Thom Yorke, o3world, and my man Jason @ Stanton Social

Thom Yorke new album is the tits…despite the spontaneous terenchel downpour outside that soaked us from head to toe, the listening party was amazing. “The Eraser” definitely had a Kid A feel to it and definitely worthy of my $19.99. Oh, and I have to say that Adam Farrell from Beggars Banquet is a dude and he put together one of the better listening parties I’ve been to. Ya did Thom Yorke right! I kind of forgot my camera for that part of the night, so no pics. I was doing a tasting at Discovery Wines and had to run over to the party with out it. If you want to you can come spank me for it at September Wines tonight, because I'm doing a taasting there from 6-9pm.

We got the O3World cats to come up for the party and I think I got them a little more trashed than they expected. The listening party was only the start of the night. We went and hit a string places afterwards/ Hopefully Gadsby and Keith didn’t puke all over our bunker in the LES, when they went back to crash for the night.

All that said, the big thanks for the night really must be said now, Jason over @ Stanton Social is a fucking KING! Zygo found its way onto their bar a few weeks ago. It’s a pretty high end restaurant around the block from my pea sized apartment in the Lower East Side. It’s pretty different consider our hood. This place is highend food and 12 dollar cocktails, whereas most of the bars we hang in here are $2-3 PBRs & $6 dollar shots of Zygo (which my grubby ass is perfectly content with, I just appreciate the higher end place Zygo is served, for not throwing me out as a vagrant). Well anyway, the first time I hit the joint we went upstairs to the bar and I see the bartender from Suba serving drinks behind the bar, Jason. He’s a total joy and a big reason Zygo and 44 North did so well at Suba. We ask for whatever concoction he’d like to make with Zygo and of course it was tremendous. After the next few weeks I start seeing crazy orders coming out of our distributor for Stanton Social. Apparently, Jason has turned the entire staff onto it and now they’re serving it instead of Red Bull. That is pretty badass! His cocktails last night were fucking great, some sort of cucumber infusion with Zygo. Totally unexpected and beautiful.

So once we got kicked out of there we headed over to one of my favorite new bars called Fontana’s on Eldridge and Broome. It’s a killer Rock joint, great bartenders, an owner named Holly Ferrari (real name), and of course the Zygo goodness. We met Matt, great tender of bar and the guy makes his own bitters. Definitely check it out. They have a ton of live acts playing there throughout the week.

After that we furthered the Rockness and headed over to Fat Baby to see Travis. By this time Gadsby and Keith from O3World (who by the way are the guys who designed this blog and our website) were on their last legs. Was it mean to keep serving them booze, one after another, after another? Well we love them and it’s not all the time they get out of Philly for these NY escapades. Fat Baby is another one of those places with great music at all times, and amazing bands playing all week. Rob, who owns the place can always been seen either infront standing guard or he’s riding around the LES on his bike.

Well after this moment the night it a little fuzzy, and I think we wound up drinking Compass Box Whisky over at Milk and Honey, there was definitely some pizza, me holding up Gadsby, him wanting to wrestle me, and Keith just staring dreamy eyed into the void. I hope they left my keys in the Bunker. Oh, check the website….it’s long overdue but I got my man Uriel Copelev’s cocktail up. Uriel is the reason Zygo is at all the Sushi Sambas around the country. He made a pretty amazing cocktail that caught on pretty quickly amongst the staff. Thank you so much for everything Uriel!