Any weekend where I end up on Delancey Street three times, on three days, was likely interesting (although next weekend promises more excitement, since I'll be in Shanghai.) Friday night I was in the Bowery Ballroom watching new band Hot Socky perform... it was all right. Their music seemed to be a funny mix of 80's hard rock and the Beatles, but it worked most of the time. I think they need to change the order of their set a little -- the crowd didn't seem to respond so well to the way they came out right away with some of their most high-energy stuff. Saturday, I ended up a block away at Smithfield (a bar) squeezed into the back near the DJ at the tail end of someone's birthday party... and finally, on Sunday, it was a large dinner group of friends at Sammy's Roumanian Steakhouse, on Chrystie near Delancey. I'll have to put my own photos of that online shortly.
Sunday also reminded me how small New York can be. At the Asian-Pacific heritage fair (I think that's the name) on Sunday, I ran into about 5 people I knew, and saw several more I recognized. Amazing that happens so often in a city of millions.
