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Dec 28 2012

museum, religion

TREASURES

Found ourself at a loose end in south kensington.

The foreign libraries were shut. Its like a petit france round there.

That means: “little france.”

Your welcome.

Anyway.

Theres still a lot to blog about there tho.

We are going to blog about 2 things…

*****

Sneaking in to the natural history via the boring rocks section we sashayed towards the dinosaurs.

Perched over the main hall is 'Treasures' where they get to haul out some unthemed #oldshit… Greatest hits if you will… And put it all together.

It was reasonably reasonable #oldshit… Stuffed bird, fossils, painting of a man with a beard… U kno the score.

Their usp was some cool glass natural history statues made by some german chaps who died without letting anyone know how they did it.

*****

Like jesus.

What a segway,

Now the mormans make their church look like an art gallery and the boy wonders eyes glittered.

A nice american lady told him all about how jesus came back in america and showed him her husbands organ.

As if to dazzle.

Love,

Harleyxx

Ps One quirky religion and two quirky germans were harmed in the making of this blog post.

Like an evenings hospital radio……………

“at least stars burn out brightly”

Tagged church, church of the latter day saints, exhibition, foreign, foreign libraries, france, libraries, london, mormans, museum, natural history museum, organ, religion, south kensington, treasures, west london

Dec 12 2012

museum, new age

ANATOMICALLY INCORRECT

Squeezed in some Gaia medititative ring chanting. One Tree Hill.

The view of London.

*****

Did u always have to pay for the aquarium?

*****

The Horniman Museum is good.

They have A LOT of old things from Africa.

And a Walrus the is anatomically incorrect.

Their current exhibition is 'The Body Adorned.'

What makes it v good (tho they have shoehorned in A LOT of old things from Africa…) is that its basically an exhibition of all the different people in London talking about their look and their lives.

Lovely,

Love,

Harley xx

“at least stars burn out brightly”

Tagged chanting, clothes, forest hill, gaia, honor oak park, horniman museum, london, museum, new age, one tree hill, south london, the body adorned

Nov 18 2012

art, museum

ROUND UP

The Stone Space: There’s a sim card. In perspex. It contains text and photos from an old relationship.

5 Stars. Its on a plinth.

Maureen Paley: There’s pinboards. In Bethnal Green. They contain text about architecture.

3 Stars. Its tucked away.

The British Museum: There’s old shit. In cabinets. They contain bones, pots and in a special free exhibition stuff relating to drinking.

3 Stars. Mainly pots.

A lot of pots.

I think iv said b4.

love,

Harley xx

http://thestonespace.wordpress.com/

http://www.maureenpaley.com/

http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/ritual_and_revelry.aspx

Tagged Art, bethnal green, central london, contemporary art, drinking, east london, leytonstone, london, maureen paley, museum, the british museum, the stone space

Oct 30 2012

museum, recording, television

GET IDEAS

How to summarise a lost weekend of spoken word, sadness and nick clegg…

Unrelated.

Like this

A) guildhall lates are lovely lates. Get ideas from meetup and float round antisocially on your own. Theres an amphitheatre dontcha know.

B) tv recording of 'the agenda' good, free and theres no need to be lonely with the internet. Find other lonely people to do stuff with.

Im a dog of few words.

Like Ezra Pound with worms.

Look it up.

Theres no excuse to be uncultured with the internet.

Love,

Harleyxx

“at least stars burn out brightly”

Tagged amphitheatre, audience, central london, city, city of london, covent garden, debate, guildhall, lates, live recording, london, meetup, moorgate, museum, museum lates, recording, soho, spoken word, the agenda, tv, tv audience, west end

Oct 11 2012

art, Museum

A lot happened today.
Cultural, life…
I suppose the cultural things were 3 galleries.
We don’t do things by halves.
Tho perhaps we should do things in more detail.
Gagosian: Some words: Protuberances (is that a word?)
Hus: Some words: leathery, church, knives
Crypt: Dark, church, flesh
There are lots of galleries called the crypt.
We stumbled on another.
I can’t be bothered to tell u about it.
I can’t be bothered to remember the names of the artists.
http://www.google.co.uk
If you’re that interested.
Im guessing we weren’t.
We also went to Regents Park but couldn’t be bothered with the art thing because we wanted to sit on a bench and look at our pretentious art BOOK.
Bought some sonnets for tomorrow…
Had a nice tea with my nice friend Paul.
Lates at Wellcome… I’m tempted to talk about body parts but I have to be careful.
Sometimes if you do lots of things you are too tired to blog about them properly.
#fancy
Sorry to waste your time.

Love,

Harleyxx

Whippscorridor

Tagged Art, central london, contemporary art, london, modern art, museum, museum lates, north london, parks, poetry, regents park, royal parks, sculpture, wellcome collection

Oct 09 2012

museum

PRONOUNCED GEOFFREY

Heres another thing…

You know how we like free museums @thedogwhatblogs…

Well here is one…

http://www.geffrye-museum.org.uk/

They conveniently forget the 70s and 80s…

Love,

Harleyxx

“at least stars burn out brightly”

Tagged east london, geffrye museum, hoxton, london, museum

Sep 27 2012

Museum

LATE

If you have extraordinary life patterns late things are good.
Late movies, late openings, late night places to buy sugar…
Viva London.
We were very late tho for science museum lates (last weds of month). Animal rights activism… Il tell u later…
But sometimes its good to dip ones furry toe in a pond you might later want to dive into.
That. Is a metaphor.
We really would like to dive into silent discos.
Though it was quite funny to just watch.
The Science Museum id imagine is quite a scary place to be out ones tree. Like when in the distant past we were a bit drunk in the Tate Modern. Like a nightmare.
“What are all these big planes! Im in a war Im in a war!”
We were sucked in by some attendants to make a clock out of paper.
Never again.

Love,

Harleyxx

Tagged central london, lates, museum, museum lates, south kensington

Sep 18 2012

Museum, Uncategorized

IMPERIAL WAR

He is an ill thought out pacifist.
I… as a Staffordshire Bull Terrier on the mean streets of London’s Hornsey…
Know how to handle myself.
This museum is a good museum in terms of the aforementioned checklist if you ignore your lilly livered owner going: “#Oo i dont like war. I dont like it.”
On a purely museumy level it has some mightily well presented display cases.
We see an awful lot of display cases of tat on our travels.
…mentioning no names Tea ‘Museum’…
And these are dense (ha!) neat (ha!) and interesting (ha!).
Lots about the secret services which was genuinely literally genuinely fascinating and a bit about surviving in rationing etc.
Very, very nicely presented (ha!)

Love,

Harleyxx

Tagged imperial war museum, lambeth, london, museum, south london, southwark, war

Aug 29 2012

art, film, Museum

SO

Sometimes a blog or a day starts out as one thing but turns into another.

So naturally there was a meetup. Knitting. Noone home.

So clearly then there was a cafe and some irritatedness.

So then there was a museum (Cuming… Not, disappointingly about the scottish sometime gay star of 90s BBC xmas flick and Heinink staple 'Bernard and the Genie.')

Worth a look. Old shit. Dickens. Hes everywhere. Like Trinidad and Korea. Free.

But dont go to south london on purpose.

So then there was a gallery. Peter Blake at the Fine Art Society. Good to have a curator for art or life. He knows his onions. Nice to have fine art and modern art together. Great. Free.

He's a bit everywhere too. He's 80 or something.

Yes, there were boobs.

So then an evening activity. Or the first one.

We wanted to go on about 'Laughter Yoga' again.

About the importance of play and how the Southbank looks like a grownups playground with wheels, fairs, arts, bright colours and…talking wooden boxes.

But then we saw a film. 'The Imposter.'

Which twisted and turned all over the place.

Like a day. Like a relationship.

It was short too. We like short.

Love,

Harleyxx

Theres someone sodcasting #onthistrain. Sub human scum.

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Tagged Art, central london, cineworld, cineworld haymarket, contemporary art, cuming museum, film, fine art, fine art society, haymarket, laughter, laughter yoga, life, london, modern art, museum, peter blake, piccadilly, royal festival hall, south, south london, southbank, southbank centre, southwark, the imposter

Aug 17 2012

dreams, Museum

DREAMBOAT

I suppose we should just be joyful it exists.

Its v hard to be angry with a fan museum.

There are more things on heaven and earth than we can explain.

Like why a fan museum can charge 4 pounds and the phenomenal Maritime museum is free.

Some explain such phenomenon with religion.

Some look to dreams.

“I think being in London helps.”

Sure thing bucko.

“People are more open.”

“Release your root chakra.”

This is the Dream Cafe.

Or Costa as theyre popularly known.

A group where people discuss their dreams.

That’s what it is.

There’s nothing more to say.

Oh yes, theres little cards.

For insight.

Ours had a picture of a tree and a peach or it could be…

Some words…

Boobs, bum.

We never got to find out as we had to hot foot to hospital radio.

The things people do to make themselves quirky and interesting,

Love,

Harleyxx

http://www.thefanmuseum.org.uk/

http://www.rmg.co.uk/

http://www.meetup.com/Dream-Cafe/

Tagged boats, costa, discussion, dream cafe, dreams, fan museum, greenwich, london, maritime greenwich, museum, national maritime museum, religion, ships, south london, spirituality

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TREASURES

ANATOMICALLY INCORRECT

ROUND UP

GET IDEAS

DARK CHURCH FLESH

PRONOUNCED GEOFFREY

LATE

IMPERIAL WAR

SO

DREAMBOAT