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February 18, 2003
pupusas, the best street food ever
last night went back to the still empty hostel, then cruised over to some hipster restaurant cafe to watch a film. the film turned out to be an italian one, 120 days of sodom, a takeoff of the book of the same name by the marquis de sade. itīs about how at the end of world war 2 the italian president and prime minister and the head politicos gathered themselves up a harem of teenage boys and girls and spent tons of time pooping on, sodomizing, and telling perverted stories to the poor young adults. i watched nearly all of it, then got bored and sorta disgusted but mostly just annoyed and left. it was one of those artsy films with tons of long shots with no audio at all, but i didnīt find the cinematography inspiring and the subject matter gets my vote as weird and lame. apparently it was the directorīs last film, to which i say Ļgood.Ļ
today started off with me waking up and shaking all the bugs out of my bed, there were like 15 but mysteriously, none had bitten me. is that a good sign or a bad one? i donīt know.
was gonna shoot out of here post haste, but decided to check out the national anthropological museum. i used the time tested technique of breaking out my old expired international student card and got in for half price, hooray for me. the museum had tons of pottery and other archeological pieces from precolumbian el salvador, the coolest was when you saw the stuff that was made before the arrival of the pipil tribes who migrated down from mexico, and then the stuff made afterwords. the faces in particular changed drastically, the ones before the pipils looking more mayan, which makes sense cause the mayan had ventured down to here a little, and the ones after being more elongated and less flat. the rest of the museum was well presented, it was kinda sad, i think i was the only visitor there.
next i stopped at a street vendor for some more pupusas, so cheap, so good, they get my vote for best street vendor food ever. the cooked cabbage topping, the hot sauce, man itīs the best combination, plus here you eat it with your hands and get all messy. and it costs less then 50 cents for 3 of them, which fills me up good.
after that i wandered around and looked at some national monuments to the revolution, wasnīt quite sure which one they were talking about, there has to have been about 25 revolutions here in the last 100 years alone. perhaps iīm exaggerating a little but i saw some fotos of building facades before and after the guerillas came through, they seemed to really like shooting up building fronts.
i headed back towards the center to look for a cheap pair of shorts, and ran across the veggie restaurant that i couldnīt find yesterday. really damn good food there as well, had a carrot burger patty, some good whole grain rice, and some fake meat, i was in heaven as i watched some crappy daytime variety show. the only people i saw eating there were doctors, which made me feel pretty confident that i wouldnīt get sick.
was gonna take off after this, itīs only an hour to la libertad and surfing and people calling me Ļbro,Ļ but my friend heidi just wrote me an email saying she was coming here, so i might stick around to hang out with her then make for the coast tomorrow. still gotta find me some shorts too. iīm gonna bargain my ass off, usually iīm not but sometimes i get in the mood to haggle.
if you have a minute you should check out this site, they always have cool fotoshop contests, i thought this one particularly enjoyable.
just realized that in 10 days i will have had my webpage for one year, hereīs a link to my first entry, not anything profound but the page i linked to still works and itīs till as funny as ever.
Posted by bendan at February 18, 2003 11:56 AM
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