Its later I am in my room. I met all kinds of people tonight from the hostel. A guy named Nou from Japan. We had a wonderful conversation about music, I played him some of my music and he liked it! He is a record producer and drummer. Tomorrow we are going with the guy from Brazil who works here to St. Marks. Crazy I was alone now I am meeting all these wonderful people. This is what traveling should be, and has never been for me. I have always gone with people I know, now I am getting to know people from around the world... Killer. I was just informed that the other Japanese guy here got a job at Morimoto restaurant. Yes, I believe the same Morimoto who is on Iron Chef on the food network. Oh that is great!
Today was awesome. I researched in the NYU library all morning. Reading folder after folder of the Richard Hell papers. They are incredible, a first account of life in the downtowns prime. Just awesome. Tomorrow I am going back at 10 to finish my way through the Richard Hell papers. In the afternoon I plan to go up to the NYPL at Lincoln Center to see if I can find anything. Then tomorrow night St. Marks and wherever. My mom is like don't meet people they will kill you. I think I know my way around life Mom, thanks.
So, back to stuff. I had an incredible interview with Robert Poss today - guitarist from the Band of Susan's and etc side and solo projects. We met at his studio in the East Village. The man has probably a hundred pedals, many guitars, racks to the ceiling studio... I can't wait to have a job and to have something like that. Anyway he is an incredible guy, we had an awesome interview! I heard a side of the downtown that was different and later. I got really inspired by Poss for my own music. So inspired I went over to Guitar Center tonight and jammed out on a sunburst American Highway Strat plugged into a Vox AC 15. I will BUY and AC 15 as soon as my money allows it. I sounded DAMN good on that thing. When to The Strand and Virgin megastore and had okay california roll sushi and an okay tirimisu at whole foods before that.
Need I mention again... I love this place - I hope to God one of the schools down here accepts me. This is it, this is where its at, and this is where I need to grow.
I am doing NYU/NYPL tomorrow ( i said that earlier). Then Thursday I am probably going to Stony Brook. I am going to sit in on a 19th century theory seminar for a while, and I am going to meet some of the faculty. I am glad I brought my new dress clothes, black pant suit and new heeled boots! I am going to rock out looking spectacular! Though, they are going to get wrinkled on the train out. I am really looking forward to the train out, the only part of Long Island I've seen is Nassau county. This should be fun! Everything is in its right place, again...
