Who is driving car?
Oh no! Bear is driving car! How can that be?
I never told you people about Clerks 2. It's very very funny. Go see it. It has a donkey show.
I hope evreyone had a nice weekend. I know I did. It started off with what was going to be a fairly average friday. Mike's girlfriend Allison and her friend came over the appartment to drink and eventually go out on the town in Astoria. Then I got a phone call from Brad then Brooke inviting me to go up to the New Paltz Wine Festival. So I was picked up at 12am, and driven out to New City, where I spent the night in Brad's house. The next day the three of us ventured even further up north to get our wine on. The festival was fun. Only two tents, with about 15-20 local wineries participating. Each table could only give three sample glasses of wine, so there wasn't a HUGE selection or varety. There were a couple of tables which offered some really interesting wines, and this one winery which had some incredibly awesome flavors of wine, and based on the three kinds they had with them, I am sure the ones I just read about, are equally as good. I am at work right now, so I don't know the name of the winery. They also had some great food tents, one of which served Alligator Gumbo, which I bought and delightfully consumed. Then there was another table where I bought some Vennison Jerky and Vennison Summer Sausage (I didn't want to buy anything that needed to be refridgerated, because it probably would not have survived all the way back to Astoria. And the other table where I actually bought something was a sauce table, which had some really good marinades. Now I know those of you who know, I love to make my own marinades; but sometimes, a man doesn't have time for that kind of stuff. Then we went back to the city. I got back to my apartment at the same time that Robyn arrived there. Her arrival also ment that we were all going out to dinner as a large group, then out to the bars. We went to Vynl (on 51st and 9th) for dinner, which not only had some really good food and really good drinks, but also a fun, music-themed atmosphere. Then we went out to a Bar called Valhala, also on 9th Avenue, and I believe 54th street. The bar was nice and quiet, which is always good when you are drinking with a large group. They also have a GREAT beer selection, which is good, because the only beers I like are obscure beers. Then around 12, the full day of drinking hit me, and I went home more tired then drunk, and about $100 lighter then I was on Friday.
Then yesterday (sunday), my mom and dad came to NYC to spend the day with me. I met them at the temporary new location of the TKTS booth to get tickets to a Broadway show. I was hoping they would have picked Martin Short's one man show, but for some reason my dad didn't want to see it. Instead, we ended up getting tickets to "The Wedding Singer", and show which I really didn't want to see because I was pretty sure it was crap. Plus, my mom had already gone to see it with my sister a couple of weeks earlier. Thankfully I didn't have to pay for my ticket, because I was more then correct in my assumptions about the quality of the show. What a piece of garbage, and even though I didn't pay for my ticket, I still feel as if I am owed something for having spent 3 hours stuck in the theater watching it. The music sucked, the acting was dry and nobody had good comedic timing, even the star, comedian Steven Lynch (who isn't that good of a comedian to begin with) seemed to be way out of his elliment on stage. The humor of this show pretty much were the same recycled 80's jokes brought to us by the movie. In the movie, these jokes were great, because they were "fresh" and delivered perfectly by the Sandler crew; however, when you are seeing the same joke, said by totally different characters (except for the names, and certain plot points, all the characters have been changed around. Why? I have no idea) the jokes come off as a group of annoying people quoting movies, very poorly to the point of nausea. If you still want to see the show, and you are prone to siesures, don't go. For some reason, the lighting people thought it would be cute to hang a disco ball over the audience for the entire duration of the show, leaving you feeling nice dizzy (as if the dialouge didn't make you sick enough). Post intermission, they also had a little "80'-esque" light show on the stage, which at one point turned into a very poor rendition of Pong (because no one ever made pong jokes before). Not only that, they didn't projhect a game of pong, but rather three different lights, controlled by the lighting technitians, who must have been drunk, because the thing was totally off pace. Plus, wasn't pong in the 70's? Which brings up another problem, the play is completely historically inacurate. They talk about stuff, and use language, that for 1985, was either too early, or too late. The only redeeming qualities the show has was the character of Linda, who was the only one who successfully managed to reinvent her character in a good way (even with the crappy dialouge AND music, her songs were actually the best of the show, which doesn't say much), AND the set designs. It is amazing what technology and budgets can do for a show, but it seemed that they wrote some scenes just to show off how cool sets can be. So if I were an actual reviewer, and I had my own little rating system of 1 to 10, this show would score a sorry 2. I would only recommend this show to teenage girls, overly homosexual men, old people who have completely lost their mind, Southerners, and the retarded. If you don't fit into any of these categories, take the money, go out to dinner, and rent the movie, and save your brain.
Today didn't start off so hot either. Not only did I find it damn near impossible to wake up and get out of bed (I am still amazed I actually did it), but then I get into work for an appointment to show someone how to work our presentation equipment for a presentation on wednesday, and then travelled all the way down to the village to meet with the office manager of the Waverly office. I got totally lost down in the village, because googlemaps apparently sucks and thought the office was on the other side of Washington Square Park (the office is actually on Waverly, near the corner of 6th Avenue). The office is pretty nice, and empty, so it should be a relaxing time if anything. I just hate that I now have an extra 15 minutes on my commute. I need to buy a new book. Then I get back to the office, where there was supposed to be a board package, but the person who wanted me to do it, took it, and left a message saying she will bring it back and go over it with me when she got back. She got back as I was eating lunch. I love people who are considerate of other peoples schedules. So when I leave my coverage of the front desk (where I am now), I will have to rush it to get it typed up before the day is out. There is more to complain about with that situation, but the amount of understanding it would require is too much for me to type it all out here (I've been ranting enough for one entry).
Ok, well it is time for me to leave the front desk, so I will talk to y'all later.
I never told you people about Clerks 2. It's very very funny. Go see it. It has a donkey show.
I hope evreyone had a nice weekend. I know I did. It started off with what was going to be a fairly average friday. Mike's girlfriend Allison and her friend came over the appartment to drink and eventually go out on the town in Astoria. Then I got a phone call from Brad then Brooke inviting me to go up to the New Paltz Wine Festival. So I was picked up at 12am, and driven out to New City, where I spent the night in Brad's house. The next day the three of us ventured even further up north to get our wine on. The festival was fun. Only two tents, with about 15-20 local wineries participating. Each table could only give three sample glasses of wine, so there wasn't a HUGE selection or varety. There were a couple of tables which offered some really interesting wines, and this one winery which had some incredibly awesome flavors of wine, and based on the three kinds they had with them, I am sure the ones I just read about, are equally as good. I am at work right now, so I don't know the name of the winery. They also had some great food tents, one of which served Alligator Gumbo, which I bought and delightfully consumed. Then there was another table where I bought some Vennison Jerky and Vennison Summer Sausage (I didn't want to buy anything that needed to be refridgerated, because it probably would not have survived all the way back to Astoria. And the other table where I actually bought something was a sauce table, which had some really good marinades. Now I know those of you who know, I love to make my own marinades; but sometimes, a man doesn't have time for that kind of stuff. Then we went back to the city. I got back to my apartment at the same time that Robyn arrived there. Her arrival also ment that we were all going out to dinner as a large group, then out to the bars. We went to Vynl (on 51st and 9th) for dinner, which not only had some really good food and really good drinks, but also a fun, music-themed atmosphere. Then we went out to a Bar called Valhala, also on 9th Avenue, and I believe 54th street. The bar was nice and quiet, which is always good when you are drinking with a large group. They also have a GREAT beer selection, which is good, because the only beers I like are obscure beers. Then around 12, the full day of drinking hit me, and I went home more tired then drunk, and about $100 lighter then I was on Friday.
Then yesterday (sunday), my mom and dad came to NYC to spend the day with me. I met them at the temporary new location of the TKTS booth to get tickets to a Broadway show. I was hoping they would have picked Martin Short's one man show, but for some reason my dad didn't want to see it. Instead, we ended up getting tickets to "The Wedding Singer", and show which I really didn't want to see because I was pretty sure it was crap. Plus, my mom had already gone to see it with my sister a couple of weeks earlier. Thankfully I didn't have to pay for my ticket, because I was more then correct in my assumptions about the quality of the show. What a piece of garbage, and even though I didn't pay for my ticket, I still feel as if I am owed something for having spent 3 hours stuck in the theater watching it. The music sucked, the acting was dry and nobody had good comedic timing, even the star, comedian Steven Lynch (who isn't that good of a comedian to begin with) seemed to be way out of his elliment on stage. The humor of this show pretty much were the same recycled 80's jokes brought to us by the movie. In the movie, these jokes were great, because they were "fresh" and delivered perfectly by the Sandler crew; however, when you are seeing the same joke, said by totally different characters (except for the names, and certain plot points, all the characters have been changed around. Why? I have no idea) the jokes come off as a group of annoying people quoting movies, very poorly to the point of nausea. If you still want to see the show, and you are prone to siesures, don't go. For some reason, the lighting people thought it would be cute to hang a disco ball over the audience for the entire duration of the show, leaving you feeling nice dizzy (as if the dialouge didn't make you sick enough). Post intermission, they also had a little "80'-esque" light show on the stage, which at one point turned into a very poor rendition of Pong (because no one ever made pong jokes before). Not only that, they didn't projhect a game of pong, but rather three different lights, controlled by the lighting technitians, who must have been drunk, because the thing was totally off pace. Plus, wasn't pong in the 70's? Which brings up another problem, the play is completely historically inacurate. They talk about stuff, and use language, that for 1985, was either too early, or too late. The only redeeming qualities the show has was the character of Linda, who was the only one who successfully managed to reinvent her character in a good way (even with the crappy dialouge AND music, her songs were actually the best of the show, which doesn't say much), AND the set designs. It is amazing what technology and budgets can do for a show, but it seemed that they wrote some scenes just to show off how cool sets can be. So if I were an actual reviewer, and I had my own little rating system of 1 to 10, this show would score a sorry 2. I would only recommend this show to teenage girls, overly homosexual men, old people who have completely lost their mind, Southerners, and the retarded. If you don't fit into any of these categories, take the money, go out to dinner, and rent the movie, and save your brain.
Today didn't start off so hot either. Not only did I find it damn near impossible to wake up and get out of bed (I am still amazed I actually did it), but then I get into work for an appointment to show someone how to work our presentation equipment for a presentation on wednesday, and then travelled all the way down to the village to meet with the office manager of the Waverly office. I got totally lost down in the village, because googlemaps apparently sucks and thought the office was on the other side of Washington Square Park (the office is actually on Waverly, near the corner of 6th Avenue). The office is pretty nice, and empty, so it should be a relaxing time if anything. I just hate that I now have an extra 15 minutes on my commute. I need to buy a new book. Then I get back to the office, where there was supposed to be a board package, but the person who wanted me to do it, took it, and left a message saying she will bring it back and go over it with me when she got back. She got back as I was eating lunch. I love people who are considerate of other peoples schedules. So when I leave my coverage of the front desk (where I am now), I will have to rush it to get it typed up before the day is out. There is more to complain about with that situation, but the amount of understanding it would require is too much for me to type it all out here (I've been ranting enough for one entry).
Ok, well it is time for me to leave the front desk, so I will talk to y'all later.