Comments on: Travel Tip

By: bdr

bdr — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:50:59 +0000

So funny..(in retrospect of course)..I stayed there a year ago, your description is completely accurate with no embellishment. I was actually put up there by a filmmaker that I was working for. He was also staying there, 5th floor also. Unfortunately he weighs around 160+kg (up towards 300 pounds) so my whining about the stairs fell on receptive ears.

Very glad to have found your blog.
Cheers
Brett

By: Burns

Burns — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:24:08 +0000

Wow. You’re a stronger man than I. I would’ve gotten the hell out of there in a hurry. Hope it all ended well enough.

Did any of your invited guests make it to the screening?

By: duglmac

duglmac — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:33:24 +0000

That’s a good story.
Was Clancy Brown next door with a funny look in his eyes?

Looking forward to the TED videos.

By: duglmac

duglmac — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:19:39 +0000

Four Season’s is just a cab fare away…….
(not a bad name for a short story!)

By: 80sGeek

80sGeek — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:25:34 +0000

Oh noes!! Sorry to hear about your bad hotel experience! At least you were only there for a weekend… :/

…and what’s wrong with Starbucks??

By: mizmusic

mizmusic — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:28:06 +0000

It would be odd if you’d had to *search* for a Starbucks,
hee hee. Your tale of your virtual cappuccino I.V. [now *there* is
an idea, huh?] reminds me of what happened the last time I went
to my local Second Cup [the Canadian equivalent of
Starbucks, which you may already know]. I’d asked the barrista
for a new orange-flavored frozen coffee drink that they were
advertising, but they’d run out of orange syrup, so I just said “a mocha, please”, referring to “mocha Chiller”, but he thought I
meant a Moccachino (sp?), so that’s what I ended up with. I
should have been more specific, so mea culpa.

Anyway, it tasted pretty good, but my first sip would have
knocked me flat on my butt if I hadn’t already been seated.
I had a lot of energy after that…usually the strongest thing I
drink is hot chocolate.

Glad that your calf muscle is coming along so well!

Peace and coffee strong enough to dissolve a stir-stick,
Kara

By: BeechwoodAve

BeechwoodAve — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:52:56 +0000

Next time try the Union Square Inn (E. 14th Street). Reasonable rates and nice clean rooms (and the location can’t be beat!).

Hope the turn out for the show was great.

Beech

By: Keith in Denver

Keith in Denver — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:04:21 +0000

Oh yeah. I learned a similar lesson a couple of years ago when travelling to San Francisco to see your show at the Independent (didn’t know at the time you’d be coming to the Denver area 3 times that year).

I booked a room at the Hotel Renoir based on the picture and 3 star rating by users of Travelocity. The picture made the place look like a charming “boutique” hotel with tourist milling about outside for the reasonable rate of $79 per night.

What you couldn’t tell from the picture is that the tourist were what appeared to be crack addicts and that the picture was taken from the roof of a giant porn theater across the street. I didn’t even dare get out of the the car and promptly called Travelocity to get my deposit back. They were good about it and I ended up staying at the Radison in Japan Town for what turned out to be a very reasonable $149 per night.

The lesson learned – read the user reviews. Sometimes a picture is not worth 1000 words if done creatively and a three star raiting shows that users are a bit more forgiving than others.

If I had read the posted reviews I would have known about the seedy neighborhood (but apparently very good Brazilian restaurant next door).

Interesting story about the editing there Winston Smith

By: SpaceIntruderDetecto

SpaceIntruderDetecto — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 05:16:52 +0000

Oh man. Yeah could have told you no such thing as a deal in the city any more. Too bad you could have stayed at my mother in law’s terrrifc little flat next door here on E14th and 1st Ave. for nothing… BTW say “Sputnik Mania” last night( Friday) .and it was a marvalous film .Sorry I missed you but, my wife and I had a great time. The film was truly impressive and I learned a thing or two I didn’t know before about the era and the players involved, and it was also very entertaining! I was quite surprised actually at how truly objective the film was in it’s handling of the material, which honestly I wasn’t expecting. I am so disappointed with many so called unbaised documentaries these days ( M. Moore , Fox, etc ) that pass themselves off as the truth when in fact they are just propagada for what ever agenda they support right or left. Whatever happened to objectivity and just letting the facts speak for themselves and letting people decide for themselves?!

I talked for quite a while with David about this aspect of the film at the after party over at “Vol De Belge”.All the while sipping a few “Sputnik Vodkas”. Good stuff!

I was quite flattered he took time to listen to comments even though he was obiously quite busy that night. He truly appreciated my coming out afterwards to discuss his film at length. I also had a long discussion with his wife about Autisics and the Neurodiversity movement ( another subject I find facinating ) as I thought this would be a pretty timely and very interesting idea for a film.

Oh btw I had a good laugh when he told me that the Sputnik at the theater on display was actually bought on E-bay from a Russian who some how “had found it”. Hmmm probably like my Soviet space helmet I got off E-Bay that was no doubt “found” too. )

By: merujo

merujo — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:49:29 +0000

Dude. Duuuuude. Hotel Hell. Today’s unfortunate lesson (but great story) is: there is no such thing as a hotel bargain in Manhattan…

Yeesh. Seriously, this sounds like most hotels I used to stay in when I traveled in rural parts of the Soviet Union. Except there, you just pretty much expected it. Hope you’re having a blast tonight at the IFC showing. Maybe afterwards, Moby will go out busking with you at a choice subway station…