Crazy House Pt. 2

I really like this hostel. At night is gets a little nuts but to me that is a good thing. Everyone is super friendly and they play great music (for example right now I am sitting here and they are playing live versions of all the greatest hits of the Cure.) Last night I started talking to the kid who had tripped balls on ecstasy mixed with acid my first night here. He was telling me how fucked up he was. I guess he secluded himself to his room and crawled under his bed to sleep because he thought the top bunk was growing fangs and trying to attack him. When he wasn’t in an irrational fit of fear from the mattress above him he imagined that David Bowie was talking to him but for some reason his mouth was on his forehead. I was, understandably, a bit confused with his description but he cleared that up by whipping out his Iphone and showing me an image he had photoshopped to explain his trip to people. I can’t reproduce it but believe me when I tell you it was pretty messed up*. This recounting of his evening was enough to convince me never to do acid.**

 

**I know my parents read this blog so I would be dumb to admit to doing acid in the first place in this forum, but honestly that hard stuff scares me more than you would believe.

 

I got to talking to the guy more and he was actually a pretty cool guy. He is an Australian graphic designer who owns his own business. This allowed him to just shut down shop for 2 months and travel around Europe. We talked for a bit about Helvetica which I mentioned in my post about my favorite documentaries (Hotwheels makes fun of me all the time for my obsession with that movie.) When he told me he was in logo design I tried to offer him 2 Euro to make me a logo. He laughed because he usually charges between 1,000 and 5,000 Euro. Although a little too rich for my blood I will continue working on him to see if I can get my own personal insignia before leaving Barcelona.

* after being facebook friends with the graphic designer he posted a photo of what he saw so he could explain it to everybody... this is it. Pretty messed up right?