24
January 06
[this week index]
Lord Fuxley
Really, poverty is a surfeit of riches. I have ended two recent days with 5p and 20p in my pocket, but I have spent recent days getting drunk at others’ expense, banking free meals and indulging my more craven desires. Actually I don’t know what craven means.
On the other hand, my complete collection of vinyl has already been liquidated in the pursuit of musical expression and now my CD collection is rapidly going the same way, only via eBay. Pleasantly surprised as I was to discover that someone was prepared to pay £69 for a rather dull disc, I still have to steel myself as I package and post other perfectly good albums for three pounds that will just about buy dinner.
There is a new movement afoot in Hastings, so new it has neither named itself nor been named, although I favour The Contrarists or perhaps contraritism. It was conceived somewhere between an unwise interaction with 70% proof shots, subsequent vomiting and a conversation that veered into depression then manic excitement. It will shine, my fine friends, unbound by genre or medium, briefly no doubt, and then it will die, but we will be all the wiser for it.
The hour of a revitalised PinPrick Records draws near too; but more of that later.
Reading:
Clive James, Unreliable Memoirs
PD James, Devices and Desires
Listening to:
Computer fan hum
Too much ‘Lie Detector’
Not enough ‘The Dog’s Home’
Watching:
The budget. No need to watch the waistline, can’t afford enough food.
earlier posts
15 January 06
Candlesticks
buffed, underlings nobbed...
10
January 06 Fencing,
pipe-smoking and procrastination...
10 January 06 High-pitched,
mid-volume screaming...
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...