londontown

so time is getting tough right now but all i'm gon' focus on here is the good times i just had...

i went into london this past weekend to visit good ol' mike and had the best time i've had so far. we started out eating at wagamama at leicester square...his first time and an obviously great start. after wagamama we walked around and saw a bunch of sights, went to a really cool halloween-esque pub, walked through the amazing tate modern museum, and went to carnaby street so i could get some sweatsop-free clothing from american apparel...bought some good stuff. then came the crazyness of the weekend...

we ended up going to this club called 'fabric' with a couple of his friends. it was supposedly the best club in london and after going i have no doubt as to why it has such a title. we ordered tickets early so we didn't have to wait in the massively long ridiculously long line...basically we were VIP. anyway...this place was an old cold-storage place for meat back in the day and was all underground. there were three different rooms - hip hop, rave, and jungle - and one or two bars for each room. all of it was dark except for a small room where graffitti artists were doing some of their stuff. there were live rap mc's in the hip hop room mixed with amazing dj's all night long. everyone....EVERYONE...there was so incredibly hardcore. this place is like the ones you see in the movies...i could have never imagined actually going to a place like this. outside on the stairways there were drunks, make-out whores, and druggies all sprawled out under the neon blue lights. we went into the rave room for about 20 minutes but i'm glad we left when we did...i couldn't have lasted much longer in that place. in the hip hop room where i was at home...there was more hood rat hoochie mama's than i've ever seen in my life. girls kept trying to grind on this and i had to back off to let them know they can't touch it...they were either drunk, too skanky, or not attractive (how sad that i said that)...i hope what i seemed to attract doesn't reflect on me...that's a shame if it does. anyway...the night was great. i loved the live hip hop, the dj's were incredible, and it was good to just let go with something i love so much. i haven't danced in so long...dayum that felt good!

after closing at 5am...we left fabric and got back to mike's place around 7 after our aimless wandering. woke up at 2 the next day...went in for thai food, went on the london eye - which was incredible, ate an amazing vegan dinner at a south indian restaurant, and saw 'i love huckabees'. the movie was great on so many levels...expressing environmental concerns being one.

the weekend was all-around amazing. i had such an incredible time. we had great conversations about all kinds of random things and it just felt good to be back with someone from home for a good portion of time hanging out and having fun. it put grad school in its place when it comes to importance in my life right now. i wanna go back and do it all over again. someday.

for now...i gave myself a mohawk.