Go To Tuesday

Here it is, the Go To Tuesday, on this incredibly muggy afternoon. If you’re in New York and not stuck to the vinyl couch come out and say hi, this is where we’ll be.

Tuesday, July 13
Jukebox The Ghost- 92Y Tribeca

Thursday, July 15
Viva DeConcini- Rock & Roll Burlesque Hudson River Boat Cruise

Friday, July 16
Zac Brown Band w/ Dave Matthews Band- Citi Field
Fred Hersch- Kitano

Saturday, July 17
Zac Brown Band w/ Dave Matthews Band- Citi Field

If you missed Jukebox The Ghost's five borough piano tour, catch them tonight at 92Y Tribeca!

Youtube Friday – The Mick Jagger Edition

Since he’s in the news as a bad luck charm for any soccer team he cheers for and running up on the Twitter worldwide trending list for some reason that people in another language are really excited about and I can’t understand…here is your YouTube Friday, the Mick Jagger edition.

This is a clip from the amazing British music quiz show Never Mind the Buzzcocks. It’s funny and Noel is almost as good a dancer as Mick used to be.

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Go To Tuesday

This week we’re going to be out and about every single night! Come by and say hi at any of the following events.

Tuesday, June 15

Carole King and James Taylor- Madison Square Garden

Fred Hersch- Village Vanguard

Sahara Smith- City Winery

Wednesday, June 16

Carole King & James Taylor- Madison Square Garden Arena

The National- Radio City Music Hall

Fred Hersch- Village Vanguard

Sahara Smith- Rockwood

Villagers- Knitting Factory

A2IM’s Tech & Licensing Day

Thursday, June 17

Fred Hersch- Village Vanguard

A2IM’s Annual Meeting- Tribeca Grand

Villagers- Union Hall

Friday, June 18

Fred Hersch- Village Vanguard

Viva DeConcini- Piano’s

Saturday, June 19

Fred Hersch- Village Vanguard

Sunday, June 20

Fred Hersch- Village Vanguard

Monday, June 21

WhyHunger Chapin Awards Dinner- Gotham Hall

Josh Charles- Ella Lounge

Buying your way in through Facebook?

Disney just launched a new way to buy movie tickets online. So far it’s just for their upcoming release Toy Story 3 but they’re planning on piloting it for this hit and then rolling out more movies to it.


Basically Disney Tickets Together is just an application that lets you buy tickets to the movie directly on Facebook, and then asks who you’d like to invite friends right at the point of purchase so that buying tickets instantly becomes a social activity.

Really Disney? You’ve socialized internet shopping. Now we can still do it from your underwear, during our favorite TV shows, and still skip all of the traffic/crowds/lines…but now we can do it with friends who are also in the comfort of their undergarments and Lazyboys. Just imagine! It could be a virtual shopping trip between you and your best friend, at any time of the day you want! Maybe even fire up the Skype video chat so you can talk and see each other’s reactions to various items? 

Okay, okay…maybe I’m getting ahead of myself here.

But something just as simple as movie tickets through Facebook would be concert tickets through Facebook. Why not? Most of us would probably agree that concerts are a much more social environment than watching a movie and going to a concert by yourself is just as lame as going to the movies by yourself. It’s a perfect fit for social online shopping, so I hope you promoters are taking interest.

You can read more about Disney’s Facebook application in the New York Times, and you can try it out on Facebook here.

And thanks to Chris Taillie for the inter office tip!

Oh Google

When you’re not busy playing with your brand new Android phone, SSH’ing into the webserver or just tweeting up a storm with it, the monumental not-just-a-search-engine-anymore has found new and improved ways to waste your time.

The internet exploded on itself with Pac-Man nostalgia yesterday when Google’s logo became a playable version of the game on it’s 30th anniversary. It was a blast, I even played a few rounds (on my lunch break, of course). But the most surprising news to me about the logo was not that it had sound or that you could play as Mrs. Pac-Man or even that it wasn’t done in flash so iProducts could play along…it was actually the amount of productivity that is sucked from the world in one fell swoop.

Rescue Time reckons that the productivity loss for a bit of arcade action was a whopping 4.8 million hours! Just for a one day logo swap! It just boggles the mind.

There’s other interesting tidbits and the rest of the report at the Rescue Time blog.

Oh and just in case you wanted to waste a bit of your day today, Google’s made Pac-Man permanent.

You Tube Friday, the Arsenio edition

To piggyback off Nick’s post from yesterday…oh nostalgia.

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