homecomings and weddings

i'm home! and when i say "home", i really mean "home"...as in "mi casa". it's been nearly a full year since i first started looking for an apartment to buy...but now i've finally closed, moved in, started piling shit into my place...etc. and its been pretty good so far. the apartment is nearly fully furnished. there are only a few pieces left to either build or put up, but hopefully by the end of this week i can say that my apartment is 99% done (with only random household doodads left to buy). k, now i have to backtrack (per usual) since it's been a while.

FURNITURE SHOPPING
the saturday before i moved in, i headed out in the shitty weather to furniture shop around manhattan with ky. i had an entire list of shops to check out...for some reason i thought i'd actually hit all the stores. ha! we spent most of our time browsing cb and cb2, who are admittedly straight up my alley. cb2 more than cb...but i dig both their stuff. i ended up ordering a couch set from cb, along with a number of other pieces of furniture from cb2. by this time it was already well into the evening...bugger. we ran thru the rain to have dinner at blue ribbon sushi in soho, followed by drinkies at little branch. then i had to dart back to port authority to catch the bus back to joisey (i won't miss those)

MOVE-IN
i moved in the following saturday...and then pretty much spending every day after that picking up extra household necessities and assembling the furniture i'd ordered (with a ton of help from g+r). they were pretty much over every night helping me assemble furniture and setting up my apartment, so mucho thumbs up to them...you two rock. <3 friends as neighbors. i made a trip out to ikea in red hook too on sunday to pick up some book shelves (and other random shit i happened to come across). i met up with ky again afterwards for dinner at cube 63 in...whatever brooklyn neighborhood we were in. lets be honest...i know shit about brooklyn.

FIOS
the verizon people swung by wednesday to set up my fios cable and internet....fuck yea! wednesday nite was also g's big berfday bash at kanvas! except kanvas is gone! so we relocated to la bottega instead...woots.

FUGIO DIEM
thursday was steph and jj's premier party for their short film fugio diem at the knitting factory. very cool...there were even boobies. boobies!

MARISOL'S WEDDING
i continued picking up more things for my apartment all week long...eventually leading up to saturday...m's wedding. omg! i met up with sean and anna saturday morning at grand central to catch the metro north. m and chris were having their wedding at a water-side park in connecticut, so we took the train out to new haven, then caught a taxi to the wedding site. the ceremony was held out on the beach (should've brought sandals...doh) and the reception was held in a carousel house next to the beach, replete with a working carousel. very cool. it was a nice and not-too-formal wedding...word. grats you two. considering my currently-broke nature, i took a ton of photos for them in lieu of an actual wedding present. only a few hundred photos left to photoshop...whew.

SUNDAY REMAINDERS
...and ideally i wouldve ended the post there. but hey...the fun continues. sean and anna came over for brunch sunday morning after they got out of church (they were already uptown). i made them home fries and my specialty omelettes, feta and chorizos with cilantro, basil, pepper, and other random spices. the home fries came out especially good...yay! they headed home to rest after brunch, while i headed down to soho to pick up extra things. i actually ran into ky and her friend outside of cb...which was a nice coincidence. we talked for a while before they headed back to brooklyn and i went into cb to find some nice coasters. i decided to continue south towards muji, and while waiting for the lights to change at prince st, i thought i spotted another friend of mine and called out to him. holy fuck its brad! brad not only went to cornell with me (one of only a few non-architect friends of mine), but is actually from my hometown also. he wouldve even been a frat brother if i hadnt come to my senses and wondered to myself "wtf...did i just rush a frat?!?" i hadnt actually seen brad since he graduated from cornell and headed off to tulane for med school. we had just gotten back in touch thru facebook about a month ago, but shit...this was just freaky coincidence. we grabbed coffee at cafe angelique and caught up on about 8 years worth of stuff, which was pretty nice.

i headed off to continue shopping after coffee and met up with di later for sunday night ramen. shoyu char-siu ramen at setagaya...yum yum. we grabbed a round of drinks at angels share to round out the night, since i hadnt actually seen di in a while and had a ton of stories to tell. woot.

k, now im shit tired. ive gone thru only about 10 photos so far from saturday. *sigh* so many...

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the glass stampede

super-interesting ny mag article on the new buildings that have sprung up around nyc in the latest building boom. they talk about the history of a number of buildings, and pictures of the before and after, and give their assessment on whether the replacement was even worth it (for example avalon=shit, moma=good). and while im by no means old-school, it was cool to see the buildings and what used to be there side by side...especially the ones that were familiar to me growing up. in this city, its easy to forget what was once here the second something new takes its place. they had pictures of the old palladium (yikes 90's flashbacks), old bowery and houston, the parking lot on astor, old (and skanky) times square, etc.

> the glass stampede (via curbed)

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new apartment, new life

i have a new apartment! that i own! holy shit!

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zack, miri, nick, and norah

first some random movie news. well, not really "news" as coo trailers ive seen lately. first up is a decidedly red band trailer for kevin smith's zack and miri make a porno movie, with seth rogen and elizabeth banks (the horny bookstore girl from 40 year old virgin). dont worry, the trailer has no boobies or ass, just alot of swearing. like, fucking alot.

hey...more apatow alumn pairings! another coo trailer just out is nick & norah's infinite playlist, with michael cera and kat dennings (the daughter from 40 year old virgin). kids running around manhattan...wooha!

> red band zack and miri make a porno movie trailer (via ign)
> nick & norah's infinite playlist trailer (via aicn)

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labor day weekend

*yawn* what a boooring labor day weekend. not that this is not entirely my own doing. i sort of didnt bother with any fancy plans for the long weekend, save for laundry, grocery shopping, and other various household chores. ha, doesnt that all sound quaint? thats what the suburbs do to ya eh. plus i had to kill any actual plans for labor day itself, because i had to pick up my parents from the airport. keep in mind that they also had me drive them to the airport on the 20th...my birthday. they are some awesome parents.

on the flipside, since i only have a few weeks left in the 'burbs (closing on thursday, woohoo!) i decided to get back in touch with my high school friend jill, who i hadnt seen since...well, high school. she was one of the actual friends that really did fall thru the cracks. but hey...thats why we have facebook! i messaged her, and we met up at jose tejas saturday nite for some beering (albeit responsibly...damn this whole driving and shit). she brought her (newly minted) husband, but he sort of got relegated to the sidelines as we caught up on 12 years worth of shit (sorry dude!). in all honesty, she looks and acts the same as she did back in high school. its like shes been in a hyperbaric chamber for this whole time...eery. we noshed on crawfish popcorn and sucked down negro modelos and chatted on pretty much anything that crossed our minds. lotsa fun...and it made me all warm and fuzzy inside reconnecting with an old friend. yay for facebook!

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