what is it like...
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- dijitaq0
born in canberra, australia lived there for 2 years. moved to jakarta, indonesia stayed for 7. moved to ames, iowa lived there for 7 more. now currently residing in jakarta again.
jakarta is crowded, polluted. shitty public transportation. the streets are filled to the max with motorcycles, cars , buses and people selling stuff. hot, humid (which inteferes with my asthma problem) and when it's not hot it's raining which slows up traffic real bad. hardly any public parks and the existing ones are filled with homeless people or criminals or both.
- paraselene0
london is exactly as our fair vespa has so eloquently stated. sometimes i really miss new york, but i don't think i could bring myself to leave london yet. maybe never. it's properly grubby but there's nothing like the feeling of hope and possibility that you get watching the sun rise from the top of a double decker bus going over london bridge after dancing all night in the city that invented clubbing. i still don't think i've met anyone apart from soda who's actually from this town. it's brilliant.
- Gorbie0
is that your real opion of jakarta?
sounds like a shithole.
- Gorbie0
Manchester is a place i seem to read about a lot out here in the states.
seems like they have a lot of very progressive attitudes in architecture and urban infill.
- paraselene0
your old dear what?
- stem0
What about you Gorbie, Moskow looks like a fascinating place.
The place looks amazing, but I've heard about all the gangs and 'organised' crime - what's the deal?
- kelpie0
A night-out in Leeds is truly a must for those case studying gratuitous violence and depraved sexual conduct.
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aye, and they still don't let you in the pubs (yes, pubs) if your from my neck of the woods.
Leeds bastards :(
- shaft0
Wroclaw, a German city handed over to Poland after WW2. This means people here are not linked with the city's history deeper than 60 years. I guess this differentiates us from the rest of the country and I like it.
Plenty of pics, a lot of pre WW2:
http://wroclaw.hydral.com.pl/tes…
This week's big party:
http://www.wroclawnonstop.pl/en/…
Mo'Horizons are playing for free in the market square tonight!But as I said before, I couldn't leave my heart in SF because it already was in Barcelona for years.
It's big, beautiful, ugly, dirty, stinky and it's best feature is the beach, where people sit in the evenings and detach themselves from the day. A wonderful way to vent.
http://komercja.com/bcn/ - last summer, I'm afraid I won't be there this year
- stem0
Manchester is a place i seem to read about a lot out here in the states.
seems like they have a lot of very progressive attitudes in architecture and urban infill.
Gorbie
(Jul 1 05, 03:24)Hahaha! - I think that answers my question!!!
- donal0
she used to call me that too!
- Gorbie0
haha stem..
i'm a dipshit american kid living in the capitol city of California... Sacramento.
"organized crime" means crack dealers in Oak Park or the politicians jerkin off in their offices.
population of about 2.5 million. small-town vibe. constant inferiority complex with san francisco and the bay area (where i grew up). very mellow, unpretentious city with good bands and shitty dive bars.
it's about 70ºF out right now and it's 3:43am.
:^)
- CaP0
oh yeah... london is definitely one of the cities that i am irrationally attracted to.
it's been 2 years since i went there, i'm dying to see some cloudy skies with a small blue patch and look around and hear people saying "what a lovely day" is...
vespa, loved your description btw.
- _me_0
without readinghte rest of the replies...
Sydney, Australia. COLD, WET, WINDY.. but constantly lovely.
- CaP0
valparaiso (still chile) is an old-timer cabaret singer, now retired but willing to talk to anybody about the good old times, the affairs she had with old sailors, artists and painters. still, she is misterius, a bit tacky but classy.
- vespa0
god yea para, the sky, when you actually get to see it, can be sooooo incredible. turner paintings every night/morning with all the pollution diffusing everything into a gorgeous softboxed technicolour extravaganza.
last night i was rehearsing in the shittiest end of acton, rehearsals started at 9.30pm and as my bus turned round the corner into an enormous
ASDA carpark the sky revealed itself, fluorescent pink turner clouds, flocks of birds wheeling around in the sky, i had to put down my amp, guitar and keyboard and would have appreciated the moment for ages if i hadn't been such an obvious target for a mugging.
- kelpie0
Sydney, Australia. COLD, WET, WINDY..
_me_
(Jul 1 05, 06:32)are you from Earth? :/
- paraselene0
lol! yeah, this place has an amazing aesthetic quality built into the air. even when it's bad, it's good! this winter i was walking near southwark cathedral in the drizzle and fog, thinking about all of the diabolical people who had tread my same steps. as i passed the golden hind and nodded to the ghost of sir francis himself, i looked up at st. paul's, shrouded in mist and properly dickensian and thought, 'fuck me, conrad, you were so spot on! this, too, has been one of the dark places of the earth.' strangely enough, the city of which london most often reminds me is havana, with all it's pulsating jungle sex frenzy threatening to burst up through the concrete. these polar opposites are more alike than you'd think; the birthplace of marxism and her deathbed, the madly beating heart of capitalism and the last bastion of opposition to it...
- Gorbie0
i think you and vespa should write a book on your home.
seriously.
- _me_0
Sydney, Australia. COLD, WET, WINDY..
_me_
(Jul 1 05, 06:32)are you from Earth? :/
kelpie
(Jul 1 05, 06:33)Are you mental???