2002-11-04 - 6:12 p.m.

Good weekend for the self. It was pretty chill but I feel like I did a lot at the same time, the best of both worlds.

After work I had a CD jones hard, so I met up with Nami and we hit Kim's like a hurricane. Actually, she didn't buy anything, which was impressive. I picked up a couple used (GFK's amazing Supreme Clientele, which I'd been looking for used for a while, plus The Faint's Danse Macabre, pretty good) and one new (some King Tubby disc that was released in 1999 -- 16 awesome dubs).

Friday night was Dan Meth's party at the Beer Garden. That was OK but I wish the music was a bit better. Still it was cool to see everyone in clever, simple costumes (Roachie, Domino, etc.) even after the evening of the hallows. The Park Slope contingent played it safe by rocking those masks Chris picked up in Staten Island the other weekend. Scary masks, easy costume.

Saturday was a late sleeper-inner, much needed. Then Nami and I rode up to Chinatown for some shopping at Pearl River. Got a lot of inexplicably cool stuff, including two orange cafeteria trays that just seemed right. We initially had planned to go to dinner (maybe at Shanghai Gourmet, who knows) but we kept buying good stuff at the markets on Centre Street so we just shot back home and cooked. Watched a Takeshi "Beat" Kitano flick, not great but I liked his (editing/acting/directing) style.

Sunday was the NYC Marathon. We missed Olivia, who flew in from London to visit the crew and run the 'thon, running up 4th Ave in my neck of the woods. But we saw tons of other people who happened to be slower than her. It was a fun crowd, an easy walk, and Nami spotted a Japanese celebrity running with his handler. She ran after him, he motioned for her to run with him, and I got a picture of the spectacle while skipping backwards. Apparently this Hidekazu Akai is like the Sly Stallone of Japan, maybe not. But he started out as a boxing champ before making the grand leap into cinema. Man I told that episode in the most boring way possible. Anyway, it was CRAZY. had to be there.

After that I killed an LSAT practice test so I'm definitely not sweating the real thing.