On Finding An Empty Coffee Shop Seat in NYC;

It's impossible. It's not fucking possible. Okay, well, maybe it's not impossible, but it's WAY too difficult. It's honestly one of the hardest things to do in New York, in my limited experience here.

I'm writing this blog from a nifty little Starbucks right at the corner of Lafayette and Astor -- the best bits of Corporate America surround me on all sides. We've got a KMart to my left (they have those here???), a CVS at my 12 o'clock, and a Chase branch to my right. It's beautiful. Basically, and unfortunately, I have found that if you do want to be able to sit and work (i.e. browse Reddit and occasionally visit a company's job site, but then decide that that job is DEFINITELY not for you and that you can find something better and more personally fulfilling that will also probably pay better and may have unlimited snacks in the office and PTO, etc) in a coffee shop, like any normal millennial, your only chance is in a Starbucks. This is utterly ridiculous. I came to this city expecting a never ending supply of trendy, comfortable coffee shops, where I could sit amongst my kind and pretend to be productive. While there are plenty of coffee shops in this city, none of them ever have space, so really what is the point in having them exist? Coffee shops are for sitting. Sometimes I think everyone in this city is unemployed and occupying seats in these shops, just like yours truly...The First World-ness of this problem just kills me.

Every Starbucks seems to have Mumford & Sons on repeat.... For the record, I don't even really drink coffee, mainly because it makes me jittery as hell, and browsing Reddit is tough when your fingers shake like Beyonce....

I think people can smell the unemployment on me when I inevitably walk into a Starbucks. What else would someone my age, wearing a down jacket and a Washington Capitals snow hat be doing in a coffee shop at 4 o'clock in the afternoon? I think the answer is pretty obvious. The good news is that I'm not the only one, and I do feel a sense of camaraderie amongst my fellow unemployed youth occupying these spaces. We're in this thing together. Unless you take my future job, in which case, fuck you.

On Kanye West;

Update:

Swish February 11 16

— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) January 9, 2016

Hallelujah!


Original:
G.O.O.D news, everyone: G.O.O.D Fridays are back, at least according to Kim Kardashian aka Kim Lardass. Link is below.

Real Friends & No More Parties in LA

Without a doubt, this track is better than "FACTS" -- which was some serious garbage -- so at least this is a step in a positive direction for now. I'm digging the piano loop and the melancholy sound of "Real Friends", but I'm not sure how I feel yet about the snippet of the Kendrick track at the end...

Reviving G.O.O.D Fridays is a bold move, because the original string of songs produced one of my favorite feel-good/party tracks of all time, so even comparing these new songs to those old ones is risky -- on the other hand, Kanye can do whatever the hell he wants. Happy Friday to all of my unemployed and unambitious friends out there, this one is for you (Thx, Kanye).

On Unemployment;

Music: (Big Grams - "Fell in The Sun")



Ain't it a bitch. So great and so alluring, yet so horribly discouraging. Becoming unemployed could well be the biggest mindfuck out there. The moment I received the text message (which preceded the awkward Google Hangout session) from a higher-up in the company, I knew that it was all over, but I was remarkably okay with that. I had suddenly been liberated. My life was mine again! I was fucking ECSTATIC. I don't think I've smiled that hard since I received a Gamecube for Christmas as a 10 year old.

Fast forward 3 weeks, and my life feels like a mess. I couldn't have less of a direction - I have no idea what I want to do, I have no idea what I'm even good at even more, and I've resorted to creating this blog in order to fulfill some fantastical desire to become a cultural maven, Pitchfork writer, or something....

I don't know what I want to accomplish by creating this thing-- I think I just need to create something. I need to get my thoughts out somehow, and I figured this would be the cheapest and most effective way to do just that. I have an uncanny ability to not follow through on anything, so this might not last, but if it does, I'd like this to just be a hodge-podge (did I really just write that?) of musings, artifacts, and revelations from this life that I currently live, that will hopefully make somebody laugh... or become inspired to be nothing like me. Some things that I like that you can expect to see on here: music, movies, sports, politics, philosophy... We'll see what happens.