06.12.07

Finally, the band gets to break out of the bubble. After obtaining a media pass (thanks CMJ!) I headed into the insanity. I should have been in the freakin' VIP tent! you would think that I'd get such things, but nope. Hung out in the press area to watch the show, and to avoid more 13 year old girls blowing out my eardrums. Those girls could shatter glass! It's the only way I would ever watch this band anyhow. REALLY not my cup of tea.

After finding the boss man and woman downing a few in the VIP area, we headed to Brass Monkey for the after party. Open bar baby! Too bad I wasn't ready to end my night after they were ready to head home. Maybe it's because I didn't get my share of VIP treatment. So I took the $20 given to me to head home and redirected the cab to Times Square. Headed to Circus to get a $3 beer and a hot dog. Upon my arrival, I was stopped at the door by 2 West Africans looking for love. I told them the truth: I was waiting until my boyfriend got off of work. Maybe it's the fact that I was ready Beast of No Nation, but I really didn't mind entertaining these guys while I killed time. Maybe it was that I really had no where to run in that bar, so I had no choice to be nice. After chatting with a trumpet player with hip hop dreams, my chopper had arrived. The look on those three guys was hilarious! They couldn't believe a girl used that line and was actually telling the truth! I am guilty of using that line a few times and it is sad to hear shit like: "Your man lets you out of the house?" and "well, why are you here if you have a boyfriend", followed by the unwavering pursuit to get into your pants.

Enough ranting. Here's some more photos and here's a little 27 sec clip:

Tuesday-Tuesday.

First, I'd like to send out some Appypolly loggy to Bri. Tuesday, I took advantage of the best deal in BK at Lazy Catfish. Pay back is delicious!

Next: 6.02: Grand Ave. Park after bring harassed like you wouldn't believe, while looking for a non-existent party in bushwick.


06.09: Live at the BBQ party at Hope Lounge. nice space, but a little too loungy for this girl.

06.09 Loving Day.
40th anniversary of the legalization of interracial marriage. Only 40 years ago! amazing! and in 2000 Alabama finally got rid of the last law that banned interracial marriage. What's sad is that it BARELY passed the popular vote. Another reason I'm not venturing anywhere between here, Miami and California. I'd be shot on site! Biggest complaint: WAY too many people there only for the free beer, food and ice cream. Here's some more photos from the event.

Also, we were walking down the street killing time before the event, and lo and behold:

Then after heading to the park, we saw this lady climbing into the trees and eating these berry things. We find out later that they were Mulberries after we caught someone else eating it.

Dinner was at SB3. Awesome big juicy burger with fancy cocktails made by a mixologist. Of course it's way too posh for my friday nights.


Then a closing drink at Harefield where we met Gizmo. sooo cute!

05.31.07

Went to the Adidas launch of their new "urban" collection, sponsored by P.i.n.k. vodka, Heini, and Complex mag, AKA Ecko.
Here's a couple of pics.

Then we headed to a fancy little rest. in the West village to see Ant spin.

party!

this week's exploits are coming soon, but if you read this, you're invited:

05.28.07

FINALLY! The biggest thing of my career is up for mass consumption. The Band in the Bubble logo is everywhere at the Hudson River Park. The band sucks but at least my logo looks cool. Soooo excited! check out some photos from the Memorial Day "bbq".

05.27.05

for the memorial day weekend, Chops and I headed to the Water Taxi Beach. Good thing we got there an hour after it opened, 'cause we secured a nice spot under the tent.

On our way there, a butterfly landed on Chop's bag:

He hung out for at least 6 blocks until we reached the beach! Lazy thing wanted a free ride!

Here's some more pics.

05.24.07

Snarky finally quit her job. a LONG time coming and it was time to celebrate the best way possible: drinks in the outdoor patio of a bar. Harefield with their $4 house drinks was just perfect.
Here's some shots.

and....thanks Chops for making me look like a girl that can't handle her liquor. making me fall like that....

05.20.07

Dante's Fried Chicken Show. Open Vodka bar, really loud beats, a small tasting of BEST vegan food I ever had, all in a double-floored space (someone's apartment? office?) in the financial district.

05.19.07

Instead of taking advantage of all the free booze and finger foods today had to offer, my body decided that harvesting a cold would be more fun. Not to be completely defeated, I attended the reason this week is so huge: ICFF. As usual, there were many pieces I wish I could afford and many that I thought were not even worth NEARLY enough their retail value. Check out some of my favorites from this HUGE trade show: ICFF 2007.

05.18.07

What a start to Design weekend 2007. TONS of parties and cocktail receptions making my head spin. The Apartment got together with a bunch of my fav. design blogs and threw a nice shinding: Design Blogfest. 10 Cane Rum kept it simpe and even got Gael to be a bartender! By the time we hit e-anna's party at Karma, I was good to go. More pics.

05.17.07

Went to ths Guinness Tastng event wit Chops. Best. Tasting. EVER. After waiting forever on a long line, we got our ticket for a bottle. Cashed in then we were hauled into the big room with round tables. Met three guys, two with "official" looking cameras, followed by two other girls. Four Russian girls who were obviously not into it, left our crazy table within the first five minutes. Not even halfway through my beer, we recieved pints. Chops got picked for the how to pour a black and tan demo, as the gave each table four cans of Guinness and 4 bottles of Harp. After finishing those and the
Russian girls' pints, we were drank for sho. Here's some pics with my crappy flash. (sorry chops)

!!!: Bowery Ballroom 05.16.07

Thanks to Snarky, I finally got to see !!! live. first show since Cold War Kids. I have to make a promise to myself to see more shows, especially during the summer when everyone comes around.

Best part of my night especially after having received threats from some dickhead on a bike that I didn't want to fuck. Apparently he didn't understand that. Neither did the three fuckheads walking by watching this go down, since they joined in calling me a bitch, because apparently I was wrong for not dropping my pants and hoping on this guy's microscopic prick. I had to walk around the block from my house! In the three years that I've been in that area, I have NEVER had to walk away from my house because I felt so scared. I didn't think the day would come where I would have to kill a man, but if he even got as close as grabbing my arm, there would be my knife in his neck. Thank you high school anatomy for teaching me where exactly on the jugular I would be most successful in taking this excuse for a human being off this planet.

thank god it didn't come to that, or I would have missed this:

05.15.07

Ben Sherman had a birthday party for their first year in Soho. Bass Ale was flowing along with some nasty Jekyll and Hyde drink. The "berry" made me gag. Tasted just like 'tussin. I guess that's why they gave out mini powdered donuts to chase it with. I could only imagine what the "herbal" tasted like.

Goodie bags included a pint glass from Bass, Bass key chains, mini-Filter, a Pipettes CD, Wolfmother buttons, and other things that probably will collect dust in my room.

Someone was desperate enough for such golden goodies, that they took snarky's bag. WTF? Isn't this Soho? aren't you supposed to be beneath such things? Her hoodie is still missing. I blame the frizzy haired fat lady that threw me to the ground to get food at the Rever party a few weeks ago. She was picking up every free thing that wasn't nailed down.

More pics

Mother's Day

For mother's day, my sister chose to prove that the $50,000 my mother has to pay in tuition (loans...lots of them) for her to go to school, really isn't going to waste. She put her CIA training to work. The menu: Hickory smoked & grilled steak, whipped potatoes and sauteed spinach and corn. I "made" the sauce and helped prepped and manned the grill. I can still smell the charcoal...mmm....summer....

Thurs. 05/10-07

Hit Chelsea for some outdoor dinning on such a lovely day. Randomly chose this thai rest. called Regional Thai. yummmy! check out the beggar's pouch and the railroad fried rice:

05.05.07

Cinco de Mayo!

Chops had the day off and we took advantage of the weather. Headed to H&M, then Urban uptown, enjoyed the scene at Riverside park:


took the bus crosstown to head up to El Bario for Iz's opening:


headed back to BK for dinner at Grand Morelos (so yum) and then off to Bushwick for a going away house party for Kevin:

05.04.07

Best deal EVER for a wino. $75 unlimited wine dinner at Maloney & Porcelli in midtown. The 'rents and I enjoyed ourselves silly on brut, cabernet sauvignon, sauvignon blanc and merlot. SOOOOO GOOD! and the food was even better. you had the pick of the entire menu. apps, entree and desert. delish! we def. took advantage and had a great time.

05.04.07

Thursday was a night. I haven't had a night like that in a WHILE!


First stop: dinner in Little Italy. yum!


Second stop: Soleteck had a party for some collabo of Emerica and Harley Davidson. I know. doesn't make sense to me either. Party was held at the Emerica showroom in the basement. Dewars, Bud, and Soho wine. Everyone was there. From popped collars to 14 year old boys, it was def. interesting.


Third Stop: Chung King Studios. Where legendary albums were/are made. Talk about the insane amounts of gold and platinum records on the wall. R&B and Hip Hop greats have recorded in those walls and we were in the Red Room just soaking it all in. take a look.

Fourth Stop: Supreme Trading. The Bros played a few rounds of pool while I shot the shit with DJ Swingset. Then it was off to bed at 4am.

05.02.07

Went to Sleek MedSpa for my first chemical peel. I won this gift certificate for $100 bucks. They're one of those spas that have "fancy treatments" like laser hair removal. So $75 later (after the gift certificate) and ignoring the up sell (I won't see a difference until I spend $1100 for a 10 treatment package), I got to try it out. what a load of crap. 2 minutes. that's how long I laid there for the ENTIRE thing. That included application of the chemical and washing it off. I spent more time in the waiting room filling out forms!

04.29.07

After hitting the Billion Dollar Babes Sample Sale (no, I didn't buy anything), we got free admission to the Coffee and Tea Festival right next door. Sounds WAY more exciting than it was. It looked like a real pitiful trade show. Granted it is their second year, but I felt so bad even taking advantage of free samples. I guess I would have felt even more gypped if I paid the $20 admission. We did walk away with a free bag of beans brewed specifically for the event.