More Random

So far the most random and inexplicable things we have seen have been as follows; a spanish cabaret band at octoberfest, a tepee symbolizing some sort of protest in prague, a ford truck in budapest, a feminist rally in san sebastion, and here in zagreb two people dressed up like bees just walking down the street .

The protests here in europe are a joke. I think about all the protest i hear about or read about and maybe its that america was more publicized or that we had more people but its rediculous. OKay the french strike for the age extension was far reaching and highly trecherous to anyone trying to go through france but the strike ended, like on a specific day. We are pretty sure that they did not win and nothing was gained besides alot of backpackers being seriously pissed off for having france inbetween spain. No joke we get on a train and the entire car was going to barcellona, all of us had been delayed and rerouted and it was aweful. SO of course we pull out the booze and pass it around becaue we were actually going. We walked around with the protest against NATO in Lisbon. RIght we were in lisbon when obama was there and at first you see all these people and its cool and then you see all the police with macheties and machine guns not moving and you think yea this is a good protest something is going to happen. No nothing, we basically walked from one part of town to another and back again. We never knew what everyone was saying but it sounded cool and someone had the sense to bring a drum. But nothing really happened, at none of the protests has anything happened. But you think it will from the feeling you get from the militia of armed police and military. Maybe protesting has lost its certain zest that it did in the 60s and seventies but im not sure anything was accomplished or gained. What happened to the masses of people holding hands refusing to move, or the will and brains to actually try and appeal whatever is being protested. I dont know that much about politics but if you look at it from a military standpoint and approach it in such im sure results would be different. I'm not saying take up arms and hold the queen at knife point, but decisive clever thinking. Whatever it was interesting regardless.

We are planning on stakling garth nix in australia. Hes one of my favorite childrens authors. He just has such a briliant imagination that truely takes you to the fantasy adventure you have always wanted. Great writing enticing characters with interesting names and he has such great ways of naming things.

2:02 A.M.

cant sleep, at least there is a tv here so i have something to do. Sometimes i just have to stop reading for a while and do something that takes almost no brain power. Although you would be surprised about how much i have learned from television. I for some reason am able to recal even the most random and miniscual shows at the drop of a hat and coralate it with other prevelant shows comparing and contrasting. Perhaps i should work in television or movies, i would do well in either one. Most people i talk to about my insomnia brush it off and then talk about their own breif times. Most people like to sleep. I however do not. Sleeping is something that if i could i would give up entirely if i could. I sleep sometimes, but then i have nightmares, always nightmares. Never a good or pleasant dream. However thats almost better than not dreaming at all. Sometimes when i sleep i dont go into rem cycle so i dont even dream. I basicly close my eyes and open them without getting any rest. Did you know that after 18 hours of not sleeping you have a .08 intoxicated level. I can stay awake for 7 days, its longer than anyone ive ever met. Lots of people dont believe me when i talk about my sleeping disorders or blow it off like its not that big. However they are wrong, i would probable be completely different if i sleept better. I cant help it. Pretty sure if i took sleeping pills i would go crazy and start killing people. I wouldnt be able do disalusion my dreams from reality. Which is a problem. So i have decided to write a book about it you know it my spare time which just happens all the time. Anyway its cold in the room and everyone snores so why bother sleeping when i can just stay awake and do random things like always. Like my maze, pretty sure in zagreb if our hoste is not a crazy party place i will be doing some major mazing. Im so exited its almost done and it looks incredible.

Frost

San sebastion is worth a trip. We stayed in the best hostel with really cool people that just made it so much fun. Sure it rained every day and it was really cold but it was fun and seriously the best common room ever, everyone would just go out and play quitar we even had a waltzing matilda sing along, which just led to more australian odd songs. It was good though because they could paly the guitar really wellso it was nice. Then after a few days it was off to paris. I hated paris. It was so cold there and we had to take a train a lot earlier than we thought because they wouldnćt let any more eurail people on the night train. So we get into paris at about 1130 at night and under no circumstances would our hostel let us check in early they were very specific on the sight. So we had to stay in the train station. Which wouldnćt have been a big deal if it wasnćt below freezing. Even indoors in the trainstation it was so cold we put on all our cloths climbed in our sleeping bags and were still cold. the ground was that granite that does not get warm it just gets colder. Some how though our delierium and laughter over random things we fall asleep and wake up to find the trainstation full of people which would have been really awkward if it was our first time, Which it wasnćt. So eventuallz we make it over to our hostel and walk inside and blend into the breakfast crowd. So we check in finally at eleven and the evil french man informs us that we have to leave and come back at 3. They kick everyone out of the hostel and clean it. So i walked around and shannon walked around i went to the graveyard and she went to the museum. I saw jim morrisons grave and oscar wildes. then i just had to get home because i was so cold and couldnćt remember what it was like to be warm. Eventually we left and went to amsterdam. Saw the van Gogh museum which was incredible a little sad though, i swear america has all the best art on loan, both stary night and the coffee shop were gone. And about half of his self portraits were gone. The building in amsterdam were so cool they were all leaning on each other and just adorable. Plus it might be the best water i have ever had, it just tasted so good. It was cold, like negative 15 one day. then we went to brugge to see the ice sculpture festival. the hostel was like a reformed dorm, which would have been okay if there were other people there, and there were we just could not figure out why we were all alone at the end of the halway and they were all together. Again the most thirst quenching water ever. Still freezing, did you know that its the coldest winter in like 300 years, fuck thats cold. We drink massive amounts of tea to stay warm. And trains are now heated instead of blowing cold air at the end of november. Frankfurt was weird going and gone then to Austria. Everyone was in such a rush. We walked around Vienna and people kept hitting us with their elbows and throwing out of their walking way. I think everyone should go to america and learn how to walk around the streets and not touch each other because it just drove me crazy all i wanted to do at the end of the day was walk around with my arms straight out and just spin and slowly work my way home. Its a little warmer in slovenia, but not by much. We are pretty much looking forward to prague though. It will be freezing, but we remember it so well and we are going to drink lots of coffee and warm wine. However cold it is i still bear in mind that i have not put on all my layers so im not the point of death cold just slightly colder in a way that makes you want to jazersize.

TV

My top 5 shows of all time are as follows
1. dead like me
In my opinion a flawless show. Not only is the storyline solid but creative and fresh. The characters are deep and mysterious yet seemingly congenial. The writing and musical atributes set the mood for a daughnting yet somewhat contemplative tone on the verge of amusing and funny. The actual filming is nothing special until you see the scenes that are filmed in the car when peole are talking, all you see is the back of the seats unless they look at the person they are talking to which leaves you with a sidelong glance and the words you were forced to listen to.

2. 3rd rock from the sun
Downright the the most hilarious show ever made. I mean what show can boast that it has the ability to be flamboyant and crazy and be better that way. We couldnºt imagine it any other way. Each actor works so smothly together and each one is in a solid performace that you wonder why peole watch the crap on tv with dreadful actors paroting lines with acting school emotion when you can be watching a show that you feel for and laugh at the same time.

3. death note
The anime has a deep mohogony coloring to it. When you watch it it is interesting, until you compare it to other animeºs. then you see that they deep time in developing the actual animation, you can see it in their hair, literally individual strands. Usually its a jagged shade of a color.

4. the twilight zone (original version with rod serling)
Correct me if iºm wrong but i will gladly into a knife fight with anyone that doesnºt agree that the twilight zone is the most creative show ever made in history. Each story is sinister and awe inspiring. You watch one, maybe not the best one so you try another. Then you are hooked there are not two stories alike enough that you would become bored. Itºs on my list of shows i want to own the entire season off.

5. warehouse 13/Eureka
Warehouse 13 grows on you. The storylines are simple the characters not to mind boggling, yet you canºt stop. The next artifact you recognize the name you wonder what it can do why. Then you start thinking of everyone in history and what sort of artifact and what kind of artifact they would produce. You canºt resist. You have to love the intrigue.
Eureka is a dream. A place on earth where the greatest minds get together and create invention. Not all that have to be usfull but in a way are. Think about it. Watch it youºll think about all the artifacts we could have and end up at the same conclusion as me "fuck why hasnºt the world produced a shrink ray yet, Eureka we need you".

I watch tv here almost as a novelty, but itºs nice to hear the language with a show that you know.

Germany only music videos.
Czech Republic good music videos and interesting translation but not all translated shows
Hungary had blocks, all show, then block of commercials, then all show, Plus cartoons it rocked
Romania, did not watch
Greece Only music videos, not good ones.
Italy awesome shows i watched the fly the village and the hills have eyes 2 in german, only german, all the channels were in german.
Spain music videos
Portugal great movie channels, quiz show, and beverly hills cop 2

I donºt miss tv moslty because like most i have ruled it out yet i miss
The Closer
Bones
Warehouse 13
and any reality tv, i love to laugh and itºs ridiculous

Two shows i think about on a daily basis are The Pretender Early Edition and Justice League Unlimited

I watch my anime online and read it online so i donºt miss that but i will come back and sit down with my computer and watch all the episodes i have missed.

I worry for tv future. I know i have my favorites and i have my personal opinion but honestly some of the the shows on today, it makes me want to get a gun and kill everyone involved so that they can just stop existing. Then the gap would leave room for shows are new and original. It makes me want to get into telivion. I mean who else would be better suited i have watched almost every show ever made and can judge it from a professional standpoint. Fuck now itºs on my ever growing list of jobs im sure i would do smashing in. Uh like usual iºll go with the flow like usual and let myself be guided to a decision somehow, the future. . .

Dead People

So we went out for a walk and we walked to this bridge intending to cross it. There was a giant jesus on the other side we had to check it out. The bridge was maybe an hour away but weºve walked further however when we finally get to the bridge we realise that we canºt walk on it. At all, unless we wanted to wedge ourselves between the metal railing and the fence. So we just start walking around and spot a graveyard so we set out to find it. It takes us another hour to actually get to it we had to take all these side streets up cobblestone hell. So were walking around and the graveyard is beautiful, all these stone crypts and statues. As we continue walking we inspect the crypts and realise that on alot of the doors the glass is broken and bars are bent like someone was throwing rocks into the crypts. These ones of course have no dates of the deceased but we have great views of the coffins. So we keep walking around a little weirded out inspecting the broken crypts in the smell of decaying flesh on a hot day and suddenly i see a hole in the wall and lieteraly the coffins were coming out of the ground. Like someone had taken off part of the wall and decided to move the things around. Now the novelty has hit us and itºs began to be a little funny when we see a bunch of cats. I can only imagine what these cats are doing here. Walking around more we come across the crypts and the doors are so rusted they were just leaning against the walls not even slightly connected to anything. The coffins were starting to disintigrate and come apart we didnºt want to get to close and get some dead boddy disuise but we had a great hypothetical sitiuation were someone is visiting her grandma and just walkes up and opens the door and lifts up the coffin lid and starts painting her nails. As sheºs pianting a finger breaks off so she says aloud "o grandma youºre no fun anymore, grandpa can you believe this.".

Criminal

So the the reason why i was so angry and mad and hatting the world in milan is because of my shoes. In prague i tripped on the cobblestone allyways and the right soul started to fall of. No big deal i just safety pin it together and everythings as right as rain. Next iºm in greece and i notice that the left soul is coming off. Pretty much the whole thing is falling off. I try and safety pin in but itºs not working and all i can think is that iºll fix it at danielleºs. I attributed my foot problems to the souls coming off but i actually figued out that after i super glued the souls on and kept on walking around that i walk on the outside of my feet with the shoes on, especialy with my bag. So i threw them out at a train station because the pain was just so much i could barely walk. I still walk with a liimp right now and i keep thinking about the cane iºm going to have to buy and how cool itºs going to be. THis all happened then Milan i had to limp around for six hours looking for a bank. O i got money from an atm today it was exiting in ways i canºt even explain. Right so milan evil i wonºt go back unless i have slaves and a rickshaw and oodlous of money. We get to spain after a hurendous trip. Frace was stricking so it took us 2 and a half days when it should have taken us 9 hours. But we finally made it. We even celebrated with the sake we bought and iñ a rush we get off the train and it goes off suddenly shannon realises that she left her purse on the train. No big deal except her passport and trian pass were in it. We start rallying people who speak little english and together we locate the train and are off agian. We got the purse back intact nothing missing not even the money. I know what are the odds. Leaving barcelona was the problem. Have you heard of the basque, well now that they have been active for some time the way you get on a tain you scan your luggage in an xray machine but you donºt go through a metal detector. So of course me with my three knieves gets in trouble with the security i had to change trians and talk to the renfe people and have them walk me down through security and on to the train. I mean iºm a backpaker what kind of trouble am i going to cause. So thatºs all good and done until we realise that all train stations have these machines. So now everytime i get on a train i stuff the knife in the front of my pants and put on a baggy sweater. Itºs so fucked up. I could be packing nitro with a double fuse explosive rigged with a dead man switch over a trench coat and get through security but my bag getts scaned. So everytime i go through spain i have this horrible feeling they are going to look at me and say "we are searching people today everyone spread um" then iºll be thrown in jail. But entil then iºm going to keep up my villanous smuggling act. But iºm not sure they have anything like that in portugal, which is where i am. Lisbon to be exact. Iºm going to find a good pair of boots.

yeay we don't have to sleep in a train station tonight.

I hate Milan. Sure if i was rich and could walk into my five star hotel at the end of the day and wash my shoes i would not have hated it as much as i did. O and banks will not except a credit card unless you have an account with the bank. I was walking around fucking Milan for about 6 hours and i went into over 50 banks. I finally found one that would do a cash advance but it was aweful. So i hate everone who convinced me theives and phantom murderers were out to get me because i haven't been so much as looked at strangely in anyplace in eastern europe italy was just anoying people. I should have brought my debit card, or just cash anything would have been better than having a useless card in most cases where i usually end up without food for the night. Thank good i'm out of italy though. Did you know france is on strike, it makes getting to Spain really hard it took us about 2 and a half days. We slept in train stations on our way and met a giant group of people that had been trying to get to barcellona too. In the end it all worked out you know after two evil days of waiting then hearing trains were'n't going on those days to barcellona. God damn france and their fucking princapls.