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ventaHmm. I don't seem to have been keeping people up to date with the minutae of my life. Lucky people.
So the last few days in executive summary:
Oh, and last week's Designated Hero (yeah, I'm behind on DHWs as well, sod it) is the Reading bus driver who collected fares manually (instead of letting people push their money in the slot) so he could give me change. (Reading buses stopped giving changed "for my convenience" around a year ago). Actually, in a burst of transport-related heroism, DHW for the previous week is the bus driver who told me how to get to Marble Arch when I mistakenly stranded myself late at night after the gig in Camden...
Well, tonight was the first attempt at Greed, an 80s night in Oxford. Which I really meant to advertise to some of you lot who'd have been interested, but, er, forgot. An 80s night is not necessarily the sort of thing I'd expect me to go to, but Tim (who was organising) was threatening stomping if there wasn't a good turnout. And so I went - Tim's a big lad, and I don't want to be stomped.
It was a smallish evening, but there do seem to be plans for a second.... It was mostly 80s pop, really, but just as I was wondering how much more of that I could stomach, Nils[*] saved the day with Blister in the Sun and Should I Stay or Should I Go and Prime Mover... It's a shame that the things that usually get played at 80s nights are almost always the cheesey end of the pop spectrum. However, both Nils and the BabyCairns (does that guy have a name?) were trotting out some slightly more interesting things. Hopefully a trend which'll continue as the night gets going...
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nils.
So the last few days in executive summary:
- Arsenic and Old Lace is a good play (black comedy, though slightly more farcical than I was expecting), and the Strand Theatre production is worth seeing.
- The American Bar at the Savoy Hotel is really, really nice.
- Chippenham is great on a sunny late spring bank holiday Monday - the entire high street blocked off, with a market at one end and a big ceilidh at the other.
- Spice Cafe do a particularly inferior lamb passanda.
- I got visited by failmaster, whom I haven't seen in ages.
Oh, and last week's Designated Hero (yeah, I'm behind on DHWs as well, sod it) is the Reading bus driver who collected fares manually (instead of letting people push their money in the slot) so he could give me change. (Reading buses stopped giving changed "for my convenience" around a year ago). Actually, in a burst of transport-related heroism, DHW for the previous week is the bus driver who told me how to get to Marble Arch when I mistakenly stranded myself late at night after the gig in Camden...
Well, tonight was the first attempt at Greed, an 80s night in Oxford. Which I really meant to advertise to some of you lot who'd have been interested, but, er, forgot. An 80s night is not necessarily the sort of thing I'd expect me to go to, but Tim (who was organising) was threatening stomping if there wasn't a good turnout. And so I went - Tim's a big lad, and I don't want to be stomped.
It was a smallish evening, but there do seem to be plans for a second.... It was mostly 80s pop, really, but just as I was wondering how much more of that I could stomach, Nils[*] saved the day with Blister in the Sun and Should I Stay or Should I Go and Prime Mover... It's a shame that the things that usually get played at 80s nights are almost always the cheesey end of the pop spectrum. However, both Nils and the BabyCairns (does that guy have a name?) were trotting out some slightly more interesting things. Hopefully a trend which'll continue as the night gets going...
[*]A quick prod about in other people's friends lists suggests I mean
nils.
