Near the end of the West side bike trail.

FEAST

Goodbye Blue Monday

Tuesday I held poker night. Jeff won.

Thursday I was all set ride my bike home and not go out. But I forgot my keys, so I met Mike K for a few beers.

Friday I got off work early and rode up and down the West side bike path, then stopped at the Whitney on the way back. I liked the drawings in the Claes Oldenburg the best. That’s been true for a lot of the shows I’ve seen recently I have a bigger interest in the drawings used for plans and mark making in general. All said and done after riding to work in the morning, the path in the afternoon, then back home again I rode 34 miles on Friday

Saturday I got up early and went to Prospect park for a few laps around the path there, each loop is 3.3 miles, so I did 3 and went for lunch. Probably rode about 20ish miles. Then to Greenpoint for the 3rd FEAST. It was a lot of fun and we seem to be getting the hang of it.

Sunday was a really nice day, but I’d been outside all weekend, and didn’t really feel like running around, so I stayed home all day. Later that night I rode down BAM to see a french movie. On the way back I stopped at Goodbye Blue Monday for a beer. This guy Enid Ellen was performing kind of a goth gay bowie thing. Anyhow, it was fine and all. He was up there performing. There were these 2 British jokers sitting in front of me though. They were sneakily taking video of the guy performing, then panning to themselves making a “wtf” look and generally seemed very put out by the whole affair. Head in hands, hastily flipping through boring old books from the shelves, snide remarks, etc. My question is — why stay? Go outside to the patio where it’s quiet, or just leave. This dude was the final show of the night, there was nothing else to stick around for. Some people just get off on hating (especially british people with track jackets) when they probably don’t do anything other than consume or have the guts. On my way home I’d just gone around the corner and was messing with my pedals or something as I’d just began to get going and rode right into this massive pot hole. I must have landed solely on my pinky finger. It’s fairly swollen, but I can still manage to function. I bet I could get my fine if it was removed completely.

Film
Omagh. About this 1998 bombing in Ireland. I’d been putting this one off for a week cause I thought it’d be depressing. It was, but it was also really good.

Billy the Kid. Recommend and borrowed from Jen. Good doc that was at times pretty uncomfortable.

WALL-E. This is a cartoon movie about the world getting overrun by tin cans and people going into space and becoming fat blobs. Now, when they’re out in space, they’re still using all kinds of tin cans. I didn’t buy that part. I enjoyed it.

Commune. Documentary about this commune Black Bear Ranch in California. I enjoyed watching it. It seemed like our group vacations, but with more chores and year around. I also rented this movie called La Commune, but then I realized it was in French and 6 hours long. So I sent that one back.

L’argent (Money). This French movie that was so dry and straight forward. Not recommended.