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Spence Cafe

15 North

Vincents

Rexs

Kildares

The Square Bar

Tattooed Mom

Sugar Mom’s

East End Cafe

The World Cafe


"I met a sensual musician at a picnic in June, and we had sex in a field: great, passionate, mind-blowing sex. We're still having the same passionate sex today - but it's love. "

"Music affected my life in the largest way. Without the gift of music I would be hollow and empty, I would have no substance. I first heard music when I was in 1st grade and started playing violin. Music became the voice of my soul, it became a way to cry and a way to shout for joy. Without music in my life my soul would be rendered mute, without voice. –M.W."

"I.D. - I came here all Summer long + was welcomed at the door. Last week I got harassed for having a cheap paper I.D. + the door men made me feel like shit. Yesterday I got a plastic ID + five minutes ago I was welcomed back in the bar."

"I joined a music tour! Absolutely love music and traveling so having a job that combines both is a God send. I brought Marijuana out on tour to fully corrupt her. So far, it seems to have worked. In other news, I puked from boozing for the first time in years. The best part was that it was directly in front of an Amish Choir at Penn Station. Rock on. - J.K."

"Internet surprise - Life is cool. Life is short. Thank God for the internet. Without you there would be no greatness. The day we call pull out the tweezers. Can you find your favorite website? Yes it's boobies.com. Without this it would be dropping $14.50 on a six month subscription to Playboy mag. That just pays for my high speed connection. Well it's been a good 20 secs. Thanks Bill Gates or Thomas Edison or somebody..."

"The thing that has had the biggest impact on my life was meeting my new husband Bob. We met when we were working together at a new.com called Half.com. We both worked on the customer service department on the 3-12am shift. There were only about 7 or 10 people working that shift at the time. I had just married a man from Ireland so he could get his green card. Bob was always the most knowledgable person in the group... he became that way by being personable w/ the other departments and not being afraid to ask questions. I always went to him when I had a question. Soon, my marriage went sour and I took up with another member of the night crew for compassionship. I always considered Bob as "just a friend" because he was fourteen years older then me. Eventually, as all superficial relationships do... the current one ended. I spent some time alone - and not exactly alone - until November of 2001. I asked Bob out for a birthday drink (his birthday is in September and we were trying to plan a night out since that day). Our "not a date" turned into the most romantic evening of my life. I knew @ about 5am that my life would never be the same. He abolished all the bad thoughts and feelings the other men in my entire life had given me and left me feeling that the only thing I had left in my life was to feel good about myself. It has been a long road, but I have started my life with my soulmate and all is right with the world. -J. A. D."

"We come to escape, but, what we really come to do is connect... We are all human, and despite all the individual things that separate us, all we really want to do is celebrate life and join together with others and find some sense of commonality. -S"

"It always has been
and will be till time lose breath
love is a sport to a man
but to a woman is life or death. -M. T. M."

"Living in the Netherlands I frequented the North End Pub an English pub in Leiden. I met two people from Whales + Scottland who changed my whole outlook on life. Carol + Steve. Both over 60 retired living the good life. Steve had been in the royal navy most of his life + had an amazing outlook on wars. Long story shorter we (Jonah) + I made sure we never ate tuna again..."

"Do you know what its like? I mean. The tormoil associated with a life unrelated to anyone else? you should all be saying "fuck yeah" cause we all have a life of our own, but how many of us are really happy w/it? How many of you, reading this, think, damn, its time I made a change. Live life for yourself. And once you've begun.. Come back and tell me how to do it!"

"Nothing imagined is as beautiful as is real
No high feels as good as what feels right
and no song sounds as sweet as a soul."


"I met a transvestite at a Women's gay bar. He talked about his heels and his 501 jeans. After a while I got sick of his stories about relationships - 'No shit', is what I thought...'hmm' is what I said. Then I saw my glass was empty and he went to play pool. Later on I met a girl who was a flirt and pushover all in one. Unfortunately, I knew her from my professional life - sex was out... only nasty rumors. I went home by 3A - full to the brim, but capable of navigating public transport. I never forgot the 'sweet n' sour sauce' red heels of the transvestite. Why? Never met anyone quite like him."

"A life change? A real one? Try New York City at the age of 18, tripping drunk in the lower East Side or reading library books in Washington Square, a gorgeous urban infection that grows + grows + grows until it's five years later and you live alone in Harlem you know all the subway lines you teach in the South Bronx + you write like a mad woman and where you come from is a zip code, an area code, an Amtrak train, a Chinatown bus, it is a balmy day in West Chester with the girl you knew since you were 8, and your cousin. Like always, it just goes on and on. What would life have been like without that skip - jump North? That follow your drumming heart to Nueve York mi grapa? i couldn't tell you. i couldn't even guess." -C.

“In seventh grade, I discovered Metal… or maybe I should say, Metal found me (it was almost inevitable). And I’m talking real Metal, not that pansy, hair – band crap I’d been led to believe was Heavy Metal until that point. The exact order of events is hazy to me now, but the effect I remember clear as day – one complete and utter awe, as if for the first time I was hearing music AS IT SHOULD BE. It was either Maiden, or Metallica, or Slayer, but when I first heard their kind of music, it was unlike anything else I’d ever heard before. It spoke of possibilities, it reawakened a kind of curiosity I hadn’t felt in many years. It was as if I had discovered buried treasure, a rare gem in my own backyard. There was an honesty, an intensity to the music that I suddenly realized, had been sorely missing from EVERYTHING I had heard before that moment. I’d had but a taste, yet I was already hooked. I scrounged allowances together in an attempt to purchase as much of this music as possible… For the same purpose gave my first serious thoughts to getting a paying job. I reconceived my entire approach to drum–playing, I had just begun the previous year. In short, the trajectory of my life shifted – and ever since, I’ve been on that road, trying in my own life to achieve the same kind of purity revealed to me that day when I first heard Metal.”