January 2010
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Milan
Sam and I are in the dirtiest, grimiest internet cafe in Italy. The net’s slow and we don’t really have a chance to blog anything significant, so I’ll just give a quick run down.
We’re gonna catch a train tomorrow for Nice, where we’ll hang for a few days before rolling on to Marseille. We’re making our way along the French coast to get to Barcelona, where...
“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to...”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via first-lines)
“Everything I’ve ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.”
– Chet Atkins
“Be like a duck. Remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath.”
– Michael Caine
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Skin
For it is in these moments, Those when a breath on the neck Or an ear on the chest or A hand on the tummy catch Our tongues and We sigh
We are bare, and pink and freckled And our uneven flesh sprouts Hairs like rippling kelp You have a pimple on your lip
And the warmth of your body has turned This winter into mid-November, when There is sand between our toes And the day tastes of freedom
The...
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Your Feet
When I cannot look at your face I look at your feet. Your feet of arched bone, your hard little feet. I know that they support you, and that your sweet weight rises upon them. Your waist and your breasts, the doubled purple of your nipples, the sockets of your eyes that have just flown away, your wide fruit mouth, your red tresses, my little tower. But I love your feet only because they walked...
Wandering
I’m wandering around, My head, My heart, My life, Sometimes we need to wander.
Sam Pullos
So Rome is pretty cool.
There is great night life, both chilled out bars and cool clubs, although the latter we really havn’t checked out. We went to an irish bar called “Scholars” only to find out that the bar staff really had no idea who the scholars painted on the walls around their bar were, it’s ok guys dont worry, al n i soon informed them. Then we met the coolest...
“Why go on clinging to this clod of earth, this way of life, why pay heed to what...”
– Nietzsche
The Museum
Art, fuck art, The beauty is lost to those most desperately trying to see it, Fuck them, With their berets and their strut, Their half smoked cigarettes and dimly lit eyes, Just a dead glaze under expensive glasses, Just a hollow chest under an expensive shirt, Fuck them for what they don’t see, Fuck them for what they fail to understand, I want to pick them up and shake them, Shake them...
“Woman was God’s second mistake.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Gutted
because a whole roll of film I took of the witch burning failed. I rushed loading the film and it obviously didn’t catch.
The rest are ok though, I’ll start uploading them now.
Perhaps stupidly,
I put all my film in to be developed yesterday. It’s gonna cost me an arm and a leg but I just got sick of the wait. On the flipside, there should be a host of photos up on the blog tomorrow, and maybe some actual updates on our time here in Rome.
At the moment, it looks like Sam and I will hang here for a couple of nights after Colin and Cassandra leave before heading over to Barcelona....
Free drinks
in Italy are remarkably easy to come by.