What a wonderful day today! I started off with my last drum lesson with Tony, which was a good duo combo playing with Beulah that went well and got good feedback from Tony. I'm still very emotional about it being my last lesson, and if I stay in NY (which it's looking I will) I plan on scheduling more lessons with him, outside of Columbia.
After that I walked down to 96th St. in beautiful sunshine (the 1 was not running downtown from 116, but I didn't mind). I got a banana along the way with change at a street cart. It was delicious.
I arrived at Times Square for Free Comic Day at Midtown Comics. The free selection was plentiful, I got All-New Avengers, Secret Wars, DC Divergence, and two kids comics. I liked All-New Avengers the best. DC was a bit lacking. I also bought the final chapter of the Black Vortex saga to support the store. I guess I owe them after reading the whole saga for free in their store.
Before I entered midtown comics and after I exited the subway however, I encountered a great Egyptian band playing on 7th ave and 41st. They were there to promote tourism to Egypt, which I thought was a bit odd but they sounded great so I enjoyed it. They had a few people dressed in Egypt costumes dancing, and balloons attached to a sign reading "Travel to Egypt". When I left midtown comics they were still playing, and they released the balloons to the crowd's pleasure watching them fly up into the Times Square buildings.
I walked uptown towards the park to read my comics, but drifted towards the MoMa and ended up walking in to see if my ID got me free entry. It did, so I spent an hour or so wandering the MoMa and enjoying the art, enjoying the sixth floor most of all. The collection of Monet's, Magritte's, Picasso's and Van Gogh's there is astounding, and the whole floor is spectacular. The Monet Water Lily room remains a favorite of mine, I think it would be difficult to be unhappy or stressed in there.
I left the MoMa and journeyed onward to the park, stopping at the entrance to get two sausages from a cart vendor for far too much money, but they were delicious and better than the hot dogs I'd been planning to get. I ate one at a table at the Columbus Circle entrance, then walked into the park and sunshine to read some comics. I read the All-New Avengers, moved further into the park chasing the sunshine, and settled at a nice bench next to a softball game to read another. As the sun drifted it started to get chilly, so I walked to the 72 st. station and subwayed back uptown, to finish reading the stack of comics in my room. The end of the Black Vortex saga was particularly nice, and not just because I'd paid for it (though that lent it some extra reverence).
I was tired then and relaxed for a while, watch Louie and some of the Spring 2015 4CCup, then called a bunch of bars to find that the Mayweather-Pacquiao was either not showing or costing 25$. Because of this I had to scrap my viewing plans with Kevin, though it may have been for the best because the fight was very boring. Lots of missed punches and running away.
I also learned that David found two roommates already in Bed-Stuy, which I wasn't expecting, so I sadly won't be leaving there. I'd been looking forward to that, though probably hyping it up too much. I think just the idea of living with musicians and having a piano in my apartment sounded nice. I can probably just get cousin John's keyboard from Denis and Melinda's, and if my future roommates aren't musicians that's more reason for me to get out of the house (apartment) and seek my musician friends out.
Lots of trepidation and panic and nerve wracking about my future, but also lots of hope and excitement and WORK, which is good. I need to do more work. Tomorrow I write a Shakespeare paper, let's hope it's good. My wit needs a whetstone to sharpen its steel. Even that wasn't a very witty sentence. All the more reason.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWG2dsXV5HI
My Favorite Things, by John Coltrane, something my day was filled with.
Oh also I went to WKCR and hung out with Stepan at Saturday Night at the Opera for a while, though I was too preoccupied with my worries and trying to find a stream for the fight to be a good hang outer. I'll go back next week and connect more. Stepan is great and his passion for opera is inspiring.
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