Sometimes all it takes is a reminder that New York City is only a 2.5 hour bus ride away from where I live, (and a freed up Tuesday) to nicely break up my upstate routine and help me to get inspired. While there's always something productive I could be doing in Albany, I wanted to take some time to get out of town and pay a long overdue visit to everyone's favorite city. Whenever I come down now, it's a marathon of how many friends I can link with, and how much stuff I can do (usually in a 24hour period). It makes me wonder how much I'd get done if I actually moved to the city.
This trip involved checking out the Death Becomes Her exhibit at the Met, which featured the fashion of women in mourning in the late 1800/early 1900's, sandwiches in Bushwick, drinks with an old friend, stopping by my friends place before their weekly radio show on SUB.FM and a visit to Webster Hall to check out Jesse Boykins III play a live set with his funky hip hop fusion band. Not bad for a random, spontaneous Tuesday.
view from the 7:30am warrior bus from albany to nyc
so cool in person
later stages of mourning introduced colors such as grey and mauve
"one of these things is not like the other"
webster hall funky vibes
sketching our way through central park