Today...

Today is Thailand's election day. There have been posters of all the candidates everywhere since October, and over the last week here in Pai there has been a constant convoy of Pick ups driving around blaring music and handing out flyers and stuff. One of the posters has a very frightening picture of a man brandishing a sedgehammer in a threatening manner. Apparently he's one of the favourite candidates! I'll never complain about European politicians again! On the other hand maybe we need our own pick axe weilding firebrand to stir things up in parliament?

Drove up to the top of a mountain today and with the upmost respect to Mark Woolley who did this very thing years ago on the top of Ayer's rock, sat and watched the landscape whilst listening to the whole of 'Mogwai fear Satan' ( A fifteen minute long instrumental song of truly epic proportions). It was truly awesome... Half the mountains were on fire and the vegetation on the other half was brown and dead. It was a funny moment for me, a few clouds moving across a perfectly blue sky, then this arid dead landscape below. Got me thinking about stuff, which is always a bad sign! ;) I'm very glad I did it though, it's kinda spiritual.


So... Top tip for anyone anywhere... Get to high ground, get yourself comfortable with a decently loud pair of heaphones and check out Mogwai fear Satan on their Young team album... It works.