Blamblog - Brett Lamb's Blog

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Eats Out West

Roncesvalles

Amber & Maria were already talking in the cafe when I arrived ...

MARIA: Crap. Here comes the rain again.

AMBER: Falling on your head like a new emotion?

MARIA: New emotion? What the fuck is a new emotion?

AMBER: Oh, I thought you were quoting ...

MARIA: How could you even have a new emotion? What would it be? Franger? An emotion somewhere between Anger and Fright?

AMBER: The way brunch is somewhere between Breakfast and Lunch.

MARIA: But that's not a new emotion. It's just mixing two exisiting emotions together. I don't even know how you could have a completely new emotion.

BLAMB: Are you talking about new emotions.

MARIA: Yeah. How could you have a new emotion?

BLAMB: You could have those old emotions.

AMBER: People should do more with the emotions they already have.

MARIA: I do plenty with my emotions.

BLAMB: Too much, sometimes. Anxiety is a completely overused emotion.

MARIA: That reminds me. I'm going to Mexico City and I'm playing tour guide. What did you guys like in Mexico City?

AMBER: Um, Condessa ...

MARIA: What the fuck are we gonna do there? You walk around for five minutes and you're done.

AMBER: We went there several times.

BLAMB: What about the Zocalo? The Museum?

MARIA: Yeah, we did all that ...

AMBER: You could go to Reforma and sit on the art benches.

BLAMB: You could sing that song while you're sitting on them, Licka licka lick my art bench!

MARIA: Lick my art bench?

BLAMB: Yeah it's that Art Bench song. Isn't that how it goes? The person who wrote it must have been inspired by Mexico City.

AMBER: I don't think that's how the song goes.

BLAMB: You could go to that Liverpool mall, the one with the big Louvre pyramid.

MARIA: [laughing] That mall on Insurgentes?

BLAMB: It's a big mall. You could kill an afternoon.

AMBER: Pfffftt ...

BLAMB: Licka, licka, licka my Louvre Mall!

MARIA: Now it's raining. I gotta ride my bike in that. You gotta watch the traffic in the rain. I have a system, you turn and then you swerve and then you turn ... it's all about flow.