This is in the East Village -- yesterday on 3rd just west of C to be specific.
The weirdest thing for me about Sydney, well there were several, but one was the lack of homeless people (I saw three the entire time I was there, and I was _everywhere_), and the other was the glitter/gutter factor -- there's a lot of really skeevy stuff in or just around the corner from some really nice neighborhoods -- hence my fascination with Darlinghurst. Your city's relationship with sexual commerce could not be more different than mine.
In Sydney the number one non-political thing I got as an American was a "of course you can be famous, you're American, it doesn't occur to you that you shouldn't be." And I thought that was so fascinating, this belief that it's just a choice, and one that so many of the Australian performers I met felt they didn't have a right to make.
Next time we're each planning to travel we should maybe discuss an apartment swap.
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Date: 2005-04-24 08:22 pm (UTC)The weirdest thing for me about Sydney, well there were several, but one was the lack of homeless people (I saw three the entire time I was there, and I was _everywhere_), and the other was the glitter/gutter factor -- there's a lot of really skeevy stuff in or just around the corner from some really nice neighborhoods -- hence my fascination with Darlinghurst. Your city's relationship with sexual commerce could not be more different than mine.
In Sydney the number one non-political thing I got as an American was a "of course you can be famous, you're American, it doesn't occur to you that you shouldn't be." And I thought that was so fascinating, this belief that it's just a choice, and one that so many of the Australian performers I met felt they didn't have a right to make.
Next time we're each planning to travel we should maybe discuss an apartment swap.