So that's
why everyone looks at me like I'm crazy for going to
these places alone. 'Cause it kinda blows after
awhile. LOL. Saying to your buddy - "Hey look, it's
that one old thing..." is a lot more fun than
thinking to your inner-buddy "Hey look,
it's that one old thing...". But I was determined
to do Rome differently than most and I ended up with a
nice little adventure for sure...
The Michael
Jackson story at the beginning is still the only
television news story I've seen about it. That has to
be crazy to those of you in the states that are so
sick of it by now. I've read maybe 2 stories online,
but spent all my time working on the site and then had
to go. I can't tell you how surreal it is for a news
junkie like me to be completely missing the entire
"feel" for it. At least I'll have an interesting
"where were you when you heard..." story.
You know what else
is interesting? How much of a buffoon I
am.
How do
you get all the way here without
remembering about the Vatican. LOL.
I mean, on the subway after spending
a night in Rome and still - nada. I'm
looking at all these nuns and priests and
am completely baffled. I step of the
subway and then go:
"OHHHHHHH YEAH".
I
guess I'd rather laugh with the sinners
than cry with the saints. :-)
So Rome was
definitely Rome...
But feel free to
google the rest of the stuff - 'cause what the hell is
the point of taking pictures of attractions like this
and then showing them to people? I never got that.
Like I get taking pictures of yourself there - but
even those tend to be boring and cookie cutter. That's
why you bitches can make fun of my self-matrix shots
all you want, but this is fuckin cool:
'Cause
it's just weird. And no one would actually
pose a face like that, but I was
concentrating on the little monitor on the
camera and making sure I got the stuff
behind me in the spin. Then you throw it in
the computer and you're like - well hey,
that's kind cool. Me lookin' all ANGRY at the
Colisseum. Damnit is it 1 L or 2 Ls I'm
pretty much gonna write it wrong the entire
entry, so get used to it.
So I paid my
12 Euro to get into that, but didn't see anything else
from the inside. I had to go into the Collisseum
(well one of these spellings will be right) for my
Running in Rome clip (which is becoming an expensive
little video to put together for a fuggin' 1 minute
Journey video - sheeesh). Instead of all the touristy
stuff I decided to just get lost in Rome and found an
apartment complex having a party and I guess I looked
ethnic enough to belong 'cause they offered me a
beer...
...and I smiled at
the audacity of coming all the way to Rome and
chillin' at a Sunday afternoon party. And yeah, it's
Italian beer, felt I should take a picture of it
- but goddamn it all tastes the same to me. Hung out
there for a couple of hours, took video of me dancing
in the bathroom 'cause the lighting was cool and
creepy in the apartment complex and then made my way
around Rome some more...
I mean, don't get
me wrong - I enjoyed the sites, the old things were
really old and cool... but for example, these clouds?
THAT made me whip out the camera. You know? I was like
- OOOH those look cool. I'm just strange I guess. The
majority of people would think I wasted my day because
I didn't go into all the museums, etc. and I had far
more fun meeting some locals and trying to
communicate. Far more fun getting really lost
in some neighborhoods and then stumbling into the
Pantheon and finding my way again. Far more fun
watching how completely ridiculous some of the Italian
men look here. Like that kid in Greece who thought the
glasses made him look feminine... he was a GLADIATOR
next to these guys. I know I'm a hopeless 'cause when
it comes to fashion - but holy shit. If this is
fashion then I'm totally cool wearing the same jeans
and shirt the rest of my life. It just looks like a
bunch of conformist shit to me 'cause they all look
the same. What's the point? Be original,
bitches.
Which I thought
this dude was until I saw 4 other people use
the exact same supplies and techniques further down
the road. LOL. However, it doesn't stop it from being
a pretty cool skill even if you're just spray painting
over stencils. And the dude does it soooooooo fast.
Good times.
So there it is. My
last full touristy day and onto the train tomorrow.
Think I'll write some randoms on the train and make
some goofy video while I'm on it. I can't waste all
these cool locations. When am I gonna be on a train
from Rome to Venice again?
