The Behrens Venture

I’m out trying to get things done on this Saturday morning and I’m walking by Gramercy Park, so I wanted to share. This park is the only private park in NYC, maintained by the park service, but totally exclusive: only the people living along the park have a key, which I’m guessing a house along here is like a million plus. I love that there is still such a prominent rich person’s club still around and I hope that one day I can be part of it. It really is the nicest park in the city too.

I sampled this vodka in Poland last year and it was the best stuff I’ve ever tasted: clear, crisp, and good vodka. I’ve been looking for it ever since I returned to the US, but since its not even distributed anymore, I’ve been out of luck.

However, I stopped at a random store this morning that looked like they had a good selection of vodka’s and amazingly, they had it!  $90 for a limited edition bottle, which would be about $10 in Poland, but it’s worth it. It would cost me even more to import it! The bottle on the left is a random thing of pineapple flavored Wyborowa they had sitting around, which they gave to me for free! It’s pineapple flavored, who wants that??

Now that I have some time to chillout on the train ride down to NJ, I can talk about seeing Daft Punk last night out in Coney Island. I’ve had the tickets for months waiting and it was definitely worth the wait!
They were playing at Keyspan Park, which requires an hour long trip out on the Q train and is right in the Coney Island arcade area. I could hear the concert from all over, the park is just an old wooden open-air baseball field. There was a nice breeze, which felt great once you started dancing.
The show was fantastic. Great sound and light combination. The music sounded excellent and blended a lot of their old and new stuff together in a kickass mix. They did 2 encores at the end and I was happy.
For a perfect ending, my friend Clint and I stopped at Nathans Hot Dogs, THE Nathans, and grabbed a slew of hot dogs and french fries. It was sooo good! Then we stood the entire train ride home because the train was packed full of people from the show. Good times once again.

I’m out in Brooklyn currently, crashing at a friend’s house, and I stop at this place called Ralph’s Italian Ice to grab some cookie dough soft serve ice cream. On my first bite I’m instantly reminded of my second home out in Hardin, IL, where they have a soft serve place that makes cookie dough just like this. I spent many many summer just hanging out in the heat, swimming in the Mississippi River, and eat this ice cream. It’s the place where my dad and grandmother are currently buried. Its the place where all my father’s family grew up and it’s an awesome place.
Things are a lot different now that I’ve grown up and people have moved on and the town has changed but atleast I’ll always have my memories of the good ‘ole days. I miss those days…

Yay for 6 fucking AM. I’m doing the commute today via NJTransit, a 2 hour train ride into Penn Station. Some people do this for years, it’s crazy how much time they waste.
People are awake and chipper too, what the hell! I went to sleep at 1AM and got 4 hours, I want everyone to shutup right up. Thank god for Starbucks.