VISITORS SHOW YOU THINGS YOU MIGHT HAVE OVERLOOKED II

Deciding that we could only really do two things today we first headed uptown to the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum to catch the absolutely inspiring feature exhibit Design Life Now: National Design Triennial 2006. It was a well-needed dose of inspiration in what has largely been a few months of what I consider hack work. Bogged down by sales and marketing influences, I often forget the greater role designers must live up to in embellishing the world with quality, beauty and function. High and hungry afterwards we headed down to the East Village, had a great meal and then insanely delicious chocolates at the (gratuitously self indulgent) Max Brenner cafe nearby. I actually got high off their milk chocolate frappe and found myself staring in awe at the godhead evening light against a brick building across the street giving thanks to our Lord Jesus Christ. We split and caught a show at the Union Square Theater called Be by performance group Mayumana based out of Israel. We’ve all seen this before, that pummeling kind of high-energy entertainment using sweaty female/male bodies and percussion, forcing you into a kind of exhausting submission by attempting to incorporate every physical gimmick and trick in the vaudeville/acrobat repertoire. It was fascinating, but at the same time it had the effect of making someone like myself feel either incredibly horny or physically inadequate depending on the moment. It would have been perfect at an hour long.

Saw Jesse Eisenberg (picture from behind) out in front. . . also there for the show. We both kind of stared at each other a couple of times when around one another, which I wonder if is the usual response an actor gives to someone who recognizes them.