Philly

Philadelphia was a fucking strange place. Really depressing. The city centre was pretty much just one road and 'the ghetto' pretty much just radiated out for miles and miles around.

I was called 'Honky' for the first time in my life, and told to spit on the Courts of Justice, so it qualified as a pretty 'real' experience, but I think one day was enough. I went to the Mutter Museum, which is full of medical curiosities, or at least casts of medical curiosities (they confiscated my camera so i couldn't take any pictures)... and Eastern State Penitentiary, which was fucking amazing... Oh, and the set of a new Paul Rudd, Owen Wilson, Jack Nicholson film which is as yet untitled, but looked pretty good. All-star cast for sure. And all that in 24 hours too, so it was actually a pretty good day.

This is the super-scary Eastern State Pen - some different kind of prison you know.


Film set (i got closer than this, but photography was definitely frowned upon much closer than this point):


(Rocky statue by 'the steps' - i haven't even seen Rocky so i could be wrong on some or all of this assumption)