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Phoenix Foundation gig in London

The Phoenix Foundation are performing in all their unashamed glory with the rath of kahn in their jublees at Londons Islington Academy on the 1st of June.
Hopefully there’s more shows to come….like Edinburgh please.

trouble sleeping

Now that I’ve got heaps of music TV channels it’s not so much that I have trouble sleeping but I have trouble escaping the TV late at night cos there’s always another music video I want to see. I’ve been deprived of music videos for too long and now I can’t get enough. It happened [...]

Threadless tee sale

Threadless T-Shirts are having a sale! Tees are $10 till Weds 10am CST
I want a loch ness imposter but they’ve sold out already. I also want You are what you eat - the happy pig eating bacon.

Google Mars

Wow there’s a Google Mars! I didn’t even know there was a Google Moon (zoom in for cheese).

A half deep fried pizza supper and a can of Irn Bru

oh yes we’re back in Scotland! Nowhere has deep fried pizzas like Scotland. Does anywhere else have deep fried pizzas at all?
We’ve moved to a tenement flat in Polwarth near the canal and a great deli, whose name I can’t remember. We nearly took a place in Stockbridge which would’ve been cool, but the Polwarth [...]

Last Fish Curry

I just had my last Fish Curry. I was after a Bombay Duck actually but they weren’t available.
We just spent the whole day on a roach-infested train from Patnem Beach in South Goa to Mumbai. Patnem is real nice, if a little busy with dogs. I think the Goa Animal Welfare Trust is doing [...]

Mysore

I had a Thali tonight in the hotel restaurant and they were playing Kraftwerk. India is full of surprises.

Online on the road in India

I finally got Internet access via Airtel GPRS Mobile Office so maybe I’ll fill in some of the gaps where we’ve been. I want to get a little google map happening showing where we’ve been but the WordPress travelog plugin isn’t doing it for me and the guy that wrote travelog is currently [...]

Trichy

We’re in Trichy and just had the best temple day ever. Went to the Rock Fort temple and climbed up for the view and Ganesh’s blessing, as you do, then went to Sri Jambukeshwara in time for Shanti the elephant’s little walk round with the drums and bells. I got Shanti’s blessing while I was [...]

Bangalore

I’m in Bangalore with free wifi at a Coffee World cafe in some plaza on the corner of Brigade Rd and Residency Rd. I don’t think the cafe has anything to do with the free wifi but they’re letting me plug in and sit here for ages with just a measly coffee shake. Wish they [...]