loveless by mbv....

...NOT BAD

WHAT WHAT WHAT

the dirty three are on at the same time as the pains of being pure at heart????

damn you ATP, damn you.....

My Friday night planning seems to have gone awry a little, I got talked into buying face-cream at lunch time, and well after last night I don't sparkle or shine so please feel free to entertain, incite thought, or just mouth off a little.

When someone puts a lot of their time and effort into making something, it is bad to mock them for it. Still, though.

NB do not click the link if you are having any kind of issues with humanity in general.

(From puzzled_anwen)

Does anyone fancy a free ticket to see My Life Story do Mornington Crescent at Koko tonight? I've already got one freebie so there's one going spare if you're free and fancy it. You totally don't have to stand anywhere near me either if you don't want to.

I'm meeting up with the ticket bearers in the Camden Kitchen should be there from 6.30-7.00pm if you do want to come. Hopefully anyone who's ineterested has my phone number but I constantly check email anyway!

Oh and by the way, I don't think it was obvious enough, but that
option in my quiz yesterday, about the skullcandy headphones, was
meant to be a "hilarious" joke answer, for people who wanted to choose
a point and laugh at dan option. Sorta the equivalent of the "1% said
frank lampard" thing.......

Unless some of you can honestly see me on my way to work in a full
suit, wearing zebra print headphones ;)

So yeah, I ended up having my ears syringed on monday.... like Cliff says,
the thing they use is nothing like a syringe, so I have no idea why they
call it that, other than to instill FEAR in those of us who hate
needles.....

in the end a piece of wax the size and shape of one of those small
earplugs came out of my right ear (and I can now hear perfectly - strange
that), I was particularly relieved since the fist time I couldn't hear
happened when I was swimming and my ear went BAND and properly hurt and I
was totally scared I'd done proper damage..... bad news is the left ear
ended up with the nuse (accidentally) scratching me with the look-in-ears
tool, to the point where it cause me to bleed, so I've gotta go back to
get that ear finished (it's better but hilariously it's now my "bad ear"

Think is, the nurse said that the cause of all the wax build up, is the
fact I constantly use ear bud headphones, for at least 2 hours *every*
day, and if I want to keep my hearing decent, I should stop using ear-buds
and start using on-ear headphones (apparently the ear-buds irritate hairs
inside the ear, causing more wax to be produced etc etc)..... so I've gone
back to using the headphones which the lady R used to refer to as my
"cyberman pair" (oh the hilarity) for the mean while.... but it's got me
thinking, *should* I actually trust what she says.... I mean timescale
wise, my hearing did get more blocked around the time I got my first pair
of shure earphones, but that could easily be coincidence, (my hearing's
been shite for years), and the thing about in the earphones is they alow
you to listen to music on the tube without a) making you look like too
much of a twat, and b) without having an unsightly bulge in your coat
pocket all day (coupled with the fact that the reason I got the ipod I
did, was that I like small things which don't cause unslightly bulges.....

so el jay, I ask you:

Poll #1490234 earphones
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 25

so should I listen to the nurse's advice

anything to add?

Right, I have one weekend before ATP

aws909reckons I'll *need* earplugs, and as I've only just got
the hearing back in my right ear, I'm rather inclined to play it safe.....

anyone got any recomendations for ear plugs which won't make me look *too*
twatish, while also stopping damaging my now oh-so-precious restored
hearing?

ahhhhhh

ATP holiday is now properly confirmed for the *right* weekend now

ONLY

it clashes with the first london rollergirl match of the season

noooooooooooooooooooooooooo

(and I've bought a season ticket)

guess who booked the wrong weekend off for ATP.....

que grovelling emails to my boss this morning

Poll #1489270 Monday monday
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: None, participants: 16

How are you doing today?

Is there anything you're looking forward to?

If so how much from 1-10, 1 being low, are you looking forward to it?

Would you like to tell me a thing? a thought, a song you have on repeat, a thing you want to do, a book you just read? go on, do tell.

hmmmmm there are 18 working days in december before christmas

if I wanna do the mp3 advent calandar this year, I should really get my arse in gear and select 18 songs.....

by the by, anyone thing of a decent name for the thing, I'm fed up with the old one

In three hours I'm getting my ears syringed

I *hate* needles, or anything that vauguely resembles needles

I might be scared

but to be honest, if it means I can hear again, it's all good

there are some really bitter irish football fans out there

taken from the WoS

Turning the alarm to 'snooze' then settling back to continue vital thoughts, only to discover that some if not all of the facts that form the basis for said thoughts are situated in what scientists call 'dreams'.

I love Sundays with Lou.

NaNoWriMo fail! Ha ha ha.

This year's pumpkin, very late photo:



Went to Southend the weekend last, here is the cat!



I have had a cold. BLERGH.

River in Clitheroe was very high yesterday!

right, in 3 weeks (or so) I'm going to be going to going to the my bloody valantine ATP...

I think this would probably be a good time to start investigting MBV as I've never really been grabbed by what I've heard of them, and I think primal screem are a much better band when kevin sheilds isn't in them........

any ideas where I should start looking?

I also intend to do all I can to avoid sonic youth, the horrors and lightning bolt..... while catching mum, the pains of being pure at heart, primal scream, josh t pearson, the dirty three and buzzcocks

anyone else I should pay attention to - line up is here

dear the internet

how long do you think it took between me taking a tie out of the "back from the dry cleaners" packing and me accidentally dipping it in my lunch?

obviously the only reason it was at the dry cleaners was that I spilt food on it in the first place......