"How Fitting"

Just returned from the fitting
36th between 10th and 11th scares me
but find your way to the top floor and you've entered a swirling, glowing space of creativity
warehouse sized rooms
aisle after aisle
rack after rack
of costumes
each one begging to be used
The smooth as silk vintage plaid with matching maroon v-neck sweater found their ways to me
along with the fitted school boy retro jeans and woolworth jacket
apparently it's very exciting that I'll be wearing the "woolworth"
"After all," I was told. "They just don't make them anymore!"

Like a drug
Being there
Scary and alive and phony and thrilling
this world

Reminded me of being in shows when I was younger
before life as a waiter sucked me in for over a year
I'd forgotten how manipulatingly terrifying costume designers can be
they always make a comment
right when you're standing in your underwear
frozen in embarrassment, hoping they are clean enough for public display
but too afraid to look down

think I'll be playing one of many Columbia students
saw "Columbia" written on multiple surfaces
the costume also seems to say college prep circa 1960-something
if, however, I am wrong
I promise to bring back some quality beverages for all you coffee drinkers

And finally
Last night:
Don't go to Nobu 57
It's no better than Tribeca
and the entire staff is either braindead, under-trained or so painfully, flamboyantly, bitchingly gay that they will manage to not only insult you, but do it while lisping over your food
STAY FAR, FAR AWAY

then went to a Fresh cocktail party at their Spring Street location celebrating the release of "Memoirs of a Geisha" with an appearance by the author, Arthur Golden
It was nice and brief
brief and nice

and after a short, half-drunken nap saw the midnight screening of the new "Harry Potter"
you should see it if you're a fan
it's very action packed and is dark enough to justify the book's tone
but if HP4 isn't your thing then stay away
cause that shit's long

in conclusion
goodbye
to the un-support staff

I promise I won't miss you
at all