So I went to see one of the ‘Proms’ performances at the Royal Albert Hall on a sunny Sunday afternoon. It was pretty entertaining. They are recorded for BBC radio 3 and played on the TV in the evenings.
The one I went to was pretty abstract and weird. It was a piece made about anti-religion. The choir sung pretty weird sounds as opposed to words.
West Ken tube station. (I think)
Every day I walk past a set of warehouses called Omega on the way to the set of warehouses where I live.
Most of the ones up at Omega seem to be full of musicians and people who throw massive parties. Also a few artists up there seem to have constant exhibition openings.
One of the art studios has these tags on the bars over the windows.
I pass it every day.
Its probably the most interesting of an otherwise quite dull walk down from the main road.
Last week there was a hedge maze in Trafalgar Sq. I went and completed it in less time that it took to queue to get in.
It was based kind of on streets of London.
Today I received a package from my mum. A nice wee something for my birthday I guess.
My hand is half asleep. Really the rest of me should be too.
I don’t know quite why I’m bothering with an update, outside of the fact I just finished watching the new episode of Outrageous Fortune. Gosh that series really is quite good.
I think I’m going to try and make a mix tape at some point. I’ve been building playlists in Spotify, I just now need to turn those into something.
London has been pretty hot. Today was another near 30 degree day. Its going to turn a bit for the end of the week though. Not so cool. I guess its good I organised drinks in a pub near Oxford Circus.
I am working on a plan for a couple of craft projects. I will post them here soon.
One thing I need to do is post my new dress making one, inspired by the dress a day blog.
Oh and I’ll put up a picture of the Dan Hiller I am now the owner of. God I love investing in art, even when I have no money for it!
So I finally have Internet sorted in my flat. My flat is amazing. its a warehouse in North London… This might mean I have to become an Arsenal or Tottenham fan. I live with 11 people. My room has a mezzanine floor!
I am having a great/awful time in London. Various reasons for all of this. The good is the people I’ve met, the place I’m currently staying, the cool galleries, and basically just walking around is awesome.
The bad is the expensive price of breathing in this city, the sweaty tube rides, the job, the horrible demise of my parents marriage from so far away but still getting to see the whole thing played out, the people I miss back home, not having people who will come and do all the things I want… oh and I think my health is going a bit downhill at the moment.
Lets brighten this up with some photos of the new place huh?
Ok so not that exciting, but it is my room. But not the Mezzanine. I can’t find the photo I took of that in the daylight.
Summer weather has gone to shit with the first day of June. It’s meant to be Summer London!
Hah. Anyway, we had brilliant weather over the last week or so.
Its meant to only be poos for a few days.
I took photos and when the internet will stop being craptacular, I will post sunny Londoness.
So I have a new job.
I’m listening to the Flaming Lips doing Pink Floyd’s Dark side of the Moon. Its quite cool.
I spent a fair bit of time today also listening to the new Band of Horses, Broken Social Scene and some of The Low Anthem- my SXSW discovery… and uhh…. new Eels, and Michigan by Sufjan Stevens.
This is one of the good things about my new job.
I suggest if you’re after a mellow album to wake up/fall asleep to, Sufjan is the way to go.
Ok, sorry for the lack of updates for the grand total of 4 of you who do read this! Hah.
Anyway, yes, I am in London now. Unfortunately internet access isn’t through my own computer so I haven’t posted any photos of any of the trip in ages.
I will eventually get past Austin. I promise.
This is one from my walk-a-bout in London with Simon on my first weekend.
Canada was amazing and I will share the long story of the month spent there.
I guess you want to know where I’m at in London. Well I have spent nearly 2 weeks at Maria’s. Its been great and her flatmates are lovely. I cooked a roast dinner for them mid way through last week and vacuumed their stairs and hallway today. Hopefully this makes up for the fact that I’m too poor to pay them for staying really.
London is expensive, but I’m over the fact that everything costs too much and am getting used to making a little money go a long way.
I finally saw Pavement. I could almost die happy now.
I see Tegan and Sara are playing in June. I must find a job so I can afford to go. I know tickets aren’t expensive, but spending money on shows and not food/accomodation/transport and other more important things comes first.
A while back Owen mentioned he could die happy if he saw some bands live… when he did this I made a similar list.
My list was Ben Folds, Pavement,The Eels, Tegan and Sara, Cat Power and Mogwai.
There is at least a chance that 2 of these acts will perform in London during my time here.
I missed Ben Folds in Chicago, and although I’m sad I did, I think I’ll still have a chance in the future of seeing him perform.
I guess though, now I can cross Pavement off the list of bands to see.
There are of course acts like Broken Social Scene, Band of Horses, The Shins and such which I have seen, and will happily make an effort to see again.
Tower Bridge.