Coffee and Girls Near Fascination Street

[dotinthesky]

One day, I'll walk into Fopp (or any other music store for that matter) and find a copy of The Smashing Pumpkins "Siamese Dream" for a decent price (say £5 or so). Today, I had to contend myself with The Cure's "Disintegration" and The Velvet Underground & Nico's debut album. When in doubt, go with a classic missing from your record collection.

Covent Garden on a sunny Saturday: tattooed couples; Abercrumbs and Filch shopping bags; hour-long line-up for H&M's dressing room; testy sales assistants; gay men cruising coffee walkers on The Steps; and spotting Hester and Krys as they go by our pit stop.

The girls stop for a chat while we finish our cappuccinos. After a quick catch up, we say our goodbyes and head home, leaving the girls to finish off their shopping.

As soon as I get in, I put on The Cure's album. The sink is filled with dishes. "Disintegration" becomes perfect music for soapy hands and a bright London eleven storeys below. There's the solitary pigeon flying towards the council homes in Bethnal Green; and Canary Wharf, opaque like a deserted emerald city. We wait for Sissy Jen to arrive -- bringing a copy of Harold and Maude for tonight -- so I can start frying the steaks, cooking the beans and boiling the rice. The bottle of wine is chilled and ready to be open.

This April feels like mid-summer.

Comments

[rojagato.livejournal.com]

I love your weekend posts.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you like them, Paisley. :-)

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Because they are rip off artists and they stole my ideas?

[beeorkendurkey.livejournal.com]

i miss london right now and it's your fault.
(thank you.)

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Where taxi drivers never stop talking / Under slate grey Victorian sky / Here you'll find, my heart and I / And still we say come back / Come back to
Camden / And I'll be good / I'll be good / I'll be good / I'll be good

[showwyourteeth.livejournal.com]

life is good!

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

life is truly good.

[reddragdiva]

The right price.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Would it be weird if I said I want the CD?

[reddragdiva]

Nah :-) Shouldn't be hard to find, it sold enough copies.

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

It was lovely to bump into you!
You have a lovely way of capturing a mood; it's oddly televisual. I like it. :-)

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

It was lovely bumping into you too! It felt, for a moment, that we lived in a village, and not some giganormous city where these kinds of encounters are rare.

[tarotbydiana.livejournal.com]

At your suggestion, Disintegration is playing on my brain radio right now. I can recall the lyrics or at least I can sound out the mumbles in certain spots of every single song. I will always have a girlish crush on Robert Smith.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I heard a horrible rumour that Robert Smith is producing Ashlee Simpson's latest single/album. I hope it's untrue! That would be the end of my crush on him.

[tarotbydiana.livejournal.com]

Well, he might be the only one capable of saving her from herself. If the rumor is true, I may search for solace in denial. *closes eyes and covers ears*

[foucaultonacid.livejournal.com]

however far away....

"if you've got something to say, sing out..."

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Let it be our mantra.

[cops-n-queers.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if you remember me, but i've missed you.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I remember you! I thought you had given up LJ for good. How have things been with you?

[blu-bear.livejournal.com]

I always find 'Disintergration' good to write too. Great album.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

It feels like the perfect album for any kind of introspective work.

[tonight-we-fly.livejournal.com]

Ha ha, this weekend felt like late summer to me!

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