A little reminder so I can blog later on my trip (well if I'm not procrastinating), and hopefully I didn't jumble up the events:
Day 1 (Mon, NY):
Breakfast at Katz's Deli. City Hall. Ground Zero. Wall Street. Times Square. Discovered Mac's didn't have MacGriddle but ate it anyway for the first time since watching Super-size Me. Watched off-Broadway Musical of Musicals.
Day 2 (Tues, NY):
Shopped at Woodsbury Commons. Watched Rosebuds/ Camera Obscura gig at NY Knitting Factory.
Day 3 (Wed, NY):
Internet cafe. Guggenheim Museum (walked up the museum in spirals and alternated between seeing weird sculptures and a bizarre private collection of photos focusing on different kinds of hands). Union Square (I've never succeeded in passing by Strand Books without going in and buying a book). Greenwich Village. Cold Stone Cremery (see I got the name right but it's not the best ice-cream in NY!). Standup comedy at Caroline's (sexist and racist jokes, I didn't laugh that much).
Day 4 (Thu, NY):
Soul food at Sylvia's, Harlem. Central Park. Whitney Museum. Pernice Brothers gig at Mercury Lounge (where we got the set list autographed!).
Day 5 (Fri, NY):
Breakfast at Katz's Deli again. Watched movie Metallica: Some Kind of Monster. Grand Central station. Saw Scissor Sisters perform at Tower Records (well, I was too short to see much of anything but they played well live). Clientele gig at NY Knitting Factory.
Day 6 (Sat, CHI):
John Hancock building (went up to the observatory). Cheesecake Factory (was recommended and ate avocado rolls). Museum of Contemporary Art. Gig at Schubarbs (had a pepper burger there which strangely contained avocado.. my first 2 meals in Chicago have convinced me that the place is avocado-crazy).
Day 7 (Sun, CHI):
Ate Krispy Kreme donuts for the first time (cheesecake & key lime flavours). Sears Towers (didn't go up). Gene Siskel Film Centre (not open). Newberry Library book sale (why would anyone travel all that distance to go to a library book sale? Don't ask). Terra museum. Tea with leslie at Moonstruck Cafe. Wicker Park summer festival gig.
Day 8 (Mon, CHI):
Museum of Photography (photo exhibition on twins at a twins festival, as well as another one on prostitutes in India.. beautiful pictures, and the museum was just next to the hotel too). 50's American diner with deliberately rude waiters who danced on bar tops (think Happy Days). Chicago Cultural Centre (exhibition of 3-D buildings with painted silhouettes in windows). Art Institute of Chicago (rushed through it but didn't make it to the Edward Hopper paintings). Millenium Park (strange mirror surfaced metal bean sculpture, and an exhibition of family portraits round the world).
Day 9 (Tues, NY):
Flew back from Chicago. Lincoln Centre. Gig by Hamell on Trial at Fez's.
Day 10 (Wed, NY):
Dim sum (where they served huge beef balls, didn't offer spoons, and we had to order in Cantonese). American Museum of Moving Images. Saw Naked Cowboy singing to his guitar in the middle of Times Square (I think I saw him 5 years ago in Times Square too). Watched movies Festival Express and Spike Lee's latest She Hate Me.
Day 11 (Thu, NY):
Picked up film. Beulah's farewell gig at Castle Clinton.
Day 12 (Fri, NY):
J&R's. Visited United Nations. Last minute shopping at Mott Street. Flew home.
Day 1 (Mon, NY):
Breakfast at Katz's Deli. City Hall. Ground Zero. Wall Street. Times Square. Discovered Mac's didn't have MacGriddle but ate it anyway for the first time since watching Super-size Me. Watched off-Broadway Musical of Musicals.
Day 2 (Tues, NY):
Shopped at Woodsbury Commons. Watched Rosebuds/ Camera Obscura gig at NY Knitting Factory.
Day 3 (Wed, NY):
Internet cafe. Guggenheim Museum (walked up the museum in spirals and alternated between seeing weird sculptures and a bizarre private collection of photos focusing on different kinds of hands). Union Square (I've never succeeded in passing by Strand Books without going in and buying a book). Greenwich Village. Cold Stone Cremery (see I got the name right but it's not the best ice-cream in NY!). Standup comedy at Caroline's (sexist and racist jokes, I didn't laugh that much).
Day 4 (Thu, NY):
Soul food at Sylvia's, Harlem. Central Park. Whitney Museum. Pernice Brothers gig at Mercury Lounge (where we got the set list autographed!).
Day 5 (Fri, NY):
Breakfast at Katz's Deli again. Watched movie Metallica: Some Kind of Monster. Grand Central station. Saw Scissor Sisters perform at Tower Records (well, I was too short to see much of anything but they played well live). Clientele gig at NY Knitting Factory.
Day 6 (Sat, CHI):
John Hancock building (went up to the observatory). Cheesecake Factory (was recommended and ate avocado rolls). Museum of Contemporary Art. Gig at Schubarbs (had a pepper burger there which strangely contained avocado.. my first 2 meals in Chicago have convinced me that the place is avocado-crazy).
Day 7 (Sun, CHI):
Ate Krispy Kreme donuts for the first time (cheesecake & key lime flavours). Sears Towers (didn't go up). Gene Siskel Film Centre (not open). Newberry Library book sale (why would anyone travel all that distance to go to a library book sale? Don't ask). Terra museum. Tea with leslie at Moonstruck Cafe. Wicker Park summer festival gig.
Day 8 (Mon, CHI):
Museum of Photography (photo exhibition on twins at a twins festival, as well as another one on prostitutes in India.. beautiful pictures, and the museum was just next to the hotel too). 50's American diner with deliberately rude waiters who danced on bar tops (think Happy Days). Chicago Cultural Centre (exhibition of 3-D buildings with painted silhouettes in windows). Art Institute of Chicago (rushed through it but didn't make it to the Edward Hopper paintings). Millenium Park (strange mirror surfaced metal bean sculpture, and an exhibition of family portraits round the world).
Day 9 (Tues, NY):
Flew back from Chicago. Lincoln Centre. Gig by Hamell on Trial at Fez's.
Day 10 (Wed, NY):
Dim sum (where they served huge beef balls, didn't offer spoons, and we had to order in Cantonese). American Museum of Moving Images. Saw Naked Cowboy singing to his guitar in the middle of Times Square (I think I saw him 5 years ago in Times Square too). Watched movies Festival Express and Spike Lee's latest She Hate Me.
Day 11 (Thu, NY):
Picked up film. Beulah's farewell gig at Castle Clinton.
Day 12 (Fri, NY):
J&R's. Visited United Nations. Last minute shopping at Mott Street. Flew home.
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