Domestic Adventures

Do you remember the traffic controller in that comedy about a plane crash saying "I've chosen a bad day to give up smoking" ?.
Well, I fell like this. I've definitely chosen a bad year to give up on anything. Every time I tried I ended adding more stress to already stressful situations.

Tomorrow, however, it's going to be a bit different. I am getting the keys of my new flat at 9:30 and cheese as it might sound, I am giving myself a life change opportunity. Seriously. (the tenancy contract also specifies that smoking is not allowed).

So, will see what is next.
This is my 5th move in less than 2 years. From the flat I used to own in South London and that now belongs to my ex girlfriend, to Marcus's flat in arty Shoreditch, to an apartment for executives in St John's Street that made me feel like living in a hotel (depressing experience), to this fantastic flat in the heart of trendy Clerckenwell that I shared with Marcus for a year and that hosted a few great parties; and finally tomorrow, 9:30 AM I am moving West to beautiful Notting Hill, to an old converted school which includes a kinder garden in the ground floor, and in which the most gourgeous yummy mummies of London will drop their perfect babies in the mornings*. The flat is also attached to a church, somehow is pretty ironic as I became an atheist quite recently. I guess I'll have to start believing again and/or buying some good headphones to deal with the sound of the bells and the choruses.
* an old fantasy of my sick mind, the mummies, not the babies, of course.

All those moves implied a radical change one way or another, some for good some for bad. I am really curious about what will be next. I cannot avoid the sensation of the end of an era. I'll keep you posted about my little domestic adventures

love! alberto

oh! I almost forgot! thanks Marcus aka "chickerino superdude" for being such a good flatmate. Good luck!

Comments

written on 14-May-2009
your secret admirer says:
Good luck AB.
You don't need to believe in God to enjoy the church bells.
written on 15-May-2009
albertob says:
dear admirer,
good point, thanks a lot. I'll do my best.

update: 9:30 AM is now 5:00PM, I couldn't get the keys for the simple reason that I forgot to pay the deposit (d'oh).
Maybe it was just because I still have a few cigarettes in my pocket... fate?
written on 15-May-2009
chickerino says:
Damnit! Alberto gets all the secret admirers!
written on 27-May-2009
chickerino says:
Hows giving up smoking coming along?
written on 27-May-2009
albertob says:
guess how...
written on 27-May-2009
svirsk says:
I tried to quit on Post Modernity the other day, still haven't recovered.
written on 27-May-2009
albertob says:
that´s a difficult one.

I gave up on it for a while, to become a "modernist", but I lost faith in progress. So I became cynical and then indifferent.

I should apply the same logic to the smoking thing.
Are you a smoker? Maybe...

"All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess."
Marcel Duchamp
written on 27-May-2009
chickerino says:
Post modernity is the new smoking anyway ... or is it the other way around?
written on 27-May-2009
sam says:
I recall someone saying that post modernism didn't exist after 9/11 ... nor did irony. ...neo post modernism was taking over and whether that was naked women covered in blue paint taking a leek in a urinal whilst smoking a cigarette I ain't too sure....try quitting that!
written on 27-May-2009
svirsk says:
I once had the one liner 'and that is how I got addicted to quitting with smoking'
it is still in need of a story though.

I prefer modernism above post-modernism maybe it doesn't map the true state of things that accurately but it certainly makes me happier

maybe
written on 27-May-2009
albertob says:
"writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric"
Theodor Adorno

was the comfortable faith on relative values harmed by 9/11? not in Europe, at least, either we are not that scared yet, or perhaps we are paralyzed because we are all post modern lazy bastards. What comes after that?
a religious revival?

Marcus and I founded a religion, the "Randomism", I cant remember the foundations of the faith, but I remember I was smoking when we talked about it. Marcus? do you remember it?
written on 27-May-2009
svirsk says:
is Randomism a combination of Randism and Objectivism? because in that case i think your getting close to the last mayor religion alive capitalism. It certainly involves smoking.

I lack an opinion on 9/11 maybe it was already too long ago, or I was already to post modernist anyway.
written on 27-May-2009
sam says:
So many isms and if you spend too long talking or thinking about them you end up like Franz Ferdinand...the band, not the archduke.

Was it ironic or post modern that America funded Al-Queada and then started a war with them?
written on 27-May-2009
chickerino says:
I believe you're trying to link the fact that you were smoking with that amazing revelation we had ... which for some reason sounds like something particularly close to heart
http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-05-19/
written on 27-May-2009
albertob says:
The Three Principles of Randomism.

1. Everything is ruled by Randomness
2. Consistency is an illusion
3. What is important is always unexpected

Moral Summary:
1. Be nice
written on 27-May-2009
svirsk says:
isn't stating principles against the first and second principle of randomism?
written on 28-May-2009
albertob says:
you got me there Sjors!

Let's rewrite them:

1- Sometimes, some things are ruled by Randomness
2- There are some possibilities that consistency appears as an illusion
3- What is important is sometimes unexpected

Moral Summary:
1- Try to be nice
written on 28-May-2009
cristian.saracco says:
I prefer the Heisenberg's uncertainty principle: position and momentum cannot both be known to arbitrary precision. That is, the more precisely one property is known, the less precisely the other can be known. This is a statement about the nature of the system itself and hence it expresses a property of the universe...

Important thing.... Good luck with your new flat...

And to give us an idea of who the secrte admirer is... Did you meet her parents?
written on 28-May-2009
svirsk says:
i have a song to support this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_l5MJDssGE

thanks for the heisenberg's principle btw. its almost as interesting as bell curves versus powerlaws
written on 28-May-2009
albertob says:
what is this thing about "bell curves versus powerlaws??"
written on 28-May-2009
svirsk says:
I heard it in this (very interesting) podcast: http://huffduffer.com/Shaun/1728
where we most times expect a bell curve (for example wealth spread over people, we hope that there are a few poor people a lot of moderate people and a few rich) many times it turns out to be a power law (like the long tail idea) so a few insanely rich people (who keep on getting richer) a small group of moderately well off people and a really really long tale of poor people
written on 28-May-2009
albertob says:
I see...

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