Random Observation: Cat People (putting out fire)

So. Very brief observation:

It occured to me that the song 'Cat People (Putting out Fire)', by David Bowie, is very reminiscent of the Doors. There's a real Jim Morrison thing going on with the vocals and in places it practically sounds like they've hired John Densmore (Ha! I didn't even have to look that up) to do the drums.

Plus, its the eighties so there's practically guaranteed to be a keyboard in there somewhere (which is pretty close to an organ...)

Anyway. Maybe I'm just talking crap again. Thats what you get for coming here :P

(P.S. Just realised that I'm on 81 posts now. I wonder if I can be screwed to make it to 100)

Weird guy from Bitterfilms

While I'm at it, i might as well quote this passage from Bitter Films guy. (bitterfilms.com).

I'm not sure he would care that I can't be bothered to find out his real name right now (if at all).

july 6

cough
we might still be under evacuation warning but i think things are beginning to clear. blankets of ash continue to snow all over the cars and bushes and it's humid all the time. the sky has been spectacular and muddy, i drove around thursday and hadn't yet realized the full extent of it all, roads closed, firetrucks whizzing in all directions, the hills all lit up demon red, a big fat guy jogging aimlessly in front of my car with a big gulp cup. there's been three days in a row with long blackouts, often right as the sun goes down and you can hear the whole neighborhood groan each time it happens. it's over 80 degrees in the middle of the night and the stars come out brighter than you've ever seen them if you can find them through the haze and neighbors knock around in the dark with candles and dead mobile phones. i'm told people are getting stabbed, and everyone drives their cars very strangely. there's also short, intermittent blackouts throughout the day so i can't really get a lot done on the soundtrack without risking losing my progress or frying my gear. i made it to the grocery store on a very orange evening for more candles and batteries and decided to buy ice cream so every time there's a blackout i can say "well, i guess i better go eat the ice cream before it melts". the regular candles were long gone so i had to buy a giant old lady one that smells like melon.
today ive been feeling sort of bored and happy which is actually notable because i think i'm mentally done with the movie. there's still busywork to do but the familiar feeling over the last 18+ months of having your head pressurized and focused only on one thing seems to have passed, and now i want to go outside and climb on rocks or something. there is a weird moment at the end of the leni riefenstahl documentary where she's 90 years old and sitting at the bottom of the sea stroking the back of a giant black manta ray, and in a sleepy state for some reason i interpreted the ray as a long dead and reincarnated friend of hers, possibly hitler, now gliding around the dark ocean floor from unknown decades ago. i've noticed i seem tospend a long time on flickr looking at strangers' vacation photos.

crazy.

I didn't even know that there was any sort of thing going on with fires or whatever it is that he alludes to. Too many 'disasters' these days... (or maybe I just have a sparse attention span when it comes to global current events).

Spanish Restaurant

So. Believe it or not, I still remember the login for this blog. Hurrah, and stuff.

Thought I might post about my evening spent restauranting Spanish style.

My prior knowledge of Spanish cuisine was pretty much the idea of Tapas (my experience of which was pretty much various breads and houmousy dip, or something similar) and piella, which I had never actually eaten. Plenty of room for correction, there, it seems.

Headed to a place in Portobello road (for those of you who know London). When we got a table, we were givin a bunch of tapas dishes (I didn't actually order these, nor actually saw the menu, so, 'approximate descriptions' ahoy...:

Squid in ink sauce
Choritzo sausage in red wine sauce
King Prawns in Garlic Sauce
Meat Balls
Octopus (Slices of tentacles with with paprika and maybe something else)
Thin slices of some sort of cured bacon/ham
Battered calamari rings (the best I've ever had, ie: not at all chewy)
Some sort of tuna pastry slice thing
Green peppers with some sort of dressing (not actually hot, interestingly, but quite a bitter aftertaste...).
Potatoe pancakey thingies (someone said they might be thick potato tortillas?)

After munching on these, of the 20 or so of us about 3 ppl were keen to actually have a main. Noone had dessert.

Good impressions.