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Canada Day (aka Nick's Birthday)
Jul. 2nd, 2005 12:57 pmWell, I started off the day by having a semi-embarrassing run-in with another person who's staying at the apartment for the weekend (he apparently arrived while I was taking a shower, so I was walking back to the living room to get clothes and I notice there's a guy in Nalini's room. Hilarity ensues. Actually, it wasn't really that bad, I just went back to the living room, got clothes, got dressed, and went and chatted about machine learning and stuff for a bit).
But then I went to the Strand bookstore, which was pretty cool, stopping at H&H bagels on the way to grab lunch. I rooted around in the bookstore basement for an hour or two looking at their baseball books, and I found a couple really good ones I'd never heard of before (a Goose Gossage autobiography, an Orel Hershiser autobiography, a book called "Tales from a Yankees Batboy"), and then I found the Warren Cromartie book about his time playing in Japan! So that was pretty cool.
Nick called me after that, so I headed back here (taking the 1 train this time, har har) and we headed out to give our regards to Broadway. We went by the Gershwin Theater to try to do the "lottery" for Wicked tickets, but there were a ton of people there, so we didn't get lucky. Instead, we headed over to a theater around the corner and got tickets to Chicago instead, since Nick gets an IBM discount. Then we grabbed dinner at the Roxy Delicatessen, which was expensive, but dude, I haven't had a real corned beef sandwich at a real deli in a bazillion years.
Chicago the musical was really very good. Their set was kinda wacky -- they had the band set up like a nightclub jazz band on stage, and everyone acted out scenes around it. But, the singing and dancing was great, the musical itself was very entertaining -- the only thing I thought was odd is that I felt like you don't really get a feel for Velma's character in the musical, not the same way you do in the movie. (I'd never seen the stage version before.)
I think that was actually the first broadway musical I'd ever actually seen ON BROADWAY, though I've seen ninety billion musicals in my lifetime. So, cool. We might try to go do the Wicked lottery again one of these days, or try to catch The Producers, or something. I may have to just come back to NYC in several months to see musicals, maybe.
We walked around Times Square for a while after that. The Toys 'r' Us there is awesomely frightening. Nick bought a painting from a street artist. We tried to find a place to have cheesecake for dessert but mostly failed. Then we came home (again taking the correct train).
But then I went to the Strand bookstore, which was pretty cool, stopping at H&H bagels on the way to grab lunch. I rooted around in the bookstore basement for an hour or two looking at their baseball books, and I found a couple really good ones I'd never heard of before (a Goose Gossage autobiography, an Orel Hershiser autobiography, a book called "Tales from a Yankees Batboy"), and then I found the Warren Cromartie book about his time playing in Japan! So that was pretty cool.
Nick called me after that, so I headed back here (taking the 1 train this time, har har) and we headed out to give our regards to Broadway. We went by the Gershwin Theater to try to do the "lottery" for Wicked tickets, but there were a ton of people there, so we didn't get lucky. Instead, we headed over to a theater around the corner and got tickets to Chicago instead, since Nick gets an IBM discount. Then we grabbed dinner at the Roxy Delicatessen, which was expensive, but dude, I haven't had a real corned beef sandwich at a real deli in a bazillion years.
Chicago the musical was really very good. Their set was kinda wacky -- they had the band set up like a nightclub jazz band on stage, and everyone acted out scenes around it. But, the singing and dancing was great, the musical itself was very entertaining -- the only thing I thought was odd is that I felt like you don't really get a feel for Velma's character in the musical, not the same way you do in the movie. (I'd never seen the stage version before.)
I think that was actually the first broadway musical I'd ever actually seen ON BROADWAY, though I've seen ninety billion musicals in my lifetime. So, cool. We might try to go do the Wicked lottery again one of these days, or try to catch The Producers, or something. I may have to just come back to NYC in several months to see musicals, maybe.
We walked around Times Square for a while after that. The Toys 'r' Us there is awesomely frightening. Nick bought a painting from a street artist. We tried to find a place to have cheesecake for dessert but mostly failed. Then we came home (again taking the correct train).
