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A review of Banksy in yesterday's Guardian. He got a drubbing.

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2118864,00.html

Pre: (60s and 70s): Levis, Wranglers, Lee, Lee Cooper, Skinners

(80s) Lois, Levi 501s (secondhand redlines)

(90s) Armani, Carhartt, Levi, Japanese Evisu, Edwin Nashvilles, Fake London Genius

(noughties) Fake London Genius, Japanes Evisu

Post sufu: Nudie Regular Ralfs and Edwin Waynesvilles

Went to the pub for a drink in [a less than] merry England's first smoke-free day. The place stayed empty. Went home and watched five minutes of that Concert For Diana before wanting to gouge out my own eyes with a key fob. There's a special circle of hell reserved for those wretched performers. Fell asleep on the sofa for four hours and then couldn't sleep all night.

On my raw dry Ralph Regulars, I sized down from 34" to 33" waist. I wish I'd sized down even more because after seven weeks they've stretched to the point where either they're gathered at the waist or sliding off my hips. A bit disappointed, I am.

I'll just have to buy another pair - something different this time.

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ketamine

weed/skuff

I've just finished the first novel in a trilogy by Patrick Hamilton called 20,000 Streets Under the Sky. The first novel, The Midnight Bell, is an atmospheric story about a pub waiter who, foolishly and ruinously, falls in love with a prostitute during 1930s London. A wonderfully embittered tale of unrequited love and treacherous betrayal. The next novel in the trilogy is called the Siege of Pleasure and is a continuation of the story.

I'd pretty much enter anything that gives me an excuse to wear a nice pair of jeans everyday.

Amen to that. Count me in too.

Another interested London-based poster here. Do keep us informed.

For me, the Hanes Beefy T is the finest. I discovered them over 20 years ago and the build quality is fantastic but there are only a few retailers stocking them in London.

Uniqlo do three packs but the teeshirts are almost sheer and the fabric is thin, more like a vest in terms of fabric weight.

Marks and Spencer also do three packs and the cotton is beautiful and although they lack the body of the Beefy T they're much heavier than the Uniqlo versions.

I spent untold wedge yesterday on four escorts, took far too much ecstasy, imbibed bacchanalian quantities of alcohol and now I'm too mullered to remember the details.

Boxer - The National

Sky Blue Sky - Wilco

Neon Bible - Arcade Fire

Nashville - Solomon Burke (I think it was released this year)

This place will slot sun-lenses into their frames. I wear the opthalmic versions too.

http://www.kirkoriginals.com/

Because it's populated by informed, witty, intelligent and supremely confident stylish obsessives. Oh yes, and I'm a shallow, superficial type myself so I can easily blend in.

Keep proffering the pickup advice, please.

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Christ on a bike. Some gorgeous looking girls gracing this thread. I want to emigrate to where you guys live.

I spent last Thursday night in an awesome femdom club. It's taken until today to recover.

I watched this TV programme on Florida prisons the other week. It was 'kin terryfying. That should tell you all you need to know.

Bardot, simply for her collaboration, avec Serge, on Bonnie and Clyde.

I am wondering where the real shit is going down.....everything I see is squeaky clean. ....miss the smell of stale urine and beer.

Blimey, are we talking London, England here? As a native south Londoner, I grew up on stale beer and the stench of urine.

The Shoreditch suggestion was good, but the area's gone more mainstream now and the 'scene' has moved east to Bethnal Green.

What exactly did y'all want to see?

Camberwell School of Arts & Crafts (as it was known in the seventies when I attended).

I too am listening to Boxer by the National. It follows back-to-back listening of their whole discography. They're sublime.

Jesus, I'm forty eight and a grizzled ol' grandad. Still besotted with denim, though.

Nudie Ralf Regulars - every day since purchased on Saturday

Edwin Waynesvilles - every evening since purchased on Saturday

G-Star Raw - last Friday

Thanks everyone for your input.

I do a lot of gardening and landscaping work in my little city lot, but I am apprehensive about wearing out there for fear of getting them too dirty to wear everyday again.

I know what you mean. I use a damp sponge to remove any excess mud so that I don't resemble a homeless tramp at work.

Boxer by The National. And it's sublime - one of the best releases of this year so far.