Hello! It's me, the taller one. You know, the guy who talks a lot of nonsense and passes it off for intelligent conversation?!
Look, I'm sorry I've been wayward the last two days. It barely feels like I'm in America; I've been in the car missing all the scenery instead. Staring at a laptop screen, editing the final TV submissions for Current. They will be online within the week and on the Televizzle in the same time so keep your eyes peeled to this site for schedules.
Anyway, back to the US of A. We have been filming occasionally, so expect a flurry of videos and updates tonight and tomorrow. We've just not had time to upload things, it's not that we're being lazy.
I'll give you a quick catch-up. We're in New Orleans; wow, what a beautiful city. At least, in the tourist districts. The devastation of Katrina has left it's mark on the landscape and the psychology of the place.
Our couch surfing host, Corey, has lived here all of his 25 years and he says the place is waiting to be swallowed up in the deluge. There's no hope for New Orleans in his eyes, the Government isn't willing to fix the problems and the people are playing a grim waiting game, watching the hurricane season with eagle eyes, waiting to fly the nest.
It's sad, because this place is stunning. And completely unique. In a country where strip malls out number roads to put them on, it's nice to see a city so shaped by it's history and culture rather than capitalist drive.
Anyway, more on this tomorrow. For now, enjoy Luke in New York, being made to look stupid...
Look, I'm sorry I've been wayward the last two days. It barely feels like I'm in America; I've been in the car missing all the scenery instead. Staring at a laptop screen, editing the final TV submissions for Current. They will be online within the week and on the Televizzle in the same time so keep your eyes peeled to this site for schedules.
Anyway, back to the US of A. We have been filming occasionally, so expect a flurry of videos and updates tonight and tomorrow. We've just not had time to upload things, it's not that we're being lazy.
I'll give you a quick catch-up. We're in New Orleans; wow, what a beautiful city. At least, in the tourist districts. The devastation of Katrina has left it's mark on the landscape and the psychology of the place.
Our couch surfing host, Corey, has lived here all of his 25 years and he says the place is waiting to be swallowed up in the deluge. There's no hope for New Orleans in his eyes, the Government isn't willing to fix the problems and the people are playing a grim waiting game, watching the hurricane season with eagle eyes, waiting to fly the nest.
It's sad, because this place is stunning. And completely unique. In a country where strip malls out number roads to put them on, it's nice to see a city so shaped by it's history and culture rather than capitalist drive.
Anyway, more on this tomorrow. For now, enjoy Luke in New York, being made to look stupid...
3 comments:
Press, but not impressed - I like it.
Nice write up, Kier, can't wait to hear some of the views and see some of the footage of the New Orleans excursion. Funny, I watched the Stephen Fry doc. where he goes to New Orleans and talks to an American serviceman who returned from Iraq after the devastating storms. He said how much the now desolate landscape and building damage reminded him of patrolling the same kind of landscape in Iraq.
Somehow this seems to be more than merely ironic. The way, as your host says, the government seems to be giving up on the place; bombed, blasted, destroyed, it's time to move on...
and the political landscape seems... only temporary.
socialist scum...so predictable guys i could have told you that would have happened!!!
and 'militant' - really?? jesus drop 'em in kabul and let the taliban teach them some manners i say.
take care boys.
cat
Pete, the most eloquent respond to a blog post ever. Cat, less so. But thanks boys keep in touch. Very interesting stuff.
The video of New Orleans is, hopefully, pretty powerful. I can't explain the situation there. Just very surreal.
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