Dubai

Been here since yesterday afternoon, and although it has very little of the traditional Muddleness, the city is fairly lacking in soul and heritage like Muscat and Amman. Currently in an Internet cafe/bookshop which is really curious in its book selection... there's heaps of books, but as I perused, I realised that I did not recognise a single book (yes they're in English). It seems to be a repository of failed books. Books that just didn't make it. It's mostly textbooks or pseudoscience, let me reel off some titles that I can see: UFO, World War 3.0, Knock 'em Dead, Banking Symbols, Supermotivation, The Incredible Machine, Model Memos, Fighting Words... every cliche in the book is here (ho ho). However, I did just spy a large hardcover book on Keith Haring, so I'm going to finish up and check it out. I'm quite ready to be back in Melbourne, or at least amongst my own culture... even to just hear some good music, have a normal day, talk to ordinary people instead of hotel staff, etc. Oh, went to check out the Soot music shop here in Dubai, one of only three or four in the world.... this multilabel clothing store called Five Green had a measly eight or ten pieces of vinyl. :( Oh well.