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January 25-31


Lots of photos this week, kids. Strangely, most of them were taken at the MISHKA SHUBALY/GIRAFFES/DOPAMINE show at LUXX last week, by none other than Jeff Mensch. The batteries on my camera died out quite quickly that evening, but fortunately, Jeff was there and Jeff had his camera and Jeff had a few drinks. So, "mad crazy props" to his pho-tastic efforts that evening.

Shubaly group: Before

After

The Giraffes
inform you that "you're
going home in a f*cking ambulance!"

Ben from Dopamine
w/unknown "rock fist" (probably Damien's)

Maze from Dopamine

Shirtless Damien dances with Dopamine
They were both having quite a night.


Luckily for you (unless you are included in the pictures below), Jeff also decided to take super close-up photos of everyone he knew that evening. Here are some of the "fruits" of that labor.

Johnny from Dopamine

Robin

James "Jimmy Spoiler" Sparber

Mishka w/Aaron of the Giraffes

Ben from Dopamine

Zack's girlfriend Shannon

Tim from the Giraffes

COVER ME BADD's Jesse Blockton

Mishka

Mishka's girlfriend Allison

Pietro (kinda)

jc

This, incidentally, is Jeff


The next day saw me, Jeff, James and Jersey City's Kevin Dailey on top of the roof of the venerable ASTRAL apartment building on Franklin St. We were walking to Thai Cafe to discuss Kevin’s idea of having an internet radio station to promote all of the local bands we know. Kev remarked on the grandeur of the Astral and James said “have you ever been inside?” and decided we should go on the rooftop. Just that moment a Puerto Rican mother and her two sons were exiting the building, and the older son, around 8 years, held the door open for us. The outside of the Astral is beautiful (as you can see) but the inside looks like a combination of a defunct school building and a prison. All the windows are frosted so you can’t see out of them and the walls are painted two shades of gray. It was easy to picture the sketchy activities that used to occur in the building in the early 90s happening there.

Meet the Astral

We walked up 5 flights of stairs, past a "Stay Off the Roof!" sign and through an open door onto the roof and enjoyed a splendid view of Brooklyn and a fog-enshrouded Manhattan on a drizzly day.


Later that day, back at the apartment, Kevin and i were watching Univision talk-show El Gordo y La Flaca ("The Fat Man and the Skinny Lady"). Remarked Kevin on the show's corpulant host: "It's cool to watch a show where the host could die at any second."


RECENT ACQUISITIONS

Polish Star Wars Calendar
"New Year's Day" in Polish
is Nowy Rok.

Nice Rack!
Jeff's girlfriend Whitney took great offense
to the fact i didn't own a dishrack
and bought me one. In fact,
a lot of my friends were upset
i didn't own a dishrack.

Hey, Willy!
This ALF keychain, courtesy of
Pop-Up Video's Lisa Klimkiewicz.
(Click here for more ALF sounds.)

Jeff bought this.
And yes, even though it looks
quite snappy, i do live in fear
of the day Jeff comes home
too drunk and ... you can guess the rest ...


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