Subway Stories (Bronx) - The Not So Starving Artist
Oh yeah, I see soooooooo many things on the NYC Subways and have recently gotten the nerve to pull out my phone and tape some of this shit. For my first edition of Subway Stories, I bring you the "Not So Starving Artist".
If you live in the city this sight is nothing new, an artist playing his insert any random instrument here for money and or food. Once upon a time I enjoyed this bit of free NYC entertainment. Now, it kind of pisses me off. 9 times out of 10 when I'm on the train I have some sort of music with me. If you're singing, rapping, tap dancing, break dancing, playing your instrument etc I can't hear the music that's coming through my headphones. Annoying indeed, especially when you have to compete with the outrageous volume of the live musical act with 10 dollar headphones (if you mess around and run into the 3 singing Mexicans on the F or G, you're SCREWED because they all play instruments and they are loud as fuck. On this particular evening i was traveling in the Bronx on a fairly empty D train and decided to record this guy in his own world playing his guitar.
After his performance he breaks into the normal "can you please spare some change OR FOOD" speech. Food? I though, I have food. I had some FRESH UN-OPENED bread that I'd gotten with my lunch that afternoon. It wasn't much but food is food and if you're asking it must mean you're hungry right? So this bastard walks up to me and asks if I can spare some money or FOOD? I told him I had some fresh bread that he was welcomed to, pulled it out and handed it to him. THIS fool had the nerve to look it up and down and say that he didn't accept food from strangers!!!! What kind of asinine fuckery is that? So you were asking strangers for food then you turn food from strangers away? Where they do THAT at???? Oh yes, on the NYC Subways that's where.
I can't make this stuff up...
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