Yeah, so the title is far from original and has but only a contributing factor to this post, but I’m over it as well, you should be too.
Crazy free hugs people and random location for this image. Sorry, no free hugs for you...
As I sit here drinking my delicious drink of icey cold water amazingness, I am thinking about last weekend and all of the fun stuff I did while relaxing and having a ‘personal’ day. I chose to spend the day with nobody but myself and it was wonderful. I feel as though days such as these are lost to many, as I find most seem to feel they have to have the constant presence of another individual or even groups of people. Days to yourself are relaxing and in my case, often enlightening.
I woke up and made myself a delicious breakfast, waffles in case you’re curious. Granted they were frozen waffles but they were still delicious. (Man, I miss the old Belgium waffle maker). Now that my belly was full I decided it would be a good day to do some more grocery shopping which I did. Thankfully, the Food Bazaar was far from backed. Which, I found extremely odd as it was a Saturday and typically you can’t move around that store very well on the weekends. But I made it and after taking my grocery shopping workout back home I ventured out to the city for some fun stuffs. After I took a nap of course. Come on now, I can’t go do this all unrested.
Adventures in the city commence…*waits on seemingly forever long train ride to the city.* Okay, finally there. I decided since it was a wonderfully nice day out I would just sit around the park and read the book I had just started (have since finished in a matter of a week), Christopher Moore’s “A Dirty Job.” Great book, highly recommended. It’s disturbing, it’s odd,
Creepy yellow spandex bendy guy...
it’s funny, it’s captivating, it’s everything you need a in a book. Or did I just describe a girlfriend? I don’t know either way, it’s something that was worth investing time into. When it started getting too dark to read anymore I started wandering around only to find a crazy weird street performer. Let me tell you, people were not meant to bend this way and if they were then umm someone forgot to give me this level of flexibility. If anything, nobody should wear tight yellow spandex in a public setting. As creepy as he was he was really a true showman. He was able to captivate a rather large audience and was super entertaining. He did some crazy super flexy break dancing as seen in the picture to there. There were other variations of bendy dance but I didn’t feel the need to take 8 trillion pictures of those particular movements along with everyone else who I don’t think their cameras stopped going off. You would think though watching this guy do his breakdancing would get boring after a while, and you are right, it does. He knew this as well so thankfully he would switch it up a little and do other fun stuffs. Like let his beat maker do a little solo act for everyone to watch. This guy could play the buckets better than many of the drummers I’ve seen in my life and I’ve seen a lot of drummers in my time. It makes you wonder though, with all of these mediocre bands being famous for all of their immense “talent”, how this bucket player isn’t doing more with his real talent and the ability these guys have to put on a show randomly in the middle of the city that is used to
The Beat Maker
street performers and ignores them most of the time. Now as you can most likely see these pictures are of amateur quality and I would apologize for this normally, but I really feel this gets the point across just as well. Maybe some other time I’ll do all the fun artsy photos for everyone. Back on point this is where the super fun stuff started to happen. Break dancing and bucket drumming solos aside, now it’s on to flips, yes this was a very diverse show. He pulled out a random from the crowd, proceeded to make her feel like the prettiest girl on the planet, oh how nice of him, then go the beats going and prepped to flip over the top of her, then finally, delayed it more to build some suspense. Jerk! Long drawn out suspense aside he finally did the flip it was pretty much awesome. Very impressive, actually. I don’t know many people that can perform a full front flip over a person. Here just watch the video, all 5 seconds of it…
He then did the same thing only like this…
7 and a half people...
Then he got money from the crowd. I mean you can’t have a NYC street performer not asking for money.
This is like 1/3 of the crowd. Imagine $1-20 from every single person in this crowd.
Night filter on for those of you who like that crazy lighting look.
After I all of this I decided to go home, as I was getting tired. But not before running into free hugs and skateboarders. The skateboarding definitely caught my attention since I do love to do it myself. But, these guys are good…really good. So I watched for a few minutes before leaving. Now that I was bored with the festivities of the day, I went home. Bet you can’t guess what I did when I got there either…yeah, you guessed it. I relaxed. I designed. I thought about stuff. It was amazing.
This was truly a day of enlightenment. By enlightened I mean more on the mind and soul cleansing aspect of things. We all need it, I just chose to actually do it, which most people don’t seem to do. I enjoyed it and I hope you enjoyed reading about it. If you didn’t, then I’m sorry for your loss of however long it took you to read this, but I can’t give you your time back so you can yell at me later through comments or e-mail or other various forms of getting a hold of me. Odds are however, I’ll just ignore you. Peace y’all.
