Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with LINK WRAY AND HIS RAY MEN!

OK movie buffs, what movie was this little trembler prominent in? The magnificent Link Wray and his Ray Men kick it off tonight with the timeless 'Rumble'.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with TANGERINE DREAM!

Ok, we're all adults here capice? We can handle a little risque imagery if it's about the song/subject matter. One of the great instrumentals ever made in Johnny's opinion is the Tangerine Dream song 'Love on a Real Train' from the movie Risky Business. Johnny is willing to bet if you took a poll of men 30-50 they'd pick Rebecca DeMornay as the hottest female movie character ever.

The song is almost flawless in what and how it conveys the emotion of the scene. One of THE sexiest scenes in cinema Love on a Real Train by Tangerine Dream.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with CARLY SIMON!

Wrapping up the music series tonight, er afternoon, with the timeless classic voice of Carly Simon. From all the way back in 1972 when dinosaurs still roamed the earth and picked off kids on their way to the bus stop, here's Carly Simon with 'Anticipation'.

JC Fridays kicking off NOW

Get out there people, show our fair city some love. Grab dinner. Go see an event near you, ANY event. Show up, buy a Christmas present, the point is to go out and enjoy YOUR city. It's the only one you're getting right now and dedicated creative people are calling us outside.

It's Friday, go have fun!

Now imagine Johnny doing his best impression of Michael Westen from the show Burn Notice; "Photoshop is a great way to zazz up and cover for a really bad cell phone photo, you can almost make it look clever. You won't win any awards but people won't shoot at you either".

Venus sure looks great this morning

Hovering over the New York City skyline. Go out and look to the east and in a few you might just catch a sliver of the moon.

Late night open thread

Random-found-online-quote-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-nothing night:

"I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather...Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car."

Time for Jersey City, After Dark

So you find yourself videotaping a fight at school, the school wants YOU busted

According to the good people across the Hudson at Gothamist (via FOX 5), some high schoolers got into a fight at Half Hollow Hills High School East outside Long Island. It seems the school not only wants to bust the kids IN the fight but the one who filmed and those who watched. Talk about a nanny state. Dear school system, no matter how violent a fistfight gets it's ridiculous to expect high schoolers to break it up lest they get dragged into it and let's face facts, you have NO CASE if it weren't for the kid who filmed it to begin with. Your entire 'case' would go wanting. So instead of going after those who had ZERO to do with the fight, grow up and deal with the actual fighters.

(video contains some rough high school fightin' language)

Late night open thread

Odd fact night:

Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly over head.

Time for Jersey City, After Dark

The Jersey City Desk would like to welcome The Powerhouse Lounge to town

Taking over the old Rascals location on Marin Blvd. between First St. and Bay St., the new Powerhouse Lounge is open to the public. The bar hopes to be a neighborhood friendly kind of place. How best to do that? Well besides the grub and libations in this cozy neighborhood setting, the Powerhouse Lounge is going to offer patrons rides both to and from the Lounge. Now THAT is forward thinking kids. A ride to and from the bar from the downtown area? That's crescent fresh.

The dress code at the Powerhouse Lounge is listed at 'neat' which will probably be a good fit for the professional crowd on their way to and from the Grove St. PATH station and some of those Powerhouse Arts District eclectic peeps the Jersey City Desk staffers love to hang out with when socializing downtown.

The menu can be found HERE so take a look and no doubt Johnny will see you in there at some point. Just keep your hands and feet away from his mouth.

Did anybody realize there was an earthquake yesterday?

Yes, in fact the New Jersey and New York shorelines were rattled yesterday as a 3.9 quake, the largest out this way in 18 years. At 10:45 am yesterday there was an earthquake located in the Atlantic Ocean about 82 miles south-southeast of Westhampton, NY. The USGS said there were no injuries and no damage and no tsunami's created by the trembler.