Day Miss Sixty One

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Day Miss Sixty

Nothing so...

Day Fifty Nine Cent

Nothing interresting except this awereness test brought to me by Angelo

Day Fifty Eight Cent

Nothing interresting except that Saul Williams is gettin' that Nike $$$

Day Fifty Seven Cent

First day at my new place.
Mash showed me how things work around.
I like this place...I'll like it even better in the summertime when we'll BBQ on the terrace in the garden !!!

Jour Cinquante Cinq et Cinquante Six Cents d'Euros Jumbo Pack

OOh45 : arrival at my parent's
2H30 : sleep
10h : wake up
14h : see dela, stéphane, jean seb and tieum for drink water/jussieu music reunion at the best kebab place in Paris
17h : grocery shopping for UK flatmates
18h30 : pick up things for mom at auntie
20h30 : see palina !!!
21h : dinner
21h30 : see hélène !!!
23h : see sasha, stéphane, tibo and JM !!!
2h30 : sleep
9h30 : wake up
10h : see mars !!!
12h30 : lunch with Tom, Stef, Seb, Alicia, Babou, Ketly !!!
15h30 : spend some time with the parents
17h30 : see Nas aka Jazzyland !!!
19h00 : see Anne So and Lisa !!!
20h45 : Eurostar
23h : Marylebone
1h : sleep

no pics today (maybe no more pics since i don't have a cam anymore) but here's a bonus vid i took last thursday at Charlie Dark's show...enjoy...Gentlemen...

Day Fifty Four Cent

We started the day at Borough Market. The best place for sandwiches !!!
but also for weird/funny stuffs like this...



Some of my fav sandwiches are the salted beef, the wild boar sausages, the ostrich burger but today we went for the world famous chorizo sandwich...if you come on a saturday, there's a 45 mins line to get one...





Then we walked all the way to the Tate British to see the second half of the museum...some more great arts expecially Victor Pasmore who's one of the best all around artist i've ever seen...another piece that was incredible was Keith Tyson's Studio Wall's Drawings...so rich and intense, i think imma go back and spend one whole afternoon observing this one...

Now I'm off to Paris !!!!!

Day Fifty Three Cent (Charlie Dark's African Beats remix)

Tonight we all went to Cargo to check...



Basically the concept is mixing traditionnal african music with eletronic beats and i gotta say the result was pretty dope ! I mean once you start to feel the music, you get in some kinda trance, dancing and shaking...
My future roomate Mashi is part of his band.
That's him on the keys with Charlie Dark in the...dark



and that's him again rockin the MP



That's the rest of the band...



including "Chief" who was a percissionnist for Fela, just to let you know how dope he is...plus he's a master entertainer...



Overall it was a great night and it ended up even better since...

Day Fifty Three Cent

That's Tony...Him and I are turning into museum's geeks...Yesterday we did British Museum and National Galery and Today we did half of the Tate with the other half coming up tomorrow...





A little flashback from yesterday. This is Trafalgar Square and it used to be my worst nightmare because of the thousands of pigeons flying all over the place...It turns out much better because supposely they put some hawks on the spot, even if i didn't see them...

The Tate is a nice chill out museum. Prolly because it's not as central as the others, it's less crowdy...It runs a nice English and International collection from the 18th to the modern days...I really appreciated the works of William Blake : he's a UK painter/poet who mixed religious mythology and actual facts. This piece below is entitled "Teach these souls to fly" (1796)...inspiring isn't it?



Another room i really liked was the Vorticism movement which is based on geometrical pieces and movements but can also represent an actual scene...This piece is "The Soul Of The Soulless City (New York - an Abstraction)" (1920) by Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson.



I don't know from what collection this next piece comes from but i'm always glad when artists use their art in an attempt to change society...

Day Fifty Two Cent

After sending some cv's in the morning, i met up with Tony who's a dude i've been playing basketball with for the past two years. he was known for his defense and the fact that he plays with his earphones...haha
after having lunch in Chinatown, we went to a couple of museums : British Museum and National Galery. There were some very interresting things to see but of course...i forgot the camera...
so imma put some uninterresting facts about my everyday life...

- this is the cornerstone of my fooding



soup is good and healthy but the real deal is that it's cheap..haha
however there are many different favours...of course, it won't replace my passion for meat but it's fine.

- this is what keeps me sane



you're prolly wondering two things
1/how come you don't smoke dunhills anymore?
- well actually they stopped manufacturing the menthol ones so i went for the malboro but they're not as good...
2/why are you smoking packs of 10's?
- simple answer : packs of 20 are 5.80£...yeah i should simply stop smoking...

- this is what keeps me entertained



they play 2 episodes of friends a day on E4, they play them twice : at 6pm and 8pm...BUT there's also E4+1 which is basically E4 one hour later...so if you want you can watch the same 2 episodes 4 times in a row...yeah what a fun life i must have...

Day Fifty One Cent

Ok Today I am MAD cuz i lost 10£ on a stupid move...
I had to top up my phone card so dude at the cash asked for my number...
he printed the bill and i realized he typed it wrong...
he said i said it wrong, i said he typed it wring...we could have gone for hours like this....
he said he couldn't do anything that i had to call the company, i called the company they couldn't do anything that i had to deal with the store...I thought i was in France all over again !!!
but since i don't wanna fight people before i get a job cuz i don't have the money to pay any type of hospital bill, i let that shit go...but i was MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD...

Day Fifty Cent

- Curtis : "yo d', what's goin' on today?"
- d' :"nothing really..."
- Curtis : "Oh Ok then...GGGGGGGGGG-Unit !!!"

Day Forty Nine

A little sightseeing in Newcastle...
In the morning we went for a walk along the river.
This is the Millenium Bridge, a very funky one cuz it rotates to let boats go under...



Then we went to the Baltic which used to be a flour mill but now is a contemporary art musuem.



They had some very interresting exhibitions. I really like the ones by Barry McGhee about graphiti culture and one by Cameroon-born Paris based Barthelemy Toguo which was about colonialism, global exchange and over information...
One that really freaked me out was Mark Titchner's. It was basically a dark room with trance music, huge billboards on sides with self motivation messages and a screen displaying strobbing images...Remember the scene in Lost when Kate and Sawyer were asked by the bad guy's daughter to help her save her boyfriend and they find him in a room stucked to a chair with loud trance music, screens, etc??? well it was almost the same thing...I was a bit anxious so we went to the kids lounge to chill...



On the way back to my sister's, i found Drink Water's new signature...forget about Swizz Beats, THIS is the real one man band...



Al cooked a marvelous lunch...roasted chicken, friend bacon, sausages, peas, potaoes, meat sauce, gravy...it was so delicious even Dookie was maaaad she couldn't eat with us...i'd react the same if i had milk only (and mashed mango)..haha




In the afternoon, we went for a walk...this giant glowy worm is the Sage. It is basically a Music center with two huge concerts venues with amazing acoustic, a library with nothing but books and magazines about music, listening stations and a free workshop space with computers, gear and keyboards...yes, it seems like heaven to me !!!



...and then we spent the rest of the day playing with Dookie...I'm sad I'm not gonna be able to see her again until May...look how cute she is !!!

Day Forty Eight

This Weekend, we are in Newcastle visiting my sister, Al and Dookie



It's been years since I've been craving for the nice fish'n'chips my sister brought me to a couple of years ago...it's called Marshall's and is located right on the coast in Tynemouth...the fish is fresh and the chips are homemade...it was delicious !!!






It's always very inspiring to see the sea, even if it's the cold and creepy north sea.





Newcastle and its suburbs are a really chill out place where people have weird activities such as pets crematorium..



pizza place in a church [???]



and listing the names/ages/locations of people who frauded in the tube



Then we all got back to chill with Dookie...

Day Forty Seven

Weird Night..I forgot the camera by the way so no pics again..
Went to Angel to see DJ Vadim but didn't see him...we left prolly too early..
the party took place in this place which was a regular pub on the groundfloor but then it was some posh huge classy living room type of place upstairs...i admit i kinda felt like we were at this private home party where in fact we weren't really invited...and seemed like we weren't the only ones not too comfortable..
they played some house, new wave and then this dude got on the decks with serato...OH THE HUMANITY !!! imma commit murder if i see another "i don't know how to spin but i got serato" DJ...however, it was fun to see posh drunk white people dance to rakim, public ennemy...and of course the "drunk people" national anthem...JUMP AROUND..haha !

Day Forty Six (remix feat. Raekwon The Chef)

What better to cheer me up than a nice plate of pastas...
here's the secret recipe

1/Chop some fresh tomatos and add some herbs



2/Chop some fresh mushrooms and some bacon



3/In a frying pan, put some olive oil, garlic, fresh chili and chopped onions



4/Fry the mixture on low until it gets golden and add the tomatos...i insist on low because otherwise the water in the tomatoes will make the oil jump and you'll get yo ass burned...




5/Leave the tomatoes live their own lives until they turn into sauce, start boiling water with rock salt for the pastas and start frying the bacon...



6/Once the bacon gets crunchy, add the mushrooms



7/Mix all the ingredients together, add salt and pepper (you can also add low fat cream)



8/Serve it straight from the pan



9/Enjoy !!!

Day Forty Six

Today i'm disapointed because...
well i didn't tell many people cuz i didn't wanna jinx it but yesterday i had my final interview a very good position in a digital agency. we were only two candidates left.
i thought i did well.
this morning, they called me telling me it was a very close call, that they were wondering if they had enough budget to hire both of us but in the end they picked the other candidate...
it is really disapointing for me because the timing would have been perfect and because i liked the agency...well anyway, imma keep on hunting...

Day Forty Five

Pics are back...well kinda
In the evening we went to Benji B's deviation, one of the great regulars in LDN.
Eric Lau was on the wheels



and then he introduced his band and singers composed by great talents like tawiah and rahel.eric isn't even on stage, he quincy jones'ed that shit...show was real tight, i can't wait to hear the album which comes out next week.
during the show, Angelo broadcast his great photographic skills with these two...of course, he was supposed to shoot the stage :)

Day Forty Four

Today was sunny, Marlene came cuz we have a top notch oven here. She's trying to do some macaron but she's still in the testing steps...anyway, we had lunch together and chatted about her life in nice and then in london. it's always interresting to get to know what other people have been thru...
and today i also found this...i dunno how we should take it cuz i didn't know r.kelly had a sense of humour like that...that is just one episode, check the rest if you wanna know the entire story...but i gotta say Kells got A LOT of spare time on his hands.

Day Forty Three

Remember the days when you woke up, send some cv's, had lunch, send some more cv's, the sun was already low on the horizon, you had dinner and it was already time to sleep..remember? no you don't? WELL I DO !!!!

Day Forty Two

Got up late
Went to Clapham Junction
It was far
Met some cool people
Were starving
Cuz No Lunch :(
Went to Chinatown
Nighttime already
Ate
That's all for today

Day Forty One

This morning we all helped Claudine move from Notting Hill to Wesbourne Park...cool place just right in front of Lucky Seven who is suposely the best burger on this side of town but i don't know yet since they asked us to wait 45 mins to get a table...we walked on Porto Bello and gosh all stands had like yummy food...cinnamon churos !!! hot fried schrimps !!! grilled boneless chicken leg !!!
we ended up in another burger restaurant kitchen burger gourmet and it was very good as well but if Lucky Seven is better than the one we had...it gotta be really awesome...
Tonight we went to the Notting Hill Arts Club...all the girls have been braging for months about how Hayley's the cutest girl in the entourage...I've seen pictures and she looks cute but ya know...still gotta wait til i see her in person to crown her queen...we met up there and i gotta admit girls have good tastes when it comes to their peers...However I don't know if we jinxed it but after 5 mins we got in..the music started to suck ass a little..I mean why would i move to London and go to a club to hear Magic System or Kassav...it's crazy...anyway, we still had fun...

Day Forty

Today's weather is crap !!! so all i did was going to see an photo exhibition about Jimi Hendrix. It was really great but it reminded me two things...I don't think i'd ever financially be able to buy one of these limited edition photos even tho they would look great in my bedroom...and that i'm still mad i don't have the OG edition of electric ladyland with the naked women cover...
Anyway, just found this online and thought it was funny...

Day Thirty Nine

Nothing special in the day time...then in the evening, Drine came over for dinner and we went to East Village, a new club in Old Street...I tend to think that i spend way too much time in the east side of town...Giles Peterson was spinnin' his usual great set of tunes and the place was very nice and chill.
I was having a drink when all of a sudden, someone tapped my shoulder...i turn around and this girl asked me "are you french?"..."humm yes".."je te connais, tu organisais broken vibes au djoon!"...the world is waaaay to small..
did i ever tell you the story of Virginie??? well basically the story is...my dear Cindy gave me this TV producer contact in London, he said his daughter got a friend in the music industry...we met up, after 5 minutes we realised we knew one person in common in the music biz..weird already..then while we were leaving she told me she comes from this tiny town near Paris and i was like "oh i went there once at my classmate's birthday, her name is marjorie"...and of course, she knew marjorie...
talking bout how small the world is...it's scary !!!

Ok so ever since i can't post pics anymore, imma post vids...That's Kenna performing on David Letterman's with Skateboard P on the drums and Chase Chad on keys...I LOVE THIS TUNE !!!

Day Thirty Eight

Alright, I won't have pics for a couple of days cuz i broke another camera...it must be my thing, some people are good for football, some others are talented singers, i'm just the master at breakin cameras...

Today was a very pleasant day. Sunny and funny since i got to learn about Ousama Ben London in the papers (i just hope he won't read this and chase my ass...for real, you never know !!!)
After an interview with a digital agency, i went to the Tate.
Last time was really nice because they had these huge slides coming from all levels...
These days they have this huge crack on the lower level which looks like some earthquake just happened and guess what? some earthquake happened this morning, i didn't feel it tho..i was too busy sleeping

I like Tate cuz they have a very interresting way to expose art, very non elitist and accessible for everyone...Tho they don't have any Dali pieces, they have a couple of Miro's who is really one of my favorite painters.

In the evening, i went to la Favela Chic to check Treklife, Oddisee and Olivier Day Soul...I've been talking thru AIM to Star Trek for about 2 years now and i met Odd and Olivier thru Kev Brown last year. It was good to see them again. I mean they are the REAL hustlers of this hip hop game : non stop touring, putting out records, selling records hand to hand...they put on a nice show and Ty showed up on stage to show them some love...

On the way back, i waited 33 mins for the 205, perfect setting to take pics for my "who's waiting for the 205 at the old street stop??? collection" but of course i had no cam...what a shame !

Day Thirty Seven

Yes they are. So after two days of having soup for lunch, tonight i went for...



I joined Angelo and 3 of his girlfriends and we went to Icco which is a cool pizzeria i mentionned sometime in january...one of his girls is named Anne Laure and she's known for having the hugest boobs on this side of earth...However, as i am a gentleman, i turned her into a glamourous lady...