The Vastness is Superior and There are Strange Rumblings in Puget Sound
I feel very relaxed right now. Something in the air out here lets me unwind and seems to almost prod me into reflecting on myself, my situation, and where I'm heading. It happens every once in a great while that i realize, with a sharp clarity and a numbing paranoia, how much I've been floating through my time on autopilot, utterly zombified. It's a particularly shameful realization since i'm so often given to promoting the ideas of freewill,determination, and all the existential crap(which i believe in wholeheartedly, as an ideal, even though I know it's simply an ideal for our day and age, much like the other pathetically flawed utopianist vision of the 20th century:communism). The most important lesson of the past year: nobody really cares, and if you do, you're a very silly fucker. Our generation(this term is meaningless really) has no aspirations.They just want to look as cool as the ones 20,30,40,80 years ago.Politics will never be a (truly) young man's game, and that's fitting,right? Let's just stick to the routine,kids: drink and fuck our brains out because we aint got nothing better to look forward to.We're all so disgusted with the American pop culture spectacle, we thrive on the venom it produces in us, and yet we still turn to it in times of need and distraction. It's more soothing than our mother's voice...so hmmm, yes this has been quite a way to overstate the obvious and perhaps i'll be labelled a self righteous hypocrite now...well damn the torpedos!(which some,to this day, still say is Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers best album)!
Now that i've gotten the residual teenage angst out of my system for the time being,I'm gonna let loose with some random updates of my prolonged vacation (as in, when am I not on vacation?):
-It's VERY grey and green up here. Yet still much more lively and inspiring than Florida.
- It's the most interesting place I've been to in years...but that could just
be because i'm fed up with New York.
-Vancouver is very European. The skycrapers all looked like dissipated London apartment buildings.The residential areas much like the ones in the song "Penny Lane", but even more surreal. Hastings in Gastown,right next to Chinatown, is a replica of the Bowery slums in New York 30 years ago. There are junkies everywhere. Some can "sing" Slayer's classic "Reign In Blood" in full without skipping a beat,effortlessly going from cookie monster voice to high pitch nuts in a vice, all the while cruising for "gib" or whatever they call heroin....I feel as if i'm giving the wrong impression however....despite all of this, it's a very nice, classy city. Canadians are big geeks who can't dance for their lives. I felt like a bonafide American Freak.
-"Juicebox" by The Strokes is ALWAYS on the radio and has become the theme song to this trip.
- They have strange radio programming here....one station went from playing Soundgarden's "Fell On Black Days" to KC and the Sunshine Band's "Shake Your Booty".
-Mikey's at work right now.We've been having a great time. I've seen most of Seattle's landmarks and have gone to some pretty interesting clubs. We saw "Brokeback Mountain" and there were no tears despite it being overwhelmingly sad. I was hit on by some lesbians from Minnesota in a club called Purr.
-Chucky called me twice since I've been here. I expected this for some strange reason, just like I expected to hear from him around his birthday in December.He sounds like he's doing good again. The conversations weren't awkward, as some would expect. I guess we're buddies again.
Ok, I'm bored with this and I've got nothing to say.
Now that i've gotten the residual teenage angst out of my system for the time being,I'm gonna let loose with some random updates of my prolonged vacation (as in, when am I not on vacation?):
-It's VERY grey and green up here. Yet still much more lively and inspiring than Florida.
- It's the most interesting place I've been to in years...but that could just
be because i'm fed up with New York.
-Vancouver is very European. The skycrapers all looked like dissipated London apartment buildings.The residential areas much like the ones in the song "Penny Lane", but even more surreal. Hastings in Gastown,right next to Chinatown, is a replica of the Bowery slums in New York 30 years ago. There are junkies everywhere. Some can "sing" Slayer's classic "Reign In Blood" in full without skipping a beat,effortlessly going from cookie monster voice to high pitch nuts in a vice, all the while cruising for "gib" or whatever they call heroin....I feel as if i'm giving the wrong impression however....despite all of this, it's a very nice, classy city. Canadians are big geeks who can't dance for their lives. I felt like a bonafide American Freak.
-"Juicebox" by The Strokes is ALWAYS on the radio and has become the theme song to this trip.
- They have strange radio programming here....one station went from playing Soundgarden's "Fell On Black Days" to KC and the Sunshine Band's "Shake Your Booty".
-Mikey's at work right now.We've been having a great time. I've seen most of Seattle's landmarks and have gone to some pretty interesting clubs. We saw "Brokeback Mountain" and there were no tears despite it being overwhelmingly sad. I was hit on by some lesbians from Minnesota in a club called Purr.
-Chucky called me twice since I've been here. I expected this for some strange reason, just like I expected to hear from him around his birthday in December.He sounds like he's doing good again. The conversations weren't awkward, as some would expect. I guess we're buddies again.
Ok, I'm bored with this and I've got nothing to say.