"I am really into the artsy multicultural scene, and the Upper East Side isn't like that.
If you'd like to get out of Manhattan and check out the artsy bohemian scene in Brooklyn, one of the best ways to get there is along the top of the Brooklyn Bridge's famous suspension cables.
We need to not watch movies that treat people the way we do not want to be treated (including those artsy rape scenes that have become so trendy).
From expensive, pseudo-artsy lesbian scenes to furball Japanese kink, I love all types of porn.
"I had a good run, for a few years, as a darling of the artsy New York gay scene," Wintrich told me.
"For us that means we'd rather supply the small individual artsy cafe bar restaurant scene, the corner stores, the organic wholefood stores, rather than the big supermarket chains".
Arcade Fire, from Montreal, has conquered the indie scene with an artsy eccentricity and a disarming emotional clarity; its latest, "Neon Bible" (Merge), searches for joy in the midst of apocalyptic gloom.
The alternative scene exists somewhere between the artsy pro-anarchy underground that was repressed until General Jaruzelski's rule fell in 1989, and the mainstream consumerist culture that has emerged since.
