#63. From my trip to London. Mike had already warned me about the gap, having not minded it when he visited. Although the trip was built around The Libertines 3 night stand at Brixton Academy (now known as 02 Academy Brixton) I had never been to London before, so I only went one showand spent the other 2 days being a tourist.
Every ride on the tube was an adventure for me. Besides loving the ease of the system and the relative politness of Brits (well, relative to what I experience every day on the LA subway), I just loved the Englishness of the tube. I was constantly singing "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight", thinking about The Kinks everytime we passed the Waterloo station, and smiling every time I heard the soothing British woman's voice telling me to "mind the gap".
My favorite station stop quickly became Marble Arch. It amazed me that so many things I was hearing had been referenced in British music throughout the years, yet Marble Arch had remained untouched. It sounded like a perfect band name, especially one that would have come out of mod London in the 60's. I quickly decided that I was going to start a band and call them Marble Arch. I still haven't done that, but I have dibs on the name.
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