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ti this place must have a contract that when it becomes something new it should still have a rhyming name i had some lunch in crepevine on irving street and sketched a couple of people chatting in my little brown book i just liked the pinks and greens later in the afternoon i went over to the little shamrock pub opposite golden gate park i have sketched here before they still have one of my drawings on the wall which i did back in 2013 it is one of the oldest pubs in the city established in 1893 i sat on one of the little benches outside and sketched in pencil but regretted the pencil i was using and wish i d drawn in pen it s this two page portrait format it seems like a good idea then i get bored and impatient with it the bigger size still it s good to sit and observe i was being observed by the people at the bar who would occasionally come out to have a look when i was done i came in for a pint it s cash only i rarely carry cash any more i do like the interior there is a lot to draw and usually a good atmosphere on a saturday afternoon i ve never been in the evening i sat and sketched this interesting little corner and then turned and drew the bar area i used my fountain pen this time i think i was a little conscious of time and unwilling to really dive into too many details i still had to get back to union square and check into my hotel eat something then head to the supergrass show so i did that my hotel was the king george and it was a bit crummy to be honest the room was pretty grim i was going to stay in the nice new hotel next to the warfield but figured i was not going to be there long enough to need anything nice in hindsight i wish i had the couple of blocks or so between the king george and the warfield were well very sketchy to say the least classic tenderloin it did not feel very safe walking down there during daylight and i d have to come back this way after dark as well a lot of very dodgy people hanging about it s not a great place to be by yourself i got to the warfield early it s a fantastic venue i last went there in 2015 when we saw noel gallagher and the acoustics were very impressive like being inside a gramophone a lot of famous bands have played here over the years my seats were good there were some italians seated next to me i was wearing my as roma shirt the opening band were pretty good i did do a quick pencil sketch of them singing about the a1 road in england or maybe it was a song about european paper sizes i don t know then supergrass came on and i was 19 again well no if i was 19 i d have been pogo ing about down in the crowd and not wearing glasses they were really good for being older they weren t very old when they first started so we re about the same age singer gaz coombes is a month younger than me the drummer danny goffey shares my birthday but is two years older the bassist mick quinn not the former coventry and liverpool striker was born in 1969 so he is ancient we all look good for our ages i think supergrass had a lot of fans in san francisco mostly of a similar age to me they played the whole of the i should coco album including my favourite track from that sofa of my lethargy which i used to listen to over and over in my old bedroom in burnt oak they stopped and started on a couple of tracks maybe a bit out of practice or maybe some of the album tracks are just well difficult to play live they were really creative with their switching of time signatures and interesting chord sequences this was live music though man and it felt pretty real hearing these songs i only knew from my old cds being played in real time watching the drummer put in a proper shift it was great stuff they played a few other classics including richard iii which i rocked out to in 1997 late in the day and sun hits the sky which definitely had a different element to it as a live track there were no fancy theatrics just really good live music they finished with pumping on your stereo which was never my favourite of their singles but had a fun video and was a feelgood way to round off the show well enjoyed it i didn t enjoy the walk back to the hotel market street after dark was not somewhere to hang about and there were plenty of spaced out unpredictable people outside the venue i took a slight detour away from mason street which was dark and foreboding but was the quickest route to my hotel and grabbed a chicken burger in carl s jr a block away though that was a fairly scary experience itself like i was stuck in a scene from blade runner when i finally got my greasy tasteless food i left the grotty fast food place and headed towards the hotel there s an irish pub on the way that i remember going to once with my mum when we stayed down here years ago she actually loved the tenderloin johnny foley s so i popped in to have a post show beer and sketch there was a band playing old 60 s numbers they were really good i sat at the bar and sketched it while tourists from china came in and drank pints of guinness next to me it was then time to to go to bed because i had a long day ahead of me on sunday oasis in pasadena back again late summer april 3 2026 leave a comment when i m so far behind with posting it feels like i m telling stories about a time i don t remember any more end of summer 2025 seems like such a long time ago the world just keeps getting further into horrible history up is down and right is wrong and who knows where it ends still i go into my sketchbook to try to understand if not the universe or the world then just the place that is right in front of me i was pretty tired after that long trip and eager to get back to routine september is still very hot in davis so i sat in the shade on a bench outside the varsity theatre and drew that i hadn t come back from my big sketching trip with some sort of new insight into sketching so this is just the usual say what you see i have to draw something type of of sketch work is still quiet in early september it s the tail end of summer and davis isn t that busy again yet i did see an interesting car on d street painted in dhl logos so i started to draw that but ended up taking a photo and doing the rest later as the owner came and drove off it looked like a large toy car it reminded me of the story told by eddie jordan the late great eddie jordan he died just last year former formula 1 team boss whose team jordan grand prix used to race in a distinctive yellow livery in 2002 dhl started sponsoring them and in those days dhl s colours were white and red but jordan raced in yellow due to a contract with a previous sponsor and they didn t want to change their colours so dhl instead changed their branding colours to match jordan and the famed yellow and red dhl branding you see today is apparently a result of that leaving london again april 2 2026 1 comment here are the last few from my trip to europe last summer starting with the sketch drawn on the flight home it s like if i don t sketch on the flight now i can t tell if i flew or not it does relax me on the flight though helps pass the time rather than watch some silly movie which i do anyway this particular flight took off late which is always fun as i love airports so much this was the last page of that moleskine sketchbook i really didn t like much you can see a few paint swatches from the aquarius watercolours that i got at the symposium plus a few others i was trying out there i was definitely ready to go home by this point though real life was calling and as much as i love london it was starting to get on my nerves i had a 5k race to run the next morning in davis too the labor day run i did pretty well too and it was super nice to be back in davis back to routine back to my own bed there were a couple of sketches from my last saturday morning in london though as i decided to jump on the tube and head down to oxford circus for some very last minute shopping i went to liberty s they had their christmas stuff up already it was august and then found the oasis live 25 pop up shop and bought some merch and a nice black adidas long sleeve shirt i then sketched the church with the very pointy steeple just past the top of regent street all soul s langham place i remember years ago when i was an open top bus tour guide we d go past this and i d say it was the sharpest pointiest church in london it was designed by john nash who built regent street and also a lot of the buildings around here that date from the regency period you could say he suffered from regency bias damn i wish i had said that on my tour then i walked down mortimer street and started a sketch of the buildings below which caught my eye i started drawing the windows and outlines but then decided it would have to be finished later as i needed to get the tube back to burnt oak as i was going up to watford with my mum so i walked down towards goodge street as i was about to cross charlotte street one of those guys on a delivery e bike zipped in front of me deliveroo having jumped the red light i said instinctively he just went through a red light and went on with crossing the road but the bike man stopped and yelled back at me yeah does it bother you i was a bit shocked but he kept yelling that at me i responded yes it bothers me you went through a light as i was crossing the road anyway i kept walking down goodge street next thing i know he is right behind me on the pavement on his bike saying i m following you on the pavement now too does that bother you he was pretty aggressive and started to threaten me and ride in front of me after telling him to leave me alone he kept on to the point where i realized he wants an argument here and probably more so i just decided to ignore him completely and walked around the back of his bike and across the street i could hear him still when i turned into goodge street i was a bit shaken about it but not much maybe i should have reported it to the delivery company but what s the point in that there had been so many times going around central london where those bloody e bike delivery guys have cut in front of me as i m crossing the road it s dangerous and there are some not very nice people with tendencies towards aggressive behaviour out there i got on the tube and back up to burnt oak after a month away i was ready to get back home and i was so done with london for now i love london and won t have people knocking it but it can be exhausting and i m often glad i don t live and work there any more when a man is tired of london he is tired of those e bike delivery drivers add that to the list but you get them everywhere now while it was sad to leave my london family it was nice to get back home to my california family and do that 5k run while still jetlagged easy peasy anyway a week later i would be off again to san francisco to see supergrass play and then though i did not know this at the time flying off to los angeles to see oasis i ll save all that for another post some time in soho march 27 2026 march 27 2026 leave a comment back in london from berlin i rested for a day before heading down into central london on friday for some more sketching before heading back to california i had a standing groundling ticket to see twelfth night at the globe theatre but since it looked like rain and i was not up for a trek to the south bank i decided to go down to soho and sketch around there before meeting up with my friend roshan if i m going to stand for a few hours i may as well be sketching i like exploring soho i made my way to st anne s churchyard on wardour street i always liked the steeple of st anne s many years ago when my mate rob lived in soho at the end of the 90s we could see the steeple from his living room window it reminded me of a teletubby they have those big round ear things if you remember i didn t really watch teletubbies i stood in the churchyard and sketched the colourful bunting love a bit of bunting especially love the word bunting it s so england takes time to draw though while sketching two women romanian i think i recognized some words came in and sat in the churchyard dragging oversized suitcases with them one of them was very noisy yelling at the other in a loud raspy voice it was a bit distracting but you don t really expect silence in soho i stood next to a tree and soon an old man came up and started throwing bird seed on the ground right in front of me i didn t think i thought i was a bird but right away several dozen pigeons came out of the trees and surrounded me this would make a good magic trick in a story i thought the old man throws birdseed you are surrounded by pigeons and then voom you are gone transported to a pigeon dimension actually that would be quite a bad story the sort of one that would have been made in the 1970s and replayed right up to the 90s in the 5 10pm slot on bbc1 kids tv i d still watch it at least no pigeons pooed on me i was going to say shoo but remembered that this is an anagram of soho and i thought better not magical anagrams and all that it didn t rain a few droplets so i drew the steeple as well it doesn t really look like a teletubby now i think about it i looked up their website st anne s was built by william talman who was clerk or works to sir christopher wren and consecrated in 1686 then the blitz came and destroyed it in 1940 it was rebuilt in 1990 i didn t go inside but being outside under the bunting was enough like being in a village churchyard i remember coming down there as a teenager in the early 90s wandering about exploring london when i would occasionally sketch but mostly just explore the city make a map of it all in my head this corner of soho was a bit like stepping into a different dangerous world a dickensian london but set in the 70s all sex shops and seedy cinemas and prostitutes openly hanging about on a saturday lunchtime the corner below leading into that little alley of walkers court just off brewer street was one of the seediest spots i remember being shocked at all the neon lights and dark doorways leading to god knows what it was a world that i wasn t part of and definitely didn t want to be rupert street facing it had market stalls and newsagents alongside shops selling bondage gear and ladies of negotiable affection calling out to passers by and passing down the narrow tisbury court back up to the relative normality of old compton felt like a brief passage through a frightening dimension i found it fascinating that this was a real place in the middle of the city and yet also just another neighbourhood where people lived their normal lives i remember at school we were tasked with doing a project about community and i struggled for ideas but i remember walking through this area i think it was with my uncle who was going to a cool movie poster store down the street and realizing there was a community living in soho even here in this bizarre world of neon lights flashing girls girls girls and shifty men in doorways soho...