David Zwirner gallery in Chelsea is having their 2nd annual summer pop-up bookstore July 25th through August 5th.
There will be special offers on a selection of rare and out-of-print books, signed artist catalogues and monographs, DVDs, posters, collectible show cards, and more.
Hoping to check it out while I’m in NYC this weekend, could be some pretty good finds. Especially because David Zwirner represents Lisa Yuskavage, who is one of my favorite contemporary painters.
Beer Table will be opening in Grand Central Terminal this week!
Grand Central Arrivals (NY Mag)
It’s official: I can’t stop listening to Donna Summer (and drinking rosé).
I pulled out my Donna Summer’s Greatest Hits on vinyl not long after mentioning it in my ‘Market to Market’ post. I believe it made its first spin at my Fourth of July party on the porch – Two records and over 70 minutes of Donna’s finest. Side A is my favorite – On The Radio, Love to Love You Baby, Try Me I Know We Can Make It, I Feel Love and Our Love.
Maybe it’s the weather, maybe it’s my heat-stroke-inducing porch, or maybe it’s the rosé. But I’m prepared to stand alone on this. I’ll be on the porch with Donna, drinking the pink wine. Join me if you wish.
Rosés of a Different Color (NY Times)
With the summer almost half over, it seems like I really need to prioritize. Here is the start of a few endeavours I wish to complete before the end of Labor Day. 
I predict it will be an expanding list.
To Watch – Zazie dans le métro
To Repeat – Soulelujah at Zuzu in Central Square Amazing soul dance party starts at 11 every Saturday. I haven’t been in a couple of months and I am craving some PBR’s and the Otis cover of Knock On Wood
To Drag My Roommate To – Toscanini’s, the Brown Sugar Bourbon ice cream is to-die-for (and barely frozen because it has so much bourbon in it)
Al Fresco – Atlantic Beer Garden, Tia’s & Whiskey Priest. All with happening after-work scenes, outside, with alcohol. I can’t ask for a better scenario.
To Shop – Artifaktori Vintage
To See in New York – Jim Henson’s Fantastic World at Museum of the Moving Image, opens this weekend
Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective at The Met
Wishing I Could Do, but Can’t – Grouplove and WALK THE MOON at Brooklyn Bowl, this Saturday
…there will be more to follow.
Success! Purchased from ebay for 9.99 (plus 14.00 in shipping) a Smith Corona Corsair Deluxe circa 1960. Exactly what I wanted and it reeks of cigarette smoke. Which is to be expected – I imagine a drunk Norman Mailer type puffing away and typing. (The more realistic scenario though, is that it sat in some old lady’s house while she chain-smoked and her cat slept on top of it.)
I should probably get an old ash tray to go with it.
Click, Clack, Ding! Sigh …(NY Times)
Summer time and my favorite Jean Luc Goddard film (and perhaps just favorite film period) go hand in hand. A Bout de Souffle.
Hair Like Pony 