webuzz – catching up with links

September 30, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

It was a very busy week, so posting was scant. Here’s some of the stuff I’ve been reading…

  • CBGB’s is going to close. And, while I am all for change, it makes me sad. (And, the thought of it being turned into some type of Vegas museum/club makes my stomach hurt.) It’s part of my past, and it’s a special place. Lenny Kaye did a great piece for the Village Voice that says it all. Maybe I’ll go to one of the final shows… Patti Smith would be cool.
  • Article on Daniel Pinchbeck in Rolling Stone.
  • The Jesus Factor, the documentary from the Frontline series on George W. Bush’s Christian conversion and it’s affect upon the presidency is now online.
  • Thought Theater has Tortureland and a discussion about religion and Christianity from Real Time with Bill Maher. (c/o Avedon)
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    • Joey Lib

      Yeh man, sucks the big one. It’s like one of the last phases of the corporate takeover of Manhattan, like the muppets.

      My girl Bruna used to tend bar there, now she books for them… I’ll never forget the first time I emt her at CBGB’s, (she’s a friend of my sister), I was flirting and she looked at me, poured a shot of Jack, gave me a beer and said,”Will you shut the fuck up and get drunk already?!?!?!”

      I fell in love on the spot.

    • David

      that’s pretty cool joey. I’m thinking of going down for a show, but I know it’s just going to be a circus. and, I haven’t even gotten tickets yet. it’s likely sold out, patti smith that is…

      we’ll see.

      it’s part of the change that manhattan has under gone the past 20 years. while that scene has really not been very viable for years, it was nice to know that CB’s was there. it’s funny, I’ve given members of my family dozens of tours of NYC in my time, and no one ever says “Let’s go see CBGB’s, but when they see it, they are like “Holy cow! that’s CBGB’s!” like it never occureed to them that it is a real place. It has the mystical funk about it.

      For me, it’s just one more place among many that isn’t around any more.

      St. Marks Pizza.
      St. Marks Bar and Grill
      St. Marks Theater. We used to go in the side door cause the manager was a friend, sit up in the balcony, which was closed, and smoke and drink and eat a pie from St. Marks Pizza and watch the double feature. 1984 or so. The days when you could smoke at the movies… and friends let you in the side door…

      Now’s it’s a GAP.

      Cuando on First and First.
      And, dozens of other places.

      Of course, those days, we used to walk into CB’s unchallenged as well. Cause everyone we knew worked there, or at the Palladium (which is now a dorm called.. the Palladium) or at the Peppermint Lounge, or the Dugout, or Dan Lynch’s. But, CB’s was the center. No doubt.

      When the horshoe bar at Vazac’s on 6th and B goes, I’m gonna have to move to London or someplace…. hehehe.

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