Neil Shah

just got back from lunch with Matt. eating at this great indian restaurant called chennai garden—all you can eat for $6.50 including tax—not bad for it’s proximity to midtown manhattan.
it gets me thinking about how I wish I had kept in better touch with a few people over the last couple years. it’s so easy […]

broke out some Nat “King” Cole last night. what an awesome cat (er… jazz musician). the album is called After Midnight, and it’s just a quartet (plus a few guests) playing old, great standards.
then Route 66 came on… my first reaction—like any other normal person—was to hit skip immedietly. who wants to hear […]

Sven and I were hanging out yesterday and we decided to visit the cloisters. it’s an annex of the metropolitan museum of art that happens to be a 15 minute walk from his apartment in washington heights (neighborhood in the very northern tip of manhattan). it focuses on medieval architecture, art, and gardens. it’s a […]

I’ve been hangin out a lot on the lower east side lately. it’s where the hippest young hipsters of manhattan and beyond hang. I’m not there to be hip (cause there’s not much chance of that is there?), but they have a lot of great music venues in the area. I’ve noticed that although the […]

i had a great photoshoot with Brooklyn-based Robert Herman, on thursday. it was the first time I’ve had my photos taken and it didn’t feel like I was doing something totally cheesey. he had a great way of setting the vibe to be very artisitic and cool. so hopefully I’ll put up a couple decent […]