Was walking around this evening and noticed a new restaurant, Hong Kong Station, is now open on Bayard Street in Chinatown. Apparently this is the second HKS restaurant (the original is on Hester Street near Bowery).
Fortunately it’s open a little later than the Hester Street store, 10:30pm is the regular closing time, 11:30 on Saturday. Haven’t tried out the noodles (which start at 1 dollar!!), but the slick black, white, and red store facade reminds me of one of my favorite UK noodle chains, Wagamama. Not to mention that it’s next to “Top Model Salon”!
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the agony booth : NIGHT OF THE LEPUS Review
This is one of those rare films where a person doesn’t need to view a single frame to realize that the very concept (giant killer bunny rabbits! I mean, for god’s sake!) is spectacularly misguided.
Jo Whiley: Fall Out Boy in the Live Lounge
It was just Patrick and a guitar doing some acoustic tunes – but he still gave us a big sound and proved that he can do RnB too.
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Yessss! I was so devistated when Dave was eliminated last week and Tiffani remained in the final, so you can imagine how happy I am that resident Top Chef hottie Harold Dieterle has won the title of “Top Chef”.
As much as I loved Harold on the show, his MySpace profile leaves me a bit…disturbed. Under his favorite music he lists the Beastie Boys, which is awesome, but then he continues on by saying “anything really……just keep the country away from me…”
ARUGH! I hate when people say stuff like that. Seriously, what’s wrong with country music? Fight it out with Jack White and Loretta Lynn.
It is what it is…I guess.
Ok, it’s official. I really need to buy a point-and-shoot camera that I will carry around with me every single day because taking photos on my cameraphone is getting sad. So sad. Almost as sad as the fact that I went to go see Say Anything at the SPIN offices tonight. I went half went to take a copy of the issue with The Raconteurs on the cover, and the other half of me went for the free alcohol.
But the saddest thing of all was in the midst of all the “heys” and “woahs” that permeated through almost every single Say Anything song I kinda fell in love with the guy on the right’s t-shirt, which was a black tee with a skeleton on it. I have no idea what that dude’s name was since whenever anybody writes about the band all they talk about is the singer/writer, Max Bemis. UPDATE: His name is Jeff Turner. (No relation to Alex.)
I was so enamoured with his shirt that stopped him on the street (I saw him walking with his gear in front of me as I was going to the subway) and told him how much I liked it. He said that he got his super-comfortable tshirt in a thrift store and was all excited that it was an original tshirt from the 70s, but then got all bummed because clothing companies are re-creating that tshirt and selling them again. I sympathized, saying “Oh yeah, and now they’re selling them at Delia*s or something…”–which may or may not have made him cry inside, and that’s how I left it since he was right by his van.
Anyhoo, Say Anything have wear-their-heart-on-their-sleeve lyrics, and a lot of the aforementioned “woahs” and “heys”. Many lines will produce chuckles from y’all like this one from “Woe”: “She said ‘I can’t get laid in this town without these pointy fucking shoes. My feet are so black and blue and so are you.’” Some of you may think that kind of lyricism is endearing and clever, others will think it’s highly annoying and stupid. I just think you should all be thankful that at least it’s written in English, unlike Fall Out Boy‘s songs.
Want more? Here’s a video of them performing “Alive with the Glory of Love” live. Also here’s an MP3 of “Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too” which is a reaction to what happens when you’re on the phone with someone and they start touching their naughty bits. (I think we all know how uncomfortable that gets.) I gotta say, I do love the Jewish guilt reference.
PS- the guy in the olive tshirt (above)/ black blazer and jeans (below) totally looks like the younger brother of Evan and Jaron.
NME reports that Kaiser Chiefs lead singer Ricky Wilson was injured in a hit-and-run accident on Sunday, but thanks to his leapfrog-like ability to jump in the air he escaped with some minor injuries. According to the official Kaiser Chiefs site:
Ricky was hit by a car whilst walking across a pedestrian crossing in Leeds town centre mid evening on Sunday. He’s the luckiest man alive, because he is still alive, it sounds daft, but a ‘Ricky trademark jump’ has probably saved his life. The jump meant he was flipped over the top of the car, hitting the windscreen, rather than getting trapped under it. He was crossing on a green pedestrian light. Whether it was a joyrider, wreckless driving or drunk driving we still don’t know. Police are investigating – we’d like to thank the witnesses that have come forward so far.
No tour dates have been changed and Ricky will still be the special co-host of Jo Whiley’s show on Radio 1 this coming Monday.
