Posts Tagged as ‘latvia’

November 13, 2008

Travelling – The Agony and Ecstasy

My dream
Is to fly
Over de rainbow
So high

No, actually that’s Yves La Rock’s dream (and my bloody nightmare as, in Egypt, they still think that this trick is new and interesting when everyone else stopped playing it six months ago).
My dream is that, one day, I will be able to find a [...]

September 14, 2008

Music and Me (For the Love of House)

Not everyone understands house music
It’s a spiritual thing
A body thing
A soul thing
A soul thing

Eddie Amador – House Music
At the start of 2007, I started ‘the search for the perfect girlfriend’ – an exercise which was undertaken with military precision.  Step one was to lose some weight as I had porked up [...]

September 11, 2008

Music and Me (Kolja – The Old Raver)

Back to talking music bollocks now …
In the summer of 2004, I already knew that my marriage was in its death throes and I also needed to make some more friends, so I started dabbling in internet dating.  Being an internet marketer by trade and having the novelty factor of being one of the few [...]

September 11, 2008

Music and Me (Riga – Midlife Crisis)

My soon-to-be-ex-wife thought that Riga was a shithole – “just a backwards part of Russia” and “Bratislava after the Second World War” was how she described it.
But no sooner had I entered the minimalistic stripped pine interior of Riga airport, I could tell that this was going to be a cool place.  Prague had become [...]