It’s always been a hot ticket to get a seat at Late Night with David Letterman, because many people just like the idea of it.  It seems interesting, there have to be some celebrities there, and there will certainly be some unexpected things, all of which can give a solid New York experience.  There are great hotels here to begin this interesting journey, and even if there’s no seats at Late Night, there’s a lot that awaits a guest here.  One of the truly interesting things about New York is that, considering the amount of people and the small space, it’s so well run.  Another interesting thing is to watch for breaks in the patterns of everyday reality.

They are actually very frequent, which is another testament to the city’s resilience, because there are plenty of creative minds here that are looking to change reality as we know it in some significant way, something that people will remember.  One of the greats in this regard, in terms of numbers of people influenced, is Andy Kaufman.  In his absence, the only other person who comes close, and may ultimately top him for weirdness, is Crispin Glover.  Most people think of this star of Back to the Future, and god-daddy of grunge, as a West coast kid, but he’s a New Yorker through and through, born here in 1964.

It’s true that he has lived in L.A. since he was five, but it’s hard to get the concrete out of the cells if that’s where you were born.   His life has been a rather spectacular series of performances, which sometimes seem to be a cover for a private life that’s twice as interesting as the public one appears to be.  It’s difficult for some of us, of a certain generation, to forget his appearance on Letterman, because it suggested that everything was about to get much much weirder than we had imagined.

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