Conrad Life Report

Topics: Holiday season in New York City, visiting old haunts, Old Town Bar, Barcade, Tom and Jerry's, Jimmy's Corner, The Quays, Floyd, neighborhood closures, subway adventures, Holiday Nostalgia train, Mark Guiliana at Village Vanguard, Johnny Marr + JAMES at Brooklyn Paramount, Iron Maiden at Barclays Center, Stuart Bogie and Buck McDaniel at Church of Our Saviour, SML at Public Records, Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Vanderbeekers Ever After by Karina Yan Glaser, Conclave by Robert Harris, Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner, The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins, ed. Sam V.H. Reese.

Topics: Neighborhood report, back to school, Nate's Detroit Pizza on Court St, Tarrytown House Estate, Goosefeather, Bar Bete, Strong Rope Brewery, Gowanus Waterfront Park, Keen's Steakhouse, Doobie Brothers and Steve Winwood at Madison Square Garden, Trip to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, Eric Bachmann at Le Poisson Rouge, Jeff Rosenstock at Warsaw, Hamburger America, trip to Maine, Freeport, Old Orchard Beach, Biddeford, Yo La Tengo at Chad's house, Flaming Lips and Dinosaur Jr at Madison Square Garden, The National and the War on Drugs at Forest Hills, I Get Wild at the Falcon, the Mets.

Topics: Catching up, City Hall abandoned subway station tour, trip to Saratoga Springs, heatwaves, Bon Bon, One Girl Cookies, Cafe Volkan, Ace's Pizza, Daryl Hall + Elvis Costello and the Imposters at Radio City Music Hall, R-Cade/Barcade, Olympics watching, New Haven, Modern Apizza, IT! Adventures at Jordans Furniture, subway adventures, trip to St. Catharines/Niagara Falls, Beechwood Doughnuts, Oast Brewers, Wayne Gretzky Estates, Neil Peart Pavilion, Lakeside Park, Sunny's in Red Hook, There Was Nothing You Could Do by Steven Hyden, The Unreality of Memory by Elisa Gabbert, A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold.

Topics: Catching up, The Meat Hook, Automattic office, Lambchop and Sloppy Heads at Mama Tried, The Cyclone, Totonno's Pizzeria, Liam Gallagher John Squire at Brooklyn Paramount, Fastball at the Mercury Lounge, Neil Young and Crazy Horse at Forest Hills Stadium, Justin Vivian Bond at St. Ann's Warehouse, The Helm Family Midnight Ramble at Levon Helm Studios, Pixies and Modest Mouse at Forest Hills Stadium, Trans Canada Highwaymen at City Winery, Bonny Light Horseman at Music Hall of Williamsburg, Wilco at the Beacon Theater, The Internet Con by Cory Doctorow, Extremely Hardcore by Zoe Schiffer, Burn Book by Kara Swisher, Feel Free by Zadie Smith, The Vanderbeekers series, Filterworld by Kyle Chayka, Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham

Topics: Neighborhood report, Harold Ickes Playground, running, subway adventures, Mardi Gras gig at Mama Tried, DJEAD Night at Broken Land, trip to Cincinnati, World Peace Bell in Newport, KY, trip to Austin, Diana Ross at ACL Moody Theater, Vikingur Olafsson at Carnegie Hall, Jonathan Richman at the Bell House, Brooklyn Crime Novel by Jonathan Lethem, My Effin' Life by Geddy Lee, Sonic Life by Thurston Moore, The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Yan Glaser.

Topics: Poconos, Kalahari Water Park, Station Bar in Woodstock, Phish at Madison Square Garden NYE, dduk guk New Year's Day, University of Michigan football, NOTEM planners, Humbled by the Void practice, MTA adventures, birthday parties, upcoming Mardi Gras 2/10 gig at Mama Tried, Maine Beer Co., Oh Me Oh My by Lonnie Holley, The Hypos S/T, Little Rope by Sleater-Kinney, Hometown to Come by Minwhee Lee, Selected Jambient Works, Vol. 1 by Country Sadness, Explosive Hits Vol. 1 by Trans-Canada Highwaymen, Orange Head by Black Grape, Saviors by Green Day, Doppelganger by Naomi Klein, Ramona and her Father by Beverly Cleary, The Gospel of the Hold Steady by Michael Hann, The Six Day War by Michael B. Oren.

Topics: holiday parties, Christmas carol singing, Cobble Hill Ballet's The Nutcracker at Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Serafina Tribeca, Mates of State + Versus + Girl Scout Handbook + The Aislers Set at Littlefield, Yo La Tengo + The Aislers Set at the Bowery Ballroom, Madonna + Honey Dijon at Barclays Center, Jon Langford + Sally Timms at the Good Fork Pub, I Get Wild shows at Reservoir Studios, Littlefield, Colony Woodstock, John and Peter's New Hope, Gutenberg! The Musical at the James Earl Jones Theatre, birthday parties, Garcia Peoples at Bacaro, Bob Dylan at Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall Baltimore, Untable, Le Rock, Five Acres, Good Night in Woodstock, Gus's Chop House, Depeche Mode at Madison Square Garden.

Topics: Neighborhood report, Tacos El Brother 3 truck, new places, Travel Bar, alternate side parking, living in NYC, Pavement at Brooklyn Steel, trip to Cincinnati, Zip's Cafe, Madtree Brewing, Rhinegeist, The National: Homecoming, Bartees Strange, The Walkmen, Patti Smith, Weyes Blood, Pavement, The National, making new friends, Peter Gabriel at Madison Square Garden, I Get Wild at the Falcon in Marlboro + The Cutting Room NYC, Velocity Girl at the Bowery Ballroom, Thai Diner, Epistrophy, Antler, Stop Making Sense at Cobble Hill Cinemas, 68 Jay Street Bar, Brooklyn Social, out of town friends, Manet/Degas at Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Walkmen at Kings Theatre, Rockefeller Center concourse, Goldberg Variations by Vikingur Olafsson, Mellencamp by Paul Rees, Bit Rot by Douglas Coupland, All That Man Is by David Szalay.

Topics: I Get Wild at Positive Jam in Accord, NY, The Hold Steady, Guided By Voices, New Paltz, tech offices, Automattic, friends in from out of town, The National + Patti Smith at Madison Square Garden, vacation, Montreal, Sutton, Quebec, Schilling Beer Co., New Hampshire, Maine, Old Orchard Beach, Maine Mall, Eventide, Boston, first day of school.

Topics: summer stoop and roof hangs, Shipwrecked Golf in Red Hook, lunchtime walks in Central Park, Silverball Retro Arcade in Asbury Park, Jon Bon Jovi rest stop, Savak at Mama Tried, Balthazar, Milady's, Rose City Band at Union Pool, Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk, CT, Phish at Madison Square Garden, Evenings at the Village Gate by John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy, The Ballad of Darren by Blur, Welshpool Frillies by Guided By Voices, I Inside the Old I Dying by PJ Harvey, My Back Was a Bridge For You to Cross by ANOHNI and the Johnsons, Lost Son - An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI's Secret Wars by Brett Forrest.