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Friday, February 25, 2005
Hello Nurse at Lit
Hello Nurse is playing at Lit tonight. Here are the details.
Friday, February 25
10:00 PM
HELLO NURSE
live @ LIT
93 Second Avenue
bet. 5th and 6th Street
T-Sparls may make an appearance at the show.
*As a follow-up to the Animal Collective show tonight, I only wish I got to see the whole thing. The tickets advertized doors at 8, the opening band went on around 9:45 and Animal Collective didn't take the stage until close to midnight. I wish they would have stayed closer to schedule, being a weeknight and all.
Not all of us are Williamsburg trust-funders.
12:30 AM
Thursday, February 24, 2005
Meet the Parents
My parents are coming to town to see Cristo's gates. Jackie's mom is coming to town to see the gates as well. Guess who are going to meet for the first time??
YIKES!
In other news, I'm going to see the Animal Collective perform in Williamsburg tonight. I highly recommend checking them out, especially their single, Who Could Win a Rabbit.
They have a 30 second song called College. The lyrics to the song is one sentence spoken once: You don't have to go to college.
3:25 PM
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Teach For America in the Onion
The writers of The Onion wrote an article about Teach For America - and it is damn funny.
Check it out:
Teach For America Chews Up, Spits Out Another Ethnic Studies Major
8:56 PM
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
The Craigslist Watchdog
Some person trying to make a buck on Craigslist is probably going to be very angry at me, but I couldn't help myself.
Here is the link for my post:
http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/bik/59826630.html
Text of the post:
re: Converted Fixed Gear Bike - 52 Black - $300
Reply to: anon-59826630@craigslist.org
Date: 2005-02-15, 11:12AM EST
Feel free to pay $300 to this guy selling a crappy frame w/o pedals.
http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/bik/59817746.html
This bike was for sale on E-bay, along with a ton of other fixed gear bikes. Go to this link, http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZapplecart2QQhtZ-1, or search for items for sale by the user applecart2.
This person (applecart2) has been selling simple fixed gear conversions on E-bay for a while, and the prices are usually quite low ($50-$150).
If you want to pay $300 for a Spalding bike with no pedals, be my guest. Please print out the following image and stick it on your back.
8:32 AM
Monday, February 14, 2005
Hello Nurse Live Review
Thanks to David Chiu for coming out to our show at Arlene's a few weeks ago and writing this review of our show on NewBeats.com.
Hello Nurse
Arlene Grocery
By David Chiu
Happy Birthday Joe Crespo!
'Who' you may ask? Well, he is the bassist for the New York City-based group Hello Nurse. The band recently played at Arlene Grocery on the night of his birthday, so that added to what was already a very festive atmosphere. When Hello Nurse plays, it's always a celebration of sorts.
Hello Nurse has been kicking around the downtown scene for a while now with their brand of angular guitar punk sound along the lines of Television, Gang of Four, the Cars, and Weezer. The songs from their repertoire (an EP had been released and an LP is in the works) are unabashedly melodic, fast, and rarely boring. It is a credit to Ed Gross, whose guitar playing is compact and never meanders into a tedious, longwinded solo. Christian is an amazing forceful and focused drummer, and his rhythm partner the aforementioned Mr. Crespo laid down the grooves that added to the danceable aspects of the music.
The interesting thing about the group on-stage is that there is no elaborate set-up or posing-it's an admirable no-bullshit minimalism both in style and in the music. That partly lies within singer Mike Garcia.. At first he looks like a yuppie in a shirt and tie looking to get his weekend warrior kicks by doing karaoke. But on the mic, the man is in full rock frontman mode, and Garcia struts and preens like the great rock vocalists before him (Weiland and Mercury come to mind). It got the young girls up in the front swooning a bit.
The band has already established a loyal following here in the city, and now they need to take their act on the road so that they can see what us New Yorkers already know-a band to reckon with.
Besides, you have to admire a group's sense of humor when they introduce the set by playing a few bars of Bell Biv Devoe's "Poison."
7:24 AM
Sunday, February 13, 2005
Ok, I guess I'm finally ready to start posting about politics again
It's been a while, and only now after 3 months of being a sore looser am I ready to start linking political articles again.
This editorial is a must-read, bringing to light some serious problems with Bush's new tax proposals. There has been a lot of media attention drawn to the issue surrounding the privatization of Social Security. It's time that tax policy also found it's way to the front page.
Since the NYTimes has such a crappy policy regarding linking articles (articles expire quickly and then you have to pay to read them), I will copy the entire article below.
Bush's Class-War Budget
by Paul Krugman
It may sound shrill to describe President Bush as someone who takes food from the mouths of babes and gives the proceeds to his millionaire friends. Yet his latest budget proposal is top-down class warfare in action. And it offers the Democrats an opportunity, if they're willing to take it.
First, the facts: the budget proposal really does take food from the mouths of babes. One of the proposed spending cuts would make it harder for working families with children to receive food stamps, terminating aid for about 300,000 people. Another would deny child care assistance to about 300,000 children, again in low-income working families.
And the budget really does shower largesse on millionaires even as it punishes the needy. For example, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities informs us that even as the administration demands spending cuts, it will proceed with the phaseout of two little-known tax provisions - originally put in place under the first President George Bush - that limit deductions and exemptions for high-income households.
More than half of the benefits from this backdoor tax cut would go to people with incomes of more than a million dollars; 97 percent would go to people with incomes exceeding $200,000.
It so happens that the number of taxpayers with more than $1 million in annual income is about the same as the number of people who would have their food stamps cut off under the Bush proposal. But it costs a lot more to give a millionaire a break than to put food on a low-income family's table: eliminating limits on deductions and exemptions would give taxpayers with incomes over $1 million an average tax cut of more than $19,000.
It's like that all the way through. On one side, the budget calls for program cuts that are small change compared with the budget deficit, yet will harm hundreds of thousands of the most vulnerable Americans. On the other side, it calls for making tax cuts for the wealthy permanent, and for new tax breaks for the affluent in the form of tax-sheltered accounts and more liberal rules for deductions.
The question is whether the relentless mean-spiritedness of this budget finally awakens the public to the true cost of Mr. Bush's tax policy.
Until now, the administration has been able to get away with the pretense that it can offset the revenue loss from tax cuts with benign spending restraint. That's because until now, "restraint" was an abstract concept, not tied to specific actions, making it seem as if spending cuts would hurt only a few special interest groups.
But here we are with the first demonstration of restraint in action, and look what's on the chopping block, selected for big cuts: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, health insurance for children and aid to law enforcement. (Yes, Mr. Bush proposes to cut farm subsidies, which are truly wasteful. Let's see how much political capital he spends on that proposal.)
Until now, the administration has also been able to pretend that the budget deficit isn't an important issue so the role of tax cuts in causing that deficit can be ignored. But Mr. Bush has at last conceded that the deficit is indeed a major problem.
Why shouldn't the affluent, who have done so well from Mr. Bush's policies, pay part of the price of dealing with that problem?
Here's a comparison: the Bush budget proposal would cut domestic discretionary spending, adjusted for inflation, by 16 percent over the next five years. That would mean savage cuts in education, health care, veterans' benefits and environmental protection. Yet these cuts would save only about $66 billion per year, about one-sixth of the budget deficit.
On the other side, a rollback of Mr. Bush's cuts in tax rates for high-income brackets, on capital gains and on dividend income would yield more than $120 billion per year in extra revenue - eliminating almost a third of the budget deficit - yet have hardly any effect on middle-income families. (Estimates from the Tax Policy Center of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution show that such a rollback would cost families with incomes between $25,000 and $80,000 an average of $156.)
Why, then, shouldn't a rollback of high-end tax cuts be on the table?
Democrats have surprised the Bush administration, and themselves, by effectively pushing back against Mr. Bush's attempt to dismantle Social Security. It's time for them to broaden their opposition, and push back against Mr. Bush's tax policy.
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Pictures from Hello Nurse at Siberia Bar:
http://photobucket.com/albums/v475/sweetttay2/Hello%20Nurse%20_%20SIBERIA/?action=logout
http://photobucket.com/albums/v344/ameerads/Hello%20Nurse%20at%20SIBERIA/
Courtesy of Miss Hottie Boombalotie. (Thanks, Darlene!)
9:40 AM
Friday, February 11, 2005
Hello Nurse in Siberia!
Ok, sorry, AT Siberia.
Siberia
Friday, February 11, 2005 at 10:00 PM
356 W 40th St.
bet. 8th and 9th Ave
site: www.siberiany.com
Siberia is a great dive bar. Please note that there is no sign, only a red light above a black door.
This show is very special to us because it marks the one year anniversary of the day we found Mike. Where would we be without him?
6:55 AM
Wednesday, February 09, 2005
5:17 PM
National 40 Day
February 9, the fortieth day of the year, is hereby National 40 Day. It's very easy to celebrate.
1. Visit local convenience store / bodega
2. Purchase a 40 ounce bottle of malt liquor or beer
3. Put said bottle into paper bag
4. Drink
National 40 day is not about branding or throwing raging parties. 40 day is a simple holiday, where friends sit around and drink on a Wednesday night. Whether you choose Colt 45, Mickey's, or Bud Light, enjoy yourself this evening.
7:29 AM
Friday, February 04, 2005
New Cell Phone
Many of you out there may know of the troubles I've had over the years with cell phones and wireless service. I had a huge battle with Sprint a couple years ago, and I ended up just finding a Verizon phone on Craigslist. Verizon service is great, and since Jackie also has Verizon we can just talk whenever and don't worry about minutes. Verizon also has a deal where you a $100 discount on a new phone every 2 years. Well, since I took over a phone and contract from someone who was moving overseas, my phone was ancient. Every time I went to the Verizon store they gave me a different date for when my 2 year discount would kick in. I was quite frustrated, especially when my phone battery wouldn't charge and the P.O.S. would spontaneously turn on and off without warning.
Last week I went online to pay my bill, and the Verizon Wireless website informed me that I was eligible for the upgrade! Woohoo! I was quite excited to be able to take care of everything online, without having to battle the throngs in the Verizon Wireless store.
I picked out the coolest new phone I could find, and for only $50 they sent it to me the next day!
It has a huge color screen, takes pictures and video, and it swivels instead of flipping. (Check out the link on the phone above to see a graphic.)
I've never had a cool phone before, so I'm really enjoying this one.
If you have a camera phone, please send me pics and I will do the same.
7:58 AM
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