Italians

Was just in Italy for a little tour of the south. The place is a paradise and I can finally understand why their churches are so ornate - after all, their God obviously has a sense for aesthetic beauty.

Sadly, the towns we went into were almost empty. Not the thriving tourist hub it was in healthier years.

Southern Italy is a pretty straightforward place - things are black and white there... There's a God, don't piss him off. There's a mafia, don't piss them off. Simple enough.

Marlon Brando

What happened to the insane, over the top actor that is always getting in shit but gives a killer performance every time? The type that smashes his Ferrari while having sex with an underage midget that's his cousin who just got out of rehab. For fuck sakes, singers don't even overdose anymore.

The show business is losing its "show" and it's got plenty to do with the entourages of psychologists and life-coaches that are keeping these putz's out of trouble. What happened to the days when entourages started the fight? Where did all the mad genius' go?

Journalism

For those of you that can't get enough of my wonderful writing, today I had an article published in the new online magazine THE MARK. The site is currently in "BETA", which I think means they're still working the bugs out or they haven't got a DVD player yet.

I submitted the article in March and just heard from the editor yesterday asking me to review their fixes, which completely sucked ass. They took out my best sentence about the homosexual arsonist and put in a few type-o's which I had to correct. I'm not exactly old hat at the publishing business, but doesn't it go the other fucking way around?

Anyway, here's the link:

http://beta.themarknews.com/articles/169-the-attach-enigma

Adumb

When I met Adumb about ten years ago, the first thing he told me is that pretty much everything in life is like a river and all you gotta do is just flow with that shit. Strangely sage words from a man that likes to pull minivans with his ears, like in the clip below...

Ghandi

Had some Indian food here last night. Not good. Wasn't even spicy. How the eff is that possible? Had a similar experience with Chinese food, which are strangely all super high end restaurants - as if chicken balls are some kind of exotic delicacy. Probably boils down to the fact there are zero point zero immigrants here and even the ones that can't cook for shit open a restaurant.

Beer Guy

Is there a better drink than vodka-soda? It refreshes and hydrates as it intoxicates. What a thoughtful beverage. Thank you vodka-soda for an excellent weekend.

Love beer, but how the hell it's as popular as it is, confounds. Doesn't the taste get a bit much after a few? Doesn't the sheer volume of consumption required hint to anyone that maybe they should step up their operation to a more potent libation? Or do people like to constantly sip away like babies at the tit?

Matt

Devastated by what happened in The Netherlands yesterday. If you don't know, some guy drove his car through a crowd of people celebrating the biggest holiday of the year, Queen's Day. He killed five people, critically injured a bunch more and late last night, he succumbed to his wounds. If you haven't seen the footage, don't. It's too much to see people experience the radical shift from celebration to the purest form of pain.

Instead, I include below WHERE THE HELL IS MATT?



Have a great weekend.