As you can probably imagine, we’re still working through our disappointment over Shia LaBeouf being cast in Wall Street 2. Our pain is mitigated slightly by the following news. Besides being shaken up about the presence the would-be mother fucker in the film, we’ve been preparing ourselves for 2-3 hours of tripe in which “evil” short-sellers are maligned (Shi-La, according to accounts of the plot, believes his boss was murdered by “a stock-shorting hedge fund manager”), along with a whole grab-bag of misconceptions, by people who don’t know what they’re talking about. But it seems Oliver Stone and his crew are educating themselves in preparation!
Stone and LaBeouf were in attendance last night at the RGE Monitor’s “Night With Roubini” at the Maritime Hotel. Of course, like some, they may ultimately disagree with Roubs’ outlook, preferring instead to go with that of a chair-thrower, but this seems (somewhat) promising. Next stop, we hope, just for the possibility of her securing a cameo: a sit-down with the Dollar Dominatrix.
Screw the Hilton, screw midtown, Gimme some MePa!
Guy may have his faults, but his unabashed love of the punani and a good time is admirable, methinks.
@analyst- who the hell is MePa?
“So, what is Shia’s ideal woman? We’ll let him tell you the gross details. “Probably the sexiest woman I know is my mother. She’s an ethereal angel. Nobody looks like that woman,” he said. “If I could meet my mother and marry her, I would. I would be with my mother now, if she weren’t my mother, as sick as that sounds.”"
WTF?
3,
It would be my honor to be your new step-father.
Are there going to be short selling aliens in this movie?
@2 Me-Pa is the Meatpacking District, which I fuckin hate, here in Manhattan…thats where Maritime Hotel is.
it’s your one-stop shop to see little asshole junior bankers running around on cobblestone streets with Amex Black Cards, puking off the side of hotel rooftop bars.
I get that just about right anal_yst?
Ono Gardens is pretty cool, though
- Reformed Broker
nice thought, but the movie’s still going to suck balls.
does meredith whitney have a no-nudity clause?
I swim my morning laps in the infinity poll atop hotel gansevoort.
-GM
@6…. Don’t you miss the good old days of puking off the roof at Gansevoort?
@ Reformed Broker
I’d say MePa is more filled with (and I say this with a heavy heart, kinda) lots of B&T, lots of euro-trash, and now, not nearly as much douchey finance types as there was in say ’06.
But, would you rather do the stuffy typical “suit” thing at the Hilton or worse in midtown or at a more party-type place like the Maritime?
6 Last weekend I was hanging around Bowery and Bleecker. No different. Except maybe a little younger, a hint of NYU with Gossip Girls thrown into the mix.
@anal_yst- can you please not speak of the MePa, as Stone is probably trolling these boards for research, and the last thing we’d want is a three hour lesson about how the Gnsevoort-going douchebags brought down the economy?
Flatbush Gardens is where it’s at.
MePa is full of Tranny hookers with Mohawks.
@anal_yst and @10
yes, ’06 had a way higher concentration of, how you say…undesirables
I knew the Me-Pa was over when the tourists with fanny packs started coming up to me on Little West 12th asking “Am I in the Meatpacking District Yet?”
Then I’d steal their cameras
The opening of STK was probably the final nail in the coffin
I’ll take your STK and raise you a Buddakan
@18 – good call
they have no right calling that hole “Buddakan”
the Parisian original’s buddha statue is rolling in it’s grave
TRB
Insiders inform me that Jesse Ventura has just signed to play Paulson.
@6 Don’t forget the piss-drunk sluts, wearing stilettos and the shortest of dresses, stumbling across the cobblestone streets.
A friend of mine who was visiting town remarked to me with all sincerity: “There are a lot of hookers in NY.” I almost corrected him by saying, “it’s just how girls here dress when they go on a Thursday night,” but after thinking for a moment I had to agree.
those damn short sellers made oil go from 147 to 68, damn them all to hell………….
please, no more WS2 updates, ignorance is indeed bliss.
Anyone have one of those memory zapper things from Men In Black?
Anyones secretary up for a lunch featuring Me-Pa?
since when did MPD become Me-Pa? and I’ll take your buddakan and raise you a hiro. btw, what’s with the new entrance on 9th ave?
once in 2006, I JO&C off of the gansevoort rooftop
I’m optimistic about LaBeouf. I mean, the lead in the last one was Topper Harley, and he nailed it!
Listening to LaBeouf use finance lingo will be like listening to Van Der Beek do a West Texas accent in Varsity Blues–awkward and wildly amusing to all concerned.
@27
Or it’ll just be like Dennis Kneale on any given day, methinks you’re givin Shi-La too much credit
@27
“Ahh Don’t Wawnt
Yoor Lahf”
Van Der Beek
“MePa is full of Tranny hookers with Mohawks.”
- I wondered where Mommy went after I hatched?
@11 The whole fucking city is filled with BT people. I’ve never seen so many fucking “tourists” around here. I swear, these import fuckers see a few episodes of Sex and the City and then think it would be a great idea to migrate here cuz a raging bull market and an absurdly low crime rate made it really easy to do so. And, the MPD is the fucking Disney Land center of it all.
I have no problem with the influx of new people per se (I mean really, without wide eyed, ambitious 20/30 something suburban coeds chasing a “big city” dream, who would we bang from week-to-week with no consequence or commitment) but please people, don’t claim NYC to be your home town until you’ve put your time in. And by TIME I mean you at least need to have worked and SURVIVED here at some time in your life. None of this, “oh I have 6-7-8 figure job offer in NY. Let’s move there and live large only to leave”. No, you need to either have been born here or come here and sweated it out and made your own success. Just getting recruited by an IB does not automatically make you a New Yorker, although you could qualify if you have been mugged, robbed, broken into, attacked, assaulted, pushed under a subway train, etc. and still remain and/or have joined a gang and/or have transgressed these crimes on others fellow douche bags just for sport.
And another thing about the MPD…no self-respecting, born and raised New Yorker would really assimilate with that place. Historically, that area was only good if you were a heroin addict, tranny, and/or trolling for disease ridden hookers. Now, it seems, there aren’t really that many heroin addicts around there any more.
And one more thing…I wish you fucktwat real estate brokers would stop inventing acronyms for every NY street corner trying to turn it into a hip, up-and-coming neighborhood. Just cuz TriBeCa or SoHo made sense does not mean LES or DUMBO does. That shit is not only fucking retarded but it makes all the douche bag tourists think that these areas are legit. So knock it the fuck off.
Perhaps we should change the Statue of Liberty inscription to read:
“Give me your tired of the suburbs, your poorly educated,
Your Hummer’ed masses yearning to snort free,
The wretched refuse of teeming sub-Ivy league grad schools.
Send these, the homo-lez, temp pimp tossers to me.
I lift my leg for your golden shower.
Despite all those words, you’re totally off here. TOURISTS have really fat a$$es and walk slowly around midtown in tracksuits or worse. Usually like a double-wide, slowing things down considerably. They were the impetus for the recent closing of Bwy/malling of Times Square.
B&T people are a whole other thing. From the boros, NJ, LI, sometimes attractive in a cheezy way but always flash.
The real people – the ones you seem so fond of – work long hours and when they’re finished go to the gym, then home to a crappy apartment and order in. The main reasons you live in NY (meaning Manhattan) are the short commute and the fact that any kind of food you want can be had delivered to your door in 20 minutes.
@32
Not just food food can be delivered 24/7…
33 No, no. Craig’s List is everywhere. But only in Manhattan can you get whatever food you want – pancakes to Laotian – delivered well into the night.
And don’t believe it when people say they like it here for the culture. Theater, symphony, ballet, opera – all that stuff is for tourists and your parents from the suburbs. (“Now that Aaron and Julie are out of the house Mortie and I have so much more time, we love going to shows. We’re even thinking of moving back to the city…”)
Boston > New York
Gene Simmons could play Roubini
@34 There’s no good mexican food here and Bobby Flay can suck a dick.
@25, I coined MePa several years ago
@35, hahahahahaha
@35,
Thanks. I needed a good laugh today.
@35,
Thanks. I needed a good laugh today.
37 There’s no such thing as good Mexican food.
@41, that’s a fucking lie
@31 Are you Charlie Gasparino’s retarded nephew?
@34
Just to clarify, I wasn’t talking about food…
anal_yst was talking about cock
@44
I miss my old bicycle dealer, ah the memories.
Chicago is better, but with worse tourists