20060509 Morning game in the tube

There’s just one rule and it’s very simple: just try to reach your workplace by tube while half of the network is delayed, severely delayed or definitely closed. I.e.: Circle, Metropolitan and Hammersmith closed, Northern Line semi closed and delayed in the rest of the line. The other lines are packed as usual in the [...]

20060503 The making of “tube”/xplsv

Getting the right music, and the right inspiration Some years ago, in the almost already forgotten summer of 2003, trace sent me a test of a song he was making. If I remember properly, it was called B04.IT, and featured the characteristic samples one can get using fuzzion‘s 4k synth. Actually, it reminded me a [...]

20060408 A rare atmosphere

There are days in which I notice a weird ambient, and it’s got nothing to do with the weather, but with the feelings the environment generates in myself. It’s a bit hard to explain anyway, but those days everything is normal but strange at the same time. For example, yesterday. I went to Victoria Station [...]

20060322 On King’s Cross ticket gates

To whoever which takes care of these matters at TFL: I am fed up with having to look for a ticket gate which works in King’s Cross and hence be able to touch in with my oyster card when I change from the circle/metropolitan/hammersmith lines to the northern/piccadilly/victoria lines. I am even more fed up [...]

20060125 Say NO! (by The No Foundation)

This is hardly funny if you don’t travel on the Underground. But if you do, The No Foundation will make you laugh with their self made no-stickers. A pity I still haven’t found any of those in the tubes I’ve travelled in, but I’ll pay more attention from now on… Which also reminds me that [...]