Rent a flat above a shop...
Google Streetview has launched, and today I found my old home on it.The walls had Christmas cake-artex finish throughout, which made falling down the stairs painful (I still have the scars), and the living room was painted mental-home orange. The door still has the 62 on it that Mrs Hall made at work.
I had some happy times there.
Before I lived in the flat, it was the home of Steve Mackey from Pulp.
Every time I hear Common People, I like to think that the "flat above a shop" that is referenced is this place. Actually, when I see the video I like to sing "I wanna live like Sadie Frost/sleep with all the people at the bus stop/take loads of drugs and make bad films..." etc.
Wrong, yes. Slightly funny, perhaps.
Labels: caledonian road, pulp
posted by deafdisco @ 10:03 pm
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Jigsaws on the walls and Jarvis' college films... all those weird Pulp connections...
I've just been looking at Rydston Close. Looks like Camber Sands!
rydston close looks like an annexe to pentonville prison!
zone one living didn't get much better/grittier than number 62...all human life was there.
i do miss it sometimes, especially as i now have to get two night buses home when hammered (average journey time, two hours). come a time i used to roll off the N73 and stagger up the street, home in half an hour.
there are far fewer crack addicts in suburbia though, on the plus side.
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