Topic: Discovering London - London??

"These little town blues, are melting away -
I'll make a brand new start of it - in old new york
If I can make it there, I'll make it anywhere
Its up to you - new york, neeeeew yoooooooork
I want to wake up in a city, that never sleeps - And find I'm a number one - TATA - top of the list - YEA - king of the hill - YAY - A NUMBER ONE!
new york neeeeeeew yoooooork

Frankieboy "I swing the world" Sinatra

Yay - this time not discovering London but good old New Amsterdam. Couple of days ago already. But anyway. Taking the opportunity of a super cheap flight (Amercian Airlines - although you get what you pay for...) managed to get x-rayed, examinated, enquired and so on by a - actually quite friendly - US customs girl (Mexican I assumed). And off we go. Visiting some fantastic friends, one of whom I haven't seen for two years, and spending some great days.

The three monkeys - see nothing, hear nothing, say nothing...







It's definitively cooler to cruise around Manhattan in a BMW convert than a tourist bus. Thanks Maged for driving us around! At least besides all this shopping and loads of food I had a little bit of sightseeing...just a little...

Basically the days consisted of shopping, shopping, taking the NY subway which is kind of cool but definitively not modern (every Londoner that complains about the tube should spend a weekend in NY...the Londoner tube seems to be a superhypertechnological onehundred percent reliable transport system of the 23rd century...)

But I have to admit, the NY sub does have it's nice sides too...:-)))

Oh, And had quite some booze too. Saturday evening somewhere in Brooklyn. Karaote-Bar. Couple of beers and you suddenly hear Christine and Thomas singing...well, kind of...hehe, sorry you both. And met this nice little chap. Not really my type, but he was kind of cute and fulfilled absolutely my prejudice on how a real american has to look like...
And eating. Portions so huge, I somehow can understand my ridiculously high BMI (see previous blog entry...). And definitively understand, why you are shivering, when you are sitting in your economy class seat on the way back and 175 kilos roll towards you... Some spanish food (that didn't exist anymore when we arrived...) a sunday brunch (well, I would call it lunch - but here we go: american style if it's on a sunday it's a brunch), excellent northafrican/middle eastern (??) in a place freezing cold (definitively not like in northafrica), once (and only once!!!) McDonalds and one of the best ice cream I ever had. Oh, and did I mention already? Shopping. Went there with an empty suitcase (literally) and came back with a full one (Don't tell the customs. Thanks...). Actually wanted to buy some cheap Levis 501 but ended with buying the most fucking expensive jeans I ever bought in my life...

Short: some amazing days with Christine, Michael, Thomas and Maged. Thanks again folks:-)))










And at the end: "It's so fucking political" (Miss "shaved head" Skunk Anansie)

Thanks to this nice little bar in New York - more precise - Christopher Street, we do have some nice parties around the world nowadays. But as I said it's actually quite political. The CSD is held in memory of the first big uprising of homosexuals and other minorites against police assaults that took place in New York's Christopher Street in Greenwich Village on June 27, 1969. The so-called Stonewall Riots took place in the bar Stonewall Inn. Since then we're partying. Thanks NYPD....


And - not to miss - for today's lyrics (which have absolutely nothing to to with New York):

Do you sometimes feel like you've been used and abused
Your not visibly black and blue but on the inside bruised
And does your love life leave you feeling kinda bemused
You've played all the games And you're no longer amused

Do you count the flakes
When it snows
And can you feel the heat
Or only the afterglows
Do you count the flakes
When it snows

Snowflakes - Just Jack