Strangeblue on 10/10/2009 at 05:41
They are cowering from the weather. Don't take it personally.
thefonz on 10/10/2009 at 05:43
Lets fix that then.
Fingernail on 10/10/2009 at 10:07
Thumbs up for the O2 Centre at Finchley Road, Screen on Baker Street is nice and intimate, but yeah, Leicester Square is awful price-wise. Trocadero one is ok, and there's a Covent Garden Odeon (I think it's Odeon) that does student tickets, but aside from that, avoid the centre. There's one at Angel which is decent.
Aerothorn on 10/10/2009 at 10:41
Awesome!
Yeah, frankly I'm a bit too shy to start messaging various TTLGers and be like HEY SHOW ME AROUND. Plus, given that pretty much everybody has fake locations in their profile now, I have no idea who is London and who isn't.
Fingernail on 10/10/2009 at 10:47
You're in New Cross though. How's that working out? (Kilburn here)
Aerothorn on 10/10/2009 at 13:55
I actually like it. I've heard bad things about it from other Londoners, ranging from "it's a rough area" to "New Cross is shit," all implying it's some sort of ghetto. Which is completely untrue. It's clean, it's safe, people seem relatively friendly. The good news is that (at least where I am - I have not explored the whole neighborhood/borough/whatever it is) there are tons of restaraunts, cafes, bars, and mini-markets (as well as two grocery stores) so food is plentiful.
The bad news is that there is nothing else. Back home, wherever you are in the city, there's a bookshop nearby, and likely a used bookshop close. I figured that if my city of 600,000 had, say, 150 book stores, then London might have ten times that, but so far it seems to have bizarrely few used book stores. I found a nice collection of them in Charring Cross, but unless Google Maps is just not up to date, they seem to be only a few scattered ones outside of Central London, none in easy walking distance. I guess the nearest place with book stores/theaters/etc would be Greenwich? Which I think is walkable?
jay pettitt on 10/10/2009 at 18:54
London is chock-block full of little indie cinemas, if not second hand book shops (the markets usually have book stalls, there's a really good one in Camden Lock) - they may or may not have stuff on general release, but there is the added advantage that what they do have might provoke actual thoughts, rather than just joining in with the general turnyourbraintomush thing that everywhere else has going on.
I am genuinely on my bicycle. But not in London.
Starrfall on 10/10/2009 at 23:09
Quote Posted by Aerothorn
Awesome!
Yeah, frankly I'm a bit too shy to start messaging various TTLGers and be like HEY SHOW ME AROUND. Plus, given that pretty much everybody has fake locations in their profile now, I have no idea who is London and who isn't.
Oh come on someone organize another ttlg london meet.
thefonz on 11/10/2009 at 08:06
At the moment I'm living up in St Johns Wood (NW, about 10min from Baker Street). Very nice up here and a good collection of things to do.
We SHOULD arrange a ttlg meet for those of us in London - unassumingly lacking so either we're all typical Londoners and fear contact with "strangers"...or bone idle.
For the record, I was up in Camden last night at Underworld to see a gig. I freaking love it up there and am seriously considering moving into the area (the nicer bit of Camden natch).
SubJeff on 11/10/2009 at 14:31
Camden is a great place. We should have a TTLG meet there in summer, do the markets, see a gig, eat a kilo of mussels then pile back to fonz's to play on his consoles and barf on the carpet.
Who's in?
