Letters from America

Date: Fri, May 29, 1998, 7:14 am
Yesterday I went to see Anne's rather spectacular school and in her lunch break she decided to show me the woods around her school. Dumb idea, real dumb! Most of the so called 'woods' are really swamp lands which were over run with bugs and what made it worse was the fact that these bugs were hungry bugs and to them we looked like a cracking main course! Man I can tell you that I look like I have smallpox or something!

Today I just lazed around taking it easy, something that I am seriously out of practice of! And tonight I went out with the girls from the flat to see the movie "As good as it gets". (A movie that is more suited to my parents than me). The cool thing was I spayed for all four of us to go and it still cost me less than buying a single ticket for the Odeon back home!

I'd forgotten how trashy American TV is! Today while I lazed around the apartment I watched some guy called Mauray in his 'Op ra Winfrey' style show, basically ruin friendships by outing peoples secret crushes live on TV. It was painful to watch! This one girl whole was about as big as a small orbiting rock, outed her secret crush on her long time family friend who they had right there on the stage with her. The poor guy was horrified and couldn't really hide his feelings when she asked him for a date. He rather gutlessly said 'we can go out one time' to her then I watched with other people across America as the weight problem girl nearly bust into tears. I guess I'll never understand this 'Oprah age' on TV.

The radio though! Man, that rocks! WBCN is soooo cool. It plays the best music. Not just chart stuff but a whole bunch of new and old stuff. Americans though, love their guitars and so you can virtually guarantee there will be a guitar in there somewhere. I have heard so much cool stuff that I am bringing back to the UK! (Semisonic, Goo Goo Dolls, Matchbox 20,Bare Naked Ladies and The Dave Matthews Band to mention just a few.)

The language difference has been apparent a couple of times. I saw a sign yesterday that said in massive neon words "Liquor and redemption here". So what, you go there to buy a beer and save your soul? Only in America! (Before anyone points out what it really meant, don't bother.. I know)

Another funny sign outside a church said "Dusty Bibles lead to dirty lives". Oh that's nice and level headed, a real non extremist approach there from the Beverly first Baptist Church. Advertising the fact there religious nutters who own dust covers?