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May 06
[this week index]
Barnabas
Watching
gogol bordello, the pretenders, the bug, wolf eyes, green mist, green wing, the green-eyed monster, the jolly green giant, purple rain, rick mayal at the theatre, requiem for a dream (bobbins), curb your enthusiasm and many other things i probably can't remember...
Reading
a frankly dodgy sci-fi novel by ian banks, sample line:
'My', Sharrow said, pulling a hand through her thick hair (Geis watched, eyes following those pale fingers as they ploughed that black field).
I'm not making it up, it really is that bad. And why the brackets? Here's another line:
'I am, as ever, your faithful servant, cousin'. Geis managed to make the stilted statement sound both sad and sincere.
Sad and sincere sound compatible to me, don't see why that was so tricky...
Receiving
Evelyn, a nissan bluebird, provenance 1990.
Dungeons and Dragons on DVD, so I can re-live my pre-teen love for sheila, the ginger with the invisibility cloak.
Spaghetti al sepia di nero
500 pounds from the inland revenue
Visitors, one from korea who, i'm informed, having returned home, is now suffering terribly from jet leg, another term for deep-vein thrombosis i'm sure. Other visitors included Emma Francis Bonnie Baker, Lucie Emma Sunrise Baker, Rosie and Joseph, my amazing second cousins.
Giving
Nothing in return.
Purchasing
One elephant table (slightly wobbly)
Christ rivetted to the cross
Prince's back catalogue for cheap at fop
Eating
butternut squash, spinach and ricotta canelloni
other things
Celebrating
my birthday
Getting
sacked
drunken on occasion
psychotic phone calls
the oddest of text messages
snubbed (possibly)
Not getting
any
Thinking
about which verb to use next
Wondering
why this has gone all listy
Practising
the dog's home's fiddly bits repeatedly
Hot yoga, otherwise known as sweaty yoga, in a room the temperature of a sauna. Should've known i was in trouble when i experienced a sharp pain in the shoulder during the first repetition of the not particularly strenuous, gentle, warm-up, breathing exercises.'Link your hands, knuckles under the chin, breathe in deeply through the nose, lift your elbows up opening the lungs and...' 'aaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhhh!!!'
Enjoying
playing 'I don't want u' more than ever before
the word 'satyriasis' which i have just chanced upon. It's a serious problem you know.
Knocking
on chinese chip shop windows and running away
Spreading
butter
marmite
marmalade
lemoncurd
rhubarb and ginger jam
honey
seditious rumours
Feeling
right now sleepy, among other things
earlier posts
26 April 06 It's
spring and everything's spinning out...
25
April 06 An
unfeasible amount of vegetables in cheese...
21 April 06
Four
hours later we were in Scarborough...
20 April 06 Interfrastically
digestible musings of doom...
11 April 06 Escalator
gustovator Wednesday-waiter...
10 April 06 I
can see my carpet! It's beige!...
24 March 06 LOOK
LOOK dancing Swampeyes...
2 March 06 Pummelled
by a novice for four pounds...
2 March 06 Cinnamony
imbecilic Mappy Pong arcadia...
2 March 06 Get
him real drunk, make him dance...
12 February 06 But what is the value of x?...
24 January 06
Drunkenness,
vomiting and 69...
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...