August 25, 2002
weed and sewer-reek
Have now "scoped the place" and "picked up the vibe." Not really. Was walking around with Tim until about 2:00 when we finally parted ways. We were boring each other...we both came alone for a reason (I assume in his case) so now's not the time to go back on yourself and play latch-on. I don't know who latched on to whom but we need to sever this freakin umbilical cord and go it alone.
About the city: streets even smaller than Munich, radial plan even more confusing. Presence of water canals everywhere probably responsible. (Like any other city, apartments line the street, but unlike most, what I take to be the personal boats of the residents line the canals. Wonder if people take the boat to work in the morning. Are there water-traffic jams? Boat stop lights?) Strange smells, the two most common ones being weed and sewer-reek. Sometimes you smell weed and sewer-reek together.
Found Korsakoff (an alternative club). Will go there tonight or tomorrow night. But right now there's a lot of interesting people on the street (I'm in the center of Amsterdam not too far from the Red Light District) including drug pushers, prostitues, pimps, stoners, rastas, etc. Going to go check it and get a bigass piece of bread to eat.
Posted by Alan at August 25, 2002 01:42 PM