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November 26, 2006
Jay Z, aka Jigga Man, aka S. Carter, aka Mr. Beyonce Knowles
Tonight I saw Jay Z performing at my job, The Brooklyn Academy of Music or BAM
I have to say that I'm not a big Jay Z fan, I'm in to more old school artist like KRS-ONE or Rakim. But that being said Jay Z is a big name in hip hop and he has held it down and represented and proven himself in the hip hop world. After tonight I can say he put on a great show and has gained my respect. I didn't see the end of the concert so maybe I'll regret it in the morning if I hear he had Nas as a special guest or someone else. I'm sure he brought out Beyonce after he finished singing his version of "bonnie and clyde" but I was leaving when he started to sing that song. It was very cool to see the people that I worked with that I would have never thought would go to see Jay Z as well as see how "the building" delt with the hype and the commotion that followed the announcement that Jay Z would be performing, on to going on sale tuesday morning, then selling out tuesday afternoon and ending with the concert day arriving and dealing with making the evening go smoothly with out incident. I think we all succeeded and I was happy to see Hip Hop in the Opera House at Bam for the first time in my 10 years there.
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November 21, 2006
Riding the N train
Living way up North in the Bronx makes for an interesting commute. During rush hours (7-12 or 5-8 ) its not so bad but if I decide to go to a movie after work or go to a party, a hip hop concert, a dance performance, a play, or an Art opening or anything then all of a sudden I could be looking at a 2 hour or more commute. I've been taking the express bus more often these days. Although I knew about the Express Bus it wasnt until my friend Martin, who stays with us from time to time, continually praised the express bus service that I was convinced. I will have photos later on that but for now I give you a few of the N train. The Express bus goes to 23rd street and Madison Avenue and then I catch the N to Brooklyn or the W or R to 14th and then the Q to Brooklyn. One benefit is that the last express bus comes at 1:30am and it leaves me a block away from my apartment.
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November 12, 2006
Jenga!!
Jenga, >click here< is a fun game that we played last weekend when Victoria came over. On the box it says that experts can get up to 36 layers of woodblocks high. We got up to 31 before the tower came crashing down but we'll give it another try next week.
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November 05, 2006
Trick or Treat
I've been busy with work, and at home we've been doing some painting and work getting the place back in order from when we moved back in August. We couldnt do anything because we were waiting for Riverbay ( Co-Op City landlords ) to put in new floors in the living room and paint most of the apartment. So they did that a couple of weeks ago and now we're doing some more painting and putting our homey touch on the place. Here are just two pictures from halloween. Two pumpkins that we carved with friends that came over for halloween. This Weekend Victoria came over after not seeing her for 2 months and I worked today so I will post more tuesday. Its been a tiring week but good.
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