AMBER WAVES OF GRAIN

Wendy Sayuetz is a folk singer, part of the NYC subways music series. She sings the “Amber Waves of Grain” a song about her bike trip across America. She resonates about being drunk with the sights of amber waves of grain. In ordinary Nebraska wheat she sees a glimpse of American’s soul. “With miles of shimmering plains, the journey was somehow complete” she sings. .. Later, back in Manhattan, she is speeding downtown on a rush hour train. “What I found in Nebraska has been hard to sustain in the years that quickly gone by” she muses. “Now, the subway it grinds to a halt, an announcement shatters the air. We’re sorry to inform you there will be a delay, there is congestion at Times Square. Beside me two women keep 10 kids entertained by teaching them a song. I smile as I hear a familiar refrain and I find my self humming along. What I thought I had lost I seemed to have found from these kids on the Number 2 train. One small piece of Nebraska in New York’s underground – for Amber Waves of Grain."

MOVIES IN MANHATTAN

Why is Manhatan such a magnet for movies and films? It seems like every day one runs into an ad hoc production studio on a side street with dressing rooms, wardwrobe trucks, canteen stations, and equipment trucks. The streets signs are clearly posted "No Parking - Sunday - Filming_________. It might be CSI Gossip Girls, Sex in the City or any other TV show or film.

On a recent visit to Grand Central, a small film crew was repeatedly filming this woman walking from the West bank of stairs toward the ticket kiosk in the center of the Terminal. After each take she would go stand in the corner and stare off into space - apparently preparing for her role which had her - staring off into space.

I don't know what the movie was, but only about 4-5 people stood by and watched. The rest of the people in Grand Central went on their way obvlious or uninterested in the filing.