Photo by: Gabe Cariola/Ali Duda (BFF)
I've been spending many of the last seven days in New York. Three, to be exact. Thursday night I went to this awesome place, Barcade, in Brooklyn with my good bro Rob. They have twenty to twenty five old school video games, which I devoured with my soul. We stayed at his sisters in Clinton Hill, where we devoured 3am falafel and woke up as the sun was rising to the most amazing view of Brooklyn I have ever seen in my life. We walked around Clinton HIill all day Friday and did some awesome stuff. We came up with a new business venture (which will soon be released), and picked up some old/awesome chairs that someone was throwing in the garbage. We picked up them up off the sidewalk, and carried them back to his car. When we saw people walk by we would stop & sit down, talking about how uncomfortable the curb looked, just to make people laugh. It was nice to see smiles on such a beautiful day. Thinking about moving to Clinton Hill instead of Willyb.
Sunday was another Manhattan/Brooklyn day. I brought some friends to my "home town" in Brooklyn to see where I spent all of my free time. I brought them back to Barcade, where I got high score on Ghost & Goblins and Ladybug, and probably spent a total of $20 in quarters on playing games, ate Thai Chow Fun until it bled out of my body, and was serenaded by my waitress. Then I found a playground in the middle of Nolita, where I flipped over the side of a swirly side, body slammed onto the pavement beneath me, and now have bruised ribs. All in the name of fun. I forgot how exhausting being a four year old is. (Pictures to come soon, I promise.)
It's been an awesome past week, to say the least. It made me realize how I can't let a single day pass me by without doing something out of the ordinary/fun/productive/beautiful. It also made me realize how much I really do belong in Brooklyn. How much happier I am there, how much more free I am there. I've been asked, numerous times, why I don't live there yet .... because I am Brooklyn.
Big, big things have been happening. I've never been happier with the direction that things are going and I've never been more excited about life. I'm loving every single minute of this life and taking it all in for what it's worth. You should all be doing the same.
Current Listen: Wind Phoenix - Cymbals Eat Guitars
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