New York City 3 4 something k-five? All Points West

Haven’t written in a while, as there’s nothing to really write about. So far in NYC we’ve walked through Manhattan a lot, going down to Times Sq a lot, through to Central Park. We did visit Central Park Zoo, not much to write about. They have polar bears in the open, and it’s like 29 degrees Celsius, don’t these guys need to be in the cold or something?

We went to a Cinema in Times Sq to check out what their cinemas were like, same prices for shitty postmix drinks and 3 day old stale popcorn, but goddamn the seats are comfy. Harry Potter movie sucks, Snape kills Dumbledore.

My friend from NJ drove me around the city, and the traffic here is slow, really slow. It took 30 minutes to go 3 blocks, on top of the dodging of people trying to cut in with their SUVS. I don’t know how people who live it actually drive every day, I’d rather use the train or whatever, anything is better. Went past the MOMA but didn’t go in, and went to the Public Library. I went through the Brooklyn bridge to Brooklyn (for reals) into Williamtown which is a trendy street, Thrift stores are popular here (think op shopping back home where you buy 2nd hand clothes, vintages and the like), and had a NY style pizza. Apparently there’s free music there every Sunday, and this Sunday is Deerhunter, but the lines go for like 3 hours. I’m pretty tired right now so might give it a miss.

So, today was All Points West. I organised to meet some APW forum randoms and Couch Surfers, and met some cool people. Anyways, the festival was pretty well organised, from the start. The ticket gave us free light rail, which came every 5 minutes, to the venue. The venue was a nice park, looking over the river and you can see Manhattan cityscape and the Statue of Liberty.

I saw tool, my bloody valentine, gorgol bordello, crystal castles, black gold, arctic boringkeys, …. and something something about trails of the dead… it was a great line-up. I got ankle deep in mud as the whole ground got flooded last night, I can’t feel my legs as they feel broken from all the mud trudging, and pretty sure I have whiplash and I’m 130 dollars down. I did however pop several boners over tool, too bad the tool setlist was boring as fuck, I heard this guy said “I only like only 4 tool songs, which was the the whole concert”, he was speaking truth.
This dude at the ID tent didn’t accept my ID, the stupid fuck. my NSW drivers licence is actually made of hologram plastic with photos and DOB, not like the shitty NYC piece of cardboard. He asked for my passport, what tard is bringing a passport to a festival. I went to another ID tent, this time a girl, and she loved my accent, and bam, got the ID wrist band. It has 7 tabs for the 7 drinks you were allowed to have, and they all fucking broke off when I was running around being a douche. I participated in Improv Everywhere, it was fun, we looked silly running around doing stretches, and freeze tag and our “epic” battle. Videos will probably be here http://improveverywhere.com/video/.

Oh yeah, I also got smashed by mozzies, they must love foreign blood.

I have high standards in festivals in USA now, so lollapalooza better not be crappy, which it won’t be, hoping Tool does at least 1 different song… something rare would be nice. H., Pushit, Ticks and Leeches (don’t bother commenting, I know he doesn’t sing this), or Parabol with Parabola. Whatever.

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