- 7:00 am – depart for NYC, bound for a WNYC radio interview and the Knitting Factory.
- 10:04 am – connect with Holly, Thacher and Jahmes via mobile phone.
- 10:55 am – stop by at Doc’s parents’ house en route to NYC. Roman logs in to upload the page you are viewing, and we all eat a lunch of egg salad, tuna, PB&J, and lemonade. Many thanks and praises to Lila and Warren for their hospitality.
- 12:39 pm – pull into NYC after encountering numerous disgruntled toll-booth workers.
- 1:30 pm – We witness a terrifying scene – line upon line of Muslim Americans waiting to “register” as part of a federal order, as a group of people chanted prayers through a small sound system in the back of a pickup truck. We fear that many of our Muslim friends who didn’t show up could be subject to arrest or imprisonment. We wonder if this was the first such perversion of American principles since we interred Japanese-Americans in WWII. In our depths of despair we spied an Earth flag, a bastion of hope. The Earth flag is not simply a banner of the Earth taken from outer space – imagine that someday, rather than witnessing a planet divided by borders, beliefs, and nationalities we would instead see a unified whole.
- 2:45 pm – Doc and Jahmes appear live on WNYC for an interview. Renowned producer John Schaeffer mistakenly called our group “One World,” which we thought was an hilarious hyperlink directly to our message. Listen to the interview (mp3, 1.67 MB)
- 4:37 pm – Waiting outside the Knitting Factory, Roman spots Mike Gordon of Phish crossing the street in front of the van.
- 6:30 pm – We discover that the amp that smoked at Rongo is definitely fried.
- 7:15 pm – Perform at the Knitting Factory. Numerous families attended. An excellent performance.
- 10:01 pm – We discover to our dismay that one of our speakers has disappeared. If you’ve seen an RCF powered speaker wandering the streets of NYC begging for spare change, tell him his sister misses him.
- 11:13 pm – Julio & Roman embark on a brief psychic trail investigation of the missing speaker, and somehow miss the rest of the gang who left for dinner. Walking around the freezing streets of NYC, Roman makes a phone call to Doc’s mobile phone while Julio waits with his skateboard. The conversation went as follows:
R: “Doc, where are you guys?”
D: “Why don’t you guys just follow our psychic footprints?”
R (freezing): “Shut the @#$! up and gimme directions!”- 11:31 pm – We dine at Mikata, a fine Japanese restaurant. Halfway through the appetizers Doc realizes that he ate at this exact restaurant with Ottmar Liebert after they played at Danceteria in 1982. Cecilio tries 10 different foods he has never had and we all experience waves of transcendental bliss eating wasabi-soaked sushi. We were joined by Sofia, Shaun Mader, Karen and Shelia. We couldn’t help but remark on Karen’s great dancing, sublime eyes and excellent muscle tone. All this from a white woman who is an RN. For dessert red bean and green tea ice cream flavors cascade in rivulets down our collective throats. Yum! Lastly, we use our chopsticks to play a bowls and water glasses Gamelan piece for the waitresses who just want us to leave so they can go home, but they are won over by the music in the end.
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