It was not intentional, it was talk-over-sushi with the kiddo, the only current person I know that is still up to be amazed.
So I came home feeling like doing a reality check. Too many things that might well belong to a sitcom/movie/Kafka book/Venezuelan telenovela have happened to me and I keep them as small memories that make me smile, but I do not realise often that they sound... weird.
I love making lists, so here's my first share of 'life is like a movie':
- Once in an airplane, I sat by the side of a Serbian DJ who stole his friend's grandma sleeping pills to knock himself out through the 11-hour flight.
- I have been in an ambulance, going full-speed against traffic in one of Mexico's main streets.
- I met a Brazilian girl with the only 30 cms tattoo that I consider tasteful (it was the silhouette of Matahari).
- I have been inside of a 'Chaika' for some minutes (the Chaika is the big 50s car used by the Communist big shots during the Cold War).
- I saw the head of a camel in a market of Casablanca hanging upside-down.
- My great-grandfather had the gun of Sandino. It was a gift.
- A Danish soldier took me and Alicia to 'number eight', a members-only underground club in Copenhagen. I was completely out of posh-ness... and out of place.
- On December 2006, I sat on my party dress at the bridge in Christiania (hippie commune) and drank an elephant beer. It was 5 a.m. That was the day when I actually met Mike.
- Lynda and I used to have lunch by the sea. Just like that. Have a sandwich and go back to the real world.
- Buddha Bar in Beirut. Still dreaming on that night.
- I was in Swaziland just one week after the birthday of the king - he had just picked a new wife (damn!).
- The best gin and tonic of my life was made with local tonic water (quinine included). It was in Malawi right before Madonna put it on the map.
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