival. Music videos from indie labels like Ninja Tune, Warp, and Quannum Projects are shown in two plush screening rooms, with Palm Pictures' no-wave rock doc Kill Your Idols (2004) and the new War Games — a visual companion to formerX-Ecutioner Rob Swift's hip-hop ponderings on 9/11. Swift on the decks tonight, following performances from Brazilian baile-synth DJs Sujinho and Cassiano

New York Dolls at the Seaport
South Street Seaport, Pier 17 (Fulton Street and East River), Free, 7pm.
The last time I saw these gentlemen It was in a high school gymnasium during last years fall fashion week. Will they bring it we’ll find out.

Pete Rock at Triple Crown
Triple Crown (108 Bedford Ave) Tickets are $10.
celebrates its two-year anniversary with a DJ lineup headlined by the legendary Pete Rock. Joined by Ge-ology, Dooley 0, Thanksgiving Brown, DC Adam, and special guests for a night that starts at 9pm and runs right up to 4am.












Saturday 8.19.06

Rubulad presents Delirium Summer: A Fever Dream
3rd Ward (195 Morgan Ave, Bklyn, 718.715.4961) $10, 10:30pm Featuring Extra Action Marching Band and DJ $mall ¢hangeThe best roving gallivanting group of party organizors we know. Rubulad aims for a "surfer circus" vibe with a night of disparate freaky performers, DJs, video, and food in Bushwick's expansive indoor/outdoor 3rd Ward.

Beyond Beats and Rhymes Screening
Fort Greene Park (off Myrtle Ave btw Washington Park & North Portland), 7pm dj set screening at 8:30, Free. Its in my hood and I get to sit in my park with a bottle of wine or a flask of tequila and a free outdoor screening. DJ L-Manni V starts things off with Hip Hop Classics. Documentary about a hip-hop fan addresses the art form's problems with sexism, masculinity, violence, and homophobia.