Radio

"This is LBC 97.3, London's biggest conversation"
http://www.lbc.co.uk/

Absolutely love this radio. Decent discussions with all parties. No 'hunt for one-liners'-rubbish self-proclaimed independent journalists in Belgium fill up the airwaves with. They often also have discussions with important politicians (fe Boris Johnson) whereby everybody is treated as equal and met with the same kind of skepticism from the presenter. Nice.


If you get the chance or want to work on you English, put this on during the morning hours (online). You'll get what I'm trying to say.


Take that 'deredactie'.

oh man

Had a gig today, set up the (small) system at Proud Camden. Next thing the promotor cancelled.

Was gonna have some hands on with the Yamaha LS9 tonight, bummer.

http://www.yamahaproaudio.com/products/mixers/ls9/

Backyard

Check out my backyard (the parc really):

(with a very keen eye you could make out the london eye, no pun intended)

Bought some bananas at the local market (I'll do a post on that one sometime), turned out to be plantains.. very nice when baked.

White

Got up this morning, snow is poring down like I've almost never seen before.
This is the kind of situation when London shuts down, completely.

The fact that everybody's traveling home to their families for Christmas isn't helping the situation much either.

Current weather forecast:
- light snow
- heavy snow x4
- light snow x 2
- clear sky
- mist.
Temperatures from -4 - 0 Celsius.

Traffic news:
- live road incidents: 31 roads
- live public transport incidents: 20 busses.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12025538

Hundreds of drivers spent much of the night stuck on the M6 in Greater Manchester, amid disruption on the roads, railways and airports.

Gatwick Airport shut its runway until 1500 GMT, and British Airways cancelled all Heathrow flights until 1700 GMT.

Heavy snow warnings are in place across the UK, with "very heavy" alerts for London, the Home Counties and Surrey.

BA advised all passengers on BA flights during times affected not to travel to Heathrow on Saturday, and warned of severe disruption at all London airports.

'Mayhem'

http://www.channel4.com/news/catch-up/display/playlistref/171210/clipid/171210_snow_pab


Yesterday I had my last day of term, we ended the day with a couple of drinks at 'the mucky pup', the college's favorite watering hole.
So today I'm at home, warm, inside. Nice. I kinda still like snow..

Naan

College Christmas party yesterday, day of for recup today.


Yesterday I prepared my naan bread on some theater lighting, but I've got no photos to prove it. Those things turn out to be almost as good heaters as they are lights. Some positioning and a grill from the freezer did the trick, nice.

I did manage to get to London Christmas-y pics though.

S now

Finally.
Cold but fun (for me anyway).
Survived tube strike without to much trouble, trip took 1hr as usual.


Recently recovered from the vault:
Construction site mains croque monsieurs by Miss S.

Also:
After some thought and persuasion decided to travel home for new year.

America

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/28/us-embassy-cable-leak-diplomacy-crisis

Oh boy.

Note: 24pm, I've beaten 'deredactie.be'. They hasn't posted anything yet. BBC and other majors have ofcourse.


Also,
Tomorrow tube strike, have to get to center of London by 10am. Packing reading material and required music.

The fellows

A link I must have missed previously:

http://www.myspace.com/rockofellows
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/THE-FELLOWS/111363774044
Now that's funny, finding yourself being mentioned in an article.

All is well, doing a lot of reading these days. But also, talking with people about what to do next.

The live sound course

So I was thinking about how to write something about what goes on in the current course.
Next thing you know, alchemea posts this video online as to make my life too easy:

Alchemea Live Audio Diploma moves to the Village Underground from Alchemea Audio College on Vimeo.

Don't try to spot me, I'm not in the clip as it was shot when the class was divided into 2 groups.
Still, Darryn and Marcel (from Holland :), unmistakable accent), are in it, they are the people who keep the course together. Nice folks.

(-this post was written very late/early in the morning, spelling mistakes will be taken out tomorrow-)