The Warped Tour, featuring the incomparable Paige Wood, is coming to Nassau Coliseum, this Saturday, July 26th. By now you should know that Paige is a dear friend of mine and needs everyone to head out to the show and give her your support! Even if you don’t get to be blessed and know her personally, you are going to want to know her music and see her before she blows up. When this time next year rolls around you will be able to say you were rocking out to Ms. Wood before all your hipster, “too cool” friends even knew who she was!
I know the Dark Knight is expected to be the best movie of the summer, but there just might be another contender. Coming soon to a theater near you, Hell Ride is a biker flick produced by Quentin Tarantino that’s written & directed by Larry Bishop. The film pays homage to the old school biker movies of the 60s and 70s. It’s one 83-minute non-stop biker party that exploits the three Bs: bikes, beer, and booty, and damn there is a lot of all three in it, including the opening 10 minute full on orgy scene. As if that wasn’t enough to get your ass in the seats, Vinnie Jones, the official coolest man on the planet kills in the film too!
Long gone are the days of searching through your pocket for those little metal tokens to catch a ride on the MTA’s public transportation system. The unlimited MetroCard is turning 10 this month. While the MetroCard was around since the early 1990’s it was only when the unlimited card and free transfers were implemented that the token was officially killed. Without a doubt that little piece of plastic has changed the way we all get around this city (all while creating an easy way for the man to track where you go).
Steve Jobs, aka the David Koresh of the gadget world is being good to us non-prophetical types. This Friday at 8:00 a.m. the iPhone 3G will be hitting shelves in both Apple stores and AT&T stores. For half the price and twice the speed of its predecessor, the 3G is sure to fly off the shelves. I think I even seen a few followers of Apple setting tents up in front of the Apple store already, so you might want to hurry if you must have one on the first day. Just don’t drink any punch while you’re there!
By now we have all seen the renderings of the “New York City Waterfalls“, the art installation of Olafur Eliasson, that Mayor Bloomberg is betting will raise major moolah for the city. The conceptual drawings of the four waterfalls that are gracing the East River show falls that equal the might of Niagara falls. In reality the falls look more like an overflowing sink (see the rendering on the left and reality on the right in the above image). With a skeletal design, no more complex or attractive than scaffolding, the falls trickle water over the top of the structure with such little force that the water gets lost in the slightest breeze and appears more like a drizzle then a powerful waterfall. I walked over to see the falls over the weekend and noticed that beyond barely being able to see the water in a hazy summer sky, there isn’t even the sound of water crashing into the river, not to mention there is no way to reach out and touch or interact with the falls, resulting in a complete disappointment to the senses.
