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What I Used To Do Try and Get Women in 2006. It Did Not Work.
I would make hours-long videos like this for women who said they loved piano music and wanted to hear/see me play. It had no real-world effect. The women watched the videos over and over but remained null and void, stayed home,...
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Twice a year
Yesterday I learned that twice a year, on July 4th and again on September 11, an American flag is...
Read MoreJenniCam on Letterman. July 30, 1998
I found this video of Jennifer Ringley’s appearance on the Letterman show hidden away on an unlabeled VHS tape that had been sitting in a drawer probably since the day I recorded it. Better her than me! 🙂 In 1998 I was...
Read MorePayphone Tour Video, and Some Morning Prattle
Some surprises, some failures on this tour of Manhattan’s last publically-accessible pay telephones. Sitting in the break room, by the air conditioner, freezing my ass off, teeth are almost chattering. But I like it. This...
Read MoreWhat the hell is this?
I spotted this object outside a school. On account of its location I assumed it to be a table game or some sort of educational contraption. Reverse image search turned up a variety of table games. I don’t think this is a...
Read MoreRough Night
Dreams were rough and tumble. A homeless dude decided there was a lot of money in my bag and he wanted it. There was no money in my bag so instead he wanted my water. I carry an 8oz. bottle everywhere in case I need to take a...
Read MorePorest FaRK
Getting my Forest Park video ready. It ended up being almost an hour. I have other videos from earlier. I don’t know why I went ahead with this one first but it’s not like I’m on any kind of deadline. As I...
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Ask Bing: What are some fun phone numbers to call?
Who knew calling the Suicide Prevention Hotline could be so much fun?
Read MoreMaking Connections at Old Calvary
This Calvary stramble is from a couple of years ago. It only got 31 views. Maybe this will help get it more. Maybe it won’t.
Read MoreGrand Central Madison
We are told it is good for us when no evidence supports this...
Read MoreQ32 MTA Bus From 40-something Street and Queens Boulevard to 32nd Street Penn Station
The Q32 used to be a regular bus for me when I had the 181 PO Box at Rockefeller Center. It went from Queens Plaza straight to the front door of the Rockefeller Center Post Office (at its former location). It’s a cool...
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24 Hours of Astoria Queens Webcam
It started to seem I’d be unable to actually do this. YouTube no longer allows uploads of...
Read MoreAnother Discarded Piano on Astoria Boulevard
I wouldn’t know who but the reason is obvious why someone is illegally dumping their pianos. Disposing of pianos legitimately through private carters is expensive. By leaving them here City Sanitation is obliged to haul...
Read MoreWhen Ominous-Seeming Messages Appear on Bigass Screens
At the Fulton Center tonight.
Read MoreA Utopia Parkway Stramble
What defines a “Parkway”? I need answers.
Read MoreA little story about the Little Free Library at the Woodside Houses
Hoping to make a connection and for a beautiful story to unfold I left something other than books at the Little Free Library. I made a connection all right. But it seems the parties on the receiving end were duly unimpressed....
Read MoreMotorcycles Take Over Van Dam Street and Queens Boulevard.
I was passing by when hundreds of bikers and ATV riders descended on the BP and Global gas stations on Van Dam Street in Long Island City late yesterday afternoon. Some gassed up their rigs while the others waited, idled,...
Read MoreThought I Did It Again
I was just remembering, yesterday, a time I played piano for a bunch of singers at a Christmas concert in Brooklyn. With rehearsals and practice time I was involved with this production for about a month. Every step of the way...
Read MoreJust some Saturday morning trash to kick off the weekend
En route to Calvary on what was expected to be the last 80°F day of the year. Garbage garbage everywhere, not a drib to drab. This is the bridge connecting Queens Plaza to Thomson Avenue. On this day I had an interesting...
Read MoreAlmost Nuked All My Piano Music From YT
Lately I’d been sending audio of my Piano Practice Room Radio stream with live video of my streaming Astoria webcam showing the street outside. Unlike the streaming webcam you see in that previous link the video that goes...
Read MoreA Beautiful Bridge
It’s the 39th Street overpass connecting Astoria to Sunnyside, over Sunnyside Yards. At the end is a Descanso for someone killed in a crane collapse nearby.
Read MoreGot a Little Lost in Jersey Today
I like getting lost. A little bit. Until it becomes monotonous. I made it over to Orange, NJ, today, to scout out what payphones might survive. I don’t know the town at all but, as expected, I found a few. I expected more...
Read MoreStream This
Got into a long-and-drawn-out exchange with someone last week. The discussion concerned webcams,...
Read More“Games Women Play” (1970) (Sanitized)
A long time ago, an a Usenet far, far away, I downloaded a shit-ton of porn from the so-called “golden age” of the 1970s and 1980s. One of them turned out to be Games Women Play, a 1970 film which includes an...
Read MoreNo Singletons at The Vessel
A new rule at The Vessel, the shawarma-like monstrosity at Hudson Yards, is simple: No singletons allowed. Analysis of a string of suicides that occurred at The Vessel revealed one common trait. All those who jumped arrived at...
Read MoreCharacter Study. Woman on a Subway. July, 2011.
It’s all about the occasional lightplay in this one.
Read MoreSingle Grave Occupancy Cemetery at the Holy Redeemer Church in Astoria
I must have passed this church hundreds of times before noticing that the cross inside was not just a cross but in fact a tombstone, and that the front yard of the church was a single grave occupancy cemetery for one Cornelius...
Read MoreCalvary and the Kosciuszko
Just a springtime jaunt to Old Calvary en route to the relatively new Kosciuszko Bridge and its pedestrian/bike path. Unlike other bridges in NYC, which can feel rickety and shaky from the force of vehicular traffic, the...
Read MoreWalkers Walk.
Staring into space today. No thoughts, just a calm numbness in which time is wasted. Cannot focus on one thing over another. Presently I am processing 3 stramble videos from the past days. Stramble? you ask? A word I coined...
Read MoreShe Got It
These new Covid-19 variants are not playing games. 1500 deaths per day nationwide, more than 9/11, but few seem to care that anyone can get it, however retentive and vigilant they might be. Not enough spectacle, I guess. Not...
Read MoreDon’t Know What That WYZE Spam Was
Somehow a post-by-email bit I sent at 5:07am got posted and posted and posted over and over. I don’t know what the hell that was but if anyone’s RSS feed got spammed with that please accept my apologies. It looks...
Read MoreAstoria Go Boom
No one was hurt but a lot of people were shaken up by a series of explosions on Broadway near 31st Street in Astoria yesterday. I heard one explosion from about 2 blocks away and even from that distance it shook my innards. The...
Read MoreWatching the Snow and Listening to Payphone Radio for Twelve Hours.
Does it get any better than this? I connected the live Payphone Radio Shoutcast stream to a live video stream on my long-dormant Sorabji Twitch.TV channel. I learned, just from reading some fine print, that an Amazon Prime...
Read MoreGot on the Wrong Bus…
Got on the wrong bus today and ended up at the Hutchinson River Parkway and Lafayette Avenue, across the street from Saint Raymond’s Cemetery. I’d only entered St. Raymond’s two or three times, years ago, on...
Read MoreAntonio Soler, Keyboard Sonata #25
Somehow I have managed to mostly avoid the keyboard music of Antonio Soler, the Spanish composer often compared to fellow countryman Domenico Scarlatti. Based on my evolving journey through Soler’s music I find the...
Read MoreBonfire at the Crematory
Here’s something I, for one, don’t see everyday. In one minute this car at St. Michael’s Cemetery in Astoria went from peacefully parked to fully engulfed in flame. I wouldn’t know what caused it, but all...
Read MoreA Stramble Through St. Michael’s Cemetery
It’s not my favorite cemetery, but it might still be where I end up spending eternity anyway. That decision making process is still in the works. This stramble led to many of my usual destinations, including certain of the...
Read MoreThrobbing Nuclear Egg
The camera on Samsung’s Galaxy S9+ is, for the most part, pretty impressive… Except when it makes the sun look like a giant throbbing nuclear egg, causing a bioluminescent pixie to dance on the ground in front of me....
Read MoreThe Mystery of Socrates Sculpture Park’s Wall of Tombstones
I’m probably going to make a second attempt at this video, but I’m posting this version anyway in case I don’t get around to it. I sound kinda sleepy, I misspoke on a couple of things, and I seem to have not...
Read MoreSiegfried Langgard: Liebeslied (Love Song)
This is what I did with yesterday’s unexpected extra hour (I forgot about the daylight savings time thing). This piece has fistfuls of notes but it’s not too difficult until the end with the long stretches in the...
Read MoreWhen It Comes To Airman/Air Dancer I Have One Word…
…and that word is YES. But this crazy beast was not enough to make me get a haircut yesterday. I don’t think I had a cut since January, maybe even December, and still find enclosed spaces such as barber shops...
Read MoreA YouTube Intervention, Four Years Later
In August, 2016, I posted a longer version of this video to YouTube. It shows a daredevil dude scaling the surface of the Trump Tower using suction cups. Yesterday, over four years later, with zero human contact, YouTube’s...
Read MoreWhen It Comes to Airman/Air Dancer I Have One Word…
…and that word is YES. But even this crazy beast was not enough to make me get a haircut today. I don’t think I had a cut since January, maybe even December. I still find enclosed spaces with people I don’t...
Read More9/11 Mural on 30th Street at 37th Avenue
It’s showing its age after 18 years but this 9/11 mural in Astoria/LIC still looks good to me.
Read MoreTop of the Rock Elevator, Coming Down. February, 2012.
This was that famous day in February, 2012, when a friend asked me to take care of her 10-year-old son for a day, while she (I don’t remember which) either went out of town or had to work someplace where she couldn’t bring him along.
Read MoreRoosevelt Island Tram. July, 2018.
I’ve known people who say they’d be terrified to ride this thing. I am not, but can see where some might find it scary. This is from a couple of years ago, a video I had no memory of recording, though I had posted...
Read MoreDriving to Coney Island. September, 2006.
Found this random, forgotten video of a friend and I driving to Coney Island in September, 2006. It was a spontaneous thing, as my friend driving the car was prone to indulge in and sometimes get me to go along. It’s rough...
Read MoreA Stroll Through the Rockefeller Center Concourse
A little herky-jerky but the low light can’t have helped the Galaxy S9+ record this. It’s incredible to me how Rockefeller Center remains so empty this far into the pandemic. I have some money coming tomorrow so I...
Read MoreLet’s Walk Over the Astoria Boulevard South/73rd Street Overpass.
I thought about narrating this one but couldn’t think of anything to say, except to add that video recording on the St. Michael’s Cemetery grounds is not allowed but I assume it’s OK to film from outside. Not...
Read MoreSome Edvard Grieg For Your October
I am not altogether satisfied with this but I’ll take it, after 2½ hours spent trying to record this Grieg piece earlier were all messed up. The piano is plugged into a mixing board which in turn plugs into the field...
Read MoreName the Composer
It’s a simple piece by a not so simple composer. Can you guess who? Having not made a video in a while I remember why I don’t do it more often. It’s just hard, for me at least, to mentally switch gears from...
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Walking the Ed Koch/Queensboro Bridge at Rush Hour on a Friday
Lots of graffiti at first in a video more stable than I expected for having no gimble or...
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I Love These Things
I swear this one was looking at me as it did its crazy thing. On Roosevelt Avenue today, a few...
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First Subway Trip in Six Months and I Get This Guy
When I boarded the train I heard him talking to another passenger in a similarly strident way....
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“Donald Trump Has Got To Go” Protest in Brooklyn Today
I was out taking pictures of payphones in Brooklyn today when this happened, at 4th Avenue and...
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Encountered the Delacorte Clock Today, and Other Central Park Finds
The Delecorte Clock nursery rhyme carousel, Bernie Madoff’s park bench plaques, and one other Central Park find revisited today.
Read MoreMissing Masklessness
I don’t get nostalgic, at least I don’t think I do. But for some reason this video, from 9 years ago, makes me realize how much I miss masklessness. I never would have thought I’d get sentimental for seeing people yawning, or...
Read MoreNuvole Bianche, by Ludovico Einaudi
Nuvole Bianche, by Ludovico Einaudi Trying out these post formats in the Extra WordPress Theme. Also rekindling my debate-with-self about whather Einaudi is classical or new age or something altogether different....
Read MoreAncora, by Ludovico Einaudi
Just messing around with this piece by a composer new to me. Ludovico Einaudi’s Ancora is an often played piece by the Italian composer. My rendering is not perfect, and the pageturns can be an irritant, but this is...
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