one monkey

a hazard to public hygiene that's what i am...

there's a wierd bit under a railway bridge on the regents canal that has an odd concrete shape in it... when i first saw it i thought it was a grand piano, even though it would be insane for a grand piano to be down there...

i've often cycled past it and thought about using it in a music video... me sat at this concrete shape as though it were a piano... as if i'll ever be making a music video!

anyway, i drank afew with felinity tonight and i was cycling along the canal afterwards (with no lights), needing a wee, i decided that when one monkey don't stop the show came on my shuffle (from the album soul journey by gillian welch) i would stop and take a piss...

and lo and behold if that moment didn't come just as i was passing the concrete piano...

so i stood astride it and wee'd for all my worth...

there, you really needed to know that huh?

funnily enough the last time i'd seen felinity (last wednesday, in amongst my huge cycling day) we'd drunk a pint and she'd enquired after what i do when nature calls on one of these long cycle journeys...

a little later, after the piano soiling, i was cycling on the little bit of road you have to cycle on at night because a section of the regent canal by camdem is closed...

all very safe, hardly any cars, i realised that in that space - still kind of cycling by the canal in my mind - i was cycling without lights, without my helmet, whilst listening to my ipod shuffle... really can be stupid if i choose to be...

it really was a killer day when i'd made that journey the other way earlier today... spring teasing us... me & G had breakfasted at manolis's where an old greek cypriot guy who i'd met before stopped to chat with us... at one point he gazed deep into G's eyes and said...

you have beautiful... literature... and culture in your country... but you allow your children to be ignorant...

my journey was heavenly, the sun shining down, one of those dusty, sunny afternoons... i'd found bebel gilberto in my computer and i had my shuffle on random... her august day song came on at one point on the canal, the lovely feeling of the sun, the music, the moving at speed beside water... as though everything was expanding... an apreciation of space... internal and external...

then after work i had a pint with jazz pianist J from hammersmith before meeting felinity... somehow with the approach of spring my desire to drink pints has increased, guinness all the way...

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