Crush

Films, Double Feature:

THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE, STEVEN SODERBURGH (2009)

&

THE WACKNESS, JONATHAN LEVINE (2008)

Featured Artist: Band of Horses

Cooling, is this?

Finally settling into this mad, mad town. After what seemed like an endless arrangement of dinners, lunches, brunches and drinks with a series of incredible people whom I can now see on a regular basis. My now engaged bestie from high school, a budding costume designer and a brilliant designer girl whose creativity is boundless included.

Managed to get a bit of work while I wait for Tulane Financial to work out its cluster fuck. Hung a series of enormous and heavy drapes for Naked Boys Singing at New World Stages, as well as focused lights for the York Theatre, which is buried deep beneath an Episcopal Catholic church. Episcopal Catholic...is that like all the spectacle with out the cardio based services? Also got a small illustrating commission which will come in handy seeing as my school is in a state of dysfunction, the likes of which I've not seen before.

what else...

Had my first bar 95$ bar tab. Not that that has not happened before, but usually it involves more than five drinks and more than one person. Well, a couple of people as I had to buy a few for strangers to get above the minimum. I think I will try out a bar diet of water for a bit. Both for my wallet and my liver, who is quite pleased with the move to NYC. The liver, not the wallet. Wallet is quite sad he can no longer support the lifestyle to which I was accustomed.

Enjoy the random camera phone pics. I need to find a new battery pac for my digi-cam.
Note to camera phone producers; a flash option is handy.


Earl Grey and handbag sketching at Le Pain Quotidien with Erin





Body Painting Aliens at Splash Bar




Night, Sunrise & Tea in SoHo





Colorado Rib Eye at Smith & Wollensky (two meals in one) with Leah


Friday at Amalia with Paulo. [note to self: sortir avec cash et attention]

Fantastic Town

Things I love:
-multi-national takeaway
- swipe pay taxi cabs
-walking everywhere
-pastries bought from vending carts
(have not had many because I usually wake up after noon)
-New York Central Art Supply
-The N train
-Pay what you will at the Met
-The Lyric Diner at 3rd & 22nd
-Knowing quite a few people who already live here
-egg whites in cocktails
-well dressed doormen

Things less loved:
-I don't own enough black clothing to live here
-Starbucks proliferation
-not so great 20$ cocktails
- walking everywhere
-trains without LED displays
-my tendency to walk a mile in the wrong direction when exiting a subway stop
-out of house laundry facilities

yep...

... frozen.

But now I have a title page for the thesis monster.
I also know what karaoke night at a tourist trap in times square is like,
and which coat will be getting the most wear.

(all of you reading in New York, I need recommendations of bars. Now. thanks)

Also. When did I get fat!!!!!
Christmas did a job on my body. Well, that and my horrific (forced) diet of fast food last semester. Forced because you can't really get organic take away at 2 am in New Orleans, or anywhere for that matter. And after a day of dealing with Tulane and build/strike/paint calls from noon to midnight the last thing you want to do is cook.
That and I've not bought proper groceries since before Halloween. I've resigned to buy a pair of trainers and a gym membership as soon as Aunt Sally pays me.

There is something therapeutic about a treadmill. Probably all the fat melting away.

Je suis la...

So starts life in New York. Seeing a Draft pull in the shape of a telephone reciever.
No, I do not drink too much. Never mind why I was at the airport bar.

Safely secured away in Astoria, in a nice quiet blue room in an apartment full of
antique mixing bowls, pink tile, and a adorable fat cat named Ginger. Will venture out in a bit.

Not looking forward to freezing.