Tuesday, January 1, 2008

New Years

I had a pretty fun new years this year. Had dinner with my friends at a place called Anytime in WillyB. It was very mediocre. Dapo goes because they have a vegetarian pasta dish that he enjoys. We met up with Santi and his friend Jim. Jim had never heard or had Hoeggarden before. I ordered a pint and he did to try it and really enjoyed it.

Then we met up with Margo, Ray, Kevon and Julie at a loft party in Manhattan. It had a pretty steep (for me) cover but what the hell, it's new years. Open bar for a few hours so it was all good. Not really my crowd though (all the hipsters were in Willyb or the LES).

I was on line for the bathroom at one point making small talk to these 2 black guys when a black girl came up to us and asked one of the "where all the black people at". And one of the guys goes, "well, I'm here, he's (pointing to other black guy) here and the rest are in the other room". She goes off. The guy turns to me and says, "sorry I didn't include you man" I'm thinking, "ok, I'm not black" but I said to him "well I am black by association, na mean??" And he's like, "yeah! you a minority, you know how it is". Then I went inside to pee.

At one point we all went to Dapo's car and uh, "sat around" for a while. Kevon passed out so we left in in the car while we went back to the party" "Kevon, don't throw up in my car" Dapo said. We went back later and Kevon had thrown up all over the passenger side door. Ewww. It was the funniest thing ever. Then I walked with him and Julie to the subway and literally everyone on the street was stumbling around drunk as fuck. Some people were sitting on the floor and couldn't walk. It was the funniest thing ever seeing the entire city drunked out.

Fanboys

I was at Best But with Dapo the other day because he wanted to buy an Xbox 360. We're standing in line and talking about which games he should get and this dude in front of us turns around and goes "you should get a Playstation 3 instead".

Ooooh boy. He starts going on a tantrum about how the PS3 is superior to the Xbox. FANBOY ALERT. Dapo and I are rolling eyes at each other as this guy is telling us how great the PS3 is because it can play blu-ray (!!!!1) and all the great games coming out soon. We argue back that is every PS3 fanboy's excuse. I don't care what's coming out in a year, there's nothing to play on it now. Why would I buy a $500 dollar paper weight? Wait, to play blu-ray movies! He also goes into some other crap, but I know no one that reads this blog cares about video games really so I won't go into it.

I do have to commend Sony on their brilliant marketing over the years. Do you know who have been buying PS3s in the past year? Non-gamers. I don't mean casual gamers like all the people buying the Wii either. I'm talking about all those mid 20-3o year old dudes who have a lot of disposable income who like Sony's commercials and think the PS3 is 'cool'. 2 of my friends own a PS3 now, after asking me which system they should get to play games with and I told them "not PS3". They did it anyway. And they will be bored with it in 6 months to a year because they don't play games. Which is good for me, because I can buy it off of them for mad cheap then!