i might go and see "bad santa" today, it's supposed to be pretty funny. i was thinking of seeing "it's a wonderful life" but maybe next year, i saw it last year again so i maybe need a little break from it. i reckon 'bad santa' is the way to go for today....
hope you have a nice christmas time wherever you are and whatever you get up to :)
"
Just Like Christmas" by Low. Such a lovely song.
On our way from Stockholm
Started to snow
And you said it was like Christmas
But you were wrong
It wasn't like Christmas at all
By the time we got to Oslo
Snow was gone
And we got lost
The beds were small
But we felt so young
It was just like Christmas
It was just like Christmas
It was just like Christmas
It was just like Christmas
It was just like Christmas
It was just like Christmas
It was just like Christmas
It was just like Christmas
It was just like Christmas
It was just like Christmas
It was just like Christmas
It was just like Christmas
It was just like Christmas
i was feeling sad today. but then i thought of an immediate worst case scenario - working in a shop where i'm forced to endure eight constant, mind numbing, blood boiling hours of loud, rubbish christmas songs. that really would just rip the spirit right out of my soul. it was then that i felt better. immediate worse case scenario displacement is a good stress reliever. much like patting a big, friendly dog who then jumps up and sits on your lap for a little while.
hello. i thought i'd introduce my flatmate, smokey joe.
awwww, i was going to stick another photo up but something's gone wrong and it won't let me. i'll ask webmaster chris if he'll have a look at it but he's a bit under the weather at the moment with a bug. hopefully he'll feel better soon coz i know how miserable that can be. i'm being a good boy this week, keeping healthy and clean and avoiding nights out by avoiding people. i'm going down to london this weekend so i'm looking forward to that. last friday's gig and post gig experience was great, playing pool with two of the smiths in someone's flat at 4am is something i didn't quite see happening before i went down to the venue that night but i love when good times are spontaneous. sat night at the art school is always good. sunday's are generally a bit grim. the best nights are never planned which is why i'll probably stay in on new year's eve and eat carrots. i really hate enforced celebration, i don't like being told when i should be happy and celebrate coz invariably that moment for me is at a time that doesn't fit in with the preordained holiday calendar.
i wrote a new song last week that i keep playing. but i'm not going to pick the guitar up in a while, at least until i get some new blank minidiscs coz i'm scared that i might pick it up and start writing a song and i won't have anywhere to record it so it'll be lost, forever. maybe that's too much of an assumption, there's no guarantee i'll write anything in the near future, but i think the stress of losing it would be quite heavy.
are you going to make any resolutions for next year? i'm not one for this kind of thing but i think this year i have to.
mince pie?
friday night at nice 'n sleazy in glasgow.
well, i've emerged from my duvet. i got sick and i was laid out for a couple of days. i spent most of the time reading, watching movies, writing songs and drinking tea. i played around with these three kind of half songs i wrote over the last two days and didn't think much of them. they were okay, but not quite there. then last night i started playing a slight variation on a couple of them and i wrote one that i really like with a melody that i really love. the song's only got about 3 or 4 chords in it. i started to play it in the bathroom with the light out. i sat on the toilet (seat and lid down!) and recorded it into my minidisc in the dark. sometimes when it's a really soft, gentle song i like to take it either to my bathroom or my kitchen coz there's a lovely acoustic sound i get from both of these places. so i recorded it and was listening back to it today. i started singing it this morning when i woke with no prompting so maybe i'm onto something. maybe not of course. i can't tell you what it's about though. i want you to hear it first, assuming someone wants to hear it of course. oh, i've no more photos to post up. i figured some of my snotty tissues or duvet may not be so appealing. if you're reading this before the weekend, then have a nice weekend. if you're reading it after then never mind, it'll come soon enough, i can't believe it's friday again already. that gig seems to have been just a couple of days ago.
