So I decided to cut my hair...

So yeah... its about that time of year where i get bored with my hair and i decide its cold and miserable outside (Ummmmm... it got really really really freaking cold all of the sudden PS! Why was I not informed of this before it occurred? Oh right NOW you decide it should be cold! f you winter! its cold!) and I need some change in my life, so i take it out on my hair... This time i decided that I wanted to go for a more sixties inspired bob... in the tradition of Carole Brady and Edie Sedgwick... PPS... (I saw 'Factory Girl' which might had something to do with it... but what a totally glamorous and incredibly depressing movie! I loved it!)

Firefighters in Action

I saw this happening in my neighborhood and I had one of those moments like OMG... this is really happening! There is a fire at the very top apt of this building and i happened to drive by in a taxi at just the moment when the firemen drove up in their firetrucks... Our Brave Firemen in action... Go them...

Reminds me of my fave fireman from, 'I <3 Huckabees':

'I have no idea what you guys are talking about. I thought we were here to talk about petroleum. '

'I'm not a hero. We'd all be heroes if we quit using petroleum, though.'

'Mr. Hooten: God gave us oil! He gave it to us! How can God's gift be bad?
Tommy Corn: I don't know. He gave you a brain too and you messed that up pretty damn good. '

god bless you david o russell!

trash to treasure spotlight of the week

I entitle this week's spotlight: 'Go Figure!?'




Yeah... i have no idea what this actually IS... but its really junkie and cool and I really wanted to take it home with me even thought its completely useless and obviously broken...
OMG! this is the BEST! yes folks that is an abandoned water bottle in between the tracks of the subway... go figure

The Met!

So I have been going to the opera like a fiend in the past week... i have seen 5 operas in the span of a week! (i guess I am making up for the fact that I haven't been to an opera and i have lived here for about 6 months now... oh well...) The Met is my new fave place in NYC. Its very sixties architecturally (as the rest of Lincoln Center is) and i love it. Gold and deep dark red velvet cover every surface. It is entirely composed of sleek organic lines... its all very elegant. Its what i would call the church for those who worship opera. And all the operas i saw the voices were by far the highlight of the entire experience. I have seen Jenufa, Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci, La Boheme, La Traviata, and I Puritani...Highlights of the week: I loved the production of 'La Traviata'... wow! the set was really incredible and the the Violetta and Alfredo were Asian by heritage and i thought it worked really well and was a really interesting provocative choice. Then hearing opera superstar Anna Netrebko in 'I Puritani' was also amazing. Literally she was lying on her back half hanging into the orchestra pit and singing this amazingly difficult bel canto aria all at once... it was quite something to see! But anyway... I have to say that the Met really is the home of classic big/huge opera... Three of the five operas were designed by Franco Zefferelli THE name in big Italian Opera of the 1970's. His Operas = chorus of over 200, including children, dogs, horses, and mules, and in the case of Cavalleria Rusticana an entire Easter Parade complete with floats! its almost too much...

Let me also say the people who go to the Met are ridiculous! My personal fave is when the man in front of me with the fat head that is obscuring half the stage falls asleep every 2 mins and just as his head bows out of my POV he wakes back up and his fat head bobs back up again... or the old old old man in the row behind me who continually snorts the entire performance, no seriously do you need a tissue? Do you want me to throw a pack of them at you? take a sudafed please... Or the entirely too large woman who is sitting at the end of the row who will not take the two steps to stand in the aisle of the theater and instead insists on having you brush against her rotund body every time you want to get by at intermission! EWWWWWW! GROSS!!! i need a drink after that! Then the overzealous opera fan who is sitting nearby who screams "BRAVA" or "BRAVI" or "BRAVO" after every aria or duet (honestly dude you are at the MET! what else were you expecting? of course they are good! I know you paid a lot for your comfy orchestra seat but please don't annoy me by yelling in your best little italy accent in my ear constantly during the show... that's what curtain call is for...) and of course the man next to me who snores continually through the entire opera and does not leave... why would you pay that much to sit and sleep through and opera? honestly wake up or go home. omg... its been an interesting week...

but i have to say I am a HUGE fan of the $20 orchestra ticket giveaway that they are doing this season! Its such an amazing opportunity to get really good seats that are close to the stage and that otherwise are not available to young poor artist types like me... (I just wish that there were more people taking advantage of this opportunity that are first time opera goers... I see many more people who are regular opera goers in line that just want cheap tickets than there should be but what can you do?) my only word of wisdom is GO EARLY... The line starts down the stairs by the box office and it winds all around the basement... I haven't really had a problem getting tickets in said long line but keep in mind you have to get there one or two hours before the tickets go on sale (which is around 2 hours before the show starts... 5:30 or 6 depending on 7:30 or 8 curtain) but keep in mind the old bitty who is in the front of the line probably got there around 3:15 guaranteed... but I highly recommend doing this becuase its pretty easy and they give away about 200 tickets so your chances are really good for getting tickets and they are GOOD SEATS... it probably depends on the opera that is showing i guess... (but its better than Opera Garnier where you can only get seats without a view day of performance... which is ridiculous...) but whatever, I just hope that they continue this program next season as well. i can't imagine how much money they are loosing on this program so i will totally understand why they would only do it for one season... but for now i am going to see as many operas as i can! but i have to say that I love the opera but i might have to take a break for a few weeks before I see another one... but i can't wait to go back to the Met. my new home...