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In London!

Flight: not too bad, except I had the window seat from Wellington to London (which is three flights all up, WGTN/AKL, AKL/HK, HK/LDN) and some poor bugger managed to be sitting next to me for every single one, necessitating me climbing over him rather a lot. Otherwise flight fine, food not too bad. Read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - A++, would read again, except for the last paragraph - and a bit of Kate Elliott and watched films & TV that got progressively worse and worse, starting with Entre Les Murs (The Class) and Milk, both of which were great, moving swiftly through Peter's Friends and about five episodes of Entourage, and finished off with me laughing hysterically and utterly indiscriminately at Outnumbered and freakin' Bride Wars. Even though I love Anne Hathaway I'm embarassed for me right now.

Getting off flight, navigating way to mother's best friend's flat: great but hysterical (and by the way: 23 degrees, suckers!) Heathrow really is a circle of hell, but Customs in England are kind of TERRIFYING - you just walk through the "nothing to declare" bit and no-one stops you! Ridic, just like the we-totally-have-you-cornered-so-we're-going-to-charge-you 16.50-for-the-tube-and-not-give-you-the-right-change-so-it's-really-17-pounds Heathrow/Paddington Express. Then I got lost - well, not really, I just had the address written down wrong and had to buy a phone card to wake my mother up at 3 in the morning for it. :P But it was such a lovely day I kind of didn't mind, as I basically haven't seen the sun since March.

Today: Tate Modern and dinner out courtesy of my lovely hosts.... was great! really good. Not got a lot of coherent memories of it but I adored a painting by someone Balla called Girl running across balcony or something like it, and several others too actually. Kind of a ghastly movement though, full or the glorification of war and virility (their word, not mine) and the beast of technology. The founder of the movement, Marinetti, was apparently a terrible misogynist, and I found this response by a woman called Valentine de Saint Point kind of... I don't know, horrifying yet interesting.

Some of the features of the movement I found really fantastic, though, especially the stuff about motion and time. this one by a woman called Natalya Goncharova is great. I really wish I'd written some more names down, though, there were several others whose work I really liked and would like to remember a bit better. Anyway.

Also: I sorted out a simcard for my phone! My England number is: 0779 603 6740 which is very LONG, by the way, but it took a total of 5 minutes and twenty pounds to get set up for the month which is very neat. ANYWAY text me, it'll be fun!

Date: 2009-06-14 11:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eavanmoore.livejournal.com
The thing about the... I forget what they're called, but it had something to do with modernism, anyway the movement you discuss... is that their ideas about the art is much more interesting than the art itself. At least from what I've seen . Marinetti's manifesto was a stunning love song from man to machine.

Date: 2009-06-15 12:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eavanmoore.livejournal.com
"futurism" duh

Date: 2009-06-14 11:10 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] china_shop
as I basically haven't seen the sun since March

Hey! It's sunny here now! *g*

Have you seen Entourage before?

*is distracted by things that are not art; fails on non-Philistineness* ;-)

Date: 2009-06-14 11:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amarynth.livejournal.com
you just walk through the "nothing to declare" bit and no-one stops you!

Try doing it with a slightly duskier skin colour. You may find the stop rate is higher.

Date: 2009-06-15 01:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sixth-light.livejournal.com
This trend is also evident in NZ customs, from what I've seen/heard.

Date: 2009-06-15 04:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amarynth.livejournal.com
It's pretty universal among white-majority countries, at least post 9/11

Date: 2009-06-15 01:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sixth-light.livejournal.com
I found the really hilarious thing at Heathrow was the way that the "privileged" queue for British citizens and EU peeps was about 3000 people long and the "everyone else" queue had, like, three people in it and was super-quick, despite the fact that we had to be checked out for legal entry.

Date: 2009-06-15 03:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sierra-le-oli.livejournal.com
The Futurists were responsible for some great art but I can leave the rest. :-) Love the Tate Modern though and still need to go see the new installation in the Turbine Hall. Apparently it's another one you get to play on?

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