Yes NYC!

That’s how we celebrated Christmas - using a box instead of a tree and watching the Yule Log burn. Actually the Christmas Box is an ideas that we got form a Christmas CD that we bought at the Merry Shitmas show, which is by the way, being condemned by the Catholic League. What a great PR stunt! (In Munich the Werkstattkino uses the worst Catholic critiques of 70s splatter and softporn movies as advertisements.)

Actually we opened our presents on Christmas Eve as we do in Germany after going for dinner and before seeing Chris Washburne and the SYOTOS Band doing a great set of Latin Jazz (plus some Miles Davis) at Smoke.

We had planned to do a Jewish-styled Christmas Day, eating Chinese Food and going to the movies (there is a Woody Allen special running at the film forum) but unfortunately Rosy got fever and had to stay in bed until her departure today. So we took the shuttle to the airport today, almost getting stuck in the traffic jams surrounding the James-Brown-farewell in Harlem.
Now I’m here alone until Sunday (we had to take separate flights as plans changed and Rosy Visa expires tomorrow, so I will have to celebrate New Year’s Eve alone in the air - sniff). I’m using the time to get up-to-date with my pictures and here are some more recent ones including a visit to the UN, one to the Morgan Library (seeing a not to exciting Bob Dylan show and some nice drawings by Saul Steinberg) and our bad-timed attempt to see the Christmas decorations in the windows last Saturday. We gave up on that after being pushed along by a huge crowd.