Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger indeed!
Must have taken ages to work out and longer to get it right!
My apologies to the original creator on YouTube - The URL assigned to your video breaks the software which allows me to embed YouTube clips in my blog, mainly because your URL contains a double ‘–’. So I have had embed another version.
The original creator is FrEckleStudios - I just wanted to give credit where it is due.
Fab!
I had forgotten how much I love the British Museum, so I am glad I took my folks there today and refreshed my memory.
The building itself is quite imposing, with the columns and steps leading up to the entrance….
But the most stunning things about the place is the glass roof over the Great Court - a great example of how classical and modern architecture can work so well together.
If you have never been, or have not been since the Great Court was opened in 2000, then it should be placed firmly on your ‘to do’ list.
And it’s free!
Walking from Squat & Gobble today, on our way to the British Museum, I decided to cut through Bedford Square for no other reason than it is a really nice Georgian square and I thought my folks would like it.
On rounding the corner we see this installation - a summer pavilion designed by some local Architecture students.
It’s fab! All the more so because we happened on it by chance.
This is exactly the sort of reason why I love London!
No, it’s not a sexual request, nor the name of some second rate porn movie (although I’m not gonna turn down the former if the right offer should come along - wahay!) - but it is rather a fab place to go for breakfast.
I have been a couple of times now and have always been well sated.
Great food at a very reasonable price.
Highlights are the Full English Breakfast and the ‘Posh’ Fish Finger Sandwich.
Click the image for website with menu and address etc.
Enjoy!
Took my folks on the London Eye this evening, and they took my advice in going as the sun was setting - the above being the sunset we witnessed from the top. I was so pleased we timed it just right!
I think my Mum & Dad really enjoyed it, and I was especially proud of my Mum for going up, as she normally likes to keep her feet firmly on terra firma.
Again I suggest - If you say you’re bored of London, you just ain’t trying….
How can you get bored of experiences like these?
I have been a fan of Apparat for some years now, since I first heard the Duplex album and the Tttrial And Eror EP back in 2004. The latest release, Walls, is no less worthy of my attention - quite frankly it is Lush (upper case ‘L’ most definitely intended).
Sascha Ring, aka Apparat, has always been able to take complex and glitchy electronica and add an emotional level often lacking in glitchier music. Last years collaboration with Ellen Allien (another fave of mine) on their Orchestra of Bubbles album showed an increased use of vocals in his music, and that has continued here and helps to add feeling to the music.
Walls is possibly his most accessible release to date, and draws from many genres over its length - yet the album has a cohesiveness so you are not left feeling like there are too many styles - it is most definitely the work of Apparat.
There are some truly beautiful tracks on this album, I defy the stony hearted among you to disagree.
Hear it!
Got my folks coming into town tomorrow (Sunday) until Tuesday, so I have taken a couple of days off work.
Will be great to see them - last time was just before Christmas. I have a few things planned for what we can do while they’re here, and a few back up options in case the weather jumps up and bites us in the ass, as it often does at the moment.
Lazy day today - am actually re-reading the latest Harry Potter book already. I often seem to do this with the books I really enjoy, as I tend to miss of forget details in the first reading.
Still no World of Warcraft though - not got around to getting a new PSU for my desktop machine after the original one died so spectacularly recently.
Oh… and only 4 weeks until our trip to San Francisco….
BRING IT ON!
Nearly 2 million hits in a week and a half - I wonder if they get time off for good behaviour?
I love YouTube!
***NO SPOILER***
Well….
That’s it….
I finished it last night, after reading most of it in a state of oblivious engrossment in a marathon all day session on Sunday, disturbed only by food and toilet breaks.
I thoroughly enjoyed it - it’s exciting and tense and gripping and sad and exhilarating and a whole host of other emotives that spring to mind.
I am also left with a certain melancholy - there are no more….
This book will have its critics, probably those who have forgotten that this is, ultimately, a kids book, albeit one whose kids have grown up since the first book was published ten years ago (wow! - I know!).
A great end to a great series of books set to be modern classics.
Read it!
How the fuck does one accumulate so much clutter in so short a span of time?
Have thrown away 4 bags of crap, plus one broken portable TV, from one room - and I have only lived here for 18 months.
Most of it is stuff that I kept because ‘it might come in useful’ - but I have never looked at it again.
So why do I do it?
I think I’m just a natural born hoarder!
NOTE TO SELF - No, it will not come in useful, nor is that ticket stub from that holiday flight ever going to get looked at again, and those computer parts are going to be obsolete in 6 months so there’s no point keeping them ‘just in case’.
Chuck it!
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