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goodbye-blue-monday!

goodbye blue monday! how may we help you??

About Me

YES --- EVERYTHING (almost, like 99.9% of everything)IS FOR SALE!!!! and The Bushwick-based (not East Williamsburg) son of Scrap Bar (the greatest finished basement of all time), Goodbye Blue Monday was born 23 years ago. Some things take time.(GBM was incorporated in 1984)- and yes, it was in homage to Kurt Vonnegut's novel, "Breakfast of Champions or goodbye blue monday." see Goodbye Blue Monday's NEW BLOG!!! ) -
GBM is a street-level livingroom-WIFI coffeehouse-gallery- performance space and IS OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK FROM 11:00AM TO 2:00AM and till 3:00AM+ ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY - COME RELAX IN OUR BACKYARD SCULPTURE GARDEN STUDIO!! -
GBM is freeform music, ten-tons of vinyl, books, tchotchkes and extreme eyecandy overload; I've had to shuffle thousands of things around until it became safe to walk in and have a cup of coffee and that's when i opened (september 2005). Heck, they're even talking about us in them fancy newspapers and magazines! GBM In The New York Times!!! . It's also the home of dirtybookart.com , where you can get the sleaziest tees and fashion anywhere!!- we even have a page on myspace at - myspace.com/dirtybookart--------- Find out loads more about everything by coming to 1087 BROADWAY, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 11221. Take the J or Z line to Kosciusko St. (?!!) or M to Myrtle Ave. and walk a few blocks. Call us at 718-453-6343 if you're lost!! we'll help! OUR SHOWS ARE 21+ WE ARE NOT A BYOB VENUE - WE HAVE A FULL LINE OF BEVERAGES; COFFEE, TEAS, SODAS, JUICES, BEERS, WINES - THIS IS HOW WE SUPPORT OURSELVES AND BRING YOU MUSIC, ART AND HAPPENINGS-
WE HAVE THE BEST COFFEE AND ESPRESSO ANYWHERE IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD - HOT OR ICED
A FULL LINE OF TEAS, BLACK OR HERBAL & UNSWEETENED ICED TEA
WE CARRY PBR, YEUNGLING and RED STRIPE BEERS; MACKESON STOUT, BALLANTINE ALE, SPARX CAFFEINE/MALT BEVERAGE
OUR WORLD FAMOUS GOOD AND BETTER WINES - BOTH IN BOTTLES AND IN TWO COLORS; RED AND WHITE
SAKE - served hot or cold
SANGRIA BLANCO W/ FRESH FRUIT
A FULL LINE OF MANHATTAN SPECIAL ALL-NATURAL SODA PRODUCTS; ESPRESSO, SARSPARILLA, VANILLA CREAM, ORANGE(with pulp), GASSOSA (italian lime/lemon) AND BLACK CHERRY along with TROPICANA JUICES and POLAND SPRING WATER
SNACKS AND CAKES (WITH MORE SERIOUS FARE ON THE WAY SOON!) See the updated website/blog loaded with art and performance pics in the GBM photobucket. Become a myspace friend and see the past, hear the present and be the future - thanks!! SteveI edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

interested in booking music - you interested in playing here? if you are, please read on.

I'd like to meet:

you?

Music:

what we'll tell you about is YOUR music and how to play it here;
1 - look at our calendar and find a few dates or slots that could work for you. if there's 4 acts already on the bill, move on. look for tba for slots. for open dates, you can bring a supporting act or 2 w/you.
2 - contact me here, not anywhere else.
3 - we'll make something happen.
4 - sets are 39 minutes long or less. if you're THAT good, the throngs of your faithful will hoot and holler and i will cheerfully relent and allow an encore
5 - ALL SHOWS ARE 21+

Movies:

movies are nice too. a few. sometimes.

Television:

TV? what's TV?

Books:

breakfast of champions and all books that acknowledge what eedjits we can be

Heroes:

anyone who has made a friend of fear

My Blog

in the end, we’re all doo wop

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life is a series of bold strokes; care to join?

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Posted by goodbye-blue-monday! on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 04:40:00 PST

goodbye mr. vonnegut, goodbye blue monday

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Posted by goodbye-blue-monday! on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:59:00 PST

joining burt lancaster's moustache at the gates of geezerdom

eccch. everyone around me is dying. last week, someone - with no malice intended  - innocently compared me to a dead movie actor. i would have been OK with it, except that the person showed me a ...
Posted by goodbye-blue-monday! on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 08:22:00 PST

of rats and cats and my good buddy, buddy

owing to the fact that i feel like an alien whenever i decide to write (or post - it's "post" isn't it?) a blog (a word that sounds sci-fi anyway - can a borg write a blog?) and so on....last month, m...
Posted by goodbye-blue-monday! on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 05:11:00 PST