Jan. 2009 New York City days

To North side of Union Square Barnes & Noble today to look around.
A group of young ladies comes through the store wearing what looks like cos play outfits from sci fi medeval world.
This follows trips to three other bookstores in the past week,
each time finding good, useful info and materials on imaginary weapons,
psychotropics, deep history and the end of the city, among other topics.
Bright sun across Union Square this afternoon.
A Japanese girl takes photos on the walkway, dogs park alot of people out around the Square.
One street away is quiet, Seasonal winter feeling in the city with people shopping then getting back to their apartments
especially over weekends in winter.
A corner store is now closed up.
Down the street a small group including photog, a few models and stylist stands on a cross street in front of the New Orleans style houses on the block.
The hawk perches atop the cable TV antenna, four crows have also landed on other parts of it and they caw loudly at the hawk.
Hawk balanced there, had been looking for something ...

Happy New Year

Yellowish sky with blue back clouds scudding across the city ... the last sunset of the year
Earlier a blue balloon had floated up from below up and out towards the Con Ed Towers ...
Enjoyed watching snowstorm for most of the day, the wind blowing snow this way or that.

outpost. Great session last night in Hoboken, new versions of recently programmed beats now on tape
Working on programming a tribal piece for outpost

Freddie Hubbard (70) , Delany Bramlett (69) Rip

Three Gorges before the flood

Movies
Chancy, hard lives and deaths in a Chinese coal mine. Blind Shaft on CUNY TV

Manufactured Landscapes on Sundance. Still photography meets travel docu'.
Chinese manu, houses below Three Gorges Dam being pounded apart by hand, Ship breakers.
Spotted Saturo Ito in sdtk credits. Cheers Satoru ( supraguitarist/ bassist from Ultra Bide , worked with black rain, now Marianne and Mainspace )

and in the better - then - hoped catagory, In Bruges.
Farrell played right to type and then ditched it , cried broke down and gunned down.
Partial to Belgian scapes already, I could watch for the sightseeing, beers out on the Square locales -
then along the way a plot emerged anyway.

Sunday a blur of Transformers>Syriana>The Bourne Ultimatum>Rounders>No Country For Old Men>Fargo>The L Word>Manufactured Landscapes.
60F Sunday, nice again today
X mas dinner was a good laugh, great food crowded Chinese restaurant and finished at Arisa's place hours later

New Dominatrix track Silent command underway ! the cover art, meta info for Rec first release in process,
up on iTunes hopefully late Jan., but may slip in Feb. depending on Virtual Labels prep and promo time ...
New: Have also begun writing , programming the first of the topical songs - tracks that I've been wanting to do and am pretty excited about how it's sounding.
More sessions to come in Feb.

Just listening: Sakamoto's Derrida OST