two words best describe my life in the last week: SPACED OUT.
it wasnt the kinda spacing out based on the lack of action, but the kinda when you standing in the middle of time square (where i will NEVER go), with sharp chaos slashing through from every angle, and what do you do? space out. and space out i did.
Heather came down to nail her apt, i ended up going out every night and working everyday, didnt go to babel on thursday due to a fight with twin and some major household action.
Friday we went to a bday party uptown (1st time going uptown this yr) and ended up singing some old rock songs (Blake inspired) and scared Alia and her friends… well done Attah, and ran into the one and only Forrest Renaissance who use to rock my tuesday nights with the dope Eclectic Ride music, but that era has officially passed, didnt make it to Forrest’s LES party later that night, ended up at CAKESHOP chatting with the girls about… life…. till 4am (did try to stop by Pianos to catch a show but people were playin Guitar Hero?!!!wtf).
Saturday I watched two Yankees/Mets games at work, didnt finish the second one, got a bottle of wine and went to a loft party uptown (2nd time going uptown this yr), ended up at some Irish pub to ask about the scores two blocks away from the party and it’s called O’Reily’s… i stood outside the pub and laughed at the name for five minutes… man the place had all the Brooklyn Dodger’s memorabilia, very depressing, and i had the oldest bartender who made me the nastiest magarita i ever had… and yankees lost… i went on to the party where i knew almost no one except Joe and Ross who my roommie Tara from college had a crush on and whose band she had snatched me to see in the purring rain at the Knitting Factory (where I swore never go back for very legit reasons), i missed most of the show but those cats were interesting characters, not my genre of music, but very unique, check them out it’s called TallyHall. Anyways the lack of familiar faces didn’t stop us from drinking endless cups of trade joes wine and eating chocolate bars and totally leveled up our BFB bad french behavior by engaging a long conversation about my once tragic love life, more depressing than the Dodger.
Sunday i ended up watching some Redsux game with Patrick while working at my bar as the worst and least attentive bartender in nyc, by sunday night when i struggled to finish some finale shows, i passed out royally.
Then came the weekdays, i didnt real remember monday, i never do, monday has been my invisible day for years, i just sleep through it. Tuesday was of course made special this year for the first time by one very cakelicious american idol, so i watched, very cakey, and got some text msg yankees updates about arods bad acts. Wednesday was simply fabulous, i sat as the only girl at Gastby’s, cheered for Milan with some italian mates and then Patrick and Heather came like right before the game was over, lame, we ended up with way too many bluemoons and notellas for our own good. Blake didn’t win, thank god, if i gotta hear him sing that crappy pop song one more time, i’d die, he is a REAL musician, f this s**t. Last night after making up with twin i sent my crew to babel and caught the 10pm show of Paris Je t’aime with Carolyn, Joe, Adrianna and her friend who looked a lot like Blake (i bit my tongue not to say that since im still happily in the american idol watching closet). Ok now this is where the anger kicked in, it sucked, even though it was exactly what i had expected and each short was like a bad trailer of what would the director have done with their features, so you pretty much have to love at least 80% of the directors to not hate the film or fall asleep halfway, it just showed not every director can director AND write. I was especially disappointed at Doyle (still love him to death) since i almost jumped out of my seat when his short started. Now after i told my french news updater Attah, even she decided to wait for the dvd to come out, no faith. Oh man. trying to remain hopeful for Once to be good… Afterwards the real drama started, babel was a mess, everyone was angry at something or someone, as Henry and I hugged outside the big wooden door and just looked at the scene and both agreed it was officially the end of an era, sigh, so much bittersweetness. So we ended the night early and the girls took a long walk, a beautiful night tho. Next Thursday we will do it one more time, one last time babes.
So this morning i woke up and bought a plane tix (roundtrip thank god), it’s that time of the year to take a break and hopefully i dont have to end up canceling and storing it as credit with Expedia like i did in Feb, gosh they love me. While we were waiting for the Blake-look-alike to get his popcorn at Landmark, surrounded by all the posters of movies I love and wish I had made, Joe said like he was speaking the truth: “you are gonna make movies.” That cynical laugh inside of me was planning its escape, but I kept my mouth shut, cuz I found it all so hopelessly hilarious. Even though the days of trying soooo bad to be good was way pass due, while i was becoming simple, bordering giving up and yet film schools, opportunities and even inspiration just flooded in from all direction. Aint life a bitch, when you cared least, it decided to make it happen for you.
I listened to all his music earlier when I was organizing old CDs, even those that brought back the most stupid memories, and I felt hopeful. Hopeful can never be bad. So maybe im finally ready for some Fort Greene and Clinton Hill action.
Awww. It’s summer again.