The day has come...time to savor my 2 week vacation away from the dreary, humid hellish state called New York and get the fuck HOME!I finished finals, and had a fun ass last couple days here and in boston. But am I going to write about them?? No.
I'm gonna go pack and get the hell outta' here! No new posts for awhile either i'm sure. Everyone please wish me and my liver the best of luck. It's gonna' be a crazy old summer...
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Unbeatable Banzuke
I have a strange, mid-finals calm about me today. It's like the eye of the hurricane. I have my hardest test tomorrow and yet here I am...playing scrabulous and browsing yelp. Whatever though, I feel pretty confident. I almost feel like it would be impossible for me to fail as concieted as that may sound.
I'm also too busy making mix cd's for a couple friends for when I go home on the 28th. In this modern age of 5 million GB portable players it seems almost silly making a tiny little 16 track CD so i'm upgrading to MP3 CD's that can hold 5 or 6 albums. That's the only way to fly.
For Billy i'm including all my latest indie rock favorites like Why? and Thao Nguyen. I'm so bored with hip-hop it's not funny. If anyone can turn me onto some real underground dopeness please let me know!
And for Mariza i'm putting in alot of booty bass mash-ups from the hood internet and perhaps a little hipster hop too.
Yesterday I borrowed Brent's bike and rode with Bay about 2 miles from Prospect park to the new Ikea in Red Hook. It was alot of fun! I hadn't biked like that in years. And weaving through NY traffic was pretty exhilirating. When we got there we stuffed ourselves with 2 hotdogs each, an ice cream cone, soda and cinnamon roll all for $4.00 each!! Amazing. I'm going to bring my next date there :)
On the way back we were caught in the beginning of a monsoon and were soaked as fuck! But even that was epic...soaring through the park with the wind and rain blasting us. The elements against us and our legs pumping towards the next beautiful stretch of greenery ahead of us. It was dope.
And now...after tomorrow's test I will return to Boston for my last weekend before summer break. Leile, I mean Mr. Salty, is playing a show on sunday and he's also promised me some sort of BBQ cook off festival on saturday. I'm juiced!
P.S. - New Yorkers don't seem to know what the term "juiced" means other than a steroid reference. And they certainly don't know "gaffled". It's so weird here...
I'm also too busy making mix cd's for a couple friends for when I go home on the 28th. In this modern age of 5 million GB portable players it seems almost silly making a tiny little 16 track CD so i'm upgrading to MP3 CD's that can hold 5 or 6 albums. That's the only way to fly.
For Billy i'm including all my latest indie rock favorites like Why? and Thao Nguyen. I'm so bored with hip-hop it's not funny. If anyone can turn me onto some real underground dopeness please let me know!
And for Mariza i'm putting in alot of booty bass mash-ups from the hood internet and perhaps a little hipster hop too.
Yesterday I borrowed Brent's bike and rode with Bay about 2 miles from Prospect park to the new Ikea in Red Hook. It was alot of fun! I hadn't biked like that in years. And weaving through NY traffic was pretty exhilirating. When we got there we stuffed ourselves with 2 hotdogs each, an ice cream cone, soda and cinnamon roll all for $4.00 each!! Amazing. I'm going to bring my next date there :)
On the way back we were caught in the beginning of a monsoon and were soaked as fuck! But even that was epic...soaring through the park with the wind and rain blasting us. The elements against us and our legs pumping towards the next beautiful stretch of greenery ahead of us. It was dope.
And now...after tomorrow's test I will return to Boston for my last weekend before summer break. Leile, I mean Mr. Salty, is playing a show on sunday and he's also promised me some sort of BBQ cook off festival on saturday. I'm juiced!
P.S. - New Yorkers don't seem to know what the term "juiced" means other than a steroid reference. And they certainly don't know "gaffled". It's so weird here...
Sunday, June 15, 2008
This time yesterday...
I was getting nackered in Staten Island at an all you can drink sangria brunch to celebrate my aunt's graduation from business school. I ordered the 1 1/4 lb broiled lobster. It was fantastic. And the sangria pitchers never stopped flowing. What better way to get through a fake nice festival with family and acquaintances??
My mom and brother came down from Boston to join the festivities. My brother was busy being the good son and socializing with long forgotten family members while my mom just got drunk and complained loudly about how everyone was just "bullshitting each other with a bunch of stupid small talk". How embarassing....I tried to play the middle ground and just get drunk in peace and quiet.
On the ride home in my aunt's jet black 08' drop top Benz we bumped some Daddy Yankee and let the Verrazano bridge wind blow through our hair while our drunken stuffed carcasses enjoyed the sunset. How luxurious.
Today however, I blew off Casey's swim race and shoe shopping with Bay to sit around the house like a lazy sack of mexican potatoes. I would have felt bad leaving my family alone but I also didn't want to go all the way to the city in a freaking monsoon! And to top it all off, I REALLY need to study for finals.
I've been getting by so far studying only about a half hour per test but now that we're down to the wire I gotta' pick up the pace. I don't want to have to worry about anything while i'm back home for my summer break except Beerlympics training.
*Sigh* Just 2 more weeks and i'm up outta' this damn dirty ape of an island. I can't wait!!
My mom and brother came down from Boston to join the festivities. My brother was busy being the good son and socializing with long forgotten family members while my mom just got drunk and complained loudly about how everyone was just "bullshitting each other with a bunch of stupid small talk". How embarassing....I tried to play the middle ground and just get drunk in peace and quiet.
On the ride home in my aunt's jet black 08' drop top Benz we bumped some Daddy Yankee and let the Verrazano bridge wind blow through our hair while our drunken stuffed carcasses enjoyed the sunset. How luxurious.
Today however, I blew off Casey's swim race and shoe shopping with Bay to sit around the house like a lazy sack of mexican potatoes. I would have felt bad leaving my family alone but I also didn't want to go all the way to the city in a freaking monsoon! And to top it all off, I REALLY need to study for finals.
I've been getting by so far studying only about a half hour per test but now that we're down to the wire I gotta' pick up the pace. I don't want to have to worry about anything while i'm back home for my summer break except Beerlympics training.
*Sigh* Just 2 more weeks and i'm up outta' this damn dirty ape of an island. I can't wait!!
Monday, June 9, 2008
Been awhile
I haven't had a chance to post for a bit. I was deprived of internet service by the evil outsourced vultures at verizon. It took over 2 weeks to resolve a simple reconnection problem. I've also been busy in the real world as well. I was visited by a few friends from back home and I had a great time and completely exhausted every sightseeing oppurtunity the city has to offer.
My home-slice Ben was here to interview for some design jobs in the hopes of moving out here himself. He surprised me on his first day with a duo of tattoos on his wrists. He got 2 circles of seemingly incoherent letters around his carpals. One of the wrists has all the initials of his family and the other is all his close friends (including me!) How cool is that, eh?! I've been immortalized! I was touched by the fact that I was even added.
Also visiting were 2 girls I know from high school, Lauren & Alicia. I have to admit that we haven't really stayed in touch since the old days and I was a little unsure how much we would still have in common, but it was really great having them here and reconnecting. It brought back memories of house parties and drinking 40's on staircases.
Tourist highlights of their week here include:
Pizza at Difara's and burgers at Corner Bistro
Coney Island people watching and a foodie tour through little russia
Daytime drinking and fish & chips at Pacific Standard
Wandering all through NY from prospect park to central park. Taking pictures and chillin'
But I am slightly relieved to have the house to myself again. A little peace and quiet and a day without walking 10 miles are good things. I also have mufuckin' finals to start worrying about so it's about time my sweaty ass buckled down and opened a notebook.
Speaking of sweaty, I think it must have literally been hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk today. It was a disgusting 95 degrees out! But with humidity i'd wager that it definetely was over a hundred. What the fuck, man! It was 70 and rainy like a week ago!! I hate this place and it's defineable seasonal changes. Where's my east bay perpetual 75 degrees at? I miss that like no other.
Aaaanyways, Here's some things i've recently discovered that you should get into...
thehoodinternet.com (the best mash-up architects i've ever heard)
sordomusic.com (a gigantic database of free albums collected from all over the interwebs)
The new Death Cab, Al Green and Santogold albums.
Iron Man. That movie was the equivalent of having your back scratched in just the right spot by your really nice girlfriend. All the while knowing that you're totally about to do it with her. Actually...wait...that's more like what the new Al Green album is like :)
Wow, I think i'm delirious from this blasted HEAT...
Your lesson for today is,
Appreciate and keep in touch with your old friends. Don't get mad when they leave a big pile of body gunk in the shower. They might just get a tattoo of you one day.
Listen to good music and stay out of the sun.
Buy lemonade from kids on the street even if you don't want it.
Call your brother just to say hi.
My home-slice Ben was here to interview for some design jobs in the hopes of moving out here himself. He surprised me on his first day with a duo of tattoos on his wrists. He got 2 circles of seemingly incoherent letters around his carpals. One of the wrists has all the initials of his family and the other is all his close friends (including me!) How cool is that, eh?! I've been immortalized! I was touched by the fact that I was even added.
Also visiting were 2 girls I know from high school, Lauren & Alicia. I have to admit that we haven't really stayed in touch since the old days and I was a little unsure how much we would still have in common, but it was really great having them here and reconnecting. It brought back memories of house parties and drinking 40's on staircases.
Tourist highlights of their week here include:
Pizza at Difara's and burgers at Corner Bistro
Coney Island people watching and a foodie tour through little russia
Daytime drinking and fish & chips at Pacific Standard
Wandering all through NY from prospect park to central park. Taking pictures and chillin'
But I am slightly relieved to have the house to myself again. A little peace and quiet and a day without walking 10 miles are good things. I also have mufuckin' finals to start worrying about so it's about time my sweaty ass buckled down and opened a notebook.
Speaking of sweaty, I think it must have literally been hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk today. It was a disgusting 95 degrees out! But with humidity i'd wager that it definetely was over a hundred. What the fuck, man! It was 70 and rainy like a week ago!! I hate this place and it's defineable seasonal changes. Where's my east bay perpetual 75 degrees at? I miss that like no other.
Aaaanyways, Here's some things i've recently discovered that you should get into...
thehoodinternet.com (the best mash-up architects i've ever heard)
sordomusic.com (a gigantic database of free albums collected from all over the interwebs)
The new Death Cab, Al Green and Santogold albums.
Iron Man. That movie was the equivalent of having your back scratched in just the right spot by your really nice girlfriend. All the while knowing that you're totally about to do it with her. Actually...wait...that's more like what the new Al Green album is like :)
Wow, I think i'm delirious from this blasted HEAT...
Your lesson for today is,
Appreciate and keep in touch with your old friends. Don't get mad when they leave a big pile of body gunk in the shower. They might just get a tattoo of you one day.
Listen to good music and stay out of the sun.
Buy lemonade from kids on the street even if you don't want it.
Call your brother just to say hi.
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