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Ok, this was going to be the last one of these things because I’ve run out of things that I keep going back to see, and there was only one to go, and procrastination took a hold of me…

… but then I remembered another one, which is up in London so next week I’ll go up and take a photie and talk about that as well. In the meantime however, here’s number 6 : Budapest, Anonymous.

Anonymous was an actual person - a monk who err… has a statue etc, and the statue rocks. Check out the photies on flickr. That’s K for cool.

Anyway, it’s at the back of this castle in Budapest… down the end of this incredibly long road, that gets posher and posher the closer you get. Not as posh as Beverly Hills mind, but those people are idiots. This is the castle:

Which is pretty rad in a Transylvanian sort of way. Bits of it reminded me of Narnia actually. I walked around the outside of the castle, going crunch crunch in the snow etc… there was a corner up ahead with a sort of statuette thing in it… got closer… hmmm… looks familiar… hmmm… who’s that then?

IT’S ONLY BELA LUGOSI !!!

Normally I don’t use exclamation marks, but this time I will. Bela Lugosi…

The archetype of silver-screen vampires. It was so cool I could hardly stand it. I sunk to me knees in the snow etc… then recovered my presence of mind and quickly stood up again (having made sure now one saw me etc).

Bauhaus made this video in the 80s about him, almost:

Although I fail to see the connection. It’s been viewed about 1/2 a million times though, so that’s something.

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I got pissed up a couple of nights ago and went into this massive crying jag (when I got home) and had a dream that all my bodily organs were like little pets etc, and I was treating them really badly and they were lost and afraid. So now I’ve decided to care for them really well to make up for all the stuff that’s gone on before… and I woke up today feeling positive and sortof happy, for the first time in years. I’m off into town to get a smoothie in a bit. They like smoothies.