Hello all,
after a few months-long hiatus,
I´m back in Bolivia for a few weeks,
the land of llama steaks and generous donors of my bowel movements.
As with most developing countries, here you can get all kinds of glorious bootleg products.
Sonia earphones? Check.
D & C shirt? Check.
Puna sneakers? Check.
My recent favorite has to be the bootleg DVDs with multiple movies/episodes on them. (take that 1 movie per DVD U.S.A.!)
You will see hundreds of venders everywhere from streets to parks, and there are even people selling them from their portable trays. (still,I must say it doesn´t beat the Chinese lady who sells a shopping cart full of porn DVDs at 2 a.m. in LES bars in NY)
but still, down here,
not only can you get your paws on a fine collection of Mel Gibson movies (classic)- fair enough, I have a box-set of Audrey Hepburn collection back in the states,
but you can also get a super collection of your favorite pig movies.
Not feeling the swine goodness? fret not, we have everything in store for you; what about a good old ape collection?
Not much of an animal lover?
How about a feel good collection of Revolution and Death? (oh hey Tom)
I´m currently in Cochabamba and loving it! I really liked La Paz but CBBA is getting close to becoming my favorite Bolivian city with its (relatively) low altitude.
now let me go have some more quality ¨Krak´s ¨
and a ginormous US$1.10 parfait.
p.s. I´m returning to NY for about 2-3 weeks on the 15th of September. Although I already have 1080980 projects lined up(including new podcast episodes of Audiophile Anonymous), I would love to see you guys, it´s about time!
