saw this advert in bulgaria in 2008 or early 2009 over the internet while living in the 'druzhva' neighbourhood of sofia....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC1d2JKhMCY&feature=relmfu
desi and i had a nice apartment at that stage, a rarity in our 2 year relationship there as often we did not even live together and she spent four months in san francisco while i withered suffering in sofia..... not sure if it's the same guy, larry fitzgerald, but it does seem that for some reason, although never actively seeking to watch football much, there has been a player with dreadlocks sticking out of his helmet... maybe it is the same guy or maybe there are many in the nfl with them.... recently in recently aforementioned dolphins jets game it seemed there was a dolphins player with dreads... maybe it's the same guy
there's nothing greater than finishing three back to back 12 hour shifts in a taxi, even if they weren't the most lucrative, having insomnia, drinking a little vodka and orange, watching the occasional freak walk by here in auburn as a beautiful sunrise emerges (a crazy friend on crazy meds recently offered the opinion that 'god is such a show off' - is he though?), and not having to worry about working the next day, only catching zz's and sleeping -- at the beach, before enjoying a snorkel
being happy is awesome.... living in bulgaria in 2007/2008/early 2009 was most definitely not happy - try angry, but it was challenging.... it's amazing how something that is krpytonite for you, e.g., bulgaria, can be so challenging and how you can learn from something that smashes you to pieces..... yesterday there was such a great quote from agni-yoga.org.... better to drink from a full cup of misery than live a live of half-sadness.... that is so true...... becoz, if you take the bull by the horns, and wrestle the dragon, and prevail... you will be happy...... bulgaria for me, my two years there were nothing short of an unhappy torment.... it's still baffling to think that the first month spent there, preceeding the following two years spent there, some 2.5 years beforehand, were NOT miserable......... it is still something to marvel at that the bulgarians (and presumably all of the former russian led eastern europeans can survive such a world, for so many years)
that's why the elton john song says: some things look better baby, just passing through
anyway, moving on......... some half year before moving to bulgaria to begin what would unexpectedly and quickly become the challenging hell and the demon to be overcome and mastered.... we found ourself, after a week in the blessed land, southern california... in hollywood in LA... we found ourself in sedona arizona... there, after a time, we found a job at a 'rite aid' shop.... 'rite aid' being a chain of shops in the u.s.a that is devoted to selling things like fishing gear, nappies, condoms, tampax, t-shirts and various sundry things...
shortly before arriving in arizona from LA -- in LA -- arriving from a few months in seoul and some more months in china before that, it turned out that a problem we'd thought we'd mastered: pot addiction and general usage, after about 3 years of not having touched the stuff, the most appropriate thing, the very first nite in california, after arriving from seoul, seemed to be to smoke it up... a week later, my newly bought nissan maxima was driven across the california desert and stolen from me by some well meaning punk pothead 20 year olds in sedona arizona...
there too it seemed good to disdain the three year period of non-smoking and smoke some more... the benji was never shy about occasionally and brazenly smoking other people's pot stashes without their permission (stealing) and this too was true in sedona, for a former sedona rite-aid worker (we never actually worked at the shop concurrently) - some guy that described how he saw his parents gunned down before him as a little kid - -like a toddler... he said clearly: if you steal my pot again, we're gonna box
anyway... didn't smoke much there, just, when it seemed it was time to leave, after six weeks or so, went to the highway to hitch a ride and smoked a little more with the driver that manifested shortly after setting up shop by the dusty road....
back in LA, another few months there, didn't smoke much
anyway, at rite-aid, in arizona, there was a girl there, sara.... some kind of german descendent... very pretty -- a virgo.... tried prodding her a little towards the benji but said she had a boyfriend, was too young to hassle anyway...... later in LA, the 'we're gonna box' guy said that she'd died, mixed issue of her thyroid problem and also drug usage like crystal meth.......
what a waste..... what a beautiful young woman she was..... dead at 20 or 21...... just gorgeous --- it seemed to make a strong impression........ pity cannot call 'we're gonna box' guy out of the blue one of these days and say 'hi' -- maybe his number is still around
sure is a different galaxy over in them parts
anyway fleetwood mac kicks arse - mad props to michael jackson too........ larry fitzgerald is tupperguddy daddy
now if the benji can learn about tupperguddy - blocking - rushing yards, all that shit... then surely you can at least learn how to say the days of the week in chinese!
MONDAY --- shin - chee yi (1)
tuesday -- shin - chee er (pronounced 'are' 2)
WEDNESDAY - shin - chee san (3)
thursday -- shin - chee si (pronounced 'sir' but without the 'r' at the end - like an aussie would say it - 4)
FRIDAY -- shin - chee wu (chinese has four tone - up/down/up+down/flat -- wu is the 3rd type -- 5)
saturday -- shin - chee liu (lee-yoo -- 6)
SUNDAY -- shin - chee qi (chi like chin with no 'n' 7)
don't worry if ur pronunciation isn't the best -- with 1 billion mandarin speakers in china -- there are a lot of regional variations - don't take shit
china is really awesome -- just like fleetwood mac is really awesome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvAd6c3xHzU
strangely, they love 'the carpenters' over there, but not fleetwood mac -- they are a little odd
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