FACEBOOK JANUARY - JULY 2010
5-JAN Just finished a 'blog' of our year 2009 with photos (of course), and links to our holidays photo album, where I've added our trip tp Malaysia, Sumatera and Java four months ago.
10-JAN Spent the morning in Saatchi's Gallery, one of the
great free-stuff-to-do in London. (Well he can well afford philanthropy so who
am I to refuse!). Particularly enjoyed the basement gallery which is in fact
the basement gallery exactly half-filled with sump oil! (A sculpture by the
way). And the biggest origami I've ever seen, life-size blue pianist from a
single sheet of tarpaulin.
18-JAN Lovely sunshine blue-skies and may be 10 degrees in
the Chiltern Hills this morning. No idea quite how I managed to get there for a
walk by 11am though: After stomping around several Camden bars all evening -
including the excellent Hawley Arms - missing the last tube, walking home in
the pouring rain by 2am, *and* having not eaten anything all night (!! ~ Andy
!! ~ Pete !!)
22-JAN Back from the thankfully un-frozen but instead very
wet North/East of England, where sadly we buried my good friend and colleague
Tony. May He Ride in Peace.
23-JAN Best movie I've seen for ages. Highly
recommended even if not your usual preferred genre: 2008 release now out on
DVD, official trailer at http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3480485913/
winner 57 awards so far. Not to be confused with an appalling Hollywood re-make
now in production!
24-JAN Went this Sunday morning to the
"Beatles to Bowie the Sixties Exposed" exhibit at the National
Portrait Gallery. Contrary to popular belief I can't remember the decade
first-hand being only 13 when it ended! (At least not the Swinging London
part). Must remember not to leave these things til the last day though... it
was mobbed, but still an enjoyable hour or two ;)
24-JAN Went see 3D Avatar at last ~ Brilliant !
29-JAN Absolutely blistering new song (Ha Ha Li Li) from Sa
Dingding precursor of new album for 2010, her second: To be released on real-world
old-fashioned CD 8-Feb, but already No.1 on i-Tunes evidently!
www.youtube.com
1-FEB ...off to Emirates stadium now to see ManU thrash the
Arsenal !
...and so"we" did, 3-1 Ha ha ha!
3-FEB ... a light dusting of snow here in Bedfordshire today
(and in Town this morning before we left...) ... waiting for my lunch ~ so
where is it then??
ps. went to Santa Pod while there and watched lots of folks
pointlessly (but that's the attraction isn't it ;) burning tons of rubber,
shredding huge tyres and generally polluting the planet something rotten - fab!
8-FEB After lunch a walk,
from Tower Bridge to just East of Canary Wharf. Chanced on the Brunel Museum,
sited in the pump house of the elder Brunel's Thames Tunnel of 1824 - the first
under-river tunnel in the World and the oldest part of the London Underground
still in used today. Interesting. Must return on a sunny day as ...no less than
*nine* pubs en route i.e. one every six minutes!
20-FEB Speeding across a sunny Gloucestershire in a 1st
class carriage (free ticket!) all to myself. The West Coast line Brunel's
engineering masterpiece. Will visit Slimbridge wetlands reserve for a spot of
bird-watching in the morning. As you do...
20-FEB Not a sign of the portended 'wintry showers' around
the Severn Estuary today, in fact bright if breezy at Britain's premiere
wetlands reserve: Saw a great many ducks.
21-FEB Off to see Alessi tonight, Yippee! see LIVE in
Manchester~ http://www.last.fm/music/Alessi%27s+Ark/+videos/+1-5uSfJJWjtiI
27-FEB In the library this
AM .... miffed that my fave the Diamond Sutra not on show ~ what just because it's the worlds'
oldest printed book (868 AD!) and has to be preserved! Bah. Had to content with
the "Codex Sinaiticus" an over-One Thousand Six Hundred year-old
hand-written book http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/
*Amazin'*
www.codexsinaiticus.org
Codex Sinaiticus is one of the most important books in
the world. Handwritten well over 1600 years ago, the manuscript contains the
Christian Bible in Greek, including the oldest complete copy of the New
Testament
13-Mar On the way back from Brunel Museum wandered along the beach at sunset, only
30 minutes from our place... who'd a thought it! VIDEO HERE LINK (Music
courtesy of my friend Reid and his Tree-top Flyers, check 'em out on MySpace
etc)
13-Mar Special occasion at the Brunel Museum, Rotherhithe: For the last time
*ever* the public allowed to walk the Thames Tunnel - first underwater one in
the World and still the oldest pasrt of the oldest underground system in the
World. In fact I was the very last person of all those remaining queued to be
let in!
Andy Hamer
I would have liked to have been there, Brunel was truly
an amazing engineer.
7-MAR Off in 5 mins (if Yvonne is ever ready!!) to the local jazz club, a pastime
we're particularly fond of especially of a Sunday evening, when usually it's
quiet(er) but not tonight as these guys are real popular just now!
Dave
O'Higgins/Eric Alexander Tour 2010
They were *really* good: Check out the sounds at: http://www.jazzizit.co.uk/albums/sketchbook.html
7-MAR Crunchy frost under-foot in the Chilterns this morning but unrelenting
sunshine (at long last!) Signs of Spring abounding, snow-drops a-dropping,
skylarks a-singing, crocii-ususes's threatening to a-bloom any day soon.
Afterwards a pint of Brakespear's Golden and a corned-beeef sandwich to cap it
all off. Sunday. Tremendous.
14-MAR Watching the ad reels, waiting for 3D Alice in Wonderland to start.
Love this technology, hope it's as cool as Avatar!
OK - totally TRIPEE there! Nox spotz off Avatar: Being a
classically fabulous story definitely helps (Rather than the dumbed-down
save-a-tree parable that let down Cameron's effort so badly!). And equally, or
probably more, stunning visuals. Alice Rocks :)
...h! Ultra cool. And punk-bluesy too.
Perfection :)
...ns still in 2000 years later!!!
Amazin'. Best of all: See World's oldest garment... a 5000-year old dress.
Brilliant.
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Ce
titre
...re for a while!). It works! She does
Rox ;)
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Iggy and the Stooges at Hammersmith Apollo, W6 live reviews |
Music | Arts & Entertainment - Times O
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk
With
the death of the guitarist Ron Asheton last year it looked as if it was all
over for the Stooges — again. But in another twist in an already surreal tale,
the vacancy coincided with James Williamson, ...
Janey
Robertson and Timo Budow like this.
Liz
Biscoe
well
i saw his bum on tv today, on the programme loose women, discussing the fact
that at 67 he should not be showing his butt off in such a loose fasion. !
before he ironed it anyway lol , some things need to be left to the
imagination!!!!!
John
Owen
...fair's
fair, he's only 62 actually Liz - but, yes from three rows back his butt
hanging out is far from a pretty sight ;)
They work their way inside, and I can't hide or
even walk away
Iggy Pop - I Want To Go To The Beach (Live @ France Inter)
www.youtube.com
Iggy
Pop performs live at France Inter in Studio 105 on May 29th 2009 for the
release of his album PRELIMINAIRES. ----------------------------- Enregistré
par Pierre MONTEIL, le jeudi 28 mai 2009 pour Radio France (France Inter) dans
le studio 105, pour la sortie de son album PRELIMINAIRES
Emma
Elizabeth Thornington
cheer
up. It might not happen.
John
Owen
Clearly,
you haven't yet read the book ;)
(turned
out... I'm down with some throat lurgy and fairly bruised ribs after Monday's
melee at Iggy,... perhaps should act my age?)... any-old-way: Here's the
other big discovery for me of Camden Crawl last weekend: Hard psychedelia from
Tokyo's Natccu: http://natccu.com/category/live/
Timo Budow
Andy
Hamer
Have
a good trip
John
Owen
Arrived
in record travel time, of recent times anyhow. 3.33hrs for 272 miles, av 82 mph
door-to-door... so confess to having been pushing it a little in places - and
cruising no less than 90 except for B'ham ringroad... not often that happens
any more in this congested isle!
David
Gera
Not
that anyone would admit to going over 70mph .... Have a good time up north!
Spectacular day walking on a Fell
overlooking Coniston Water, Lake District - three of the four seasons in an
afternoon tho'! Typical. Great fun, despite an hour spent wander ing aimlessly
trying to pick up the trail across boggy moor :(
Andy
Hamer
thats
why you need gps or os map on your i phone!!!
John
Owen
...could
have taken a bearing, but decided against, seemed I had it pegged at that
point... GPS Pah! NO fun at all - no wonder the age of the craftsman has passed!
Andy
Hamer
Some
say the earth's flat!
Mark
Houghton
Plenty
of crafty men around here JTO...
... in Town anytime soon.)
5-JUNE
Karen
Fletcher
Good
way to spend a Saturday, I guess? I am finished for the summer!!!! The joys of
teaching! One of them anyway. Love to Yvonne.
(Hi
Karen...) Well would have been, if not for fighting grid-locked traffic for an
hour (Thanks! To the ass-hole who decided to close the Blalckwall Tunnel on a
Saturday lunch-time ~ brilliant thinking !!). So diverted to a mate's sunny
back-garden for a while, then on to visit a Buddhist Centre I wanted to see -
found it's closed at weekends.. aargh! Not the most successful of outings ;)
Back home. Where's dinner?
Oh
well. There will be another weekend or not. As for dinner, I have decided to
leave that to Clive these days. I don't like cooking anymore. We share...
www.chilternsaonb.org
The
Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Details may be found here about
visiting the Chilterns, news and events, projects that are conserving the
Chilterns and the work of the Chilterns Conservation Board.
...of profound emotional
revelation"... so there ya go!
(later..) Alessi great as always. The bloke Grant, well! If I say Leonard Cohen is an absolute hoot by comparison... this would be to under-state the man's mood!! What more can be said of an artist who introduces a composition with an anecdotal reference to his mother's hystorectomy?
10-JUNE I think last time I was in Manchester rail station
steam trains were still in use! Can't see the station has changed all that
much. But this new 'tilting' train of Virgin gets from/to London in 2 hours
8mins... not bad at all.
13-JUNE (MY MOM’S BIRTHDAY) Wandered a couple of early
Sunday hours (i.e. while the tourists yet were breakfasting) around the
'Temple' area near the river here. Amazing the history still evident right on
our doorstep! The temple of the Knights Templar who, on having their butts
kicked on the last of the crusades, then had their properties occupi...ed by
the 14th Century lawyers, it being consequently to this day one of the 'Inns of
Court'.
Joe - You will especially
like this one ;)
Hitler and the
vuvuzela at the 2010 Fifa World Cup.
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17-JUNE ...the excitement mounts: Off in about an hour
to see ROX at Scala, Kings X ... it is going to be (as they say...) utterly
awsome. If you haven't listened already then chekc her out, it doesn't get much
better than this ~ apart from being there Live of course!
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We can agree I have seen a few great shows in my time? I
just got back from the BEST GIG I EVER SAW IN MY LIFE!! At the front of an
audience of 900, largest she ever played to - incredibly! An utterly compelling
performane: Modesty precludes my revealing the words she so kindly inscribed on
my CD ;)
18-JUNE Video about the history of (and
recent theats to...) Charlotte Street and our Fitzrovia neighbourhood. Opens
with a clip from the Beatles film "Help" of fab four running to
perform in the building we look on to from our front-room ~ folklore or what!
Viva Fitzrovia – A short film about Fitzrovia | West End | London
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West End: Guide to West End News & information, London,
Restaurants, Bars, Property & shopping. West End.
19-JUNE (Click on the YouTube
link for much better sound!...) Rox at the Scala Thursday if you pause this at
seconds 12 & 13 that's my hand, nose(!) and forehead at the very bottom
right. And, YES... some definite audience participation with yours-truly
happening right there :)
Dream - Rox
(live) @ Scala, King's Cross, London -- 17 Jun 2010
www.youtube.com
The newest addition to the UK pop soul scene performs a
great version of the Fleetwood Mac song Read my gig review at MSN Music UK http://bit.ly/9I7dU0
21-JUNE Sunday, as close to a
perfect day as I could come: At the London Wetlands Centre first-thing for an
hour or so bird-watching. By 1pm, was at the V&A Museum to catch a short
acoustic set by the diva-in-waiting ROX. (...part of the BBC's "Blast"
initiative, kind of work-expereince in creative arts and media for young
peo...ple.). After, took in some of the collection notably the Asian Buddhas.
On the way home caught a 'trad' folk singer, Martin Ledner, doing a set on the
lawn, and bought his CD. Well worth it. Have a listen...
The Official Martin Ledner site
www.martinledner.com
The official Martin Ledner site. Shows, News, Biography,
Music, Shouting in the Woods and much much more....
24-JUNE Departed to five days
of Alfa Romeo Centenary festivities. A little sad? Maybe. But then again,
excellent excuse to hang out in Milan :)
24-28 JUNE We had a few days
in Milan
28-JUNE Couldn't post
anything much the past five days... Milan didn't seem to agree with my phone
when it came to getting a connection! ~ was hardly bothered tho' far too much
else to see and drink ;)
29-JUNE ...going thru the post on return home and thrills! At
Long Last it's arrived!! My very own copy of the best movie ever "Let The
Right One In"... must see (but don't be alone in the dark ;)
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN trailer
www.youtube.com
FIND OUT MORE at http://www.theauteurs.com/films/415 An
Audience Favorite in nearly every Film Festival it attended, LET THE RIGHT ONE
IN is one of the most original and daring coming-of-age movies to hit the big
screen that will haunt for the longest time.
1-JULY John Owen Excellent day - that was :)
(apart from that game!!)
Enjoying a drink with friends at Lake Como, Italy.
by:David Gera
3-JULY Indoors all day, bit of shame in view of the good
weather! Attended an 'un-conference' aka a 'bar-camp' (! ~ could've been worse,
might've been a camp-bar ;) A bunch of keen folks discussing Green IT, so of
some interest ... and has to be the way to go.
4-JULY Sunday lunch & a ramble, Great British
tradition. The Bear at Home, North Moreton, South Oxfordshire - excellent ale
but no sausages on Sundays - Bah! Was looking forward to that! Nevermind walk
on the North Wessex Downs there was peaceful, saw only one old lady with
geriatric dog and a cyclist (...one too many ;) in ...the near 3 hours to cover
13 kms! Not bad considering the pretty sweltering weather.
5-JULY via ROX: Just, Go out and BUY IT !
Radio 538: My
Baby Left Me - Rox LIVE @ Middagshow
www.youtube.com
Rox kwam langs in het Kurhaus bij Frank Dane.