Crab!
June 22, 2007 at 12:30 pm
I escaped last week for a couple of days on the beach. Eventhough I’m against tanning and sunbathing, those days at the beach were fortifying and refreshing. I spent most of my days in quiet reflection, thinking of everrything and nothing, walking barefoot wherever I went, feeling the combination of wood, sand, rock and grass beneath my feet was nothing short of exhilirating.
When diving into the sea I was also quiet, diving in, pretending I was fish (literally closing my eyes and pretending I was a fully colored fish), looking for flat rocks for skipping on the ocean surface and ocassionally getting a jolt whenever a piece of seaweed would rub against me making me think of a horrible jelly fish causing a painful burning rash. The waves were small, which was perfect for me, because I hate having sand in my bathing suit. When the sun would rise high in the noon sky, I would retire under a tree to read and listen to whatever tunes 
my ipod would spit out. It’d been years since I last visited sandy shores one of the main reasons, well, work and my aversion to tanning but I have to say, the beach, can be paradise and I’d forgotten that… there’s something about being semi-naked and barefoot all day that just makes you feel more you. I turned off my cellphone and felt completely untraceable…beautiful. After a day on the beach, in the late afternoon I would jog my heart out alone feeling all of my ailments and heart-opressing emotions just melt off with every drop of sweat, fall off with every rock I jumped and every crab I chased. At night I would go out on a night-safari with only one objective in mind, harassing and chasing every single crab I could find and try to find the biggest hermit crab I could, it was like being 10 years old again!
So I’m back here now making my last post for the summer… my computer’s CD\DVD driver just crashed and I’ve gotta send it for repair back at HP headquarters in the US so that is gonna leave me out of business for a while, plus, I leave for Beijing for three weeks on Saturday, so my next post can be expected to land somewhere in late July.
I want to make this an interactive post, you will find the songs below just like any other post, but there are also 4 little pictures which contain surprise songs, you can download ‘em like you would any other song on the blog.
1. Wild Beasts -Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants
(Brave Bulging Buoyant, 2006)
2. Trolle Siebenhaar - Sweet Dogs
(Sweet Dogs, 2007)
3. EBB - Keep or nothing
(Loona, 2006)
4. Markus Guentner - Never Want To Stop Playing That Game
(Lovely Society, 2006)
5. Carlos Gardel - Sus Ojos Se Cerraron
(16 Exitos Vol. 2, 1989)
6. Gabin - Bang Bang To The Rock ‘N’ Roll
(Mr. Freedom, 2004)
7. Caetano Veloso - Lost In The Paradise
(Caetano Veloso, 1969)
NYC: For lunch, wander north into the perpetually shrinking Little Italy (which is surrounded by the perpetually growing Chinatown) for some real New York pizza. It’s best to avoid Little Italy’s restaurant-laden main drag, Mulberry Street—unless you like over-priced, unsatisfying Italian-American food. Instead, try Lombardi’s (on Spring Street between Mulberry and Mott Streets). The pizzas are cooked in an ancient coal oven and are arguably the city’s best. (
Berlin: To experience some authentic old-fashioned warm Berlin hospitality, not to mention some great rib-sticking traditional dishes, dive into the dark depths of the cellar restaurant Grossbeerenkeller. With dark oak furniture and antlers adorning the walls, the setting is original to complement wholesome meals of diced pork with fries and herb sauce, or boiled salt pork and green cabbage. Owner/bartender Ingebork Zinn-Baier’s fried potatoes are said to be the best in the city. The cellar is closed Sundays and does not accept credit cards. (
It is worth waiting in line to sample the fare at Tokyo’s most renowned tonkatsu (deep fried pork) outlet. Waiters take orders while patrons queue for a spot at the well-worn Formica-topped tables, watching the hustle and bustle of the dozens of busy cooks in action. The reward is delectable treats like hirekatsu (fillet of lean pork) reishoki, or rosukatsu (loin cut), crunchy on the outside and melt-in-the-mouth tender on the inside, or perhaps a tasty kushikatsu (skewered meat with onions). Tonki is closed Tuesdays and the third Monday of every month. (
