my place in the old world

[elysesewell]

I may have slept too long on composing this entry: my Euro vacation is over and I'm back in Albuquerque; so much has happened between then/there and now/here that I feel like I'm trying to write about the distant past rather than two weeks ago! Oh well, I'll do my best to make it interesting even if it's not quite fresh. This entry is about

Comments

[jeisenne]

I love how the Break Dance amusement park ride has a mural backdrop of the movie with Turbo Breakin' and Ozone. My early 80s childhood thanks you for including that in your photo montage.

[elysesewell]

Ah, that clears things up. I've never seen Breakin (or B2: Electric Boogaloo, for that matter) and was wondering about the source material.

[serialkiller]

oh my. You must!! If anything to see some terrible acting, great dancing and a hilarious cameo by Jean Claude Van Dam (sp?) dancing in the Venice beach scene. I admittedly own both on DVD

[themenow]

Was Jean Claude in Breakin? No way...

I can't tell you how many days my BF and I spent in the library watching B and B2 over and over again one summer. We lived in Germany at the time, with crap on TV, so we'd sit in the army post library with a stack of Mad Magazines between us watching break dancing movies.

I remember the good old days of German (not Budapest-ian) fairs like this with the funky rides and the silly murals (with at least one large boobied, mostly nekkid woman showing off in some part of the mural)

[karenbcrazy]

The same bus thing happened to me and my friend when we visited Venice, Italy in 2003. For 5-6 days we never paid for the bus to and from our hostel and never figured out where to buy the bus tickets the entire time. Luckily we always knew we could plead American ignorance and all the Italians would understand, or so we hoped. ;)

[elysesewell]

In Milan, it was nearly impossible to wriggle out of paying a fine if you got caught without a ticket. If you didn't have the 60 Euros on you, the police would frogmarch you to a "Bancomat" to withdraw it. That was Milan, though: a lot fewer tourists, a lot more weaselly models trying to ride without paying.

[karenbcrazy]

We had also visited Milan on the trip and rented a car for the day. That was the scariest experience driving in my entire life and I've had a few. Plus the fact that it seemed like the street names changed from block to block, it took us about 30 minutes just to get on the freeway for our day trip to Switzerland.

[smileysweetie]

DISCO DARCY!

[gonadsandstrife]

I'm just happy to see that Wilford Brimley has finally gotten his currency props.

[estarial]

"kept thinking of the remarkably similar Navajo Taco my high school cafeteria used to serve for lunch, and how my then-boyf would douse the ground beef with a carton of milk to lubricate the thing enough to eat it."

I am no longer hungry for the rest of my life.

[ethan518]

Great

lol

[juggarnut]

Gotta love the names for their designer fragrances.

You bought a (cloth?) of Kobe Bryant just on time to celebrate Lakers' victory, eh?