Kalindi's World Message

This is the cover of a CD I found on Avenue A. Copies had been left on random horizontal surfaces to be picked up.

According to the Gourasana website, "Kalindi was given the destiny by Gourasana to be a spiritual Master for the world and the Voice of God, to speak for Him, to bring His teachings, His guidance, His love, His energy, and the exquisite truth that the world has been crying for."

This is Gourasana, The Golden One. Gourasana is an incarnation of God in the body of a guy named David Swanson. He looks like some dude who thinks he's found a way to make a lot money and bang a lot of chicks with something called Miracle of Love^®, a vaguely Eastern religion.

Sounds like complete horse shit®

ZEPP

Now that Led Zeppelin is playing live again, tribute acts like Zepp will have to compete against the real thing. But without John Bonham, even the reinflated Zeppelin is an imitation of itself.

The Robe

This is ominous.

Calling the number at the bottom gets you Majestic Robe of Santa Monica. Maybe they just sell robes, but maybe they're also murdering teenagers for Satan.

Guitar Lessons!!

Dan Smith isn't the only six-stringer slinger in NYC who teaches. But before you take your first lesson, you can get your blues name at The Blues Name Generator.

Bush Did It For Oil

For those who still can't get enough conspiracy theories about 9-11 , there's patriotsquestion911.com to answer your need.

Found on 3rd Avenue in the East Village.

Leviticus - Part 14: The Artist At Work

Last Friday evening, the family and I needed to get out of the apartment so we went to the Starbucks at 2nd Avenue and 9th Street, not our usual location. While I was snagging a table, I noticed that, on the table next to us, there were what looked like Leviticus postings, mid-creation. A minute later, the face that I had seen on a few postings returned to the table. He had a large stack of typing paper, the words already written on them in Sharpie, and was going through a fashion magazine, cutting out pictures and taping them below the text.

I went out the next day, looking for one of his creations but couldn't find any. From what I saw, I think they were going to look like this:

Artist's interpretation.

Meet Duchess

At first I thought this was some sort of furry event or American Apparel promotion, or both, but it's for Cats on Broadway, a musical. According to The Bruce High Quality Foundation site, "Set on the border between Bed-Stuy and Bushwick (Broadway, Brooklyn) and performed in the newly renovated Bruce High Quality Foundation Theater (1100 Broadway, Brooklyn), Cats on Broadway brings together an all-volunteer cast of performers, musicians, stagehands, and designers to reflect the emotional conflicts of the gentrification of Brooklyn while satirizing both the utopian reform schemes and self-pitying nihilism often associated with the artists responsible for gentrification’s 'first wave.'”

Britney Happy B-Day

Rob, my friend in Los Angeles, found this at Crescent Heights and Mulholland Drive. He had to get out of his car to retrieve this so it has to be special. It's also crazy. And gay.

Like, this is way crazy and a little gay.

And this is a little crazy and super gay. Super L.A. too. I don't find stuff like this here in NYC. We're more obsessed with money than celebrity so we tend to leave our resident stars alone. Except for John Lennon.

Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad

I think these ladies overestimate the novelty of Jewish girls gone bad. I've had extensive experience with the daughters of the twelve tribes and I can tell you that very few of them are "nice." In fact, the only one I ever dated who was "nice" had WASP aspirations.

Your Name Here

I was at Starbucks, getting my morning tea, when I looked at the CDs by the register. One jumped out at me because it didn't look like it was was being marketed to soccer moms. I picked it up and saw that it was a home-brewed release by Your Name Here, a one-man electronica band.

I don't know how it got there. My first thought was that it was some form of protest. But the Starbucks is at 1 Worldwide Plaza, the home of the Universal Music Group. Perhaps the plan was to put it in the path of a record company executive.

Leviticus - Part 13

More Leviticus postings from around Union Square. He did a drawing like this before on a bus shelter, including the coffee mug motif.

This is a page out of a textbook. Now I'm noticing that not only does Leviticus usually draw on scrap paper, all of his art supplies can be stolen from a Walgreens.

Kinski

A friend of mine was going to see Kinski and asked me if I wanted to join him. I hadn't seen a band in a while so I made the trek out Club Europa in Greenpoint. NME described Kinski "like Sabbath in a washing machine during a power surge." That's pretty accurate. We left midway through Oneida's set. They play like every chord change costs them $20.

On the way out I pulled down Kinski's poster. They put a lot of effort into their graphics. What I like about this poster is that it's printed on cheap newsprint.

Missing

I see flyers for missing people regularly in NYC. Here's one from L.A.

Missing Cat

Whenever you get a cat you have to rename it. It doesn't matter how old the cat is or what the previous owner named him. When our cats were adopted they were Hallow and Weenie, because one is orange and the other is black. They became Arlo and Guthrie.

This cat is named Bob Dylan. Whoever finds him will have to change that. Robert Zimmerman has a nice ring to it.