Goodbye Budapest
Took a walk down Vaci and to Gerbeaud to buy some cakes to take back to Zagreb – and stopped in a record store to get the new Coldplay CD – Viva La Vida – and the store, the clerk reminding me so much of High Fidelity. Yesterday, I had gone by and a cute, hip boy was working and I didn’t have enough forint to pay and said I’d be back this morning on my way out of town. I waited by the locked gate and a beater car drives up with Jack Black’s twin, who parks around the corner and bounces up all smiles. He told me he had just been at the movies last night and saw a preview for Kar Wai Wong’s The Lady From Shanghai where Ry Cooder does the score. We spoke about cool music and he recommended I also get the new Ranconteurs – I told him I had just seen them at Jazz Fest.
Now back to Zagreb to begin my sabbatical in earnest. Goodbye workaday life – for one month I am a lady of leisure.