it's wednesday.

do you know what you're doing with your weekend?

thursday i'm going to the badass brooklyn tweetup at the bell house (149 7th st, brooklyn) with my honey to stand around with what will probably be a bunch of other geeks twittering on their iphones. seriously, there will be many rad people there that i want to be friends with! sponsored by one of my favorite blogs - FIPS and @AllGrownsUp.

friday i'm thinking about helping to raise some dough! there's a non-profit museum in brooklyn called the city reliquary that's doing an event called brother can you spare some rent. there will be a fortune teller, depression-era movies, dj's, old-timey alkeehol, and other recession-themed fun. i can think of no better place to kick off my weekend.

on saturday i'm thinking about swinging up to my old hood to check out funky child at alphabeta. it's a pop-up market where you can get all kinds of fun things that i have no business buying. i'll be happy to indulge my "oh wouldn't that be awesome" bone by perusing the offerings of artwork, photography, accesories, and gifts while enjoying the live painting and music.

then to round out the weekend and get a little dancing in (cause it isn't a weekend without dancing) ... on sunday i'll be checking out something brought to me by the brooklyn arts council. the sixth annual folk feet traditional dance showcase will be goin down. it shows off the dances of brooklyn's immigrants. while i don't think i'll see anyone there reppin north carolina (other than myself, of course) there will be people from grenada, china, india, and korea gettin down at brooklyn college's whitman theatre.

these, my friends, are the reasons i moved to brooklyn in the first place. a whole weekend of fun! and it's almost all free!

interning at a documentary studio

blowback productions

while i wait to hear back from wnyc, i figured why not do something else with my time other than watching house reruns that i dvd'd? so, i'm interning at a really cool documentary studio in chelsea that is in a sweet building with sweet freakin views.

i watched "selects" of two docs they're currently working on - brick city and out of fashion.

brick city is about newark, nj. i found it to be REALLY interesting, and i REALLY, REALLY want to know what's going on with the people in it.

out of fashion is about the demise of the nyc garment industry, and it was really depressing. especially since i don't have a paying job right now. that will all change soon, but still.

i've made a new frand - who's profile pic on facebook features her dressed in a bathing suit and heels. she has no shame and i am lovin her ideas already. she's working on another project that involves the music of the african diaspora.

i read the other day about a dj named frank gossner that is right up her alley. he gave up a super lucrative dj'ing career and just moved to africa to collect records. that's some balls!

we're off tonight to a drum n bass event. shara and i are also going to panty raid. /hi kicky