Giant Robot Store and GR2 News
Oh Man…back on line finally. The wireless connection in the apartment I’m staying at cut out a couple days ago and couldn’t get online. I felt like a junkie unable to get my fix. Bottom line is, landlord is a lazy loser. If you’re reading this…where’s the fucking tv remote!?!Skated down to the WTC site Wednesday. The first building up is ugly. The orginal plan by Daniel Libeskind, which won a worldwide competition, was butchered by the developer into something really stupid and ugly. Developers suck. Went to the Whitney Museum. No photos of the art allowed so I took a picture of the ceiling.Last night went to see Cornelius. Won’t talk about it much because he has been interviewed for next issue, but the visuals were rad. I like his music but they don’t really rock out live, so the visuals saved the show. How the hell does he manage to keep everything in sync? I guess that’s the secret to the show.
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Can’t blog about New York without talking about the food. So I’m gonna have to incringe upon Eric’s food territory here. This place is a New York institution serving up awesome kosher deli food. I think the orgasm scene from When Harry met Sally was filmed here. I didn’t mean to have dinner here but I was walking by and couldn’t resist. This guy slices meat all day long. He gets an average of a dollar tip per order and probably does 20 orders per hour. Nice tax free income supplement.I had a pastrami on rye with a bit of mustard and some pickles. The pastrami was incredible, the guy in front of me was moaning with each bite. Maybe Meg Ryan was orgasming because of the soft, succulent and fatty pastrami.Like a Georgia O’Keefe painting in sandwich form. I ate and I ate but I couldn’t get throught the thing. Just a bit too much meat for me. One more bite and I probably would’ve puked, luckily I was able to walk it off on the way home.
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Was hanging out with my other friend Erin from architecture school today and her little baby Milla. Milla is blonde and blue eyed like the Children of the Corn kids. When I was pushing the stroller down the street, people would look at the baby, then at Erin(who is also blonde and blue eyed), then at me, then back at the baby, then back at me and I could see them thinking “I wonder if he knows he’s not the father?”. It happened many times, pretty funny.We were walking down an empty street and saw this…WTF? What the hell is this kid doing outside peering into the window like that? Doesn’t someone need to be watching over her? Then we got closer… It was just a little manequin set up to attract some attention to the store. Kind of sick if you ask me.Baby Milla was very confused. Rightly so. She was probably thinking, “Why are her wrists tied to the gate with steel wire?” Oh yeah and if you have a few gajillion dollars to spare, buy an apartment here www.40bond.com. It’s designed by Herzog and De Mueron. They did this crazy trippy Prada building in Tokyo. Some people collect designer funriture, but you’re ballin’ if you can collect designer architecture.
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San Francisco to Hong Kong to New York in less than a week, not fun. Specially the heinously long flight from HK to NY. That sucked shit except that I ran into Russell Wong and his wife(yes, that Russell Wong) at my stopover in Seoul. He gave me a Chinese taxi service number that I ended up having to use when my arranged ride from JFK didn’t show up. Thanks Russell! Been here two days and am just settling in. Walking rocks! I love walking around, something I don’t do in HK anymore. My legs and back are sore as shit but it’s awesome gettting to know the city this way. I haven’t even used the subway yet but plan to do that tomorrow. New York is so rad.Can’t figure out how to turn this upright(Eric,help?) so tilt your head to the left. This is one big ass piece of meat. I’ve seen these at shwarma joints before but this one is fuckin’ big!! I walked past it and had to do a double take. This is my best-friend from architecture school Dan. He designed that place in the background. It’s the Aveda institute. Looks cool on the inside, too bad it wasn’t open. We went to some crappy bar to watch the De La Hoya- Mayweather fight. We paid $20 to get in and there were no chairs or air conditioning in the joint. We were stupid and forgot there were undercard fights so we stood for 3 hours watching lousy fights before the main event. When we got out, we were sweatier and more tired than either De La Hoya or Mayweather.Overall, I am liking New York a lot. It definitly kicks LA’s ass. (Sorry Eric and Martin)
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I’ve finally made it back to Hong Kong from California. The second half of the trip was insane. The San Frincisco Film Fest was awesome. All the boys from ALIVE made it down. Martin and Wendy drove up from LA and all my old firends and family made it to the screening. I never thought I’d be quoting Ice Cube but…”Hell Yeah, It was a good day!”. This bombass photo was taken by Tommy Lau, a photogrpaher who was covering the festival. Check out his stuff at: tommylau.netThe screening was at the Castro theater, one of the oldest and biggest theaters in the city. They certainly don’t make ‘em like that anymore. They even had a wurlitzer jamming fresh tunes before the start of the film. It was a whirlwind four days and I just wanted to thank everyone who had a hand in this festival for making it such a pleasant experience. Special respect to Cathay Pacific Airways for upgrading Conroy and I for our flight back. Sleeping on a flat bed was totally essential in recovering from this trip!
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