{"id":33,"date":"2004-07-16T02:04:29","date_gmt":"2004-07-16T06:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xanga.nertzy.com\/index.php\/2004\/07\/16\/"},"modified":"2020-08-08T23:28:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T23:28:37","slug":"33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xanga.nertzy.com\/index.php\/2004\/07\/16\/33\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello everyone.  I have several important Grant updates for the last couple days.<\/p>\n

Last Tuesday, July 13, 2004, I went to the free Fountains of Wayne
\nconcert at the World Financial Center downtown.  The World
\nFinancial Center is right across the street from the World Trade Center
\nsite.  I snapped this pic of the new WTC station that opened up
\nearlier this year:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Anyway I made my way to the back side of the big huge indoor Winter
\nGarden at the WFC, where all sorts of people started crowding around
\nthe stage outside.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

They played a good set and poked a little fun.  At one point, the
\nlead singer changed around some lyrics to Radiation Vibe for old
\ndiehard fans like me to pick up, since parents and kids made up the
\nmajority of the audience due to the newfound recent success of their
\nlatest album.  They came out for a double encore, which now marks
\nthe second time I’ve seen them do a double encore, although both times
\nit seemed like they weren’t planning to.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

I was worried I wouldn’t hear “The Biker Song” this time, but they
\nfinally played it in the double encore, so this concert marks the first
\ntime in a while that the band played every song I wanted to hear. 
\nHmm, well all except “Troubled Times” I guess.  The band hails
\nfrom New Jersey, and many of their songs deal with places in New Jersey
\nor New York City, which made the show even better.  My favorite
\nsong by them right now, “Sick Day”, takes place on a PATH train from
\nNew Jersey, so after the show I got them to sign my PATH Quick Card,
\nalthough they seemed confused at first as to the reference.  On
\ntop of that they seemed a little drunk and partially deaf,
\nunfortunately.<\/p>\n

The lead singer, Chris Collingwood said that he used to work in this building on the 35th floor (he’s the one on the right):<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

On Thursday I again tried out for Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, the
\ndaily version.  This time I passed the test and got to the
\ninterview process.  They took a Polaroid of me and the interviewer
\nseemed pretty interested in several things that I had to say, so in
\nthree or four weeks I will know if I am eligible to be on the show.<\/p>\n

After that, I met up with Leighton and we went to the lounge of the new
\nMandarin Oriental hotel up on the 35th floor.  Here was our view
\nof Central Park:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

After that we had lunch at a wonderful restaurant called Eatery with
\nprices much lower than the quality of the food.  After that we
\nwent hotel lobby hopping and ended up at a really posh lobby at W Hotel
\nin Times Square and the incredible world’s largest lobby at the New
\nYork Marriott Marquis:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Yes, this picture was taken indoors.  To give a little
\nperspective, those are balconies off of each floor which face down into
\nthe atrium.  Leighton took a business call, and I relaxed and
\nalmost fell asleep:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

After that I returned to the apartment and fell asleep for six
\nhours.  I have ruined my daily schedule entirely, so now I’m going
\nto go program some more for the software project Tucker and I work on
\nall the time.<\/p>\n

Ciao.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello everyone.  I have several important Grant updates for the last couple days. Last Tuesday, July 13, 2004, I went to the free Fountains of Wayne concert at the World Financial Center downtown.  The World Financial Center is right across the street from the World Trade Center site.  I snapped this pic of the new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xanga.nertzy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xanga.nertzy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xanga.nertzy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xanga.nertzy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xanga.nertzy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xanga.nertzy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/xanga.nertzy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xanga.nertzy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xanga.nertzy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xanga.nertzy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}