10-16-2006, 06:48 PM
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[B]http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/arts/m...?th&emc=th[/B]
CBGB Brings Down the Curtain With Nostalgia and One Last Night of Rock
âIâm sentimental,â she said as she stood on the Bowery and pointed an antique Polaroid toward the clubâs ragged, soiled awning, and a mob of photographers and reporters gathered around her.
Last night was the last concert at CBGB, the famously crumbling rock club that has been in continuous, loud operation since December 1973, serving as the casual headquarters and dank incubator for some of New Yorkâs most revered groups â Ms. Smithâs, the Ramones, Blondie, Talking Heads, Television, Sonic Youth â as well as thousands more whose blares left less of a mark on history but whose graffiti and concert fliers might still remain on its walls.
[B]http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/arts/m...?th&emc=th[/B]
CBGB Brings Down the Curtain With Nostalgia and One Last Night of Rock
âIâm sentimental,â she said as she stood on the Bowery and pointed an antique Polaroid toward the clubâs ragged, soiled awning, and a mob of photographers and reporters gathered around her.
Last night was the last concert at CBGB, the famously crumbling rock club that has been in continuous, loud operation since December 1973, serving as the casual headquarters and dank incubator for some of New Yorkâs most revered groups â Ms. Smithâs, the Ramones, Blondie, Talking Heads, Television, Sonic Youth â as well as thousands more whose blares left less of a mark on history but whose graffiti and concert fliers might still remain on its walls.
I realise that I have a past to break with--an accumulation of inertia, wrong, foolishness, rot, junk. A great need of clarification, of mindfulness, or rather, of no mind. A need to return to genuine practice, right effort. Need to push on the great doubt. Need for the spirit. Hang on to the clear light.
Thomas Merton
