Pittsburgh

ok just to warn you now im writing this while watching a repeat of the mtv awards. Some one from high school musical 3 has just beaten frida pinto to best breakthrough female performance – i mean is there no justice in this world? so yes just to warn you in case of interjections. Im in pittsburgh at the moment in my uncles very handsome house. actually im going to have to hurry up and upload some photos just so i can show off because the view is amazing. i like pittsburgh a lot. its very blue collar and down to earth with layers upon layers of industrial architecture. theres also an excellent contemporary arts scene, probably because its so cheap here. actually it reminds me a bit of berlin before it got posh. back in the day they called pittsburgh the birmingham of america. i think that’s a bit harsh.

theres an art gallery called the mattress factory which is apparently the best contemporary art gallery in the country. i can believe it. there was a piece that involved the viewer sitting in almost pitch black room for 15 minutes. i think i was there longer as my perception of time passing is not great. have you ever sat in pitch darkness? its weird because you cant actually see anything but you can kind of sense theres some space out there and if you move your hand you cant see your hand but you can just aboiut sense there something moving. the whole space just seem to undulate around you n(ok mtv update: robert patterson, actually quite hot. is that wrong? also eminems performance looks like hes just going through the motions probably because hes thinking how much he could do with some diazepam. Sorry is that bad taste) hey so yes after that experience i was just tripped out by everything i saw so i cant really give you a decent account. there was some neat site-specific work though. also in that area is this crazy house that has been painted and decorated all over. google randyland, pittsburgh. I met randy – he was intense.

everyone is sports mad in pittsburgh. at the moment the hockey team has some important games and even the buses bare the legend lets go pens (will farrell what are you doing?). the team being called the penguins. ice hockey is a bit weird anyway. They sort of play tests like in cricket so it all goes on for days. they have the pennsylvania sports museum here too but i wasn’t brave enough to bare it. speaking of pennsylvania i think i saw an amish on the bus! obviously greyhound buses count as pre-industrial methods of transportation. (oohoh ive just witness the infamous sacha baran cohen/eminem moment – totally a set up) . anyway lots of things were invented in pittsburgh. heres a list of some of them; the polio vaccination, steal rope, commercial aluminium production, commercial glass production, modern train brakes, czecheslovakia, heinz 57 varities. the 57 was just plucked from the middle of nowhere by the way.

my new guilty pleasure is paris hiltons new bff. have you seen the way she walks? its incredible. (argh ive just witnessed lyanne rymes murder i jizzed in my pants. murder i tell you murder)