september..
- there’s a cool open staircase at MoMA connecting maybe the fifth and fourth floors—i forget exactly. it’s not hidden or anything but is surprisingly difficult to find—david was not happy in april when i dragged him in several circles searching for it. but it was worth it because there was a big calder mobile hanging above it. well, in september the mobile was removed! how disappointing. i hope they bring it back. or at least fill the space with something.
- i wore a pink t-shirt one saturday and a lady cop told me “you look nice in your pink!” thanks lady cop.
- ha and as i write this, i realize i ended up going back to my apartment and changing out of that pink shirt—sorry lady cop :-/ because then…
- …i went to the US open!! man that is always so fun. labor day weekend crowds are a pain but it’s the best time to go—plenty of matches to watch and lots of big names still in the draw. i prefer to skip the giant main stadium where you’d see the likes of venus/serena or roddick or federer or nadal play—the seats you get for a reasonable price are just so far away. i much more enjoyed watching mardy fish up close on louis armstrong and tsonga/verdasco even closer in the grandstand.
- stephen moved here in august/september and i went to his hood after the US open. andrew was in town visiting too. good to see them and have a shot and a beer. and stephen and i have both resolved to make more efforts to hang out in 2012!
- sent my mom a text that i did not intend to send her!!
- went to the whitney for the first time saturday the 10th. i’d say it’s one of my more favorite museums (wonder how it’ll be when it moves..). it was the last day of that cory arcangel exhibit, which was silly but very entertaining—giant screens of bowling video games, a reel of every seinfeld clip related to kramer’s coffee table book about coffee tables, some other funny crap.
- kurt’s birthday that night. i need to resolve to see the high school crew more in 2012.
- brooklyn botanic garden. sort of meh. i suppose spring might be a better time to go, duh.
- tyler turned 28 and i felt so youthful for 3 more months before joining him!
- saturday, september 17: the night i FINALLY won the ticket lottery for book of mormon!! i must’ve entered 30+ times. unfortunately i only got box seats and not front row, and the view was a bit obstructed, but i won’t complain too much. i thought it was good. over-hyped and some of the “let’s be vulgar to be vulgar” attempts at funniness didn’t go over well with me, but it was still good!
- there was this bmw guggenheim lab thing on houston over the summer. the structure was really cool, but the content/programming left something to be desired (at least the day i showed up). and the mobile roberta’s restaurant didn’t have pizza capabilities..
- after bmw guggenheim i walked across the brooklyn bridge and made this post. i like that picture. if i convert to “timeline” on facebook maybe i’d make it my “cover” photo.
- i’m out of room for pictures :-/ the rest of the month was just silly art/museum things anyway: affordable art fair (not that affordable), MoMA again for the de kooning retrospective (breezed through it too quickly, oops), and the rubin (eastern religious art) and the intrepid (giant aircraft carrier) for free thanks to smithsonian museum day.
..only 3 more months!
