another weekend

By anders pearson 07 Jun 2004

lani finally made it up for a visit this weekend. just in time for new york to be cold and wet. coming from texas, it hadn’t even occurred to her to bring anything warmer than a t-shirt, so she had to spend the weekend wearing my sweater, which is practically a dress on her.

met up with jP and tamara for dim sum saturday morning followed by gooey sweets from the chinese bakery and music shopping. on our way back to the subway, we took some side streets to avoid the crazy throngs of tourists clogging canal street. on one of them, we stumbled across what must have been a DJ’s wet dream. there is a music library, which gets two copies of every piece of vinyl that is released plus lots of radio stations donate their extras. twice a year, apparently, they go through their inventory and sell off their thirds. most of what they were selling had probably never even been played but it was all cheap. i think jP could have easily spent the rest of the day there (and all of his money) if we’d let him.

back at my place, we watched Bubba Ho-Tep, and a few hours of VH1’s “100 Most Metal Moments of All Time”, which was remarkably entertaining.

sometime around 10, i was tricked into going out to williamsburg. i could have sworn that lani asked if i wanted to go to brooklyn “tomorrow” and i agreed. next thing i knew, she was dragging me to the subway. it was a fun time though. we met up with jP, tamara, and julia at blair and daphne’s, ate some falafel and zaater, drank some PBR and played Barbie, the board game. then we watched Blood Diner, which was absolutely hilarious.

on sunday, i dutifully followed lani around while she went clothes shopping and unsuccessfully shoe shopping. then we had some pastries with Sky and Masha and finally watched The Dead Zone (Sky and Masha have been attempting to watch every movie Christopher Walken has been in).

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