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

[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.