| Once again in LAX terminal 7, on my way to New York City for 4 action-packed days and nights. | |
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I arrived at JFK at dawn, and saw a colorful sunrise from the shuttle train from the airport to the subway. |
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At the 68th St/Hunter College 4/5/6 train downtown tracks . This may soon be a form of civil disobedience. |
| At the Lexington Ave 6 train uptown tracks. |  |
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The PATH train Christopher St station, on the way to Hoboken, NJ. Below: NJ Transit station at Newark Airport. |
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| Construction at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |  |
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| Looking north over Rockefeller University. |  |
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Horses near the American Museum of Natural History and Central Park. |
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Unnecessary. |
| Virgil's BBQ near Times Square. |  |
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Yet another night street scene. |
| The museum had a great exhibit with lots of live frogs. |  |
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| Camo-frog. |  |
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A pile of poison dart frogs. |
| There was also a live butterfly exhibit. |  |
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Whale watching, without the vomiting. |
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We saw the dinosaurs again, which I saw in April. |
| Eileen took the camera for quite a while, so I'm actually in some of these pictures. |  |
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I saw lots of shows from the CMJ music marathon. The first was on Wednesday at the Mercury Lounge. |
| Lou Barlow. |  |
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Left and below, The Arcade Fire, who gave the best show I saw while I was in New York. |
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| Thursday night I was at Rothko, and saw Robbers on High Street. |  |
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They weren't my favorite band I saw, but the club had better lighting for taking pictures than most places. |
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The Six Parts Seven at Pianos on Friday night. |
| Then it was on to the Bowery Ballroom for Mates of State, right and below. |  |
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The cheerful indie-pop duo was followed by rapper Aesop Rock. Weird. It only got weirder after that. |
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The DJ. Below: The setup for Sunn 0))), the weirdest "band" playing the loudest "music" I've ever heard. Being extremely charitable, they could be described as musically challenging. |
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That's a lot of amps, all turned to 11, for just a few guys. Even barefoot guys dressed in robes. |
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They played only one "song," which lasted about 40 minutes. They were indescribable - they had to be experienced to be believed. |
The last act of the night was ...And you will know us by the trail of dead. While far more melodic than Sunn 0))), they did manage to destroy a good bit of their equipment. The show, and the night, ended in chaos. |
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Saturday night, at Maxwell's in Hoboken, was far more subdued. Left and below: The two members of Norfolk and Western. |
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The Decemberists closed the show. |
| The end of a fun four days. |  |
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