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Life is good, actually - nothing to complain about at all. Sorry, doom'n'gloom merchants everywhere, you'll just have to get your misery by proxy somewhere else for a bit.

footnote: general peachiness enhanced by new QUINNE set - reminds me of that Julian Cope classic 'Upwards At 45 degrees'

Time again for another in my infrequent series - Top 10 songs played on my iPod:-

1. Futureheads - Hounds Of Love
2. Interpol - Slowhands
3. Ultramagnetic MCs - Travelling At The Speed Of Thought
4. Belle & Sebastian - I'm A Cuckoo
5. Blink 182 - The Rock Show
6. Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch
7. Ministry - Jesus Built My Hotrod...
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Back from my travels - four days in Venice to take in some culture and some carnival. Lovely weather - cold but sunny all the time. All the relaxing and cheeriness embued by the holiday was wiped out yesterday in one fell swoop when I came down with a lurgee-and-then-some, which had me thanking the architect who put our toilet so near our barh

Suffice...
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Off on my travels - back next week!

Another week whizzes by... Julian Cope is going through is BIG riffs and lots of ROCK phase; I'm a big fan of the fella but the gig left me a bit cold - dunno why, normally it would be just my cup of tea... Cracking version of Reynard The Fox though.

Waiting for it to snow over here; New York (and the rest of the...
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Hurrah! pay day has been and gone - some moolah in the bank after the lean Christmas period. Had to splash out on a new moby though - my last one got slightly smashed to fuck (not through idiocy or drunkeness; but it's a long story) so I'm wide awake and bushy-tailed(ish) on a Sunday morning putting all my numbers back in to a new...
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FINALLY got a few days off... can catch up with the fun stuff in life. Pottered about the sales today - bought myself a copy of Nigella Lawson's Feast (hmmmm... Nigella, she can bake my muffins any day of the week ) which on closer inspection was signed by her own fair yet voluptuous hand. Bizzarely, I also picked up the very best of...
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So that was Christmas - festive spirit somewhat banjax'd by events in Asia. My slacking-off-cos-nothing-happens-so-I'll-rake-in-the-cash shifts turned in to all-hands-on-deck-global-disaster work-a-thon (12 hours at a time) and it was grim. However, I have learnt that if you see a tidal wave heading towards you it's better to get to high ground then video it, rather than vice versa.

On the plus side at Christmas I...
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Back from NY, back from being grey - all geared up (and paid up) for 2005 - bring it on!!!

(No Nintendo DS - fucking yanks!!!)

iPod, Gameboy and camera charged? Check. Lots of US dollars at bargain rate? Check. Bag packed? err.. not yet, but getting there.

NEW YORK HERE I COME - WHOO-HOO!

So December is almost upon us - eep! The years are rolling by at an alarming rate (still, that means Christmas comes around quicker - 'rah!)

This afternoon's musings are bought to you via mini-superheros (up there), Pearl Jam's Best Of... and slightly sickly gingerbread latte.

Christmas is coming - you can this by the ever-so festive Incredibles lights on Regent Street and what looks like they will be Harry Potter lights on Oxford St. There was a fantastically odd woman on the news yesterday explaining that angels and snowmen had been done to death at Christmas - I kinda think that's the point, ffs!

Went to see Hayseed Dixie last...
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