Time Out...Lonely Planet...
I need to get a city guide or travel book or something for this city. Two days of looking for two rather large places have left me without result. This is a pretty small city too. Its just confusing. Some islands are all very narrow and winding cobblestone streets, and even if I keep walking the same way...away from my origin...I end up back where I began. Sometimes I do not even recall crossing a bridge but find myself on a completely different island. There is one set of bridges that all cross at the same point, but it is like a choose your own adventure story. It is literally a knot of concrete bridges that go to three different islands. If you make a mistake at the top then you end up on the wrong one.
MTV Europe plays videos a better part of the day than the US version...the catch is that it plays the same 4 videos over and over again. Three of them are Kanye West videos and the other is the Chili Peppers new video...interesting the first four times I saw it and tried to guess what band their outfits referred to. How many songs specifically about California have the Chili Peppers done...I suggest they release a compilation of their greatest hits about California. The may be the only people who like California more than I do!
Right now though, the top ten videos of 1997 are on. In retrospect 1997 was not such a bad year, I remember it being kind of a vacuum...thats simply because my taste was terrible. So far we have had The Verve, Daft Punk, Jamiroquai, etc...a few bad ones too. Funny thing is that the "good ones" are ones I would not have liked then, besides The Verve. When I say that 97 was not bad I am referring to music videos...otherwise every year in high school was bad...freshman year less so...they got increasingly worse as each year passed. Senior year was like the Middle Ages. The people who said "high school will be the best four years of your life" need to indulge in a few more experiences...I am positive that statement can only be true if high school were among the only identifiable periods of your life...high school was pure misery...boring, oppressive, confining. This is partly due to the misfortune of being a "post-grunge" high school student when whining, angst and somber moods become hegemonic.
I need to get a city guide or travel book or something for this city. Two days of looking for two rather large places have left me without result. This is a pretty small city too. Its just confusing. Some islands are all very narrow and winding cobblestone streets, and even if I keep walking the same way...away from my origin...I end up back where I began. Sometimes I do not even recall crossing a bridge but find myself on a completely different island. There is one set of bridges that all cross at the same point, but it is like a choose your own adventure story. It is literally a knot of concrete bridges that go to three different islands. If you make a mistake at the top then you end up on the wrong one.
MTV Europe plays videos a better part of the day than the US version...the catch is that it plays the same 4 videos over and over again. Three of them are Kanye West videos and the other is the Chili Peppers new video...interesting the first four times I saw it and tried to guess what band their outfits referred to. How many songs specifically about California have the Chili Peppers done...I suggest they release a compilation of their greatest hits about California. The may be the only people who like California more than I do!
Right now though, the top ten videos of 1997 are on. In retrospect 1997 was not such a bad year, I remember it being kind of a vacuum...thats simply because my taste was terrible. So far we have had The Verve, Daft Punk, Jamiroquai, etc...a few bad ones too. Funny thing is that the "good ones" are ones I would not have liked then, besides The Verve. When I say that 97 was not bad I am referring to music videos...otherwise every year in high school was bad...freshman year less so...they got increasingly worse as each year passed. Senior year was like the Middle Ages. The people who said "high school will be the best four years of your life" need to indulge in a few more experiences...I am positive that statement can only be true if high school were among the only identifiable periods of your life...high school was pure misery...boring, oppressive, confining. This is partly due to the misfortune of being a "post-grunge" high school student when whining, angst and somber moods become hegemonic.
posted by Lenin | 10:26 fm
1 Comments:
you make it sound like a video game, the city version of level 8 of mario (which is now and forever more my analogy for "confusing place")
i think i enjoyed 7th through about 11th grade, but somewhere along 11th it started to suck. maybe the realization that i had to grow up and didnt want to....
i think whatever time people consider their social and physical highpoint is their "best time of your life"--hopefully i havent peaked yet because i have then it was junior high!
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