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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    09/17/09

    In reply to Bands Start Up Each and Every Day
    Oooooooh!
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    09/17/09

    In reply to Bands Start Up Each and Every Day
    I see a "Fifth Pavement" in that photo.
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    Image of Clarissima Clarissima
    09/17/09

    In reply to Bands Start Up Each and Every Day
    I'm trying not to swoon over Stephen Malkmus like I did when I was 17. Resistance is futile.
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    Image of Mike Byhoff Mike Byhoff
    09/17/09

    In reply to Bands Start Up Each and Every Day
    I've known about this for days and I'm STILL giddy.

    There are no other words: Squeeeeee!
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    Image of Asyourattorney Asyourattorney
    09/17/09

    In reply to Bands Start Up Each and Every Day
    will they be playing with Stone Temple Pilots and Smashing Pumpkins?
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    Image of MyNameIsChris MyNameIsChris
    09/17/09

    @Asyourattorney: I don't understand what you mean and I could really give a fuck.
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    Image of kolacek kolacek
    09/17/09

    In reply to Bands Start Up Each and Every Day
    Damon Albarn's fascination with all things Pavement is what I credit with making his own band suck salty British balls following the amazing "Modern Life is Rubbish."

    Blah blah blah, you know you liked Blur in the 90s, you know you still wear Fred Perrys and Sambas and you know I'm right.
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    Image of flugangst flugangst
    09/17/09

    @kolacek: Well, to be fair, I don't think we can blame Pavement for Blur's decline into suckage. It took two albums after Modern Life Is Rubbish for the Malkmus fetish to truly kick in, and one those was the dreadful Great Escape, the biggest turd they laid until 13.

    But I agree, MLIR is underappreciated... and rules.
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    Image of Gwenishka Gwenishka
    09/17/09

    @flugangst: What the? 13 is one of the best albums ever made. God, shut up.

    SHUT UP, ALL POSEUR MUSIC SNOBS. SHUT THE FUCK UP RIGHT NOW. DON'T SAY SHIT ELSE. NO ONE IS GOING TO THINK YOU'RE COOL OR WANT TO SLEEP WITH YOU BASED ON YOUR SNOTTY CRITIQUES.

    Okay. Thanks for letting me get that out of my system.
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    Image of MyNameIsChris MyNameIsChris
    09/17/09

    @Gwenishka: Girls will absolutely sleep with you based on your taste in music... but usually just the once so they can steal your records before you wake up.
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    Edited by MyNameIsChris at 09/17/09 6:13 PM MyNameIsChris was starred MyNameIsChris was unstarred
    Image of Cynical Media Bitch Cynical Media Bitch
    09/17/09

    In reply to Bands Start Up Each and Every Day
    That stands a good chance of getting some of my entertainment dollars, since "Cut Your Hair" and "Range Life" are in heavy rotation on my iPod.
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    Image of EddieTheDane EddieTheDane
    09/05/09

    In reply to The Ghost of New York Nightlife Past
    In 1983, EddieTheDane was a 17 year old, high school senior living at home on the island of Manhattan, the youngest of 3 children born of distracted parents. If you look closely, you might even be able to spot him in the $5, dark green, Cheap Jack's sharkskin blazer and Astor Place high/low, sniffling in the background, diving away from the glare of the camera, looking for the pyramid paper he is certain he dropped on the way to the bathroom.

    Sadly, that time, just like that bindle, is lost forever.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    09/05/09

    @EddieTheDane: In 1983, BookishLookish was a 17-year-old high school senior living at home in the suburbs of Manhattan, the middle of 3 children of distracted parents. If you look closely, you might even be able to spot her in the black motorcycle jacket (bought at the Leather Warehouse--broken zipper at cuff, deep discount), black-and-blonde two-tone hair, a pink and white Juicy Juice promotional T-shirt, a short black skirt, black fishnets and a pair of black go-go boots from the '60s bought off the street on St. Mark's (hondled down to $20 from $35), trying to cadge a free drink off Fisher Stevens and Matt Dillon while hanging out on the third floor of Danceteria (aka Dancebacteria!).

    "Infinity is the Fleeting, the Fleeting is the Vanishing." --Chikamatsu
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    Image of EddieTheDane EddieTheDane
    09/05/09

    @BookishLookish: it's official
    EtheD loves BL
    always has
    always will
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    Image of power_stroke power_stroke
    09/05/09

    @BookishLookish: Why did I think you were British? Have you ever lived in the UK?
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    Image of YoungUrbanFailure YoungUrbanFailure
    09/05/09

    @EddieTheDane: Man in '83 I was a no nonsense 5 year old hustlin on the rough and tough streets of Little Silver, NJ. Straight Gangsta!
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    09/05/09

    @power_stroke: Nope, from NY/NJ, but I've had a little English in me from time to time. Emphasis on "little."
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    Image of EddieTheDane EddieTheDane
    09/05/09

    @YoungUrbanFailure: YUF, I know that it was hard out there for a little pimp.
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    Image of SuperBien SuperBien
    09/05/09

    In reply to The Ghost of New York Nightlife Past
    This makes me want to experience a Bolivian Marching Powder-induced epidemic lack of clarity while speaking to a girl with a shaved head. Tad Allagash is no where to be found. Maybe Patrick Bateman's killed him . . . Fuck, where're my sunglasses???
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    09/04/09

    In reply to The Ghost of New York Nightlife Past
    Wow, thanks for that! I almost forgot how utterly grubby NYC was back then, and I mean that in the best way possible. The subway! The squeegee men! The sweaty dance floor!
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    Image of MattGaymon MattGaymon
    09/04/09

    @misslinda: Spectacular.
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    Image of SpyMagician SpyMagician
    09/05/09

    @MattGaymon: As opposed to the shining jewel it is now? Have you been to Santos Party House...

    And yeah, the squeegee men. So awesome. I remember pausing in awe around Houston and Broadway to watch those guys do their thing.
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    Image of MelitaPolyhymnia MelitaPolyhymnia
    09/04/09

    In reply to The Ghost of New York Nightlife Past
    OMG!!! For 25 minutes and 8 seconds I was transported to a NY that I miss very much. Atime where everything was not so conscious of itself and exploited to milk every last dollar. Just come and have fun. I do not miss the graffitti. I love graffitti, but not all over the trains and stuff. ew!

    The cab drivers were all local and you could actually talk to them! And the Garage! That ramp!!

    I so miss that energy and cameraderie amongst us. Can it ever be resurrected?

    Now the landlords, community boards and the like have sanitized this city beyond a point of relaxed fun.

    Nightlife generates money too!!
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    Image of Saxon 212 Saxon 212
    09/04/09

    In reply to The Ghost of New York Nightlife Past
    Yes I was there and I saw Madonna do her first live show at Danceteria with a boom box and some dancers. It was dirty but that is so much better than sanitized condo world in many ways.
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    Image of SuperBien SuperBien
    09/05/09

    @Saxon 212: [www.youtube.com]
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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    09/04/09

    In reply to The Ghost of New York Nightlife Past
    Oh how I miss it. Even the squeegee guy is better than lawn chairs in Times Square.
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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    09/04/09

    In reply to The Ghost of New York Nightlife Past
    "Tourists from Brooklyn." LOL.
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    09/05/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: Haha... and Long Islanders must be foreigners.
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    Image of SpyMagician SpyMagician
    09/05/09

    @lobstr: I'd like to visit that Long Island place, if only it were real...
     Reply
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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    09/04/09

    In reply to The Ghost of New York Nightlife Past
    Joooools. He looks so nervous in the car, haha.
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    09/04/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: They're coked up. Check out 9:15, the girl sniffles loudly and rubs her nose. At the end, she's chewing a big apple (get it?) to mask her typewriter-jaw. Which is a very quaint expression, now that I think of it.
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    Image of SpyMagician SpyMagician
    09/05/09

    @Baroness: How exactly do you know that? I’ve done the same when I’ve been working late and just haven’t eaten well.
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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    09/05/09

    @Baroness: Yeah, that's pretty obvious when Jools gives the coke-eyes as they depart Roxy. Looks like a good end to the evening, though.
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    Motoko Kusanagi was starred Motoko Kusanagi was unstarred
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