Grizzly Bears

Grizzly Bear played the last Jelly NYC Pool Parties show yesterday. It was fun, but they aren't exactly a high energy band to photograph. Here is a few, plus beach house. View the rest on The L Magazine's blog.


Beach House opened.







The real story of the show was Jay-Z and Beyonce coming to see Grizzly Bear. I think I'm the only person to have missed Jay-Z. He was under the sound tent. Mischa Burton was also there, but who cares about her.


Peter, me, Sandy, Ray

After the show we went to Caracas for dinner. Their service was terrible last night. Seems like they were swamped. The food took forever. I still love them, but they need to fix that shit.

Mid-summer update, life.

I know I haven't updated this blog at all in the past few months- since China in April really. But that's because I've been too busy having fun this summer. It's been the best one for a long time so far. Everything and everyone I enjoy the company of is here, there is no drama (except for a few girl problems) and we've just been having a blast.

Rosemary came back into our lives like a hurricane in late May and has added a lot of dynamic to my group of friends. It's great that my Alfred friends and my high school friends get along so well too. I've been holding out colliding those 2 worlds for years because til now but that's because 3 years ago, it was 2 different groups whose dynamics wouldn't work. That's the funny thing about NYC though. It will eat you alive if you can't handle it, and I know more than a few who have since left the city for one reason or another.

I haven't been this tight (pause) with my group of high school friends since high school I think. No one can really say why we started hanging out this much again. It just reaffirms my belief that you can't force friendships, or relationships, for that matter. At some point, everything just clicked all over again.

Here are some pictures from the Girl Talk show I shot for The L this past weekend. Go to my flickr for the rest, or the L Mag's blog.

hit the heartbreaks, baby

Adam: "I don't think he's physically sick, it's heartache."
Dapo: "Yeah, I think you're right."

None of us could sleep last night.