{"id":298,"date":"2004-12-24T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-24T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/2004\/12\/things_ive_lear_1.html"},"modified":"2004-12-24T17:13:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-24T16:13:00","slug":"things_ive_lear_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/2004\/12\/24\/things_ive_lear_1\/","title":{"rendered":"things i’ve learned in london so far, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

4. These people take their sports seriously. They also take their sports fans<\/i> seriously. As a result, they’ve got the funnest way ever to watch a game: with commentary from rabid fans of both teams. If you have Interactive TV<\/a> (which a staggering percentage of people do), you just hit the red button and select which soundtrack you want to the match – the professionals, or the fans. Select the fans, and presto! You’ve got hours of screaming, cheering, hilariously impassioned play-by-plays, interspersed with unbelievably inventive non-obscene epithets (a favorite went something like this: “Go on! Tear his head off so you can drink Guinness from his neck!”). I love it.<\/p>\n

5. Tom Waits<\/a> does not work here. In the American city of your choice, you can put in your headphones, press play on The Heart of Saturday Night<\/a>, and you’ve got a soundtrack for your walk, or bus ride, or train ride, or whatever. In London, it just doesn’t sound right. Something about the architecture, maybe – not gritty enough? Too pretty? Too old? Or maybe it’s the roads – too curvy? I don’t know. All I know is that’s the first time it’s happened, and I felt for a brief moment totally out of synch. I’m feeling much better now, thanks.<\/p>\n

6. My hair hates the weather. It’s less cold, yes, which is nice, but it’s also a lot more humid. Which means gray, which can get depressing – but which also means that my hair is vacillating between Sly and the Family Stone<\/a> reject mode and just hanging there limply, looking at me. Can hair look forlorn? I think mine does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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