The Subway is a Porno.

On Thursday I entered the bizarro world of Long Island. Of course I went with Boogie-Down Nicole and Rrrachel. We went to visit Angela, who fed us some really delicious bagels and then her friend Melissa showed up and Melissa drove us to Roosevelt Field Mall, where suburban dreams grow wild like weeds. I shopped for the first time at Delia's and got two t-shirts there. It was fun. I had a knish for lunch. The only condition I had about chillin' in L.I. was that I had to get back by 8 so I could watch Betty--sad, right? I made it back by 7:55 and I'm fucking glad cos that shit was intense and they finally wrote Salma Hayek who has been blessed with such a fantastic rack (or maybe she just bought them, I dunno) but was pretty boring on this show. The first thing that Boogie-Down Nicole said to me at work the next day was "Did you watch Ugly Betty?"

After work on Friday Rrrachel and I went to the Guggenheim to look at all these awesome Spanish paintings. It was my first time and I liked the building a lot but I don't think it's optimal for art exhibitions. The paintings were pretty awesome, I liked looking at the portraits and wondering who these people were. There were a shitload of people because it Friday evenings, you can pay whatever you want. I paid a dollar, and the couple lined up in front of me paid a quarter each. I heard them asking each other, "Do we get a receipt?"

Yesterday I decided to check out the Jewish Museum's comic book exhibit, which was pretty much Kavalier & Clay in a museum exhibit form and with more alt-comic stuff. Y'know, R. Crumb, Gary Panter, Chris Ware, v. v. early Mad issues. There was one section about the real golden era of superheroes, like with one cover showing character punching the shit out of Hitler, stuff like that. It was really cool to see all the drafts and early versions to the comics, it was a nice glimpse into the process these artists go through. I've never seen so many dudes at an exhibit, haha. It was older dudes, little boys, and college students.

I checked out an exhibit on Alex Katz, an artist I'd never heard of. They were actually all paintings of his wife Ada, who seems like a pretty cool, sophisticated NYC chick. Y'know the kind I'm talking about. I wish I was someone's muse! That would be pretty awesome.

Well, after I checked out the museum (also my first time there), I pretended I was a pretty cool, sophisticated chick and I just walked around the area. I ended up at 86th Street and one theater is playing BOTH Children of Men and Pan's Labyrinth, but I felt like such a bum going to a movie alone on a Saturday evening, so I just went to the bookstore and looked at music books. Yes. My life is full of excitement.

Honestly, I had a wonderful time and I figured I should go downtown where everything's waiting for you, so I took a pretty long bus ride and I checked out all the pretty buildings on Lex. I walked around a bit more and then I decided to head back home, but not before spotting Tre Cool (!!!) on Broadway, with a girl who I guess is his daughter. I freaked out, man!

Today I went lunching with not only Rrrachel and Boogie-Down Nicole, but also Steve and Claudia!! The funny thing is that we pretty much picked up right where we left off and it was as if they hadn't been across the ocean for about four months. But Bonnie et Clyde had to vamoose after lunch and we went to buy me some skinny jeans. Except we got to Trash and Vaudeville and I just felt too ridic for words and I don't even know what size I am, so I skeddadled out of there without new pants. Rachel bought a pair, though. It was on sale.

Looking back on this break, I only accomplished about half of the things I wanted to do. I definitely will go to see the Tropicália exhibit next Saturday cos that shit's closing soon. Also, the MoMA is doing this crazy wall projection shit outside its building for this Doug Aitken video art project. You know Doug Aitken, that dude who did the "NYC" music vid. Anyway, it starts on Tuesday and I guess the whole schtick is that you can just stand outside and check it out for free? That's why I'm planning on going to the Donnell library some time during this week. Actually, I have to pick up a lot of my school books at Donnell, too. I looked at my book list today and I can't believe how long it is. I'm definitely gonna try to buy the least amount of books possible.

I'm scared about school. I think my classes are gonna be hard.