15.6.09

There was a time Sluik wanted to be David Carradine's little brother.

I learned and also forgot my first worldly wisdom from an American television series and I guess I am not the only one. There was not an episode I missed back than of Kung Fu. I must have been 13 or so when all Tao wisdom came to me in Disney proportions. I really wanted to be Grasshopper number 2 and in bed before falling asleep I imagined being of Chinese Dutch mixed blood and made up my own blind Master Po giving me the wisdom lessons privately. I could not be bothered much about the physical fighting which was going on in the TV program. I knew that was not going to be my thing anyway later in life or at least I would not be particularly good at it.

Just read in the newspaper that grasshopper number 1 was found in Bangkok dead beginning of this month and aged 72, hanging naked in a cupboard wrapped in cables around neck and balls. Hmm... weird... I guess he was rehearsing really hard for his role in the next TV series or Tarantino movie and things got out of hand. I still like David Carradine but I guess this will not get him an Oscar. I will speak only good of the dead and family.

I just returned from a real charter holiday. Something I never did before or for the last time when I was watching Grasshopper getting smarter and smarter. It wasn't my idea but a special offer last minute booking was arranged in a second and the following day I sat with my girl and son Thor next to a pool in Crete! Didn't forget to work a little though and I caught some images which I will scatter all over these pages. And I admit I actually enjoyed the trip much. The water however in the pool I only touched with a finger.

The weather was really bad for me: the sky was cloudless blue and the temperature during the day 35 Celsius. It gave me a hard time to keep the colors out of the images and make it doomy and gloomy and environmentally correct, haha! It was my first time in Greece but I did not see much old and ancient except on a postcard or two. We stayed just outside the, in summertime Scandinavian, town of Chania on a small tidy resort called Lotus Suites. Next door neighbours were shiny BMW & Renault dealers, convenient LIDL and IN.CA mega supermarkets, bowling and midget-golf centre GOLDEN FUN and a 24 hour shop called STASI where the rubbish bin is called Nirvana. Yes, it was all really a temporary Nirvana! However hard I try I can not find any bad words about the place... maybe the mosquitoes... I will only speak good about the Greek.

So you see, I really have the feeling that I became a wiser man and that it is all thanks to watching David. Then, I mean. I somehow lost contact with my brother lately and I will stay out of cupboards in Bangkok. I promise.

Photo: STASI 24 hours shop, Chania, 9 June 2009.