soooo much to tell

okay...

so.

i forgot a few things form monday night- laura nason told me to go to jim caruso's so a shout out and lots of love to her!!

the 5 finalist on the chinese version of american idol (called "my show") were there and sang... totally neat!
AND this woman named jan.. her slip fell off in the washroom and her firend who's the photographer at jim caruso's cast party got hold of it and tossed it to malan to toss onstage and when jim picked it up he stared at the slip asked who's it was (jan didn't claim it..yet) and put it down on top of the piano for all to see and to watch over the performances... so after i performed jim gave me the slip to say "rock on" and then jan came to claim it and we took a pic of us and the slip together.

okay... so yesterday

i got up, went to this place i adore called COSI for brunch and then headed over to MOMA i was all excited to have a day full of modern art... now i looked at the address for MOMA when i left but kinda forgot it by the time i was done brunch... but i knew it was on 53rd and i was pretty sure it was west... so set off... well after a 20 minute walk down 53rd west i saw no MOMA and i was walking beside this chain fence of a basketball court and i looked through the fence and on the side of a building on the otherside of the court was a big graffiti mural that said HELL'S KITCHEN. so i hightailed it out of there and asked some friendly new yorkers where the hell MOMA was and it turns out it's on 53rd EAST! so i got there only to discover it was closed on tuesdays :( BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! (though i suppose it's thoroughly modern to be closed on tuesdays)

so then i decided why not go to the MET?
so i walked all the way through central park (took some lovely photos) to the met and spent 3 hours walking around. took almost 150 photo's of the art.
i love art.
especially anything post 1900
or just shortly before.

when i was in grade 10 my class went on a trip to new york and we went to the met but only for half an hour so we motored through and i discovered that they had one of seurat's practice panels for "a sunday afternoon on the isle of la grand jatte" (my favourite painting of all time) and i stared at it for 5 minutes and wept.

well yesterday i went back to the met, found the panel, stared at it for 15 minutes... wept... then took some great pics of it.

it was quite fulfilling.

oh and i love greek sculptures too... they fascinate me.
yes... greek marble statues, pointilism, and modern art.. that's where it's at for me.

so after i got down and dirty at the met i decided to walk back through central park to get to my hotel for a nap before seeing August: Osage County... this three and a halkf hour long play that began at 7:30

well i left the met at 4:15.
the met is at 85th street
at 4:30 i came out of central park at 72nd street and conetemplated walking down 5th avenue to get back to the hotel (at43rd stree)
i decided to go back in the park to get back.
somehow i got turned around all ass backwards
at 5:15 i got out of the park and was at 91st STREET!
WTF???
so i got a cab and got back.

I GOT LOST TWICE IN ONE DAY!!
IN NEW YORK!!
THE EASIEST CITY TO FIND YOUR WAY AROUND!!
I AM SUCH A TOURIST.


okay... if you're still reading.. bless you.

lots has happened. \
and i'm keeping this blog to enterain the few friends who will actually read and for posterity to show my grandchildren.

SOOO

i went to the hotel.
napped.
grabbed a slice of pizza
and head off to see August: Osage County
HOLY SHIT IT'S THE BEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN!
i have never laughed and cried so much, so close together, and unanimously with so many other people...
if you are going to new york in the next month or so see it before it's limited engagement ends.
it's a steppenwolf production so the entire cast is from chicago... and they ALL deserve tonies!!
this play will probably win the pulitzer.
it was a master class in acting, playwriting, directing, and everything theatrical.
simply stunning.

why aren't you booking you're flight and ticket to see it yet?
seriously- SEE THIS PLAY!!!

on a side note... i stuck up conversation with the gent sitting beside me, an older man who was also and actor here was part of our conversation:

"he: i'm bob (offers his hand)
me: ari (shaking his hand)
he: what? my name is bob ari
me: that's random"

not a word of a lie folks!

today's agenda:

i just got back from a fun meetin with the talent house's new york agent (who's name is also ari... hehehe)
i'm sitting ONSTAGE for the 2pm mat of XANADU (sooo pumped!!)
then i'm hanging out with the lovely miss eryn- i'm in spring awakening don't you wish you could hate me but you can't cos i'm sooo damn nice- murman.
meeting my dad for dinner at a kosher deli (ra ra new york for that)
and then we're seeing the farnsworth invention.

have a lovely day!
xo