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Dance with me

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:06:23 +0100

Soz - I'm just embarrassing Kharibdis - remember dancing at the school disco all those years ago? I'd dance on forever if I could Xx

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Steps out of the shade and says something like...

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:32:30 +0100

Can't be arsed writing too much but this song used to get to me when I was about 16 - actually now I think about it I went to see this lot at Glasgow Apollo with Kharibdis on my 16th birthday.

Well it's getting to me again now - own fault for listening to SW' bloody Sunday Love Songs - nuffing much on TV - my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

Just that the time was wrong?

With love's light wings did I o're perch these walls, For stony limits cannot hold love out; And what love can do, that dares love attempt.
(hmm? - another great excuse and I'll stick to that one too)

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Black :-(

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:37:05 +0100

I guess I feel a bit like this right now...

But who knows - I might end up feeling like this one day...

As ever - I remain delusional!

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Down

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:55:09 +0100

Back to heartache again. Went to see Kharibdis & she doesn't want to know me. Very sad and there's not a f*cking thing I can do about it.

I'm not the only one in their own wee private hell - wee Deb crying her eyes out down the phone at me last night (I was on the stretch of railway where AA died when I got the call - strange). She wants me and her to get a place together (we've shared a house a few times in the past) again and I've agreed. Not an arrangement I want to last very long as I seriously want to move back to you know where.

Must go - on Gudge's PC and he's just got up - bye.

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Jesus stops me from wanking!

Mon, 19 May 2008 22:48:31 +0200

No - not me (obviously - ha ha - yes let's just get that one out the way now)

Tonight's "Dispatches - In God's Name" on Channel Four had a scary nutter with the word "jesus" written boldly on a bit of A4 stuck to the ceiling above his bed in order to stop him wanking! I am merely paraphrasing - if you listen/listened carefully, that is what he is saying, albiet rather coyly. Actually if you really listen to what is being said - I'm pretty sure he is referring to an early morning hardon and thinks it is sinfull to "have thought's" (he's obviously not in too much danger then!) and that it is bad to release his sperm with no purpose (presumably the not under wedlock thing come into it too somewhere along this weirdo's way of thinking) - "ev-ery sperm is sacred, ev-ery sperm is great, when a sperm get's wasted, god get's quite irrate" - Python.

There are some real crackers in this edition - the woman who predominates so far is a type I've met before - more interested in herself then anything else she 'proclaims' to be.

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So why do fish get such a good deal?

Mon, 12 May 2008 18:22:12 +0200

I felt so sleezy in the bookshop earlier. I tried oxfam first but could only find books about the bible and god etc. One of them was called "How To Read The Old Testament" - oh dear.

When I went to a "real" bookshop and was confronted by an assistant I felt like I was buying pornography. - "Do you need any help?" - aaaahhh! - why did she have to say it like THAT? Like - yes I need help -do you have a bible? Keeping my voice down looking really shifty
"erm? do you have a bible-I'm not a christian or anything honestly". When they directed me to the back of the shop I joked "hope it's on the top shelf away from children" - it was - fantastic!

"In the begining god created the heaven and the earth" - ok so we're off to a pretty bad start as that is utter nonsense and provably so. But let's not start taking it literally as apparently, according to many theologians, we should not. By page 3 (appropriately enough!) this version of god has advocated the oppression of women - from genesis chapter 3 verse 16: "and thy desire shall be (ha! love the emphasis - god's early material has me in stiches) to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee" - WHAT! Ok so he's a misogynist but at least he hasn't killed anyone yet. Oh and what was the heinous crime Eve had committed? Well the awful woman was tempted by a talking snake and she ate from a tree (where does all this stuff to do with apples come from?) apparently of "knowledge" but the only knowledge that seems to be imparted is that they should feel a little bit embarrassed to be naked.

Then there's some really weird stuff where for some reason god doesn't much care for his five-a-day preferring Abel's meat offering to Cain's veggie delights (sounds like a shop name?!?!). Cain gets pissed off about this and kills his bro. Whoo-hoo - first murder and only on chapter 4. Oddly enough god has to ask Cain where Abel is but let's give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he was just seeing whether Cain would 'fess up and not that the big guy wasn't omniscient at this point.

At last some genocide in chapter 7 - you know that bit where he destroys every living thing on the planet apart from selected animals and Noah's family by means of drowning. But hang on - what about the fish? Presumably they (and other organisms perfectly capable of living in water) were ok - they're not actually mentioned. Why should fish get "let off the hook" and women have to do all that suffering and stuff.

Ok so far this god doesn't seem like a very nice guy - vengence all the way. Ok so perhaps we shouldn't take all this stuff literally but how should we take it? A moral lesson? Be really scared of me and do what I say 'cos I can wipe you all out if you piss me off? What a tosser! Like the begatting though - bloody loads of it!

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"Danger Will Robinson, Danger..."

Mon, 12 May 2008 13:49:48 +0200

Someone suggested to me that it would be pointless trying to convince a religious person with enough conviction to blow themselves to hell (it's just an expression Marge!) - oops, sorry, I mean "to paradise" - that there is no god and they were probably right. However [and ok I'm not being completely serious - I don't really think I'd convince anyone using this (or any) argument] if I were to point out to this presumably very suggestable person, that at some point in history, a mistranslation occured and instead of 72 virgins (hmm? I wonder if it's supposed to be the same bribe for female martyrs - maybe they're not allowed - oh f*ck now there's another book I'll have to read - d'oh!), he should expect 72 white raisins of crystal clarity, would he still be so willing? The sad answer to that is probably yes.

Anyway - getting serious - I was already worried about what's happening in the States. Subville sent me the audio from an American TV show from years ago "Crossfire" where Frank Zappa expresses his observation that America was fast becoming a fascist theocracy. I think Frank would be as horrified as I was if read the following (though probably not in the least bit surprised)...

From "Letter to a Christian Nation" - Sam Harris...
"Forty-four percent of the American population is convinced that Jesus will return to judge the living and the dead sometime in the next fifty years. According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry here on earth. It is, therefore, not an exaggeration to say that if the city of New York were suddenly replaced by a ball of fire, some significant percentage of the American population would see a silver lining in the subsequent mushroom cloud, as it would suggest to them that the best thing that is ever going to happen was about to happen — the return of Christ. It should be blindingly obvious that beliefs of this sort will do little to help us create a durable future for ourselves — socially, economically, environmentally, or geopolitically. Imagine the consequences if any significant component of the U.S. government actually believed that the world was about to end and that its ending would be glorious. The fact that nearly half of the American population apparently believes this, purely on the basis of religious dogma, should be considered a moral and intellectual emergency".

Far fetched? I don't think so - and although it is worrying enough that this is going on in one of the most powerful nations on this planet, I've noticed over the years that what happens in the states tends to drift across the pond - some kind of cultural osmosis or something. Only last week I ended up in a discussion with a member of "the audience" listening to someone who at first appreared to be 'a nice young man' probably not really doing any harm - WRONG! Creationist alert - cover your children's ears! The dipstick from the audience was one of them and actually had the nerve to give me "the evidence is all around you" claptrap. After having a quick look around and finding no evidence of god anywhere I said "You're going to tell me to look at that tree aren't you?" He did! Poor guy - he believes the tree was somehow designed by some kind of cosmic magician (thou will like this - but when I've finished designing pigeons - not a lot!), whereas I'm fairly certain (as certain as I am that I can't walk through a brick wall) that Darwin et al. got it right and as far as I know there is absolutely no evidence to the contrary.

I am glad to say there were no young children listening to this nutter but there could have been.

Am I being an alarmist? I hope so but if Sam Harris's 44% statistic (don't know where he got that from but I've heard similar stats from other sources) is reasonably accurate then I think I have every reason to be worried.

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Something very disturbing

Sun, 11 May 2008 23:49:12 +0200

I just navigated to my blog home page before logging in and there was an advert for scientology on MY PAGE!

I intend to complain strongly to the owners of this site and possibly Tom Cruise.

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Nuffing much

Wed, 07 May 2008 23:41:19 +0200

AAAAAAAHHHHHH!

I need a f*cking contract fast - although I did have some good news while on the X-trainer today (just had to get that in - yes still going to goddam' chin). Apparently, on my last contract, for some time my rate had gone up but no one told me?!?! Resulting in the agency calling me and asking me to invoice them for anvuvva grand and a half - whoopee - I live a extra few weeks before busking becomes a prospect!

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Cold as ice cream but still as sweet

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:57:34 +0200

Update: Lurgi almost gone - bit of a cough still but chancing getting back to goddam gym in a bit (not been since last Saturday - oh the shame) anyway.

Got teeth whitened or whatever, with that stuff where you can't smoke/drink coffee/tea etc. for three hours after the treatment. Jolly good for interviews next week.

Right - must get moving - I'm sure there's other stuff I should be doing but if I don't start with the goddaming soon, I'll end up leaving it for months again.

The ending is cut in this version but I like the bagpipes - turn up loud and dance around in your socks...

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Lurgi!

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:07:40 +0200

YUK! Got sodding flu or whatever virus - coughing a lot and when I do my head feels like it could explode. Obviously, my symptoms are severe as I am a man after all!

Could really do without this as I have an interview on Friday morning and I should be pushing to get interviewed for another contract before that (better rate - actually a ridiculous rate - think they have their London and Manchester market rates confused - great!).

I think I need a night nurse - but I wouldn't want her to catch this ;-)

No this is not *that* track - I just like this and it mentions catching a cold?!?!

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Another one bites the dust

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:01:56 +0200

I wish people would stop dying all over the place. Yet another Cuckoolander ('Cuckooland' is what Mosh, another dead friend of mine, used to call the area I live in) died on Wednesday night. He was only 51 or 52. Don't know exactly how he died but I won't be surpised if it turns out to be the years of abusing his body that did it. And what did loads of us do last night? Yup that's right - from round about 5pm we started trickling into the pub and all got completely plastered in a sort of impromptu wake thingy.

Nick had been such a miserable bugger for as long as I've known him up until a few years ago when he met the woman he married. He'd really cleaned his act up and was noticably a much happier person. They had only just celebrated their 2nd anniversary on Tuesday.

Well if that's where getting all happy and optimistic gets you maybe I'll try to stay miserable - joking!

Here ye go Nicky boy this one's for you (and me -d'oh!)...

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Going a bit you-choob mad...

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:25:18 +0200

One of my fave Neil Young songs [and yes - definitely meant for YKW]

Anuvva fave I used to busk...

Yuk - crap version - will replace it with a better one at some point.

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Ok so it's not exactly summer

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:41:19 +0200

Where I am it still feels like winter - brrrr!

More Stray Cats - been bittorrenting - a bit naughty really but I will buy the CD's honest guv.

And yes I know it's all my own sodding fault. I deserve a "D'oh!" award.

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Crescent Moon

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:13:21 +0200

The moon looks kind of moody or something from where I am. Still lovely though - it's my second favourite celestial body.

This womans voice is so sexy loike.

Nothing to do with the moon just like the songs - bit of Mary Coughlan...

Meet Me Where They Play The Blues A Leaf From A Tree

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Guilty pleasures

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:08:06 +0200

One of those songs that you don't like to admit you like but at least this is a coooooooool version by "Stray Cats". I've always liked this and it kind of reminds me of my mum giving me advice on 'burds' - hmmm?

It's not a paradox, it's not even irony, it is however, if true, a pain in the arse that life is too short yet...

Added later: Ha ha - just realised - YKW was no doubt one of the girls over whom my mum attempted to console me. I don't think she actually said "You can't hurry love" but she would have been right - 19 years though!

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The moon and stars were the gifts you gave...

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:21:00 +0200

...awe sweet.

Just a quickie - in a rush to get to goddam gym - been Tue, Thu, Sat so far this week. Still drinking too f*cking much though - d'oh!

As you know I'm a bit of a Kirsty MacColl fan. This is a song her dad, Ewan MacColl, wrote. Roberta Flack's version is probably the most famous but here's a nice one from the man in black...

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LOML?!?!?!

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:58:04 +0200

Awe - someone sent this to me a couple of years ago. Wonder how they feel now - nah - I'm not going to wonder. I shall remain delusional instead - much better!

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Brit'ish' Summertime?

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:54:45 +0200

Maybe/Maybe not.

Go on yurssel hen...

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Taking care of business

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:37:44 +0100

Woohoo - I officially love my accountant!

Was hugely worried about PAYE & NI but it turns out I’ve not been living beyond my means after all and everything is well in hand. I could be doing a lot better if I didn’t keep taking such long breaks between contracts – d’oh!

Off to the pub to celebrate then – nah – I kind of made someone a promise this morning and I don’t like breaking promises – especially to her.

Right - Off to gym to grow a chin [subs: only fourteen, Sickly 'n' thin, Tried all of my life, Just to grow me a chin – should’ve been careful what I wished for! ]

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Anyone for chilli?

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:46:40 +0100

Haha - it's the only thing I do that could be considered cooking - it usually turns out really yummy though

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Love Letters

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:20:13 +0100

Ahem! back to soppyness.

I was watching a panel show last week and one of the panelists was going on about going through his gran's personal stuff after she'd died - trying to piece together what her life was before she got married. He remarked how sad it was that it's getting so that won't be possible - we'd have to look through emails, text messages, blogs!

As he was talking I looked over at a shoe box I have with loads of lovely hand written letters and felt very lucky.

Love this song 'cos I imagine someone special singing it to me.

This version is one of the best I've heard - all the guff with the bird at the end spoils it a little though...

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Pina Coladas?

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:30:21 +0100

I don't f*cking think so!

Don't get me wrong now - I'm all for hearts 'n' flowers but sometimes...

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Thank you Mr Sting

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:39:45 +0100

Another unlikely collaberation...

[Kharybdis - don't you go getting any ideas ]

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Hippy Highwayman

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:46:00 +0100

What's this - uplifting music on my blog - surely not?

Couldn't decide which version to blog so here's four - take yer pick...

Enigma - Return To Innocence Radio Edit - 4:03 Long & Alive Version - 7:07 380 Midnight Mix - 5:55 Short Radio Edit - 3:01

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Gamete disease?!?!

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:48:29 +0100

Damien Rice - The Professor...

Like the song - not too sure about the ending though

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Alternative Easter

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:14:50 +0100

This is v funny but rather sad too. Got loads I could say about this song but I'm too knackered - think I might go for a snoozzzzzzze

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Counting the stars

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:52:41 +0100

Hey subville - you said you hadn't heard of Brian S - you've probably heard of a few of his friends though.

The video/audio is a bit rough but this should give an idea of Mr. Setzer's credentials...

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Watermelon in Easter Hay

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:48:50 +0100

[subs I know you probably blogged this already but hey-ho - it's handy here - anyway wot U doin' reading this - don't you have better things to do? ]

I'm not religimous - in fact I'm religimously not religimous so Happy Holidays

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Woohoo- howlin to the moonlight on a hot summer night!

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:08:52 +0100

YAY - I said nothing would stand in my way!

I just scored big time!

Got three tickets for the final Stray Cats tour - Me, JMac and probably David (you know who I mean subs & scarymouche) - thank f*ck we watched Brian Setzer on youtube last night instead of rehearsing like we should. I set myself a reminder to check if BS was touring and did so this morning. Didn't want to trust things to ticketmaster so I went to the venue's box office - only 20 tickets left and the gig isn't until September!

I'm so chuffed I'm going to post one of theirs from the Beverly Brothers 1st rehearsal in ages in my lounge from a couple of years ago with a wee condeser mic &... ok excuses excuses.

Oooh & just been to the goddam gym for the second time this week so - endorphin russsssssssshhhhhhhhh - woo - f*cking - hoooooooooo!

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