Despite the rainy weekend as I mentioned in my other post below, it was a fun one! Friday afternoon was dedicated to freelance, until later that evening, but after that and a couple hamburgers cooked on our mini burner since the stove isn’t operating currently, M and I decided to walk to the Blue Lounge in Billburg and have a drink. Then we were pretty darned tired, so back home we went!
On saturday, Margaux was meeting up with Kate in the city, but since the L train decided not to run this weekend, I drove her into Union Square, dropped her off, and went to do a bit o’ shopping. I first hit up Other Music, great place for obscure stuff. I picked up 3 new albums: Vex’d “Degenerate”, Motor “Klunk”, and Herbert “Bodily Functions.” so far so good, Vex’d play some awesome dark dub/industrial stuff. Motor is a mash-up of Kraftwerk and straight 4/4 industrial, with some vocals thrown in. Herbert is all over the place, from Massive Attack to Stereolab to St. Germain. Very exciting new stuff to listen to. I then proceeded to go to Blick’s on Bond St. That store is huge and awesome! I picked up some pads, pastels, charcoal, a black sheet of paper for a poster mat, and a piece of Arches for another design I created of M and I. Yet again very excited to get all of that, it was the final pieces needed to put up a Modest Mouse poster I bought almost a year ago (a very cool concert print sold for $20, sold here: Modest Mouse- Vancouver Tour Poster).
As I was framing and printing these posters, I was listening to Vex’d. Zack, our new neighbor, knocked on the door telling me that he listens to quite a bit of dub including Vex’d, and I’m not sure but he may be a DJ too? Anyway, he has many comps for me to check out, hooray! Nice to have a friendly neighbor!
Margaux was indeed pleased with the posters, and we celebrated (not really) with some tacos, burritos, and a movie “Inside Man,” which we enjoyed. I was saying to her at one point how funny it is that there have been so many grand bank robbery movies over the years, but the last really robberies haven’t seemed to happened in a long time! Just love em anyway I guess. This one broke the norm a bit with its witty humor, semi-surprising ending (ok, done and done, but still fun), and overall entertainment.
Today, M and I checked out the MoMA! Finally got a chance to go to a museum together, and we had a lot of fun, despite being quite tired after going to bed at like 3AM. It was M’s first opp to see the “newly renovated” MoMA, which I have a seen a couple times, but never saw it before the renovation. They had the Dada exhibit there, which wa our main reason to go today. The exhibit was wonderful, really touching upon the history and importance of the movement. As a designer I thought about how influential this movement was for design and typography, really using type as forms of expression and art on their own and often times out of context, honing in on the letterforms themselves. Funny how sexy typography is in my eyes, part of a universal communication and mini-artforms in themselves individually. I also found the Dada movement very motivating in its expression of protesting WWI, the rise of machines, and the traditions of art. Worthwhile exhibit to see. Well, that’s about it. Have to get back to some small freelance duties, and then perhaps some music-making, or video game playing 
August 27th, 2006
It rained this weekend, and I have not flown the plane since after fixing it a while back. However, when I fixed it up, I reinforced the fuselage structure around the wing area where it cracked in two, and I readjusted the elevator so it wasn’t crooked. I also added a bit more weight to the front to balance it properly. M and I took it to the park and tried it out, and wouldn’t ya know it, it flew nice and straight! The first couple takes were ok, but once we moved to another part of the park, I launched it, and the thing flew a good 60 feet or more straight on! Since then I haven’t had any other chances to fly it, perhaps this week.
August 27th, 2006
Pluto ain’t a planet anymore. You scientists make me sick. Leave the poor lil planet alone! Well, I’m still gonna call it one.
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August 24th, 2006
OK OK, I’m late and totally slacking on the blog! Well, sorry to say, but things have been a bit nuts lately. So, I will make a list of things I need to talk about.
1. The plane, its crashes, repairs, and new flights.
2. The dead guy. Actually, Margaux does a great post on that, so go check that one out (Midge’s Mind).
3. Bloc Party at McCarren Pool! Good show, kinda. Fun place to see a show, sound was a bit whack, and the singer in Bloc Party kinda screwed up too many times for my taste.
4. Upstate trip. Wanted to camp, got rain again. Oh well, we ate a load of food, enjoyed company with M’s parents, and mine as well for the first time with both of our parents for dinner. A very enjoyable vacation, despite the rain.
5. Back to the grind. All hell seemed to have broken loose since taking a couple days off. Alas. Margaux is cramming to finish her jewelry, I’m working on a Halloween feature for Cityguide in Flash, and have taken up some freelance web maintenance work, which has taken my free time.
6. Broken stove. Ugh. We had an issue with our gas yesterday, which was just because of new meters, however it ruptured into a gas leak in the stove, and now needs to be replaced.
Ok, back to work!
August 24th, 2006
That’s right, we spent the lovely weekend trippin it to Ikea, picking up some great new furniture, curtains, mirrors, etc., to spruce up the happy home. Our bedroom needed a lot of work, and I think we may have hit it just right! A new tall bookcase to fit all our books and open the space up much better, and a new ‘headboard’ for the bed, which consists of a Teal curtain behind the bed and two shear curtains coming out the sides. This meant hanging up all this, for which that took us a good few hours to complete. However, even though it may be a bit more ‘feminine,’ I would have to say it looks quite nice, and balances the room out vertically vs. horizontally. ANd what the hell, Margaux’s quite excited about it
In other news, we also fancied a couple new restaurants on Friday (at least for us). One ove on Macdougal, which is that old Caffé Reggio, not that great, but nice atmosphere. The other was Queen’s Hideaway in northern Greenpoint, quite tasty and a wonderful outside atmosphere (though could use some new chairs). It’s nice to be at a place like that, it removes you from NYC just enough, and gives you a feeling of calmness. Overall enjoyable.
ALso had the opp to hang out with Marky Mark on Sat night, and a couple of his friends. We had fun, despite the DJ blasting music constantly reminding us how deaf we really are, and how useless bars with loud music can be. Whatever happened to being able to socialize at a bar without screaming constantly or straining your ears to hear a few words? Alas.
August 14th, 2006
