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April 27, 2005
Europa
Let's recap since March 17...
These are the places where I have spent more than two hours (the unspoken, requisite time to have "visited" somewhere):
Edinburgh, Scotland
Stirling, Scotland
Inverness, Scotland
St. Andrews, Scotland
London, England
Paris, France
Aix-en-Provence, France
Rome, Italy
Florence, Italy
Zurich, Switzerland
Luzern, Switzerland
Munich, Germany
Salzburg, Austria
Vienna, Austria
Prague, Czech Republic
Berlin, Germany
Lund, Sweden
Stockholm, Sweden
Copenhagen, Denmark
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Brussels, Belgium
Nottingham, England
Jackson, Mississippi
Corinth, Mississippi
Oxford, Mississippi
See for yourself: Houch's Smugmug(Comments section is available and hoping)
13 countries in a little over a month. In no particular order, I'd like to thank Johnathan Keenan, Scottish cemeteries, that assclown wearing a suit in St. Andrews, Les Newsom, Maureen Rogers, Pastis (worst alcoholic drink ever), Franco, my travel book, the bastard who stole my travel book, Scottish people in Rome, Tobias and Job, Switzerland for sucking, Armin in Salzburg, stereotypically Australian guy who goes to Nottingham who I saw in Salzburg and we both recognized each other but didn't speak even though I was eating alone, the Sudbanhof, Danny Bracken, Zooey, Czech beer, the double whopper, free hostel breakfasts, Alec from Poland, Swedish girls everywhere, Christian Kjellvander (for standing in front of me the entire show, and being 6 feet, 5 inches tall, and being on a compilation CD that I unbeknowingly had), International Herald Tribune, the Eurail organization, the cream cheese danish, and train car toilets (the only place in Europe where bowel movements are free).
Furthermore, last week I realized in the past 365 days I have lived, for more than a month, in these places:
Jackson, Mississippi
Oxford, Mississippi
New York City, New York
Nottingham, England
Atlanta, Georgia (starting in June)
No wonder I have conflicting ideals - and am now rampantly consumed - with the idea of "home." It's probably because I don't have one.
In the next four and a half weeks, I have to research and compose multi-thousand word papers on the following:
- Film-watching as a theological task
- Theodor Adorno's critique of jazz and the culture industry
- New York City as a "Jewish" city
plus, a book review of "Everything is Illuminated"
If you happen to have any, say, 3000 word essays on the aforementioned, I'm willing to pay, just kidding. (No really - in cash, right now.)
Posted by houch at April 27, 2005 11:18 PM
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hay kiss my ass
Posted by: Matt Kilgore at April 28, 2005 03:23 AM
Where are you living in Atlanta, and what are you going to be doing?
Posted by: Nathan at April 29, 2005 08:30 PM
dunno if you have the time to find it, but on the first paper's topic, you need find Anker's "Catching Light." Unbelievable, really. He's a art prof from Calvin College and doing some AMAZING work in the area of film. The best yet from any Xn I've read. For what it's worth, I remain...lester
Posted by: Les Newsom at May 1, 2005 04:22 AM
And that "assclown" (ahem) still makes me laugh...did I tell you that I have the pictures? lester
Posted by: Les Newsom at May 1, 2005 04:22 AM