The New World
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 26 May 2009
By: Dan Bowen
The Experience Music Project was pretty good, mainly because upstairs they had all these interactive instruments which were basically real instruments modified to tutor you how to play. I spent hours bashing away on the drums and more working on my blues guitar solos with scales. I got my money’s worth that’s for sure.
The entry fee also got you into the Sci-fi Museum which was pretty well done but although I like science fiction I’m not a huge fan so I only spent about 10 minutes there.
$16 just to go up a lift seemed like a lot so I passed on the Space Needle which was the other attraction I was planning on visiting today, it’s not actually that tall anyway, practically a midget in American terms.
I’m at that festival again but I can’t really be bothered with it now, I’m getting a bit freaked out by the quantity of clearly mentally unstable people in close proximity. I’ve just had my tea (chicken tikka masala from the Indian stand) so I might leave it there.
The amount of beggars in The States is starting to disgust me, I’m sure plenty of them have genuine reasons but plenty more are clearly not homeless and are just after something for nothing. Some of them look like they haven’t missed a meal in decades and more often than not have 2nds. Do one.
I’m booked on the half 7 train to Vancouver tomorrow, so with the buses involved to get to the station I’ll have to be up about half 5. Booooo!
My next destination will have me in a whole new country. I’m like Neil Armstrong I am, only without the spacesuit and moon buggy. Actually, I’m nothing like Neil Armstrong. Judith Chalmers maybe.
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