browse by city
Brooklyn, NY (778)
New York, NY (778)
Toronto, ON (745)
Montreal, QC (397)
London, UK (296)
complete city list
popular articles
Justified & Ancient
from: Peter
Heavy MTL 2008: Mötley Crüe
from: EvilGentleman
Tokyo
from: Ttokkyo
Highways, Dusk, February
from: BZZZP
Best Cow
from: jack
what's hot this month?
recent articles
Best Cow
from: jack
Heavy MTL 2008: Mötley Crüe
from: EvilGentleman
Justified & Ancient
from: Peter
Tokyo
from: Ttokkyo
Highways, Dusk, February
from: BZZZP
Farm Animals
from: jack
Exotic Slurpee Plant?
from: zagg
Private Parts !
from: Maz
Just a Few More
from: chiamattt
SF Heist
from: eyeofodin
read all today's articles
browse by author
Peter (798)
joey (278)
EvilGentleman (269)
hool (247)
jack (235)
complete author list
hot topics
graffiti
Justo Gallego
JA One
graf trux
sane smith
wheat paste
nyc
sixy
harlem
Top 10 largest cities in canada
banksy
CFM
سكس
new york
brooklyn
All Poets Are Alchemists
London, UK - an impossible child - Thursday, February 23rd, 2006 : goo
Browsing articles by Animpossiblechild - [previous] :: [next]
day six: 6.342km, 304.4kcal, 10571 steps)
and magicians and apothecaries of words and blood and love as it flows from me into you into me again and everywhere
john and his friend henry used to live here quite a while back. the parties were legendary as you can imagine, they would sometimes go on for days, dawn after night after day of dragons dancing and singing and kissing, john then got a few books of verse published and buggered off to nw3, never found out what henry did
bermondsey it scares me
white grounds of blue houses, painted and barred for your convenience
metallic louvres of air leading to gelding place: there are no handles on those steel doors, is there a code or a touch or a thought?
the royal marines with their high pitched ropes have taken over lilliput hall
once upon a time, your beige brick double glazed imitation cottage roofs came from ikea (inside your fairytales you play happy families most weekends)
bermondsey it scares me (everything is on sale in bermondsey)
i cant be going the right way which way wrong way turn the map around and around jamaica road is wide i like it, where does it go
on balconies: oh hello, putting your washing up? yes im putting my washing up while our caretaker washes the windows, hello, james, his poor wife is very ill, such a nice man and all, james, fancy a cuppa? let me finish this window first, is your son coming later? (fade out)
follow a path of dried leaves, crunching under foot, estate teenage boys, open the gate for the car, breathe in breathe out, this is no hellmouth, there was no cemetary here, no ghosts or crooked leylines
bermondsey it scares the shit out of me
and then i get to the river
This article has been viewed 2685 times in the last 3 years
jack: 23rd Feb 2006 - 20:07 GMT
break down the word bermondsey for me, where does it come from, is it a foul word, slang or curse, is it like 'creepers' or 'my gosh' nice writing enjoyable, i guess hellmouth is the entrance for the dead but you got me with 'leylines'.
elaine: 23rd Feb 2006 - 20:40 GMT
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermondsey
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ley_Lines
handy hint, jack, go to google, type in define: then whatever you want defined...
bermondsey is south of the river. londonists are often scared of things south of the river, unless they are from there... partly because of the olde legende - you can't get a taxi to go south of the river
ley lines are exciting marvellous magical things. (scratch us and we are druids underneath.)
elaine: 23rd Feb 2006 - 20:49 GMT
d'you see the magical connedtion between us jamie? we were making that link at the same time. spooooky!
jack: thanks all, i can appreciate the prose more.
Jamie: It's you that is spooky
an impossible child: 24th Feb 2006 - 09:13 GMT
i actually live sarf of the river these days & genuinely had no preconceived ideas about bermondsey. i really didnt. & it still managed to scare the hell out of me in broad daylight. go figure
x
elaine: muahahahahaha!
london's historical mojo
an impossible child: yup mojo's da word :P
Comment on this article..
Browsing articles by Animpossiblechild - [previous] :: [next]
search citynoise.org
recent discussions
Peterborough Graffiti Art Project
from: Jamie
Peterborough Graffiti
from: diesel city
I've Lived in Bushwick for Just About Fifteen Years
from: Jeanne M.
Dangerous to Walk Around Brooklyn?
from: Jayne
180 Central Avenue: What Was Lost
from: upfromflames
Don Justo's Self Built Cathedral
from: Hasslehoff
A Rare Ruin in Bushwick
from: upfromflames
America's Most Boring Towns: 5
from: Scott Sargent
Hogwarts?
from: Catherine Penfold-Waxman
Best Costco Moment of 2008
from: EvilGentleman
from the archives
This Month On Citynoise
Recent research indicates that when passed through a word cloud algorithm, the content generated by citynoise contributors during the last month bears a striking resemblance to Australia.
Is there something more productive I could be doing? Probably, yes.
recently viewed
All Poets Are Alchemists
from: an impossible child
Pretty in Pink
from: Biff
Dongdaemun Figure
from: chiamattt
We Nail Road Signs to Trees.
from: AG
07-12-01
from: chiamattt
110th and Broadway:
from: Peter
Cabrini Green [whats Left of It]
from: corsakti
Untitled
from: gurlskout
Scrap Yard nyc GRAFFITI STORE
from: art views
Harlem
from: barry
concept and content © citynoise.org 2002 - 2008 : designed and maintained by
Jamie Thompson and
peter (rhodamine.org)
caveat: entries and comments on citynoise.org represent
the views of their respective authors; this is an open forum, open to
all relevant ideas,
and as such, sees minimal editorial interference. as such, all content
on this site remains property of its creator/author, and is therefore
protected by all applicable copyright laws.
