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Winter (03)

WHAT I DID Monday, November 11 The first winter when I started to understand how things work here, I was crazy with momentum. Crazy like I was floating in air or maybe even made of it. It all started because it was too cold to walk slowly outside, and once we started picking up the pace - a quick clip in the night and the snow and it was a particularly windy winter - then everything else started to spiral a bit out o

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WHAT I DID Monday, November 11 The first winter when I started to understand how things work here, I was crazy with momentum. Crazy like I was floating in air or maybe even made of it. It all started because it was too cold to walk slowly outside, and once we started picking up the pace - a quick clip in the night and the snow and it was a particularly windy winter - then everything else started to spiral a bit out of control. I wore velvet dresses to magazine offices for Christmas parties that winter and I was generally very uninhibited. I floated very warm and drunk off hot wine through a basement in Chinatown full of books and Arabian rugs for many nights in a row. In one night alone, I lost my voice and my phone and my sense of time passing all along. Sairose helped me wash up in the back of some night club, in a purple-lit party designed to simulate the void, at home and in love and in Los Angeles for a respite from the cold and all the can’t-stop-motion that came with it. Anyways, I slept on a floor under white arched ceilings pressed against a radiator for a few months after that. And I was certain I was not ready to be old yet and I’m still not, really, but there were other things too. 8am (present) - The first real day of winter, and so everything freezes over and then quiets in the soft start of snow outside. It’s fish and soup season, an old man at Caffe Reggio is saying. It reminds me of The Godfather (1972) in here, the old man is laughing. Stained glass lamps and the replicas of the Carvaggio paintings and white tiled ceilings and, since I gave up vice the goal has become to be a bit more quiet and clean about everything. Amelia wears Dries Van Noten jeans and a Calvin Klein black sweater and prada boots to meet me in the morning snow and read the things I wrote on paper. In the mornings, this time of year, it is good to brew things like bone broth, hot apple cider from the amish market, sardines in tomato sauce, your throat in black seed oil, your face in red light, and your thoughts in memories that resurface and ideas that reconstruct away from the architectures of unhappiness. Your aphorisms don’t make a ton of sense, Amelia tells me. I’m not writing aphorisms, I’m writing optimizations, I tell Amelia. At the bar last night, we ordered Fernets and diet coke and asked our guests if they considered themselves well adjusted and if they had tips to share pertaining to Esoteric Health. Do you know about Ray Peat, our guests asked. Do you know about royal jelly and methalyn blue and red light chicken lamps? Do you know about making good decisions for the benefit of yourself and the people around you? Kind of dizzy from two fernets on an empty stomach, Celia made a joke about her life and how it overlapped with mine. Don’t ever make any comparison to your life as it pertains to mine, I snapped. The bar was loud and so no one heard the vitriol but her. Is this what you want more than anything in the world?, Celia asked. To be able to say and do whatever you want without consequence? Howling wind outside, and we’ve been working on temperance. I wanted a lot of things, but I mostly wanted that. WHAT YOU SHOULD DO Wednesday, November 19 - From 7:00 - 8:30pm at Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research — Cabin Pressure opened yesterday, and there’s another performance tonight! A new play by Adi Eshman , directed by Jennesy Herrera . - “Set in a cabin at a ski resort, What begins as a light-hearted getaway spirals into a cocaine-and-beer-fueled disaster, with the groom’s sober brother-in-law as the unwilling witness to the chaos.” | tickets here (additional performances Nov 20, 21, 22) - From 7pm - 9pm at Night Club 101 — D8 Time returns, just in time for cuffing season! Uncut Journal will be on site.

  • From 7pm at Rodeo — The Bartender returns - a play about a bar, performed in a bar. DJ set by Jux to follow. - From 8:00 - 10:15pm at 176 Delancey Street — A table read of The Last Days of Downtown (6th draft). Matthew Gasda’s third play in the Dimes Square and Afters trifecta. | tickets here - From 11pm at Paul’s Baby Grande – There’s a new wedding themed party, and it’s back tonight . Thursday, November 20 In art and openings… - From 6pm - 9pm at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery — Flies by Hampton Fancher opens, curated by Tina Cutlery and Silas Borsos. - “From the writer of Bladerunner, a simple stamp brings characters to life across 22 unique pieces, collected as an art book object — each activated by a question.” - From 6pm - 8pm at King Malingue (50 Eldrige) — From Being Jealous of a Dog’s Vein opens. A group show featuring many wonderful artists including Matthew Barney, Joan Jonas, Kyung-Me, Phillip Lai, and more. - From 6pm - 8pm at The Hole (Bowery) — Staggered Paintings opens - British artist Matthew Stone’s seventh solo exhibition with the gallery. - “the painting stage of simulation and material co-author perception in digital image culture.” - From 6pm - 8pm at Plato — Alex Sutcliffe Katabsis opens; the artists inaugural solo exhibition with the gallery. I don’t know a ton about Sutcliffe’s work, but the images look very intriguing. - From 6pm - 8pm at Canal Projects — Ian Cox presents their Automated Tarot Machine (ATM) - using a quartz crystal oscillator to deliver visitors a genuine tarot card reading experience. The installation is part of Downtown Art Night, where Canal Projects stays open until 8pm, along with 30+ other galleries, including Almine Rech, Anton Kern, James Fuentes, and The Swiss Institute. - From 6:30pm at Olney Gleason — Artist Ali Banisadr and writer John Vincler are in conversation in conjunction with Banisadr’s solo exhibition Noble/Savage , now on view. - “The program will explore Banisadr’s current new body of work, his investigations into myth, memory, technology, and the perpetual tension between nature and civilization.” Alix Sutcliffe at Plato | From Being Jealous of a Dog’s Vein | Matthew Stone at The Hole In other news… - From 7pm - 10pm at Tawny — Cellist Iratxe Ibaibarriaga presents her debut album “Preludes” alongside painter Ruben Landini’s latest body of work. Tawny is one of my new favorite spots! Very chic and cozy. - From 10pm at Jean’s — It’s Girls Night with Mona Matsuoka and Donna Francesca . - From 11:30pm - 4:00am at The Slipper Room — Club Chess presents Precious Renee Tucker live, with support from Quiet Luke, Crush Sahara, and sank50000. A midnight show with mini-chess boards strewn across two-tops. - LONDON - From 7:30pm - late at Groucho Club — Soho Reading Series presents a reading with Sam Kriss, Sarah Thomas, Mariel Franklin, and Dean Kissick. Hosted by Tom Willis. Quest list only. Friday, November 21 - From 4pm at Metrograph — My movie chat recommends Stalker (Tarkovsky, 1979) - From 6pm - 8pm at IRL Gallery — Some Kind of Nature opens; “bringing together Ugo Schildge, Laura Benson, and Sunfish to explore how nature seeps into the built world – not just through materials, but through stories, symbols, and modes of making. - From 7pm at Sony Hall — Ariel Pink performs! | tickets here - From 10pm at 217 Nostrand Ave — ONOS presents Girls Gone Wild - a party in celebration of The Girl JT . Ariel Pink | ONOS | Still from Stalker Saturday, November 22 Saturday, November 22 - From 1pm - 6pm at Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research — There’s a garage sale! Come for furniture, decor, kitchenwares, and more. - From 10:30pm at Roxy Cinema — Rachel Ormont screens. - From 9pm - 3am at TelePhone — Stop1 celebrates their anniversary, bringing back every DJ and volunteer from their year of parties. | RSVP here Sunday, November 23 - From 2pm - 6pm at Tawny — Clothing sale and music! - From 4:45pm at Metrograph — My movie chat recommends Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1975)
  • LONDON - From 7pm - 12pm at The George Tavern — Diet Quieter Please celebrates the launch of ISSUE 003: SILENT MASS. Featuring readings by Jane Dabate, Eeanor Tennyson, Ivory Pijin, Ellie Bleach, and The Last Male Poet. Performance by Die Choir. | tickets here .

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