London Still Rocks!

On Sunday , fifth scary thing in a row.. mwah-hah-haa, 'twas the long-awaited  launch of Dracula Interactive ! It's a  LoMAZ  event, but to be fair, they didn't come up with it - it developed during the  pandemic , based on the fact that the novel,  Dracula , is written as a diary. Anyway, a  website  was set up whereby you could have the section of the novel corresponding to a particular day emailed to you on that day! So.. LoMAZ has decided to read along. Oh, but that ain't the half of it.. On Sunday, we were meeting in our regular haunt of the  Union Jack , and dressing up (preferably vampirically) was encouraged. Happily for that, the predicted rain never came. Plus, apart from (we hoped) making a start on deciding the ongoing schedule of events that day.. we also have a couple of tie-in travel events.. because the action moves to  Whitby  in August, and to  Transylvania  in November! And I had so many ideas for the trips.....

Today, The Hideout 's sister group,  Movie Roadhouse London , was off to see  The Devil Wears Prada 2  - but that's really not my thing. Instead, I decided on   Rose of Nevada  - I saw the trailer and thought it was interesting. A fishing boat reappears after being missing for 30 years.. two men join the crew, and after one voyage, find themselves transported back in time and mistaken for the original crew.. Closest showing to me was in the  Barbican   - or alternatively in the BFI , for 50p more, so I went with the Barbican . It wasn't booking out, so I didn't bother to book - I decided to get the ticket there and save the booking fee. I did book  Cote Barbican  for beforehand, though. It was a late showing - and boy, was I glad to have a few hours to catch up with myself! Left in perfect time to catch the bus - which was then diverted. For a wee minute, I thought the diversion might work in my favour, taking me closer than I should have be...

Last n ight, I headed to the first of two films in a row, back with  The Hideout . Was supposed to be for  Deep Water , a thriller about a plane that crashes in shark-infested waters -  Ben Kingsley  is one of the pilots. But then there was some distribution issue - so instead, they renamed the event " Spontaneous ", and we were to vote on what to go see. They included some suggestions, but I was sure, if there were enough votes for something else, we could do that. Personally, I hoped for   Exit 8 , a new   Japanese   psychological horror film based on a   video game   - a man is trapped in an underground station, and to find his way out, he needs to find anomalies - if he finds one, he must turn back. He must not turn back without finding one, he must not continue if he finds one.. I loved the trailer. Anyway, whatever we were to see, we were meeting in   Victory House   as usual, and I booked for   Bella Italia   b...

Well, I was in the office yesterday - and we had a talk from the board of management of the company that's just acquired ours. So we were all asked to come in - handily, it was my office day anyway. So I needed to get in early. I was certainly out earlier than usual - caught the bus at about 8.45am. And so, imagine my frustration when, first, we paused for 15 minutes to "even out the gaps in the service" - before having another delay to change drivers! I got into the office about 9.30.. and sure enough, there were no desks left. I spent the day - when not in meetings - at a coffee table right inside the door. Comfy seat, but nowhere to plug in my laptop - which died in the middle of the day. Really doesn't do well on battery. So, with half an hour to go before my next meeting, and not wanting to be obviously not working in the office, I went for a walk - and found myself in Outernet : And, of course, I left pretty soon after my meetings ended.  Last night, second nig...