Thanks for everything
*this is an actual conversation with my friend on AIM about me living in the Lower East Side. I have lived there for 14 years, and I am fourteen.
Me: tomorrow is that last day of filming in NEW YORK CITY
friend: damnit!
Me: yup
Me: but it is doing real good for lower east side
friend: but a lot of people don't care....we just go about our bussiness
Me: lol
friend: hahaha
Me: well the musical did make the LES a much better place.....i still remember my first sight of a man running away from the cops.....
Me: being beaten down by the cops
Me: and being arrested by the cops
Me: those memories
Me: but still RENT.....didn't get the junkies out
Me: damn
Me: lol
friend: hahaha
Me: oh ya i am serious about all that
Me: but with a light heart
Me: lol
Me: i have witnessed people being arrested
Me: running away
friend: wow
friend: that is scary
friend: in a way
Me: eigth graders doing drugs
Me: well kids in general doing those things
Me: well what can we do
Me: actually we can do a lot (unlike those community gardens--we nothing for them....hahahaha)
Me: but people down here are at times hard headed
Me: it is much better than before
Me: less graffiti
Me: more people coming here for tourism
Me: my friends have been mugged
Me: one got her cell stolen
Me: the other was at knife point and at the age of 10
Me: amazing....i thought my life was happy
Me: have any reaction?
friend: omg gaven
friend: i'm scared for you now
friend: that is terrible
Me: well it is....u can say....."behind closed doors"
Me: people don't see anything
Me: it just happens when we are not looking
Me: but it is better....i assure u
Me: there are new stores...places to shop....theatre...art...and people are less scared in moving in and all that
Me: so it isn' that bad
Me: just the junkie homeless people
Me: thing that pisses me off is that those homeless people...whom we offer food.....i mean great food.....refuse to take it because they only want money.....then later on u'll find them drunk infront of my old school where many innocent children witness him....and what bothers me the most is the one time the local homeless man, angel, which is his name, said proudly to me that he was homeless on the street for 28 yrs....
Me: i remember one time a women was shot infront of my building in stuy town
Me: she was a teacher walking kids
Me: anyway she survived
Me: the one who shot her was in the building joined with mine
Me: anyway......i love living here still for it openmindness, life, art, races, families, its characters....that is why when i see RENT i see my life
Even though these things happen....just think how the Lower East Side would be without Johnathan Larson....and RENT...
Thanks Anthony and everyone on the RENT cast!!!!
RENT MADE THE LOWER EAST SIDE....ITS LIFE..ITS PEOPLE..ITS SEASONS OF LOVE
Oh ya i would like to meet ya guys. If i don't see ya guys at Thompson Square Park....just want so say thanks to everyone who are participating in this monumental achievement in art to the big screen.
Anthony, thanks for taking your time to read this...i hope u and the whole cast have a great time finishing ur time filming in New York!
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"Don't jump in, you! They'll shoot you!"
-David Hyde Pierce(signing autographs after a preview performance of Spamalot)
Updated On: 3/20/05 at 11:56 PM