NYC was (and still is) very much about sex and desire, finding one’s self in the midst of its madness. When I arrived in the West Village the summer of 1993 for an art-world internship, NYC was just as Carrie describes, even though it was five years before the start date of the Sex and the City series. Kim Dang with Lloyd, August, and Royal leading the way. That song in particular, along with “White Lines” (1983) and Sugar Hill Gang’s “Rappers Delight” (1979), formed the soundtrack of my early teen years, which played itself out at Roll-On-America in Leominster, Massachusetts. You might get fooled if you come from out of townīut I’m down by law and I know my way around …Īlthough through the years innumerable words and images have shaped my perception of NY, it was the words of Grandmaster Flash that were memorized and memorialized in my head years before I finally made my way to the Big Apple during college, summer of ’93. My home for this four-day sojourn is two blocks below Houston, with an old friend from when I was 19 years old studying at the University of Reading.Īnd everything in New York ain’t always what it seems I get in a taxi that drops me in whichever neighborhood will take me-sometimes East Village 1st and 1st Lower East Side Orchard Street West Village, Magnolia Bakery Upper West Side along the park-but this time, this March 14th of 2015, it’s Tribeca. But it becomes most real when I literally land in JFK and clarity arrives. We love more … and we love having more of more, whether the chase, the thrill, the anticipation, or the seduction of it all-what the Japanese call waku-doki is the very thing that I attempt to capture in every moment of my life-the day by day, hour by hour, goal-oriented, fast-pace-driven me. What is it about a place that either gives you energy or depletes it? And that delicate balance that goes with it-the desire and ambition to become something more, and the fear of it all being taken away. August (wearing vintage sunglasses) in NYC.
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