Riding Shotgun

ramblings from the passenger's seat

Sunday, July 17, 2005

Otherwise

I was on the metro the other day. It was perfectly ordinary. I was taking it to Les Corts station, the closest to Camp Nou (or is it Nou Camp?) the fabled stadium of FC Barcelona. A larger middle aged man got on with his two sons. The boys sat in the two seats next to me and the father sat across goatherding his kids. Then a group of buskers got on. Actually it was a pair. A fiddler, an accordion player and a stereo. They played a bit and then circulated the train car for money. I kept thinking how wonderful it would have been if another set of buskers got on the train. They would be dressed all in black with mask and capes. Instead of a stereo they would have a man with a snare drum. They would stare down the first set and then outplay them. The first buskers now embarassed would exit at the first stop possible, without asking for money. The black-garbed crew would then laugh maniacally and leave. I thought about all of this and how brilliant it would be. Then I remembered that those two men they really were just trying to make a living. Maybe they had families or dogs.

* unrelated note. Africa is also trying to make a living and the BBC is gving that some well-deserved publicity. Africa Lives go there and check out nollywood and the bob geldof congo thing.

Sunday, July 10, 2005

"Idolatry" "Idola-what!?!"



Quentin Tarantino es muy hardcore!

Friday, July 08, 2005

gawdy ol' gaudi




Modernisme is really a big tent party like the republicans.

Thursday, July 07, 2005

Hola...um No Entiendo






"a multitude of dark, dirty, narrow streets" where " no one would have dreamed of cleaning his room, his belongings or his linen."
- Jean Genet

Monday, July 04, 2005

Hamlet Who!?!

Action versus Inaction a truly perennial debate. The burden of information. The obvious choice is always there. You know that the right thing to do is to do something. Yet it never seems that clear. Never. ON days like these you begin to empathise with a certain danish prince.

Saturday, July 02, 2005

"we're not in infinite we're in the suburbs!"

means I'm still slightly drunk, the head-spinning
means last night was kerunck, the bags of groceries
mean I'm human still hafta eat
and all of this presumably says a lot about me.