Hari Kunzru

www.harikunzru.com
www.metamute.com

now: Sydney
next: London

Khaosan road psy-trance dreadlock tourist happy hour old fat white
man with thai teenager no conversation hell, Wat Suthat "only temple
in Thailand where you can enjoy your visit in a nice peaceful
atmosphere", "you want monk bowl?", beer chang, Patpong bar girl
ladyboy fake versace coca cola pussy trick tourist hell, 50m
reclining buddha, Chinatown market dim sum heaven, riverboat in the
rain, absurd ethnic tourist guy-trouser competition (winner: baggy
red silk with gold applique bodhi leaf), "you can go, I see you good
man" : always carry Buddhist literature when stopped by the Thai
police, suitings shirtings, whisky soda, hotel room HBO, sheltering
with the monks during a downpour, lightning, thunder, helping to hold
the abbot's image in a high wind, Buddha's 2459th birthday, fierce
Thai massage, the 'Author's Terrace' @ Oriental Hotel, view from 64th
floor of State Tower, market teeshirt / fake Big E levis / trainer
frenzy, another downpour, weird toilet stealth chiropracter (long
story), Patpong origami, KL monorail, swimming goggles, talking
talking, reading reading, human rights chat, room service, The Great
Ecstasy of the Woodcarver Steiner, Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, The
Comedians, questions of national security, traffic jams, the family
Ramesh, watching Batman at the Hilton, avoiding the flat drinks at
Shanghai Lil's, gangsta rembetiko and dark swedish prog, rainstorms,
snapper, finest coffee in the world, my Russian Afghan campaign hat,
York's rarest exponents of the New Wave, an evening with YouTube:
'watch insurgents get smoked', 'Lazy Ramadi', Star Wars slash,
Brokeback to the Future et. al, Rohan Wheallans at Ivan Anthony, the
Monks on German TV '66, Vision Creation Newsum, chainsaw poetry,
Muriwai dawn, Asian invasion?, doing deals, white presenter
'outnumbered' on breakfast tv, fush n chups n pizza, masala dosa,
Artspace under new management, loser lounge, Waitangi treaty
arguments, house party madness, Bastion Point occupation film,
onstage in Auckland, I want to speak of ... Sleeping Beauty, a tour
through the Bywater wine repertoire Attali/Kinnock/Thatcher waiting
for the Khazakh president to deal with his hangover, dinner at Nikau,
The High Commissioner, grim window tint at the Duxton, "Munich", The
Ballad of Peckham Rye