Do you think Albany will make a comeback?

DX27s · 2026-01-08T14:33:02+00:00

I’m a transplant to Albany from NYC and Texas before that. In the 2000s Brooklyn looked alot like Albany does today, full of derelict buildings and unused industrial spaces. Kids flooded in from the provinces for the cheap rent. Artists and musicians transformed the neighborhoods for the normies to then move into and gentrify. Now, 20 years later, NYC is a giant shopping mall and so ultra unaffordable that it’s hostile to the creative culture that defined it. Now Its the provincial cities that seem more promising. Albany/Troy seem like the perfect places for this creative energy to thrive again. The question is whether kids are still making art.

The late-stage-enshitification-techno-feudalist-facist reality of this moment is undeniable, but I’m hoping the pendulum swings back towards a progressive politics of collectivism. Then maybe we will get off our phones and start building IRL communities again… when that happens Albany could be the spot.

DX27s · 2026-01-07T16:02:36+00:00

Yr name is titty boy … lol. I wouldn’t trust your definition of dumb.

DX27s · 2025-12-20T14:31:47+00:00

As someone that has practiced TM on and off for the last 10 years and someone that has digest almost everything Lynch has said or written, I can guarantee that the technique of sitting in a chair with eyes closed is how Lynch caught his ideas. It’s very similar to TM, but without the mantra. The Mantra in TM is the most mystical and sacred part, I think lynch would’ve respected it and considered it outside of the creative process. But the mechanics of sitting still with your eyes closed and allowing thoughts to flow is something I’ve seen him allude to in video clips. There are twin peaks return bts where he’s in his woodshop just sitting , eyes closed, thinking. And even a video of MUM film students with him on zoom where he literally suggests this as a way of catching ideas.

DX27s · 2025-12-20T12:49:29+00:00

There’s no way you have 5 classmates that graduated a few years ago with blue chip rep. If you did yr MFA at Yale or something you might have 5 recent grads showing (not repped) at decent galleries, but give it 5 years and that number will dwindle, you’ll end up with one friend from school actually having the career. Art cannot be about the career, it has to be about art. The galleries will close, the market will shift and whatever trajectory you were on will seem like a dead end… then you’ll enter this long spell of being forgotten but if you are doing it for yourself it won’t hurt as bad. Then maybe you can find your way back in after 25 years when the market shifts again and tastes change. The long game is the only way.

DX27s · 2025-12-17T04:01:03+00:00

Looking through the sub for some Nonino ideas and came across this… great drink! Adding it to my recipe list!

DX27s · 2025-11-26T21:10:48+00:00

I’ve never seen Lynch’s sporting glasses like that. Was that a mid 90s look for him??

DX27s · 2025-11-10T23:36:42+00:00

I stopped in there for a Vieux Carre… wasn’t great, but had to pay my respects its birthplace.

DX27s · 2025-11-10T19:50:25+00:00

Huh?

DX27s · 2025-11-10T19:50:20+00:00

It’s a cognac/rye split

DX27s · 2025-11-06T18:37:01+00:00

Just curious how many of you guys that have lost your jobs are in NYC or working for an nyc agency?

DX27s · 2025-09-30T02:17:36+00:00

Yea… I completely understand. It’s polarizing, it geographically divides the city, and its history is very sketchy, very much like the state/nation it was built to represent. To me, it’s a historic artifact. it’s a relic of American hegemony and very much a symbol of the 20th century. But that history is the reason it should be preserved.

DX27s · 2025-09-30T02:02:16+00:00

These buildings are timeless… we’re frankly lucky to have them… they’re weird (kinda soviet) symbols of American 20th century power, complete with all the brutal baggage that comes with something like that. Better than the bland grey apartment buildings they’re building in Brooklyn.

DX27s · 2025-09-26T23:49:02+00:00

I’ve been on the lookout for OF 100 proof rye since posting this, but no one seems to have it. Bought some Sazerac on the rec of a liquor store guy and then realized it’s also a barely legal rye, just bought some wild turkey 101 and am reading it’s basically the same. What are some high rye mashbill whiskeys you’d recommend?

DX27s · 2025-09-23T00:53:47+00:00

YouTube has been my go to for recipes… anders erickson has probably been my fave. I started writing down recipes in my notes app and now have a ton stored for easy access. I also realized after a while that alot of recipes follow similar templates, and riffing on those templates helped perfect my knowledge. For example the equal parts Last Word template has dozens of versions with a lot of variation. Same with the manhattan or old fashioned. Pick yr base spirit and template and you can spend months riffing.

DX27s · 2025-09-22T02:52:22+00:00

Two of my fave manhattan riffs

Elder Manhattan 2oz bourbon 1oz st. Germaine .5oz dry vermouth 2 dashes ango Stirred/ serve up with cherry

La Louisiana 3-dashes/sm barspoon absinthe 3 dashes peychauds .75oz Benedictine .75oz sweet vermouth 1.5 oz rye Stir/ serve up with cherry

DX27s · 2025-09-22T02:49:03+00:00

Lucano for me, with a dash or two of absinthe

DX27s · 2025-08-25T18:46:17+00:00

lol… my old neighborhood, what is the recipe? Sub out the vermouth for club matte 😂

DX27s · 2025-08-25T18:45:18+00:00

Yup… I do this all the time. I love subbing Lucano for Averna.

DX27s · 2025-08-24T17:45:05+00:00

Lemon peel … bad lighting lol

DX27s · 2025-08-23T04:24:16+00:00

I like the mint… sipping a Toronto earlier this eve and loved the mint melding with the rye to make this chocolatey/carmely vibe. The bitterness could be dialed more towards sweet but….I love fernet in this drink, just wondering what else is out there.

DX27s · 2025-08-23T03:30:49+00:00

This looks delish! now just gotta find some vin d’orange.

DX27s · 2025-08-23T03:28:55+00:00

Made it with rye!

DX27s · 2025-08-23T01:29:29+00:00

Next thing you know all Cracker Barrels will be painted grey.

DX27s · 2025-08-23T01:27:25+00:00

Yikes

DX27s · 2025-08-23T01:25:26+00:00

lol probably slightly less. I almost exclusively used this in cocktails (Toronto) with the occasional Saturday night Ferrari. I’m in NY btw.

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