sous-vide machine is gonna pay for itself in weeks with some of you cats. Henry and back-censored in particular might wanna google. Just sear in a pan after you're done and the '****ty' cuts of meat you use will be the best steaks you've ever had in your life.

Ok so $10 per month per person for the olive oil.

$400 is still a lot for food.

"sous-vide machine"...... interesting and bizarre. Color me intrigued.

still seems pretty high for two people. The food bill shouldn't increase exponentially just because its two people instead of one.

That's not true at all if you are open to exploring stuff beyond clubbing and restaurants and the mainstream culture stuff like (Off) Broadway, Carnegie, MET, etc. Some examples:

http://www.nonsensenyc.com/ (event emails, lots of loft parties and such, hit or miss but a solid two dozen options every weekend)

http://brooklynbased.net/ (Brooklyn events)

http://177livingston.org/ (readings, movie screenings, free classes)

http://www.3rdward.com/ (every Wednesday they do a drink-and-draw thing, it's like $5 for open bar and a live model to draw)

http://issueprojectroom.org/ (this place is new I think; in any case I haven't been there yet)

http://gowanusstudio.org/wp/ (parties, art shows, etc)

http://proteusgowanus.com/main/readi...morbid-anatomy (every Thursday night they do this Fixers Collective thing; you can bring an iPod to mod or an old chair to fix or whatever & the people there will teach you and help you do it)

http://mcnallyjackson.com/index.php/nyc_book_events (author readings)

http://www.thekitchen.org/ (theaterish stuff)

All the museums have free/reduced admission days; Chelsea galleries are always free; some of the best movie theaters in the country (Anthology Film Archives, Sunshine, IFC, Film Forum, Angelika), etc

400 square feet is like 120 square meters right, thats not a cell??

ilya

So you basically go to thinks and then loiter?

fyp

As opposed to what? Base-jumping while getting a blowjob? Most social activities in a city can be described as going to a place and loitering, if by loitering you mean talking to your friends, drawing, talking to an author about his book, meeting new people, hearing a band, learning how to weld, dancing, etc

No. Going to a place and consuming is not loitering. Going to a place and taking up space without consuming is loitering.

Oh I see what you're saying. No, of course not. But all these places are cheap. They will run you $3-$50 for the whole evening, mostly on the lower end of that range.

For someone whose life story (as I understand it) consists of waking up one day around 30 and deciding to rededicate your life completely to having fun, being social, and displaying high status, you seem really boring and un-hip.

You never seem to have anything to say about a consumption choice (food, leisure activity, etc) that has anything to do with liking it. Your notion of food, for instance, is of course very limited, but more than that, seems to consist of - 'Here's something expensive that any idiot in North America would know to associate with having money and probably being important.' Your response to ilya pretty much the same attitude about fun venues.

It's as though you don't actually know how to have fun or maybe don't have any genuine aesthetic preferences of any strength; you just pick things based on how likely they are to successfully support your image. This sort of makes you a fish, in a weird way; you're almost like a perpetual tourist, not really comfortable with what you're doing, but just trying to blend in with what you're pretty sure you ought to be doing, which makes your image that much less convincing - there's no verisimilitude.

Anacardo, I think Henry17 just thought I was freeloading.

I spend $300/month on food.

I fail. I need to stop eating out so much. Bleh.