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finally made it to the MoMA (museum of modern art), niketown NY, and the apple store today. all three things very high on my list of Things To Do in new york that i had yet to do. matt and i had tried to go to the new apple store when in a opened a few weeks ago, but the line was ass long. i always find the people at museums very interesting. i think a fifth to half of my time at a museum is spent people watching. when i got to he MoMA i asked where to go if i have a columbia ID (we get in free to about 40 museums-- i intend to take full advantage of this this summer) and i went to the place i was to go to and got my free ticket. pretty sweet. now, i have been there before but they totally redesigned the museum so i was curious what all the hubub was aboot. the first thing i noticed was the free audio guides dispensed on the first floor. i thought this was cool because i have always been to cheap to pay five bucks to hear someone talk about art, when i can do that myself for free. i was intrigued, but since the museum was a bit of a new experience for me i decided to skip the tricorder of knowlegde and perhaps try it on my next visit. that was the last of my appreciation of this free service. when i got upstairs (i started on the top floor and worked my way down) i noticed what would soon become a trend throughout the museum-- twenty people crowded in front of a painting with the little head phones next to its placard. this makes it very difficult to appreciate these paintings. whats more the paintings featured in the audio tour are the famous pieces that are, in general, the "best" (most fmaous) stuff they have. arg. one of my favorite paintings (the persistence of memory) by one of my favorite artists (Dali) was not worth the crows to really enjoy it. so i jsut moved on and shecked out the painting next to it, which was also by Dali. anyways i managed to go through about 3/5 of the museum when i became overstimulated by images, so i decided to vamoose.