Word up from New York and a Friday Five a day late

http://community.livejournal.com/thefridayfive/
1. Love at First Sight: Fact or Fiction? Fiction, lust at first sight definitely, not true love though.
2. Fortune Telling: Fact or Fiction? I've seen some pretty accurate Tarot Card layouts, perhaps clairvoyance and scrying and whatnot have something to them.
3. Other Life: Fact or Fiction? Fact, altered states of consciousness anyone? Other life
4. Afterlife: Fact or Fiction? Fiction
5. Bigfoot: Fact or Fiction? Fiction. Maybe a yeti, but I dunno bout bigfoot.
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So today is my sisters wedding to a Tazmanian, should be an interesting day, I'm an usher and official videographer. I was quite upset when I discovered she was getting married the day before my favorite holiday and I would have to be trapped in New York, 2,000 miles from all my friends and most importantly my love. I'm most likely going into the big city tomorrow and gonna try and make the best of the day. There's a free concert in the park and Tokyo Police Club plays that night as well. Hopefully I'll get to spend the day with a couple friends from the wedding and my cooler cousins.
I went into the city yesterday, walked almost 8 miles, mostly wandering around SoHo and Greenwich Village. Went into a bunch of cool stores, got a couple fun art books and some figures from Kid Robot.

Got some great seats to the Yankee's Red Sox game thursday night for the bachelor party. Yankee's lost 5-7 =/. (click for the full panorama) This was one of the last 72 games in the original yankee stadium.
OMG Levi's!
Sorry about the slightly inflammatory nature of my last post. Someone was talking mad shit and I had to air some grievances. I'm past it now though. I'll be back in lame ole San Antone on monday. I can't wait. I've been counting down the hours til I get to see my baby since last night. 52 hours remain. In other good news about my wonderful girlfriend, she scored us some tix to the sold out Liars/Radiohead show in Houston on the 17th. We've got two extra tickets, lemme know if you're interested in purchasing.

Things I've been listening to lately that you should check out:

Man Man - Rabbit Habbits
Liars (all albums)
Paper Moons Scope out the song exist.

I'm also really excited about whats coming down on utorrent right now. Finished downloading the anime Colorful last night, stoked to watch it. Also grabbed Tekkonkinkreet, which I can't wait to watch. I'm snagging the release of the revamped Evangelion, Rebuild 1.0 You are Not alone. Which was a theatrical re-release of the first 6 episodes with some new animation and takes on a few scenes, while others retain their original glory. I can't wait to introduce the gf to the iconic series in a new way, she's clueless of the awesomeness of NGE. She liked watching Sayonara Zetsobu Sensei with me so we'll see what happens. I'm also grabbing two series' at the recommendation of a gamestop manager. Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagaan, and Code Geass - Lelouch of the Rebellion, which just started S2 in Japan. Toki Wo Kakeru Shojo I'm also grabbing which I really know nothing about, thats just how I prefer to watch movies. If you haven't seen Giniro No Kami No Agito at that, go check it out, its amazing. Mmmm, anime.

This one turned out longer then expected.

_ntrpe

How bout it internet.

I'd like to start off with a note:
I removed a link I posted here previously pimping my "friend"'s blog where he had posted some of his art for sale. I heard lil bunny fuck fuck(my beautiful sweet love, that's her name.) mention she saw a couple pieces posted up that weren't his to sell. And sure enough I looked and saw at least one that I know he did not have the permission of the other artist or any credit to post that. Also he wanted a decent amount of scrap for mostly paper on paper collage or spray paint on paper, not even any good materials.

I'm on twitter!
https://twitter.com/ntrpe

Life's been pretty damn interesting lately.
This one is a bit long.

Sorry to start out kind've ranty but the proprietor of the aforementioned art has actually been saying too many things of douchebag nature and most of the time just sounding like he's an asshole who really has no idea whats going on in the real world.
In life I really try to avoid as much drama as I can, I don't like to start shit or even talk shit. I prefer to sit back, chill out and have nothing to do with it.
This however is quite the odd twisted tale.
For the past couple months, and actually most of this year, the majority of the drama that reached my ears all seemed to originate from the same apartment. I'd managed to stay out of it and luckily had just been hearing the things down the line so I wasn't directly involved. Not so anymore.
Showing that life has a sense of irony; I enjoyed quite a good friendship with two of the members of this household. Let's call them "the kids." From the beginning of the summer '07 when I met them, up until the beginning of this year. The other roommate however I wasn't very sure I even liked her or not, from when I met her in the beginning of '07, up until a couple months ago. I haven't seen the kids since she moved out yet I've seen her pretty much every day.
I'm not really going to say why I drifted away from the kids, but the male half of them completely changed in the month I was gone and continues to do so. As far as I can see there's no trace of the friend I had. It really sucks to lose a friend and watch them disappear right in front of you. This man has also alienated many of his other friends and blown up on them. I was still pretty surprised when it happened to me next. Friendships are curious things, they take trust, compromise and compatability. The twist her however is that I fell tumbling down the stairs in love with the girl that moved out. But, even when I was chilling with her before she moved out, he snubbed me in the kitchen and never came out of his room.
Life seems so complicated. I'm gonna go a little deeper because I think its pretty interesting. This isn't implicating anyone by name. There was another person who got some retard bombs dropped on him from the same mad bomber before me, someone who'd been friends with him quite longer then I had been. I knew this person, and we were ok friends, just didn't really hang out very much. It was almost quite unfortunate, but this same guy was dating the third roommate when I got back from California in January. I didn't know so soon that she would be perfect for me, but I had a hunch and was pretty sad when I heard this news. Many things happened since then, we ended up getting together and are very happy. He says he's happy for us too, which I don't think is completely true. But since we got together I've become closer friends with him and we've even all hung out a few times. I respect him and hope things are as calm as they seem.

Fortunately for me however I hardly give two shits about most of this this crap in this crappy town I call home. I leave for NYC in a week, I'm quite excited for that adventure. And next month, weather permitting I plan on heading off to Bloomington, Ohio and going on the first great adventure of my life. I've been on a few small practice runs with some good ideas. But I'm talking a true adventure. The only thing that makes it hard to leave is my lovely girlfriend. It does not sound fun one bit to leave her for more then a day. I know the 5 in NYC coming up is gonna be the warmup and I'm not looking forward to it. She lights up my life and takes me to the highest highs. She's said she'll wait for me but its still daunting to be that far away from my babes.

I know these posts are inconsistent at best. I've been getting my head on straight lately and spending most of my time with the sweetest sweetheart ever. One of my goals is to spend more time on the computer, so hopefully I can keep it up.

Peace and love _ntrpe
Gimme a shout out if you're out there.