London ILB - FAP?

I obviously need to read some BS Johnson.

And I need to see Fenda's Pen (on at BFI tonight but ugh need to see how I feel later) and Cosmonauts at Science M.

Thanks to all.

did u see it zyzzz__? my vague memory here is of an ilb trup to fidn west country samizdat while staying at a dorset brecht & buckfast.

for those who asked - hugh metcalfe is still around and running the klinker and despite personal tragedy last year is still upright and fighting hard.

I didn't - too tired.

Good to hear re: Hugh. Must try and make it to the Klinker sometime this year.

Anyone fancy a pint one of these weeks?

I'm probably around, and beer's a fairly constant thought in this weather, so yes, count me in.

yeah beer and talk sounds good

Certainly can't make it Thurs 7th or 14th July. Probably can't make it for a few weeks - have fun.

I'll certainly be drinking in a hole somewhere up in the North (the less said the better). Have to cheer up in this wonderful weather #HashtagSarcasm

Beer?

Yeah.

Could do Thursday 16th or 23rd of June, would prefer the latter slightly because I think there's no football that day.

(Tom, are you planning to go to any (all?) of the punk rock events at the BL? I'm seeing Helen McCookerybook et al this evening :))

I can't go to most of them because they're on when I'm working. I've enquired if there were any spare places for tonight's event, I'll see what they say, so I might see you there, don't know yet.

We're just going to tonight's and the Viv Albertine / Jon Savage one which looks a treat. Was sorely tempted by the Buzzcocks one.

Was not sorely tempted by "An Evening with John Lydon" for £30.

can do 16th (day before my birthday! and my mum's!) looks like i might have to travel with work the following week, but Tim's point abt the football is a good one, so will raise a glass to the London FAP from my destination if you choose that day.

Was not sorely tempted by "An Evening with John Lydon" for £30.

― Tim, Friday, June 10, 2016 8:28 AM (Yesterday)]

I might pop my head 'round the door.

i kinda feel like lydon might be an interesting person to have An Evening With tbh

Life has intervened and now I am no longer able to come out tomorrow; am 100% sure I'll be wanting to drink a beer a week on Thursday one way or another, calm before the storm and all that. Will plan to make that beer in the Royal Oak, wd be lovely to see some or all of you. HB Fizzles (amd Fizzles's mum obv) for Friday.

work has intervened and I've had to bring my trip forward anyway, and will in fact be back on 24th for referendum madness. not sure how alert I'll be though.

23rd?

Will be returning to London to vote on the 23rd so if this is happening etc.

sorry, yes, back on morning of 23rd.

Let's do it. Let's fall in love.

btw, I'm in sydney for the next few days. expect it to be fairly work saturated but any Sydney based ilb-ers (or indeed anyone else) fancy a low-key FAP let me know!

Still on for Thursday.

I have a pile of books ready to be charity shopped so if any of you want any of these, just shout and I'll bring them along to the pub.

Paul Auster: The New York Trilogy
Maria Barbal: Stones In A Landslide
Charles Baudelaire: On Wine and Hashish
E F Benson: The Blotting Book
Jane Bowles: Two Serious Ladies
Ian Buruma: Murder In Amsterdam
Stuart Cosgrove: Detroit '67 The Year That Changed Soul
Bernal Diaz: The Conquest of New Spain
Midas Dekkers: The Way of All Flesh
Hans Magnus Enzensburger: Penguin Modern European Poets
Karen Joy Fowler: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Knut Hamsun: Pan
Peter Hoeg: The Woman and the Ape
Kari Hotakeinen: The Huan Part
Arnaldur Indiridasson: Silence of the Grave
Arnaldur Indridasson: Voices
Owen Jones: Chavs
Oystein Lonn: The Necessary Rituals of Maren Gripe
Aka Morchiladze: Journey to Karabakh
Haruki Murakami: The Elephant Vanishes
Cees Nooteboom: Roads To Berlin
George P Pelecanos: The Washington DC Quartet (or whatever it's called, those four novels)
Barbara Pym: An Unsuitable Attachment
Jean Rhys: Sleep It Off Lady
Georges Rodenbach: Bruges-la-Morte
Johanna Sinisalo Not Before Sundown
Richard E Stamz: Give 'Em Soul, Richard! Race, Radio and Rhythm & Blues in Chicago
Mary Stewart: The Wind Off the Small Isles
Antal Szerb: Journey By Moonlight
Jules Valles: The Child
Tarjei Vesaas: The Ice Palace

Not sure I'll be able to turn (let you know on the day, depends as to exactly when I am back in London). However can always pick these up @ Hangover L?

Jane Bowles: Two Serious Ladies
Antal Szerb: Journey By Moonlight

I'll 'ave the 'amsun.

Unfortunately I've had to extend my stay out here, so will have to raise a glass in Sydney - probably a glass of water given the time. Fortunately got my emergency proxy vote sorted out today though. Have you not read Journey, xyzzzz__?

This is a good idea, though - regular FAP-pruning of my bookshelves and boxed books would help a lot. I'd probably have gone for the Benson and the Pelecanos, though only because I'm not familiar with much of the rest of the list, which intrigues with its unfamiliarity. Anything you'd strongly recommend off that list, Tim?

The Vesaas is one of my favourite things ever, it's only on the pile because I found a nice old hardback edition for a quid.

The Enzensburger is also a duplicate.

I'll try to post notes on others today.

Oh! I missed out the following:

Elizabeth Taylor: Miss Palfrey at the Claremont (this is a beaut and it made me want to do a close compare contrast of E. Taylor and early Shena Mackay but I'm losing this because reading it again would make me sad).

I'm going to guess at the ones which are unfamiliar, each of these is written from memory so pls forgive inaccuracies.

Barbal: Catalan hard-life with Civil War on the horizon.
Benson: v slight drawing-room murder in the Brighton area.
Buruma: meditation on the murder of Theo Van Gogh and what it means (meant I suppose, the book's getting old now) for the Netherlands
Cosgrove: centring on the Supremes, interesting subject matter but not well-edited (and really really needed a copy editor)
Dekkers: meditation on decay, if that sounds your kind of thing
Hotakeinen: miserable Finnish comedy (nb a pols for typo above, should be "The Human Part") in which lonely old lady gets mixed up with writer dude
Lonn: life gets out of joint in out-of-time Norger fishing village when the girl everyone falls in love with falls in love with a sailor not her husband
Morchiladze: blase son of Georgian local big figure gets dragged into daft cross-border drug deal by goofy mate, winds up in the middle of civil war; played for (grim) laughs (Dalkey Archive, if you care about that)
Nooteboom: Cees discusses the Duetschers, interesting in particular on what it was like visiting East Berlin when it was East Berlin
Sinisalo: actual troll pitches up in real-life urban Finland, winds up living with intrepid narrator, saucy times ensue IIRC (NB if saucy times do not ensue in the novel I appear to have turned up some previously unfound perversion of my own, perhaps someone wants to read this to put my mind at rest)
Stamz: first hand account of the Chicago R&B business in the 40s/50s, interesting enough, don't need to read it again
Valles: 19th Century French NYRB classic I just couldn't get along with

Any others?

xyzzz the HL won't work because I'm taking a break from that but happy to catch up at some mutually convenient point, ideally tomorrow night!

Ideally yes.

Have you not read Journey, xyzzzz__?

I have but gave it away as present.

love mrs palfrey at the C.

have a good FAP this evening, and thx for the notes,Tim. Will be following up on some of those. Vesaas obv sounds interesting.

Vesaas is great - recently scored my 2nd copy of it (after also giving away my 1st)

Thinking I'll be voting by 6pm then depending on the queues etc should be in Tabard street by 8pm or so.

I don't think I'm on for a late one but will surely see you for one or two if you're there at 8ish.

Actually forgot its open till 10pm.

So I'll be there by 6pm for a drink and chat and then off to vote after.

See you then.

Tom! You still coming? Likely here til 8ish but then going to have to run.

I won't be able to get there till after 8pm, say 8.30. Not sure if anybody will still be there?

Woof just arrived! I will deffo wait to have a pint with you if you're coming.

We didn't talk much about books, though in our defence there were other pressing concerns last night; pleased that Tom D has a smart new username.

Pleasure to see you all, I should add.

Likewise. Need some more Toms next time though.

Thank you all v much for a great evening. Has cheered me up thinking about it today.

badly missed it. look fwd to the next one.

Am still sad am in wrong hemisphere

And talking like the hulk, apparently

Morriseyon Morriseyon him sad

I went to the Royal Oak this week. What a tremendous place. 6 different Harveys brews on tap.

i was there last week and had a similarly great time. convivial, cheerful and great drinking, as you say pf.

So, we're all leading separate lives these days ;_;