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The leak is fixed. Hurrah! The management company eventually sent a surveyor out and they discovered that the water was coming from inside one of the flats on the floor above mine. They sent the owner a letter asking her to fix it and the dripping stopped a few days later. My bedroom is slowly drying. The carpet dried quickly (a benefit of having a cheap polyester one) and will survive. It looks like it's only the paintwork that has suffered any lasting damage. The main problem is the mould which I will try and clean off once the rest of the wall is dry. I guess I'll be spending a week or so re-painting it next year. Unfortunately, two walls have mould patches and water has marked the ceiling so it's not going to be as simple as painting just one wall. It's also a bit grim that all my clothes smell of damp and mould. I'm trying to gradually wash them all but it's quite a lot of stuff to get through alongside the everyday laundry. Really, I'm lucky. It could have been so much worse if the carpet, my books or clothes had gone mouldy.
Tomorrow, I'm embarking on an international themed pub crawl with some friends from work. I feel a bit guilty as the international theme was my idea and I've been so rubbish at organising it that someone else got fed up with me and took over. I got a bit sidetracked as I was trying to find a pub in Central London themed around each of the six contintents. The task was more difficult than I'd anticipated as most pubs in the centre of town seem to go for a traditional British theme and many of the others are rubbish chain places. It then got even more complicated as we had to incorporate going to see LB's band who are playing in a not internationally themed pub on the same night. I'm glad my colleague took the job off my hands. He's put together a good route (getting additional points for taking account of weekend tube line closures) so it should be great night.
On the subject of gigs I went to see Kid Koala last Friday and it was a bit of a disappointment. Online the evening looked like it would be pretty interesting. The audience would sit in inflatable pods and have a 'headphone experience' while Kid Koala performed tracks from the soundtrack to his graphic novel. Sadly, the reality was somewhat different. First of all, the inflatable 'pods' were actually inflatable tubes with kind of spongey stuff on the floor. They weren't very comfortable and there wasn't much leg room. Secondly, the gig was opened by a guy Kid Koala is colaborating with at the moment whose latest album is called 'The Ten most Depressing Song Ever Written'. I think it's fair to say that an audience expecting a scratch hip hop gig weren't that impressed with a guy singing miserable songs to guitar. By the time Kid Koala started his bit of the gig the crowd was beginning to get a bit restless in a very passive agressive trendy Shoreditch type way. He didn't endear himself to us any further by spending more time talking than actually playing music. When he actually did some scratching it was impressive but I think he only actually played about six tracks in an hour and a half. People were occasionally shouting 'Play some f**king music' and other similar heckles. I remained quiet and clapped politely but I sympathised with the hecklers. We didn't get to see much of the graphic novel either. It looked interesting but he only showed us few pages. Some of the interactive elements were interesting. There was a kind of interactive village fete crossed with an art exhibition on the way in. We decorated our own 'space cookies' and could have entered a free raffle or had our photo superimposed on an asteroid to be shot at in an old skool video game. Generally, I felt it was a good concept poorly executed. The Village Underground is a very cool venue though. I'm keen to go back there and see a more convential gig at some point. On the plus side, earlier on in the evening we went to Bar Kick in Shoreditch High Street and played table football which was a lot of fun. The men in the party were much better at it than the women (they think about tactics and stuff we were just trying to make sure the ball went vaguely in the direction of the goal!) but I enjoyed it lots. One of the main benefits of playing table football instead of pool is that it's much quicker so everyone gets to have more turns. Highly recommended.
Tomorrow, I'm embarking on an international themed pub crawl with some friends from work. I feel a bit guilty as the international theme was my idea and I've been so rubbish at organising it that someone else got fed up with me and took over. I got a bit sidetracked as I was trying to find a pub in Central London themed around each of the six contintents. The task was more difficult than I'd anticipated as most pubs in the centre of town seem to go for a traditional British theme and many of the others are rubbish chain places. It then got even more complicated as we had to incorporate going to see LB's band who are playing in a not internationally themed pub on the same night. I'm glad my colleague took the job off my hands. He's put together a good route (getting additional points for taking account of weekend tube line closures) so it should be great night.
On the subject of gigs I went to see Kid Koala last Friday and it was a bit of a disappointment. Online the evening looked like it would be pretty interesting. The audience would sit in inflatable pods and have a 'headphone experience' while Kid Koala performed tracks from the soundtrack to his graphic novel. Sadly, the reality was somewhat different. First of all, the inflatable 'pods' were actually inflatable tubes with kind of spongey stuff on the floor. They weren't very comfortable and there wasn't much leg room. Secondly, the gig was opened by a guy Kid Koala is colaborating with at the moment whose latest album is called 'The Ten most Depressing Song Ever Written'. I think it's fair to say that an audience expecting a scratch hip hop gig weren't that impressed with a guy singing miserable songs to guitar. By the time Kid Koala started his bit of the gig the crowd was beginning to get a bit restless in a very passive agressive trendy Shoreditch type way. He didn't endear himself to us any further by spending more time talking than actually playing music. When he actually did some scratching it was impressive but I think he only actually played about six tracks in an hour and a half. People were occasionally shouting 'Play some f**king music' and other similar heckles. I remained quiet and clapped politely but I sympathised with the hecklers. We didn't get to see much of the graphic novel either. It looked interesting but he only showed us few pages. Some of the interactive elements were interesting. There was a kind of interactive village fete crossed with an art exhibition on the way in. We decorated our own 'space cookies' and could have entered a free raffle or had our photo superimposed on an asteroid to be shot at in an old skool video game. Generally, I felt it was a good concept poorly executed. The Village Underground is a very cool venue though. I'm keen to go back there and see a more convential gig at some point. On the plus side, earlier on in the evening we went to Bar Kick in Shoreditch High Street and played table football which was a lot of fun. The men in the party were much better at it than the women (they think about tactics and stuff we were just trying to make sure the ball went vaguely in the direction of the goal!) but I enjoyed it lots. One of the main benefits of playing table football instead of pool is that it's much quicker so everyone gets to have more turns. Highly recommended.
