New York, part 3: Claudia in Manhattan

Mulberry, Little Italy


Empire State, 5th Avenue




Flatiron Building


Travel bag


Union Square




Getting a hot dog


The Strand




Greenwich Village, Avenue of the Americas


Delancey and Chrystie


Crossing Delancey


Starbucks, Delancey and Allen

New York, part 2: Miscellaneos NYC things

Kate Moss meets a starving third-world child. This freaked me the fuck out.


Fried Dumpling, 99 Allen near Delancey


Rocket Joe's Pizza, 61 Delancey


This used to be CBGB's, it is now a vintage store.


Mulberry Street


Empire State Building






Everything is so expensive! 35-37$ for a PUMPKIN


Food behind velvet rope on Broadway




Jay Reatard at the Bowery Ballroom


Jay Reatard at the Bowery Ballroom


Kevin Smith, New York premiere of "Zack and Miri Make A Porno"

New York, part 1: Tiles for America

home?

I'm back from NYC. Tired. Bored. I don't like being back. Montrealers, for the most part, are pretentious as fuck. I'm tired of snotty people and their sense of entitlement.

I found the building where I want to live. It's across the narrow street from the Cake Shop on Ludlow.

Recent photos

The universe sent me a message

I boggled my Blythe Allison

I made a video

Show Promo

I made this for my radio show "Twee Time"

The Gruesomes

I said ya ya ya
She said ya ya ya
We said ya ya ya
AAAHHHH!!!

chat log

latest chat conversation with Kevin

[21:34] ErisSaves: jenny jenyy who can I turn to
[21:34] ErisSaves: you give me something I can hold on to
[21:34] ErisSaves: I know you think i'm like the others before
[21:34] ErisSaves: jenny I got your number
[21:34] ErisSaves: I need to make you mine
[21:34] ErisSaves: jenny don't change your number
[21:34] ErisSaves: 8675309
[21:35] ErisSaves: jenny jenny you're the girl for me
[21:35] ErisSaves: u don'[t know it, you make me so happy
[21:35] ErisSaves: I tried to call you before, I lost my nerve
[21:35] ErisSaves: blh a blha bahhh
[21:35] ErisSaves: 8675309
[21:35] ErisSaves: I got it
[21:36] ErisSaves: I got your number on the wall
[21:36] ErisSaves: I got it
[21:36] ErisSaves: for a good time
[21:36] ErisSaves: for a good time callllllllllllllllllllll
[21:36] dresinguptodance: i wonder how many people have that #
[21:36] ErisSaves: hmmm
[21:36] ErisSaves: I bet every city in the universe won't let peple have it
[21:36] dresinguptodance: hahaha
[21:37] ErisSaves: that, or they only let people named Jenny have it
[21:37] dresinguptodance: that'd be awesome
[21:37] ErisSaves: or or, every time the song plays on the radio, people wit the number get annoying phone calls
[21:37] dresinguptodance: it's just the song playing over the line
[21:37] ErisSaves: that would be awesome
[21:38] ErisSaves: in montreal, we used to have this line called the poem
[21:38] ErisSaves: t-h-e-p-o-e-m
[21:38] ErisSaves: 843-7636
[21:38] ErisSaves: and when you called it, this machine picked up with the recording of a poem
[21:39] dresinguptodance: that's kind of cool!
[21:39] ErisSaves: yeah, I used to call it every week when I was a kid
[21:39] ErisSaves: then they stopped, I was devastated
[21:39] dresinguptodance: awww

losing touch

Six years ago my friend Lorne was killed by a car, and I only found out today.

We used to talk on the telephone all the time. He loved the Stone Roses. I don't even know how we lost touch. Last time I saw him was when I was on my way to class at McGill. We exchanged emails, but neither of us sent a message. The thing is, even when you're not in touch, that doesn't mean you're not friends anymore. You're just not in touch. Lorne and I are still friends, but now he's gone. Damn his family must still be devastated.

No kidding, I was just thinking of them the other day. I was going to look up Lorne on facebook. I still have a cassette tape he gave me. It has only two songs that him and his band, Lord Quagmire, recorded. That was in 1991/92. So long ago. They were just kids. Really fucking talented kids. The tape still sounds perfect, even though I played it probably a million times. I'm going to give it to Andrew along with their band sticker, which I also saved. I think he should have them. I hope it doesn't make him sad. I hope I don't show him that I'm sad.

Call me a hippie
And I'll wear them beads
Call me a frog
And I'll hop from far to see
But tell me that I'm evil
And the sun comes out at night

When Andrew asked me if I heard about Lorne, he couldn't even say "died" at first. He just made motions up to the sky. What I wanted to hear was "Lorne won the lottery, toured Europe, met a hot French girl and got married, now they live in Kenya with two kids and they help the poor."

Why did it have to be the exact opposite? Andrew told me it took him 3 years to ... I dunno ...

All this, just by running into an old college friend in the street. Damn it. I want him back. I miss him, and I didn't know that until today.

ARGH

I need someone to join me and gush over This American Life.

my baby