Insomnia besets

I was thinking about all the juvenile and infantile things that a 19 year-old me have once said to someone.

I cringed, I laughed and I wished I had said something better (to save whatever we could)

Funny how words can change the way things swing.

Meanwhile ( a word i have been using a tad too much, cos i use it in my AFP oil market stories), I learnt a new word!

rap·proche·ment (rä'prôsh-mäɴ')
n.
A reestablishing of cordial relations, as between two countries.
The state of reconciliation or of cordial relations.

Hmm, a sign perhaps.

Coolest nepali kid in Kathmandu

Good Fashion. Boy on left, in vintage singlet, jeans, scarf and a 800 rupee army jacket with studs. Loves it. He is a fashion icon, without knowing he is one.

Bad Fashion. Rachxf in a sarong, because she tore her pants.

Blue skies blue. Pokhara, Nepal

Some good music, packet please auntie.

http://www.blogotheque.net/takeawayshows/

Hurrah. There's music for you to dabao (takeaway) now. Literally, cos these musicians/bands including Spinto band, The Kooks, The Shins, Au Revoir Simone and Voxtrot are caught on camera while stroliing down the streets of New York, Paris wherever.
Music on the go, with great edits that don't make you giddy.

Best thing thus far: you can download some of the rare live tracks for FREE.

yay! I love collaborative websites. and for all, who read French, go to www.blogotheque.net ( i believe it just means "The Blog")

Harland Miller's International Lonely Guy, 2004

Book meets painter meets Pop Art = books + paintings





Meet Harland Miller, British artist-writer who has these witty, colourful and uncannily realistic paintings of Penguin Book covers (fictitious ones of cos, pun not intended ;D )

And who better to write an interview piece with Miller, but indie demigod himself, Jarvis Cocker. Read the Guardian interview here: http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2072723,00.html

I love Penguin Books, which reminds me...I should get some more of their minimalist classics with green and white covers. Lovely reads with equally lovely covers, me friends. Go grab a shelf full of them.

Click on London Loves ...ART to find out more.

Rachel is currently reading: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Penguin Books

Stuck in a rut, with no f*** in the hut.

You know that you are stuck in a rut, when you woke up in the evening from half a day's worth of sleep, after a night out with a bunch of gay men, dancing with one who looks 10 years younger than he is and a roomful of vodka and vodka only.

my back aches somehow.

Girls in red skirts, Kathmandu

I said goodbye to someone that I love.
It’s not just me, I tell you it’s the both of us.
And it was hard,
Like coming off the pills that you take to stay happy.

(Belle and Sebastian, If she wants me)