Monthly Archives: August 2012

Golden Music on 74th Street

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This is Gajanan.  He works at Golden Music, and manages several of the surrounding spaces,
like that office that’s for rent to the right.

Detail of carpet that leads to the office.

Hyped in the window, India’s much talked about superhero flick from 2011: RA One.
Directed by Anubhav Sinha and starring Shah Rukh Khan, Random Access One tells the story of
a video game developer’s world that spirals out of control when his shape-shifting indestructible
virtual creation becomes all too real.

Me and Gajanan like to joke around about all sorts of things.  Community politics, Bollywood flicks,
30 Rock quotes, weather.  He’s cold when I’m hot.  Gajanan has also hooked me up with some really good
Bollywood soundtracks and Indian music from the 60’s.

Golden Music on 74th Street

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This is Gajanan.  He works at Golden Music, and manages several of the surrounding spaces,
like that office that’s for rent to the right.

Detail of carpet that leads to the office.

Hyped in the window, India’s much talked about superhero flick from 2011: RA One.
Directed by Anubhav Sinha and starring Shah Rukh Khan, Random Access One tells the story of
a video game developer’s world that spirals out of control when his shape-shifting indestructible
virtual creation becomes all too real.

Me and Gajanan like to joke around about all sorts of things.  Community politics, Bollywood flicks,
30 Rock quotes, weather.  He’s cold when I’m hot.  Gajanan has also hooked me up with some really good
Bollywood soundtracks and Indian music from the 60’s.

My Neighborhood: The Jackson 123 Movie Theatre

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Jackson Heights, Queens.  They keep it old school.  The Cops are parked out front because of the shooting
at the Dark Knight premiere.  They were pretty much stationed at theatres all over the city that week.

The Jackson opened in 1924 as a single theatre, later split into 3, with two of the theaters being small 200 seaters.  The main jump-off still has 600-something seats and looks fairly original.
They now show American films with Spanish subtitles.

Lobby.   They have a ton of video games, a horsey ride, and stuffed animal crane, a Snapple machine,
plus lots of supplies and boxes lying around.  This is a community theatre and they’re making it
work even though it can be hard.  The place is crazy on Fridays and Saturdays.
This is the hall that leads to the 3 theatres, still with it’s 80’s diagonal paint-job.
That’s Satch, the guy that takes care of the place.  Great Guy.
Any theatre that tells you not to bring a radio into the theatre is in a neighborhood where there’s still
a little insanity.  I mean this in a good way.  

Sad jpeg blow-up of the Dark Knight as seen through the doors to the main theatre.
There’s Bruce Wayne, being all crippled and stuff.

Me with Officer Johnson out front.  Officer Johnson is something of a New York historian.
He told me about a bunch of old school spots in Queens and Brooklyn.

Officer Johnson’s tattoos.  The End.

BONUS INTERNET PICS OF THE JACKSON IN THE OLDEN DAYS!!