whale dies

just heard, he/she was on a barge heading down the river towards the thames barrier...

wasn't paying attention properly, don't know what she/he died of but it's not been an easy 24 hours for the interloper...

i was down by the river this afternoon again, me & spski cycled down to the south bank to see a talk on variety shows given by various interesting people...

he took me on a great route from ours that i'm going to have to try and recreate, not my normal route by any means... culminating with waterloo bridge which we crossed around 2:15 with the sun shining through the millenium wheel in that classic almost smoky way that these winter days have sometimes...

the whale at that point was further upriver... battersea bridge, being coaxed onto the barge i guess...

of the people speaking at the thing we went to spski's work-mate C gave a 10-minute anthology of great vaudeville acts through the decades (starting in 1902), really great, a woman whose name i've already forgotten talked about her work in theatre and street theatre... a company called hesitate and ... hesitate and demonstrate maybe, alot of what she said resonated with me and with friends of mine, bo who i saw last night and my G...

a man called T had much interesting talk... related the words showman and shaman which i like...

also there were a stripper/burlesque teacher and an artist/performer who does odd marionette style dance in shop windows... or has done anyway...

met a scottish woman who i've met before and couldn't work out the connection, i've definately met her somewhere, some project i did years ago... tantalising...

anyway as i said, i saw bo last night with filmo @ his, spent part of the night playing that beautiful piano while we chatted and bo video'd around us with her new phone... interesting shape coming out on the piano, could become the second piano piece that started with connie...

lovely, lovely night... the first of many i hope in that house, reminded of how great the space is where that piano is and i want to do another gig there in the next few months...

which ties in with the fact that S offered me a spot at his live event @ the vibe bar this coming monday... i turned it down because i don't have anything ready right now but i'm really up for doing something... on my own if i can, scary prospect...

and that poor whale who lost her/his way... they weren't that hopeful yesterday about it's chances... sad though, i wanted it to have a happy ending...

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