okay, so here's some more ny before i sum everything up and leave you all to your real life - the weird thing is that i had never felt any particular desire to share my life with everybody in form of a blog but now i feel like i'm really gonna miss that. i'm thinking of ways how to redefine this blog elegantly so that i can not only write travel experiences into it...but, anyway:
on sunday i went museum hopping, going to the museum of modern arts (moma)
and the international photography center. the moma was extremely crowded, that sucked (and they completely ignore joan mitchell which totally freaked me out). but it was fun to see the works they exhibited and also to people-watch, cause people in famous museums are rarely really interested in fine arts in general or in the place they're visiting in particular, that makes them even more fun to watch. the weather sucked, too, by the way:
(if you click on the picture to see it in full size you can actually see the rain coming down...that's about how rainy it was...)so i got slightly grumpy at some point….. but that night zoe and i went to the movies to see capitalism: a love story. this is definitely worthwhile watching, it’s not half bad for a michael moore movie. you know, dear us friends and comrades, you are living in interesting times these days – thank you for finally getting angry and standing up against what’s happening, cause there’s enough, and it’s great that people actually start questioning the sensibility of this crappy system. we had vegan pizza afterwards – you know my relationship towards vegan food – but it was really good with artichokes and some indefinable soy stuff on it and there was so much of the topping that it was more of a quiche or something than pizza.
i decided to spend the second day in new york (and my first sunny day for a while!) in a more relaxed and easygoing way:
walking around (really something genuinely new for my style of travelling), seeing central park, hanging out there, i had one of these perfect moments: the sun was shining, i sat on a bench and had coffee and that saxophonist played all the great tunes: just friends, autumn leaves, take the a-train – kitschy? maybe. i don’t know. he played beautifully, i must add – i would easily buy his cd at any given time, and may i add: any street musician in nyc plays better than many of the professionals in germany. i’m not sure whether i should feel bad about my own sax skills or if i should laugh out loud about those jazz musicians in germany who always take themselves so seriously and feel so smart and cool about their music. i guess i’ll choose the second one, especially since i have never thought of myself as a great musician. so, yeah, sorry dear colleagues: any given street corner musician in new york, the one in the park must have been in his eighties, just simply plays better than you. haha.
perfection
central park was very nice, i spent half the day talking to friendly people over the phone, reading, writing, enjoying the sun – that was awesome. really one of those perfect moments. and very relaxed, too.
i had dinner somewhere between the upper eastside and harlem later on – i didn’t quite make it to harlem or the bronx or queens, ny is just too big for two days, or weeks, for that matter – in an italian restaurant. i only went in there because they served chicken penne a la vodka (and were about half as expensive as the other places around) and i found that really cool and wanted to try. i did, and it was great:
didn’t taste like vodka though. at all.central park by night:
i walked around for a little longer and decided to go and see grand central station which is much bigger than i ever would have thought.
i will definitely need to come back to new york at some point and see all the other places i did not make it to this time – the comics and cartoon art museum, for instance, and so many more. it is a very cool place! and crazy, too.
zoe's apartment:
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