eh, i rescind. its not bad, but its not what it could be. kind of lame in total. over it, excited to move on. har har.

edit: sorry this was so cryptic, really i was squeezing the last few minutes out of my internet cafe hour. the initial impression of the backpacker beat in bangkok sort of washed away and the view of what was left was not in any way really impressive. sort of busted nightlife, people encouraged to gravitate to a low denometer- but where we were-banglamphu/kho sahn road was fairly comfortable, massages were good and and no funny business, food was tasty. lots of the same cool t shirts, shops with bootlegged cd's and dvd's, ridiculous bric-a-brac, good used books, ubiquitous generic scarves and ethnic looking paraphenelia. plus, almost all the bars close at one. sort of a mix of the conceits of Haight-Ashbury and the secret soul of Niagra Falls.