Luke and I visited the inner western suburb of Kensington for lunch today just for something different.
We each bought a book at the bookshop next to the station. I got an old Puffin paperback of The Little Prince, which I've never read before. It has a handwritten message inside the front cover:
For L.P Isaac Ricardo
With best wishes for this week, and next month, and next year, etc, etc
Leslie Oct 1969
I've started reading it and I'm quite charmed.
We ate at the White Rabbit Record Bar. I had a strawberry spider (icecream soda) with my panini. I first ordered a lime spider, but they were out of lime, and they were out of raspberry as well, so I had to settle for strawberry, which tasted like raspberry anyway.
Then we took our cameras and wandered around a bit looking for ghost signs. This Velvet Soap sign was the best find.
Can anyone make out what the white lettering - a separate sign - says? Bleached something? There was an Empire Cocoa sign on the other side of the building.
We saw the 20 Feet from Stardom at the movies. It's a documentary about the back up singers to some of the biggest musical acts of the 21st century, including Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones and Stevie Wonder. It was a bit too long, but I really enjoyed it. It really iss a story that hasn't been told before. The singing is (not surprisingly) AH-mazing and the women featured are engaging and sassy.
One of the singers featured is Claudia Lennear, who was part of Ike and Tina Turner's Ikettes. The doco included a bit of this clip of Ike and Tina doing Proud Mary. I've seen this numerous times before. I love it (the Ikettes appear around the three minute mark).
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