SUDDENLY I STOP, AND I KNOW IT'S TOO LATE.

Today I'm Only Going To Put One Song Up, Because This One Took Twenty Minutes To Upload.
It's The Album Version Of 'A Forest' By The Cure, From 'Seventeen Seconds.'
It's Really Amazing, The Intro Somehow Sets It Up To Be Better Than The Single Version, It Really Affects It.

The Cure - A Forest


So Have A Listen To That.

I AM VERY MUCH SORRY THAT I HAVEN'T WRITTEN IN MORE THAN A WEEK.
Maybe Even Two.
That Is Terrible Of Me, I'm Ashamed, I've Scalded Myself For It On More Than One Occasion.
And I Actually Mean 'Scald', Which Is Rather A 1930s Practice, Meaning 'To Burn With Boiling Liquid Or Hot Steam.'
Captain Beefheart Would Be Proud Of My Methods, Rumour Has It That During The Recording Of 'Trout Mask Replica' He Literally Beat His Band If They Hit A Wrong Note.
Such A Genius...

I've Been Having All Sorts Of Odd Dreams.
Last Night I Dreamt That Me And Some Friends - By Which I Mean 'Dream Friends', Not Actual Friends That I Know - Were At A Train Station, And One Of Them Liked The Same Gurl As Me, And Kept Talking To Me In About Her In A Competitive Way.
I Walked Off And He Had Literally Cut My Arm Off.

I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHAT THAT MEANS.

Unless It Means That Subconsciously I Am So Ridiculously Confident In Myself That The Only Way I Think I Can Be Beaten Is If I Were To Lose A Limb Or Two.
But I Very Much Doubt That, Sometimes I Am So Pessimistic I Refuse To Believe I Even Deserve Limbs.

And For Some Reason It Made Me Think Of When I First Got Contact Lenses.
They Didn't Work, Cos My Eyes Are Weirdly Shaped - I Think I Did That Thing Where You Push Your Eyelids Really Hard Into Your Eyes To Create A Game Where You're Falling Through Multi-Coloured Squares Too Much As A Child, If You've No Idea What I Mean By That PUSH YOUR EYELIDS INTO YOUR EYES REALLY HARD - But I Could See Enough To Get By.
And It Made Me Think About How Much Nicer The World Is When You Don't Know How Ugly People You're Talking To Are.
And Then I Thought 'Hmm, Well If My Eyes Are Like This Forever, My Confidence Will Shoot Right Up, As I Will Naturally Assume That Everyone Is Ugly.'
And, Continuing With This Stream Of Consciousness, I Thought About That Gandhi Quote:

'An Eye For An Eye Makes The Whole World Blind.'

Which Led Me To Think Of The Positive Implications Of Such A Proverb.
If Everyone WAS Blind, The World Would Be A Much Friendlier Place I Reckon.
Of Course, You Couldn't Enjoy Art Or Photography Or Film Or Whatever, But You'd Still Have Music, And Literature Would Exist Only In Audiobook Form.

AND AFTER ALL OF THIS DEEP THOUGHT, I WENT TO THE OPTICIAN'S AND THE PROBLEM WAS CORRECTED.

And Everyone's Still Ugly.

Hahaha.

As You Can Tell From That Anecdote, Not Much Has Actually Happened This Week At All.
Friday Night Was A Really Good Night, Jonny Drove Us To The West End Centre In Aldershot ('The Westy' Is So 'I'm Fourteen And Have A Local' I Feel, I Doubt People In Brixton Call Brixton Academy 'The Academy', And If They Do They've No Idea What 'Academy' Means) To See Wow! Pigeon Eyes Support Pneu.
Wow! Pigeon Eyes Were Really Good, Their New Stuff Is Excellent.
Then The Room Changed And Three Bands Played A Track Each In A Jools Holland Style.
We, Being The Clever Bunch We Are, Decided We Go In For Every Third Song So That We Only Saw Shield Your Eyes.
We Soon Lost Track Of How Many Songs Had Been Played And Just Didn't Go In For Ages.
I Think I Saw Two Shield Your Eyes Tracks, Then Got Lost In Drinking And Talking To Various People About Things I'm Struggling To Remember.
It Was A Really Good Night Though.
I Had Some Good Chatz.
I Only Went Back In To See Pneu's Last Song, And I'm Kind Of Gutted I Didn't See More Of Them, They Were Insane.
The Guitarist Was Looping Everything He Played, And The Drummer Was So Fast It Just Didn't Make Sense How He'd Become So Aware Of Timing.

But Yeah A Really Good Night.

This Week Has Been Kind Of Appalling, I Keep Bumping Into Or Being Forced To Converse With People I Either Don't Want To Look Appalling In Front Of Or Do Not Have The Time For.
I Used To Embrace The Act Of Talking To People I Really Dislike, But In Recent Times My Love Of Such Activities Has Waned, And I See It For What It Is.
And Obviously Nobody Likes Looking Appalling In Front Of People They Only Want To Look Good In Front Of, If They Did They'd Do It All The Time, On Purpose.

So Give Me A Call Or Something, I Really Would Like A Phone Call Every Now And Then, I Think People Don't Care Enough About Other People So Let's Do Something About It And Ask Each Other How We Are And What We've Been Up To And Where We Got Our Clothes From, Yeah?

Oh And Go Download The New Charlatans' Album, It's Really Good And Free On The XFM Website.

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