Grassroots Day 1 - LA to NYC!

Today, our Grassroots Tour Begins!  We travel from Los Angeles to NYC. Every journey has a beginning, and ours began with a 4 am wakeup call to meet at Sung's to catch a car to the airport.  We were happy and very excited to start our grassroots tour.  Unfortunately for us, our driver to the airport was in a rather surly mood and didn't seem to want to join us in joyous celebration (he, instead, decided to reenact "Fast & The Furious" for us in a Toyota Sienna).  We hopped a Jet Blue flight from Los Angeles to JFK at the crack of dawn.  We were delayed for over an hour in the air because Air Force One was making it's way to NYC for the United Nations summit as well as the president of Iran.  Frickin dignitaries...

A Jet Blue's eye view of Manhattan So we got into Manhattan in the late afternoon and settled into our new home for the next few weeks.  Julie, Sung, and I are sharing a super cool flat in Hell's Kitchen.  It's a rather pimp pad, even if it does have lime green walls.  After settling in, we went to what may be the best Thai meal of our lives (at Yum Yum's btw) and then cruised over to Food Emporium to pick up the essentials...like toilet paper (Sung prefer's Charmin Extra Soft).

Our new pad (with lime green walls) in Hell's Kitchen

If you want great Thai food in Manhattan, try Yum Yum's in Hell's Kitchen.  It's awesome and not expensive.

I wanted to get the cheap toilet paper.  Sung convinced me otherwise...

Justin's getting in to NYC in about 2 hours.  I think we're all going to kick it tonight.  We've got a few interviews in the morning and then we're speaking to the students at Hunter college and then going over to the AA Film Lab where we'll be speaking to many of the cool filmmakers and artists in the NYC community.  Gnite!  -Roger