Yeah me me you and David were were gonna have a talk. Alright so, so heres Cheryls back and, uh, were just getting ready to make plans for Vegas. Is Amie bringing a friend or... oh great! so its just gonna be the five of us. Fan-tastic. What? Great. Oh great. Oh thatll be fun. Oh thatll be fun. Maybe maybe, uh, maybe Rutstyll wanna come out. Cher Russ and Patti may may be out there as well. Thatll be fun. OK. Alright. So you got us tickets from La Guardia. What time is it leaving around. OK OK. But its its on the night on a Thursday night were leaving? And were coming back on a Monday? Great! Great! Sounds good. Alright. If you need need a credit card number for us? Alright. Why dont you... yeah yeah yeah. Were leaving on the eleventh. Yeah yeah why dont you why dont you tell me what the tickets ran you and well, uh, send you a check up. Alright well just let, you know, let me know if you... OK. No big big and then what is the room run us and all that? Really? Thats great. Wow. Thats excellent. Thats excellent. Well, alright! Well this is good. What do you you know people. Alright Cheryl wants to talk to you about the Masters she actually looked for you on T.V. What? Alright shes dying to hear about this Ill Ill hear about it from her. Alright, Bud, Ill talk to you later. Cheryl hold on a second. Can I ask you something? Do I need to have things put on the bottom of these? Or or are they sort of... I guess its already got its already got yeah OK. Tell Donnie we got a lot to talk about. We got a lot to talk about buddy. Well well catch up on the links buddy! Yeah, call me OK? Bye Don. Yeah. Im gonna make my wife clean out the no actually I should do it cause nothing will ever get thrown out. Its not gross but one pea in a bowl is ridiculous. Alright, Ill talk to you soon Don. Ips. Stay. OK. Bets stay. Aw. Look at that! Is that a boxer? Yeah, hes cute. Nice looking dog, huh. In the car? Arent you afraid hes gonna jump out the window? Naw. Naw. Look at this one. Its how you train em. Theyre not all that way. You know, its like what you do with them. You can make them that way. They got the potential to be that. Thats another discussion. Oh boy. Oh boy. How you doin? Alright. Whats up with this white paint? So theyre kicking all those guys out that hang that put all that shit out there in the front? Ay, she just got a bath this morning. Fresh and clean. Clean for spring. A springtime bath for this one. I she dont care. She can stink all she wants but I I felt a lot better about it. I can actually touch my dog again. Yeah. Yeah. Alright. This is our work route. See you later, man. Take care now. Testing. Hi is Andrea there? Its Kenny G. Thanks. Hey I saw you picture in the, uh, Cybertimes. I saw last night I was like cool I showed Cheryl. No I thought it was just nice, you know, its like sort of... well you look fine, you know, I mean its and you know I blew it up, you know, you know you can touch on it and it gets bigger. Do you know that? Yeah its got one of those its just linkable to a bigger thing that says ada, uh, Total New York is needs more space or something like that. So I showed Cheryl when she came home last night. 7:15. What do you mean cleaning up your office? Why, what do you mean clean up? For who? OK. OK. What? Live and fly. Of snail. Uh, Cheryl said it was a real nightmare, uh, Sandra got nothing but shit from the from the people there about Cyberspace and yeah it was it was evidently it was evidently awful. Um, uh, it was embarrassing and poor Sandra. You know Cheryls piece looked good but shell tell you all about it. I didnt go I had to go to another at Columbia but. Wheres Viv? Let me speak to her for a sec. Oh, shes on the other line she was gonna show me how how to get this goddamned warning message off the desk oh, Ill talk to her tonight. Well see you tonight at 7:15. OK superstar. Hey Bruce its Kenny at about noon. Hey listen we got an extra ticket for the opera Monday night, uh, you wanna go? Its Romeo and Juliet, uh, call me Im at my office pretty much all day if the phones busy its just because Im on the web I wont be on long 260-4081. Let me know. See ya. Test test. Hello. Bruchay. Wanna go? Do you know it? Who is what is it who wrote it? Gounod. Do you wanna go? OK. Oh, well we this is these, uh, is the subscription but Cheryl cant go shes got to teach so its me, you, my mom and um two were gonna have dinner with these two, uh, Polish girls. These were she was my assistant in Poland. I mean you can come to that or not. No no my assistant when I was in Poland, uh, doing a show and a friend of hers and theyre going to the opera but theyve got different seats. We got really good seats. We got like like, uh uh, orchestra sort of, uh, row, uh, T or something. Theyre really good. Yeah OK so you want me to hold the ticket for ya. OK great, great. Hey why not, you know, its a... Yeah well its only a few hours, yeah. OK so then. Well, probably the four look, you know, are you gonna get there for the interview? Yeah yeah no I think that should be really interesting. Yeah OK Ill see you Ill see you before then Ill hold the ticket for ya. Later. Hello. Hey, how ya doin? Um, OK, wait what lunch? Oh, yeah well we had a good time we had a good time. Whats gonna happen? Yeah but there was nothing to happen it was just a it was just a lunch. Oh know, well, theres nothing for me to buy and... so. Hey, so listen Cheryl ends up having to teach on Monday night. Shes subbing for a friend and didnt realize so I asked my friend Bruce to come with us whose the person who got me interested in opera in the first place. Hes a great guy so you me and him will go and I was gonna ask you where do you think we should have dinner? OK. Yeah. Yeah, I thought that was pretty good yeah I thought that was yeah I cant really think of a better place around there, can you? What was the name of it do you remember? It was world something yeah it was like map of the world or. OK let me let me do some investigation and Ill make a reservation. What time should we meet the, uh, show is at 8 wanna meet about 6? Should give us plenty of time, right? Is that enough time? OK. Yeah I its what is it its like Columbus and like seventy something. I let me find out. OK. Alright. Hows the baby? Yeah. Yeah. Because of the baby? Right. So theyre both gonna be there on Sunday? Great. Saturday I mean. Right right. Great. Alright, um, so you guys are having lunch tomorrow. You and Cheryl are having lunch tomorrow? OK. OK. Yeah, OK. Bruce. Bruce Andrews. Weve hes I did some books with him I did some covers for books for him over the years and hes a great guy. Vedanta. OK. Yeah Ill letchya know. Ill letchya know on Saturday whats up. Alright then. Alright Im gonna go out and enjoy some of this weather. Take my dog for a little stroll and OK. Its what. Its open 24 hours? No I have no idea. No youre just. No. No I dont know it. Alright. Alright Ill talk to you later then. Bye. Babette. Babette come. Alright man thanks for taking care of those DATs for me. No problem. Appreciate it. Good girl Bets. You make. You make. Make. Make. Good girl. Im sorry I never heard of it. Hi good. Can I have a a wonton noodle soup to go? With, uh, can you put some vegetable in that for me? Inside OK. Just for take out thank you. What time are you open until? Excuse me sir, what time do you close at night? 9:00. Um, chili oil please. Chili oil, yeah hot sauce. OK thanks. Bye. Thank you. Bye. Hello. Is that just a baby? How old. Yeah, thats a baby. Thats a baby. Mines 7 years old. Girl. Hey do. Bets Bets no no bed sit. Thats a good girl. Youre good. Shes very friendly. Shes very sweet with kids. He is that a he? Who can tell at this age? Shes cute. Is she about 9 months? Ewww. Bets go on. You can go down Bets. Down. Thats good it really teaches her to be fearless, huh? Bye. Come back again. Bye. Shes friendly. Sit Bets sit. Sit. You wanna pet the dog? You can pet the dog. Shes nice. Sit Bets. Sit. Go ahead. Aw, youre cute. Pretty good I havent seen you in a while. Yeah. This park is so nice since theyve renovated it. Well they spared them the death penalty. Yeah. Such nice guys. Right. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. Its Babette. Your old friend. Your old friend that yeah. It feels nice cause Im. Thank you. Thanks and congratulations on the Penn Station piece. Thats really cool. You know Im from Long Island so Im always pass Im always passing, you know, right around that. Actually I really like that that new entrance that they built up on 34th. It looks really great. Who was that? Really nice, yeah, it looks. Well for years, you know, its like the most wealthy executives have passed through that in the world have passed through that that that terminal down there its been so hellish. I think I think they did a good job with that renovation. Port Washington. Im always running out there constantly. Yeah, so. Here she comes. Oh, I have an office in the Cable Building. Yeah thats where I do my work Bets. Since Im like primarily come here girl. Since Im like primarily writing these days. Yeah yeah. Im having books made and stuff, you know, like that mostly writing and Cheryls doing the gallery thing shes got a show up at Stefano Basilicos. Everythings good were hoping to go to France for the summer. Look at all the kids love her. What where where are you located and what are you doing? Or youre at the same place I saw Peter the other day for the first time in in weeks. Are you in touch with him at all? Yeah yeah yeah. How many years were you guys together? Yeah. Shit happens. Cheryl and I have been together 13 now. Oh, how is it working? Good good. She did, yeah she. Um, are you doing any gallery work? No? No sculpture or anything? It was a bad thing. Cause you were doing something on 57th St. for a while, werent you? Right. Is that your dog? No. Yeah. I guess if it works why why not Janis? Are they kind of creepy? Theyre theyre doing some young young stuff that rue what is it called that rue rue larrey or something at Janis that thing that Richard, uh, Millazos doing looks interesting. Oh really. Yeah yeah. It is getting married. Yeah but I mean youre youre like me as that youre diversified I mean I I keep my relation with John and Karin. Theyre theyre not the greatest gallery in the world but Im not one hundred percent involved in the gallery world so when I. Yeah so when I wanna do something when I yeah. Well the artworld always wants to pin you but, you know, Ive Ive tried to use it in a way that I can move in and out of it cause Im writing hey listen I saw told you I saw when youre brother was reading, right? At the Ear and then I ended up doing a big website Im doing that for money for Doug Messerli for Sun & Moon so I so I put Tans book up. I kind of designed a little mock cover for it since its not out yet and I heard he doesnt like the cover. Like this gir wasnt it a giraffe or something no no is book is called giraffe. Lotion bullwhip giraffe. Look at this Bets go say hi go on. I know that was OK so hes got a David Salle cover on it now? Oh god. Douglas is a good publisher, you know. And also Im doing another book of his Im also working for another press called Hard Press whose also doing a book of his. He seems to be doing really well. Yeah. Yeah. With Hard Press. You didnt know this? Where is he in Harrisonburg? no hes in which is where in Fairfax or something. Charlotte Charlottesville yeah. What does he what does that mean a critical book or something like that yeah? Yeah, no no I think hes doing really well because like Im in Im in this world now and suddenly hes like everywhere and everyone loves him and its really great. Its what? I think hes doing something a little different its a little more. I mean language poetry kinda dead. Yeah, no he is hes neat. So. Is he on, uh, email? Are you? What do you mean you never log in? Its fun. I like it. I like it. Its like like. Oh well well oh let you him play a little bit theyre having fun. Um, wait, where did you have lunch with Andrea? When, just just today? Oh, Im seeing her tonight. Yeah, were gonna have yeah Im seeing her at 7:30. Shes cool, yeah, shes doing really great. Alright, what time is it Maya, you know? No its not. Naw naw. 2:30. Hey nice to see you alright? Bets go get her. How you doin? You guys have any dried figs today? Heres your dog. Heres your favorite girl. How are these? Are they sweet? They got seeds or not? They go seeds naw I cant handle the seeds. Alright Ill take the asparagus for now. Thank you very much. Alright take care now. Run out this way. Cmon. How you doin? Yes. Cool. Thanks a lot. See ya. Hi. Hey Amy Kenneth. Hi Rene this is Babette I hope you guys dont mind a dog. Do you mind a dog? Sit down. I dont do I mind a bagel? How you doin? Have a have a seat Im just finishing up, uh, putting three holes in these pieces of paper itll take me two seconds. Do you guys want a coffee? Its right there help yourself and theres cups and... Do I feed Babette Danish food? You know we never saw that. Isnt that isnt that weird? Like I never saw that movie and everybody for years shes seven years old has always asked me that. Have a a seat. Have a seat. Do you want some coffee or some water some cold water? Its so nice out, huh? So, Im Im glad were talking sound here Im working on this new piece and Im recording everything Im saying for a week. So, its you guys are actually its only its miked only so to pick me up so I I wont really have any context of what Im saying in terms of other people. So just ignore this. I started on Monday. Uh, just for some new material for some new work that Im doing, yeah. And so. Uh, upper left hand corner and so cmon now and this is a book Ive just finished this 600 pages of sounds that Ive collected for the last three years. And Ill show you that. Well Ive been doing this kind of work, hold on a second Ive got to bash this thing its stuck, cmon, aw I hate when this happens. You know. Those things. Do you guys do you work at the, uh, at the temple. Listen I gotta to ask you a question. Theres a guy, I used to live on Forsyth and Grand, and there was this little old man that was like the caretaker. Has he passed away? What was his name? Mr. Markowitz. I just remembered, yeah. Wah! Right, hes so nice. Right right. Here we go. Really? So he when did he pass away? When did he finally pass away? Im I was actually surprised he lived any longer than. Oh, it was that long ago yeah. I used to see him I moved out of Forsyth St. around then. Yeah he lived up the street from me. Yeah yeah he was really cool. Oh really, really. Ah. Well, he put in he certainly put in his service. What was he a caretaker or.. Sexton. Thats right, yeah. Wow. Thats totally wild. I knew yeah. No, no he didnt and I, you know, I saw him just a few times and he was always so nice he was always so cool. And uh Ill never forget him and I was actually just walking walking the dog today and I was thinking were gonna meet and I was like and he just came into my mind and, you know, pretty neat. Really neat guy. Well I was down there in the yeah. Hes gotta be hes gotta be ancient, huh? I mean he must have been he must was he was he that young? When I saw I thought he had to be at least 95. But, uh, I I I live in that neighborhood for many years, you know, I came to New York came back I lived in New York of my wait Im 34 Im almost 35 so my 35 years Ive lived in New York 31 of them. I grew up on Long Island and I went away to college and came back to New York in 85 and then we moved down to a loft on Canal between Orchard and Ludlow. Um, and we were there for a long time and then I moved to Forsyth and was. It was a great neighborhood I loved it. Do you live down there? Oh, thats right you live on Houston. Now I live on Thompson and actually I gotta tell you I like the West Side. Excuse me for a sec. Hey Jodi how you doin? Good, um, Im just in the middle of a meeting. Um, tomorrow afternoon might be a good time to get together what do you say? That would. Why dont you come over here say, uh, say hows about hows about 2:00? Sure. Well lets then do it toward the end of the day. Kind of more like 4:30. You know where I am. Yeah 611 number 702. Same thing. OK, bye.
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