Anish Kapoor exhibition @ Royal Academy

Besides going to check out the Tate Modern’s Pop Life Exhibit and The Simple Things starting on October 1st, I also suggest that if you’re in London you go check out Anish Kapoor’s exhibit at the Royal Academy.

http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/anish-kapoor/about/

You might need this if you are as busy as I am

This Brabus concept van sure is nice, and if you can use a mobile office or entertainment center this might just be the best option. The built in espresso machine is great. Make sure you take a sip at 6:30am before heading to the City !

How do you know that you've been in London too long?

1. You say "the City" and expect everyone to know which part of town you are talking about.

2. You have never been to The Tower or Madame Tussauds but love Brighton.

3. You can get into a four-hour argument about how to get from Shepherds Bush to Elephant & Castle at 3:30 on the Friday before a long weekend, but can't find Dorset on a map.

4. Hookers and the homeless are invisible.

5. You step over people who collapse on the Tube.

6. You believe that being able to swear at people in their own language makes you multilingual.

7. You've considered stabbing someone.

8. Your door has more than three locks.

9. You consider eye contact an act of overt aggression.

10. You call an 8' x 10' plot of patchy grass a garden.

11. You consider Essex the "countryside".

12. You think Hyde Park is "nature".

13. You're paying £1,500 a month for a bed-sit the size of a walk-in wardrobe, you call it a "studio", and you think it's a bargain.

14. Shopping in suburban supermarkets and shopping malls gives you a severe attack of agoraphobia.

15. You pay more each month to park your car than most people in the UK pay in rent.

16. You pay four pounds without blinking for a beer that cost the bar 28p.

17. You actually take fashion seriously.

18. You have 27 different menus next to your telephone.

19. The UK west of Heathrow is still theoretical to you.

20. You're suspicious of strangers who are actually nice to you.

21. Your idea of personal space is no one actually physically standing on you.

22. £50 worth of groceries fit in one plastic bag.

23. You have a minimum of five "worst cab ride ever" stories.

24. You don't hear sirens anymore.

25. You've mentally blocked out all thoughts of the city's air/water quality and what it's doing to your insides.

26. You live in a building with a larger population than most towns.

27. Your cleaner is Portuguese, your grocer is Somali, your butcher is halal, your deli man is Israeli, your landlord is Italian, your laundry guy is Philippino, your bartender is Australian, your favourite diner owner is Greek, the watch seller on your corner is Senegalese, your last cabbie was African, your newsagent is Indian..... and your local English chip-shop owner is Turkish.

Is he gonna save us?

Too much hype if you ask me...he's just one more president

Pop Life

If you live in London or plan to go there this fall make sure you stop by the Tate Modern to check out this show which starts October 1st, 2009 POP LIFE: Art In A Material World. The Simple Things which is the sculpture Pharrell & Takashi Murakami collaborated on will be shown there.