Jamming with Bob in Malaysia – VIDEO
Bob and I got invited to play a couple of songs at a local cultural festival last weekend. I made an effort to look as Malaysian as possible but I had a bit of trouble working out how to wear my skirt properly…
Bob and I got invited to play a couple of songs at a local cultural festival last weekend. I made an effort to look as Malaysian as possible but I had a bit of trouble working out how to wear my skirt properly…
Indian fruit is so much better than Australian fruit. Grow better fruit Australia!
The Scots in our group are tickled pink I brought a slab of Edinburgh beer to a Czeck wine festival…
My body is all like “we’re staying up late and having fun”. Except now I just want to catch up on my sleep. No dice. “Wake up mother fucker” yells my pituitary gland…
By coincidence, it happens to be festival time in Edinburgh… one of the most famous and popular arts festivals in the world. Weirdos from every corner of the planet are here; comedians, drag queens, burlesque dancers – even a few bloggers…
Last night I witnessed Lil Wayne do a big mic drop on stage at the High Times Cup.
He got booed by some of the crowd!
People party for days, get drunk, run around in the streets chasing each other with water guns, but it’s all good humored. There’s no sense of malice. People are respectful of each other…
As I started festival-hopping, I got into the “scene of crazy people”… Instead of spending all their money on a car or on public transport, they would just hitchhike everywhere…
I hear something move a few metres away. A crackle of shifting twigs. It’s closer now, just on the other side of the tree. I whirl around the trunk, spear ready…
…Ouma insists I taste the brain, and the eyes, so I take a deep breath and… it’s delicious. Seems like anything Ouma’s mum cooks is good. Now I’ve eaten brain I feel like a real adventurer. Or maybe a zombie… Ouma invites us to spend Eid Al Adha with her family in Fez. We are…
The madness begins with the “Festa Major” day parade, a.k.a. the “almost blowing small children’s heads off parade…”