Christmas makes me think of church, church makes me think of heaven, heaven makes me think of dead Beatles.

I've been a bad blogger. What have I been up to?

A little bit of this:


But mostly this:


PS. Coco's now living with a family in lovely Stuttgart. I miss her.

When I see a man, what's my plan?

It's to shake my can.

Someone's riding a bike down Crouch Hill.

Between seconds 50 and 55 the rider passes Alix and Mark's flat. Unfortunately, however, you can't see the flat block.

I ♥ Jack O'Lantern, Robyn, Guy Fawkes and wigs. Lots and lots of wigs.

I had a second interview on Halloween, which, while short, was still somehow exhausting. The most I got up to was making Jack O'Lantern biscuits. (Cookies? It's so hard being an American werewolf on London.)

So, the bulk of my Halloween fun was provided by Alix who came home from a Halloween pub quiz with her workmates (They came in first and won an MP3 player!).

Mark got in on the wig action too.


The next night we saw Robyn with Rick, John and Cesca. We met and had a couple pints at Ruby Lounge before heading over to Scala. The show was amazing. Go see Robyn. She’s fun, she’s amazing. Here she is singing ‘Cobrastyle’ at the show.


We went to Alexandra Palace to see the Guy Fawkes festivities. The fireworks were amazing. We had a great nighttime view of London as well. We could see fireworks going off all over the city. There’s usually a bonfire and an effigy to burn, but we were in the wrong spot…I did take this amazing video, though. Can you get a sense of how amazing the display was, the pageantry?

Here’s a better video of the same event by someone with a lot more skill and camera power than me.

My failed attempt at taking a photo of the fireworks. This is the best shot. Always a second too late...

We all headed over to the The Noble afterward. Nice beer, nice people. Too much beer perhaps? Alix, Mark and I got into the wigs at home…
Mark channels Pete Burns.

My glamour shot.


Mark and I went to the garden centre at Alexandra Palace where Royce was working to by an allow plant and found this dirty bird feeder...


And Maja had a baby! I have a Danish nephew, Frede Emil. I can't wait to see photos.

Dodgy kebab was cancer.

I've been lazy yet again...

Between all the fireworks and lying about, I just haven't had the time to think of witty things to say; or mundane things even. So in the mean time, here are some lovely videos.

I love Patches. He reminds me of Coco, but with a little less energy.


Brit Nation.

I'm going to see Robyn at Scala tonight!

I'm going to my first concert in ages tonight. I think the last concert I went to was either Au Revoir Simone/Slow Club or Glastonbury. My memory's shot though, so who knows what I might be forgetting.

Anyway, I'm going to see Robyn tonight at Scala with Mark, Rick and John. 'With Every Heartbeat' reached number one in the UK over the summer. I even saw Robyn getting into her car outside of MTV in Camden. Before you get to thinking I'm a stalker, I was meeting Mark for lunch.

She also has these amazing songs. Golly, I sure do love the Europops.
'Handle Me'. This is the better, original Swedish video for the song. It's wrong on so many levels.

And the silly re-release version:

'Konichiwa Bitches', 'Cobrastyle' and her first hit from 1997 'Show Me Love', which was in the top ten of the US Billboard charts, people! OK, so were Jewel and Hanson, but still.




The two most amazing shows I saw over the summer (I was at the shows in the videos:
Daft Punk at Wireless.


Björk 'Pluto' and 'Innocence' live at Glastonbury.

My kitty needs a home.

As you may know, I've recently relocated to London. I'm unable to bring my cat Coco with me, so I'm looking for a new home for her. If you have room or know of someone who does, I'd be very, very grateful. She's always been an indoor cat, but I think she'd really be great as an outdoor cat too. She wouldn't be very good with kids, but is immensely loyal. I really can't tell you how much it would mean to me to find somewhere kind and safe for her. And think of all the fun kitty photos you can take!

I've been lazy.

Hey, kids:

It's been about three weeks since I left Berlin and I have the feeling things are coming together. I've been staying with Mark and Alix in lovely Crouch Hill. It's such a nice part of London; like a little village in the middle of the city.

I've spent the last three weeks settling in and looking for work. I may have found something, but I'm not saying anything until it happens. I still have to go through the whole visa process. Tomorrow I'm ringing a lawyer who was recommended to me. Fingers crossed!

OK, I'm just going to write a quick list of things that I've been up to. I promise to be better in the future.

After three weeks in California with Mark, I was in London for a day and then in Berlin for five days to close up the flat and try to get things in order. I'm afraid I didn't do the best of job and grateful for everyone's help, especially Andreas and Nick. I've someone subletting the flat. Robby found him and Nick helped move him in. Now I've just got to find a good home for Coco. Anyone who can help in this endeavour will have my undying gratitude and a big night out in London ahead of them.

I got to London on October 7, absolutely knackered from so much organising and cleaning and the lovely bon voyage get together that Andreas had for me with Daniel, Guido and Rainer. It was one of the happiest and saddest nights of my life. I also got an amazing send off talk from Daryl; exactly what I needed to hear. And Robby helped me sell books. I love London, but I miss all my Berlin posse.

So, the London stuff...

October 9. I had a lovely beer at the Black Cap with Mark and Yuka (an ex-colleague from VSI and new friend). We saw a funny drag act there this year. As soon as Mark comes home, I'll ask him the name and I'll put it up on the blog. She performs at TrannyShack sometimes.

October 11. I met Ben at the Tate Modern for coffee and lunch. I met Ben years ago through Debra in Cologne. Later in the evening, we met Mark's friend Christina for a couple of drinks.

October 13. We went out for drinks at the Glass House Stores in Soho for Mark's friend Jamie's 24th birthday. After that pub closed, we headed off to Trash Palace for a couple of drinks. Good times!

October 14. A bit hung over, we headed down the road to Chris and Fiona's for tea. Fi made lovely peanut butter cookies (I can't bring myself to call them biscuits if they're American style) and lemon-poppy seed cake. It was a really nice afternoon with buckets of tea and funny conversation.

October 19. We went to Mel's birthday party at Favela Chic, a nice Brazilian bar in Old Street. Lots of funny people.

October 21. We went to the first pub quiz at The Larrick with Anna and Paul. We came in second! But, won nothing. The team that came in first only won £36. No big loss then. Still though, the board did advertise "Prizes, free booze and much more!"...

OK, that's enough for one evening. More tomorrow...

A new start, a new blog.