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joe strummer black wall
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2008-10-19 18:38 UTC
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| In London, what we yanks would call a subway is called the Underground or 'the tube', and a 'subway' is an underground pedestrian walkway, usually to get you from one side of a street to the other without crossing on the surface. |
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Most are dank tunnels. This one, connecting Edgware road and other points under the A40 freeway, is a set of dank tunnels with a fairly well lit central area. Since the last time I was here, they've put up this 'Black Wall' art-project-tribute to Joe Strummer. Of course, if you can read the text, you'll learn he wanted the banner in Times Square, but I guess this is a start. |
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abbey road studios
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2008-10-19 11:32 UTC
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| turns out my hotel here in london is within walking distance of Abbey Road Studios.
It's still a working studio, so they don't give public tours.
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I bet there are some really good microphones behind that door.
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yup, that's me - but I'm walking the wrong way - does that mean something?
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And, of course, the zebra crossing place is here, too. From my brief
observance, I'd say that the average number of times that each gosh-durned set
of tourists walks across before getting a satisfactory picture is 8, and the
traffic has to stop when we're trying. I was of the particularly
pathetic and annoying loner tourist ilk, attempting to snap a my-space style
cellph-portrait (which doesn't work *at all*, btw), until some other tourtists
took pity on me and used my phone to take a couple of photos of me. If they hadn't done
it, I bet a local motorist eventually would have, out of sheer desperation,
and may or may not have been able to resist the urge to run me over.
By the way, on the album cover the Beatles were walking away from the studio, not toward it.
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