celebrations
Tonight was awesome. Today is both my nameday and the 159th anniversary of the medium(18 month)-lived Hungarian revolution against Habsburg/Austrian rule, and the joint celebration was sponsored by the Hungarian government in the form of a concert of the Free Style Chamber Orchestra, to which Ilona got us a couple of tickets and at which I failed to keep still in my seat. It was fantastic, like Wynton Marsalis' jazz band with the London philharmonic at the royal albert hall, but different (although no less good, I would say).
Last night having (an appropriately improvised) dinner, we listened to the recording of Miles Davis + band live at the blackhawk theatre blah, which is an awesome recording, especially when played loud on an incredible sound system while I am winning at poker (not during dinner - another time). This was kind of like that, but livelive (I'm also reading Salman Rushdie).
I'm not sure I have hurd a Tekerő Lond before, but what character!
Also I met only the third non-UNish person who I liked a lot in a very short space of time. And the Hun government bought us lots of wonderful wine and food, the former of the quality thateight of nine glasses goes unnoticed the next day. Excellent. My flight is on the 27th.
Last night having (an appropriately improvised) dinner, we listened to the recording of Miles Davis + band live at the blackhawk theatre blah, which is an awesome recording, especially when played loud on an incredible sound system while I am winning at poker (not during dinner - another time). This was kind of like that, but livelive (I'm also reading Salman Rushdie).
I'm not sure I have hurd a Tekerő Lond before, but what character!
Also I met only the third non-UNish person who I liked a lot in a very short space of time. And the Hun government bought us lots of wonderful wine and food, the former of the quality thateight of nine glasses goes unnoticed the next day. Excellent. My flight is on the 27th.
posted by chris at 4:04 PM
6 Comments:
ad 1 - that is tekerőlant! :-)
ad 2 - toooo bad that you are leaving on the 27th. Is there somebody in London who will pick you up at the airport at that late hour of arriving? (just in brackets for you London-people... Chris asked me to ask one of you, (for example Joe) - since this honourable friend of ours (in case you would not recognize him according to this description, this was meant to be Chris) would not do that because of not liking to ask such things - to offer a lift spontaneously to him when he arrives... so please do that ;-)
Ahh, I hope you enjoyed my nice HUN structure of the sentence :-)))
Cheeeeeeers
ahem. i expressly and blushingly request that nobody pick me up at the airport. that would be absurd.
London has night buses, and they are good. In fact, they are excellent, although I am told that fares have gone up again, except on Oyster. While I support the move to Oyster for convenience and time-saving reasons, I utterly oppose a) the coercive and punitive nature of this move and b) the fact that ken livingstone, the police and MI5 are in cahoots to further undermine our civil liberties and keep track of the movements of londoners.
and for non-londoners and tourists? it's a disaster - i have resolved that along with extra toothbrushes, a good host in london should have a stock of oyster cards to lend to visitors for the duration of their visits. of course, that won't stop them paying twenty pounds (thirty euros, 1000 SKK) for the trip from stansted, but it's a start.
he may pretend to not be new labour, but ken is a proto-fascist security service lickspittle turncoat like the rest of them.
ok, rant over.
... oh, I am sure that familz and friends are so happz to see you - stupid keyboard mixes up z and y - that they will not be able to rest in their nice comfortable beds hugging their pillows while you are arriving home with your huge luggage in the middle of the night...
and if they are able to do this... mmm... maybe you should think about buying a return ticket... ;-)
new or old labour, either way I think we should all be trying to abolish it (labour that is). If I object to it so much how must all the people experiencing hard labour feel.
Oyster card fares have gone up, just not as much as the rest of em.
Twill be nice to have you in the country.
I'd offer to pick you up but as I have no car that would just be an expensive and unnecessary act of love (and would cause me to be very tired at work the next day). Normally I am all for those sorts of things but I am pretty sure a car will be meeting you.
I met clive at the airport when he came to stay, but then he was coming to stay with me and he doesn't know his way about london. That trip cost me big time and the transport service should be ashamed. You should be able to get a special meeting people discount or something. It's hard enough to even be allowed to stand on platforms to meet people of trains these days.
If you were going to come to my gig in Brixton on wednesday then don't because its been canceled. I have a gig the week after tho, but its not in Brixton. But still...
Really if your using cars to get to and fro you should be trying for car shares to have some effect on reducing carbon emissions and all that. I suggest rather than someone coming to meet you, that a you organise for you and a few fellow travelers to travel in some business mans/womans Mercedes with them, maybe even turf the business person out of the car so there's more room for thems that need it.
I just got your letter - another Friday evening smile was smiled (and again several times during the reading process). I want to write back but it occurred to me that you are coming back soon - 27th of March or 27th of April? April means letter, March means maybe no letter (or maybe a letter delivered by hand? Or posted a good while later?)
March means on Tuesday... hooray!
I also have no car, though I can drive which is more than Dave can, so I wouldn't accept a lift from him if he did have one!
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The fact that I can't drive should make the prospect of travel with me even more enticing. It's an adventure. Maybe even a coming of age movie. And what about when the cops start getting suspicious and we have to have a smokey and the bandit sort of car chase.
It can't be too hard, I've seen other people do it.
Sadly though I have no car. But if I ever get hold of one I'll make sure you're the first person I make an accessory to the crime, hows that?
see you soon
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