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January 06
[this week index]
Barny
[from Christmas time]
So far still able to hear over the high-pitched, mid-volume screaming in my ears which troubles me in the quieter moments, despite hours of LOUD AND NOISY gigging and rehearsals, however was worried that the extra-loud party poppers at xmas lunch let off by the high-spirited and enthusiastic grandchild would finish off the hearing that remains. Each bang made me flinch like a gulf-war veteran on fireworks night.
We always have xmas lunch over the road at the neighbours, whose cats i used to feed as a wee boy when they went on holiday, and whose house i used to scour in search of women's magazines, photography books and catalogues while the cats were digesting. The closest i came, if i remember rightly, was a family health medical dictionary and a copy or two of Good Housekeeping. Personally i like to think that my abode would contain plenty to reward the inquisitiveness of an adequately motivated 12-year-old boy.
As i write my sister's boyfriend and mother's manfriend are simultaneously evacuating their xmas excesses in the upstairs and downstairs bathrooms respectively, so i shall be waiting a while before braving cleaning my teeth. Even so, a few days at home is a welcome respite and makes solid fiscal sense given the current lapse in employment opportunities. Still, looking on the bright side of relative poverty; at least it makes you put extra thought into your xmas presents, as demonstrated at the eve of the yule's gathering of tulips and old friends.
earlier posts
4 January 06 Awkward midriff, shaven headed and dandy...
20 December 05
All
I want for Christmas, says Heidi, is...
16 December 05 Officials,
pleasantries, obituaries...
9 December 05 Shitdisco,
Depravikazi and too much cheese...
8 December 05 Happy
face or sad face? Damn variety!...
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...