Phone photos

 

 

I don't tend to take very exciting pictures with my phone, but here are a few recent-ish highlights.

1. Radiohead. Amazing. That's really all I can say about it.
2. It poured buckets and for some reason, I decided I needed a break from work and ended up just walking around for about an hour, getting soaked. But somehow only one of my shoes seemed to get wet. (Not really a highlight of recent times, but here's the picture, nonetheless.)
3. Arctic Monkeys and The Black Keys. We had seats way high up we were excited to get to sit down because it's kind of rough going to a gig after a horrible day at work, but everyone in our section stood, so we had to stand in order to be able to see anything. And I could still barely see.
During the encore, they lowered a big disco ball.  I'm not usually a real fan of big light shows during shows, but all of the different colours floating around made it seem like we were underwater.

How have things been with you?

Waiting

1. at my new dentist's office. It had fancy marble floors.

2. for the bus to go to the theatre downtown. It was too warm for tights, but I didn't find that out until I had already left the house. Typical.

3. for the bus to go to work. Or maybe this was coming home from work.

Blah

The blurriest scan ever. Oops.
I don't really have much to say at the moment. I have some proper adult decisions that need to be made, which wouldn't be such a big deal if I wasn't pretty much the world's biggest eternal baby. Sometimes I just wish someone else could make all decisions for me. I'm not sure how I'm supposed to be expected to function as an adult when I can't remember to wear my glasses at least three days a week. How does that even work? Apparently I don't notice when I can't see very well.
Wow. That sounds like a major downer. Sorry. Things are not all stressful though. I'm waiting eagerly for my CD/DVD and vinyl copies of Graham Coxon's new album, which should be here this week! I waited eagerly at my computer on Sunday for midnight to come in the UK so I could download it on itunes. Best thing ever! I've been listening to it obsessively since then. I even listen to it on repeat at work and by sneakily plugging my skype headset into my phone and hiding my phone under a stack of papers on my desk. The lengths I go to for my obsessions over music...I feel like my life would be so much better if the only decisions I had to make were which album to listen to at any given time. Although that can be pretty stressful as well.

London (3)

A few more photos from London. We stayed in a flat in Camden, which was pretty awesome. I don't like staying in hotels and am too picky to stay in hostels, so renting a flat was the perfect option. Plus then you don't have to eat out all the time!

London (2)

These are the only photos I could manage since I was pretty much freaking out the whole time.

The highlight of my trip to London was definitely seeing Blur at the Brits, which was the main motivation for my going in the first place. I know they got a lot of negative press afterwards, and yes, I might be a bit biased, but I thought they were amazing and the most exciting performers of the night.

A few days later, we went to the National Portrait Gallery, where there was a Lucian Freud exhibit. I was really struck by the following quote from him: What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.

It reminded me of what I look for in the music and made me consider what it was that I that I love so much about Blur (and all my favourite bands/musicians). I'm not just interested in something that's easy and pretty and safe. I want music that excites me and challenges me and maybe even scares me. Sure, their performance wasn't the most polished of the acts that night, but it wasn't staid and choreographed. It was full of excitement and energy and enthusiasm.

And to be perfectly honest, I was so caught up in everything and excited to be there that I really enjoyed all of the performances, even though I don't listen to any of the other artists and didn't know the songs.

Okay, I always feel super pretentious when I try to talk seriously about music and this happened nearly two weeks ago, but I just felt the need to share this.

London

Just a few photos from my trip to London. I had a really fantastic time. I was feeling a little guilty travelling all the way to Europe and not spending any time Berlin (the first time ever), but, to be honest, I'm glad I didn't try to squeeze both into the little over a week I had. I feel like whatever time I spend in London is never enough. There's just so much to see and do and eat and experience. But mostly I kind of just like visiting different areas and wandering around.

I did bring home an awful lot of tea and vegan sweets. Including a bag of peach flavoured gummy candies, which I tried to savour and only eat a couple a day, but I ended up finishing the bag in 3 days. Now I'm trying to hunt them down online.