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June 30, 2005
Following a public lecture about self-examination and intercrural sex in ancient Greece, a bizarre classicist garden party in the rain, with mountains of free olives and halloumi.
Sphaleotas holds a Lacoue-Labarthe paperback aloft in scholarly triumph.
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June 28, 2005
Barbican (with apologies to Wolfgang Tillmans, who did it better in colour)
Advice: See the essential Folk Archive exhibition at the Barbican now before it ends.
Beech Street
Aldersgate
Goswell Road
Old Street
Golden Lane
Banner Street
Whitecross Street Cosy Fish Bar and Restaurant
Dufferin Street
Bunhill Row
Bunhill Fields Bunyan, Blake, Bayes and Defoe
City Road (detail)
Old Street
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June 27, 2005
Tottenham Lane
Rokesly Avenue
Hillfield Avenue
Campsbourne Road
Pembroke Road
Boyton Road
Eastfield Road
Nightingale Lane
Alexandra Park
Alexandra Palace
Alexandra Palace Way
Springfield Avenue
Muswell Hill
Muswell Hill Broadway
I thought I'd made a killing here but it turned out to be an easy-listening compilation including orchestral renditions of Ne Me Quitte Pas and Chim Chim Cheroo. It's all for charity though.
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Muswell Hill
Muswell Hill Place
Alexandra Gardens
St James Lane
Muswell Hill
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Park Road
Harefield Road
Carysfort Road
Barrington Road
Topsfield Road
Palace Road
Middle Lane
Park Road
Tottenham Lane
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June 20, 2005
Great Cambridge Road (A10)
Brick Lane
Hertford Road (A1010)
Green Street
Durants Park
Ambleside Crescent
Hunts Mead
Green Street
Brimsdown Street
Mollison Avenue (A1055)
Stockingswater Lane
Mossops Creek Park
and back again
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June 19, 2005
Haringey Park
Landrock Road
Park Road
Crouch Hill
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June 17, 2005
Tottenham Lane
Church Path
Glebe Rd
Hornsey Church Tower
Cross Lane
River Walk
Newland Road
Alexandra Park
North View Road
Park Avenue North
Abbeville Road
Barrington Road
The Grove
Lynton Road
Park Road
Tottenham Lane
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June 16, 2005
Crouch Hill The Old Dairy
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June 15, 2005
Middle Lane
Lynton Road
The Grove
Palace Road
Barrington Road
Abbeville Road
Priory Road
Priory Park
Middle Lane
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June 14, 2005
Palace Road
Muswell Hill
Quality Café N8 Waiting for breakfast no. 2
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Flatwarming, champagne and mono folk records
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June 03, 2005
East Finchley At home with a [non]philosopher
Dr. Hunger, East End Road: recommended Full English Breakfast
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June 01, 2005
North by Northwest: Paddington to Hampstead
In the grime-hazed windows of the buildings perched on the corner of the Marylebone flyover, family photos face outward warding off the traffic.
Church Street. A black cat raises its paw maneki-neko style.
Little Venice. The gentility achieved by force of goodwill that only comfortable money can achieve.
The smell of roses. Fashions = Men: expensive pink shirts tucked into belted jeans. Women: strangely shaped noses on screwed-up faces that turn away when you look at them. Lycra'd PAs calf-stretching against pillared porticos. A squirrel squirelling in the expensive garbage.
Surprising hygiene - a municipal operative sweeping up leaves at 6am (nb in Bow they don't even mop up the blood, they just let it drain into the canal.)
Abbey road, home of road-crossing photo-opportunists. A young fan has confusedly (or historically-consciously?) scrawled on the belisha beacon "Beatles - live forever".
Swiss cottage - one of the few places in London the prosaic truth of whose name always surprises.
A man exchanging number plates on a volvo (you never saw nuffink, right?)
Corner of belsize road and fitzjohns street the statue of freud and the tavistock clinic (presumably this is demographically-speaking london's vienna?)
And horses, 3 by 3, being led by a corps of some kind of urban cadets.
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What is this?
Stuttering travelogue of aimless walking, slightly below-par cafes, and photography. Dedicated to, and in varying degrees inspired by people such as:
Phyllis Pearsall
Thomas de Quincey
Charles Dickens
Norman Collins
Iain Sinclair
Adrian Maddox of Classic Cafes
Luka Heronbone
+ Everyone who gets up early, and especially the cats, foxes, birds and squirrels of London.
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