more slowing

spam?

i said to myself as she walked away,

did she really tell me her name was spam?

she'd come to the railing to ask if i was scared of rolling over and falling into the thames... i was lying on that apron of concrete behind the railing by the tate modern, where the steps go down to the water... my camera was resting on my keys to get the right angle for this film... 5th so far of my slowing bicycle wheel videos... considering using one or more of them behind my gig @ the vibe bar if i can... i'd gotten my head down there to check that the angle was right on the camera and then i'd realised i liked it down there... decided to lie down there for the ten minutes or so the wheel takes to slow down...



i realised after a little while that i was attracting attention from the passers by but it didn't really bother me, just means that their faces are often facing the camera when walking passed...

then spam happened...

i told her that the video would be up on my blog, which is why i'm posting here so promptly... well... 9 hours later or so...

after this i cycled into town to eventually meet dinah in her break... passed through the barbican and it's high walks... a fascinating place that i cycle passed on my route to londonbridge work... the crashing into the barrier event (which was on the same day that me & dinah became officially boyfriend/girlfriend) was right by the barbican, the three towers i just find amazing... many photos of them today... in fact if you ever scroll all the way to the bottom of this blog, my bottom edge is taken from a photo of one of the barbican towers...

but hang on a minute... that was yesterday... i hadn't uploaded the pictures or indeed blogged properly so i'm getting my days mixed up...

oh no... can't tell all of yesterday's shenanigans now...

oh... mixed up...

but it's still uploading over there on youtube so... just briefly...

the inspiration for using films in my gig came from a gig i went to last night with felinity, P over on livejournal was performing her poetry inamongst a variety of different poets/film makers/musicians...

P had the misfortune to go on after the musicians who inexplicably played for thirty minutes or so, depleting the audience sadly... not terrible music actually, i kind of liked it, and really liked moments of it, it was just badly timed...

P was great though, really nice to see her do her thing, including walking london which she quoted on her blog the day she wrote it in a very emotional, windswept post a little while ago...

i'm going to try and perform there myself, with that promoter at least... kookie guy with his french poetry and his odd pronunciation of the word applause (applose)...

dinah came right at the end, we'd met earlier on before she went to work and it was lovely that she could come to that event, felinity had left by then so they didn't meet this time, soon though i'm sure...

the barbican was yesterday then, along with the insane rain/hail showers and bright sunshine... i did another of these slowing bicycle wheel videos just on the north side of the thames, a mad hail shower gracing the second half of it... i'll be uploading it soon, (not that i expect anyone to sit through it, ten minutes is a long time on the internet) - i may try google videos soon, check out the quality against youtube...

that's right, today i went from this video to the bookstall underneath waterloo bridge and bought carter beats the devil, on felinity's advice... challenged the bookseller to a game of chess but he said he was packing up soon, i'm going to try and play him tomorrow or friday...

but i've been muttering inanely for way too long, the video is still uploading but i have a girlfriend to entertain... ah... there you go... there it is in all it's glory...

oh and i made a friend today - lovely man by the name of M, a teacher @ westminster...

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