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Hey all,
I just had a pretty hardcore weekend.
Thursday night I hung with friends in Camden, and wound up crashing on the floor of a friend's Camden Bedsit (possibly the only time I wish I had shorted legs).
Friday I was supposed to go out to some club to meet some friends (extremely loose arrangement) but I wound up putting my plans back to watch a new episode of the Simpsons, and thus wound up missing that last train out of Leytonstone.
Never did wind up making it to the club, but had some minor adventures trying to get there (seeing the N8 route in the reverse order to the usual, seeing some nice looking Georgian buildings in Bethnal Green, meeting some students from Sheffield on a bus etc). Eventually I met some friends who happen to live in Leytonstone kicking around Oxford Street, and took the bus back with them.
I love London, but it annoys me that with the possible exception one or two sketchy bars in Soho and some really bad cafes/kebabishes (and Slimelight on Saturdays) there is pretty much nowhere to go after a certain hour. In Brisbane at least there was always Fatboys or Jimmy's on the Mall, or the Beat or something. I've said it before, I'll say it again: it is a flat out lie that London is a twenty-four hour city. Posters stating this should be erected in every other city in the world.
Saturday I took care of some domestic duties and Saturday Night I headed into Slimelight. Slimes started slowly but before the end every man, his mother and her dog were present. There were Strength Through Joy regulars who didn't even go to the last Strength Through Joy. Not to mention that I got to see two great laptop shows (one of the being
Also: two or three people told me that they had read reviews I had written for Alt Mag and liked my style/ability to communicate the nature of the show in the small space available. Which is an ego boost. At least one of these people is in a position to introduce me to editorial staff on some other established magazines. I would be far more specific, but I think that I do far too much name dropping in this blog, so anyone who wants to know more about it please feel free to e-mail me (jason_deathpixie@hotmail.com) and I'll tell you all about it.
After Slimelight I had breakfast with a few friends at a greasy spoon cafe nearby, then took a swoop through Camden before coming back to Leytonstone.
Today I have fish to fry and fires to poke.
More news as it comes.
Over and out
-J
I just had a pretty hardcore weekend.
Thursday night I hung with friends in Camden, and wound up crashing on the floor of a friend's Camden Bedsit (possibly the only time I wish I had shorted legs).
Friday I was supposed to go out to some club to meet some friends (extremely loose arrangement) but I wound up putting my plans back to watch a new episode of the Simpsons, and thus wound up missing that last train out of Leytonstone.
Never did wind up making it to the club, but had some minor adventures trying to get there (seeing the N8 route in the reverse order to the usual, seeing some nice looking Georgian buildings in Bethnal Green, meeting some students from Sheffield on a bus etc). Eventually I met some friends who happen to live in Leytonstone kicking around Oxford Street, and took the bus back with them.
I love London, but it annoys me that with the possible exception one or two sketchy bars in Soho and some really bad cafes/kebabishes (and Slimelight on Saturdays) there is pretty much nowhere to go after a certain hour. In Brisbane at least there was always Fatboys or Jimmy's on the Mall, or the Beat or something. I've said it before, I'll say it again: it is a flat out lie that London is a twenty-four hour city. Posters stating this should be erected in every other city in the world.
Saturday I took care of some domestic duties and Saturday Night I headed into Slimelight. Slimes started slowly but before the end every man, his mother and her dog were present. There were Strength Through Joy regulars who didn't even go to the last Strength Through Joy. Not to mention that I got to see two great laptop shows (one of the being
Also: two or three people told me that they had read reviews I had written for Alt Mag and liked my style/ability to communicate the nature of the show in the small space available. Which is an ego boost. At least one of these people is in a position to introduce me to editorial staff on some other established magazines. I would be far more specific, but I think that I do far too much name dropping in this blog, so anyone who wants to know more about it please feel free to e-mail me (jason_deathpixie@hotmail.com) and I'll tell you all about it.
After Slimelight I had breakfast with a few friends at a greasy spoon cafe nearby, then took a swoop through Camden before coming back to Leytonstone.
Today I have fish to fry and fires to poke.
More news as it comes.
Over and out
-J
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