city life

Took the bus to new york a few nights ago. it was overnight and uncomfortable but when the sun rose over upstate NY in the morning it was beautiful. looked like Last of the Mohicans and Gorillas in the Mist combined. Alysha didn't catch it cause i took the window and she slept.

no lights for eight hours on there so i got to listen to some music for the first time in forever -
fleetwood
bat for lashes
velvet underground
hey rosetta
Nazareth
silversun pickups
amazing baby
queens of the stone age
kill surf city
the darkness
marina & the diamonds
social distortion

when we got here we sat in the park by our place - Tompkins Square, which is beautiful and has a farmers market. then we went for breakfast at Little Poland, a few blocks away and recommended in our NY Free and Dirt Cheap Book - which Alysha, Toby and I would all recommend.

checked out our room and set up shop - soooo nice to unpack. took a walk around the east village - we are on 7th street between a and b - alphabet city. stayed in and called it a night early.

yesterday - our first whole day in the city - went out early for coffee for Al and me, bought some batteries for the new lomo pop9 i bought. rad.

met up with Toby and headed to Brooklyn on the train. Checked out Park Slope and ate sushi for the first time. I was into it - who knew?
decided to walk across the Bridge to get back so walked to 5th till Toby asked someone for directions. Dude we asked was incredible. I wish i could show you the picture - most brooklyn accented, excited, enthusiastic dude - none of us caught the directions cause we were all trying not to laugh. people are dead set on helping you out here.
man. dude was golden.
he recommended a zig zag pattern - we got that at least - so we kept on.

stumbled upon the bridge and walked that ish. soooo many tourists - it was kinda nice. lots of photo ops. one i plan on blowing up on canvas and framing when me and Al are roommates. we talked about it.

walk was shorter than i thought.

Toby heard about this all day music festival in battery park so we walked there from the bridge - the longest way possible. ended up there and couldn't hear anything so we kept walking the path. of all the stuff that reminded me of seinfield, that took the cake (you know - when jerry's deciding if he wants to marry the female version of him - and also the killer in battery park episode)
walked the entire length of battery park and ended up at the spot with the concert on the other end. walked in to some rad contemporary music - Toby was most into it. it was the place where they perform in Mad Hot Ballroom.

chilled for a it and got hungry, took the free & dirt cheap advice and headed for hawaiian BBQ at L&Ls.... delicious and cheap.

then headed back for Tortoise who were headlining - rad videos with their set.

when it was done headed to the subway and headed back to the east village - quick stop at home for heels and sweaters and then over to our neighbourhood bar - Manitobas.
it was embarrassing when dude checked our ideas and we looked like cheesy tourists but the music was amazing, drinks were cheap - we'll be back there.

crashed pretty late, but up early this morning - another coffee run and writing this in a cafe.

in NY all the city pars have wireless

Today is Chelsea and the Meat Packing District.

Trying to see Lykke Li later on - sold out but maybe tickets at the door?
if not I plan to drag Alysha to Isis.

suns out. weather for shorts. city noise. could get used to it.

xo e.

ps - love updates from anyone on email/facebook - miss all y'all at different parks.

Mom - you should see the schools in the thick of the city,
Dad - the community gardens,
Jenna - you would have loved the music we saw, wished you were here