Tonight I went uptown to Postcrypt (in the basement of a church on the Columbia campus) to see my friends Nels Andrews and Anthony da Costa play.  Both sets were great of course and afterwards Nels and I shared a cab back to Brooklyn.  The upper west side is SO FAR AWAY from my house, and I live about as close as you can to the upper west side and still be in Brooklyn.  It took an hour and a half by train on the way there (this was at 7:00 or so in the evening) and it took 45 minutes by cab at 1:00am!  Just ridiculously far.  Anyway, Nels and I were both starving by the time we got back to our neighborhood so we decided to get some tacos at the all night taco joint.  Unfortunately they were having karaoke night at the taco joint.  Now, if you’re like me then when you think of late-night taco karaoke you’re picturing Austin, TX but no, right here in good ol’ Greenpoint, Brooklyn.  Basically it was people singing shitty versions of shitty songs very loudly, so we opted for the bar on the corner where if you order a pint you get a free pizza.  This bar I have to say is probably the *worst* bar in the neighborhood.  Seriously bad.  How bad?  There was a dude breakdancing.  For reals.  Right in the middle of the downstairs corridor that leads past the bar.  He was really going for it too.  What he lacked in skill (which was a considerable amount) he made up for in gusto.  I know what you’re thinking… Brooklyn.  Breakdancing.  Trust me though, there was nothing ironic about what he was doing on the dance floor.  Ok, so maybe that makes it the best bar in the whole neighborhood, but it’s the kind of good thing that you have to take in extremely small doses.  We ate our free pizzas and drank our pints as quickly as possible and then beat a hasty retreat for the Black Rabbit.  (One of my top 5 bars of all time)  Tomorrow I have to pack my whole life for my move to Edinburgh (to be henceforth known as ‘The Brah’), but it has to be done prior to 1:00pm because that’s when the games start, and I plan on watching them all, as I am wont to do.  Blog.