Well, I seem to be coming down with another cold and feel like I have the brain power of a particularly stupid fish atm, so I'll keep this short and sweet.
-New Years: flights all sorted, just need to sort logisitics of getting to/from Newcastle airport. Shouldn't be too tricky though as the combination of railway and metro is an easy one.
-Job: going well.
-Band: silly season is well and truely upon us and we're out most days until CHristmas now. We also have confirmed dates for the trip to Switzerland next year and it's confirmed that I'll be missing GEF. Oh well.
-Babies: everyone seems to be having them atm. Congratualtions to all those who deserve/need/want/etc
-Song lyric meme: oh go on then. Although knowing what my playlist is like I wish you all the very best of luck. The first lines from thirty songs from my MP3 player on random. Guess the song title and the artist.
1)Yesterday was dark and dingy - Lovely Anthem, Danny Wallace
2)The wanderer has far to go, humble must he constant be
3)Once I had a dream, and this is it - Dark Chest of Wonder, Nightwish
4)As I went a walkin' one mornin' in spring, I met with some travelers in an old country lane - Bread and Fishes, Alan Bell
5)You talk of new England, I truely believe, old England is grown new and doth us deceive - Old England Grown New, Strawhead
6)I'm so Ronery - I'm so Ronery, Team America Sound Track
7)Ken ye how a Whig can fight - Aikendrum, Tannahil Weavers
8)I went down to the shore of the Lunenburg harbour to lend voice to the festival sound - Lunenberg Skies, Tanglefoot
9)Rising up, back on the street - Eye of the Tiger, Survivor
10)March march, army of saints! - MArching Song of the New Model Army, Strawhead
11)You've got a great car, yeah, whats wrong with it today? - Bohemian Like you, Dandy Warhols
12)The moving sun shapes on the spray, the sparkle where the brook was flowing
13)Wanna have a smoke free, choke free, veggie burger, cup of tea - NIMBY, Artisan
14)Summer has come and passed - Wake me up WHen September Ends, Greenday
15)Legate, I heard the news last night, my cohort ordered home - The Roman Centurian's Song, Kipling/Leslie Fish
16)Immanuel Kant was a real pissant - Philosopher's Song, Monty Python
17)Well there's four who share this room, and we work hard for the craic
18)All around my hat - All Around my Hat, Steeleye Span
19)We praise the colorectal surgeon, misunderstood and much maligned,
20)Master, apprentice, hearthborn, seventh seeker - Wishmaster, Nightwish
21)Союз нерушимый республик свободных - Soviet National Anthem, Red Army Chorus
22)I don't know, if you can see, the changes that have come over me - Caledonia, Dougie Maclean
23)Oh the year was 1778 - Barrett's Privateers, Stan Rogers
24)Ready to gooo, Ready to goooo - Ready to Go, Republica
25)I was 19 when I came to town, they called it the summer of love
26)A holiday, a holiday and the first one of the year - Matty Groves, Trad/Fairport Convention
27)See the pigeons bless the statue, crown of stone wins no respect
28)He's the greatest, he's fantastic - Dangermouse
29)She's a good girl, loves her momma - Free Falling, Strawhead/Tom Petty
30)Armies have conquered, and fallen in the end - Never-Ending Story, Within Temptation