TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Saturday, September 21, 2002

2:04 AM
Posted by jodi rose

East Village, NYC
back into morning yoga, which leaves me so chilled out I can barely move, the first few days - have to make time on the farm to keep up the stretches, or I get overworked and overwhelmed and all crunchy. Today is mooching around new york day, doing whatever the hell I feel like - looking at the farm as a rehabilitation program, paying my debt to society and getting ready to rejoin the workforce. The dirt is so engrained in my hands that the skin will have to grow out and fall off before the soil does.
last night was a change of scene, wandering around chelsea art galleries - mostly at 529 west 20th st, which had 4 galleries on different floors. My favourite was Riva's with Wolf Treu, a german artist and lots of vodka, dj's the andrewandrew boys (from last weeks parastic excursion to openings as an art-work) playing trashy 80's music on i-pods through ghetto blasters, lots of arty men in seriously tailored suits and women in classy outfits - but the roof was the highlight (haha). Absolutely incredible view of manhattan, looking straight towards the empire state building, the deco spires of the chrysler building peeking from behind apartment blocks, and an almost full moon rising over the city. stunning. Also nabbed some free art that another parasite artist was leaving in odd places around the galleries, cute b/w pig drawing, going to take it to the farm and use in the second house decoration.
Time to go out for a stroll around this funky neighbourhood, soak in the last few weeks of american life before I return to the far shores of australia. Kind of looking forward to coming home, although I'm going to miss this extraordinary melting pot of people and experiences.