brandon in budapest

Funny conversation I had with my friend Anita in gumi on friday:
"Hey, so why did you send that pic to Pep to use in their story on gumipop?"
"What story? What pic?"
"It's the one you took of Dora and I wearing glasses. I don't like how i look."
"Oh, well i remember taking the photo but i didn't know what is this story or why they would use it... no one contacted me about it"
"Oh, well there is a story on gumipop and a big pic of me for it"
"Ah, okay well i don't know what to say, i knew nothing about it. Is there a copy of the magazine somewhere?"
"I think so"
-- 30 second pause --
"So, why did you send that photo to Pep because i look bad..."

Having not sent a pic anywhere, at this point i just had to smile and realized it was time to investigate. And holy shit i'll be damned if there it is as the lead story pic, one of my shots taken of Anita and Dora! What can i say Anita now being post-facto there's not much i can do. If it's any consolation the story they did with me is all in Hungarian so i can only half-understand what quotes are being attributed ;)

However this story brings to mind another story. A couple years ago old friend Marc's dad passed away. Marc's dad, Ed, was a very very small chinese man who owned a very very large pair of Italian sunglasses made in the 1970s. On my last visit to SF i asked i could borrow them long term. Marc said okay, and since that time i realized they've covered a lot of miles! (and were in the photo which was used in the Pep story, worn by Dora) So, Marc, a little collage on where your late Dad's sunnies have ended up...





And i retardedly forgot to take them on a few trips otherwise there would be more. No worries, though, soon enough. Let's just consider them our version of the gnome from Amelie. :)

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Last weekend everything seemed to be re-opening. Plus Liz was in town! Go check what it looked like!

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After seeing a movie at my local cinema i decide on a lark to take the tram home as opposed to my usual walk. However the tram creeps along at a pace slower than walking and takes 15 minutes to get to the next stop. I get out only to be surrounded by a small horde of guys wearing tracksuits and bad cologne, a few of them had been walking slowly along the tram line. They were heading in the direction of Blaha Lujza ter, which made sense considering the BBC report about night two of the shit going down in bpest.

In other news, not that i would ever be caught dead holding one (memory of keeping the Prague version underneath a table to avoid been seen with)... but, hey, my first appearance in one. Thanks Steve for the shout out in the new LP budapest! (No doubt he was taken with my advice on avoiding guys in tracksuits and bad cologne)

And finally, i don't know why it took me several months to stumble upon, but the Killed by Death record blog has me almost literally shitting my pants... SO MUCH juicy good post-punkness.

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Hi! So if you didn't already know, come out to Vittula (kertesz u. 4) for its re-opening party! I'll be on the decks from 9pm until i'm too sleepy. Then, tomorrow night it's the gumipop re-opening party, for which the flyer i made for fun seems to be popping up all over the place.

Also, a couple of picture updates... A little catwalking in early september, and then last weekend spent in Prague.

Szia this weekend!

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Okay brown camo baseball hats and puffy zip sweaters are not really my style, and boy does it show... behold the face of uninspiration... i call it my "rusty blue steel" look ;)

In slightly more amusing news, hipsterotica is giving me quite the chuckle. I'm not sure how many more entries he/she can do before it starts to feel tired, but in the meantime i'll take the yuks. It's kinda like if Bret Easton Ellis wrote super short soft porn novellas.

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Dearest Freaks,
For those in bp who want to see me literally falling asleep on a catwalk, come on down to Tuzrakter tonight at 8pm i'll be doing some clothes modeling. Why falling asleep? Well, getting there a few hours in advance means running straight after work, which means...uh huh, NO NAP.

Oh, the sacrifices.

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