I'll Stick With You

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Lauriston, South Hackney, E9
Originally uploaded by Ewan-M

The Lauriston was packed yesterday. If we had arrived an hour earlier, perhaps we would have got a table, pizzas and drinks for the rest of the night while desayuno_ingles hogged the stage with Nina Simone, Sugababes and Dolly Parton. But, as it was, we stood with our pints by the bar, people pushing past every second, the loud drunk laughter drowning out the singing, pizzas back and forth under our hungry noses, and we couldn't do anything except shout conversation at each other. We lasted only a few songs before heading for the posh chippie round the corner.

Then, instead of hitting another pub, we bought cans of beer and cider to take back to our place and watch American Gigolo. But the world needed to be put to right, and so we fixed all its malaise until 2 am while listening to Morrissey, The Shins and bad 90s music for the cringe memories (Whatever happened to Barenaked Ladies, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Hootie and the Blowfish and Del Amitri?) Did you know Grooveshark has as much music as Spotify for free, but no ads? Must transpose my playlists from Spotify to Grooveshark and see if nothing gets missed. I get the feeling more poppy mainstream stuff is not available on Grooveshark, but they seem to have a good archive of everything else.

We've been invited for lunch today by Silky Bonaduchi and a friend of ours from up North. They're preparing some type of fish dish. If the weather holds, we'll then go for a walk by the river.