Chico

I have to admit one embarrassing thing about myself. Since maintaining a blog requires a bit of a candid attitude i guess i am required to come out and say things most people won't. I check my facebook/myspace/e-mail about 576 times a day! Now thats embarrassing!! What am I looking for... it's like I am waiting to just one day click on my inbox and discover an e-mail from God inviting me up to heaven early without actually having to die... a sneak peak into my future Utopia. I honestly have no clue what I expect to see in there but there's always this anxiousness inside me when opening my web sites. I know I don't stand alone in this, but I know i'm one in a few who will admit it. Kanye beat me in admitting insecurity so I figure i'll try and 1 up him. Had to toss this in my blog as it is totally silly...

Moving on...

I noticed the new Dentyne Ice ad's are littered about the train cars and their new gimmick is to show people how technology is taking away from the intimacy in their lives. "Make face time" is their new slogan. I kinda like it. On their website they have put a 3 minute timer to ensure people have just enough time to browse their site and visit all their links but they cannot spend hours cruising about the net. It's really kinda cool. Check out their opening page at least. It's very TRUE! Their ad's don't necessarily make me want to chew gum but they do make me want to blog about it so they are accomplishing something. GO MAKE FACE TIME!!

I wish I could make face time instead of just sitting here talking about it but I  have nobody I desire to make face time with. 

I went to this really awesome swanky sushi bar in Union Square the other night with Val. A guy I met the last time I was here. We had fun, drank Brazilian cocktails and ate about 200 different types of fish. Okay maybe only 3 or 4 types... but the key part of the story is that I tired EEL... and LIKED IT! I also went out last night to a really charming Wine bar called Ten Degrees a few blocks from my place. I met Brett there... a guy I reconnected with that I met once while I was here last time. We drank really good wine and talked over the melodies of the really talented jazz trio that was playing in the corner. It was really nice but I ended up coming home at midnight as I had to get up frikken early today to babysit for Liz. I have to get up early tomorrow too but Val wants me to go to this awesome martini lounge in Soho. We went last year and they had the BESTTTTT chocolate martinis... It's tempting. I should nap so I have the energy! 

Aside from drinking like an alcoholic and enjoying Manhattans charm I've been babysitting for Liz and crying over my apartment situation back home. Thank god the rent got paid but I can't go through that anguish every month. New york is hard enough on me as it is!!

I kinda lied a little about not having anyone to make face time with. I kinda sorta met a GORGEOUS guy in "The Bean" the other day. I hate writing about it in fear he might find my blog... then I look like a total twat... but at the same time it should be kinda flattering that I write about his good looks in my blog shouldn't it? hehe! He sat right beside me but he was initially with a friend so they chatted... while I just did my thing... but his friend eventually left and he stayed. Puuurfect!!! Thats the exact situation Jena likes to be put in. Sure enough after a few minutes of me looking extremely busy I turned and stuck up conversation. We talked for the better part of an hour and it was a pretty refreshing conversation. I couldn't stop thinking in my head how absolutely HOT he was... but aside from my absolutely perverse tendencies he was a cool guy. Of course he's not from NY because the world likes to punish me like that... but he used to live here (now lives in L.A) and comes in a lot on business so it's not like I may never see him again. What a tease though. We have chatted over e-mail a bit since... but in all honesty these situations usually just end with one of us giving up on the effort of trying to maintain contact. I get lazy and start to forget... and guys just suck all together at that sort of thing so I am not banking on anything but it's nice to finally meet someone attractive AND smart. Unusual combo! I now have faith that they are out there.

I gave some cute brit my card in the club I went to last Friday and he just e-mailed me 60 seconds ago. haha... Munner is on a roll. Although not sure I'm going to e-mail back because right now I just don't have the desire to put in the energy it takes to get to know someone. I like being on my own right now and just watching from the outside. 

Along with my e-mail from Russell the brit I also got a brand new updated version of "around me" in my inbox from Eric. It sounds stellar and I'm going to immediately post it on my website.

I have to mention:

Chico is a graffiti artist in NYC and is well known for his unbelievable murals across Manhattan, predominantly the east village...MY neighborhood. The friggen guy is Eric Clapton of Graffiti...a full on maestro! Unbelievably polished shit he's producing here! Below are a few examples. Notice the detail in these pieces. A peacock, a mural based around red hearts and an unreal black and white illustration of a tiger. He's done his homework! He also has this amazing mural of Martin Luther King beside the word Dream. Check out some more of his stuff and an inspiring little bio about him here...

I also wanted to mention my completely warped dream last night!

It was obviously influenced by the commercial plane that crashed in the hudson river yesterday. Below is a picture... everyone survived because the pilot put on a brilliant performance. People were all rescued by near by Ferries...look at them all out on the wings of the plane... its quite surreal...go on the NY times website for details. It's an amazing story!

 

So...as my dream goes...(and Lauren I know what your thinking) aside from the details I prefer not to discuss (has something to do with a certain someone I should not be thinking about anymore but foolishly am)...at one point I ended up in this body of water with severed body parts laying around in military uniform. All of a sudden I was swimming in this water that was recently attacked and bombed and all these dead people were floating around... I had to escape and run from the bombings that were still happening. Then I ended up in the St.Joe's highschool parking lot with all these people strapped to the light posts anticipating the next bombing. Man... I woke up scared. I didn't wake up sweating though. It's SO cold in my room that at one point I got up and put 7 layers of clothes on just to sleep. My night last night was a weird one. No wonder I am so tired. ....... but chocolate martini's are hard to passsss upppp....

hmmm...

till tomorrow! Have a good friday night laddies... (thats ladies and lads all in one)...Off to check my facebook for the 100th time. Maybe Leonardo Dicaprio has sent me a friend request?