12.31.03 - 04:13pm
One more entry actually, just for laughs, and to prove that some kind of cosmic order is being restored while the rest of you are out getting wankered: its now 10:05PM, I’ve had a glass of champagne, and now I’m going to bed.
12.23.03 - 02:53am
I must end 2003 prematurely and get on the M roads. If anyone wants me I’m drinking gin and tonics in the rain with my mother.
12.12.03 - 06:57am
What the fuck is it with John Fahey and me? I first hear John Fahey about 10 years ago on the Peel show. Then I see a record of his in Resale but don’t buy it because I’m not yet into my vinyl jones. Then a few months after that I see two more Fahey [...]
12.12.03 - 05:54am
Finally I’ve fallen to the germ posse flying round the flat in coughs and am illin’ like a villain also. Feel like a piece of shite, like Beck might say if he was from Macclesfield or somewhere. People often compare me to Beck and I have to smile indulgently and tell them how much I [...]
12.10.03 - 09:50am
A popular problem for the self-obsessed is that everything seems to be happening to them, whereas in fact it’s just confusing old reality going about its business in its usual chaotic fashion. Every day I walk down Mill Road and more often than not I’ll spot something that seems particularly out of the ordinary, [...]
12.10.03 - 09:31am
So when Bugs asks me at short notice to support the new band he’s drumming in I agree, because he’s a mate and I’m an implausibly kind and gracious individual, but I don’t expect them to be any good, not because Bugs is a monkey or anything, just because most bands aren’t, let’s face it. [...]
12.01.03 - 03:31pm
I’m sorry, but this is how it is. In on a Friday night again. Sam was meant to be going out, and although she didn’t, I made no plans and here I am. Really fucking tired too. Kinda tipsy, a little bit caned, sorta regretful. I was busying myself with the printing of Um covers [...]