in rome.
hi.
you know, i’ve been to rome a few times, but i’ve never done the good, touristy stuff. so we have a quasi-day-off on sunday and i’m thinking that i might go do some touristy stuff.
by ‘quasi-day-off’ i mean that i only have a few interviews and a flight to vienna. so a fairly light day by promo-tour standards.
but wouldn’t that be fun? to do touristy things in rome? you know, lunch with the pontiff, dinner with cicciolina. the usual stuff. did you ever see those pictures that jeff koons took of he and cicciolina enjoying each others, uh, intimate company?
i loved them. and i loved looking at them in a stuffy art gallery with the gallery patrons trying hard not to be shocked. and they were pretty graphic photos. jeff koons might not be an art world darling any more, but i still think that some of his work is remarkable.
the giant flower sculpture at the viennese bienalle was outstanding. and michael and bubbles. was it the viennese bienalle?
wait! how can i ask questions like that? see, there goes the street-cred, right out the window. ‘what street cred?’ i hear you asking.
do you think that the singer from nickleback is concerned about whether jeff koons showed an amazing flower sculpture at the viennese bienalle? no. he knows how to preserve his street cred. even if his hair is a little big suspect. eh, at least he has hair.
one amazing thing about being in rome is the everpresent sense of ancient history. you’re driving from a tv studio to the hotel and you’re thinking about herb powell (homers brother) and suddenly you’re driving under an aqueduct that was constructed thousands of years ago. or you’re driving to a spaghetti restaurant thinking about jeff koons and cicciolina and suddenly there’s the colliseum.
yup. lots of old stuff in rome. nice old stuff. i have such a gift with descriptive language. ‘when asked about rome moby described it as being ‘full of nice, old stuff”
the aqueducts are my favourite part of rome.
bye for now,
moby