Expect to find items inspired by North Carolina’s native son such the Rescue Blues (rosemary garlic fries), the Easy, Tiger (soup of the day), the Heartbreaker (classic Caesar salad), New York, New York (tomato sauce, Giacomo’s sopressata, arugula, fresh mozzarella, pine nuts, fresh basil, parmesan).

Apparently bbs Ryan Adams fans have known about this place for a while.

SOURCE: Slice via NY Mag

Much of the first half of the discussion was peppered with references to Mary-Louise’s friend, poet and Columbia University professor Mark Strand, who both credited with widening their horizons and understanding of poetry.

Ryan spoke at length about how he imagines a big gang of people with “unhappy face shirts on” just waiting to tear him down. On putting his work and himself out in the world for public consumption, Ryan commented that when something is seeing as being “too artistic” people tend to paint it as coming form a place of “self-entitlement,” for Ryan it’s more of an opportunity for pure expression, that in general he feels his work doesn’t always stimulate the intellect, but does stimulate emotion.

Mary-Louise elaborated on the discussion of the mob mentality of critics by saying that for people who are the the public eye, there is very real hurt that comes with hearing criticism. Talking about anonymous internet commentators, Mary-Louise commented that “the voice that’s going to be heard is the meanest voice in the room.”

Ryan responded that the work he does is not even intended to be incredibly intellectual — that most of his songwriting and poetry is based on more trivial things, joking that it’s inspired by things like asking if his behind looks good in his jeans, or moaning about getting dumped.

He also talked at length about his dark years of addiction and alcoholism — about how it made him not a very nice person and how his first book of poetry was written during this time and how he now has “writer’s remorse” over the work.

Ryan also referenced one of his writing methods involving taking two pieces of information not meant to be creative (example – an entry in a reference book and a newspaper article), and trying to tie the two together with language and imagery. On top of that he mentioned his obsession with always doing something–commenting that if you leave him in your house alone, you’d probably come back to see him fixing your VCR, to which Mary-Louise laughed and reminded him of the time she came back to her apartment to find him cleaning her floor.

When asked by Mary-Louise if he was good at editing his work, he retorted that he has an “inability to edit” and that when he is writing poetry it is “Cold Roses times eleventy.”

Ryan ended the chat with Mary-Louise by mentioning some recommended poets (Frederick Seidel, Anne Carson, Elizabeth Bishop, Eileen Myles — whose book title “Sorry, Tree” bemused Ryan, John Ashbery) and reading two poems from “Hello, Sunshine.”

Here’s some video of the event I found on the Youtube:

More over at the Columbia Spectator.

Also, watch Mary-Louise read one of Mark Strands poems as part of Poetry Everywhere.

The charming twosome chatted about Ginsberg, Frederick Seidel, the mob mentality of Internet haters, Ryan’s writer’s remorse about his first book of poetry, vitamin A salad, battles with addiction and alcoholism, and much much more. Updates to come!

Characters with tongue-in-cheek signs stating things like “The Bowery Is for Bums, Not Art,” “Joey Ramone Is Turning Over In His Grave,” and “Not Funny Mr. Adams.” Inside, the artwork was displayed on the walls and the room was decked out with the strings of the multicolor balloons cascading from the ceiling. Buddy Jessie Malin served as auctioneer of the paintings.

At the time I was there Ryan was stationed up front signing books, posters, and pink 7-inches for “Oblivion” put out by his new record label, Pax Am.

For an hour and a half the two Carolina natives (Adams- North, Parker- South) will be discussing poetry and fiction, and Adams’s upcoming book HelloSunshine, at the Celeste Bartos Forum of The New York Public Library at 6PM on September 25th as part of the NYPL Live series. Tickets to this 500 person event will go on sale to the general public on Tuesday, Sept 9th.

I can already see myself sitting there, eyes darting back and forth, my chest beating fast, and the little neurons in my brain completely frizzling out because I’ll be unable to determine who I should be focusing on at any given moment.

I think you’re all aware of my undying admiration to Mr. Adams, but my love for Mary-Louise Parker has gotten little play on this site so far, so let me just say ever since Fried Green Tomatoes, I have been in the M-L P camp. Fearless, uber-talented, and super-sexy – how could you NOT adore her? And let me just say, over five years since his breakup with M-LP, I can’t completely shake off my gnawing dislike toward Billy Crudup.

If you’re wondering what could be the possible connection between these two, one guess would be Adams’s wife, Mandy Moore, who starred with M-L P in 2004′s film comedy Saved!

It seems as though the multi-disciplined Adams’s will be the talk of the town that week, as this event falls directly after his stint as the first-ever artist in residence at the Morrison Hotel Gallery.

And, for the Adams-obsessives, Foggy TV is back! Ry Ry posted a “Happy Birthday” song two days ago:

Happy Birthday from Ryan Adams on Vimeo.

According to the press release, “three weeks prior to the opening, Adams will become Morrison Hotel Gallery’s first artist in residence, creating additional canvases in the front of the gallery to be auctioned off at the opening” — however the Morrison Hotel Gallery states he will become artist in residence two weeks prior to the opening.

At this time it’s unclear as to whether or not Adams will actually be painting in a space visible to passersby. Perhaps he’ll even simultaneously paint and blog for his alleged new side job as blogger for The Awl.

The Morrison Hotel Gallery is located at 313 Bowery, NYC.

The new tunes show a more sophisticated side to the songbird, some of the tunes seemingly inspired by Joni Mitchell, and yes–even a little dash of Ryan Adams, all the while showcasing Mandy’s incredible voice. (Seriously, why hasn’t she ever done a Broadway musical?)

Mandy stayed minimal with the inter-song banter and focused on soulfully crooning out songs like “Everblue,” “Merrimack River,” and “Bug” to the sold out crowd of fans. Ending with an audience participate version of “I Could Break Your Heart Any Day of the Week,” she left the audience wanting more…

After a few minutes of constant applause, Mandy came back out for an encore–and much to the delight of the audience, she and her band broke out in a stripped down version of Mandy’s smash hit single, “Candy.”

Video below:

Pizza and pentagrams, the breakfast of devil-worshiping champions.

The group how has it’s own website, Werewolph.com (obvs), where you can hear the tracks “Dead People Unite,” “Evil Weekend,” and “Mega Wizards.”

In the interview the two talk about sobriety, hypnotism, falling in love with each other, and her new album, Easy Come, Easy Go.

Read the full article on BlackBook’s website.

Clearly he was inspired by the few minutes he hijacked wifey Mandy Moore’s Twitter account @themandymoore last week.

Guess who’s back…and who’s taking the photos…

In addition to the up-to-the minute tweets, everyone’s favorite oversharing musician has also unleashed a brand new website, ryanada.ms which features a pretty mean picture of Ry Ry shredding up some bowl or swimming pool whilst on a skateboard emblazoned with the word “WEREWOLPH” (see below).

The new site also includes some of the things we’ve grown to love about Ryan Adams’s websites…

That’s right, random songs and videos! The latest installment is a hard-rock song called “Saturday Again,” perfect for playing this weekend:

The best part is where he describes some of the things he might do…like cleaning up his CD stack. Hahaha!