November 2021 - J.D Strange Days Bangkok

 

Thailand looks set to open the doors to visitors from 46 countries from November 1st, 2021. As the pandemic looks set to continue well into it's third year fully-vaccinated travellers from low-risk countries have been given the green light to travel and enter the country providing they take a test at the airport. What happens if they test positive upon arrival? The men in the hazmat suits, ready on standby, will no doubt whisk them away to place of isolated safety. 

Here's a list of the safe, and as some cynics have pointed out, wealthy countries. 

On this theme J.D Strange directed the Music video for hard rock outfit Stay Awake. Men in hazmat suits, abandoned airplane graveyards and science fiction apartment buildings were scouted out by Strange for this project. The MV was released on the 11.11.21 and can be seen here - 

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In other strange news a 54-year old man claiming to be a close personal friend of prime minister was arrested earlier in the month for running along a busy Chonburi highway attacking random vehicles with his fists and screaming at passerby. 

Police managed to calm the confused civilian down by agreeing to take him to a local golf course where the prime minister was enjoying a round. Instead they took him to Chonburi police station where they routinely arrested him.    

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"Lovin it" in Bangkok with Strange Super Star of the Month – Siva.

Strange Celebrity of the month is dancer and model Gaga who also goes by the name Siva.
Siva doesn’t hang out in Cat Cafes sipping slim lattes. This dancer, model, and budding actress is from the streets of downtown Bangkok. Strange found Siva sipping 100% coke tamada while chowing down on a royale with cheese at the mouth of soi 5, Sukhumvit, as the Bangkok lockdown began to ease and the Golden Arches swung back open with loving, tender, calorie inflated arms.

When not modelling for the fast food outfits Siva Strange reads omnivorously. She subscribes to Viz Magazine, Guns and Ammo, The Outsider, the Fast food Periodical, and Gardener’s world. 

In a recent fashion shoot Siva slips into the image of her favourite fictional character, Hamburger Mary, dreamed up by post-modern Beat legend William Burroughs. And who can blame the rising star for occasionally courting the classics while applying her signature purple eye shadow and strutting the streets like a tartrazine-addicted cheetah.  

Most Thai girls in Bangkok tread the straight and narrow path – university, career, marriage, kids, but Siva walks the wild side. Before covid19 she could be found dazzling stages in the high-society clubs of Ekkamai and Tong Lor, but circumstances switch our motivations and now Siva’s chasing the dream of becoming numero uno product ambassador to the hamburger lords of the 21^st Century. She’s also set to appear in a short horror film written by J.D. Strange and directed by Noah Dolinsky.    

But that’s all in the future. Right now, out on the streets of Bangkok, punters are beginning to once again sip sly beers from roadside vendors, but no such fun for Siva, who being teetotal, despite the odd MacSambuca, navigates the downtown urban sprawl of Bangkok city fueled only by hamburgers, coke, regular fries, and a cat-like urban  prowess. 

Asked by a passer by what she’s doing dressed as Ronald MacDonald’s love child Siva simply replies, “I don’t really know, na, but I’m Lovin It.” 

A Star is born. 

Life is Strange and,

The Beat Goes On.