I was planning to do a big update about yesterday this morning but I couldn't get the wireless to work then so I guess it didn't happen. oh well. now I get to do 2 days at once. Yesterday was a massive day, so I'm probably gonna miss 1200 things but oh well, here goes...
The day started with me getting up early and lurking the internet for a couple of hours haha. Good life. The other boys went out to get some breakfast but I just stayed in and ate vegemite sandwiches. I then headed back to our room to meet our new roomies before we bailed. A n older dude from Colorado (I think?), a surfy dude from Sweden and a dude from Bunbury West Australia who is down on holiday from his working holiday in Canada.
Just like the day before, this was going to be another walking day. We just decided to walk uptown towards Central Park today, instead of the downtown trip we did yesterday.
The first thing we hit was Madison Square Garden before walking over to the Empire State Building. I was told by a friend that the view from the Rockefeller Centre down the road is better than the Empire state so we decided to do both just in case. Empire State during the day and then Rockefeller at night. But more on Rockefeller later. The view from the Empire State Building is amazing. You can see pretty much everything from up there. All the NY bridges, Brooklyn, the whole of the bottom half of the City, Liberty Island and the Jersey Shore. Everything on the ground feels so small haha.
We then continued on our walk towards Central Park. We sussed some shirt store where Sean bought a Wu Tang shirt and then got some rad NY pizza for lunch before heading over to the Grand Central Station to be amazed by one of the coolest buildings I've ever seen in my life. You walk into the main room and look up and you can see the night sky with all the star sign animals on it. So rad. The angel on the roof outside is amazing too (I will put pics up eventually). We headed over to the historic NY Public Library and it's just as rad. So much cool architecture and artwork.
We saw the amazingly trendy Mac store (where you walk in through a Giant glass cube) on the corner of Central Park before heading into the belly of natureeeeee.
Central Park is really cool. We saw this family of turtles just hanging out and so many other cool plants and animals. I'd love to write about it some more but it's really about the photos here so I guess I might just leave it for the photo blog I will eventually do. Needless to say, it's a rad place and you could really waste days just hanging out in there.
We headed over to the American Musuem of Natural History where the last hour is free because Sean and Grono wanted to check out mummies, well it turns out the mummies are at a different museum but we still found shit to do. Grono and Sean sussed some dinosaurs and shit while I checked out the space exhibition cause space rules. There's this thing about sizes where it uses a massive cube to compare the sizes of lots of different stuff to give you an idea of the scales of things around you, from the size of our whole universe to the quarks that make up the elements that are the building blocks of our world.
Now it was time for Times Square. It's like sensory overload when you first see it... so much advertising haha. Highlights include: a military recruiting booth right in the centre of it all, a Toys'R'Us that has a Ferris Wheel inside and a massive lego empire state building complete with an animated King Kong up the top haha, a Hershey's chocolates store where you can buy massive blocks of chocolate and Hershey's shirts and probably heaps of little things I've now forgotten because I'm feeling so ridiculously tired.
We headed to the Rockefeller Centre to finish off the day (for the record I think the daytime views of the city may be better than the night time ones... it's harder to find buildings at night) before going home on the subway and pretty much crashing straight out. Massive day. I'm going to bed. (I did the entry below about today before I did yesterday, so this is in fact the last piece of text written here... goodnight)
Now here's today...
The goal of today was seeing Letterman. It was mainly something that Sean wanted to do, but Grono and I were kinda siked too so we made a day of it. Every morning that the show is filmed a select amount of tickets are released in a lottery (or so they claim). Cool cats (like sean, grono and I) can apply at the studio between 9:30 and 12:30 during the day. We started our day by taking the subway to near the studio to get breakfast and join the lineup. The rules stipulated that we weren't allowed to line up till 9am, so Grono and Sean got breakfast at Hello Diner around the corner from the studio while we waited for 9am to come around. According to Sean, Hello Diner and it's owner Rupert G are often used by Letterman in some of his skits, so Rupert G is kind of a celebrity himself I guess. We talked shit with him and a photographer from the show who was in there getting breakfast. Sean got a photo with Rupert G and then we bailed.
We stood in line for the next half hour, put in our application to hopefully get on the show and then bailed to find an internet cafe to plan our next couple of hours. On the way to find an internet cafe we ran into M&M world in Times Square where they have tonnes of cool M&M related merch, as well as these massive dispensers of loose M&M's so you I guess make a bag of them with the colours you want. I got a little bag of M&M's not expecting it to cost too much. It ended up being $8US. That's roughly $12Aus. For a bag of M&M's. Fuck the world.
After sussing some locations at a net cafe near Times Square we hit the subway down to near Soho and the Lower East Side so we could suss NYHC tattoo and I could suss some shops. Sean called Letterman just after we hit the ground in Soho. They told him to call after 11am to see if we were on the show tonight and it turns out we were. Good life. Everyone was pretty happy after that. Sean made some quip about us wasting our tourist time on clothing stores a bit later but oh well, he is the king of grumps.
Fred Perry store was mega expensive. Ksubi store wasn't even open when we rocked up. Ben Sherman was alright, I got a shirt. Alife was pretty much shit, it looked flash but they had NOTHING on show pretty much. Boring. NYHC tattoo was still shut when we got there haha, they dont open till 1pm. We may be going back there to get tattooed tomorrow night tho. We saw what looked like a dude dealing drugs through a fence to school kids haha. Good life.
We headed back uptown on the subway to get lunch and wait for Letterman. We all got some slice's from a Ray's pizza across the road from the studio and then went over to line up. We were given a ticket and told to come back in like an hour and a half. We had some time to kill so we went and lurked the internetz for a bit again. When we headed back we ran into a dude we were staying with who was also going to Letterman and we all just hung out till we got let in. TV land is rad haha. They hype you up heaps and then throw you into the studio to watch the show. We were in the top seating which isn't the best but oh well. It still ruled the guests were Jennifer Garner, some dude from a company that makes electric cars and a band I didn't care about haha. It was rad, but I can't think of anything else cool to say about it.
We headed further uptown to see the diner from Seinfeld afterwards (which I didn't really give a fuck about but was still interesting I guess) and then headed home to grab a couple of things before heading out to Red Bamboo again for dinner. However, it turned out our hostel has free NY pizza tonight so we all just stayed in, ate pizza and lurked the internetz instead. I headed up to the American Apparel store around the corner about 10PM and grabbed a cardigan (clothing stores open till 11PM every night... NY is my kind of city haha) and now I'm sitting here listening to JEW and writing this while I presume everyone else is in bed. Good life.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention it earlier but the weather was bitter cold today. It sucked. Luckily it didn't rain but the wind was really bitter. It was a bit of a rude awakening after the last two days being amazing and sunny.
Tomorrow we're going to go suss the Brooklyn bridge and Chinatown, probably hit up Red Bamboo for dinner again, maybe get little tattoos at NYHC tattoo if they can fit us in and I need to go a shoe store and get some new Vans... my current pair is pretty much fucked now.
Sinners and Saints are a fucking cool band. It's an atrocity that I haven't listened to this gem in such a long time... Hardcore and punk dudes playing some tasteful rock and roll. woot. ^_^
The day started with me getting up early and lurking the internet for a couple of hours haha. Good life. The other boys went out to get some breakfast but I just stayed in and ate vegemite sandwiches. I then headed back to our room to meet our new roomies before we bailed. A n older dude from Colorado (I think?), a surfy dude from Sweden and a dude from Bunbury West Australia who is down on holiday from his working holiday in Canada.
Just like the day before, this was going to be another walking day. We just decided to walk uptown towards Central Park today, instead of the downtown trip we did yesterday.
The first thing we hit was Madison Square Garden before walking over to the Empire State Building. I was told by a friend that the view from the Rockefeller Centre down the road is better than the Empire state so we decided to do both just in case. Empire State during the day and then Rockefeller at night. But more on Rockefeller later. The view from the Empire State Building is amazing. You can see pretty much everything from up there. All the NY bridges, Brooklyn, the whole of the bottom half of the City, Liberty Island and the Jersey Shore. Everything on the ground feels so small haha.
We then continued on our walk towards Central Park. We sussed some shirt store where Sean bought a Wu Tang shirt and then got some rad NY pizza for lunch before heading over to the Grand Central Station to be amazed by one of the coolest buildings I've ever seen in my life. You walk into the main room and look up and you can see the night sky with all the star sign animals on it. So rad. The angel on the roof outside is amazing too (I will put pics up eventually). We headed over to the historic NY Public Library and it's just as rad. So much cool architecture and artwork.
We saw the amazingly trendy Mac store (where you walk in through a Giant glass cube) on the corner of Central Park before heading into the belly of natureeeeee.
Central Park is really cool. We saw this family of turtles just hanging out and so many other cool plants and animals. I'd love to write about it some more but it's really about the photos here so I guess I might just leave it for the photo blog I will eventually do. Needless to say, it's a rad place and you could really waste days just hanging out in there.
We headed over to the American Musuem of Natural History where the last hour is free because Sean and Grono wanted to check out mummies, well it turns out the mummies are at a different museum but we still found shit to do. Grono and Sean sussed some dinosaurs and shit while I checked out the space exhibition cause space rules. There's this thing about sizes where it uses a massive cube to compare the sizes of lots of different stuff to give you an idea of the scales of things around you, from the size of our whole universe to the quarks that make up the elements that are the building blocks of our world.
Now it was time for Times Square. It's like sensory overload when you first see it... so much advertising haha. Highlights include: a military recruiting booth right in the centre of it all, a Toys'R'Us that has a Ferris Wheel inside and a massive lego empire state building complete with an animated King Kong up the top haha, a Hershey's chocolates store where you can buy massive blocks of chocolate and Hershey's shirts and probably heaps of little things I've now forgotten because I'm feeling so ridiculously tired.
We headed to the Rockefeller Centre to finish off the day (for the record I think the daytime views of the city may be better than the night time ones... it's harder to find buildings at night) before going home on the subway and pretty much crashing straight out. Massive day. I'm going to bed. (I did the entry below about today before I did yesterday, so this is in fact the last piece of text written here... goodnight)
Now here's today...
The goal of today was seeing Letterman. It was mainly something that Sean wanted to do, but Grono and I were kinda siked too so we made a day of it. Every morning that the show is filmed a select amount of tickets are released in a lottery (or so they claim). Cool cats (like sean, grono and I) can apply at the studio between 9:30 and 12:30 during the day. We started our day by taking the subway to near the studio to get breakfast and join the lineup. The rules stipulated that we weren't allowed to line up till 9am, so Grono and Sean got breakfast at Hello Diner around the corner from the studio while we waited for 9am to come around. According to Sean, Hello Diner and it's owner Rupert G are often used by Letterman in some of his skits, so Rupert G is kind of a celebrity himself I guess. We talked shit with him and a photographer from the show who was in there getting breakfast. Sean got a photo with Rupert G and then we bailed.
We stood in line for the next half hour, put in our application to hopefully get on the show and then bailed to find an internet cafe to plan our next couple of hours. On the way to find an internet cafe we ran into M&M world in Times Square where they have tonnes of cool M&M related merch, as well as these massive dispensers of loose M&M's so you I guess make a bag of them with the colours you want. I got a little bag of M&M's not expecting it to cost too much. It ended up being $8US. That's roughly $12Aus. For a bag of M&M's. Fuck the world.
After sussing some locations at a net cafe near Times Square we hit the subway down to near Soho and the Lower East Side so we could suss NYHC tattoo and I could suss some shops. Sean called Letterman just after we hit the ground in Soho. They told him to call after 11am to see if we were on the show tonight and it turns out we were. Good life. Everyone was pretty happy after that. Sean made some quip about us wasting our tourist time on clothing stores a bit later but oh well, he is the king of grumps.
Fred Perry store was mega expensive. Ksubi store wasn't even open when we rocked up. Ben Sherman was alright, I got a shirt. Alife was pretty much shit, it looked flash but they had NOTHING on show pretty much. Boring. NYHC tattoo was still shut when we got there haha, they dont open till 1pm. We may be going back there to get tattooed tomorrow night tho. We saw what looked like a dude dealing drugs through a fence to school kids haha. Good life.
We headed back uptown on the subway to get lunch and wait for Letterman. We all got some slice's from a Ray's pizza across the road from the studio and then went over to line up. We were given a ticket and told to come back in like an hour and a half. We had some time to kill so we went and lurked the internetz for a bit again. When we headed back we ran into a dude we were staying with who was also going to Letterman and we all just hung out till we got let in. TV land is rad haha. They hype you up heaps and then throw you into the studio to watch the show. We were in the top seating which isn't the best but oh well. It still ruled the guests were Jennifer Garner, some dude from a company that makes electric cars and a band I didn't care about haha. It was rad, but I can't think of anything else cool to say about it.
We headed further uptown to see the diner from Seinfeld afterwards (which I didn't really give a fuck about but was still interesting I guess) and then headed home to grab a couple of things before heading out to Red Bamboo again for dinner. However, it turned out our hostel has free NY pizza tonight so we all just stayed in, ate pizza and lurked the internetz instead. I headed up to the American Apparel store around the corner about 10PM and grabbed a cardigan (clothing stores open till 11PM every night... NY is my kind of city haha) and now I'm sitting here listening to JEW and writing this while I presume everyone else is in bed. Good life.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention it earlier but the weather was bitter cold today. It sucked. Luckily it didn't rain but the wind was really bitter. It was a bit of a rude awakening after the last two days being amazing and sunny.
Tomorrow we're going to go suss the Brooklyn bridge and Chinatown, probably hit up Red Bamboo for dinner again, maybe get little tattoos at NYHC tattoo if they can fit us in and I need to go a shoe store and get some new Vans... my current pair is pretty much fucked now.
Sinners and Saints are a fucking cool band. It's an atrocity that I haven't listened to this gem in such a long time... Hardcore and punk dudes playing some tasteful rock and roll. woot. ^_^
1 comment:
haha the thing that stands out most in this for me is that JEW = Jimmy Eat World = THATS HOW I HAVE IT WRITTEN IN MY ITUNES!!!
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