Cool Cat

After weeks of solid working hours with little sleep I got a break this past week. Without the intention of going out much, I ended up going out a lot, having conversations and drinking copious amounts of red wine finishing up this morning at 7am.

A new friend of mine from Rochester came up for the day. First we went to buy Varlhrona (chocolate), if heaven could be tasted, this would be it. For the first time since I left Wagamamas I popped in and said hello to a few people I haven't seen for about 4 years. Next was the Apple store where my friend got to check out the new iTouch with the possibility of getting a MacBook and free iPod Nano. Then went around the corner for a Beard Papas. Yum. And then popped into Wasabi for a box of sushi. Hopped on a bus to St Pauls and walked across the Millennium Bridge to the Tate Modern to see Louise Bourgeouis's big spider and Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth, the big crack. We had our sushi on the riverbank. Over Waterloo Bridge to Embankment we settled at Gordon's Wine bar for a bottle. The rugby was on so the bar was relatively empty. It is normally packed out, even on weekdays. We polished two bottles between us and left at closing. She had to take a midnight train back so we rushed and dodged human and motorized traffic to Soho to grab a meal. But it was sure she wasn't going to make her train. Another friend was having a birthday do around the corner on Frith street so we popped along to that. "I'm not staying long', I said. But when we got there they were DJ'ing 80's pop. A small dingy joint that looks more like an underground bar in Old Street, not smack bang in Soho. But the music was fantastic. Once we started dancing, that was the end of going home early. We danced non stop until closing which was about 3am. It's been years since I did that. It wasn't full at all and the dance floor was fairly empty but we didn't care as we dominated the floor! We stumbled out and walked to Tottenham Court rd and grabbed a cab home. We stayed up till 7am this morning chatting and drinking more wine.

A great day out was topped off by endless dancing to 80's perfect pop. I can't remember the last time I had so much fun.

I got word from The London Film Festival that I have a now have a Delegates Pass. Fogeddaboudit.



In the film, Scent of a Woman, Al Pacino's character says, 'We'll taking a tour- of pleasures'. There's nothing more complicated and life affirming than that.

- J