The Triumph of the Clothes!
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annwfynSo, yesterday worked out very well in the end.
Somehow I managed to take three totally different plans, featuring five totally different people, two of them from outside London, and blend them together. And lo! It was good.
Yesterday started with me meeting up withskinny_cartman for the first time in years. No, literally, years. I think about three years, to be precise. We bimbled around London for a bit, got lunch, and actually managed to find enough time to drop by the Imperial War Museum for an hour, which was wonderful and very unexpected as I did not think we'd have time before going to meet pierot, ksirafai and adze. I dragged Matt around the Holocaust Exhibition (which is my third time since Christmas, due to MA thesis stuffs) and then we went and found adze.
From there, we moved onwards to Camden, which was to provide the long, the exhausting, but the ultimately successful Shopping Day Of Fun.
Our goals were simple.
1) A leather trench coat and New Rock boots for Jeremiah - SUCCESS
2) Costume for Matt's Changeling - SUCCESS
3) Nothing at all for Sally as she has spent too much money lately and needs to be sensible and economise - FAILURE.
I wound up with a new top, two new skirts (fantastic fifties style skirts) and a weird little bodice top with black poodles on it. Sadly, I was stopped from getting the bright pink bodice covered in bats (although Matt instantly understood why I wanted it so badly, even if I suspect he did not entirely approve).
There is a far longer list of the clothes I did not get.
I was also happily surprised by the New Camden. The interior is surprisingly tasteful - I love the horse statues and murals, and it was lovely to see all the old vintage clothes stores and junk shops back in their places. It was much much less of a mall type environment than expected, and there was some lovely stuff there. It isn't all goth, but there is a lot of goth, some lovely boho stuff, and a fantastic collection of fifties style and rockabilly clothes which made me very very happy.
We finally gave up on shopping around six ish, and staggered home for a while, where jez gave up on life and headed for a bath, and myself, Matt and Neill went to the pub.
Twas a nice evening, although I think Neill may have felt as if he was drowning in mine and Matt's nostalgia at points. I'm sure he never needed to know quite so much about the social dramas of five-years-ago. His patience is much appreciated.
I got home around 11 ish, and curled up on the sofa with Jeremiah to watch Freddy vs Jason - a Nightmare on Elm Street/Friday 13th crossover movie, which had a kind of demented trashy genius. It really felt like the perfect end to a really good day.
Somehow I managed to take three totally different plans, featuring five totally different people, two of them from outside London, and blend them together. And lo! It was good.
Yesterday started with me meeting up with
skinny_cartman for the first time in years. No, literally, years. I think about three years, to be precise. We bimbled around London for a bit, got lunch, and actually managed to find enough time to drop by the Imperial War Museum for an hour, which was wonderful and very unexpected as I did not think we'd have time before going to meet pierot, ksirafai and adze. I dragged Matt around the Holocaust Exhibition (which is my third time since Christmas, due to MA thesis stuffs) and then we went and found adze. From there, we moved onwards to Camden, which was to provide the long, the exhausting, but the ultimately successful Shopping Day Of Fun.
Our goals were simple.
1) A leather trench coat and New Rock boots for Jeremiah - SUCCESS
2) Costume for Matt's Changeling - SUCCESS
3) Nothing at all for Sally as she has spent too much money lately and needs to be sensible and economise - FAILURE.
I wound up with a new top, two new skirts (fantastic fifties style skirts) and a weird little bodice top with black poodles on it. Sadly, I was stopped from getting the bright pink bodice covered in bats (although Matt instantly understood why I wanted it so badly, even if I suspect he did not entirely approve).
There is a far longer list of the clothes I did not get.
I was also happily surprised by the New Camden. The interior is surprisingly tasteful - I love the horse statues and murals, and it was lovely to see all the old vintage clothes stores and junk shops back in their places. It was much much less of a mall type environment than expected, and there was some lovely stuff there. It isn't all goth, but there is a lot of goth, some lovely boho stuff, and a fantastic collection of fifties style and rockabilly clothes which made me very very happy.
We finally gave up on shopping around six ish, and staggered home for a while, where jez gave up on life and headed for a bath, and myself, Matt and Neill went to the pub.
Twas a nice evening, although I think Neill may have felt as if he was drowning in mine and Matt's nostalgia at points. I'm sure he never needed to know quite so much about the social dramas of five-years-ago. His patience is much appreciated.
I got home around 11 ish, and curled up on the sofa with Jeremiah to watch Freddy vs Jason - a Nightmare on Elm Street/Friday 13th crossover movie, which had a kind of demented trashy genius. It really felt like the perfect end to a really good day.
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Date: 2008-03-30 10:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-30 11:37 am (UTC)See you later
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Date: 2008-03-30 11:46 am (UTC)There's that love/hate vibe, that strange chemistry and the final scene of them wrapped in each other's arms, falling into the water...
The only part of that film that bugged me was the tragic death of the very cool sidekick woman who used to be in Destiny's Child. She was just so much cooler than the very annoying blonde heroine, and it really bugged me that she had to die in order to save Annoying One's Life.
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Date: 2008-03-30 11:47 am (UTC)And you're confusing me by using a Jayne icon. I thought you were
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Date: 2008-03-30 11:50 am (UTC)P may not make it today :(
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Date: 2008-03-30 11:51 am (UTC)I need more icons, I think.
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Date: 2008-03-30 11:52 am (UTC)It is currently and depressingly looking like I will not be able to make it either, as I am hideously double booked. I had hears rumours of Jon's b'day celebration being an afternoon thing, but current gossip says it is 5 pm, which would mean I wouldn't be able to get back to Wimbledon in time.
I am sending Jez and Ginnie forth as my representatives, however.
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Date: 2008-03-30 12:08 pm (UTC)The P is not peachy-keen, no.
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Date: 2008-03-30 12:54 pm (UTC)I'm off to try my hand at sewing a 50s dress from fabric with ambulances on it.
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Date: 2008-03-30 12:57 pm (UTC)J&V are planning on heading off in about an hour, and are stopping by Forbidden Planet en route to shop for birthday presents.
If you would be at all interested in meeting them there, then you would be loved and welcomed, I believe.
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Date: 2008-03-30 02:15 pm (UTC)I'm very very fond of fifties style clothes. I think it's because I've got a rather 1950s figure - the bust and hips that 1956 forgot!
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Date: 2008-04-11 06:36 pm (UTC)