Midterms are almost finished and in a sense school will be winding down for a while. I’ve continued my integration into the many facets of Istanbul and Turkey as they are seemingly very different.
I’ve posted a link to Wikipedia on Goreme, Turkey. We visited this region in Cappadocia which is in central Turkey a couple of weeks ago. I shot all my photos in RAW format under the assumption that they would be of better quality and of course easier to manipulate in Photoshop. This advice comes from my friend Dan who unknowing assumed I had a program to open these files on my computer, which I don’t. Needless to say I’ve got 80 pictures on my camera that I can not store on my computer, and until I find a solution you’ll just have to google the location.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churches_of_G%C3%B6reme%2C_Turkey
Babylon is apparently a famous night club in Istanbul; a hot spot for locals and celebrities alike, or so I am told by a fellow student. It was always his dream to go to this club, thus I invited him to accompany our group to the Balkan Beat Box concert playing that night. Quoting Dan's response to the live show, “Damn those beats were fresh…”. And truly fresh they were, I’ve never heard anything quit like it before. They didn’t actually beat box but hand two saxophonist, a percussionist, and a singer/keyboard/laptop….man. Although the concert didn’t start till midnight I danced wildly until they left the stage.
Not only were these guys talented, playing through a power outage in the middle of a song with just the saxes and the drum set. Which eventually crescendoed as the power came on flawlessly resuming their song. They were super chill as a few of the ladies we were with were so inclined to hop up on stage and dance with and around the musicians with they encouraged the act and asked security to let them be.
Efes Pilsin is really the sole beer distributor in Turkey. It has quite a monopoly on the market however because of the Muslim tradition liquor licenses and alcohol in general is extremely expensive and not so readily available. Although you can find Efes for relatively cheep, hard alcohol such as Jack Daniels sells for 58 YTL approximately 48 dollars.
I watched the film Zeitgeist the other night on a recommendation from Jeff Schutter, thinking that it would be obscure and a philosophical quagmire. However I was very please or should I say unsettled by its contents. It’s not a horror, but a conspiracy type film which analyzes Religion, the 9/11 attacks, and the Federal Reserve. The take home message here is to get involved and educate ones self. I though it was very well done…
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/
**really it’s worth watching
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