A speech on "North America" by LCD Soundsystem

I just love this song and the clip is cool. ahahaha.. Enjoy!

John's Pizzeria

In a country that loves to rank everything I went to what so called "the best pizza place of Manhattan": John's Pizzeria (http://www.johnspizzerianyc.com/).

John's opened in 1997 and is located in Times Square at 260W 44th Street and has 3 other branches, including one in New Jersey. The pizza is really good, tiny crispy charred crust, which makes us almost forgot the "normal American pizza" with pan crust (or Chicago-style Pizza) that we are used to see in Pizza Hut, Domino's or Papa Johns. Actually John's Pizzeria stress the fact they are not a Chicago Pizzeria, with pan crust or too many toppings. As they recall, they are a New York Pizzeria.

1/2 Mozzarela and 1/2 Pepperoni

Based on that, their pizza are really good and tasty and worth a visit, and is a good option of an after Broadway dinner. Or if you prefer, you can order, since they are accepting deliveries now.

I don't know if they really have the best pizza of NYC; but sure the price difference among John's and the $1 pizzas I reviewed weeks a go is recognizable, both by the taste and freshness of the ingredients.

They also serve pasta, salads and sandwiches, but come one, don't let anyone see you ordering a salad on a pizza place! Ah, and don't forget to order their signature "garlic bread"!



A melted mozzarela cheese over a tiny crispy crust. How about a bite?



Puck Fair - Manhattan Challenge

Great News.. I went to the Puck Fair (http://www.puckfairbar.com/) and rediscovered the Manhattan after a few bad choices.

Almost a perfect Manhattan

The bar is located in Soho/Nolita, 298 Lafayette Street. It is not the best place to go with lots of people. They have some places for parties of 6 or 7 people, but I wouldn't recommend. The place is too narrow and can be very crowded. It looks like they have a room downstairs, but I haven't checked that.

Rebecca, the bartender, let me choose the whisky, which I went for a rye. I also ordered half of dozen of oysters, which were ok.

After some minutes, she surprised me with a dry, but soft and tasty Manhattan. A big 9!! for her. A classic recipe, and not too strong. I almost gave her a 9.5, but it was still missing something (perhaps I will never know.. hehe), maybe got a little bit too soft for me from the middle to the end.

December Concert Schedule

Date	Event	Venue
01 – Wednesday	The Goo Goo Dolls	Roseland Ballroom
	Ozzy Osbourne	MSG
	Lykke Li	Le Poisson Rouge
	Donovan Frankenreiter	Webster Hall
02 – Thursday	Andrea Bocelli	MSG
04 – Saturday	Kaskade	Pacha
06 – Monday	Maya Azucena	Blue Note Jazz Club
07 – Tuesday	Cake	Irving Plaza
17 – Friday	Weezer (blue album)	Roseland Ballroom
	Ghostland Observatory	Terminal 5
	Zappa plays Zappa	Beacon Theater
18 – Saturday	Weezer (green album)	Roseland Ballroom
29 – Wednesday	Patti Smith	The Bowery Ballroom
30 – Thursday	Patti Smith	The Bowery Ballroom
	The Butthole Surfers	Music Hall of Williamsburg
31 – Friday	Infected Mushroom	Hammerstein Ballroom
	Steve Angello	Roseland Ballroom

For more concerts: http://www.thegarden.com/ www.songkick.com/ http://www.bowerypresents.com

Puzzle (!)

This puzzle is for Brazilians (or those who likes Brazil).

The picture below I took inside a TAM (a Brazilian Airline) flight to Brazil a week ago. It shows the map of the flight and the plane route.

What is wrong with it?

Roger Waters and his Wall - The Wall Concert Review

Last November 6, I went to the Roger Waters The Wall Concert. After two days of sold out concerts on October, he came back to a one day concert.

The concert took place at the Madison Square Garden. I went to his Dark Side of the Moon Concert two or three years ago in Brazil, at Morumbi Stadium. Differently from what happened in Brazil, despite the fact that everyone had a "seat", nobody would annoy you if you decide to stand at any point of the show. In Brazil, if you did that, the staff would come immediately to you asking you to seat..... I don't need to mention that we almost arrange a fight for that.. but nevermind.

The Concert started with a half built wall, with Roger Waters playing in the middle. He tried to re-create the movie, but in a mixture of opera-rock-concert adapted to new changes of the world. Instead Cold War, American Supremacy, Terrorism and Religious War. The sound was outstanding! Just perfect.

While he was playing, the bricks were put in place, building the Wall . After, the first half (of the first part of the show - the show was divide in 2 parts), it became impossible to see RW or his band playing, and the concert started to be a little bit boring. Almost the end, just three holes inside the wall separate RW from the public. At the end of the 1st part, the wall as entirely build.

The 2nd part, RW used the wall as an huge screen, projecting images and intercalating with some occasional openings of part of the Wall. I looked like he was inside a theater, trying to connect to the audience; however, the size of MSG did not permit that, and instead, the public kept not connect with it. The result was a mixture of good and bad moments, depending on where RW was.

The Flying Pig was amazing, and after that the Band appear from the ground, connecting itself again, and few songs after disapearing as if never have been there.

At the end, the Wall as demolished, and with it RW (as the Pink Floyd did) tried to demonstrate we don't need the government as he needs us.

Messages as "Don't trust the government", "fear builds walls", images showing bureaucrats as pigs and even a mention to Jean Charles (the Brazilian who was killed by the English Police inside the subway) appeared, trying to develop the revolutionary spirit of the crowd. During the intermission the "Wall" showed persons who were killed (in wars or terrorist acts).

The other amazing moment was during "Another Brick on the Wall Part I" when about 20 to 50 kids from the Boy's Club of New York, helped RG singing the lyric.

The setlist was:

Set 1
In The Flesh?
The Thin Ice
Another Brick In The Wall, Part 1
The Happiest Days Of Our Lives
Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2
Mother
Goodbye Blue Sky
Empty Spaces
What Shall We Do Now?
Young Lust
One Of My Turns
Don't Leave Me Now
Another Brick In The Wall, Part 3
The Last Few Bricks
Goodbye Cruel World

Intermission

Set 2
Hey You
Is There Anybody Out There?
Nobody Home
Vera
Bring The Boys Back Home
Comfortably Numb
The Show Must Go On
In The Flesh
Run Like Hell
Waiting For The Worms
Stop
The Trial
Outside The Wall

   

Updating

After some time without news, let's continue with the good things...
I am sorry about that, but the lack of information was a result of a strong flu, followed by LOTS of work and a trip to Brazil...

Now back to NYC and to our normal schedule...