PASSPORT, PLEASE....THANK YOU, WELCOME TO LONDON!

Welcome To London! Please direct yourself to the map above and try and find your way around town...no, not kidding - its doable...eventually. I've actually gotten better at it yet on occasion, I'll find myself lost - but hey, that's London right?

So the first week has come and gone - all in all a stranger in a strange land - but its been moving along at a fine pace - arrived last Sunday morning, went about town, been doing some extremely mild sightseeing, most of the time's been spent finding accomodation other than on Saul's sofa - kudos by the way, to Mr. Z (and his flatmates - yep, I'm learnin' the lingo here...more on that in a bit) for allowing me to grace the surprisingly comfortable pull-out sofa (in fact its probably the most comfortable one I've ever had this misfortune of sleeping upon - though in this case, were it not for this sofa, I'd probably be broke (which I nearly am) or homeless - so, can't complain too much!).

When I'm not making and re-making the sofa-bed its up and down the tube - if you can navigate the map here's how it works for me lately: I'm presently in Putney Bridge (SW or bottom LH-side of the map off the green line - District Line. I travel to work towards the East or RH-side of the map, off the red line - the Central Line - to Stratford station. In between, I've been house/flat-share hunting - and have found something for now - in Finchley Central - on the Black or Northern line (towards the top in the North of London - the RH-side of the two Upper lines...follow???) - all in all makes for a long commute.

I have managed to see Big Ben, St. Paul's Cathedral, the beautiful ladies of London and of course a few pubs here n' there...there's plenty more to come for certain but alas the task of sorting out my life remains priority number one.

As for work...well...that's going to be a bigger, badder, blog of its own!!!

Cheers Mate,

EM

Word Are Running Out Like Endless Rain Into A Paper Cup...

Inspired. Yes I believe I've become inspired, not only to write this blog more often (thanks to the proverbial kick-to-the-ass my friends gave me tonight), but by other things - namely films.

Now I know I've written some dialogue here n' there for my great masterpiece of theatre - look for it in release in, oh, the year 2018 - but recently I watched Julie Taymor's interpretation and vision of The Beatles' music in her film Across The Universe.

For those of you who don't give a shit, Taymor was the visionary behind The Lion King and some other shit I can't remember right about now - but in any case, this movie is definitely an incredible vision...and here's the crazy part - its a musical - I LIKE A MUSICAL!!!

You can't help but sing along with this one - classic Beatles songs all over the place - and for you Beatlemaniacs out there, some clever dialogue invoking reference to other songs/material by the band.

On a personal note, I particularly enjoyed Bono's brief role in the film as Dr. Robert - very Macphisto-esque performance - a little "camp" but, he's a singer, not an actor!

Either way, its an amazing movie, you have to see it - you'll be glad you did.

As for my film, its a work in progress - not much progress, and come to think of it lately, not much work has gone into it either - perhaps a change of scenery will do me good - what better inspiration than the homeland of the Beatles?

I think I'll bring my guitar too - great, one more item to schlep!!

Blog soon,

Done.
Peace.

EM

Things to do in Toronto when you can't sleep aka #135

4:30am - usually a good time to be sleeping...lately, the sleep sched. is off, waaaay off. I associate this situation with my recent "bumminess" - for in less than 2 weeks, I'm off to London, England.

It's rather exciting, the idea of crossing the pond to the UK, its also becoming increasingly nerve-wracking...I'll survive though, however there does appear to be a faint sense of "he's not gonna make it" syndrome running amongst some of my friends and family - disconcerting, but, it does make me wonder.

Now, I know they're not rooting for me to fail, quite the opposite I know, however it has caused me partially balk at the prospect of leaving - but, knowing that I've purchased a non-refundable airfare ticket, might take the edge off.

I don't think this particular post, which by the way, I've noticed (again) is more than 7 weeks since my last, is going anywhere in particular. I think I'm going to have to edit the way I edit this thing...

Though I do hope that this, along with the recent addiction to facebook and my reemergence on the "uh-oh"'s of MSN, will help me to keep y'all informed n' updated as to my whereabouts n' happenings in London.

There's a party I'm holding in my own honour - funny, you'd think that some of my friends might choose to do that for me - for my impending travels - its this Saturday, at the Supermarket Restaurant/Lounge/Bar in Kensington - apparently near the mental health facility and coop crack house that Alex was so kind to point out for me -if you don't know Alex, you can meet her, and ask her all about it on Saturday.

(Fear mongering, not pretty.)

OK, good to know I can still access this page, and I'm looking forward to better n' more exciting posts of substance (and maybe grace too)....feelin' sleepy...

Done.
Peace.

EM