Going to peru
7 March 2009
I'm going to Peru with my Dad, leaving in 7 hours.
I'll post some things, strictly Internet cafe, no laptop, as little computer as possible.
I've been mostly using twitter lately because it keeps me from writing these long essays that you all only read the first para of.
so I'll keep it tight, a'ight ?
my brain is over-pulsed by the attention stream of internet.
highlight in Peru for me: staying 5 nights in the rainforest at an eco-lodge. and seeing Matt Grace, a very good friend of mine who has been living in Cusco and Bolivia doing investigative journalism.
I hope its not fucking pan flutes all day long.
more posts in Peru
- chilling in cusco
Unfortunately I´ve had severe chills and headache for a few days. I spent yesterday lying comatose to try to shake it before our next adventures. Last night had dinner with Matt Grace and a bunch of his friends, mostly ex-Lima people that have moved up to Cusco. I´ve known Matt for 20 years. Really nice evening, home cooked Andean food. Talking about cumbia, heavy metal in South America. Limenos talk much faster than Cusco natives. Cusco is really beautiful, a ...
- Lima
Lima is a big South American town, sprawling like Mexico City. The buses and the repetitive concrete construction remind me of India (and I know Africa will be like that when I get there). This is most of the earth : buses, honking, dust, concrete. Compared to India, Peru is sedate and lacks the insanity of motorcycles, bicycles, and herds of rampaging black buffalos in the middle of traffic. I'm with my dad. We ate amazing food, got driven around ...
- Full index for Peru
- chilling in cusco
more posts in currently
- Video Art by satellites and turtles : its the new Auteur Theory
POV video from STS-124. No film director or composer could make anything this epic. Even Stanley Kubrick would tone it down or try to resolve it to edits and angles. The adrenaline builds, and at 2 minutes your mind beings to blow. The ending is truly beautiful, don't miss it. A camera gets lost in Aruba on November 11, 2009. A turtle finds it on January 15, 2010, films this refreshing shoegazer video and becomes a YouTube celebrity. The camera ...
- Dubstep has peaked
Google Trends "dubstep" But soon the vuvuzela will be forgotten about, right ?
- You are now entering the Republic of South Africa
From Jozi and Cape Town, South Africa 2010 Lloyd is from Zimbabwe and lives and works in George, SA. Every 3 months he goes home. His wife works in the US embassy and might go to India next year. He's trying to build his house, brick by brick, so eventually when he moves back he'll have some place to retire in. We chatted a bunch during the night bus. Lloyd is from Zimbabwe and lives and works in George, SA. ...
- Murungu in Baghdad
I must admit that while I walked across the bridge to Zimbabwe Bob Marley started playing in my head. Sunny, windy, I'm smiling to myself. But they wouldn't let me in because the visa sticker is too big for the remaining space in my passport. I walked back to Zambia; they wouldn't let me in unless Zim stamped a denial. Back to Zim. Self-important immigration guy is on break, lady wants to gossip with friends and not listen to confusing ...
- Full index for currently
- Video Art by satellites and turtles : its the new Auteur Theory

