Zurich

A strange and wonderful place, zurich represents a strange null-where state. In the current heat you could be in the Med, Monaco, Spain. The diverse languages and dialects ensure that Germany, France & Spain are merely a walk away. Yet the one thing that strikes me that really deludes me with madness is the conflictions. Around me oppulence the kind of which is only seen in hip-hop videos at home is walking around the streets, yet worn by old men and ladies, taken as norm. Everyone has a 1000 pound watch it seems and a label to be seen. Yet I wonder everytime I see such items of wealth, at what cost to us all? You hear storries of the Gnomes of Zurich who will back your money tax free and don't care who you are or more to the point what you've done. The spoils of despots from Asia to Africa to Jakarta may lurk in the vaults of these streets.

I saw for the first time today the new Video of the latest NOFX song. Simply brilliant. I have never seen or heard such a song that captured ther feeling of realisation that not everything in this world can be blamed on someone else. It's that big Doh! moment that hits you. To save the world you don't need guns, spaceships or trucks of cash, you need everyone to care.

And that includes the gnomes of Zurich.