{"id":19237,"date":"2024-04-17T21:20:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T03:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=19237"},"modified":"2024-04-22T18:14:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T00:14:18","slug":"new-york-gems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/17\/new-york-gems\/","title":{"rendered":"new york gems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">just got back from the most perfect trip to new york. it was honestly perfect. though i was feeling a lot of feelings about life and death and sorrow and the futility of life and finding peace with losing people. but what else is new. highlights:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>seeing SIX g-d plays (<em>oh mary!; uncle vanya; staff meal; an enemy of the people; sally &amp; tom; <\/em>and <em>stereophonic<\/em>) (see ranking below)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>staying in a beautiful four-bedroom apartment in tribeca (EXCUSE)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>reading <em>john <\/em>and <em>uncle vanya <\/em>on the plane and finally getting over my <em>spook street<\/em> hump (gary would be proud)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>rob liking to end the night by watching tv, my dream<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>getting to be on autopilot, since rob had planned every day [happy weeping emoji]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>eating so many pastries and drinking so many lattes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>getting my nails done<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>scarfing down a slice of pizza before <em>oh, mary!<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>sleeping in on saturday on that heavenly bed in that cozy room<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>trying the commerce inn (not quite as good as via carota but still so charming)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>my favorite night was saturday night, when i literally raced to greg&#8217;s play, <em>staff meal, <\/em>and met my sister and andrew and his friend luke, and i laughed and laughed at the play and even though it had weak spots, it sent me to another planet, which was so enlivening (especially after <em>uncle vanya<\/em>, which felt a bit stuffy). and then we went to superiority burger and greg and susannah joined us, it was just so convivial and hilarious and i LOVE going to vegetarian restaurants because i can eat anything and remember how long i&#8217;ve been dreaming of going <a href=\"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/24\/this-guy\/\">there<\/a>? (six years)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>laughing so much about wallace shawn hating <em>staff meal<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>eating pancakes with eric and dani and lee<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>meeting greg and danielle&#8217;s kiddos at the park and sharing pastries (of course)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>just overall spending time with all those wonderful friends<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>not seeing any visual art was not exactly a highlight, BUT it was cool to prioritize friends, which made me happy and honestly i needed that juice<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>going into that diamond store in the diamond district and everything being SO ugly and it feeling like what i THINK <em>uncut gems<\/em> felt like<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>going to junior&#8217;s after <em>stereophonic<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>eating too much junior&#8217;s cheesecake (in a GOOD and bad way)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>sitting on that great comfy couch and watching SNL and rachel maddow<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>having genuinely lovely times with rob and susannah<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>my red pants<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">my play ranking for no one:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>staff meal<\/em> (it really made me feel alive even though it was bananas and i didn&#8217;t love some of the actors or even fully understand parts of it) (was it just knowing greg and being willing to go on that ride with him? i don&#8217;t think so but maybe i guess)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>an enemy of the people <\/em>(SO tight, so expertly acted and staged, kinda perfect)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>stereophonic<\/em> (maybe tied for #2?)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>sally &amp; tom<\/em> (from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/16\/theater\/sally-and-tom-review-suzan-lori-parks.html\">the new york times review<\/a>: &#8220;but lumpiness and bagginess are often part of Parks\u2019s aesthetic&#8221; &#8212; which is kind of a dis, but also it was true, it was just so stuffed, so <em>baggy, <\/em>with no real resolution, but the story was complex and thoughtful and had lots of juice)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>uncle vanya<\/em> (weird casting; needed tightening)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>oh, mary! <\/em>(just not my humor exactly, strange sensitivity about lincoln)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_3180-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"19246\" src=\"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_3180-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_3180-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_3180-1-225x300.jpg 225w, 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