MATIS!

Rob saw Matisyahu on sunday night at the Hammerstein in NYC. Matisyahu is the reggae-fueled Hasidic musician known as Matisyahu (born Matthew Miller) scored a surprise success last year with his second album, the concert disc Live At Stubb's. He's maintained momentum with his latest record, Youth, a Bill Laswell-produced collection of high-energy, textured dance-pop. He's living out a boyhood dream, inspiring people with music the way he was inspired by Phish, the band he followed as a teenager while trying to find himself spiritually. The end result of that quest—a conversion from secular Judaism to the strict tenets of Hasidism—has made Matisyahu a novelty in the music business, and has arguably prompted some of his meteoric success. And yet Matisyahu's religion has never been shtick. He's a serious, skilled musician who happens to be devout, not some latter-day version of 2 Live Jew

Markus and Rob Continue German Film Series Nights sponsored by Jagermeister

Markus and Rob went to go see "The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser" by Werner Herzog.

This is Werner Herzog's episodic and meditative film chronicling the mysterious real-life story of Kaspar Hauser, a young man apparently raised from birth in total solitary confinement who was suddenly released by his warden back into the civilized world.

Herzog revises the seminal foundling myth as both a withering social critique and an arch-Romantic probing of eternal questions about truth, knowledge, and human identity.

DONE!

Paige Travis Finished her Semester at NYU! 2 More to Go!

Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s

Went to go see the "Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s" at the Met on Saturday

Political, economic, and social turmoil shaped Germany’s short-lived Weimar Republic (1919–1933). These pivotal years also witnessed an incredibly creative period in German literature, art, music, film, theater, and architecture. In painting, a trend of matter-of-fact realism took hold. Disillusioned by the cataclysm of World War I, the most vital German artists moved towards what became known as a Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), in particular, a branch known as Verism. Looking soberly, cynically, and even ferociously at their fellow citizens, these artists found their true métier in portraiture, as seen in the 40 paintings and 60 works on paper featured in “Glitter and Doom.”

The exhibition features gripping portraits by ten renowned artists: Max Beckmann, Heinrich Maria Davringhausen, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Karl Hubbuch, Ludwig Meidner, Christian Schad, Rudolf Schlichter, Georg Scholz, and Gert H. Wollheim. German museum collections in Berlin, Cologne, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Frankfurt am Main, Mannheim, Münich, Stuttgart, and Wuppertal have lent works to the exhibition. Additional portraits on loan from museums in Paris, Madrid, New York, and Toronto, as well as from private collections in Germany, Australia, New York, and Chicago, are included.

High Fidelity and Sister Katie

Last weekend Paige and Rob went and saw the musical high fidelity. The musical was suprizingly good, despite what the critics with the AM New York and the Times stated. Paige got the free tickets through her tutoring job and we were both very glad we went. The person playing Jack Black's charactor was also a bit of a scene stealer in a very positive way.
Also, Katie (paige's sister) is in town. Last night we went to see the tree at Rockefeller Center and went out to dinner in the West Village after a long day of making arts and crafts at the Travis-Childs household.

radio city spectacular

Friday night we saw the radio city christmas spectacular with Paige's Parents
Here is a picture of santa and the rockettes.
Not pictured is the camel they brought on stage which Rob found espscialy spectacular because they are known to be the most ill tempered animals of the animal kingdom

Paige's parents in town

Paige's parents Jodi and Don came to town.
We took them to see the statue of liberty, elis island, park slope, prospect park, the eagle polish grocery store, hearald square, union square, times sques, rockefeller center, the radio city music hall to see the radio city christmas spectacular

Elsa Invades Brooklyn

Rob's siter Ruth, and her husband Jerry and daughter Elsa invaded Brooklyn over thanksgiving.
Here is the evidence and some glamour shots of elsa.

Row, Schreiber and Cole in town

Row (Rob's sister), Cole (ROb's nephew) and Schreiber (Rob's brother in law) were in town a couple weeks ago. Here is a couple pictures of our social events.

NYC MARATHON

The marathon was last weekend, here is a picture from the sideline.
We did see lance armstrong and his posse, strictly awesome

The 3 crazy New York Moments

3 random New York Moments today
#1 Its morning rush hour, I walk onto a traincar at Union Square and wonder, why is this train car empty?
Well its simple. A homeless gentleman responding to internal stimulous and obviously schizophrenic is standing on the middle of the train without pants on. Just chillin. He obviously is too mentally ill to notice. I sit on the train chillin and get off at my stop on 35th street.

#2 35th street
I get off the train on 35th street and I see this NYC businessman bending down to pick up a 20 dollar bill. Which suddenly, shazam moves a couple feet. The businesman goes after it, until he hears a woof of laughting by a random homless man with a fishing rod that has the 20 dollar bill attached to it as bait who yells "I love fishing for the white man!"

#3 Get off work, go to trainstation at heard square
About to get on train, but a man in a purple jump suit comes running down the isle yelling, "Listen up ladies, cover your bussums, you are leading the downfall of man!"

I love this city!

70 Degrees in New York

SO WE BUSTED OUT THE SHORTS

halloween

Here are pictures of the village halloween parade.
We saw the band Kiss and Borat. Good Times

Got the flu

Rob got the flu from his clients again. The Influenza virus (an Orthomyxovirus) is responsible for acute upper respiratory disease, usually accompanied by fever and myalgia. Today is it is present in Rob Here is a sweet picture of the virus living in Rob's body.

Evil dead muscial with Ben and Shannon

the lost coney island pictures

When we first got to town, we hit coney island. The place where dreams come true. here are some hot pictures from our trip there

Mustang!

Paige's mom won a mustang over the weekend at a football game, here are the hot pictures.

Ich liebe Hertzog!

Markus Bartenschlager and myself (picture courtesey of the Brooklyn German social klub) went to go see Werner Herzog's movie "Aguirre, the Wrath of GOD"

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Comic Strip Live

Friday night Christia (our friend from portlant), Rob and Paige went to Comic Strip Live, the longest running stand-up comedy club in New York City, which recently celebrated its 30-year anniversary. In those 30 years Jerry Seinfeld, Eddie Murphy, Adam Sandler, Chris Rock and just about every other super star comedian started their careers here. We got free tickets to here because Rob's boss hooked us up with him for doing some hard work at the office.
We saw a bunch of comedians from VH1 and Comedy Central.
Pretty Sweet.

Lets go to the country, lets go to queens

Paige took some of the kids she tutors to a petting farm and pumpkin patch in queens.
check it!

le six characters

Paige and Rob are going to see the play "Six Characters" this friday. Now , who in the world are the Six Characters?
Here's a description...

That's us. Hello. Nice to meet you. We are a group of six clinically insane people trying to make it in the cutthroat world of physical comedy.

Frozen Key Lime Pie on a stick dipped in Chocolate

Its the new thing to do!
So Paige, Rob and Jaymz & Jenna when to try it out
Yum yum

New Hot couples shot

Rob and Paige in RED HOOK