I just went to the Roger Waters show at MSG. As a fan of the Floyd, I was stoked I got a hook up on the ticket but to get a spot basically on stage was fantastic! Thank you MD! Check out some of the shots:
Fear Builds Walls
It turned out to be a thriller…
Federer summed it up in the end and it certainly was. This was my first major tennis event experience, the US Open. The Open is the last major of the year based out in Flushing Meadows Park, the former dumping ground characterized as “a valley of ashes” in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Unique that a dump is not the site for champagne, khaki pants, polo sweaters tied around the necks of the upper crust, all here to watch two guys control a yellow furry ball on a concrete court.
The scene was fan heavy in Flushing… the Mets had a home game and the Blake-Federer match was the last match in the tourny with the top ranked players in the game. Blake being the top ranked American and Federer the top ranked player in the world. Up to this point, Federer hasn’t lost a set in the Open, so the intensity was there from the American crowd.
Getting seats two days before the match proved to be, as expected, painful. We picked up a couple top shelf seats but really just being there in that stadium, feeling the energy of 10,000+ fans screamin for the amerian or the sweede was amazing. The funniest scene was the starting of the wave from the top deck in the 3rd set that made three rounds before the whistling tennis crowd killed the fun. I guess there was a proper tennis match going on…
Here’s some photos and video of the event. More at the link below.
Third Set – Tie Break Game and with 20% of the crowd already leaving when Federer was up 5-4 – Blake comes back for a huge win and takes the first set from Federer of the Open.
What I find in chinatown
My hood is right next to the largest Chinatown in the states as well as the highest concentration of Chinese (Click for more history and stats about NY Chinatown). I tend to spend some time down there to get cheep eats ($2.00 noodles on canal and center), grocery shopping and picking up accessories (belts, buckles, knockoff brand name gear, etc.)
I usually hit Dynasty supermarket on Elizabeth St. for stocking up on my chili sauce, rooster sauce, instant noodles, and all other dry goods. There are several spots on Mott I hit for seafood and cheap vegies and then I snapped this pic from my camera phone of the clerk smoking and ashing all over the apples…. mmmm yum!
You can get 6 for $20 dvds of movies still in the theater and cheep pirated CDs but I never buy in for I just don’t want to contribute to that scene – just copy it myself…
I don’t think I leave Chinatown with out having a pork bun or two… another cheep staple but of course you head to flushing or any other Chinatown (Boston-SF) still you’ll pay less, but this is New York and you have to pay the NY tax. I’ve found several other great finds – a few karaoke clubs, basement bars and and great mix of restaurants… more to be updates.