Ambulance, by TV on the Radio, live.
Great song, fantastic arrangement, cool video, really interesting band. They sing with imperative and authority that makes me really enjoy them. Also totally unique: I haven't heard anything like them elsewhere.
As always, the littlest things make me the happiest. It's spring now, and spring is nice (though fall is still my favourite). I'm reading the third draft of my best friend's novel, and it's friggin' good, and I'm doing the third draft revisions on my own novella, as well as the two plays I wrote last year; soon they'll be ready to put into circulation.
Meanwhile, I've said it before, but I love this about Seoul: behind the main street of Jongno, there's a little back-alley network full of little mom and pop restaurants and winding "head-in-there-drunk-and-you'll-never-find-your-way-out" pathways and things.



by the way: I named the the picture above "alleyotherside," which sounds like a great name for the protagonist of a children's book. I love good names. "Alley Otherside" is a winner.
Check the end of the handrail here, above Chunggye Stream in downtown Seoul -- the little stuff you notice out the corner of your eye. . .


Anyway, this creative disposal method make me snicker, even if the principle behind it is kind of. . . whatever you call the opposite of civic-minded.
But even when something like that chokes me up, all it takes to cheer me up again. . .

One for the "blog" of "unnecessary" quotation marks.

I found these comics, uncredited, on a random website, and liked them. . . but I wish I knew who to blame for their awesomeness. If any of my readers recognizes the style, or can connect me with the source, please let me know! Meanwhile. . . topical. I like these ones. Especially after all my harping on moral authority on this blog in the last year.




If you don't like the "F" word, don't look at these next two pictures, but they sure made ME laugh out loud.
Actual shop sign I saw in Itaewon (and you know it's me because who else posts such bad quality pictures from his dumb cameraphone?)

His mom probably went out and said "My son's going to an English afterschool academy; maybe I should get him some English-language T-shirts so he'll fit in."
(found this in a collection of random, submitted photos from a "crazy konglish koreans" facebook group.)



This shop seems empty, it looks like it's been empty for a while.


Meanwhile, I'm a happy cat, generally. Send your good wishes and prayers out to Girlfriendoseyo, as she's in a stressful time at work; a slowly souring situation just started quickly souring, and we hope we can make the best of it, but that means she'll be pretty busy for a little while, and poor old Roboseyo will have to gather scraps of time togetheroseyo where he can, until things are back stable again.
Another simple pleasure for this simple mind:

Lindt 70% dark chocolate (milk-free, and therefore non deadlyoseyo for me and my milk allergy) is available at Starbucks (which also serves soy milk, still the only coffee shop to do so in Seoul, and therefore recipient of my dogged loyalty, despite being a global conglomerate and therefore the antichrist, and despite spreading like a virus in downtown Seoul). Get the dark, bitter chocolate for 1500 won, and then a caramel maquillado (maybe with an extra espresso shot if it's too sweet on its own, and soy milk for the allergy, if you're me) for [more than I'd like to admit paying for a single drink of anything less than Guinness, or a Belgian lager], and sip the maquillado while you have a bit of chocolate in your mouth: the bitter rich chocolate gets molten by the hot sweet maquillado and makes a tasty combination. It's like a liquid tootsie roll, with caffeine! Really, how could it get better than that, short of giving you really awesome dreams the night after drinking it, where you can breathe underwater, or fly, or grow into a giant with ninja skills and get back at Jason Moesker for picking on you in grade school!
Sorry. No pictures of my lindt chockillado: tastes just don't translate into pictures. . . though you gotta see how they use image and sound to explain tastes in the pixar movie Ratatouille, my favourite, and possibly the best, movie of 2007 (in my opinion). Couldn't find a clip of that, but I recommend you go see it.
later!
6 comments:
I just about died laughing at the picture of the "lovely" store, so much that I caught the attention of my toddler, who stood beside me and laughed as well. He has no idea, but it was pretty funny. You just made my day, Rob!
Melissa
Hi there! If this is the melissa I think it is, well, welcome to my blog! If it isn't, welcome anyway, and it's good to see you here!
Glad you enjoyed the pictures; the one of the kid is the one that made me whoop in disbelief.
I hope I didn't upset any of my other five readers (do my grandparents still come here regularly?) -- that's one of the dangers of enjoying outrageous shock humour. I also can't use it in my conversation class, though I have a coworker who giggles at jokes that go over the line, the grosser the better.
Thanks for stopping by!
If I am the Melissa you're thinking of .. I am? That makes no sense. I'm sure you know which one I am :)
I've actually been lurking around your blog for a bit now. I like what you write, it makes me think or it makes me laugh, and that's a good thing.
Happy Easter!
Melissa
See, I have so many friends named Melissa it's a little weird (a Melissa E [formerly R] a Melissa V [formerly S] a Melissa T [formery Y], a Melissa F, and those are only my Melissa friends on Facebook; Melissa S/V has a toddler and comments here frequently, and I know Melissa Y/T has a toddler. . . but I guess my attempts at being cryptic failed miserably.
I was guessing that you're Melissa Y/T, but for all I know you could be a totally different Melissa (I'm sure there are more on the internet whom I've never met).
I'd make a terrible mystic gatekeeper; I'd word all my riddles badly and have to let people through for free.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpx6XnankZ8
once again, thanks for stopping by and saying hi! Glad you like the site.
Melissa Y/T :)
You were correct.
Actually, now that I've looked over my post again, I think I may have been the one to word things badly - I've never been good with words. Sorry about that and thanks for being patient with me!
Melissa, now known as Y/T! :)
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