Wake up sleepy head

I think the suns a little brighter today.

It's not all bad this life we live..

Sometimes things go wrong with our computers but it's because of something we did we just didn't realise we did it.

Fragments..

Shards

I'm in the past.

Or at least I feel like I am.

dammit

Of course..

It's obvious.

I forgot Grace by Jeff Buckley.

But! Only if it's the Live from Chicago DVD with the talky/guitary bit beforehand.

Everyone else's suggestions are also good. For the most part.

We're talking intros if you missed that somehow..

o&o

crooked soul trying to stay up straight..

Weather good. But you didn't need me to tell you that now did ya?

No no.

I've got a nice little list for you that I spent all of ten seconds doing (so I might change my mind).

Anyway. Top ten intros, in no particular order:

• Everything Zen - Bush


• Just - Radiohead


• The River - Nitin Sawhney


• Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana (I know I know, but I still have memories of the first time I heard it when I hear it now)


• Electioneering - Radiohead


• Lose Control - Ash


• Execution - Grammatrain


• Two Step - Dave Matthews Band (preferably live)


• 2nd Amendment - Easyworld


• Most songs by Muse but if I had to pick one I'd pick Plug In Baby/Hyper Music/Stockholm Syndrome/Citizen Erased I just can't do it sorry..

That's all..

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can I just say..

So then..

That was just about the birthday to top the rest. Ok so the festivities weren't as prolonged as other year's have been but what they lacked in breadth they made up for in depth. That may or may not make sense.

Tonite is the NAG open mic night. Good times for all to have. Woop woop.

overandout

just don't get caught

This is getting problematic now. Two posts, two subjects which have probably already clogged the tubes as much as we could want them to. So many opinions, so much waffle. And here's me imagining I have something to bring to the table.

To be fair though, it's not as if the internet is short of space just yet.

I was thinking about the whole MP expense kerfuffle. Naturally. I mean, who isn't? Toby Young pointed out the press hypocrisy, which interested me. Obviously it's slightly different for the press because it's not taxpayers money being abused. They're businesses and if they see fit to run like that then I guess they can.

What worries me is that whilst parliament can be held up for scrutiny, there's not really the same mechanisms for holding the press up for scrutiny. If they out and out lie then there are laws and they can be taken to task. But what about what about when they present the actual truth in unhelpful ways, or present the truth when the truth isn't going to help the situation, or present bad opinions, or just generally drive things into the ground and tear down tear down tear down.

This is treading into freedom of speech territory. Which I'm all for. However, just because you're free to say something, doesn't mean you should say it. For instance I'm free to say you're ugly. But I don't think it would help either of us for me to say it.

The problem and major sticking point in my mind is that it's all subjective anyway. One man's truth is another man's lie. If you can't even trust your own memory why should you trust anyone elses.

I don't think I've got a solution.

On that note, birth-long-weekend kicks off tomorrow. Got pubbage, QI, Pontins, Nandos, BBQ, pubbage and publunchage comin' right up. What times to be living in.

K I'm done.

They're all at it..

Undeveloped thoughts for a Saturday morning..


- I don't buy into the idea that we all have one hidden talent that we are outstanding at. Obviously there's the work that goes into making you outstanding but also there's too wide a spectrum in humanity for this to be the case. And in any case going around believing that there's one thing you could be outstanding at probably won't ultimately help you to be everything you could be. But then neither is accepting mediocrity I guess.. Once again I've excelled myself and saying something and nothing.

- I will be the next in a long line of people choosing to comment and I probably shouldn't, but as a society we're still being shallow and cynical in our approach to Susan Boyle. Ok, yeah, people judged the book by the cover (which these programs encourage us to do anyway by showing people who are both "ugly" and "talentless" for our titillation) and shouldn't have been as surprised as they were that she could belt it, but we're really just swapping one external for another anyway. By saying (effectively) that it's ok 'cos she can sing we're still not accepting her as she is.

I.. think?

Anyways. I'll be off. Mebbe I'll develop these thoughts. Probably not.

ovaryout.

Don't cross the line

The lines we cross.

not what you think

They say that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

I sincerely hope this is the case.

If we take this webness at face value and look at its themes and recurring points of interest and such..... well what do we got?

- blogging about blogging (or not)
- foop-ball
- alcohol
- Open Mic
- pritty pitchars
- broken promises and shattered dreams

Not a great list of partses.

Ultimately though I'd like to think I'm somewhere around the middle of the pile when it comes to blogging.

Having now thoroughly (some would say too much I suspect) taken care of the first, let's see what we can do with the rest..

Had a cracking game tonite. Whilst not managing to score I set up at least one, and kept a clean sheet for my spell in goal. Open Mic was also "the real deal"™. Lots of looping, from all quarters. For which I am grateful. And yes I had a few drinks.

As for the pictures... Well, I'll combine those with the last point by not providing any. This time.

It would be nice to get back into some moblogging though. Maybe tomorrow.

There's always tomorrow.

spill

Events of note from the past two weeks

- visiting with El's grandparents
- 3dBs gig (extra credit)
- First barbecue of the summer
- Second barbecue of the summer
- Vomit


Birthday is soon. I'm in two minds of what kind of events to stage this year. Things are possibly shaping up.

That is once again all I got. I'm breaking back into this slowly mmkay.

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