This is interesting.....

This past summer a group of young women who just so happen to be lesbians from New Jersey were in the city trying to have a fun night out when a guy they encountered started to hit on the women by saying nasty things to them (when will these creeps ever learn!) and once he found out they were gay, he began to say some pretty nasty and homophobic things to them. The women got so upset with this guy that they pretty much beat the shit out of him and now one of the women in the group is going to jail for assault. Violence is never the answer and if I had a nickel for every time some creep said something to me on the street all in an effort to pick me up, I'd be a very rich woman!! It grosses me out do they think they could ever get a woman by saying things like "nice tits" or "I wanna taste you" (one of the many lovely things I've had said to me on the street!), what I usually do is give them my best fuck you never in a million years look or flip em off. In a worse case you have to tell them to fuck off! I honestly think that this guy should be held accountable for his actions, I love the fact that he thinks he was being a nice guy after he said "I'll Fuck You Straight Sweetheart" to one of these women!!

From today's NY Daily News

Lesbian wolf pack guilty
Jersey girl gang gets lockup in beatdown
BY JOSE MARTINEZDAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Thursday, April 19th 2007, 4:00 AM


Renata Hill

Terrain Dandridge
In an instant, four tough lesbians from New Jersey were transformed into crying convicts yesterday after being found guilty of pummeling a filmmaker in Greenwich Village last summer.
As their courtroom supporters wailed, the four sobbing friends were led away in handcuffs, with one of the defendants screaming, "No, no, I didn't do it!"
The mostly female jury convicted the women of felony assault and gang assault in the wild August beatdown of filmmaker Dwayne Buckle, who was stabbed in a Sixth Ave. brawl after allegedly delivering a crass come-on to one of the lesbians.
"I'm stabbed and I have a scar that will be with me for the rest of my life," Buckle told the Daily News. "They have their jail sentences, but they'll be out soon.
"This is what I get for being a nice guy."
Buckle, a Manhattan video engineer, was laid out after tangling with seven angry lesbians outside the IFC Center at 323 Sixth Ave. The women - three of whom already had pleaded guilty and are behind bars - belted Buckle after he allegedly called out, "I'll f--- you straight, sweetheart!"
Knife-wielder Patreese Johnson was convicted of first-degree assault and gang assault but was acquitted of attempted murder. Renata Hill, Venice Brown and Terrain Dandridge were found guilty of gang assault.
The assault charge could put the 4-foot-11, 100-pound Johnson behind bars for anywhere from five to 25 years.
Her attorney, Alan Lippel, said his 19-year-old client was "scared" about going to prison.
"It's a child going to jail," he said. "It's not exactly familiar territory."
"These were seven decent and nice young women who came into the city to have a good time," said Hill's attorney Susan Tipograph. "They were hit upon by an abusive, homophobic man."
But prosecutors said the lesbians beat Buckle, 29, without provocation.
The women had alleged he spat at them and called them "dykes" after they rejected his advances of "Let me get some of that" while pointing to Johnson's private parts.

The Bomb Squad and new venues.

My friend Dan is a total working musician, besides being in Uncle Pumpkin he is in another band called The Bomb Squad. The Bomb Squad's sound is a cool mix of rock and funk. The band is fronted by Brenna Gethers who was a wonderfully memorable top 24 finalist on "American Idol" Season Five the Taylor Hicks/Katherine McPhee season. The Bomb Squad plays the Knitting Factory tonight in the Tap room at 9pm, tickets are $12 and the Knitting Factory is located at 74 Leonard Street b/w Church and Houston Streets. So your weekend plans should be to see the Bomb Squad at the Knitting Factory tonight and Dr. Mary at Desmonds tomorrow night.

The Bomb Squad Website:
http://www.bombsquadonline.com/index.html

Last night since the weather was finally spring like I walked from my office all the way downtown to my house. I kinda was feeling like I needed to get my drink on, so I went over to the Campbell Apartment at Grand Central. For all of you who haven't been there or don't know what it is it is the apartment of the gentleman who ran Grand Central way back in the 1920's. Someone brought it (not sure who) and refurbished it to it's original splendor and opened it as a lounge. It's really beautiful, but it was so crowded last night! I stayed for all of about five minutes and went on my merry way downtown. I'd be curious to go back on a Saturday night to see what the crowd is like, cause the crowd last night was all corporate folks having a drink after work!

I wound up getting my drink on at Otto's Shrunken Head on 14th and B. I love the place!! Last night was the first time that I had been back there in like a year. The last time I was there was on a date about a year ago. That place is so freakin' cool, think tiki bar circa 1958!! The band that I saw last night was Kozmik Daydream, who did the "Save CB's" rally with us back in October, they put on a great show and it was really good to see those guys again. Much like Midway the room at Otto's were the bands play has a low ceiling and usually I find places that have low ceilings are hit or miss with their sound systems. Midway is a place with a low ceiling that has really good sound, same can be said for Otto's. The cool thing about the drink menu at Otto's is that they have all sorts of funky frozen drinks, last night I had a banana daiquiri and they serve you these drinks in a tiki head and you can buy the tiki head. It's a really fun place to go and have a funky drink and listen to a good band!

I just saw on NY1 that there was a candle light vigil in Washington Sq. Park last night in honor of all the victims of the VT shootings. I wish I had known I would have totally gone! I would love to do some type of benefit show were we raise money that goes in the victims names to a gun control or anti violence charity or if there are scholarships in the victims names raise money for that. If there are any promoters, bands or artists or anyone who runs a venue reading this who would be into doing a show that honors the victims of the VT tragedy and raises money either for a charity or scholarships, please let me know.

Dr. Mary at Desomond's Tavern this saturday

Well it is thursday and if you don't have any plans for saturday night yet I would suggest going to see Dr. Mary at Desmond's Tavern. Dr. Mary is awesome and fun pop punk, I'm being told that they are debuting a new song at Desomond's so you so don't want to miss that! Dr. Mary goes on at 9pm this saturday at Desmond's Tavern and the address of Desmond's is 433 Park Avenue South at 28th Street.

Dr. Mary's myspace page
http://myspace.com/drmaryband


Don't miss Dr. Mary!!

Strange dreams and Sanjaya!

Last night I kinda laid low I got home from work at 7:45pm and was in bed by 10pm. I watched "America's Next Top Model" and "American Idol".

I was really bummed cause Jael got kicked off ANTM and my boy Sanjaya got kicked off AI!!

ANTM is a guilty pleasure show of mine, if I'm home on a Weds night I will watch and if I'm home while VH-1 is running a marathon I will watch! My friend got me hooked on that show ever since her yoga studio was featured in cycle 3! But Jael next to the two plus sized girls was my favorite, she was the token "edgy/punk" girl. She was the one whose friend od'd on the second episode and kinda sounded like she was constantly stoned when she spoke, I liked her because she was the misfit among the girls! Natasha the Russian girl is totally my favorite now, she reminds me in looks to Angelina and she I think is so cute!! Renee is growing on me, Britney is annoying me, I like Dionne and Jasline is way too skinny!!

Then I watched "American Idol" and my boy Sanjaya got kicked off last night!! I totally think that was a set up by the AI producers to get him off the show!! I'm pretty sure that he had the highest votes but they just wanted him off the show cause they were afraid that his mad talent, his hotness and his popularity were going to bring the show down. The show isn't worth watching now, I smell total set up by the AI producers!

After that I pretty much fell asleep and had two of the most vivid dreams that I still remember. Now I don't know if you guys are like me and when you dream vivid dreams that you remember, it's like turning the channels where you go from one dream to the next and they are totally random and have something to do with each other on one level but it makes no sense.

The first dream I had, I was at a fancy restaurant and 50 Cent came in and was hitting on me, he kept telling me that I had a nice full ass and there was a downstairs to the restaurant that had black walls and mirrors all over the walls, and I walked downstairs and there was Fiddy naked and he was hung too, it was all the way down to his knees! And I wound up having sex with 50 Cent and enjoying it! Wonder what that means!? The second dream I had I was at a Clash concert and Joe Strummer (who died 5 years ago) was still alive and fronting the band, he had on this leather coat and these John Lennon-Granny type glasses and was heavier then he was in life. I was there with these hipster types and we were in the very front row and these people where squatting and every time a song would speed up, they would jump up! I was trying to get the attention of Paul Simeon the bass player and he would be young and hot and then when I would look at him again he was old and over weight! Then John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten came on stage and sang that PIL song "Rise" and he was wearing a shirt that Paulie Walnuts from the Sopranos would wear and didn't have his usual energy and bitting wit, he kinda just stood there and sang! Wonder what that dream meant!? I watched a Sopranos re run before I nodded off and usually the Sopranos has some really good music they use, but there was no music by the Clash or PIL or the Sex Pistols in this episode. Hummm???

Just Music

Last night on my way to meet my friend I stopped over at East Village radio and I met a very cool group of people Jeff, Casey and Alex who do a really cool radio show called Just Music. Just Music, is a radio show that plays psychedelic, punk, trippy, garage rock from the 1960's up until today. What made me stop was that they were playing a very rare amazing Pink Floyd bootleg and if you know me you know that I like to fancy myself the Floyd expert and I like to think I own a lot of Floyd bootlegs! But this one threw me for a loop and it's called "Atom Heart Mother Goes On the Road", it was this really spooky mashup of "Green is the Colour" and "Careful with that Axe Eugene", complete with that blood curling Waters scream, Jeff told me that he found this record "Atom Heart Mother Goes on the Road" at a Salvation Army! I got to talking about Music with both Jeff and Casey and our tastes in music are very similar we love all different types of music but our favorites are psychedelic, punk, trippy ass garage rock!! A lot of their stuff was on vinyl and Jeff was saying that he often goes to record shows to find a lot of what is on their playlist and Casey runs a record store out in Greenpoint called Eat Records.

East Village radio on the whole is a great radio station to listen too, because it's something that isn't mainstream and corporate , they support the local scene and the community, you can hear lots of great music not just on Jeff and Casey's show and you don't have to be in the East Village to listen you can go on line and listen anywhere in the world!!

"Just Music" aires every Tuesday from 6pm to 8pm.

Here are the links for Just Music, East Village Radio and Eat Records:

Just Music:
http://www.eastvillageradio.com/modules.php?name=evrshow&showid=32

East Village Radio:
http://www.eastvillageradio.com/modules.php?name=evrsched

Eat Records Myspace page:
http://www.myspace.com/eatrecords

Interesting article about how do you distinguish crazy from creative

The whole Virginia Tech story is a really sad one. I watched "48 Hours" last night and they were doing profiles on the victims and were interviewing their family members and friends. It was just really awful I found myself crying and I had to turn the channel, I couldn't watch.

Every morning I read the papers online and I came across this interesting article in today's NY Daily News. The VT shooter was apparently an English major who wrote a story so disturbing in one of his creative writing courses, that the professor referred him to the school's counseling center. The article basically talks about how it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between someone who is just writing negative thoughts to vent to make themselves feel better and make the anger dissipate or someone who is just angry and off center and may very well act on those negative thoughts. As I've said in previous posts I suffer from panic attacks and anxiety and a lot of the time writing about my day, my negative/positive thoughts, fears, goals, plans for the evening or even gibberish that comes into my head helps me, very rarely do I act on negative thoughts, last week was a very rare case for me to act on a negative thought brought on by a panic attack (again as I've said it's about beating myself up cause I think I deserve it, fellings that I'm working on), if I'm too that point I can call a friend or speak to my therapist or write about that feeling. The big thing for me is writing it always makes me feel better, it makes the bad feelings go away! And it's a career goal of mine! The article points out how eirrie this past weeks episode of "The Sopranos" was in light of the VT shooting.

From today's NY Daily News

Creative vs. crazy
Grim material doesn't always tell the whole story
BY DAVID HINCKLEY
Wednesday, April 18th 2007, 4:00 AM

Dr. Barry Goldsmith, who teaches a comedy course at NYU, remembers a student handing in a sketch "that was all about ... depravity, and ended up with someone's head being used as a bowling ball."
That would have been fine, Goldsmith adds, "except it didn't come around to a funny ending. So it wasn't even black humor. It was just disturbing."
The periodic and disturbing question of whether dark writing foreshadows the next Unabomber or the next Stephen King arose again yesterday when it was revealed that Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui had written papers so unhinged that one of his teachers referred him to counseling.
The problem there, says psychologist Dr. Joy Browne, who hosts a nationally syndicated radio program from WOR (710 AM), is that even in cases that in retrospect seem dire, it is almost impossible to predict behavior from writings or words.
"There's been research on that," says Browne. "And even the research is split. For some people, putting aggression down on paper, or talking about it, dissipates the anger. For other people, it seems to make it more intense.
"There's almost no way to tell which is which."
Browne does say context can provide some hints.
"If someone came to me with a manifesto on killing their therapist, I'd be concerned," she says. "I'd be more concerned if there were also other symptoms, like disconnected thoughts or lack of eye contact."
It's all part of "specific ideation," which Browne explains is a means of gauging, among other things, the likelihood a patient will follow through on something he or she has said.
"If someone just announces they'd like to kill themselves," she says, "they're less likely to follow through than if they say, ‘I'm going to kill myself Tuesday night using Drano.'"
But many mass killers have left writings that, in retrospect, seem chillingly ominous.
Two months before the Columbine shootings in 1999, co-killer Dylan Klebold wrote a short story for school about a man who killed nine high school students.
"I saw emanating from him power, complacence, closure and godliness," wrote Klebold. "I understood his actions."
His teacher wrote on the paper, "You are an excellent writer and storyteller, but I have some problems with this one."
The subject of where creative writing pokes its nose into real life came up Sunday on "The Sopranos" when Tony Soprano accused his nephew Christopher of creating a scene so close to real life it embarrassed him.
Robert Viscusi, an English professor at Brooklyn College, says "The Sopranos" happens to be a good measure of what's so disturbing about Virginia Tech.
"On the show, everything happens for a reason," he says. "They're logic engines. These killings make no sense. We have no idea why he killed so many."
Viscusi says he has had students turn in papers that were off-center. "But in general, writing is the place where you can be crazy," he says. "Hamlet is crazy. He's a murderer. But you'd never make that accusation against the guy who wrote Hamlet."
Looking back, he says, "The Columbine kids printed an invitation to what they were going to do, and we didn't read it.
"But I don't know how you separate that from something less serious."

Really heartbreaking....

I was just reading some of the bios of the victims of the Virgina Tech shooting...very sad and heartbreaking.....my thoughts and prayers are with their families and friends.

One thing that always bothers me when a tragedy like this happens is that the politicians and the activists are quick to lay blame on the music the killer listened too. I can remember after Columbine all the right wing politicians and activists came down on Marilyn Manson saying that the two kids who masterminded Columbine were motivated to kill because they were Manson fans and his music urges people to kill and so there for we must censor music cause!! That argument to me is a whole load of Bull Shit!! Music doesn't cause people to kill, most everyone who listens to Manson, Gangsta rap and other forms of aggressive music do not go out on spree killings or kill themselves cause Manson is telling them to do so in his music. People who do things like that are seriously mentally ill or high on drugs! When terrible tragedies like Columbine and the Virgina Tech tragedy happen the politicians and the activists are looking to lay blame and they don't want to lay blame on a faulty mental health system or on a flawed dysfunctional family they want to lay the blame on what type of music the killer listened too. I just read an interview on line with the shooter's roommate and the roommate said the kid spent a lot of time on line downloading music, I'm sure once a Manson or Wutang Clan song is found in the kid's ipod, William Bennet, Bill O'Reily and Sean Hannity will start screaming about how music drives kids to kill!!

Manson himself said it best in "Bowling for Columbine", Michael Moore asked him if he could say anything to Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold (the two kids behind the Columbine tragedy) what would he said and Manson said "I wouldn't say anything I would just listen..... no one else did", pretty powerful.

On an Oasis kick! Noel and Liam are the last two rock stars that we have these days!!

The Sopranos and Uncle P

So I finally caught this weeks episode of "The Sopranos" on demand last night. I liked this episode better then last weeks episode. I was just talking to some people at work and I was saying how I think this season judging by the first two episodes is going to be pretty predictable, but my co worker reminded me of David Chase's genius and he said just when you think you know what is going on, something else totally different happens and I just read in the paper that they filmed four different versions of the final episode so the cast doesn't even know what the outcome is! These are my thoughts as to what is going to happen this season, if you haven't already seen the first two episodes I would suggest turning away right now.................

***SOPRANOS SPOILERS, Amy's predictions as to what is going to happen this season

Christopher-I think one of three things is going to happen to Christopher this season

1) The Feds are going to get him and he is going to have to turn witness against Tony in his trial about the gun
2) Phil Leotardo is going to off him in revenge for killing his brother
3) He is going to kill Tony and become head of the family, the movie last night was a bit of foreshadowing

Tony

1) I think Christopher will kill him before the Feds get him
2) The Feds will take him down in the end

Carm

1) Will finally find out what happened to Adrianna

Paulie

It's hard to say, cause he was only in this past weeks episode for about five minutes, but I honestly think the NY family will get him.

Bobby

1) If it's not Christopher who turns witness against Tony I think it will be Bobby

I loved the line from last nights episode that Phil Leotardo said about how is family is named for Leonardo DiVinci and the name was changed when his grandfather got to Ellis Island.

I also think that Julianna Marglis' character from last season will be back to either take Tony or Christopher down.
Okay you can read again! I have to remind myself that if the weather is bad and I find myself indoors all day again I have to watch good quality shows like "The Sopranos" and not the "I Love New York Reunion" and "Charmed School" cause honestly I felt seriously dirty after I watched those shows!

A reminder my friend Dan's band Uncle Pumpkin is playing Arlene's Grocery tomorrow night at 9pm. Check em out!! Arlene's is located at 95 Stanton Street (btw Orchard and Ludlow).

Very sad.....

I just read about the shootings at Virgina Tech very sad...31 people have been killed as a result. But what is a strange coincidence I was just talking with a friend the other day about the Columbine Killings and my friend reminded me that the Columbine Killings happened on Hitler's Birthday April 20th. When I get bored at work I usually go wikipedia and today would have been Charlie Chaplin's 118th birthday, Hitler and Charlie Chaplin were both born in the same year four days apart. Both had had similar moustaches and Chaplin made fun of Hitler in the film "The Great Dictator" (Chaplin was one of the only people speaking out against the Nazis) in 1940 and according to his wikipedia bio Hitler hated Chaplin.

I hate Time Warner Cable

Ugggh last night I missed my Sopranos, because HBO was out on my system!! So I watched and couldn't turn away from the "I Love New York" reunion on VH-1 followed by "Charm School" (which is the show with all the Flavor of Love cast-offs), I honestly felt like my IQ went down a whole bunch of points, I wasted two and a half hours of my life that I can't get back and I needed to take a shower cause I felt really dirty and awful after watching both shows!

Hopefully today last night's Sopranos episode will be on in demand so I can review it!

But honestly why aren't Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton taking VH-1 to task for shows like "Flavor of Love", "Charm School" and "I Love New York"!?

One TV program that seems to save me from all of this car wreck TV is "American Experience" on PBS which airs every monday night at 9pm. Tonight's episode is a documentary about Jim Jones and the Jonestown massacre called "Jonestown the life and death of the People's temple". I happened to see this documentary when it was in the theaters a few months ago. It's really very well done and very scary and creepy at the same time. This documentary interviews people who survived the massacre and former members of the People's temple including one of Jim Jones' sons. For all of you who don't know the story Jim Jones was a preacher who pretty much preached about love and tolerance and he came up with this idea to start a "People's Temple" which started off as a good idea, everyone working together for the greater good and a lot of the members of the temple were African Americans and young people. But Jones' ego and megalomania got in the way and he became more and more paranoid and began things such as "white nights" were he would have members of the temple practice suicide drills and he also began to sexually harass and abuse both male and female members of the temple. He eventually moved the temple to an isolated area of Guyana were they worked formed a collective living town called Jonestown. At Jonestown, Jones would have suicide drills and again would harass people and would punish children who missed behaved by tying them to a rope and sending them down a well and telling them a monster would get them and it would be his goons poking at their feet as they went down the well. Concerned relatives contacted a CA congressman named Leo Ryan who went to Jonestown to see if he could get some Jonestown people to come back with him and a NBC camera crew went along with him. When Ryan, the camera crew and a few people from Jonestown who wanted to leave hit the airstrip they were ambushed by Jim Jones henchmen who killed the congressman and a defector and injured everyone else. The next day Jones poisoned his flock with kool aid a few people managed to survive. The documentary interviews those who survived and they play alot of Jones' sermons (which are very creepy) including the very last sermon he gave on that fateful day (which is the creepiest) where he encourages families to take the poisoned Kool-aid together cause "they" are after us and a woman tries to get him to take everyone to the Soviet embassy and to spare the children. It's so freakin' creepy!! It's really moving and very sad to hear the stories of the survivors, it's such a fascinating story and this documentary really tells the story very well, so worth a check out tonight at 9pm on PBS.

I hate Student Loan people

All day today and all day yesterday my phone has been ringing off the hook! I think it's my friends calling but it's not it's student loan people trying to get me to consolidate my loans! UGGGGHHH!!!! Do these people know not to call on a weekend??? Isn't it illegal??!! I yelled at one poor girl not to call on a saturday, I realize these people are trying to do a job but it its rather annoying!! I hate them more then the IRS and Time Warner Cable combined!!

Today has been such a lazy sunday. I'm trying to get motivated to clean my house but I just can't. I have been napping and watching TV all day today. One of my good guilty pleasure shows that I have been watching today is "Parental Control" on MTV. The show is a dating show were parents try and set their kids up with a person they that choose, cause they don't like the person their kid is currently dating. I have to say I totally think the show is faked but I was so addicted today!

Rainy Sunday

So it's raining here in New York City. Really haven't heard the winds that they said we were going to get, maybe LI and NJ are experiencing that.

The eye infection seems to have gone away. I don't look like a posed raccoon anymore!

This week is going to be a busy week for me. On tuesday there is the GNYC show at Midway, kinda bummed that I skipped out on the show early on thursday (I was really tired) cause I heard there was a really amazing band playing and forgive me I have forgotten their name, but I heard they were amazing! The last GNYC/Streetwave show at Midway there was another really amazing band called the Screaming Females that played. The Screaming Females are a group of three kids from NJ who go to NYU. There sound is def garage punk and they are lead by this little punk rock urchin named Marissa who could easily be Kim Gordon and Karen O's long lost little sister!

This wednesday is the Uncle Pumpkin show at Arlene's. Uncle Pumpkin is my friend Dan's band they are awesome, they have a sound all their own, kinda in the vein of Jellyfish, Phish and Steely Dan if I had to compare to anything. They go on at 9pm. If you are in the area they are so worth a check out! Here is the info:

UNCLE PUMPKIN @ ARLENE'S GROCERY 95 Stanton St (btwn Orchard & Ludlow) Wednesday, April 18th 9pm till 9:45pm Be there, or be there.

Here is Uncle P's myspace page

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=53942553




Once I find out the line up for the GNYC show on tuesday I will post it.

Back to watching the TV!!

Check in later!