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8 December 05                              [this week index]

Lord Fuxley

This week has been rather longer than a week. Consequently I don’t know whether to present happy face or sad face. Damn variety!

I am currently engaged in the most demanding songwriting process of my life, writing music for a new song called The Dog’s Home. I really can’t say what it sounds like because it doesn’t sound like anything we’ve written yet, nor much like any other band. The Dog’s Home is one of a stack of songs Alexandra and I are working on in the runup to recording the new EP. I haven’t written since we recorded the first one more than six months ago, before we’d done any gigs as a five-piece; after a few false starts in the last couple of weeks things really opened up today and hence I am pleased.

Reading:

Archangel, Robert Harris. And the Hastings AdNews.

Listening to:

PinPrick Folk Festival compilation
Tandoori Bouncer – Maiden Over EP
The Weather Underground - Rocket In My Hand

Watching:

Harry Potter and the something or other.

Feeling:

Oddly content.

 

earlier posts

30 November 05 Stars and sequins twinkling as you tinkle...
29 November 05 A little Poe and an alarmingly fabulous time...
22 November 05 Geoffrey and Geoffrey's boyfriend...
21 November 05 Vaginatron, Test-Icicles and contraction...
2 November 05 'What kind of high school stereotype are you?'...

26 October 05 Lengthy ignorance of brief garden appeased...
26 October 05 Jesus. Forced change is a right fucker...
26 October 05 The systematic pilfering of my wardrobe items...
26 October 05 Unfortunate breakage, pure filth and Buffy...
12 October 05 "OI'LL KICK YER COHNT IN", etcetera...
10 October 05 Repopulated by a bunch of unpalatable goths...
5 October 05 I didn't know eyes could bear such sadness...
4 October 05 Nostalgic-optimistic-romantic tragical-comical-...

27 September 05 Peach schnapps/morse code machine...
19 September 05 Extra-head paranoic engine drives fallacy...
14 September 05 Buggery in oil, magician's box, foreign gent...
12 September 05 Soul-sapping image capture, DJ Scotch Egg...
1 September 05 'Rhinoceros', Camber Sands, vain hope...

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...

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