The National back to London town! This time they played at the Astoria. It's Tuesday 22nd of May and me and the boys in the studio have been waiting for long long time for this night. The Boxer it's their latest album and i managed to have a promo copy few weeks before the official release, just to get into the tunes better. The atmosphere was great and Matt Berninger (singer) surprisely (for me) was an amazing , charismatic icon on stage. I'm still much more into Alligator (their previous album) and "discovering" the Boxer day after day...

Another run, another day out, and again that guy that looks like me is twisting the knobs while the runners are passing by the DJ booth. This time in the background is the Manchester United Old Trafford football stadium, in front of it 25.000 runners passing by in order to finish the 10k of the Great Manchester Run on Sunday the 20th of March 2007. Sunny day with a lot of minimal techno coming out of the speakers as an Australian artist came to join the rest of us to party, dance and take pictures (have a look in the galleries , they are wicked! Thanks a lot!). Looking forward for next one.

I'm pretty sure that i share this dream with many others: to own an Airstream caravan as an hideaway to spend part of the day in. I was outside London, up north, and one of the suppliers that we use for work was converting a big lot of Airstreams into something else: a Falafel stall for Covent Garden, an eco-friendly house, a spare guest room, etc. The shiny metal shell attracted me from the distance and i started taking pictures of them. I'm sure I won't be able to afford one of them anytime soon, especially on the British market as they are sold for 10 times the original price of the antique USA market.
I might start researching to get one over here , I guess I'll have plenty of time to figure it out where to put it...

This is what you can find in Bricklane Market on a Sunday morning. Yes it's a bargain, I know. Unfortunately I don't wear them or I would have lined up with the other Plimsolls addicts to get a pair for myself. For everyone out there that have missed the trend of the summer or just for all the Londoner wannabes (Nice one brova!) now is the time to get a pair of white Plimsolls to go with the skinny trousers.

I suggest to get them from www.whiteplimsolls.com , but you need to be ready to pay up to double the price of a typical London market stall...

Yes the one on the left looks like it's me on the "Warrior / NIKE+ 3" iPodJing, For the first time Apple and Nike together are promoting in the UK a range of new trainers that using a sensor and a receiver, they connect to the iPod nano in order to track your workouts while you listen to your music (www.nike.com/nikeplus). The first event was the Great Ireland Run in the Phoenix Park in Dublin on the 15th of April where 7000 people ran for 10k. My main role was to play the "powersongs" at the 5th kilometre in order to give a boost to the runners. Using a Numark iDJ wasn't the easiest thing to do, but they all enjoyed the music. This is to reproduce the situation of a typical run with an iPod playing music in your ears when it's linked to your shoes. It tells you all the details about your current run and at some point it plays your favourite powersong to make you go faster (!). It's a new concept of running, that's why they promise you that you will "Run like you've never run before".

This is a picture of the concert from Bloc Party on the 19th of April at the Brixton Academy. I saw them play live at the Mean Fiddler in January this year for a very intimate gig for the Xfm radio station and that was amazing. Brixton was even better! Even if the venue doesn't forgive any mistake (Kele's voice wasn't at its best at all, his guitar as well...). I must admit that the guys created such a cool atmosphere in there! We were all amused.

This is a nice stencil found yesterday on Westbourne Grove. It's on the pavement near the flowers stall. It's amazing the way the paint hasn't covered the texture of the concrete. It looks like it has been bleached out.

This one happened to me on Saturday when one of my friends gave me a bag with a present for his girlfriend as he was going to a gig and didn't want to carry it. I was hanging out in Portobello Road with another friend of mine so we had a quick drink in one of the busy pubs down the road. Well, when my mate called me a few hours later to ask about the bag i realized that i couldn't remember where it was.
After the quickest run of my life back to the pub, I asked the guy that served us about 3 hours earlier, if he had spotted a white bag. After 5 minutes he gave it back to me.
I was the happiest person in the world! Especially after I found out from the receipt in the bag that I was carrying the most expensive pair of trainers I've ever carried in my life . . .

This is my first post.
I've been waiting for this moment for a very long time. I have to thank a friend of mine that helped me making this post come to life, his name is BUG01 and I hope to be able to post very soon the link to his website (which is not ready yet as he was busy sorting mine out!).
The code is under constant development so come back soon for new exciting features.

Amended: April 2008
Be careful when you call someone a friend (like I did in this post), I only confused somebody who was just being available to do something for me in return of something else. And after getting it, stabbed me in the back. Well Alfonso  (Bug01 name taken from insects that live in the scam and shit...guess why...) is not new to this, he did it with a few other people back in Italy and he is still doing it. How does this game end? Is there any final stage after you have stabbed everybody in the back? Can you hide yourself in another country forever and ever? Anyway, be aware of pieces of shit like him and I'm sure there are a few more out there

PS: I just hope that the Google SEO for this post will work...