summer is a magical, carefree beatiful time full of amazing songs, amazing moments, fabulous concerts, frolicking around in great frocks, being jobless, carefree under the sunshine, above the water, surrounded by free flowing beer, free flowing music, free flowing love and enough endorphins to keep you smiling for ages. Man, what a beautiful beatiful time summer is and if I had pictures other than mental ones to record this year they would be a passtige of music festivals, zoos, wandering around with my fellow jobless friends through museums, galleries, cafe’s restaurants and dozens and dozens of parks while the rest of the city lives under the dim AC. Summer also involved taking lots of pictures, getting paid for it and getting lots of free drinks in the process. It involved being exposed to the top forty pop/rock charts for the first time in years thanks to said bars, taking pictures at them and getting paid for it. It involved random jobs, half-hearted attempts at more jobs, lots of visitors and lots of happiness all around. It was two or so blissful months of everyone being constantly up for a fun time, a concert or some other free gathering. It involved ridiculous amounts of free music, free drinks, free movies and being outdoors. It involved going to the river, walking to the seaport, taking boats, going to roof top parties, roof top raves, skipping home at sunrise with a big smile on my face, driving around to the borroughs at four am to go to a party only to decide, on the way back to go on yet another day trip. Going to the beach, the f-in amazing beach and swimming in it, hiding lots and lots of beers from the cops, sunning in the roof, sunning in the beach, sunning in the god damn appalachian mountains. Climbing the appalachian, walking for eight hours straight and surviving of peanut butter, whisky a bratwurst and a harmonica. How could i forget the roof? Endless, endless hangouts on the roof. BBQ’s, pre-parties, after parties, dinner parties, intimate parties, shared moments, debauchery, good food, crawling down the roof, driving to fort tilden, or even better, biking to fort tilden. being kind of broke but not enough and not needing to purchase absolutely anything except maybe brunch. open bar brunch followed by central park summer stage attempts. wandering around mc carren park and around park slope and battery park. sonic youth. the breeders. mgmt. fela kuti tribute. skatalites and the rain. that 80s band in the seaport. the circus. radiohead. all points west. german DJs from bar 13. bunker. long island city. rooftop film festival. kings of leon. santogold. diplo. brazilian girls. barely attempting to register to vote there. asf reunion. the bronx zoo. brownies. the public library power. the met. style tv. de la guarda. fuerza bruta. its too short, too magical and always to wonderful. must be the heat but there is something magical about NY in the summer that made me never wanna leave or even take a vacation for longer than a few days. and all to the background of paper planes.