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Today we walked around Manhattan some more, James had a bunch of places he wanted to visit so it was cool to check out the more touristy part of NY. We went to the New York Public Library which was very nice, there was a good photo exhibition on

That's me on the steps. Then we went to check out the Apple Store, on the way we saw some breakdancers, that was fun

Here are some random pictures from our walk


So the Apple store was kind of amazing - and we got to play with the new IPhone. I want one.





: ] I think tonight we are going to a rooftop cocktail party. NEW PALZ??

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Worst hangover ever : [

Barcade was pretty awesome. Here I am ruling at Super Mario

Thats a lie. I am the worst drunkin gamer in the world.

Here is another shot of the Bar. It was a bit of a dudefest. I think. It was pretty messy, I had to have a sneaky vom in the restroom *blush*
After Barcade we went to some other bar but I was rly drunkz so I don't remember much about that one so I read James' blog to find out what we did. "We saw a movie set?!"

Rrrrrrrr. So today I just slept. And ate pizza. Then slept some more.

OH HAY BLOGGGGG

So I haven't updated this thing for a while, basically because I havn't done anything REALLY exciting, and I'm not sure if anyone other than Mark (haaaaay baby) cares about what dress I didn't buy or what I ate for lunch. Anyway in order to keep in the habit here is a half-assed blog.

We went to Soho on Wednesday.. was it Wednesday? no that was yesterday. Monday, we must have gone then. Anyways basically just looked at some super expensive fashion stores, which was fun but not great - oh and what's with those goddam maternity dresses? The ones that are like tight at the top then loose? UGH. Ugliest things ever, and they are everywhere. Gross.

The most notable thing about our Soho day was the excellent Indian meal we got for lunch, but I'm not going to bother explaining how excellent it was - just go look at James'ss blog. We also accidentally passed this bakery that was used in Sex in the City. I don't know - I've never watched the damn show but it seemed to be quite an attraction judging by the amount of jrks out the front.

Here I am looking at my cupcake - I think I was trying to work out how much of my daily calorie intake the damn thing would be
okee I just looked it up.
So that was Soho, I did find an rly good dress at this vintage store, it was black, yellow and white panels sort of thing, it was a good dress but the fit wasn't super flattering and for $100 vintage dress I want to look like fire. Extra hott.

Uuuh Tuesday I've blogged. Wednesday was super hot, like a billion degrees, and I was still pmt - ing like damn crazy so I basically stayed inside - bar running a shopping errand for mark who was chasing some shirts over the internet (the store they were from turned out to be a couple of blocks from my house) - crazy huh. yeh. I did try on another dress, this one was $125 - I liked the neckline but the material it was made from made it a little awkward fitting. I took a photo to get a second opinion


The store is basically half a block from our apartment so I'll probably go back and have another look some time. Oh I also wrote a column for Rave so check that shit out next Tuesday.

TODAAAY we were going to go on a free walking tour - I am keen to learn some history about NYC. I did borrow a book on it but only got to the part where England took over from the Dutch before uni/work etc interrupted. I'm not really sure what happened after that. We kinda left it late to leave so we missed out on actually doing the walk - but Im keen to look into another one in order to come back to Aus knowing more about NYC then when I left: bar knowing the locations and quality of the vintage stores. So we didn't do anything educational today - instead we went to Barney's and bought new jeans. I got a pair of Cheap Mondays for $60 - they are very tight, feel like cardboard leggings or something. They are also pretty high cut so I'm not sure how I actually feel about them yet.

Here is a picture I took when I was trying to work out if my ass looked hot in them or not
The jury is still out on that one. The cats seemed to like them but I think they just enjoy leaving their fur all over everything I own > : [

We basically then just wondered around East Village again. I went to Toy Tokyo which was hella swt - rly rly rly huge range of gear. One side is Eastern Stuff like Kaiju gear and also animie figures and stuff they've imported from Japan like Nintendo toys. Yah. The OTHER half was more the designer vinyl stuff, they had a lot but not too much I was heaps interested in, still trying to keep a clean collection so sticking to my three main artists. I picked up the Desmond Dolphin IWG figure, I was a bit concerned because I'd forgotten if I already owned one. I know I have the mini figure... But I'm 99% sure I don't have the big one. I also got a Pete Fowler Monster Trooper - I uum and aaahed over the Orange Boris BUT he didn't come with his blister packaging or or his ID card so I passed ($50). Totally regretting it though, I think he's worth more then that. I'm going to go check... I couldn't find anything... I think I'll go back and get him.

Earlier I mentioned my ass. I'm pretty concerned about my diet atm - for eg. today for breakfast i had a "hot fudge sundae" pop tart and lunch was fries and chicken strips and a dunkin donut (lime - frkn delicious) . Just thinking about it makes me feel fat. I also miss working out *kill me* so I decided to go for a jog. Because this blog has been so photo-light and because I was curious, here is the route I ran. The bit where it goes in circles was when I ran around the track at maccaren park.

Tonight we are going to go out - I've been itching to see this place "Barcade" its blurb says:

a drinking hall with a twist of atari. located on union ave in williamsburg this place is wall to wall, old school video games [pacman, miss pacman, space invaders, Moon Patrol, Centipede, Frogger, Donkey Kong, Zaxxon etc...] and a full fledged bar. always packed full of local booze and arcade enthusiasts.

Gaming and drinking - defs in my tops five fav things in the world.

Oh also found out that Die!Die!Die! are playing here next week, that'll be fun, am looking forward to seeing a familiar face.

I think that's all. What a terrible entry - I'm sorry : [

Brooklyn Botanical Garden

The BBG was right up there on my list of things to do in NYC - I frkn heart gardens. Tuesdays are free admission so we decided to go today - in hindsight we prolly should have gone to a gallery or museum or ice factory because it is SO damn hot today : [ Also it seems the best time to visit the garden would be in Spring - a lot of the stuff I wanted to see, like the Bluebell Wood and Cherry Esplanade had just finished flowering. Oh well, it was still heaps pretty.

^ There is a little celebrity walk of Brooklyn famous people

Anyway, so that was kind of fun. But it is still stinking hot, and I am having the worlds heaviest period and missing Mark like crazy. So I'm going to go eat Ben n Jerry's icecream and moan until we go out tonight - Martha Wainwright, Chris Thile (from Nickel Creek), Jim Campilongo, Ari Hest and The Bees (US Bees, not UK) are playing a free show, but Darryn Hayes is a friend of a friend so we've been put on the door for his show tonight - so we're going to that first and then will see what happens.

Coney Island Mermaid Parade, Art Army & Pool Party

Art Army Show @ the Showroom, dude carves these figures out of wood.




Coney Island Mermaid Parade





King & Queen of the Parade: Adam Savage and Patti d'Arbanville

Oxley Hall, SuperChunk at the Mcarren Park Pool Party

Todd P Show

This is what Wiki says about Todd P:

Todd P (aka Todd Patrick) is an organizer and promoter of underground DIY and indie rock shows and parties in New York City. Patrick was born in 1975 in Indiana.

Todd Patrick began organizing concerts in Brooklyn, New York under the name "Todd P" in 2001, first at several lofts, and later in the upstairs lounge of the Cafe Right Bank in Williamsburg. Patrick garnered particular attention for throwing events in the diminutive back room of Tommy's Tavern in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Todd P's shows now provide a respected forum for indie rock acts to perform, primarily in the Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and Bushwick areas of Brooklyn, New York, and in the Lower East Side of Manhattan - a "bohemian" community with a great concentration of independent music fans. Patrick's shows have hosted bands on most of the more prominent independent labels, including Vice Records, Jagjaguar, Kill Rock Stars, K Records, Ecstatic Peace, Load Records, and others. Past performers at Todd P shows have included Lightning Bolt, Animal Collective, Black Dice, Afrirampo, the Homosexuals, Weird War, Black Lips, Spank Rock, The Slits, The Fall, and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore.

We went to one of his shows last night, it was held in this big empty warhouse. This pic was taken pretty early in the night - by the time bands started it was pretty much packed.
Todd P seemed to have a pretty good handle on running these things, the copz showed up but left and didn't bother us after that. Between every set Todd would get up and tell peeps NOT TO HANG OUTSIDE, i guess it worked. He also has "interns", like these 18yr kids who run shit. Pretty good. Anyway there was a bar selling shitty beer for $3 - I had about 5 before I relised that they prolly were'nt going to get me that drunk, and if i kept drinking I'd have to keep going to the porta loo - which was pitch black and smelt like, well ass I guess

Luckily I have thighs of steel and did the pee squat thing w/ ease. Thank you BodyPump. So apart from standing around looking cool we also saw some bands, these guys were calledThe Death Set I'd listened to their stuff on MySpaz and liked it, but the sound was terrible so it wasn't that great. They said they were from Australia but they sounded like Americans to me. Hmmm.I've heard some pretty terrible band names, but Best Fwends is among the worst. They were kinda fun though.

The last band was Matt and Kim who were two guys with a keyboard and drums.. They were pretty fun and I got the impression pretty big in NY. Maybe they'll get heaps famous and I can say "oh yah, those guise, I totally saw them in some warehouse in NYC like ages ago" and then put on some shades. Like this B ]

Today is going to be busy - we are trying somehow fit in the Coney Island Mermaid Festival (I've been told to expect tits. woooooo), The Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival (GHOSTFACE), this toy art show opening and some band James wants to go see. Whew.

New York is For Shopping MKII

Today all I pretty much wanted to do was shop. So I did. We checked out the lower east side first, there were a bunch of pretty cool vintage stores in this area. They were all really damn expensive though, I'm talking around the $200 mark for dresses. I fell in love with this red chiffon 1960's cocktail dress but it was close to $300 so I didnt even try it on : [ There was an awesome vintage furniture store, but again heaps xxy. I've been watching these pacman phones on the 'Bay for a while now, they usually go for around $100, this store had them for $245
No thank you. It was fun too look at all the dresses and stuff. I saw this guy - I liked his style


Yah. Then I went to Giant Robot, which I had been looking forward to for ages. Giant Robot puts out a magazine which features toys, mostly with an Eastern Influence but western stuff as well. The store was hell sweet and I dropped around $100. Yesssss. Got the SnowMonkey IWG figure and a shirt and some junk and a present for Luke.

Random building picture - I don't think I will tire of the buildings anytime soon

I'd read about some good thrift stores in the sort of lower/mid manhatton area so we had a look at them - I got this fkn awesome red H&M trench for $20. Pretty good score IMO

Early on in the planning stages of our trip, James had been corresponding w/ this woman who may have had an apartment for us - she didn't. Anyway she suggested we meet up and we figured you can't have too many NYC contacts so we did. She and her palz were all very nice and we got some good tips on the city. Plus she can get us into MoMa for free. Excellent.

When we got off the sub at home there were all these bands playing and we were a bit wth. It was part of the Make music New York festival thing or something

Anyway the bands were pretty good but then it started STORMING so we ran home. brrrr.

American Museum of Natural History

Was pretty damn execellent. My photos got all mixed up and I cbf'd reaaranging them, but it doesn't really matter.

I am a walrus

Frog exhibition

Wang in a belt

More wang

dinosaur

the squid

and the whale

Lunch was so good - it was a make yr own salad kind of thing

...and make yr own soft serves! (oreo then vanilla then marshmallows then chocolate then sprinkles)

Was heaps impressive irl

chillin' w/ the bearz

look at this guy

HI WOOLLY MAMMOTH THINGS

The guy w/ the bung leg is Peter Stuyvesant