I'm doing 25 things
Weather was amazing, very few dust storms, playa surface flat and crisp… art was okay… a great year.
horseradish's Life List
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1. wake up next to you
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2. use the word 'brouhaha' more
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3. Disney
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4. Practise French more often
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5. learn to love olives
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6. Swim in a bioluminescent bay
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7. Get to know more than one other person who totally "gets" Tiki bars
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8. avoid the darkness
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9. legalize same-sex marriage
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10. Read Joyce's Ulysses
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11. See my god children more
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12. rock climb
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13. Learn to play a load of standards on the piano
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14. become an urban explorer
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15. try capoeira
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16. Learn 3 great jokes
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17. Go and see De La Guarda again
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18. have conversations late into the night with fascinating people
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19. Kiss in the rain
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20. watch every woody allen movie
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21. Learn the Alexander technique
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22. learn how to tie the stem of a maraschino cherry with my tongue
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23. meet more new people
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24. learn to tango in Argentina
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25. constantly wear a grand combination of exorbitantly priced couture and filthy vintage.
1 cheer3 people
Recent entries
So… MyCapaciousBottega and I arranged to visit the Zandra Rhodes fashion museum, as detailed on our other Thing.
I’m glad to have taken the plunge to rendezvous with a complete stranger via this site because it was a fun and inspiring day. She’s a sassy, intelligent and sensitive woman; in a few hours I think we went through the gamut of ideas and emotions.
It was funny that she assumed I was a 45 year old gentleman, but such is the nature of the internet I guess. I look forward to the next time.
Met up with fellow 43Thinger MyCapaciousBottega to check out this museum in Bermondsey. It’s very much a Zandra Rhodes museum rather than a Fashion and Textile Museum – as the exhibition focused solely on Rhodes’s work dating back to the 60s.
The colours are staggering – a neverending spectrum of vivid hues – and her designs draw from sources of inspiration ranging from the theatrical to the ethnic. Some of the dresses (is it the “73/74”??) will be familiar and have certainly been re-visited by later designers.
No menswear, unfortunately, though the fabrics were so good that I nearly acquired a taste for women’s eveningwear.
