Its good to be back

I left Amman with a thick beard. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see how I will be treated at the airport. The American Airport security, immigration and customs met all of my expectations. First I was stopped at immigration. Right before I walked up to the asshole officer I know this guy was dick me around. I get there and he looks at me and my passport, puts it in a green envelope and asked me to go to a different immigration section. Immigration for suspected terrorists. I walked in gave the dude the envelope responded to stupid ass question like if I ever fired a gun, was I ever in the army, what I’m doing here, what I did there, did travel anywhere besides Jordan etc. They had nothing to keep me there any further so I was released. Next was customs, both my suitcases where opened and inspected for a good 30 minutes. Apparently both times its was a random checking.

Any way besides that it was great to be back to New York. Day one was just about chillin with the fam and then the Vane fam.

We chilled in LES for a minutes and then hit up White Castle for some burgers and “large large” cokes. Perfect way to start this trip.

...damn toasted onion bagel with cream cheese!

I was blogging on the Vane site and realized that I wanted a separate space to say and show what I want to. Not everything I will want to post will be appropriate for the vane site so this is the alternative.

I'm still in Amman, Jordan right now but good news, I'm going to New York this weekend for 10 days. That should be fun! Me and Rupert (my roomate) were talking over dinner one day about the things we missed about the countries we came from. and it was just the smallest things which we really craved for. I just want a nice toasted onion bagel with warm cream cheese. Haha, while living there it seemed like nothing but when you away from it you start to crave it. Another thing I want is -a paratha (lightely fried pakistani bread). I havent had proper bread since I came here. Everyone here eats pita all the damn time, a slice of toast, is that too much to ask! haha. You knwo its teh little thing you miss on a dialy basis. Yes I miss my family and friends but its the little things that really get to me. Hip Hop Music at a club, fruit punch gatorade, black and white film, given a choice of good movies at the movie theater, good coffee, egg and cheese sandwich, wireless internet, my sidekick, clouds and rain, all these lil thing...

Any way on a much more interesting note. I just got back the PDF's from the photoshoot i did for skin mag, the one I was drafted to model for. You can check out the full PDF of the shoot by clicking here. I thought it came out pretty good and got some vane publicity out of it.

Another interesting thing to check out: White men can't fast. It's my roomate observing ramadhaan and writing about the experience. NOX did a thing on it in the mag and on the site.






Music I cant get enough of today:
-Anyway You Want It and Something New by Cam'ron.
-Show Me What You Got by Jay-z.
-Lions Of Hip Hop by Mos Def and Talib Kweli
Weird things I said yesterday:
-"I cant find a Jew with a megaphone!"
-"God you suck at life, eat rat poison and die!"