Weekly playlist

Curtis Mayfield: Move On Up
Cannonball Adderley: Somethin' Else
Gentle Giant: Three Friends
Al Green: Very Best Of
Fairport Convention: Liege & Lief
Joni Mitchell: Hejira
Bing Crosby: His Legendary Years
Public Enemy: Apocalypse 91...The Enemy Strikes Black
Mos Def & Talib Kweli are Black Star
OutKast: Stankonia
GZA: Liquid Swords
Chopin: Concerto #2 in F Minor
Shostakovich: Symphony #5
The Only Doo-Wop Collection You'll Ever Need

Wildwood

With its seasonal average of four million beachcrazed visitors, Wildwood in the summer is far from my ideal locale. In the off-season, however, the eerie streets & empty boardwalk provide for fertile photographic prowlings. The retro-futuristic Doo Wop architecture as evident in the numerous Jetsons-esque motels has not yet been completely obliterated in favor of condominiums. This was the atomic age -- neon parabolas, flying saucers & rayguns. There is something rather melancholy about a future that never had a chance to happen. Where are the jetpacks we once were promised?


The boardwalk in the off-season.




Interior of the Doo Wop Museum.


The Caribbean, quintessential Doo Wop architecture.




The Starlux Motel.


Sunrise over the Atlantic.

Weekly playlist

Captain Beefheart: Safe as Milk
Sly & the Family Stone: Greatest Hits
Small Faces: Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake
David Bowie: Aladdin Sane
Lightnin' Hopkins: Aladdin Recordings
Regina Spektor: Far
Be-Bop Deluxe: Live! In the Air Age
Marvin Gaye: What's Goin' On
A Tribe Called Quest: Low End Theory
Apples in Stereo: New Magnetic Wonder
Muse: The Resistance
Can: Tago Mago
Ice Cube: AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
Ghostface Killah: Fishscale
Eric B & Rakim: Paid in Full
Run-DMC: Raising Hell

City Island

City Island, located off the coast of the Bronx, between Pelham & Eastchester Bays. Known as "Cinema Island" due to its use as a filming location for Long Day's Journey Into Night, Royal Tenenbaums, Awakenings, Margot at the Wedding, & The Groomsmen, among others.


Boats in Eastchester Bay.


The house from Long Day's Journey into Night.


The City Island Nautical Museum.


Our waitress threatened to cut off a local's fingers after he mouthed off to her. I played it safe and left a generous tip.


Pelham Cemetery.


Sunset over Eastchester Bay.


"I meant your other left."

Philadelphia

Philly skyline after the storm.


Christ Church, in Old City.


Elfreth's Alley.


A Spanish conquistador's helmet.


Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River.


Swann Fountain in Logan Square.