turn on the bright lights

I recently forgot to mention that we also swung through Times Square on our sunday travels through nyc, taking in the MTV studios, Sullivan Theatre, the Swatch shop & Virgin Megastore. Monday morning we set off to see Yankee Stadium, then travelled south to Canal Street and back up through Central Park, before settling in on the MoMA. It was a bit crowded since the Met was closed, but I saw some great works by Mondrian, Kandinsky, Picasso, Matisse, Pollack, Warhol, Cézanne & Pissarro, and Van Gogh's Starry Night, one of the few famous pieces not a part of his Amsterdam museum. There was also a great showing of modern design & poster art which I also thoroughly enjoyed. From the MoMA, we headed to Little Italy for a great din. Desert came in the form of shopping around the East Village & Soho (stops included Stussy, Paul Frank, Quicksilver, the brand new Addidas store, Diesel, Urban Outfitters, Burberry - where we got the nastiest looks, and a bunch of other random boutiques) before visiting the soon to be long gone CBGB's. Later in the evening we went to the Spuyten in Brooklyn, and partook in a mouth watering meat & cheese plate longside several different kinds of beers from all over europe we had never seen before. Had an early flight back to denver, and got home in time for a quick nap before heading to Red Rocks with Paul to see Mark Knopfler, which was a nice cap off to a splendid vacation.

set:
Why Aye Man
Walk of Life
What it is
Sailing to Philadelphia
Romeo & Juliet
Sultans of Swing
Done with Bonaparte
Song for Sonny Liston
Rudiger
Donegan's Gone
Boom, Like That
Speedway at Nazareth
Telegraph Road
encore:
Brothers in Arms
Money for Nothing
So Far Away

-neph-