Weekend Blues

What can a decent fun loving guy with a bit of free time on his hands do on the weekend in this city man? There is nothing. Clubbing bores me, the music is too loud and crappy, and I’m not too into drinking. I don’t like the high. Movies keep showing for months at a time and only in two or so cinemas at that and the movies showing right now are hopeless. (And in case you're hoping to go see Australia, which i hear is coming to MC, don’t bother; utter waste of time)

We are an entertainment starved population. We can go to the beach, we can hang out at MC, we can hangout at excel world or we can get together with a few friends and throw a 'session' as they are called.

There was a time in my teens, when i used to spend ages simply wandering around with a couple friends on Saturdays in MC doing nothing. Walking into shops, checking out the latest CD's, playing a coupla songs, annoying the guy in the shop who thinks we're gonna buy it, making up some excuse as to why we can’t buy it, and walking out again and repeating the process somewhere else. Classes were at Shakti Institute, opposite Bamba flats, after classes we'd make a beeline for the Dosa shop, whack some Indian junk food, barely manage to pay the bill, and walk to MC.

MC however, does not seem all that appealing to me anymore. Excel world is dried up, and the last time i went there was in broad daylight on a weekday to take some surreptitious pictures of a competitor set up. Met up with a few friends at the Keg another day, that place was packed to the rooftop.

Call me a stoner, but there seems to be nothing better to do in this city. Its dried up and discarded like...or maybe it’s ‘cause im just naturally bored with everything by default these days, feeling very dispassionate. Or maybe everyone else is out there having fun and no one has told me where the REAL party is happening, the bastards!