There isn't really much to actually do in Bangalore in terms of sights and stuff but otherwise it's probably the most cosmopolitan/westernish city in India that we've been too. There's KFCs and McDonalds and Nike and Adidas stores up the wazoo. We even went bowling here. Felix beat me bt a solid margin but our scores were really pathetic regardless. I won't put them here but the total was in the 140 ish range. maybe.
Anyways Bangalore has this fucking awesome bar named NASA and it's spaceship themed. The drinks are called like liquid fuel and it's super awesome camptastic inside. Pics to come. We had a few pitchers and then went outside and were like damn it's 4pm no a sunday and we are buzzing.
I also got this totally sweet Doraemon fake zippo!
Our train got in around 6 am yesterday and as a result of hotels' 24 hour check out policy we were kicked to the curb today at 7am. Nothing here opens until 8:30 or really 9:00 so we got to do some pretty sweet curb sitting and went to this one coffee shop there the soundtrack included a new vengaboys song we've never heard, 6 different 50 cent songs, and an uncensored version of "My Neck, My Back" by Khia. Mind you this WAS ALL AT LIKE 7:45 AM!!!! Madness.
Anyways yesterday besides getting drunk at NASA we went to an italian cafe with a lot of workers from Nagaland which is in northeastern India and is essentially southeast asia but owned by india for strategic purposes. What this means is there's a lot of Southeast Asian people in Bangalore but they're Indian by nationality.
We went to go look for this pretty famous japanese restaurant named Harima and when we finally found it at 5pm we realized they didn't open for another hour. Luckily we were able to chill at a cafe downstairs and we watched the film "Taken" in it's entirety. I've seen it before and watching Liam Neeson own EVERYONE never really gets boring. When we did get to the restaurant it was mad fancy and had all these indian dudes in japanese waiter outfits which was sorta funny. we got Agedashi Tofu, Kaarage, Katsudon, and an Okonomiyaki. Generally when you get foreign food in India it only vaguely resembles what it's supposed to be. The japanese food at Harima was definetely the real deal but of course was not as good as what you could get at home. Harima was also my first experience with the poop hose. Sure this is TMI but if you're reading this you know how real I keep it. Anyways I guess the hose is cool. It's really not that uncomfortable or anything but when i twisted the nozzle it loosed at the bottom and sort of sprayed water on me/everything else. For me the jury is still out on he hose but I plan on exploring it more.
We also stopped at this Jimi Hendrix themed bar and it was basically full of random rock album covers/pictures that included Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix, and one of the guys from Pink Floyd. They also played the video and song of Stairway from the song remains the same.
VH1 Classics here shows the most random videos. We saw Karma Chameleon by Culture Club, Video killed the radio star, love shack, and and Whitney Houston's "i'm every woman". Bizzaro.
Anyways to explain the title you have to realize that Indian bars are not like American ones. They're literally just full of dudes. Like all dudes. Like when we were in NASA it was a ratio of 45 dudes to 0 girls. YEA DUDES. And literally every bar is pretty much like this.... The slow dog/slow lady thing is from when we were walking around this morning sort of delerious from being kicked out at 7am we saw this dog walking around slowly and felix said slow dog and we both immediately launched into a rendition of "Slow Ride" by Foghorn but with the words "slow dog" instead. Then we saw a slow lady and did the same thing.
So to end, we are in a coffee shop with internet called "coffee day" and they technically opened at 8:30 but in america this would mean people setting up from at least 7:30. Here it means they got here at 8:30 and still aren't totally opened yet. Like it's 10:00 AM, a full hour and a half from opening and they're still setting up. Indiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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