So many things have happened on this corner, over the last few years. This/that corner in one of my favourite cities. Stuff like this: one time I was having this affair on that street, and all we'd do all day/night long is have sex and drink coffee. Then we'd play checkers or chess and fuck (up) again. Until I ran away one day to Vienna, disappeared, and fell in love. Oh, yes, and I drove my Trabant up and down the streets of both of those towns. That's punk. Wrote a song that went, "I'm in love with a girl who's name I can't pronounce." Another as-of-yet-un-recorded gems. There was a bit of drama when another girl hunted me down and I came out on the street in a bath-robe, and told her that this was really NOT the right time. She slumped away, but now we're really good friends. She dances to Goa music on weekends. All these people are just living on student stipends, and just barely going to class. If that isn't Heaven!? And the mayor of this town is to have said, "Our city is broke ... but unbelievably sexy!" Another time I called a politician friend of mine in LA, from a pay-phone on the very same corner (wow, those things are goin' outta style!) and yelled, right before one of those phoney american elections, "Death to the 2-party system!" I am absolutely sure that shit is on tape, in some shadowey file somewhere. Urgh! But I stand by my words. We need mo choices, people! Then there was that overcast saturday way-back-when when I had breakfast at that cafe with my all-time SECOND FAVOURITE drummer (after Matt Chamberlain) with his kids, too, I think. Ratt-a-tatt. Another time I randomly bumped into a long lost friend from far away (walking down the same street) and they let me use their phone. To call whom, I cannot recall. Fast forward to the present: a few nights ago ... Ooooh ... what a delicious kiss ... we were kissing right in front of said phone booth, in a passionate embrace, and it was so strong that we knocked our beer over. Crash! And right at that moment a guy walked by and said, "But it really WAS worth it, right?" That was some funny shit! And true ...
And so, greetings to you all from a seedy internet cafe, somewhere near my favourite street in one of my favourite cities.
And someone said to me recently, "I really like the stuff you write - but sometimes it's so ambiguous - you seldom say what city, time, or place it is ..." "That's true," I replied ... Peace, -Todd
Posted by calico at July 12, 2006 05:49 AM