Actually I went to Boston but hey, close enough. So courtesy of the lovely Fung Wah bus company ($15 all the way there) I get to see another city bringing my total of places visited in the US to 3. What a traveller! Boston was far more mellow than Manhattan. They seem to have cut back on the number of people banging dustbin lids together on the street at 4am unlike New York so I enjoyed the peace. Boston is also much smaller than NY and more spaced out (not stoned) so you get to realise how claustrophobic NY is compared to most places. What’s that? Oh it’s the sky. Weird. Stayed in a lovely little place called Brookline which is very pretty with fantastic houses and proper all American schools just like in John Hughes movies. Spent a lot of the time just being shown around by someone lovely that I’ve only ever met twice, and hanging out.
Back late the next day via the Fung Wah bus with a quick stop off at the…
Wednesday, after a bit of a late start, busy, busy, busy. Off to a gallery to see the Winogrand zoo photography exhibition. Excellent pictures. Total genius.
Back to central park for a little post-art recharge and then off for dinner at another little Italian, (Marinara, is that with fish?) and then off to see Stephen Fry’s Bright Young Things at the Angelika downtown. Good film but a few too many cameo’s got in the way of the story a bit. Still, enjoyed it though. Drowned our minor disappointment with lager at the Red Lion followed by gins and natter at the apartment. Woke up strangely with a headache. What happened there?
People at Aardvark who make my soundcard say that they only support it by email and then don’t reply to emails. When you call them they say it’s a software problem and I’ll have to speak to Microsoft… ahem. Or am I taking the card back to the shop tomorrow morning and getting my money back off Aardvark and then telling everyone I know not to touch them with an 80 foot stick? You decide, or even “you deicide” as I wrote the first time. Much better instruction don’t you think? Now here I am surrounded by the garden of delights that is New York. What’s on the telly?
