Mmm. Went out to dinner tonight with --- might want to brace yourself for this --- the Aunt's boss' daughter --- yeah, really --- and her boy. We've only been saying for years that we should do dinner and we barely see each other more than once a year, if that, at the dinner the Aunt's bosses always throw for her. They're massive foodies which is ( Read more... )

So things that have happened over the past ... two months? Or so.

( ... glow in your eyes ... )

Over the past week, I keep thinking of this question and my possible answers to it: if you could bring any musician back from the dead, which one would you pick?

( ... on music ... )

30 Days Meme

Day 16 ** A song that makes you cry (or nearly)

You mean aside from Holocaust, Identify, Smile, Tu Jahaan and Rehna Tu?

Hold On/Oh Baby, Spiritualized because the two songs always go together in my head, because the sequence of them quite breaks me with the bleak tenderness of Jason Pierce's voice and the big empty beauty of the ( Read more... )

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Ah. So I am now in Perth. And a little bewildered as to how I got here.

Yesterday was a bit of a nightmare because of a total lack of sleep. ( ... cos i love the feelin' I get ... )

Opened with what may have been one of the Harmony interludes from Songs In A&E, possibly the toy piano?

You Lie You Cheat, Shine A Light, Soul On Fire, Sweet Talk, Rated X, Sitting On Fire, Oh Baby --- omg so amazing --- Walking With Jesus, She Kissed Me (It Felt Like A Hit), Death Take Your Fiddle, Lay Back In The Sun (Good Dope/Good Fun), Ladies ( Read more... )

Eeeeee, Spiritualized day!

And tomorrow's Dollies!

And day after we're off to Perth for a week!

Eeeeeeeekkk, I need pens!

Note to self: buy pens tomorrow. Buy black cargoes and black shoes today. Charge phone, charge camera batteries. Wash hair with dry remedy tomorrow.

Eeeeeee, Spiritualized! God, I hope it's cooled down in Sydney.

But when pressed, he does own up. "I wanted to get some reasonably contemporary stuff on, so Spiritualized to me have always been my favourite English group for the last 15 years or something like that. The first record, Ladies And Gentlemen [We Are Floating In Space], and the last one that they just put out are really quite extraordinary."

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So I could consider these two days a prime example of wasted time.

( novel muttering. )