It's now like 7am Tuesday morning in NY so I thought I should give another recap. Can't be fucked adding pictures now but they may come later.
Okay, so Sunday morning was cool. We all got up early to take advantage of the free breakfast. We ate all kinds of cool American shit. Waffles! Bagels! and then some more normal shit... A bowl of Frosties and fuckloads of orange juice good life.
We got on the plane only to be told due to storms in Chicago (our stopover location on the way to NY), our flight had been delayed. Turns out we got to Chicago 3 hours late and missed our connecting flight. Fuck. Luckily, I organised a spot on a replacement flight on the phone before we left Kansas City incase we missed out connection so it seems we fared better than some other people at the airport. After about an hour and a half, we were on our replacement flight. However, because our arrival airport had changed (from JFK to La Guardia)... our bags weren't coming with us. We realised this before we left but were somewhat powerless to do anything about it. We hit the ground in NY at like 8:30PM, just before the sunset (view of the city was rad) and organised for our bags to get delivered to our hostel before we left the airport.
Once again, we were destined to be late to a show because of delays. The Have Heart/Bane/Crime in Stereo and more show Grant and I were meant to be going to that night started at 6PM. Gah. We got on a bus, connected with the subway and then said goodbye to Sean at one stop (who was going straight to the hostel) and headed to the show. After waiting for a train that never showed up and walking the wrong way to the venue we got there just in time to see the end of Bane's set and Crime in Stereo. Not perfect, but oh well. Bane were rad, CIS was really cool (a lot better than when I saw them supporting Against Me back home) and I ran into my friend Ryan from back home and bought some cool shit Capital CDs/7"'s I'd been meaning to get for ages and a couple of shirts. Grono and I got a massive packet of doritos from a corner store and caught the subway to the hostel. Met a cool guy named Nick. he was wearing a Ceremony shirt. he was rad.
Met up with Sean at the hostel. Met our roommates. a cool guy named Ed, who was wearing a Coachella festival shirt and Ian, who was wearing a Coliseum shirt. both were rad dudes. Ian is probably the coolest NZ dude I've ever met haha. We went for a quick walk around some of the streets with thos guys before heading to bed.
In the morning, our bags still hadn't arrived so we couldn't get changed or shower. bugger. I had a massive mushroom and cheese omelette at a cafe for breakfast, we said goodbye to our newfound friends, got Ian to draw some shit on our map and then headed out to explore the city on foot.
We headed off down Broadway to the Virgin Megastore. I got some massive book on vampire history for my younger sister at a rad secondhand bookshop on the way. Got an Obama shirt for Jacob from a rad black dude at some markets on the way there. Bought a Watchmen shirt and a cool special edition of the Twilight book (again for my sister), I haven't opened it but it seems alright.
We went to the lower east side and sussed some cool little stores (Sean got this amazing Simpsons shirt haha) and saw the building that used to be CBGBs. It's now a trendy store that stocks like $400US dollar shirts that are still made in China. Ugh. Dude working there was nice, but the clothing was a bit too exquisite I gues haha. We tried to find NYHC tattoo but without a concrete address, we just got lost and gave up. We found the Supreme store on the way back to the subway though. It wasn't as cool as I was expecting (all one brand stores seem a bit barren in my opinion) but it had some cool shit. I got a 5 panel and we headed off.
Went to Wall St, saw ground zero (which is currently just a massive construction site) and then walked all the way down along the water to the bottom of Battery Park. Got some really cheap I heart NY shirts and then headed over to Liberty Island to see the statue. It's fucking massive and amazingly rad. I can still remember it now. The scale is immense. I wish you could still go inside it, because that would give you the best view ever (for security reasons no one is allowed inside the actual statue anymore) but it was rad nonetheless.
We caught the subway up to near Greenwich village after so we could suss some record stores and get dinner. We had dinner at Red Bamboo, probably the best vego restaurant I've ever been to. They specialise in mock meat dishes that are just like real meat dishes I guess... "steak" rolls, "pork" ribs, marinated "chicken" etc. It was rad.
After that we spent ages in a generally punk/hardcore record store called Generations. They had Age of Quarrel on a listening station on the way in! ha! Good life. Got a Think I Care shirt for $9US, the second So Be It... 7" that I'd been meaning to get for a while and the Anti-Matter zine compilation CD. cool.
We headed back to the hostel, grabbed our bags that had now arrived, I sat down on the net for a bit before I crashed out about 8-9PM. Which is why I'm up at 7:30AM doing this haha. The other boys went to go get breakfast but I chose to stay here and just get them to get me bread. I've been reading a few things about swine flu, it seems a little scary but we should be safe. Supposedly there's a simple cure, that is already in circulation as it's used for other things. That puts my mind at ease a bit.
Anywayz, cbf'd uploading any photos yet. Talk laterz. I'm going to go have breakfast and organise some of my shit. I think we're going to go suss Central Park today.
Okay, so Sunday morning was cool. We all got up early to take advantage of the free breakfast. We ate all kinds of cool American shit. Waffles! Bagels! and then some more normal shit... A bowl of Frosties and fuckloads of orange juice good life.
We got on the plane only to be told due to storms in Chicago (our stopover location on the way to NY), our flight had been delayed. Turns out we got to Chicago 3 hours late and missed our connecting flight. Fuck. Luckily, I organised a spot on a replacement flight on the phone before we left Kansas City incase we missed out connection so it seems we fared better than some other people at the airport. After about an hour and a half, we were on our replacement flight. However, because our arrival airport had changed (from JFK to La Guardia)... our bags weren't coming with us. We realised this before we left but were somewhat powerless to do anything about it. We hit the ground in NY at like 8:30PM, just before the sunset (view of the city was rad) and organised for our bags to get delivered to our hostel before we left the airport.
Once again, we were destined to be late to a show because of delays. The Have Heart/Bane/Crime in Stereo and more show Grant and I were meant to be going to that night started at 6PM. Gah. We got on a bus, connected with the subway and then said goodbye to Sean at one stop (who was going straight to the hostel) and headed to the show. After waiting for a train that never showed up and walking the wrong way to the venue we got there just in time to see the end of Bane's set and Crime in Stereo. Not perfect, but oh well. Bane were rad, CIS was really cool (a lot better than when I saw them supporting Against Me back home) and I ran into my friend Ryan from back home and bought some cool shit Capital CDs/7"'s I'd been meaning to get for ages and a couple of shirts. Grono and I got a massive packet of doritos from a corner store and caught the subway to the hostel. Met a cool guy named Nick. he was wearing a Ceremony shirt. he was rad.
Met up with Sean at the hostel. Met our roommates. a cool guy named Ed, who was wearing a Coachella festival shirt and Ian, who was wearing a Coliseum shirt. both were rad dudes. Ian is probably the coolest NZ dude I've ever met haha. We went for a quick walk around some of the streets with thos guys before heading to bed.
In the morning, our bags still hadn't arrived so we couldn't get changed or shower. bugger. I had a massive mushroom and cheese omelette at a cafe for breakfast, we said goodbye to our newfound friends, got Ian to draw some shit on our map and then headed out to explore the city on foot.
We headed off down Broadway to the Virgin Megastore. I got some massive book on vampire history for my younger sister at a rad secondhand bookshop on the way. Got an Obama shirt for Jacob from a rad black dude at some markets on the way there. Bought a Watchmen shirt and a cool special edition of the Twilight book (again for my sister), I haven't opened it but it seems alright.
We went to the lower east side and sussed some cool little stores (Sean got this amazing Simpsons shirt haha) and saw the building that used to be CBGBs. It's now a trendy store that stocks like $400US dollar shirts that are still made in China. Ugh. Dude working there was nice, but the clothing was a bit too exquisite I gues haha. We tried to find NYHC tattoo but without a concrete address, we just got lost and gave up. We found the Supreme store on the way back to the subway though. It wasn't as cool as I was expecting (all one brand stores seem a bit barren in my opinion) but it had some cool shit. I got a 5 panel and we headed off.
Went to Wall St, saw ground zero (which is currently just a massive construction site) and then walked all the way down along the water to the bottom of Battery Park. Got some really cheap I heart NY shirts and then headed over to Liberty Island to see the statue. It's fucking massive and amazingly rad. I can still remember it now. The scale is immense. I wish you could still go inside it, because that would give you the best view ever (for security reasons no one is allowed inside the actual statue anymore) but it was rad nonetheless.
We caught the subway up to near Greenwich village after so we could suss some record stores and get dinner. We had dinner at Red Bamboo, probably the best vego restaurant I've ever been to. They specialise in mock meat dishes that are just like real meat dishes I guess... "steak" rolls, "pork" ribs, marinated "chicken" etc. It was rad.
After that we spent ages in a generally punk/hardcore record store called Generations. They had Age of Quarrel on a listening station on the way in! ha! Good life. Got a Think I Care shirt for $9US, the second So Be It... 7" that I'd been meaning to get for a while and the Anti-Matter zine compilation CD. cool.
We headed back to the hostel, grabbed our bags that had now arrived, I sat down on the net for a bit before I crashed out about 8-9PM. Which is why I'm up at 7:30AM doing this haha. The other boys went to go get breakfast but I chose to stay here and just get them to get me bread. I've been reading a few things about swine flu, it seems a little scary but we should be safe. Supposedly there's a simple cure, that is already in circulation as it's used for other things. That puts my mind at ease a bit.
Anywayz, cbf'd uploading any photos yet. Talk laterz. I'm going to go have breakfast and organise some of my shit. I think we're going to go suss Central Park today.
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