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Friday June 9, 2007
Beautiful, Beautiful Prague!

Tuesday June 5, 2007
Szervusz from Budapest! (Hello) Here's a pair of videos:

From the Szechenyi Chain Bridge on the Danube in Budapest.

Saturday June 2, 2007
A Frenzy in Firenze, Italia

Thursday May 31, 2007
Greetings from Venezia!

Thursday May 24, 2007
Barcelona's and Gaudi's Sagrada Familia speaks for itself. Quite literally.


Saturday May 20, 2007
What I meant to continue saying (before my camera died) was that I ate the best Seafood of my life in Salvador Dali's little Costa Brava hometown of Cadaqués Spain.


Friday May 18, 2007
Why stay in Spain when you can drive to France for a croissant?


Thursday May 17, 2007
San Sebastian (Donostia) Spain and the Mystery of the Impossible Language.


Tuesday May 15, 2007
Attempt # 1 to escape Spanish food - outcome - failed.
In Bilbao Spain at a Chinese Restaurant


Monday May 14, 2007
I'm driving around Nothern Spain with my mother! We began our trek in Burgos.
A pair of videos...
Video # 15 and 16

And another...


Wednesday May 2, 2007
Sintra, Portugal: Sure Beats Disneyland.


Sunday April 29, 2007
Lisbon Portugal is a truly beautiful city! Lots of things about it remind me of San Francisco back home. Is SF a ripoff? You decide. Here's a pair of videos.
Video # 13 Funicular Fun.

Video # 14 = SF or Lisboa? Watch Above first for maximum comic impact.


Sunday April 22, 2007
Amsterdam was wonderful, a truly beautiful, efficient city. You should see it and break the western trend of thinking it's a dirty smut-filled pot fest. Here's 2 cents of mine from the heart of the Red-Light District.


Friday April 20, 2007
I'm in Amsterdam. This computer is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. I am in love with the floating unicorn.

Just kidding, I'm not on drugs. But I am riding a bike (very common in Amsterdam) here in this video:

Sunday April 15, 2007
I just came back from Africa!! Morocco to be exact... here's a video from Djemma el Fna market in Marrakesh:


Monday, April 9, 2007
I went to Mallorca! It's a little island off the eastern coast of Spain in the Mediterranean. Here's a video:


Sunday, April 1st, 2007
Avi's music video available today! Dir. by Dana Kopenhefer.

"When Life is Good Don't Question It" is available on Avi's 'New York' EP.
Lyrics are on the POETRY page.
This was filmed in early Jan. 2007, right before I went to Spain, in Manhattan Beach, California, my old hometown. It's near LA.

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
My friends Andrew and Alex and I in Barcelona = Spain Video # 8


Monday, March 19th, 2007
Spain Video # 7 - Avi Cultivates his "badass" image (poorly)
Courtesy of Cuban cigars, a leather jacket, and Belgian beers
... and a hubcap. On the streets of Madrid...


Sunday, March 18th, 2007 - 3:00pm
St. Patrick's Day. Madrid. Free Hats from Guinness w/ Pints. I just woke up.

Spain Video # 6 - St. Patrick's Day in Madrid


Monday, March 4th, 2007
I went to Andalusian Spain. That's the southern region of the country, known for its festivites, Arabic history, and of course, Flamenco.
Avi's Andalusian Spain Photos

Spain Video # 5 - The Mezquita in Córdoba.


Monday, February, 26th, 2007
I went to Rome for 50 hours! Click here for some pictures:
Avi's Rome Pictures

Spain Video #4 - Avi's Excursion in Rome for 2 days.


Friday, February 16th, 2007
Spain Video #3 - My metro ride to school... for an hour...


Friday, February 9th, 2007
I take travel photography! Check out my Pictures from Spain here:
1. Madrid
2. El Escorial/ Valle De Los Caidos
3. Toledo

Spain Video #2 - Plaza De La Puerta Del Sol in Madrid, Spain



Thursday, June 22, 2006
Philly's "Jim's Steaks" gets my vote as best cheesesteak. Try it with
"whiz" and mushrooms.

New York is the best city on earth.

I think an old guy died at the bar during my show at the Abbey Lounge in Boston.

Barking Spider's "Martin" is a nice fellow who is a big and honest fan of folk music.

Indianapolis has no music scene but nice sound people.

The Chicago Cubs fucking suck. But their stadium is the best in the
world. No jumbotron distractions.

We met "The Silent Type" in Chicago, a Richmond,VA band and made friends. They're good check them out.

The night we played Omaha, Bright Eyes was doing a show in town. Bad luck.

Kansas City is a great place, and we ran into The Silent Type again
and stayed with some cool guys at the Rush Publications office and
climbed up rather unsafely to their rooftop and got the best view of
the rather impressive KC Skyline.

We visited Mickey Mantles home in Commerce, Oklahoma and asked directions from a guy that happened to own the property, and his family had bought it from the Mick. He gave us copies of the deed that MM signed.

We did a set of open mics in St Louis and Tulsa and it was hotter than hell. Both were cool venues with nice folks!

I hit and slaughtered a big racoon that darted in the road in Salina
Kansas and it really destroyed the front of my car. I need to replace
the whole panel now. I had hope that maybe the racoon survived until i saw both parts of his carcass on opposite sides of the road.

Note: Hotels in Denver book up really fast during Star Wars conventions.

I will embark tomorrow on the long drive from Denver to LA via Las
Vegas. Good bye cool mountain air. Hello 110 degree deserts. I'll
check my coolant.

Thursday, June 8, 2006
The road with Jason Reischel is great. We get along well and we are
playing lots and lots of shows to great crowds.

New Orleans needs help.

Little Rock kids know how to party (Cause it's all there is to do)!

Asheville, NC is gorgeous.

Don't try driving in Washington DC unless you're on sedatives so you don't get overwhelmed.

Virginia is one big speeding trap.

I thought I knew what a shitty hotel room was until I was introduced
to the "Scottish Inn" in Bessemer, Alabama.

Nashville would be a great place to be if you're already successful in
music, but trying to come up in their scene is close to impossible.
Everyone is a musician so you're just one in a million.

Fenians Pub is the only friendly bar in Jackson, Mississippi.

NPR is great listening while driving.

More later....

- Avi