Topic: Stephen Says
I'm lazy. So lazy that I don't know what we've been blogging about, to be honest. We had the option of staying in London over the weekend but chose to come home last night where Elisabeth slept for 13 hours straight and I, 12.
So, let's see: Neko Case was wonderful as always. It's nice to see Elisabeth get all freaked out and passionate about something. As soon as Neko came on stage, Elisabeth separated from the group and pushed her way to the front. In an odd state of affairs, Neko was almost overshadowed by her opening act, a fellow by the name of M Ward, who happenes to play a really good guitar. (Hmm, can you tell that I don't know anything about music?). Basically he's one of these lone gutarist/ singers who isn't at all angsty and sings songs about random things like "That's why I thought O'Brien was a groovy guy."
The 2nd was supposed to be a day of rest'n relaxation but it wasn't and on the evening of the 3rd, Elisabeth went out with me and my co-workers to the Indian restaurant and dance club Masti where we ate the most lovely curry (Probably the best we've had in England. Please, if you go, try their fried cheese curry.) and saw Indian drummers and danced to some pretty obnoxious Asian dance music. Well, I did - E was having a hard time coping with being awake.
The drive in was marked with a bit of excitement when the other car in our convoy was crushed just outside of Wenbley by an 18-wheeler. No injuries, just a flat tyre, some pretty nasty damage to the body-work (The car getting compacted was a cute little MG convetable) and a badly shaken up Pole who was looking at losing his job as a result of his stupidity.
After the club, we spent the night in Greenwich where we stayed up past our bedtimes and 4 of us piled into a very small bed which meant that we didn't sleep very well.
Saturday morning was a slow one but E&I finally got our acts together and went to Trafalgar Square for the big Environmental Demo which, as it turned out, was more of a publicity event for famous people to feel good about themselves and teenie-boppers (Does anyone still use that term?) to pretend to have a social conscience while cheering on their favorite bands (KT Tunstile & Razorlight, respectively) or seeing a famous actor from the hary Potter movies (Miranda Richarson who played... um, exactly who?).
Some photo's from the demo:
It was nice to see the badgers so well represented. The mutant rhino's were less so:
On the way back to Waterloo, we stumbled across this:
I had no idea that Texas had seceded and turned their new country into a fast-food chain. God bless the Country-Formerly-Known-As-The-State-Of-Texas (And America herself) for setting new standards of quality and opportunity. What I really want to know is now that they're no longer a part of America, is Bush still allowed to be 'president?'