been a long, been a long time

Summer in Summary

music & people: Chris Rael's CRANBERRY STREET featuring WOODSTOCK; Church of Betty music video compilation (currently editing for Howl! Festival - Pioneer Theater Aug 28); The M. Shanghai String Band at the M.Shanghai Restaurant; Ms. Brooke Fox at Rockwood Music Hall; http://web1.nugs.net/ Femi Kuti, MC5, SunRa Arkestra at Central Park Summerstage; The Australian Chamber Orchestra at Tanglewood and Mostly Mozart; Josh Diamond video project (currently editing); Rick Shapiro at Bowery Poetry;

places: Housesitting at Maria's place at162nd and Riverside Drive for the month of June; the beach between Coney & Brighton, most Sundays - exactly where the Aquarium's artwork ends; Door County and Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin; naked in Lower Placid Lake; naked in the heated pool under the stars and Mars in Great Barrington, MA; Brick Lane Indian Restaurant on E. 6th (Free beer if you finish the "excruciatingly spicy" Phaal dish)

things: the borrowed audio speakers at my desk; iPod fully loaded; 17 pounds lost on Weight Watchers;

readings: www.physics911.net; Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince; Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions; "Raising the Dead" article in Outside magazine's August issue; Haruki Murakami's Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World;