Nizzle Le Mizzle in Nezzle Yozzle

It's been a while I know. The delays been partially caused by a weekend without a camera (and thus a feeble brain unable to recall what has happened over the past week) and partially because Uni work has reared its ugly head and has been mercilessly eating up my spare time. And it hasn't finished snacking so I'm writing this on my lunch break at work.


Carpet that covered the 'side-walk' while I was walking to get lunch from work. I got the 'beige floral' carpet treatment.

So to decipher what is blog-worthy I've sat down to create a list of the mondo mega amount of stuff that’s happened over the last, say, three weeks. I'm just going to give short descriptions and it'll all probably culminate in an antidote free - self centered blog - thoroughly devoid of all intelligent structure or witty rhetoric. But tuff titties, this is New York time.


This is the mr.whippy that circles my block and plays green sleeves and other nursery rhyme top 10's - well the trucks are clearly a front for a drug syndicate. Makes sense - I mean how much business can and icecream truck get at 9 at night? Not much. I wonder if they've got pictures?

So way back after my last post - I woke to find two feral cats sitting in my kitchen. Had to hiss them out the window - washed all the stuff just incase it had cat piddle on it. But hey - maybe they're the lesser of two evils - if I had seen two feral rats I’dve started some drama. I don’t want no drama, drama.



I have also found out that my area is actually the home town of Jay - Z and little Kim. "In his neighborhood, Carter was known as "Jazzy", a nickname which eventually developed into his stage name, "Jay-Z". The moniker is also a homage to his musical mentor Jaz-O (a.k.a. Jaz, Big Jaz) as well as to the J-Z subway lines that have a stop at Marcy Avenue in Brooklyn." The JMZ line is right next to my house Bit of trivia for you.


Ghetto

I have also now purchased my first NYC tour tickets to see Feist in early June. I'm so excited - and a little scared that the world of internet purchasing has been opening to my feeble checking account. I have also managed to buy a ticket to a lecture this Thursday by Vince Frost which should be rather exciting - give me something to talk about to Uni people.

Feist:




I have been out many times over the past weeks, too many times to write anything that isn’t horribly repetitive. But highlights include - seeing Tim Howey play a dj set somewhere in Soho, Heading out to les (lower east side) with the lovely Georgie Barrett, a night at a club with more celebrity photos on the wall and beautiful people on the seats than I could believe and other drinking and dancing adventures that I'm sure I wont remember in a month - but were fun all the same.


Some artwork at the train station

It's warm now - with the occasional chilly day - but it's warm. Green leaves are out and spring’s in swing. Thought I should add that.

I finally did Central Park with Julia last weekend. Had a proper walk around the grounds and saw so many cultural points of reference - that's was in Stuart little - sex in the city - that's where John Lennon was shot and killed etc. It felt like I had escaped to Dalesford but was still in the middle of Manhattan. Without too many of the buildings in site, it's a real contrast to the surrounding metropolis.


Random lady in Queens - sadly, she's at the cutting edge of queens fashion. Given that she has a photo of herself on her t-shirt.

So at work over the last month - I've been organising the details of the MSLK New Studio relaunch party (getting the food organised, the beer, logistics etc) and it's all starting to take shape. The food is going to be great - working off a Greek theme I've been researching all the local produce and fine tuning the menu. You can see the studio's transformation at www.mslk.com/newstudio


Lunch out back with my nanna/work mate - Ellen.


The eerie thing about ground zero was the abundant sunlight - in the middle of a very over shadowing bunch of skyscrapers. It was a little hard to take in the enormity of 9/11 - aparently they're still finding remains in the wreckage.


Statue of Liberty (squint)

So Georgie Barratt is in New York at the moment - has been great to have her to do some of the naughty tourist stuff that should have been done already. Had a great day in Manhattan with her - saw Ground Zero and did some shopping - also saw (albeit from a distance) the lady her self - Miss Liberty. (tick). Georgie's attracted some interesting characters on the street. Mainly men telling her she's beautiful (tis true) - but it made me wonder why nobody stops me in the street to tell me I'm beautiful. Perplexing.




(night out in Lower East Side)

Had a nice lunch in New Jersey with her and her boy James. New Jersey being the state across the Hudson - of Soprano’s fame. Let's just say the men were massive beef cakes and the ppl were interesting. That may be the first and last time I cross the border.


Hoboken - New Jersey. Frank Sinatra was born here. But playing monkey bars on sculpture was probably the funnest thing going on.


These trees smell like cum. It's gross.

I also caught up with Sophie Mallia for a night out on the Lower east side - more fun - randomly ran into Paul Currie in Soho and later this week my bestest buddy Elise is coming for the weekend. So I hang out with a lot of Australians.

In other news I'm very excited for the birth of my next niece of nephew in the next couple of days - I'm moving out of my little room at the end of this month hopefully into a nice room in Greenpoint, waiting to hear back from the roommates - and I'm trying my darndest to get some of this uni work done (the due date is looming)

Oh! And I have also had my first job interview at a 24 hour restaurant – see how it goes. Will try and look for another – if any one knows of anyone – anywhere. Let me know.

And just tonight I had an interview for this great apartment in Greenpiont (a Polish community closer to work - very pretty and cool) Heres some pics of the view from the end of the street.









Random video about Greenpoint:



The bike riding at the end of the video is in the street I'm hoping to be placed in (pray to the rent gods)


Cool artwork makes Nick a happy boy - neighbourhood gets the big tick. Let's pray that the other people they interview aren't good fits.


My stunner of a nephew Oscar - doing what generations before him have done. Wish I was there to double bounce him.