zutopia

we all stare at the out of towners 11.26.06

OK so back to the blah blah blog.. had some up here, then took them down, also have a blog at http://zutopia.blogspot.com, tis a bunch of my reflections my first year in Holland, on this country, home, hip hop, religion.. but from my travellers perspective.. i just went back and reread them, theyre pretty interesting if you wanna check them out and go back to march 05...

so, but i was prompted to write this blog cuz of some funny shit that happened last night.. yeah, so i'm living in amsterdam now.. in the west, and have had a very low key weekend. last night, saturday night i decide to stay in, i no longer have an income, am mooching off my gracious loving, AMAZING, parents this last year as I finish up the masters, so yeah, i'm like let me sit in tonight.. even though my girl djassi from college is here with her dance company momix (check'em) and heading to the club tonight.. so around 1 am, my roomie bibi is like you shld come around the corner to soundgarden.. its our neighborhood bar.. its also a "rock (and fucking) roll" bar, as it read on a woman in a leather mini skirt and cowboy boots' t-shirt that was there. it's literally a 3 minute bike ride and beers are 1.80 euro, i had half a pack of cigarettes and some thriller was on bbc which i wasnt really interested in watching... so i go meet bibi and her boy (homeboy) ingmar (who "believes" in all his girls, thanks!:) at sound garden, the rock (and fucking roll bar).. its cool, the dj is playing all old soul and funk records.. and i decide to get one more beer and turn to go to the bar and "i see black people" walking through the door. i turn to bibi and we laugh cuz we're thinking the same thing.. peoples, yo. i notice one's tall with a mitchell and ness baseball cap and i'm thinkin african maybe and cant see the other.. then all of a sudden keith (fucking) murray is standing in front of me and as i'm thinking it, the words come out of my mouth "youre keith murray".. it was so fucking random i couldnt believe it. i knew he and epmd were in town.. i'm still tryin to go to the show tomorrow, but last night they were making a track live at this thing called "de Hop" with a dutch producer all the way in the north of amsterdam.. about 30 min bike ride from my hood (and the bar). they had passed thousands of bars and at least a dozen hip hop parties to get to the soundgarden. they were with some dutch girls and i guess they wanted some place they could be on the low (?).. anyhoo, they took a seat right next to us and keith later on said to me that he felt he was surrounded by skinheads.. i told him there was nothing to worry about and me andbibs had his back if it went down;)-- when i got home i remembered his charges stemming from some barstool incident.. guess he wouldnt have needed our help.. anyway that was it.. it was really funny and random,, i know all yall know celebs, work with celebs, ARE celebs (holler!), but it was real nice to have keith murray come through my neighborhood bar in west amsterdam... felt real homey... and if those mofos did turn out to be skinheads, to have some peoples;). my poor ass did not ask for the list for tomorrow (sorry samirah), shoulda traded for the three cigarettes he and his lady friends bummed from me.. but yeah was real cool evening.

posted by z.a.k. @ 7:05 AM