Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts

Thursday, January 29, 2009

American Evening

This evening 3 interns and one career student went to McDonalds to have some lunch (Angus-Burger with Bacon & Cheese with french fries and Cola - delicious *mjam*) and afterwards to the cinema watching Notorious B.I.G. ("Bi Ei Dschi"). It's a biograpic film about the rapper Christopher George Latore Wallace (1972 - 1997).
We were at the AMC cinema at Times Square - they had about 25 show-rooms. One intern told me that it's famous for visitors being not that silent during some movies. And we really didn't become disappointed. About three of four people were afro-american guys. There was much talking from one end to the other during the whole film, especially if you saw some people kissing or making love. The synonym, the well known f-word, was used in nearly every second sentence. And it was not piep-ed out as you may know it from Southpark, for example. The movie rating was 13 years, btw. So they are afraid of showing nipples during some music-contest after the breaking news in the evening but let their children watch much harder movies in the cinema. Strange way of life ^^
Well, the funniest scene was when the mother of B.I.G. slapped her son (being 19 at this time I think) into the face und die gesammte versammelte schwarze Gemeinde lies unisono ein "Ooouuuhhhhh" verlauten. Ganz grosses Kino sag ich da nur *gg*
Stellenweise war der Film echt schwer zu verstehen, insbesondere bei den gerappten Texten hatte ich so meine Schwierigkeiten - aber die Reaktion des mitgroovenden Publikums lies den Inhalt erahnen :)
Schaut euch den Film unbedingt in Englisch an - auch wenn man nur die Haelfte versteht, die (Aus-)Sprache der Schauspieler und die Texte und Situationen kommen viel beser rueber als im Deutschen.
Was ich außerdem total faszinierend fand war, dass der Film zum Großteil in New York gedreht wurde und ich so gut wie alle Plaetze wieder erkannt habe. Vom Times Square, ueber die Plaetze von denen aus die Manhattan Skyline gefilmt wurde, ueber die Brooklyn Bridge, U-Bahn-Haltestellen, Fulton Avenue in Brooklyn oder Kreuzungen in Manhattan. Es ist ein ganz anderes Kinoerlebnis weil man die Stadt foermlich riechen kann waehrend man in seinem urstig bequemen, bis ueber den Kopf gehenden, Ledersessel luemmelt.
Am Ende wurde der Film doch etwas dolle schmalzig, da der Regisseur krampfhaft versucht hat dem zuschauer zu zeigen dass der Chris doch eigentlich ein ganz lieber war (vergessen all die Drogen, Kaempfe und Ehebrueche vom ersten Teil) . Aber das war vielleicht auch besser so ansonsten haetten die Leute noch das Kino zerlegt nach der Vorstellung :D Was in meinen Augen hingegen besonders gut rueber kam war, wie B.I.G. durch seinen Erfolg vielen Freunden, Bekannten oder Nachbarn Hoffnung gegeben hat dass man es auch ganz nach oben schaffen kann selbst wenn man als Kind nur der kleine dicke Junge mit der Hornbrille ist der von allen gemobbt wird ("No dream is too big").
Im Nachbarkino fing gerade Gran Torrino (allein schon wegen dem Filmplakat moechte ich den sehen) an als unser Film zu Ende war. Statt gleich rein zu gehen sind wir erst noch eien Etage tiefer gefahren um zu schauen was da noch so laeuft. Da fing natuerlich an dem Abend kein weiterer Film mehr an. Hoch zu unserem urspruenglichen Kinosaal kamen wir nicht mehr und die Säle 9-25 waren sowieso nicht erreichbar mit unserem Ticket. Also ging es nach Hause. Dolle weh getan hat es nicht da wir dank Firmenrabatt 1/3 guenstiger reingekommen sind *jippie* Aber beim naechsten Mal werden wir den ersten interessanten Film nehmen den wir kriegen koennen. Weil zwei Filme zum Preis 2/3 eines Films ist einfach noch unschlagbarer *hihi*

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Save Broadway

found at www.hulu.com, produced by Saturday Night Live. Sorry for the advertisement in the beginning.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Music is Therapy

Found at http://dekku.blogspot.com/

Stuff

Nachdem der gestrige Tag mit Arbeit gefuellt war - ok, ich hatte nebenbei genug Zeit auf last.fm Musik zu hoeren und mich mit dem Herrn von nebenan ueber anstehende Projekte zu unterhalten - ist das heutige Projekt mal wieder initiative Tagesgestaltung.
Die sah bis jetzt so aus dass ich meine 950 ungelesenen E-Mails sortiert, und nachdem eine Mail von meinem kleinen Bruder rein kam spontan zu Hause angerufen habe. Nebenbei gab es News, sinnfrei und -voll, ne gute Mischung halt ;)
Was ich sehr empfehlen kann ist ein interview mit Roger Willemsen anlaesslich der Buchmesse 2008: Link
Wobei ich auf die Seite des Literatur-Cafes auch nur durch diesen Artikel gestossen bin: Link
Die Seite ist gleich in meine Favoriten gewandert - fuer den unwahrscheinlichen Fall dass ich mal wieder was zum lesen brauche ^^
Ausserdem geht die Suche nach einem Plattenspieler (turntable) jetzt in die entscheidende Phase. Nachdem ich mich nun entschieden habe einen gebrauchten zu kaufen und die turntables in den An-und Verkaeufen gleichzeitig ausverkauft sind, muss das Internet herhalten. Die erste Adresse ist hier craigslist.org. Auf ebay nachzuschauen kommt mir erst jetzt in den Sinn. Naja - is ja auch erst Mittag ;)
Ich werd mir einfach noch nen kaffee besorgen, dann nochmal nach Deutschland telefonieren und dann hochmotiviert ind en nachmittag starten *raeusper*
Kepp up to date :)

Sunday, December 21, 2008

My 4th Advent

und diesmal wirklich - glaub ich zumindest ^^
Kostenfreie Weihnachtskonzerte sind in NYC kaum zu finden - jedenfalls nicht ueber's Internet. Da muss man schon wie ich an einer Kirche vorbeistolpern und spontan reingehen. In dieser dann 2 andere MBUSA-Praktikanten treffen und noch den Schlusston des Orgelkonzerts mitbekommen. Schade - aber immerhin bin ich in den genuss einer 32' Orgelpfeiffe gekommen. Ich glaub die Haelfte der Leute die da sass hat den Ton garnicht mehr gehoert so tief war er ;)
Ansonsten war die letzte Woche ziemlich durchwachsen. Von uebergluecklich bis deprimiert war alles dabei. Mittlerweile bin ich wieder ganz ausgeglichen :)
Das liegt unter anderem an der Freude ueber den ersten Schnee. Zum Glueck hatten wir am Freitag ein Auto um von der Arbeit nach Hause zu kommen. Statt einer haben wir ueber drei Stunden gebraucht weil der highway so voll mit Schnee und Autos war. JA, es war wie man das in den Filmen immer gezeigt bekommt ;) Mittlerweile hat es zu tauen angefangen. Allerdings wurde es heute abend dann doch wieder kuehler und wer hat sich in downtown Manhattan in einer schwungvollen Parade von der Konsistenz des Strasssenbelages ueberzeug? Right - that was me. Zum Glueck hatte ich meine Kamera, den Martini Bianco und den Rotwein im Rucksack und meine Haende nicht in der Tasche, so ging das ganze nochmal glimpflich aus, zumal ich mal wieder am Traeumen und deshalb nicht ganz so reaktionsschnell war, aber meien hand war zuerst auf dem Boden um das Schlimmste zu verhindern ^^
Am Freitag war ich mit meiner Mitbewohnerin und ihrem Freund zu einer kleinen Feier in der 105-ten Ecke Broadway. Ich habe dort einige ziemlich interessante leute kennengelernt. Vom Musiker bis zum konservativen Amerikaner war alles dabei. Zum ersten Mal gab es Gebspraeche ueber amerikanische Politik mir Amerikanern. Bei Bier, leckeren Appetithappen, nem liebevoll geschmueckten Weihnachtsbaum und schlechtem Gluehwein. Sowas sollten sie echt uns Deutschen ueberlassen *gg*
Whatever, am Samstag bin ich dann durch die Stadt gelaufen auf der Suche nach nem Plattenspieler. Statt dessen habe ich den Bruderladen (Schwesterladen hoert sich besser an, passt aber glaub ich nich wegen dem Geschlecht von laden ;) ) von meinem Lieblingsbuchladen am Broadway gefunden. Der hat mindestens 3x so viele LPs, CDs, Kassetten und Song- und Notenhefte wie der Buchladen. Von unten bis oben alles voll mit LPs, und auf die auch noch 30% Rabatt. Ich stand kurz davor die original Lord of the rings Musik auf LP zu kaufen, war dann aber doch zu geizig. Ich glaube ich sollte da naechste Woche nochmal hingehen ^^ Am Ende hab ich mich jedenfalls noch ueber ne Stunde mit dem Verkaeufer und seinem Kumpel der gerade da abhing unterhalten. Was fuer coole Typen. Das war quasi meine zweite Lektion in Sachen american way of live. Sie haben relativ schnell eingesehen dass es in Dtld allein schon deswegen besser ist weil wir Bier in 0,5l-Flaschen haben und dieses auch direkt nachdem wir den laden verlassen haben auch aufmachen uerfen sofern uns danach ist. Und mal ehrlich - wem war noch nie danach :)) Der eine war Musiker und totaler Fan von deutschen Komponisten. Ok, seiner Meinung nach gibt es nur Komponisten aus Deutschland die gute klassische Musik machen (konnten), aber nach eingehender Diskussion haben wir uns dann darauf geeinigt dass die Italiener auch garnicht so schlecht waren (siehe Paganini und Verdi). Und ausserdem war der dritte im Bunde Italiener, also war das ganze nur gerecht ;)
Heute abend wollte ich mir eigentlich Giants vs. Carolina in einer Sportsbar anschauen, aber dann habe ich mal grob die Ausgaben fuer die naechsten zwei Wochen ueberschlagen und mir statt dessen ne kleine Pizza und Chickenwings fuer den Ofen gekauft. Man war das lecker *mjam* Nun brauche ich aber immer noch einen Plattenspieler um in die Platten reinhoeren zu koennen die cih mir bereits fuer nen Dollar gekauft habe - darunter ein Punk-Album der Chipmunks, Orgelmusik von Bach, ein Abba-Album und ein Album von Glenn Miller.
Geniesst die Vorweihnachtstage und lasst euch nicht stressen :)

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

My 3rd Advent

took place in an bavarian restaurant called "Zum Schneider" with german service, german Weissbier and Gluehwein. They invited to a Christmas Caroling at 1pm. And we had a lot of fun singing german weihnachtslieder with american guys :)) They were so excited to sing on this afternoon. It was amazing to watch and listen. Some songs we first sang in german and after this one more time in english. Sometimes - many didn't knew wether the German nor the English text *hihi*
But after the first Weissbier or Gluehwein it doesn't matters ^^
For lunch I had my first O'Baza (unter Obatzda findet man's dann auch im Netz ^^): It's different kind of cheese with some bred. Well, it was ok but next time I'll have Sauerkraut this tastes much better ;)
The band was great. The two guys played accordeon and guitar and made a great show :)
See the following pictures:
2008-12-14 Christmas Caroling

At 9pm I had to leave because I was out of money. On my way home I discovered the Manhattan Bridge and the arc standing in front of and filled a whole film. We'll see how pictures look like if they are developed :)

Größere Kartenansicht
At home the boyfriend of my roommate offered me a very delicious drink made of some fat milk, rum, liqueur and cinnamon. We had a great discussion about life in general and in particular.
All in all it was a great day. At least I had a wonderful ICQ-conversation in the morning, lasting about 3 hours :) so i went to work on monday morning and had a smile all over the face the whole day cause of the great weekend.
Enjoy the last week before Santa Claus is coming.
Btw - my Santa was here today for the first time and delivered a paket from Amazon-Germany. I was able to figure out that it was from my lovely dad, but I didn't open it yet ;)

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Brief news

As a member of Bank of America you are allowed to visit some museums in the USA for free on every first weekend a year - some of them, like the American Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan Museum of Arts and the Museum in the International Center of Photography are in New York. These I visited on saturday and sunday. I liked the Museum of Photography most. The pictures were very impressive and touching. Furthermore I liked it because I saw what you can do without using photoshop and such kind of tools. That motivated me ome more time to continue to take photos with my SLR EOS 300. But these you will just see if you meet me in person one day, because they are non-digital ;)
Following some impressions from the AMNH
2008-12-07 Museum of Natural History

In Please give attention to my spleen for Spongebob Squarepants *hihi*
Catching the scallop you can see in this video is one of his extrem hobbies ^^


On sunday evening I was to a concert of Nada Surf. There were two pre-bands. both I like very very much - although I listened to their music the first time. The bands were Bear Hands and Delta Spirit. The music was sooo awesome. The floor of the Webster Hall was made of wood which carries the sound, specifically the basses, really really good. Most of the time I was not able to swallow because the uvula (or Zaepfchen in german) in the throat went up and down all the time and made it really hart to swallow. my whole body felt like a big beat box all the time. It was amazing :) Well, how ever, today I have pain in my throat - maybe I'm getting a cold or it's because of the concert. Comments please :)
Matthew, the singer of Nada Surf gave a short privat concert with hbis guitar after the real one. He's a pretty nice guy. Really down-to-earth and very likeable.
Feel free to watch some pictures:
2008-12-07 Nada Surf in Webster Hall

The picture of the month is this one. I toke it in the Museum of American History. I like the intention of the first sentence.

I name it: One sentence - two meanings

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Nothing left to do

Today was one of the days where I had nothing to do. I mean really nothing. I started my day with reading some news. After this i organised my email-contacts, filtered my inbox, created new labels for incomming mails and wrote some to people from whome I heard nothing for a long time. After this I started reading news and digging some, reading stuff on facebook and making some intranet-research. After this I went to the gym to make a workout.
I'm really interested in what's going on on the market for automobiles in the US. The situation of the "Three Big" (GM, Ford, Chrysler) is very bad. I like one comment another reader wrote under one article: "The predicted volume for next year produced by the Three Big is about 16Mio cars. The demand is approximately at 11Mio cars. So the only logical way is that at most 2 can survive." Well, Chrysler probably will be out of money until end of this year. So either they get bought by another company or they or they go bankrupt. Some people say this will effect all other companies as well because in may cases they use the same supplieres. So the other two will go bankrupt, too. This is an argument for a bailout by he government. Because if they don't pay about $25Billion for the companies they have to pay much more for all the unemployed people and pension fonds etc. So in my eyes it's like: vom Regen in die Trauffe. Because if the government pays the money this month, they will have to pay some more during the following years. Although there's no garanty that despite they payed a lot of money the one or other company goes bankrupt. And if they don't pay the money it's the same. I don't think that all tree will go down. All have a more or less strong will to survive. Because the economy is really bad at the moment. So everybody, including the Union, will be motivated to aggree to any kind of compromise to survive....
Well, my own financial situation is not as bad as the one of the car-companies. But I agreed to some cutbacks. I try to survive with max. $5 a day for foot. that means no buying of coffee, foot or candies in the MBUSA-Cafeteria. No Starbucks-Coffee/Hot Chocolate, no Burger, Sandwiches etc from the street. Just hand-made ones - all the ingredients have to be bought in the cheapest grocerie-store on manhattan-island, of course ;)
I think it's possible to survive on this way. Next week I will look what i payed or foot on this week. That was my evening meal today:
Noodles, tomatoe-sauce including sausage made of chicken because chicken is 3 times less expensive then sausage made of real meat. Turckey is between them but not that tasty. I use it just for the sandwiches because there you don't taste it so much ;)
It looks not that great because the plate is a bit to small but it was sooo delicious. I payed about $6 and it's all enough for about three days ;)

On the right side of the plate you see a glas. well, I have to confess that this is Martini (red) - the original one. I was in my favorite wine store and wanted to buy a bottle of great tasting red wine. Instead of this I saw russian vodka- reduced to $12 from $34 a litre. But I don't want to be drunk every evening (or can't be - depends on ;) ) so I walked thorugh the store and saw the 1l bottle Martini for about $8,50. I think this is a fair price for a fan like me. So I had an intalian meal this evening ^^
There ws some music in the underground, too. Maybe you remember these two guys. I walked through the subway station with maximum "Weezer" on my ears and although I could hear the great sound of this guys. Have fun :)


Please see the new links on the right side- the one about the one Going Under NYC is really funny :)

Saturday, November 22, 2008

He's still alive

Last week was very interesting. I did some things I's done never before - in NY ^^
At first, I cleaned some clothings because I ran off of clean panties, socks and such stuff. So I started to look for a laundromat with self-service. I found one at 86th/Columbus Ave. I went there one evening after work and made the experience that it's possible to be an american unable to speak english. Well, my spoken one is not the best, too bus this of the guy in the laundromat was horrible - to put it buntly, the number of words he was able to pronounce in english was about four This four words were: What, do, you and mean. But I figured out that you have to pay in quarter-coins, specificly 16 quarters per machine - no credit-cards or bills accepted. Yeah, I left the store wishing him all the best for his future (even if he was not able to understand it ^^) and gave the stuff to the chinese laundromat in my street, West 85th :) 1pd, $6 that was worth it, because when I arrive from work at about 7:30PM most of the self-laundromats are closed.
On friday I signed in to the gym at MBUSA. It's awesome. You just need some shoes - all the other stuff you pay about $11 per 2 weeks. This includes T-Shirt, pants, socks, towels, shower, shower-gel, cream, and the use of the gym. I think the price is better then the one of germany's McFit :D So I started to burn the first 400cal in 40 minutes by ryding the bike. On monday I will get an introduction to all the sports equipment. It will be a very short week just till wednesday because on thursday there's Thanksgiving and on friday is the day after Thanksgiving *gg*
On wednesday eve we will discover some new bars in manhattan like we did last night. we found something like a Hartz-IV-bar on 42th/9th Avenue. One beer (0.4l) was $2,50 and hot Dogs were for free. It was a nice location with interesting people and good music, even if it was a bit to loud. After this we went into another club, called Zansibar. I decided to drink nothing because there a beer was about $7, a Gin-Tonic for example costs $10. And I had to spent about $60 to start to like the music. Today I was very happy that I saved the money, because on my way through Manhattan I discovered a new shop, called Filene's Basement.

They sold different clothes, stuff for the bathroom and for traveling (da fallen mir an dieser Stelle die Durchsagen in den nur noch selten fahrenden ICEs ein: Thänk yu for träwölling wis deutsche bahn *hihi*) with a discount of up to 70%. The last two weeks I was looking for something like a business-pant because I have just one with me in the USA and you are just allowed to wear jeans on the so called causal friday. So I bought a pant and a new shirt (compatible to the pant I thought, and my roommate agreed to my opinion after she looked into my bags after coming home - that made me a bit proud because sometimes I have some really small problems to match colors as some of you might remember ;-)).
Furthermore I bought some earlaps. That's pretty nice, because everytime I use one of my caps my hair looks really confused. But my hair is that plump that I just need something to warm my ears. I thought about buying a headset produced by Bose, but this is not possible during the next month because of not existing money :( So earlaps are a good alternative :-) They had a lot of nice caps there, too - but I was not able to decide which one I like most, so I bought none of them. Maybe I will take the guys visiting me on christmas and new year to this store to give me some advise (Hi there guys ;-) ). And for the first time i had some kebab from a guy selling it on the street - like on every corner in the town. It was very tasty - see the following foto:

On thursday I had the most funniest workday ever. I registered for a class called Introduction to Cognos. Cognos is a web-based controlling tool. The description sound interesting, I think that maybe one day I could use the stuff you learn thereand it was also sponsored by MBUSA and so I decided to take part on this event (more classes will follow the next weeks ;) ) We were three people. One from Washingto, he was the supervisor of some dealers in this area, one from a team working on a similar stuff like my team (the same day I arranged a meeting with him during the next 2 weeks to learn more about his work :) ) We had so much fun together on joking around, listening to crazy storys from the work with the dealers and company-members - it was just amazing. Besides we were working very hard so that I could take the bus at 4:15PM instead of the one at 5:30PM ;) - first time since I'm in the US btw :)
The ride is another one then the one at 5:30PM so that I was remembered by this advertisement that the recession already arrived in NY:

As response I would quote Funny van Dannen with Kleine geile Firmen:
To come to an end I want to present a new subway-video. I filmed it at 34th St - Herald Square Station. The woman you can see in the video (if you turn your head to the left - sorry, but I'm not able to rotate it because therefor I need a good computer) was singing some great songs - this one is Michael Jackson as you would discover by yourself of cause, too ;-)
She had some more great songs from other famous songwriters, too - but this is the only one i filmed. Have fun with it:

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Kicked my ass

yeaaahhh
Yesterday in the evening, I was so tired that I decided to go to bed right after coming home at about 10pm.
The next day, saturday, I slept till 10am, then I woke up by the alarm-clock. But, right, I stayed in my bed, like the weekend before - no motivation to move ^^
There was so much rain outside that I was not sure if I really want to go out - to the beach. But after a nice smalltalk via ITzeKuhI kicked me out of my bed, had some cornflakes (without milk, because milk was off :( ), a shower, packed my backpack with a towel, a camera and a book and started the day.
That was my first goal: The beach of the atlantic ocean.

Größere Kartenansicht
It took me about an hour to reach it via the express-subway, train A. But it was worth it. I had time to read my book - The last lecture by Randy Pausch. A fascinating book with so many truths and pieces of wisdom - it's a totally exciting book. After the arrival I saw on the right side the beach, on the other side some houses. I was really hungry, but i decided to go at first to the beach, because it was nearly 4pm, not so much time to the darkness because of the unpresent sun. It was such a long time ago that I saw the beach and the waves... I was the only person there - it was very windy, but not that cold. There were so big scallops (Muscheln) which I've never seen before :-o
Please feel free to discover more pictures following this link:
2008-11-15 Beach

Here's a short impression of the beach:

After the walk along the beach I went to "town" and stopped at a supermarket. There I was really surprised because the prices for food were so much lower than the one in Manhattan :-| Cheese slides were $1 compared to $5. Salad and most of the other stuff was cheaper, too. So I bought some cheese and 3 bagel for $1 and had lunch on my way to the subway station.
After 1.5 hours I arrived at 158 Bleecker Street. There was a beautiful concert of The Calder Quartet and Andrew W. K. in the club Le Poisson Rouge. the mixture of modern classic and hand made rock was overwhelming. It was great to listen to Andrew W. K. who is a freak in playing the piano, drums and in singing, crying and dancing - most of this at the same time. His song I love NYC is my new Ohrwurm ;-) It was performed together with the Calder Quartet- first time ever. And it was really exciting. I found the song with a good quality:

I don't have so much (good) pictures because the concert was so great that I had no time for more :D
2008-11-15 The Calder Quartet feat. Andrew W. K

Und zum Schluss noch kurz das Pogramm :)
  • The Tone Cluster C#, D, D#, E. F. and F#
    'Let Us Get Physical' - AWK with TCQ
  • Interface (Tristan Perich) - TCQ
  • Brandenburg Hej Hej Hej (J. S. Bach, AWK) - AWK
  • Honey Flyers I - III (Christine Southworth) - TCQ with Bot(i)Cello
  • Company I - IV (Philip Glass) - TCQ
  • Spontaneous Improvisations - AWK with Bot(i)Cello
  • I get wet
    Party Hard
    I Love New York City
    Dance Party
  • 4'33 I - III (John Cage) - AWK with TCQ
Aufgabe: Finde das Stück, welches am leisesten gespielt wurde!?! :)

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Music feat. New York

Because I can't get my ass up to write about the last week I present some stuff from right this day.
At first, I'm really pissed of that the american wireless is so slow. It doesn't depend on the WLAN because all networks I tried are that slow. It's really boring to watch videos or even to listen to some onlinemusic. So while the video is loading I have some time to write some lines. I found some music on the borought notebook. It's almost 3 to five years ago that I listened to Subway to Sally - Julia und die Räuber:
Nicht dass die Band nicht mehr tolle Lieder auf Lager hätte - aber Placebo ist hier auch auf dem Rechner, und da kann ich dann natürlich nicht widerstehen, zumal ich jetzt endlich mein 5.1-headset angeschlossen habe - mit Surround und ordentlichem Subwoofer flattert's da bis in die letzten Gehirnwinkel, WAHNSINN :))

But now back to the roots: New York :D
Today there's AC/DC playing at Madison's Square Garden. Well, once in the lifetime you shoud have visited a concert powered by AC/DC, I think. The performance is great, some other interns told us newbees. But after looking up the prices I had to think about it again. $70 one ticket, last row in the auditorium. That's not worth it I said to me. Well, and I think I was right. If the first salary not arrives till friday I would be out of money. I mean, totally out of money. No liquid credit line, no backups, nothing to sell (at any rate nothing that I own ^^). Out of money means, no food, no busticket to work, that means especially no money, that means - you know ;-)
Ok, so I klicked from page to page, arrived at lastfm.de and logged in to my profile. One possibility on this page is, to inform about concerts in the area you live. Well - one is Nada Surf this weekend - for $20. Nice band, nice price. So let's see if I can get some tickets :)
Ok, at this point I want to introduce some of the NYMs - the newyorkian musicians (Anm. d. Red. *gg* Achja - bitte laut mitsprechen: "newyorkian musicians" Zwecks Verbesserung der Aussprache und so, ihr wisst schon *hihi*) But more important than the spelling is the music they make. In nearly every subway station somebody sits and makes music - sometimes mehr schlecht als recht, but sometimes they are great performers - like in the following vid:

It's difficult to decide wether to spend some money or not. In most cases the wallet decides, but sometimes they make such a great performance that is doesn't matters. I will try to catch some more impressions. One girl told me (here name is Sina "Hallo Sina :-*") there's a man, running through NY in underpants and playing the guitar. I have to say that i never met him, but maybe somebody is so nice to post the video - I'm a bit to tired to start a search. Thank you so much :-*
Stay informed :)
Nachtrag: folgendes hab ich beim prae-zubettgehen-im-netz-stöbern noch gefunden :-))