Souls Being Saved by the Sun

[dotinthesky]

London is friggin hot, innit? Lovely 24 celsius, shorts, t-shirt, coconut stuff on the skin (40+), towels over the duck shit hiding in the grass and blossoming daisies. Families rowing the boats in Regent's Park, ice cream stalls, sunglasses, hats, The Guardian, Tesco's water bottles & sandwiches & bananas & oranges & mangoes. Kevin's mini-iPod on random, plenty of Magnetic Fields to keep me happy.

Working the white away from my skin, but it takes time and dedication. The sky so blue, the tourists, families and couples falling on the grass beside us as if by exhaustion. Everyone exposing their skin. Kevin in the shade, reading The People's Act of Love. A little black girl in a white dress stops beside me, bends down, plucks a daisy from the grass then runs after her mom. Ducks escort their offspring to the water. The rowers drift over the warming water just a stone throw away from us. A woman purchases a lawn chair for £2, lights up a fag and gets down to her sagging bikini.

A walk home by Baker Street, past the crowds carrying their picnic bags to Regent's Park. Tesco's again for dinner & croissants. I show Kevin a short cut to Maida Vale library.

Only in Britain will you find construction workers, on a sunny Saturday afternoon, singing at the top of their lungs to David Bowie.

We rent (and just watched) Nicholas Nickelby. *Le Sigh*. Must watch My Summer of Love and Koma by Monday. Three movies from the library cost a total of £2.30 to rent.

And it's only 6.42 pm

Comments

[roguejournal.livejournal.com]

it will never be cold here.....lovely weather, too!

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

But there's that one week in July, isn't there, when Londrina gets chilly...

[roguejournal.livejournal.com]

yeah...........just a couple of weeks!!!

[gradually-awake.livejournal.com]

My friend, you write beautifully. I would love to be there (particularly for the construction workers singing Bowie). Your descriptions are the next best thing.

Seattle has been muggy and rainy, with just enough sun breaks to suck the moisture from the earth back into the air and fill the population with angst.

Mango iced tea in a few, then I'm off to mow the lawn.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Iced tea sounds like a wonderful idea! I wish we'd thought of that one...

London is right now suffering under a drought (the most serious one in over two decades, apparently) so a little bit of rain wouldn't be unwelcome. However, it had been very cloudy recently (and a bit rainy) so today has been a very special one for all Londoners. I can just feel the happiness in the people who walk past us.

And the whole Bowie thing took us by surprise! We were walking past this house, with men hammering and sawing inside; my boyfriend asked if that was Suede playing in the radio and I replied that it was actually Bowie... to which the workers suddenly burst out singing along. It was very cool. :-)

[purplethings.livejournal.com]

"London is right now suffering under a drought (the most serious one in over two decades, apparently) so a little bit of rain wouldn't be unwelcome"

wot! It's been raining NON STOP since, like, last May! Ok, with perhaps 2 clear days between then and now o_0

It should be like today every single day of the year. Perfection ^_^

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

It should rain during the week, then get sunny and beautiful like today on weekends. I could live with that.

[gradually-awake.livejournal.com]

I relayed the story of the singing construction workers to my boyfriend. He wants to know what other music you can suggest, since we also love Pulp and Suede and Bowie. Any recommendations you can make that may not be well known in the states? As a thank you, I will gladly send you all of the Britney Spears and K-Fed albums I can find. Perhaps you can use them as coasters or something.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Do you know Goldfrapp? They have three albums which are brilliant. Their third one has a glam angle which is quite fun.

Hmmmm...

I really like Broadcast as well, a band from Birmingham. And Bloc Party, a band who released their first album last year, are very good too.

[desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com]

And the whole Bowie thing took us by surprise! We were walking past this house, with men hammering and sawing inside; my boyfriend asked if that was Suede playing in the radio and I replied that it was actually Bowie... to which the workers suddenly burst out singing along. It was very cool. :-)

Fantastic! We just get Reaggeton here...

[desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com]

Whoa. That is one pretty boy!

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

He's a good actor too.

[naturalbornkaos.livejournal.com]

Are you serious? :O I thought his performance in "Nicholas Nickleby" was AWFUL. It brought the whole movie down. He was so wooden. It was like watching someone in a school play gone bad.

I think you're blinded by your bias!

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Hehehe! No, I do think he was good... to watch!

[desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com]

I'll take your advice and rent that film.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

It's a bit melodramatic, but fun nevertheless.

[desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com]

hey, I just read the lyrics to that czars song...it doesn't appear to be a song about alcohol? is it in code and I just missed it? even one line mentioning alcohol was enough for this mix. I stuck it in, anyway, to preview it.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I didn't know you wanted an alcohol song... I thought you just wanted a melancholic one.

[desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com]

ohhhh nope, it was a request for songs about being drunk or sad and drunk. But it's ok, I really like it and it finishes up the mix. Unless I can find one more good drunk song it stays on.

[amanda-mary.livejournal.com]

He was in this short-lived American television program, Undeclared. Cullen and I have been watching it on DVD. Of course, he plays the campus lust-object ... .

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the British version of "Queer as Folk" (much much better than the American version)? He's in that too. Yum....

[amanda-mary.livejournal.com]

I'm actually juuust finishing up the American QaF on DVD. I'll have to see if the British one is available through Netflix (http://www.netflix.com) -- which my husband will be thrilled about, I'm sure. (He thinks the American version is ridiculously vacuous. And I can't really argue with that. But I watch nonetheless).

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I only saw one episode and I thought it was too 90210. But the Brit one is a gem! Really good stuff.

[beeorkendurkey.livejournal.com]

What's the difference between Tesco's and Sainsbury's? (Is that right? Do they both go apostrophe ess?)

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

None really. They are both chain supermarkets, etc.

[beeorkendurkey.livejournal.com]

One's not posher than the other? Sainsbury('s) was what was closest to my apt in Whitechapel, but when I was working, I'd walk to Tesco('s) (I think...) on Bethenal Green's high road for lunch. For some reason it seemed brighter and cleaner. Then again, I was drunk a lot and that was years ago.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

They both seem to me quite posh, though I would imagine Sainsbury's is a little more. But yeah, they are definetely not Cost Cutters.

hey, look!

[desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com]

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/ap/20060602/114930750000.html

Re: hey, look!

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I just read it out loud to Kevin and he laughed at "Winking at Life". :-D

Re: hey, look!

[desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com]

*giggle*

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

24 C is damn hot for us.

[tete-glitter.livejournal.com]

Nas últimas semanas o clima aqui tem estado bem bom até, comparado com o calor que faz no Rio normalmente. No dia mais quentinho da semana passada fez 24 graus! :)
Só é pena que aqui não tenha os parques ótimos que têm aí. Eu não ia sair do parque nos finais de semana!

Ah, e qual música do Bowie eles estavam cantando??

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Eu nao reconheci a musica do Bowie, mas sei que era ele por causa da voz. Acho que era algo dos anos 70.

Rio a 24 graus deve ser bem fresquinho. :-P

[hunterjr.livejournal.com]

You could send me some sunshines, couldn't you? XD
It's our time to be frozen in the cold and impersonal winter nights. Ok, it's not that cold here, but I guess you guys are hotter than we are right now :)

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Sao Paulo's winter can be quite bleak... I remember.

[hunterjr.livejournal.com]

yeah x_x