Monday, October 16, 2006
Busy, Busy, Busy
Well, so far in NYC I've been alternately very busy, and then just sitting at home emailing off my resume..
But the good news is that the emailing has resulted in an internship which starts next week. It's with a very well known doco company, which is a really good thing, and it's 2 days a week. The bad news is that it is an internship, so it doesn't pay, but I'm really hoping the contacts and experience will be very beneficial.
The other news is that I'm moving out of my bro's place into a very small room with two great girls and two cats, three subway stops north of my bro's place.
I'm looking forward to it, but paying rent without a job isn't going to be the easiest thing to do, so things will need to speed up asap!
Other than that I've:
(a) had the best meal so far in NYC at Henry's - Grilled Seafood Salad
(b) seen the Cosmic Collisions show at the Planetarium
(c) done a walking tour of Harlem focussing on the Harlem Renaissance
(d) seen Cat Empire at the Speigeltent
(e) hung out with my friend Kirrilly who was in town to make a documentary about Elise who's here to work at the UN as the Australian Youth Representative, and been shown around the Un by Elise
(f) worked on shoot with my bro
(g) taken advantage of the Mon-Wed $21 manicure and pedicure special
(h) walked around Brooklyn with a friend, concentrating on different neightbourhoods and possible rental options
(i) walked over my favourite bridge - The Brooklyn Bridge
(j) gone to Burning Man happy hour
(k) seen The Departed - a US remake of Infernal Affairs - loved the original - the remake is also really good
(l) seen the Dr. Eddie Henderson Quartet (he usually plays with Herbie Hancock) at Smoke - a jazz bar near here
(m) looked at some apartments to rent - including 2 nice ones and one incredibly dodgy one...
(n) picked up boxes from the airport
(o) attended a really interesting talk at Columbia by Bill Fletcher Jnr
(p) seen the Hopper exhibition at the Whitney
(q) been on the Surveillance Camera Players Tour of the Upper East Side
(r) wandered through the rapidly gentrifying artists' spaces and warehouses of DUMBO for the Art Under the Bridge Festival, as well as pretending (with a friend) to be a couple interested in buying an apartment in the multi-million dollar apartment development, and being treated to free stuff as well as a personal explanation and demo of what "our" apartment would be like
So check out the photos, and drop me a line...
Ness xx
But the good news is that the emailing has resulted in an internship which starts next week. It's with a very well known doco company, which is a really good thing, and it's 2 days a week. The bad news is that it is an internship, so it doesn't pay, but I'm really hoping the contacts and experience will be very beneficial.
The other news is that I'm moving out of my bro's place into a very small room with two great girls and two cats, three subway stops north of my bro's place.
I'm looking forward to it, but paying rent without a job isn't going to be the easiest thing to do, so things will need to speed up asap!
Other than that I've:
(a) had the best meal so far in NYC at Henry's - Grilled Seafood Salad
(b) seen the Cosmic Collisions show at the Planetarium
(c) done a walking tour of Harlem focussing on the Harlem Renaissance
(d) seen Cat Empire at the Speigeltent
(e) hung out with my friend Kirrilly who was in town to make a documentary about Elise who's here to work at the UN as the Australian Youth Representative, and been shown around the Un by Elise
(f) worked on shoot with my bro
(g) taken advantage of the Mon-Wed $21 manicure and pedicure special
(h) walked around Brooklyn with a friend, concentrating on different neightbourhoods and possible rental options
(i) walked over my favourite bridge - The Brooklyn Bridge
(j) gone to Burning Man happy hour
(k) seen The Departed - a US remake of Infernal Affairs - loved the original - the remake is also really good
(l) seen the Dr. Eddie Henderson Quartet (he usually plays with Herbie Hancock) at Smoke - a jazz bar near here
(m) looked at some apartments to rent - including 2 nice ones and one incredibly dodgy one...
(n) picked up boxes from the airport
(o) attended a really interesting talk at Columbia by Bill Fletcher Jnr
(p) seen the Hopper exhibition at the Whitney
(q) been on the Surveillance Camera Players Tour of the Upper East Side
(r) wandered through the rapidly gentrifying artists' spaces and warehouses of DUMBO for the Art Under the Bridge Festival, as well as pretending (with a friend) to be a couple interested in buying an apartment in the multi-million dollar apartment development, and being treated to free stuff as well as a personal explanation and demo of what "our" apartment would be like
So check out the photos, and drop me a line...
Ness xx
Sunday, October 15, 2006
Friday, October 06, 2006
Food and Shopping
There's lots of exciting things to talk about when you move countries - new friends, jobs, events, dating, sightseeing and so on and so forth...
But let's leave all those just for a minute to talk about some very important issues - yes I'm talking about Food and Shopping.
America has a 24/7 Food network on cable tv, where you can learn how to prepare prosciutto-wrapped fresh figs stuffed with a delicate blue cheese, or alternately prepare some of the fattiest foods I've ever seen (hamburgers stuffed with pats of butter and sausages), in the back of your ute.
Some people would have you believe America is becoming a gourmet nation, but I've seen / tried some things here that go beyond cultural difference, and I've been here so many times before, so it isn't like I expected things to be exactly the same as at home, or I'm talking about the standard things all Australians are amazed by in the States - eg. how gigantic the servings are.
I'm talking about an entire restaurant that only serves macaroni and cheese. That's right folks, only macaroni and cheese. Now I've never eaten macaroni and cheese before (pasta al quattro formaggi, sure, but that's slightly different) . After this experience, I won't be trying it again.
Now I'm not saying the food was bad - it's just not my thing. Two bites as a side dish, maybe, but as an entire meal it was scary and disturbing; the place was packed.
Which brings us to shopping. I'm very lucky - my brother's neighbourhood has an amazing store nearby which has a great selection, and very fresh fruit and veg, as well as a whole lot of deli favourites - meats, cheeses etc etc. There's also a supermarket one block in the other direction.
It takes me hours to go shopping. I spend an insane amount of time trying to read packets and work out what the difference is between the 75 different types of the same product. I tried picking the first thing and buying it, but came home with crackers that have the taste and texture of shredded wheat cereal, but are flavoured with fake tomato and basil flavouring.
Despite this, choice is not an option when it comes to things like jars of kalamata olives (one type, pitted), preserved lemon (specialty item - one type - not what I was expecting) and flavoured tuna (it doesn't exist).
I have, however, discovered Israeli couscous, and as soon as I can find it in a shop I'll be making up a great dish I tried at a dinner party - olive oil, mushrooms, garlic - delicious!
But let's leave all those just for a minute to talk about some very important issues - yes I'm talking about Food and Shopping.
America has a 24/7 Food network on cable tv, where you can learn how to prepare prosciutto-wrapped fresh figs stuffed with a delicate blue cheese, or alternately prepare some of the fattiest foods I've ever seen (hamburgers stuffed with pats of butter and sausages), in the back of your ute.
Some people would have you believe America is becoming a gourmet nation, but I've seen / tried some things here that go beyond cultural difference, and I've been here so many times before, so it isn't like I expected things to be exactly the same as at home, or I'm talking about the standard things all Australians are amazed by in the States - eg. how gigantic the servings are.
I'm talking about an entire restaurant that only serves macaroni and cheese. That's right folks, only macaroni and cheese. Now I've never eaten macaroni and cheese before (pasta al quattro formaggi, sure, but that's slightly different) . After this experience, I won't be trying it again.
Now I'm not saying the food was bad - it's just not my thing. Two bites as a side dish, maybe, but as an entire meal it was scary and disturbing; the place was packed.
Which brings us to shopping. I'm very lucky - my brother's neighbourhood has an amazing store nearby which has a great selection, and very fresh fruit and veg, as well as a whole lot of deli favourites - meats, cheeses etc etc. There's also a supermarket one block in the other direction.
It takes me hours to go shopping. I spend an insane amount of time trying to read packets and work out what the difference is between the 75 different types of the same product. I tried picking the first thing and buying it, but came home with crackers that have the taste and texture of shredded wheat cereal, but are flavoured with fake tomato and basil flavouring.
Despite this, choice is not an option when it comes to things like jars of kalamata olives (one type, pitted), preserved lemon (specialty item - one type - not what I was expecting) and flavoured tuna (it doesn't exist).
I have, however, discovered Israeli couscous, and as soon as I can find it in a shop I'll be making up a great dish I tried at a dinner party - olive oil, mushrooms, garlic - delicious!
About me
- I'm Ness
- Home Town Sydney, Australia
- Currently I'm in Brooklyn, New York, United States
- Australian/US by birth, Australian for where I grew up, world citizen for where I live and travel. Moved to New York City to live and work...