williamsburg

Went out last night with friends and had a great dinner at Aurora, a wonderful Italian restaurant in Williamsburg.

Afterwards, we went dancing at Sugarland, a small but fantastic club on North 9th. The place was wall to wall packed. $6 vodka tonics, you can’t find that in Manhattan, that’s for sure.

I didn’t get in until 2am last night, and that hasn’t happened in a long time.

I also started my Documentary Forms class at City College yesterday. Should be a really interesting class. We watched Nanook of the North, which I had heard about but had no idea how moving and groundbreaking it was.

It was filmed in 1922 and follows an Eskimo (their word, not mine) in the Hudson Bay area of North Canada as he and his family live off of the harsh land, including spearing walrus and seals and skinning them and eating their meat. I found it hard to watch at points and was glad it was in B&W. In the opening, they describe the Eskimo as simply and happy-go-lucky, but it seemed there was very little actually simply about how they live. Our lives seem remarkably tame by comparison.