"A Habit of You Would be Hard to Give up"

Courtesy of http://theluckycharm.wordpress.com and Weegee

"We're all hung up on someone..."

...I said to my friend Sky last weekend in Tulse Hill's lovely Portuguese Cafe following an amazing night at Plan B in Brixton (hear these related Roska and Subeena mixes) where I spent a portion of the evening, tapping my phone wildly in a drunken declaration of love to the one that i'm hung up on (forever teenage). The sending of the text was halted by a nice man from up North called Lee; he encouraged me to send it but I didn't because by the time we'd finished talking, the club was closing and I was half way sober again. Unfortunately, I lost Lee, my new agony uncle; much to the annoyance of the residents of Brixton who had to endure mine and Sky and Liam and Isa's futile shouts of 'LEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" into the dark winter night lingering over the high street.

Today, I feel like i've been punched in the stomach...maybe it's the rum; maybe it's the lack of food due to the intense packing and organising that has coloured my week, maybe it's Laura Marling... (I just has to turn her off cos I can't take anymore heart wrenching!), probably it's the goodbyes...

L'amour. L'amour... *Le sigh.*

I have no images for you right now. only words.

Sunday, I move to Paris to live! Woop woop it's exciting stuff!

Drumz de Paris coming soon...

Running.

Mad About The Boy

An afternoon spent in Croydon. I had to go the bank. My brain seemed to devise a coping-with-dull-concrete-and-shoppers mechanism by sending me visuals of naked people running wildly through fields, across roads; of jumping into huge tides, singing, yelling; all to a soundtrack of "Mad about the Boy." (wtf!!) At home, I listened to Dinah Washington on loop and googled "naked people running." Eventually Ryan McGinley revealed himself. Now I'm crazy about his images.

Seeing in Black & White

"Photography is like exercise kinda, and you just do the same thing over and over, I mean of course I like to go back to new spots and try out new cameras and new film. But I think you go back to certain things maybe because you're not done with it yet." - Ray Potes

www.raypotes.com/photos/

Currently Feelin'

Pantha Du Prince, Actress, Flying Lotus,


- Laura Marling

Nervous.

Excited.

Alive.

Grateful.

Melting Heart

"Eye looked out of the window and saw this. I told eye to ignore it because it would soon vanish into the air from where it came. But it couldn't. "Here today, gone tomorrow" I said. "Enjoy it whilst it lasts.""

Daniel

Hanna and I met Daniel at a party in Dalston after a gig. There were lots of Daniels and Davids there

Turns out, this one's an amazing photographer: www.danielmuhindi.com/

Long Live the Writers

Trains. They're not an obsession, they're a third of my life spent rattling around on these long tin caterpillars, staring out through their eyes.

Living in the same city my whole life (-3 months+holidays), writers such as Anik become familiar yet always somewhat distant and anonymous friends. Like musicians I've never met but listen to frequently.

The railways would be no where near as interesting without their signatures which remind us of their existence in a place where it's often difficult to be noticed. They make my journeys.




Locking up young graffiti artists and writers is, IMO, one of the most unjust things that happens in this country. SKEAM (small tag on the left) was a local writer who sadly committed suicide last year following a hard jail sentence for painting trains. Unfortunately, he's not the first writer to die in prison. Read more about him here, and lets hope things will change this year.

www.ilovegraffiti.de/eng/2009/02/12/r-i-p-skeam/

More On The Train photos>>

Happy New Year!

PEACE ON EARTH IN 2010.



My nephew Bash (aged 6) is a little taster of what the future holds. What does he do with his time? He reads, frequents YouTube regularly to watch kids videos with cool soundtracks and for some reason, game demos (??!) and obsesses over Transformers (formerly Ben 10, formerly Dinosaurs).

Oh and he also likes to guard the books in Sainsburys and say No to feeding the Ducks in favour of going home to write reports about his Lego soldiers.