New York

Every day, I am stunned anew at the completely inopportune moments Brooklyn drivers routinely choose for making U-turns.

Barclays Center events haven’t wreaked as much havoc on the neighborhood as people feared, so tonight’s VMAs are showing them how it’s done.

Today marks three years for me as a Brooklyn resident. Am I a New Yorker now? Or do I have to have someone throw up on me in the subway?

Heading out to an international screening of animated shorts at 9:30 p.m. on a Sunday night. Should be a packed house. Related: I ♥ NY.

Congrats to Mean Melin (@SceneStealrEric), winner of the @usairguitar Northeast Semifinal! I tied for 2nd and am LA-bound for the finals!

People of NYC: Come see my alter-ego Windhammer compete at the @usairguitar Northeast Semifinal on Tuesday: boweryballroom.com/event/261053-u…

Swans and Chelsea Wolfe made my two favorite records from last year, and now I’m heading out to see them play a show together.

First time I’ve been frisked at a music venue in NYC. Makes me kinda homesick for Philly.

You know, I bet female musicians just love it when their male fans shout marriage proposals at them onstage.

Had a blast judging last night’s @usairguitar Brooklyn Qualifier. Big thanks to @paul_mar and @TommyRocket for putting on a great event!

Loosely based on a true story, The Sapphires is a musical comedy which follows a group of singing Aboriginal Australian women on their 1968 rise to fame. Destined to languish in racially marginalized obscurity in their homeland, the group’s fortunes turn when they’re discovered by alcoholic has-been Dave Lovelace (Chris O’Dowd), who shifts their focus from country/western to soul and lands them a successful audition to perform for the troops in Vietnam.

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To intellectually understand what Colin Stetson does, or to see or hear a recording, won’t prepare you for his incredible live performance.

From my desk, I can see: Statue of Liberty, 1 WTC, Empire State Building, and the Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Williamsburg Bridges. It’s nice.

Just got tickets for pretty much the best possible seats to see @lowtheband at @NyseC in March.

Oh, just seeing my favorite band (@lowtheband) with my favorite person (@ChamberMonster). No big deal.

Great room. Great sound. Great set list. Great band. My eighth @lowtheband show in eleven years was the best one yet.

Really fun whiskey tasting with Colum Egan, the Bushmills master distiller, at @studiomates today. Wish my dad could have been here.

Whiskey tasting.

Teenager on the subway dared by her friends to touch my beard. She should be somewhere in my small intestine by now.

Another excellent @wussymusic show last night. So nice to see great music performed with such honest joy.

As if to drive home the point that I won’t be in Austin for the next week, it is now snowing horizontally in New York.

Every time I see a bench on the island in the middle of Flatbush Ave, I wonder who in the world would ever want to sit on it.

And the hooting, writhing mass of douche burst forth from the Long Island Railroad, and our hero learned of the Swedish House Mafia.

Where does a prenatal yoga center rank on the gentrification meter?

The stupid storm that kept me up all night actually brought more obnoxious wind to my neighborhood than Hurricane Sandy did.

Attention Brooklyn Restaurateurs: It is time the market value of your offerings was reassessed.

Well, that was one bewildered audience. (@ Highline Ballroom w/ 35 others) 4sq.com/129E3zw

Trying out the new Flickr iPhone app.

Got ready to leave @studiomates for the day. Noticed the huge puddle next to my desk. Realized why @frenchpinky was barking so relentlessly.

Really fun presentation put together by Starlee Kine and friends tonight.

Filed for future studies in value theory: The Rolling Stones are playing in my neighborhood next month. Tickets range from $99.50–$754.50.

The one thing Hurricane Sandy took from me was internet access, so I’m only now seeing photos of the wreckage. So sad. theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/1…

Fallen ivy.

Awake in Fort Greene. Things are pretty status quo here. Power’s on, internet’s on. Outside is damp and less windy. We are lucky.

Service on my phone (AT&T) dropping in and out. This is my SMSage in a bottle.

This is a pretty good time to be faking photos and spreading misinformation. I’m glad so many people are on the case.

Lights flickering here in Fort Greene, and my internet just went down.

To whom it may concern, I’m outside the evacuation zones and I have food, water, flashlight, radio, batteries, etc. Stay safe, everybody.