I have been so busy this week, it’s incredible.

Concerts three days out of this week… I slept for like 12 hours yesterday. But zomg I have pics and videos!

today’s the first day that I can actually catch up on… well… everything. I’m back at work and school and managed to shoehorn all of these shows into my schedule. It was hectic, but incredibly awesome.

First show was, of course, Chk Chk Chk at Harlow’s. IT WAS FUCKING AMAZING. Like, #2 show ever after the Presets. It was a tiny venue but had SO much energy.

I didn’t take any pictures, I just took videos…and the sound is really off, you can’t hear any of the songs but you can see the crowd going ape shit.

I’m going to edit them into a more cohesive thing, but after that, on Wednesday, I saw:

Maria Daniela y su Sonido Lasser

First there was this fucking crazy DJ that ended up taking off his clothes and insulting everyone, it was such a crazy spectacle.

And then on Sunday we saw Amanda Lepore at Faces:

Amanda Lepore performing “My P***y” and “Champagne” from Darius Capulet on Vimeo.

Isn’t that fucking crazy? I LOVE Amanda Lepore. She is my #1 Train Wreck EVAR.

I just saw chk chk chk tonight.

It was fucking incredible. I have a ton of videos. I’ll post them as soon as I get off work tomorrow.

My mom and I went into the city yesterday. We had a wonderful time. The weather was sunny as we left the Port Authority.

Across the street, the new NY Times building.

We walked a few blocks to Times Square and got on the 1 train bound for Christopher Street.

Our destination was the IFC film center in Greenwich Village to see Trouble the Water, this incredible film about Hurricane Katrina by this family that bought a video camera the day before the storm and didn’t have the means to get out of the city.

After we got out of the movie, we walked up Avenue of the Americas looking for a cute place to have lunch. This was a branch of the NY Public Library.

We happened upon a cute French restaurant where we had sandwiches, coffee, and crème brûlée.

After we finished lunch, we continued walking up 6th Avenue, stopping at street vendors and shops.

This was that all wholesale florist store that had all sorts of cool stuff for my mom’s classroom.

All through our walk, we saw the Empire State Building through the avenues.

The architecture is just amazing.

I loved this building.

We began to approach the Times Square area, and had to take some touristy pictures.

My new MySpace pic:

We went into the Times Square shops and found some pretty cool stuff:

I got a NYC subway sign and a shirt with all the stops (I <3 mass transit systems, if you don't know).

I also took some videos of the area:

Here’s us in the subway:

After we’d shopped adequately, we shuffled on home:

A wonderful day in NYC. Too bad I leave in the wee hours Sunday morning.

I’m in love with Jean Baudrillard. What I’m experiencing in my life is a large part Baudrillard’s indictments of our system of symbolic exchange.

We are today in what I would call a ‘Moebius-strip’ system. If we were in a face-to-face, confrontational system, strategies could be clear, based on a linearity of causes and effects. Whether one used good or evil, it would be used as part of a plan, and Machiavellianism would not lie outside rationality. But we are in a completely random universe in which causes and effects are piled one upon the other according to this ‘Moebius-strip’ model, and no one can know where the effects of the effects will end.

–Jean Baudrillard, Passwords

Had a long talk with my mom about the future.

I’m not sure where my place is.

We’re going back to Manhattan tomorrow.

Finished Passwords tonight.

I feel lonely. Josh is leaving, like, forever. It’s like a physical amputation when good friends move far far away. It would be incredibly unfortunate if I were to end up moving to San Francisco when he wasn’t there.

I miss Joe. He was such a good friend, even if we had totally different views on life. Well, we had compatible views up to the fact that he believed in a god.

I like Taylor. I wonder what the first thing I’ll dislike about him will be.

I smell, but it’s too late to take a shower. I’m actually kind of glad that Patrick and I won’t be able to rendezvous. It’s not fun being his silver medal when him and Shane aren’t doing well.

Listening to Honeycut, which is perfect music for lounging around. I want to have cute mornings where my boyfriend and I read magazines, spread out on the living room floor, leisurely smoking and drinking coffee.

I guess I was being overly vague in my last Baudrillard quote. It was kind of taken out of context. What I oppose is the loss of perspective caused by all participants in a situation being too close to something to be able to respond to it with due perspective.

He then talks about how promiscuity is similar to the information landscape we find ourselves in.

I don’t know how I feel about sex. Yes, I would like to be sleeping next to someone, but my current situation doesn’t give me that kind of luxury.

I feel like I’m never going to grow up, never going to come into my own. Never going to be able to come home at night without feeling like I’m sneaking back in.

It’s impossible not to be seduced by cutesy relationship crap. But I can’t have a real relationship with my current living situation. I think I’m going to have to spend a lot of time hanging out with Christen…I just need to meet someone that’s like her, but is a guy.

Must sleep, Manhattan awaits.