Raising a family in Thailand // Documenting Issan food, culture, music, and people
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A few years ago, I had a conversation that went like this:
LostSoul: I accidentally slept with a guy, I thought he was a girl.
JY: Yeah, I hear stories about that all the time.
LostSoul: The thing is, I can’t get her our of my mind. I want to see her again. Does that mean I’m gay?
JY: It doesn’t mean you’re gay. It just means you like fucking guys.
Maha Sarakham University, where my wife works, paid off the right people to make a sappy love story movie (the kind that makes the most money here) about the university and our town in general called “Hak Na Sarakham” (Laotian for “Love Sarakham”). It opens today at SermThai Plaza in downtown Sarakham, and we saw a steady stream of motorcycles heading that way from the university.
It was fun trying to guess all of the locations shown in the trailer; our favorite bar, Play Bar, is shown towards the end.
Yes, we’ve all seen enough of Charlie Sheen and now just think it’s a sad reflection of society that he’s still on the news 24/7. And yes, it’s wrong to make fun of sick people.
You will laugh anyway.
That is all.
Oh wait, also:
Sometime in the future, I will open a bar. Bands will be welcomed to play live, in a rotating fashion. If a certain song or band gets tiresome, a projector screen will drop in front of the stage and this video will be played until the next band comes on.