Is that City Hall Park at 0:46? or is it still Central Park? I'm not exactly sure.

This happened to me once in NYC on the N train. I was looking around thinking, "should we do something?" and the guy sitting across from me said: "relax, they usually get off at central park."

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> Jake had a transcendent moment in central park

Yes I read the report from the porta potty pumpers

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Fantastic - an amazingly great performance, though shouldn't be compared to Jake.

Jake had a transcendent moment in central park that we got to share - it was something special that probably has never been captured again.

Your food looks great!

I would come to Vancouver just to eat at your restaurant.

As an aside. My lady friend and I went to New York for my first vacation in 4 years. My goals were:
1) to eat at Carnegie Deli( or Katz's, Russ & Daughters)
2) have an H&H bagel
3) go to Gray's Payaya
4) see a show
5) go to central park
6) to eat at a Mario Batali restaurant (My #1 goal, a tasting menu for two)

So we made reservations at Del Posto (we asked too late to get us something at Babbo, and Lupo). My fiancee and I love great food, in a way fine dining is one of our hobbies. Once month we go out and try a new nice restaurant.

A Batali restaurant is high on my list of places to try. I have to say, I was not impressed. The service was good, though I have had better. Our table was dirty and the server was slow. My biggest problem was the palette we were given was less than spectacular and not cohesive.

My lady had the monk fish and I had the duck. The fish was overcooked and the duck was not pleasant. The biggest problem was the Duck however,

Duck Breast on a bed of polenta, padded with coarse toasted corn meal with black olives.

My friends it was no good. The polenta was overcooked, the olives were too astringent, and the toasted corn meal gave the duck a cereal taste that was not appetizing. I know what you are thinking, who am I to tell Mario Batali what does and doesn't work. Seriously, though this was not a good dish. It was bad take on a french dish I have had before. No good, friends and certainly not for the price tag at $300.

Moral of the story, all is not what it seems on TV.

Ice skating in Central Park. Wow, I forgot about that. I lived in NY for a short stint, and I used to love skating in the Park during the Winter. Ah, memories.

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The seasons change here- but it never snows. I do miss that. One of these years we're going to come up and do the full white Christmas. ice skating in Central Park - all that stuff.

That's cool. A bunch of this is filmed right in Central Park.

umm people are in a rush to go somewhere, maybe if he played in like central park or a subway platform where people are waiting. he would get noticed. but probably not.

and perk you a douchebag

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Black to basics, this is brilliant, could not be truer.....to have seen all those skull-husked media whores in one viddy, really paints a filthy picture, time to exfoliate, and burn some plastic.....

(God Diane Sawyer is a sick, vapid, tv slut, who deserves to be catapulted from central park, over Manhattan, man I'd pay to se that!!! (That fat skinny bitch with her.....)

One of my all-time favorites! Saw them live in Central Park a few years ago promoting "Little Beethoven." They still rock circles around more pretenscious "art" bands.

Just a great song.


From Wiki:

Cortez the Killer is a song by Neil Young from his 1975 album, Zuma. It was recorded with Young's band Crazy Horse and ranked #321 on Rolling Stone 's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

The song is about Hernán Cortés, a conquistador who conquered Mexico for Spain in the 1500s. The song also makes reference to the Aztec ruler Moctezuma II and other events that occurred in the Spanish conquest of the New World.

The music is typical of the Zuma album — simple, big chords and not much extra. The song repeats the chords Em7, D and Am7 while Young adds his signature solo riffs throughout. It is played in Young's favoured "double dropped D", or "D modal" tuning (DADGBD) — standard guitar tuning with top and bottom strings tuned down a whole tone.

Only after several minutes of this does the lyric start. First it pictures Cortés and his galleons about to arrive, then jumps to the Aztecs, depicting their civilization in somewhat idealized fashion even though explicitly acknowledging, before and after some guitar work, both human sacrifice and the immense human toll of building their pyramids. Instead of describing what happened when Cortez appeared, the lyric in the last verse suddenly jumps centuries forward to the present day, with elliptical references to a romantic relationship gone bad. Finally after another spell of guitar, Young simply mutters, "Cortez ... what a killer."

Young has stated in concert that he wrote the song while studying history in high school. In Jimmy McDonough's biography of Young, entitled Shakey, the author asked Neil if his songs were autobiographical. Young replied, "...What the fuck am I doing writing about Aztecs in 'Cortez the Killer' like I was there, wandering around? 'Cause I only read about it in a few books. A lotta shit I just made up because it came to me." Nevertheless, the song was banned in Spain, according to Young's notes for the album Decade.

The simple chord structure lends itself to long jams, and has been covered as such a jam song by many artists. The song has been covered live by the Dave Matthews Band, most notably a performance with Warren Haynes at their concert in Central Park in 2003. The song was also covered by Built to Spill on their 2000 album Live, by The Church on A Box of Birds (1999), and by The Drones. Gov't Mule covered the song on their 1998 album Live ... With A Little Help From Our Friends.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortez_the_Killer

Its the guys, or any girl for that matter, that don't ride like that in the City that I worry about. They're the ones that shouldn't be on those roads and should stick to central park on a sunday.