Monthly Archives: November 2007

No Music Day 11/21 Pattaya

November 22, 2007 – 11:19 pm

Last week Jamie Parker said that he had never seen a group of people more allergic to silence than the Thais. The TV never gets a rest. Rice farmers wake to loudspeakers blaring crop prices. Dogs howl without an owner’s restraining smack and karaoke bars punish neighbors with painful renditions of Isaan love songs way past dawn. And I’ve never […]

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Good-Bye Mia Noi

November 18, 2007 – 11:47 pm

Luis Bunuel the surrealist Spanish film director said, “First you get married and then you find somone with whom you can be unfaithful.” My wife and I have been together over five years. You can divine the health of a relationship by how close you sleep together. The distance between our bodies is about a […]

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Retirement Visa Jomtien

November 18, 2007 – 11:45 pm

My age is closer to 80 than 20. In other words over 50 and I don’t care how much people say today’s 50 is yesteryear’s 40. The face in the mirror has little resemblance to that of my youth. Girls at the bar sometimes call me ‘Papa’. 50 is 50. At least I’m not bald […]

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Isaan Beer – Cheap and Local for NE Thailand

November 13, 2007 – 11:57 pm

After my drinking partner, Nick, returned to the Land of the Teabags aka the UK, my bar visits shrunk from a daily occurence to once a week. Not much fun drinking on your own, since AA deems solitary drinking as a sure indication of having crossed the line from drunk to alcoholic. I might qualify for several other […]

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GHB Chinese Toys

November 13, 2007 – 7:17 am

Dee Dee Ramone and Richard Hell wrote CHINESE ROCKS in 1976 to outdo Lou Reed’s elegiac HEROIN. The song soon became Johnny Thunder’s and the Heartbreakers’ showstopper. While Tom Petty and his Heartbreakers have sold millions of LPs and CDs, neither the Ramones’ nor Johnny Thunders’ versions of CHINESE ROCKS got any AM airplay. Its omission from the Top Ten can […]

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