1- its been a bizarre day.
1a- popped down to the chamber of commerce to ask some questions, and as usual the guy who doesnt speak english sends me to someone who does.
today was the first time that i ever met a truely effeminate kuwaiti guy,… think jack from will and grace and multiply by 10. he had on a dishdasha and a gutra and everything,….. including mascara.
or atleast you know what women look like when theyve been partying the night before and didnt really get rid of their make up proper?,…. it looked like that,….
but he knew his shit, and was courteous and helpful and everything, which is more than i can say for the average testosterone filled straight guy in a dishdasha.
1b- on my way back i was on the road that passes by the kuwait university khaldiya campus, you know, the one that dips under the fourth,….
and while driving about 110, i notice an old japanese car in the emergency lane,…. a youngish guy, who looked palestinian/jordanian got out of the drivers side, went round to the passenger side on the other side,…. opened the door, yelled something,…. then started kicking whoever it was was in the backseat.
wtf?!
i tried slamming on the breaks, but i had cars zipping past left and right at 120-140 so i couldnt just stop. and alot of other drivers were trying to do the same, almost causing a pile up.
i hope someone did stop. speculation of what was going on went over and over in my head,…. was he kicking the shit out of his maid, sister, someone that owed him money? from the guys scruffy looking jeans and tshirt he was probably heading to kheitan, and kheitan being a dodgy area, it could have been about anything at all.
and if i had stopped, then what? i dont have anything in my car to use as a weapon, and if its about money dude might be armed,….. the sheer number of guns on the streets in this country is scary.
wtf kuwait? this type of shit never used to happen here.
people seem to be well aggro these days, alot more so than even 5 years ago when i first came back.
2- i’m looking for some uptempo traditional arabic music, maybe specifically khaleeji if khalleji uptempo music exists. i did some street recordings of some kid rappers in salmiya and i’ve started composing a jungle track with some of their vocals,… but its lacking a lil something.
3- i spliced the vocals so tell me if this makes sense or atleast isnt too nonsensical:
“ya kalb al youm” / “agulak kalmitain”
thats “dog of today” or something right?
and ” i’ll say it again” right?
i’m thinking i’ll produce the track then give it away to the kids as a gift,…. its pretty hardcore jungle track so i doubt radio would even touch it.
hardcore underground,… grrrrrrrrrrrr!
hehe.
