Last Saturday I took the risd bus on down to New York. It was for the day, but when you add in two 4 hour trips to get there and back, I was only left with 6 hours. So many plans had to be fit into 6 hours, and some were discarded! I was very hungry when I arrived, so I came across a little hole in the wall joint, and sat at the counter (that's all the seating there was) and thoroughly enjoyed listening to the New York banter between customers and the owner/cook, Johnny. "Hey John, how are you?" John: "Hey bro, what can I get for you," followed by fist-touch-hand-greetings. It was amazing to me to see how Johnny the cook put his whole body into making a sandwich, it was all happening right there in front of me, and I really appreciated my sandwich after I saw how much effort he put into it.
My first plan was to some theatre. So everyday I've been reading the New York times Arts sections and their reviews of plays. I came upon one that got excellent reviews, called "Speech and Debate". It is at a theatre that is a Broadway theatre I suppose, but downstairs is called the Roundabout Underground, and they are putting on plays by young playwrights, and the tickets are only $20. The playwright of Speech and Debate is only 26, and I learned that he went to Brown University, which is right beside RISD.
When I went to buy my ticket, I found out that the show was sold out for the rest of its run, unfortunately. But they said to come back 30 minutes before the show and there might be some cancellation tickets. So when I came back, they announced that there were only two cancellation tickets, but there were three people in front of me. Fortunately, the three were a group and they didn't want to split up, so I got the ticket, and same with the guy behind me (a dream boat of a man, really, whom I sat beside). The play was very funny, not completely moving or enlightening, which I love in a play, but very entertaining and well done. Here is the one photo I took, the stage is meant to look like a classroom. There was one very large dude in front of me who I always had to crane my neck to look around:
After the play, which was around 2 hours long, I was off to Brooklyn to see The Miss Jenn Jackson! It was sooo great to see her! It turns out that we are both having some tough times with some very critical teachers, and have both wanted to stop doing art all together, so it was great to connect and I felt like I wasn't so alone in this feeling.
As you can see, I was very excited, ha!
Unfortunately I had just over one hour to spend in Brooklyn with Jenn. We grabbed a pizza, went into some great shops and then went to a coffee shop. Brooklyn is amazing. I guess it's becoming known for being the place where all the hipsters live, and when I was looking around, everyone had the art school hipster look.
But it was all too short, and I had to get on the subway to head back downtown to catch the risd bus. I headed in the wrong direction and was 40 minutes late and everyone was waiting for me. Yikes! But at least I heard this duo in the subway, the guy had the most haunting of voices.
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