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September 05
[this week index]
Tris
Increasingly bizarre life bowls hard, like Simon Jones without an ankle injury. Maybe it always does in late summer. Challenge seems ever-present; existence was never mundane but now, drunk on the sun in full late bloom, lurches from drama to crisis and back again. There is, as there should be, a curious, perverse pleasure in sacrificing comfort to principle (in my bastardised version of evolution it is the struggle to be fittest, though my own sense of 'fit' is apparently significantly different from others' - I hope, vainly in both senses, to be understood); if only the logical outcome were something other than constant discomfort. Whinge!
This week's pleasures ('week' in the loosest sense): Gilda, Camber Sands in the sun, Bexhill beach in the wind, Heidi's highly fashionable white jacket and black trousers, the warm welcome at Kemp Town's Golden Cannon, Tony Buckle.
Reading: horoscopes in magazines marketed to women. And taking them seriously.
Listening to: well, trying to avoid listening to anybody else's music. Have become superstitious about being unduly influenced. I think this is also known as paranoia. Although I did hear a snatch of Smashing Pumpkins' 'Rhinoceros' the other day - now there's a band to ponder on.
Watching: more people posting on our forum, with delight.
earlier posts
26 August 05
Valpolicella-quaffing
Satanic Barbie, scones...
22 August 05 Fine
lines, icy bruises, Chris Isaak, absence...
18 August 05 Bruises
of a sick canary hue. And Soft Cell...
14 August 05 Bile,
breakdancing, barely controlled rage...
6 August 05 Moss-moist
eyes, Roman Holiday and ringing...
27 July 05 Begging,
borrowing and stealing. And gowns...
22 July 05 Tris's
"You're Generally Indie" quiz result...
21 July 05 Test-Icicles,
overeducated rightwing baboon...
20 July 05 Buffalo
66, red shoes and a new frock...
12 July 05 Diversions,
hair conditioner, pots of tea and idiots...
1 July 05 Angela
Carter, exotic fruits and pink person-stripes...
29 June 05 Dresden
Dolls, Tori Amos, enticing flatmate...
28 June 05 Welly
welding, ghost trains, vaginas, bitching...
16 June 05 Posh
biscuits; the courting potential of the library...
15 June 05 Martin
Amis, chicklit and money problems...
8 June 05 Rabies
jabs and the History of Western Philosophy...