TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Saturday, February 22, 2003

12:50 AM
Posted by jodi rose

cobra
see, I don't usually like stating my plans or intentions, as they so easily go awry, change midstream, are forgotten or get diverted into some new and exciting permutation. But I did say I wanted to see more live music this year, and tonight was the beginning. thomas's band the ultimonts, (sp?) named after the famed ultimont speedway at which a rolling stones concert went so spectacularly awry, delivered a great retro new york 80's garage rock set, in the incongruous setting of the old colonial sports bar on brunswick st. I could so easily see them playing in one of those parking lot gigs in brooklyn that were happening when I was there - all that hype about the liars and the yeah yeah yeahs, white stripes, strokes, vines - you just never know what you'll find when you go out. I received some dietary advice which has left me flummoxed - from sophie, the meat evangelist - eat more meat, being a vegetarian is bad for you; and from nick, whose mother studied osteoperosis in women - eat more dairy, you need the calcium. I countered with my best vegan/liver cleansing/ new weekly hollywood diet plan propaganda, but they both stood firm. Eat whatever you want, philippa told me - but what if what I want is chocolate moosse 4 times a day? you won't, they said.
Still recovering from this onslaught, we popped into the cobra bar above the tote hotel - another extremely strange juxtaposition of venue, to enquire about a birthday drinks scenario for philippa. the place is a fantastic shrine to exotic kitsch, with 40's bellydancing films playing, bamboo walls and sexy cobra lady icons in a variety of guises all over the bar - lamps, vases, posters - gorgeous. see, you never know where the night will take you.
And I made another bridge today - this one of plasticine, (upmarket italian art modelling clay, I should say!) which was much easier to shape being as how it didn't set while I was working it, and resulted in a far more sophisticated feat of gumby engineering. so you never know, I may be able to pull this idea off after all. Also sourced a perspex dome and the greeting cards I need, now just a matter of bringing it all together in one fabulous art moment. late now, time for bed again. nothing but sleep sleep sleep.