( This entry is dedicated to Ambersaigh and to my mother, in that order )

I was reminded twice yesterday that I've not made an LJ entry for over a week. Well, I could make excuses - I'm saving myself for Blogathon at the weekend and Spike and his tuggy have done for one of my wrists - both of those would be true, but they're not the real reason. The real reason is that I'm caught in the grip of an obsession that isn't ( Read more... )

...I've loved Dire Straits since Makin' Movies was released, in 1980. John loved them too, and one of their songs is one of my theme songs. They're heavy, for me, with decades of meaning and resonance. I love it when people randomly remind me of things I turn out not to have forgotten.

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( Random act of poetry )

( From the chat log archives )

What with one thing and another, I am getting either no sleep, or sleeping like a zombie at the stupidest times, so that this afternoon's pet food delivery woke me, and I had to scurry to put my teeth in while the nice blonde who brings me dead mice and green tripe languished on the doorstep. Then after she left, I put my hand to my neck and felt ( Read more... )

From a recent chatlog: "*groan* Remind me to go back to being lackluster. It gets you included in more things and makes you easier to talk to.

This is a music dump specifically to celebrate the not-lacklustre. There might be one or two I have uploaded before. But what the hey.

Dory Previn - (Going Home)Mythical Kings And Iguanas

Lightning Seeds ( Read more... )

...also, there's someone I need a mailing address for. Because I mean it about needing to show you Doctor Who. There's a particular storyline I'm thinking of, where the character with the highly varied past falls in love with the golden-haired girl who brings things to life and the man who's worth the monsters; but I am absolutely certain you would ( Read more... )