Christmas is officially in NYC, and so are the tourists (more and more every day), but one thing that's NOT in NYC yet, is snow! That's more or less OK with me though...apparently I'll have plenty to look forward to when I get back to the mid-west. Blegh.
Last Monday I went to see the Radio City Hall Christmas Spectacular with Anna, Nick, Kelly, and Fallon. The Spectacular was just good, solid fun—no other way to put it—Rockette kick-lines, 3-d glasses, an interesting version of the Nutcracker, streamers, fireworks, and live camels, sheep, and donkeys on stage! Basically, I turned into a little kid again for an hour and a half.
dancing Santas!
pretending to be the Rockettes
Another major happening was the 29th anniversary of John Lennon’s death. I was making something to eat before going to sleep Tuesday night (Dec. 8), and someone in the kitchen mentioned that there was a vigil going on at Strawberry Fields (the Imagine circle) at Central Park where people were singing John Lennon/Beatles songs. My response was, “I’m going…NOW!” Ries decided to go with me, so we headed uptown at 11 and stayed there for about an hour and a half singing with the crowd (I put a couple videos of the singing at the end of this blog).
Unfortunately it started raining, so the guitarists had to pack up, and the singing broke up except for a few people who tried to drunkenly continue without the instrumentalists (which was a horribly unsuccessful attempt). I was bummed that they had stop because I was planning to stay there much, much later—maybe all night—but the night ended nicely with one guy who kept his guitar out a bit longer than the others and played “Imagine” on acoustic. It was wonderful! Yet another reason why I love this city…where else can you be getting ready to go to sleep, and then out of the blue go on an adventure to sing Beatles songs with a crowd of people at midnight? Well…except maybe Liverpool, haha.
One not-so-good thing about this week was that I got food poisoning Wednesday night. I suppose a semester in New York wouldn’t be complete without at least one case of it, eh? It was somewhat mild, but still not fun, and I can safely say I will not be eating at Dallas BBQ again, no matter how cheap their food is!
Sunday I went to the last performance of the Royal Family (a Broadway play) with Kelly and Nick because Nick got comp tickets from work. The show parodies the Barrymore family, and even though I'm not very familiar with their history, the show was really funny, the acting was solid, and the set was incredible. I was laughing so much, I hardly even noticed that it was so long (3 acts)! Nick also got us into the Patrons Lounge, where all the people who donate the big bucks to the Manhattan Theatre Club go during intermission. So I got to pretend to be rich while drinking free coffee and eating the most delicious chocolate-covered almonds ever! Thanks Nick!!
I've also been to two more UCB shows in the past week, one with Jack McBrayer and the other I was #6 in line, so I got to sit in the front row! WOO! I also went shopping at Canal Street for the first time all semester today and bought some hats and scarves (no fake purses this time around though).
Well, that’s all for now. Just one more week and one more update. Wait a second, I need to shed a single tear. Alright, well that’s done. Seeya next week!
^^ videos of the crowd singing "Eight Days a Week" and "Give Peace a Chance." The videos are pretty short because my camera was running out of memory...
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