left brain: the story of 3 nights

Which Restaurants I Love

NYC
* Per Se * Pastis * Schillers Liquor Bar * Casa Mono * Babbo * Del Posto * WD50 * Tabla * Morimoto * Buddhakan * Gotham Grill * Vynl * The Spotted Pig * Bouchon Bakery * Tia Pol * Artisinal * Cubano Cafe * db Bistro Modern * Saul * Quality Meats * Jewel Bako * Bar Americaine * Isabella's * Bamboo 52 * Bouley Bakery * Public * Bouley * Boquiera * Blue Ribbon Sushi *

What I've Watched

At the Cinema:
Constant Gardener * Junebug * Green Street Hooligans * Capote * Hellbent * Jarhead * Harry Potter and the Goblet * The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe * Brokeback Mountain * Munich * Syriana * The New World * Spirit of the Beehive * Failure to Launch * Tsotsi * V for Vendetta * Thank You For Smoking * United 93 * The DaVinci Code * XMen III * Russian Dolls * Favela Rising * Nacho Libre * Superman * Devil Wears Prada ** Time to Leave * Little Miss Sunshine * Miami Vice * Quinceanera * Half Nelson * Another Gay Movie * Poster Boy * Le Petit Lieutenant * Man Push Cart * Science of Sleep * A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints * The Queen * Paprika * The Departed * Shortbus * Marie Antoinette * Pan Labyrinth * Babel * The Prestige * Death of a President * Borat * Fast Food Nation * Candy * Volver * Casino Royale * Deja Vu * Stranger than Fiction * Days of Glory * Apocalypto * Curse of the Golden Flower * Children of Men * Miss Potter * Tears of the Black Tiger * Notes on a Scandal * Reno 911 * Zodiac * Last King of Scotland * 300
From Netflix:
Oldboy * Alias * ChungKing Express * Requiem for a Dream * OC Season 2 * Coach Carter * Crash * Sex and Lucia * Lemony Snicket * It's All Gone Pete Tong * Love Actually * Fever Pitch * Interview with a Vampire * The Real Cancun *Lords of Dogtown * Fantastic Four * Criminal * Willy Wonka * Fridaa * Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance * About a Boy * Rebel without a Cause * The Edukators * 3 Dancing Slaves * Dot the I * Royal Tennenbaums * 2046 * March of the Penguins * Into the Blue * Oliver Twist * Beautiful Thing * Memoirs for a Geisha * The War Within * Spun * Young Gods * A Lot Like Love * Inked * Family Stone * Kontroll * Delicatessen * Footballer's Wives * Transamerica * Jesus is Magic * Firewall * King Kong * Hostel * Layer Cake * She's the Man * 5 x 2 * Lost, Season 1, 2 * Brick * Little Manhattan * The Comeback * Veronica Mars * Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World * Before the Fall * Summer Camp * Entourage, Season 1 * Everything is Illuminated * Madame Sata * Weeds * Sympathy for Mrs. Vengeance * Art School Confidential * City of Men, Season 1, 2 * L'Enfant * Stick It * Dorian Blues * Goal * Manhattan * Lower City * Strangers with Candy * Guys and Balls * Tristan & Isolde * Irreversible * CRAZY * I Stand Alone * Three Extremes * Red Dragon * Hard Candy * Running with Scissors * Boixe Maoi * Napolean Dynamite * The Covenant * FlyBoys * Ma Mere * Naked * Sin City * Hukkle *

Wednesday night I went to see Little Miss Sunshine before hanging at Vinyl (my favorite lil hangout with the most intoxicating margarita's in HK). Sunshine was fantastic. One of the best movies I have seen in the last 6 months. It was absolutely hysterical, fun, incredibly entertaining, charming, very well-written and very well-acted. Steve Carrall was fantastic as was everyone else, including the little girl who played the wanna be pageant winner and I usually hate children. lol. The story is basically about a fractured family and their adventure from NewMexico to California after their daughter wins in some pageant.

Thursday night I trekked with my friend Halim and Jerry to a free concert "Celebrating Brooklyn" in Prospect Park in Park Slope. And by trek I mean it takes a fucking long time to get to Brooklyn. Christ. And when my friend Halim asked what gentrification meant (not understanding the English meaning) and I said to the much dismay to others (most of whom seem to live in Brooklyn), "Gentrification means the neighborhood gets nicer." lol. It was supposed to be Philip Glass performing the score to Dracula as they showed the movie. I say "supposed to be" because for nearly 50 minutes they had some Slavic loser party stomping around on sstage and nearly once they got off of it, a massive thundershower rolled overhead. Philip and the movie was canceled nearly ten minutes into the movie started and everyone went fleeing into the subway station as some serious bolts of lightening shot down.

Last night, Friday night, I went to Babbo for the second time to celebrate my friends birthday. In short, Babbo has to be my second most favorite restaurant in the United States. My first being Per Se which also happens to be in NYC. Babbo got me wanting to take a cross country Michelin tour in Italy like I did in France. And one of the most exciting things about Babbo is that it is one of the main restaurants in this country that creates food with various items (pigs feet, head of veal, head of lamb, cocks crows) that most Americans won't eat. It turns out that I had most of them, haha. I've had head of veal before in France but I thought it was worth trying the head of lamb which was actually ground and put into ravioli.

March 2008

Comments

Welcome to NYC, Frank! I love Vinyl Diner, but wish they would stay open 24 hours. Try 7-A on, go figure, 7th St and Ave A sometime, similar vibe, and Florent on Gansevoort St.

Posted by: fashmagslag | July 31, 2006 at 05:38 PM