Monday, May 11, 2009

Day 4: Joe, Bob, Doug, Karl, and Floyd...

Final day of my trip...I decided that instead of seeing all the historical, "touristy" things, I would seek out landmarks I wanted to see....


a leftover from the train station last night....





Famous 3 Kings, formerly "The Nashville Rooms." Here, The Clash played their first ever show...opening for The Sex Pistols...

Westminster Bridge

*no comment*



Pro-Tamil Tigers Protest

Walking Highland Hill in Islington

Waterlow Park, Islington



The grave of my all-time favorite author, Douglas Adams...

Tombstone of Karl Marx


Can you name the rock and roll icon in the distance?

Battlesea Power Station

Battlesea Power Station (go find your Pink Floyd records...you'll recognize it...)




Joe Strummer lived in this apartment with Paul Siminon and Sid Vicious...in the back room, he penned the classic, "Hate and War"
Arguably, the best jazz record store on the planet...

cool "Steampunk" building...

The Gherkin...






What music icon lived here?

Housman's Books...selling radical literature since 1945...

IceBat at platform 9 3/4...I've not read those books...but I am sure my mom will love this...

Desert @ Wagamama's...white chocolate and ginger cheesecake with chili sauce...KILLER!
One last time back at King's Cross station...


Sunday, May 10, 2009

Day 3: Finding Jim...

Another day in Paris...equally as amazing as the first...I am about to pass out, so I will write for each photo...when necessary...









in case you can't find the tower...

...set the gear shift for the high gear of your soul...

a protest/meditation...very cool...



I am very lucky. Today, I was able to do something I always dreamed of doing. I was able to personally pay my respects to one of my all time music idols, Jim Morrison.


...if you listen closely, you can hear "Riders On The Storm" being played from somones' iPod touch..not mine...because I don't own one...


Moliere...

Oscar Wilde...the markings are actually lip prints...

Yves Montand

Proust

...walking around Pere Lachaise Cemetery

Marcel Marceau

kickass "steampunk" metro station




from inside Musee d'Orsay...

from inside Musee d'Orsay...

from inside Musee d'Orsay...

from inside Musee d'Orsay...

Space Invader (street artist)

Space Invader (street artist)