Josh and I slept in a little bit on our third day in New York and had a fantastic brunch at the famed Sarabeth's on Madison Avenue before walking to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (pictured above and popularly called "The Met"). Josh and I read in The New Yorker that the Met had a special Chanel exhibit showing and we sheepishly admitted that we both wanted to see that while we were there. (The exhibit was classic and classy, as would be expected from Chanel.)
Josh and I hit the modern art wing of the museum and, as we were casually browsing some of the pieces, we saw a familiar guy browsing the gallery with us.
That's right. Mr. James Bond himself, Pierce Brosnan, was walking around looking at the art with his (homely) wife. The best part was that everybody left them alone. I love that about New York. Celebrities can just do their thing. New Yorkers don't even care anymore because seeing a celebrity there is like seeing leaves on trees. It's old news. Anyway, we bumped into them a few times going through the museum. When a couple kids approached for an autograph I snapped this picture and then Josh and I hightailed out of there. We didn't want to interrupt his day any more than we had to.
Once we left The Met we decided to walk to the Museum of Modern Art (popularly called "MoMA"). We walked down Fifth Avenue (which quickly became a favorite activity of ours) and, just minutes after seeing Pierce, we bumped into another celeb, this time on Fifth Avenue around 55th Street.
Josh K. turned to me on the street and said, "Josh, do you think that's Antonio Sabato, Jr. walking in front of us?" I said I didn't know and we followed him for half a block and neither of us was absolutely sure it was him. He was very well groomed and looked gorgeous, but it wasn't until he smiled and we saw his trademark dimples that we were sure. I just had to snap that picture, even if I couldn't get his full face in the picture. It's so strange to be walking down the street with male supermodels. That just doesn't happen very often in Minneapolis. (If you haven't already checked out Antonio Sabato, Jr.'s exercise book, check it out. I promise you that the pictures, if not also the information, are worthwhile.)
The MoMA was an entertaining experience. We enjoyed most of the museum and some of the photography was really phenomenal. But a few pieces, like the one above, inspired a little questioning. The sculpture above, by Robert Gober, consisted of the bottom part of a mannequin stuck into the wall with candles on his calves and on his left ass cheek. But in all seriousness, we were glad we went to the MoMA. It was cool stuff.
Josh and Josh at the musical "Altar Boyz."
After our museum adventures we met David and his friend, Matthew, at 50th and 8th to see the evening performance of "Altar Boyz," a hilarious, high-energy show about a Christian boy band. Josh and I both come from Catholic backgrounds (and now call ourselves "recovering Catholics") and that made the show even funnier. It was all very tongue-in-cheek.
After the show David insisted that we wait to meet Tyler Maynard (second from the right in the "Altar Boyz" picture above), the actor who played the in-the-closet gay guy (and who just happened to be gay in real life, too). David knew a friend of Tyler's and Tyler warmed up to David right away after the show. David introduced Tyler to Josh and me and, suddenly, Tyler invited us to the CD release party for the "Altar Boyz" soundtrack at Pop Rocks in the Village later that night. When he asked if we were going it was a no fucking brainer.
When the three of us arrived at Pop Rocks an hour later we were stopped at the velvet rope and asked if we were on the list. David told the doorman that Tyler put us on the list. The doorman asked, "Are you Josh? Josh and Josh?" and pointed at us. We confirmed that we were and the velvet rope slid away and the three of us entered the club. (We nearly peed our pants in the process.)
Inside we met up with Tyler and he gave us tons of free drink tickets and the producer of the show came up and said, "Are you two Josh and Josh?" and was totally charming, making small talk with us. We hung out with Tyler and met another of the (hot) stars of the show, during the course of the evening.
We left shortly after midnight, knowing that we had a day of taxing Manhattan apartment hunting ahead of us. It was a pretty cool night, though. And it also seemed like Mr. Tyler Maynard may or may not have had a crush on Joshie K. . . .
