This humidity is seriously cramping my style and making my hair totally freak out! And my hair isn't curly! Eeek! Anyways yesterday I ventured out to central park south, smelled like horse poo there for a tapas tasting. Tapas apparently are the new, hip thing. Let me tell you what happened there. FYI I was wearing my red betsey johnson cotton dress. It was a friend's friend's sister who was starting up a catering business, and did this tapas tasting and to invite some ppl who may be interested. Course everyone showed up late. So enough talking, onto the food porn! Lots of pics!!!! :P
plates, forks and spoons, little of course
her business cards, ddcuisine dot com. check her out if your in nyc and want some catering done.
coconut madelines, they were for dessert hence why they are covered up right now.
the table spread, damn that's a lot of food right? Oh but she brought out even MORE food since she was still cooking! *gasp* more food!!!!
bruschetta, with ricotta cheese, sweeter and tastier with tomatoes and basil
grilled tofu, with soy sauce and some other stuff, it was quite tasty
meatballs! yummy! not sure if we were suppose to eat the pasta or if it was just for decoration
meatballs!!!
chicken salad with grapes on endive.
close of up endive!
pita chips, with smoked salmon roe cream cheese spread nad baba ganoush
deviled eggs
another shot of the eggs, yes they're laying on rocks.
she had an awesome apt! it screamed out yes i can afford to live at central park south!
grilled shrimp with mango, mint and cumin! Damn it tasted so GOOD!
asian explosion salad, beef, avocado, mango, noodles and other yummies!
me about the eat the beef from her asian explosion salad, yes that's my red betsey johnson dress there!
skirt steak on bread with some seriously spicy stuff!
moroccan lamb and red pepper. It didn't taste like lamb, no gamey taste at all! we were all surprised!
chives and pork potstickers!
There was also korean bbq steak, course i was obviously busy stuffing my face. I swear when ppl said they were getting full I was still stuffing my face shamelessly. The caterer realized she forgot the crab cakes, and put on her apron and started frying them up. Course my ride had to leave. They came with a baby, and the baby had to leave cause the baby wanted to sleep and what not. sigh. so sad. I could have had crab cakes and they looked SO GOOD! and this is the part where EP starts to cry, sigh...me missing out on food!
my sangria! yes sangria!
Oh and the awkwardness of it. My friend of a friend who worked at this media company or what not, sent me this potential gig to build this website. course what he told me and what the guy in charge of the project told me were 2 different things. we spoke about it briefly and he was like dude i'm hearing the stuff that goes on and he was like what was your number? were u the one that said 10G? I was like NO! and he was like oh ok so that wasn't you today, cause that was a painful conversation i had to hear today. I was like huh? I basically explained to him that the guy who was in charge we'll call him bob, sent me a ppt presentation on what he wanted changed, before i could respond he sent me yet another ppt on what he wanted, i called him asking him a few things because he sent me 2 websites one in html/css with flash in it and one that was just pure flash. obviously there would be a huge price difference between the flash and non flash. the guy has no fucking clue what the difference is. sigh. fine, i send him a quote a fair quote i might add for a html/css with flash in it. ok here comes the awkward part. He shows up at the tapas tasting! AWKWARD! my friend's friend at the media company was like omg i'm SO SORRY! I totally forgot he was coming and you were coming and you two were talking via email and stuff! I was like awkward! what was really awkward was that the guy came and and started talking. he was kinda cute in that dorky way, BUT things got really weird. he was asking about me. yes i'm a freelancer yes i know what i'm doine, and then he asked me about my price. i said basically cause you wanted all those pages with flash in it, that's why. if it was just a straight up html/css site then the price would be lower. duh! so then he's like well what if i do the layout and i send it to you and u just do the flash? i'm like er....and what was worse was that he was like isn't there something you can download to do the flash slideshow? AHEM! *That was a little insulting, if you think its THAT easy then I suggest YOU fucking download it and do it that way then!* I responded I actually code it in flash/actionscript. He then said well if i did it that way would it cost less? Cause then it was total bs, oh we have a budget, oh i can't afford this and that. Look! I am not doing this for free. if you want this site with flash done for cheap then i suggest you find some stupid little college student then. I was like ok i'm so not gonna say anything else cause one of us has to look professional here. I really can't believe he was trying to make me lower my quote. And he wanted me to give him a number right then and there! I was like I have to see it and think about it before i can give you another quote. he said he'd email me, i don't see anything in my inbox. I'm not being unfair, actually, for a flash site it is base of 5G. But since its html/css with flash in it i quoted him less than that. since he wants to do the layout, and i'm not, the flash is still gonna cost you. the fact that i have to open up flash and make you something means the price goes up regardless. find yourself a stupid college student taking a flash class then, cause my quote is fair and its not moving. ugh, that was uncomfortable to say the least.
i have a meeting with some chinese opera people to design their website next wed. hope it all goes well. i haven't gone to any restaurants for restaurant week yet. god this humidity is making me want to stay in, and not go out and eat. sigh. alright next week i'm going for it!
during this gloomy day, I went and had lunch with a friend in the park. course for some reason bugs were crawling and falling on us. wtf is up with nature. first a caterpillar is crawling on my foot, i feel it and wonder wtf is that? i look down and it's all happy there chilling. EW! Get off! my friend pushes it off, lets it crawl onto a leaf and puts the leaf obviously not far enough. after munching and chatting, i look up and there i was unable to speak and also wondering why he didn't feel that hairy caterpillar on his collar with its antenna just going around and around. It was just chilling there. wtf?! then more smaller bugs starting falling, we took that as a cue to leave. so not fun. i think nature hates me.
in other news, i was reading someone else's blog, a new blog she had to start since too many ppl were reading it including her parents. her new blog showed a completely other side of her, lots of booze, smokes, swearing, sex, and just life in general. at that point i thought back to my college days. damn. i think i seriously hurt my liver back then. for some reason you tend to drink a lot in college for some reason, i'm not sure why. i'm also not sure why you tend to have more sex with more partners either. could be the environment. could be a number of things. who knows. though i think back to my crazy college days. damn i had fun. maybe i had a little too much fun. i do remember when i broke up with my fat fucker of an ex, some of my friends were like wtf were u doing with that pig anyways? i think the best analogy i got was it was like a flower in a pile of shit. LOL. ok, so i guess i was hot back then. no wait I'm still hot. I am HOT! Damn wtf happened to me? Am I like old? When did the fun leave my life? When did the craziness leave my life? When did my life become about trying to pay back loans and bills, and hoping this freelance goes through so I can get some $$ finally? Or hoping that someone will finally hire me for an actual stable 9-5 job? Ugh, the real world sucks. I hate the responsibility of it.
I wonder what if I had ended up making different choices in college, what if i had gone another way, what if i just went back in time and told myself all that i knew now, would my life be different? better? or did i have to go through all of that to become who i am today? It's kinda like everyone has a moment in their life, that they make a choice, and that choice changes the course of their lives. I often wonder if being a strident whore would have changed things. or being totally drunkard all the time would have done anything different. i wonder if my life would have turned out differently had i gone to study abroad.
I'm feeling old...i'm feeling as if i should let go of things being that its not working out, i feel as if some things you can't change or go back to...sigh...
that smashing pumpkins song is spinning in my head right now from the watchman trailer. "we can watch the world devour everything"
Saw batman again. 2nd time, was filled with some ghetto ass loud people. Went to see batman again with my friends, whom where shocked that I saw it thursday at midnight, they claim i broke the pact, even though 2 of them were going to watch it at lunch. Hmmm...so we went, and of course it was packed and crowded. I didn't care cause i already saw it so whatever. it was retarded that we had to stand on this long line and then had to go stand on another line once they took our tickets and stood infront of the actual theatre. This audience was filled with stupid ghetto ass people. Going Yeah boi! Damn he ain't playin! Oh snap! Damn she loose! Please keep your ghetto comments to yourself and your lame friends, no one else in the theatre really cares to hear your gutterspeak. Then there was a group of dumb ass white guys, muscle heads with tans and way too much jewelry, I don't understand why they think its cool to have a matching necklace, bracelet, and ring and have their hair shooting up like that. They also came with matching dumb girls, I think they had a staten island accent, but I'm not sure. Either way they were really dumb. The movie ended at 3:30 am. damn that was late.
Before we attempted to watch the first batman. I felt the first one was a bit slow in the beginning, there was the origin story and the how he got to be. Kinda slow, and ugh Katie Holmes, sorry there is no dawnson here for you to pine after. Even though they did make Christian Bale's hair like dawson's when he was younger. Anyways it was entertaining, I saw the rest of it on sunday, but I like the 2nd one better.
Restaurant week in NYC coming up! Yay! All that food so little time. where to go eat? Hmm...but goddamn its hot outside! i wish it wasn't so hot so I could go out and eat yummy food. So far one japanese restaurant is on the list. I guess I could go to a few more, not really sure. Hmmm food porn coming up!
Currently Listening Batman & Robin By Original Soundtrack the beginning is the end of the beginning see related
Ok, so last night, me and my friend decided to go see Batman, at midnight, in fact he bought tickets like days ago. We get to the theatre and its' PACKED with people and all the screens are playing batman. All 14 of them! wow right? so the machine is retarded that gives u the tickets via credit card, my friend goes to customer service and i get over priced popcorn and icee. There are way too many lines, long lines, so we stood on the line for ours, which was 12:01. it was insane, we were all the way at the back and were going to get crappy seats. the couple that showed up behind us brought a stroller and kid. yes they brought their kid. WTF? Like I said who brings their damn kid to a midnight showing? anyways, my friend turned and saw there was a 12:03 show, with no line, and the usher dude was trying to maintain both lines and the manger was like where are there 3 showings smushed into this one line? anyways my friend waited for the usher to go to the back of the other line and we snuck into the 12:03 showing. Hee hee. it wasn't as crowded and we got seats, then the couple with the baby walked in when they saw us do it. hee hee. they got seats up higher and they were gonna leave the stroller with the baby at the bottom near the handicap seats where we were. i was like wtf? so we offered to trade seats with them, and we sat up higher which was better. They baby started crying towards the end, the father grabbed it up and shut it up before everyone in the audience was about to go STFU!
Anyways, I have to say the movie itself was FREAKING AWESOME! I think if you have the chance to see it in imax, you totally should. The theatre we were in, were filled with very lively and excited people. they were cheering and laughing during the trailers. The trailer for the Watchman, was freaking amazing! Like holy crap! How long were they gonna hide that?! the audience cheered along it was funny. Its from the director of 300 so I hope its gonna be good. We also saw the trailer for body of lies with Russell crowe and dicaprio. DiCaprio is seriously trying to look like a grown up now. NOt sure if its working, or the whole tough guy routine. Ridely Scott is directing and hopefully it won't suck. We saw the trailer for the new Terminator movie, which has Christian Bale in it. Damn he is racking up the action hero movies now, minus the machinist he did a while back. But I'll always remember him from American Psycho and Little Women. LoL.
Anyways, I'll try not to spoil the movie too much. Lots of action scenes, yes there are talking scenes, we can't just blow everything up and not talk. But not a min of the movie is wasted. All things mentioned and talked about in the movie is relevant and shows up and connects to something later. This Batman is a lot darker. oh hell I didn't see the first one, but this one is really dark. I mean goddamn who wants to live in Gotham after all that crap? He gets a few new toys, and he gets to go to Hong Kong. Some of the stuff is too ridiculous, but hell its a movie and they try to make it believable. In his world it makes sense, well somewhat. There is a thing about the dog comment.
And in true comic book sense, OMFG I can't believe they killed that person. OMFG I can't believe they killed that person and brought em back. OMFG its comic book land! LOL! Ok, but I didn't say who. burt you will be shocked, as I never saw that coming, neither did the audience either. They all cheered and clapped during the super awesome action scenes and where batman was being uber. plus that whole truck scene, yes the one in the trailer. I don't know why batman talks like that, all like he needs a cough drop. I mean cmon, seriously. I guess he wanted to disguise his voice but cmon! The new Rachel is so much nicer than the one dawson's creek girl was playing, cause you know, i really don't want to see her pine after dawson. Maggie Gyllenhal (spelled that wrong didn't I?) was able to act and evolve the character, well somewhat. Morgan Freemon and Michael Caine badass and stoic as ever. Christian Bale, always the pretty boy, But OMFG, Heath Ledger as Joker, it was INSANE! He played it like an absolute psychopath! He played it better than Jack Nicholson, in my opinion. It was a new brand of crazy and as you watch the movie you realize that his motive or whatever is like OMFG you're a true nutjob! On a whole new level! This Joker is calculating, cunning, no stupid cheesy clown sidekicks, he would be the bobby fischer of chess the way he thinks! FYI the director doesn't waste time showing the origin of the joker, which is good cause we all know how he came to be. He just jumps right in there, no time is wasted! Thank god! But seriously when u watch the trailer you have no idea how crazy the Joker really is until you watch the movie. Some say its oscar worthy, I wouldn't go that far, I mean it was damn good portrayal of insanity, but don't give it to him cause he died.
The two face character, Harvey Dent, YES you better have known he was gonna show up! Yes he does, and in true comic book fashion you see how he came to be, AND I personally think he looks more like Jonah Hex. Also he's not purple like Tommy Lee Jones's version, less cartoony, more dark. AND there is something he says at the beginning to Det. Gordan that comes back towards the end. I'm telling you its brilliantly written in that nothing is wasted, everything they say has a point and relevance. They left it open ended, and they also slammed shut a few doors, it'll be interesting to see how the third one comes out with this time. Oh yes and you see mr scarecrow potato sack wearing dude in the movie, he has a cameo.
Everyone clapped at the end with the true dramatic voiceover. Everyone cheered. It was a lovely movie worth watching. Oh hell cmon give them your money! You will be entertained about about 2 hours and 40 min. And they have air conditioner and over priced popcorn.
Why so serious? Let's put a smile on your face! Everyone enjoy the weekend! Its gonna be a hot one!
Friday I went to the Brooklyn Museum to check out the Murakami exhibit there. His show was gonna end sunday so I had to go there. My friend decided to play hookey and take the day off and off we went. We made a quick stop in Chinatown to have dimsum, something we haven't done in a while. Hmmm....dimsum....(I can't seem to get the stupid page break to work, so pic intensive!)
hmmm....
and with our bellies filled with dimsum we headed over to Brooklyn.
look there's his banner!
they had a water fountain there
a happy balloon
double helix, its mr pointy!
i love his work, its so inspiring!
Yes he is the designer that did the LV design a few years back and because of that he's able to charge so much for his characters now.
this exhibit was NOT for children, but dumbfuck parents who don't bother to read or do research brought their young kids along anyways, and strollers! WTF! Not only that the stupid kids didn't know the difference between a park and a museum. You don't run around, screaming, and you don't touch the exhibits! WTF is wrong with stupid parents?!
Murakami also had little shorts and animations with his exhibit. this one was for a childlike cyborg. it was cute and funny, and one of his animations was not for kids, it was showing the cyborg getting morning wood cause he dreamt of a girl, the kids were confused, the parents were offended, some didn't say anything and didn't care, wow, awesome parenting skills there.
these two were meant to be seen together. The lonesome cowboy...yeah definitely not for kids. And then parents act all offended, geez, fucking read beforehead!
one of the animations that were shown was a music video for kanye west's good morning. I have to say the animation itself was cute, and the bear was suppose to be kanye, ugh. kanye himself isn't very humble or deserving of murakami's work. His music is good but not spectacular, and he seriously needs to check himself. i mean everyone was making fun of him for his "blog entry" on his myspace about how he was so mad and writing in caps about how he was so mad that he was gonna break his free macbook air, something i highly doubt he even knows how to use fully.
a display of his consumerism works
his works were beautiful, vibrant, colorful and inspiring.
after going to see this exhibit, I was re-energized and wanted to continue working on my portfolio site and kick butt in flash. so many other jobs to apply for and so many more things to code and program and photoshop into the right size for the page. so much to do, so little time. but i feel alive again.
afterwards we wandered off to the brooklyn gardens which were right next door, WTF? They wanted to charge an admission fee! WTF?! Are you serious? Geez, not only do you get public aid and funding and our tax dollars but you want to charge us for going in!? No fucking way! You're just a park, a garden, not a zoo! I guess its their way of keeping the ghetto ppl out! lol!
here is some postcards and stickers that I bought there
and these are the hair ties I got too. They were super kawaii! and I had to get them! His smiling flowers keep me amused and inspiration.
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