Howdy Chase Bank…it’s me, Heidi, the Busker Chick, here to pay my credit card bill … 🙂
Busking
Chase really dislikes when I pay my credit card bills at Banking ‘rush hour’ in Busking $1 that eternally jam the electronic bill counter
It’s better than a ‘mic-check’ when I go in every month – it disrupts the entire ‘flow’ and sends all the managers into a tizzy as they’re all at my window frantically counting $1’s just to get the line moving…
Oh well JP Morgan 1% – suck it up : )
28 degrees out. Need it above 32 or my picks break before I get through a song … c’mon global warming, do me proud 🙂
Quote of the day: “You look like you’re supposed to be famous” 🙂 #Busking #nyc
So how was celebrating an unmarried teenage mom giving birth in a barn, to a baby who grew up to be a prominent activist for peace and anti-capitalist values; who preferred the company of honest prostitutes to that of the religious elite; who challenged the prevailing beliefs in income distribution; who partook in radical direct action against the banking system, and was publicly executed as an enemy of state, for you this year?
shared from my uber creative friend, Karen Elliott who reposted from her uber creative friend, Jill Fyfe 🙂
Know the value of a passing stranger’s smile – it is priceless, asking nothing, and can be life altering. Be that stranger. ♥
One of the best “Subway Diaries” fans Ms Kelly Moses (CA), winner of the 2011 ‘The Subway Diaries Street Team Award’ & her rockin’ Pug, PAT – (who no one can upstage regardless of wardrobe )
Send in your pics of you modeling the fab “T” to info@thesubwaydiaries.com & we’ll post!
xoxo & hugs from Heidi Kole & The Subway Diaries
Nick Broad, Producer/Director of The Busking Project which I was filmed/interviewed for this past September – http://www.thebuskingproject.com snapped this rockin’ shot of him wearing his Subway Diaries “T” while filming in Santiago, Chile and standing next to a fab “Heidi Metal” sign!
He calls the picture “Heidi Power” : )
So – I’m siting on the uber-crowded #1 train, headed uptown to Harlem to busk & this guy, in jeans & a sweatshirt, is standing by the pole in the middle of the train. His head is bobbing left-right-left-right & I hear what sounds like the faint crunching noise of a walkie-talkie. ( I can spot that noise a mile away) ME: “Is that I walkie-talkie I hear?” I said to the guy in the jeans. “Uh…Uh-huh” he whispered, half under his breath as if he had not wanted me to ask but instead to just go away. ME: “Are you a cop?” I said louder this time. His head bobbed back & forth faster now & nodded yes to me in between bobs. ME: (quite loudly this time) “Well, you should really turn that thing down, or get a different system or something, or else everyone will know you’re a cop!” The undercover cop shrunk down into his sweatshirt as if he wished he could just disappear. The train doors opened & shot the formerly, totally in control cop a huge smile as I hopped off onto the platform 🙂 #ows
Ran into Danny @ Times Square last evening. We both set up on different ends of the platform, he on the coveted #1 spot, me on the 2nd choice, and after about 20 minutes I packed up & came over to hang out with him before deciding on my next location…
Me:”Hey Danny its kinda slow down here, even with all these people…how come?’
Danny “The President’s in town & he’s got all them po-lice with him” he spouted with his thick South Carolina accent, putting all the emphasis on the “po’ when he spoke the word “police”. “Those po-lice they suck up all the energy.”
Classic Danny 🙂
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