Durrty Dozen +2 offical threak

[mr.invincible]

can i see close up on the denim? it's evolving and suits you quite well

[denimdestroyedmylife]

... But mine is ...

Tweeds came over & dropped them off at my place this evening.

They've given me a whole new outlook on life.

yeah, they do that.

[tg76]

how many durty dozens does it take to change a lightbulb?

[beatle]

one too many

[Maynard Friedman]

how many durty dozens does it take to change a lightbulb?

That depends on whether the lightbulb really wants to change.

[sybaritical]

I'm not hiding, I'm working weekends and the weather's been crap all week. This means no fun pictures of me galavanting out with pockets around my ankles.

Will certainly take some evo pictures for y'all though.

[beatle]

I would love to see some jawns...

[ordo]

how many durty dozens does it take to change a lightbulb?

One. Except they just hold it up and the rest of Superfuture revolves around them.

[almostnice]

what if its a bayonet socket?

[denimdestroyedmylife]

how many durty dozens does it take to change a lightbulb?

nah, it's just a little ice cream.

[tg76]

nah, it's just a little ice cream.

you scream?

[sybaritical]

OK.

Finally. I wasn't working and the weather held up, so I went to the Barbican to check the Japanese fashion show out.

As you can see, these things are awkward huge on me. Proper clown trousers. I'm still wearing them, though. In fact, we're going to Manchester to celebrate my birthday with bleep bloop music in a warehouse tomorrow, then next week Imma drag them round a few bits of London that you haven't seen yet ( that's the plan, anyway)

[denimdestroyedmylife]

i think the fit is proper.

[beatle]

i think the fit is proper.

Hell yes........

[jimmyc]

they look great!

[sybaritical]

OK I'll quit being a whiny bitch then.

[ranonranonarat]

if they're clown trousers, they look like good clown trousers.

[tg76]

OK I'll quit being a whiny bitch then.

youre allowed

ITS YOUR BIRTHDAY!

[tweeds]

and what a day

Manchester was all kinds of awesome but i'll let Sybaritical do the honours.

[sybaritical]

Yes yes. Indeed, t'was an epic.

It's 7pm & I just woke up. Photos from the last few days coming soon.

[sybaritical]

OK few randoms from the past few days. Thursday dropped into the show at Black Rat under the arches in Shoreditch while I was waiting for Tweeds:

It was a group show & there were some great pieces from different artists :

Detail of a Brian adams douglas piece that was propped up against a wall.

Detail of a piece by Know Hope.

A Matt Small portrait

And some detail from another piece by Swoon ( not nearly as amazing as her solo show that we saw in Paris a couple weeks ago though )

[sybaritical]

Then onward ( after a beer or two ) to Mexican at Wahaca. Good times! Was the first decent Mexican place I've been to in London. Be advised though : The £10 shots of El Tesoro Blanco are the way forward.

Apologise for the crappy pics. Only had my phone & Got way too stuck in to care about it.

[sybaritical]

Then it was the weekend & we piled onto a train to Manchester to go see a huge electronic music event at The Warehouse project.

The actual place is insane, a cavernous dimly lit concrete space with loads of catacomb-ey areas full of deckchairs and bars and stuff, right underneath the main train station. Would have loved to get some decent pics, but it was way too dark in there.

This was the first band on in the main hall, but we split to watch Mount Kimbie in the smaller of the two room ( underwhelming )

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Still. Tweeds snapped a couple of good ones later on though, so here's Theo Parrish getting skunked and mesmerizing the crowd:

And a couple of Caribou, who in my opinion are easily one of the most exciting live acts in the world right now.

Notable exception from pics is Four Tet, but he gets an honorable mention cos he played the best set I've ever heard from him ( & I've seen him play a whole bunch of times).

[sybaritical]

Bonus pic!

We split about 4am & after 8 hours of fairly solid drinking, we got back to our hotel to find out that we weren't actually allowed to stay there cos our party was too big for the room we'd booked ( even though we had more beds than we needed)

Here's me quietly failing to persuade the manager to give us our money back & pose for a picture with his helpful minions so I could post it on gay chat forums the length and breadth of the interweb.

[sybaritical]

Anyhow. After a little while we snuck back in and caught a couple hours sleep before waking up & realising we were all still completely wrecked.

I was up before anyone else so I snapped a couple pics while I was waiting. Here's what y'all been waiting for I guess:

Our boys got a battering last night, if my Chucks were anything to go by ... They were box fresh yesterday. Look at them now!!

Anyhow, battered, bruised & still entirely drunk we grabbed some breakfast on the way to the station, made our train just in time & headed back to London.

Fucking fantastic birthday.

[fardin]

happy b day. awesome post +rep.

[ranonranonarat]

happy birthday and that was an interesting post to say the least. i really enjoyed the black rat projects. thanks for sharing.

[sybaritical]

Thanks rat. Yeah. There's loads of art up & on in London I'd love to go round & peek at right now, but this week I'm back to working for the monies. Maybe I'll find time towards the end of it though

[tg76]

[sybaritical]