You’re about as easy as a nuclear war
Since I last posted, the usual stuff has been occurring (work, home, etc) but all with a holiday countdown continuing in the background like the clock in the bunker in Lost, which is the one thing keeping me awake.I went to the cinema to see the hilarious In the Loop with DL, PL and JJ. So many funny lines (two of my favourites: “Oi! Thick white duke!” and “I will hound you to an assisted suicide”). That evening, as we were waiting outside the Palace (which now has a giant shoe on the canopy to denote the arrival of Priscilla the musical, which makes me think of the IT Crowd Work Outing episode), we were approached by a gentleman in a grey suit who invited us to join a semi-secret flashmob advert for a mobile phone company in Trafalgar Square. We had to turn him down about ten times before he got the hint and moved on. It turns out that the singer Pink was at said flashmob. I think we made the right decision there.
I also spotted a young chap wearing a Scheinhardt Wig Company t-shirt. This is a smart joke from 30 Rock (in which, NBC are a subsidiary of said wig company). Given that we are going up to the Top of the Rock, I plan to make a feverish pilgrimage to the NBC gift store to snaffle some fabulous/ridiculous merchandise. Example: a mousemat featuring the Liz Lemon quote: ‘Hey nerds! Who has two thumbs, speaks limited French, and hasn’t cried once today? This moi!”
On Saturday night I was out at the Notting Hill Arts Club for Future World Funk, the night hosted by Hackney Globetrotter. He was in customary good spirits, but even more so, as he has recently announced his engagement to Boogaloo Koo. This is great news. The venue was full of young, pretty and moneyed folk. One unusual sight was three gents in their early 20s, dressed like they had stepped off a Duran Duran album cover: all three were wearing light coloured suits and ties. One even had perfectly neat, highlighted 1980s hair. It was quite a sight and it was momentarily confusing. I suppose it goes to show that things really do go in 20-year cycles…although, of course, the early 80s is now nearly 30 years ago. Shucks. It feels like yesterday.
Labels: 30 rock, camp musicals, in the loop, the 1980s
posted by deafdisco @ 11:10 am
2 Comments:
In lieu of your Great Journey to the New World, thought you might get a kick from Momus' recent return. Although I must say, he's a lot more forgiving here than he always is about London.
thanks for this. i do like a bit of momus from time to time.
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