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Thursday
Feb102011

SUPERSONIC SHED DAY 5 

Well its been a funny old day.  Life in the super sonic shed  started out pretty dull today.  BUT THEN THINGS CHANGED  a friend turned up with a glockenspiel and a guitar chord book.  The atmosphere turned when millions of police were wandering past and I heard the news  that the entire area had been cordoned off and all the cars contained in one area.  I couldn't quite believe what was happening.  My friend Merv rang up and said I cant drop you your cheese sarnie off as my art gallery has been blocked off by the police. 
For a moment I was thinking I know I have told the world I am living in a greenhouse for a month but I didn't think the public would react on this scale.  What had actually happened was that a man had been taken out by the police on Rock Place in Kemp town. 
Right near my old acting school A.C.T The Academy of Creative Training.  I have fond memories of going there.  One of my funniest moments was when I lived in a squat on the seafront for a year in a building called Medina House.  One day a friend of mine popped by and told me he was about to head off to India and would I look after his old Indian Kayak.  Of course I said. 
He noticed the twinkle in my eye
Matt ! he said, if you are going to use it be careful. 
So stupidly a few days later without a wet suit I pushed the kayak out onto the sea and started heading off along the Hove seafront towards both the West Pier and then the Brighton pier.  At the point where I was at the end of the Brighton pier a family waved at me whilst eating there candyfloss and I waved back and nearly collapsed the kayak off to one side.  The sea would have finished me... this was insanity. When I arrived onto the beach I carried the kayak up to acting school apologised for my late arrival then dumped the kayak in the workshop room and at the end of the evening left a note in the kayak saying
APOLOGIES FOR THE INCONVENIENCE I NEED TO LEAVE THE KAYAK HERE TONIGHT AS THE SEA IS TOO CHOPPY.
The following day I received a call from A.C.T asking me to remove the kayak and within an hour I had mounted the kayak onto the top of a wheelie bin to get it back to Medina house.
Those were the days. I think
So anyway back to the police.  Rumours were spreading that the everyone was going to be evacuated and whilst no one want to hear about or see a person die, that fact that the police were swarming the entire area seemed to generate real electricity amongst anyone coming into the gallery, or calling me up. 
I couldn't bear the thought of leaving the greenhouse.  This is my new home, I am just getting used to the space and even though the bird cage is cursed and keeps falling on my head , I am bearing up quite well. So I decided to duck under the sleeping bag and play the glockenspiel. 
Tired now will catch up tomorrow.  The web cam is now officially 24/7
There is no turning back .  So if I do talk in my sleep please let me know what I have said.  

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