nyc
came back from a short trip to NYC last weekend on monday
here are some interesting highlights:
it was raining almost the entire time. in CHINATOWN, i thought you couldn't get an umbrella cheaper than 'five dolla' until someone proposed a 'three dolla!' solution. well, we already had UMBRELLAS.
we had a late dinner at LUPA, one of Mario Batali's restaurants whom you may recognize as one of the american IRON CHEF. it was good. i'm not hugely into italian cuisine but that was great.
we saw the takashi MURAKAMI show at the Brooklyn Museum. it was great! next time, i'm gonna to whitney to see chuck close paintings.
That's in the museum's entrance:
http://234jellyfish.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/img_6245.jpg
This is like 20 feet by 10 feet and it's amazing.
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/murakami_gero_tan-square.jpg
more stuff:
http://www.takashimurakami.com/art.php
i went to see a play at a tiny theatre (seriously, it's minuscule) on bleecker st. titled 'ALMOST AN EVENING'. we picked it because it was written by ETHAN COEN, and who doesn't love the coens, and olivia didn't want to see 'young frankenstein'. we went there for the saturday matinée, at 2pm.
after the play was over, i get up and grab my stuff and turn around and lo and behold, ETHAN FREAKING COEN was sitting directly behind me. i was like, dude. i started thinking, what would i tell him and by the time i reached the end of the row (we were both leaving our seats) some guy goes 'hey ETHAN, we love your movies, you're the best!' to which he 'uh thank you, that's very nice'. i couldn't really think of anything else to add, so i left the theater.
something that occured to me when i got out of the theater is that according to the internet, ethan is 5'8". anyways I am 6'3". i was sitting right in front of him. i have a feeling that he saw the back of my head for most of the play that HE wrote.
it was good, btw. it was funny.
here are some interesting highlights:
it was raining almost the entire time. in CHINATOWN, i thought you couldn't get an umbrella cheaper than 'five dolla' until someone proposed a 'three dolla!' solution. well, we already had UMBRELLAS.
we had a late dinner at LUPA, one of Mario Batali's restaurants whom you may recognize as one of the american IRON CHEF. it was good. i'm not hugely into italian cuisine but that was great.
we saw the takashi MURAKAMI show at the Brooklyn Museum. it was great! next time, i'm gonna to whitney to see chuck close paintings.
That's in the museum's entrance:
http://234jellyfish.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/img_6245.jpg
This is like 20 feet by 10 feet and it's amazing.
http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/murakami_gero_tan-square.jpg
more stuff:
http://www.takashimurakami.com/art.php
i went to see a play at a tiny theatre (seriously, it's minuscule) on bleecker st. titled 'ALMOST AN EVENING'. we picked it because it was written by ETHAN COEN, and who doesn't love the coens, and olivia didn't want to see 'young frankenstein'. we went there for the saturday matinée, at 2pm.
after the play was over, i get up and grab my stuff and turn around and lo and behold, ETHAN FREAKING COEN was sitting directly behind me. i was like, dude. i started thinking, what would i tell him and by the time i reached the end of the row (we were both leaving our seats) some guy goes 'hey ETHAN, we love your movies, you're the best!' to which he 'uh thank you, that's very nice'. i couldn't really think of anything else to add, so i left the theater.
something that occured to me when i got out of the theater is that according to the internet, ethan is 5'8". anyways I am 6'3". i was sitting right in front of him. i have a feeling that he saw the back of my head for most of the play that HE wrote.
it was good, btw. it was funny.