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Last days, being the impetus they are for holding nothing back, are yet another reason it can be argued that perfect endings are so tragic. Last night, my last night out in Bangkok, I decided I was sick of alternating 20/80 between overpriced eat-outs and getting creative with sidewalk food and an electric water heater. So I walked into a diner, an honest to goodness, white plastic plates, white formica tables diner where car manufacturing technicians with colored hair streaks and downcast-eyed high school scholars from out of town go to eat, and asked for a warm meal.
Anything, please, with neither hot liquid in it nor swirly syrup on the side, I added. The meal tasted of the unsurprising irony of making friends and establishing walking routes in one's last week of leaving, but it was good chicken fried rice with fried egg so I can't complain. (Most ironic was that one friend I made actually invited me to their apartment for tom yum soup on the same night, that I had to laugh inside and then decline.) Plus, the diner made me feel so Tony Leung wanting nothing to do with human interaction in Chungking Express. God, to keep identifying with freakin' movies.
I don't know what the point is. I haven't been staying in one place long enough to pile stuff up or take a moment or think twice. It's absurd to aim to be unfindable (Oh, alright, undiscoverable is a word.) in the real world yet be hovering, here, but I keep popping up since, obviously, for as long as one's around, one has to be somewhere.
Photos: 1) Japanese dorayaki (sweet red been paste sandwiched between mini pancakes). 2) Char-grilled / carcinogenic chicken on a stick; mangoes and sticky rice with sweet milk. 3) The occasional schmanciness.
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I promise I'm not ignoring posts and comments, I will make time for them soon. I also apologize for the lot of non-music posts. They all have music in them, even if it isn't overtly, as you know.
Yum. Yesterday I had some chicken on a stick that looked very much like that - there's a huge Korean supermarket sorta near the Ivylander Ranch that serves the suburban Philadelphia Asian diaspora, and it was time to stock up on fish sauce, sesame oil and several other life necessities. The chicken-on-a-stick people in the food court do a brisk little business, but I am partial to the Japanese couple wh run the tonkatsu booth. They seem like they ought to be in an Ozu movie. I keepn imagining a rebellious teenage daughter.....
U R awesome!
Heh, I had Yankee Pot Roast at a diner last night courtesy of my father-in-law..It had a strange orange gravy that was quite comfortable.
nothing wrong at all with identifying everything to movies
No need to 'pologize, Poe B-G. A stellar post as usual, even without adding the bonus of a soundtrack. Reading your posts always makes me sit back and imagine what exotic-to-me things you're seeing and doing at that moment.
Nice to know that even the consummate wanderer has those times where she wants to feel grounded, if even digitally.
Late to the part again...Oh well...the story of my life....an excellent post.........of course.
I could really sense your pain and longing in this post. I hope you can get centered and grounded where you need to be, soon. Take Care.
I see a reality TV series: "Snack Along with Poe!" (Great Northern? Mmmmm...Delicious!)
For some reason, I thought you were leading in to getting sick from your indulgence....glad that wasn't the case. A rehash from your (best?) mix can't go wrong, and if ya gotta Take One For The Team...then that's the way to go! I'm hovering in the real world, and it takes near all my effort. Where to next??
i LOVE this band...you probably know why.
weird that you mentioned Chungking Express. I watched that like a week or so ago.
Nothing wrong w/movie or food references! My goddess that item on the bottom right looks quite fabu(& I don't use the 'F' word lightly. heh).
Gawd that GN track reminds me of The Posies so much, which is to say, I like it's retro cool sound.
Bill, while restocking one day, the rebellious daughter meets a new hire at the consulate who prevails upon her to refuse to be married off. they don't live happily ever after but she ventures off to sample fish sauces in faraway lands.
genderblender, aw shucks, thank you.
Cody, my father's pot roast was my favorite version and for some reason i always requested it on special occasions when i was little. ack, i know what you mean by that comforting "strange orange gravy".
Kevin, guilty as charged. even when i am sitting around and doing nothing, i then start remembering scenes from movies where they're sitting around and doing nothing. {:
Chuck, you busted me there. i was indeed badly needing to be grounded, or anchored actually, at the time of writing this post. the fluidity of continuous travel gets to me. i suppose that, yes, i was hoping against hope to have it digitally.
MusicRX, you said something i think i really needed to hear. wow, how'd you do that? thanks. i feel like i just keep moving on and along and away sometimes. now, to work on figuring out where it is i need to be...
Mike, "snack" is truly the magic word. i don't think i even really have square meals. i just, like, snack 3-5x a day. oh, and the show will have a Leftovers segment. ;d
Scott, i may just keep posting stuff from that same mix because it is my constant listening-without-thinking and the tracks keep growing on me. oh, i don't want to even so much as hover in the real world, i still hope to just appear selectively.
Pat, i take it you've also heard the new album? which is probably even better than the previous one. props to Dale whose posts really pushed me to take my time to pay attention to this group (duo?).
Todd, i hope you liked it. my favorite Wong Kar-Wai film is really In the Mood for Love but there are times I could swear Chungking Express is simply the best use there is of two hours.
Aug, a friend and i were really just wanting to have coffee but, as soon as we opened the menu, that damn double choco fudge cake just started calling. pink linkie, i sure hope you give Great Northern's Remind Me Where the Light Is a try, i can't stop listening to it.