spanish and tea

I met this couple from Spain last night, they were rather fat and funny looking but hell of a nice bunch of people. They also bitched about the Bengali tourists and told me to head to Rajastan... a land of palaces and color as, according to them, thats where the gitanos are originally from.

They gave me some good travel pointers too. But speaking spanish, english and nepali all in the same place drove my head into a vaccuum of confusion and dumb.

This morning I had to poop and I forgot to turn on the hot water heater. Another great wake up call of arcticly cold water up your ass.

Sonam is expanding her restaurant, which means cool shiny glass windowed place for her... less food for me. It is gonna look sweet though.

I'm almost done planning this damn film. I've gotten tons of good panoramas and random shots. Now I have to get into the details.

I'm doing research on tea online and writing one of these every few minuts when i get bored.

people are wierd. There's this ridiculous obsession with hair gel everywhere i've been for th last month.

Norms are a funny thing. People tell me all the time that things are not "normal" but who decided what was normal? and for whom? People are so blind to think the world is so black and white, that there is some univrsal acceptance of certain things that has existed everywhere and for all time. WRONG. biznatch! lets take some examples: women in subserviant positions... well, there have been noted cultures that were matriarchal, meaning led by women, where men were the subserviant, submissive tenders and women were rulers and the fighters. Before a certain period in england, it was very common for women to have jobs... then it wasn't, now it is again. hmm Normal? which one? how about christianity: guess what, lots of christians love to talk about the "early days of the church" when the followers of jesus were "persecuted and martyred" why? because they were a CULT, a wierd abnormal cult they thought was going to destroy their culture. Now its normal. Homosexuals? not natural? actually it has been frequently documentd among animals other than humans, but only those that have sex for pleasure (which ar like 3 or 4) and it has been pretty much scientifically demonstrated as a biological normality. Even if it were a choice, it is only curcial to point to ancient greece and rome, or especially macedonia... alex the great, like him? well he probably fucked aristotle and this other guy who was basically his life long partner but has a ridiculously wierd name. Yea it was common practice, normal in many senses for young men who liked it to enjoy it. In fact, if you didn't it was a little wierd. So even if it were a choice... not always been abnormal. Hmm.. eating lobster? not even 150 years ago was that as disgusting as eating a cockroach.. which is also normal in places like Thailand. How about clothing and loving your dog or cat as if it were a person becasue you are a lonely and pathertic human being who is scared to have real relationships. I still find that abnormal but I am not lobbying to make that creepy behavior uncostitutional. How about the fact that for about 80 percent of America's very short history it was normal for pople to think of black people as not human, as well as to enslave them. Or while everyone in america is like abortion this and that, fetus rights and yadda yadda, plenty of places in the world and people don't have a moral or dramatic issue with it. It simply just is. It has also been considered normal: for men and warriors to wear skirts, ie kilts; for men to not cut their hair unless they mean to disown their family; to kill one's child if it is female; to drink one's own piss every morning as medicine; to give ber to your children; to hav orgies as religious ceremonies; to dance naked outside; to only have sex for reproduction and nver for pleasure; to not choose your spouse; to get married at 13; etc.etc.etc.

Point? be careful when you want to say somthing is wrong because it is no normal or natural... probably is actually, in fact almost everything is both normal and natural. Find some good facts to base your criticisms on and then we can have a good debate.