{"id":5222,"date":"2014-04-16T13:32:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T21:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=5222"},"modified":"2014-12-08T15:40:20","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T23:40:20","slug":"nyc-photos-april-2014-post-2-plus-brainwash-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/16\/nyc-photos-april-2014-post-2-plus-brainwash-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Photos, April, 2014. Post #2. Plus Brainwash Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I did a reading at this cool caf\u00c3\u00a9 \/ laundromat near 7th and Folsom St. in San Francisco.  The Brainwash. And here\u2019s a podcast of my reading, which was about twenty minutes long, including some brief Q&#038;A.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/podcasts\"><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/podcasts\/podcastbanner_600.jpg\"  alt=\"\" ><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I read the ending of the new edition of my Kerouac-style scroll novel, <em>All the Visions<\/em>.  In May I\u2019ll be planning to run a Kickstarter for a <em>Transreal Trilogy + All the Visions <\/em> project.  The trilogy will contain reprints of <em>The Secret of Life<\/em>, <em>White Light<\/em>, and <em>Saucer Wisdom<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/davidgill.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The event was organized by David Gill, who teaches at San Francisco State, and who runs a small SF magazine called <em>Pravic<\/em>.  He\u2019s shown here playing SF-style boop-whoop music on his computer.  He doesn\u2019t always look like this\u2014I asked him to look like a sinister mad scientist, a request to which he responded with a perhaps disconcerting alacrity.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/brainwashcrowd.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We had a decent crowd, including such luminaries as V. Vale, Marian Wallace, Ted Hand, and Dave Pescovitz. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/woodycurtain.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So now let&#8217;s jump back to NYC.  This is the foreshortened curtain at the new Woody Allen musical version of <em>Bullets Over Broadway<\/em> (seen from below).  When the curtain came up some flapper-type dancers were in that same pose. Best musical show I\u2019ve ever seen. Great to forget yourself in the laughter of a crowd.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/rudytimessquare.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Times Square is so freaking chaotic.  Especially when, as I already mentioned, you don\u2019t know which direction is which when you come up from the subway. Times like this, Google Maps on your cellphone isn\u2019t all that helpful\u2014the currents are too strong to let you figure it out, and maybe it\u2019s not a great idea to be blindly waving around your phone in a crowd of a twenty thousand louche strangers.  So you bumble along like an molecule in a rushing river.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/biglimo.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Huge limos ply the streets.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/yellowdoor.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>People hurrying past.  Such an anthill.  And you\u2019re one with the ants.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/chanberbusk.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Buskers all over the place, good music.  Classy Bethany (?) fountain area in Central Park, string quartet, kind of.  The walls are, like, Renaissance.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/worldtrade.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The new World Trade Center tower is almost done.  With the antenna it\u2019s supposed to be 1776 fee tall. A fairly simple design, but strong, iconic. Takes awhile to get onto the grounds, like with airport-style searches and all that, although eventually I guess it\u2019ll have to be wide open so people can actually be using the place.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/memorialholebest.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Those big memorial holes are still there, they give me a lump in my throat, unexpectedly.  Such a graphic image of death\u2026you flow down in the sparkling waterfall, your life\u2019s course runs in maturity along that calm plat area, and then it\u2019s down into the deep dark hole of death.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/washsqtree.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We hit Washington Square Park just for old time\u2019s sake.  Like this tree.  You do get hungry for plants in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/pianobusker.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Busker with a grand piano at Washington square.  Playing good stuff.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/glassbalcony.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I always like looking at Wall Street and Lower Manhattan too.  No idea what this structure is, but it looks nice with the people.  Kind of a Federico Fellini vibe.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/pilethree.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All the way down at Battery Park where you can get the ferries, I saw an easy photo, wharf pilings and a number.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/hotdogstreet.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And then back uptown.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/mirrorwtower.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I like the buildings reflected in each other.  It\u2019s the One World Trade Center again here.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/slotslant.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A slanted bottom fa\u00c3\u00a7ade on the building on the left.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/mirrorwave.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And the makeup mirror in our bathroom\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I did a reading at this cool caf\u00c3\u00a9 \/ laundromat near 7th and Folsom St. in San Francisco. The Brainwash. And here\u2019s a podcast of my reading, which was about twenty minutes long, including some brief Q&#038;A. I read the ending of the new edition of my Kerouac-style scroll novel, All the Visions. 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