Lis­ten­ing to: I Idol­ize You — Ike & Tina Turner — Nut­bush City Limits

S organ­ised a drinks out­ing at where else because it is his birth­day Wednes­day. There’s cause for cel­e­bra­tion because he’s the last of the Mochikens to get to Thirty. Would’ve been less […]

Lis­ten­ing to: Karaoke Queen — Cata­to­nia — Equally Cursed & Blessed

I read in Bill Bryson’s A Short His­tory of Nearly Every­thing, ‘it is easy to make any banal sit­u­a­tion extra­or­di­nary if you treat it as fateful’.

But life’s lit­tle moments are always banal unless one treats it as […]

Lis­ten­ing to: Pos­i­tively 4th Street — Bob Dylan — Mas­ter­pieces (2)

It’s not that I am not over you. I have been health­ily over you for some years now. But you’re get­ting mar­ried. I wish you well and all that. Your well-being is no longer in my realm.

I once loved you. That love […]

Lis­ten­ing to: La Luna en Tu Mirada — Manuel Galbán/Ry Cooder — Mambo Sinuendo

I had to get out of the house today, so I went and had din­ner with a close friend, his brother and his mother.

Then we went to his house and watched tv with his house­mate, his […]

Lis­ten­ing to: Bet­ter Days — Bruce Spring­steen — Greatest Hits

As if I needed a pick-me-up.

Checked the let­ter tray and found some­thing addressed to me. But it had ‘On Gov­ern­ment Ser­vice’ on the enve­lope, and had my rank before my name in full.

Thank­fully it wasn’t another ‘love let­ter’, or

Lis­ten­ing to: Across the Bor­der­line — Freddy Fender — It’ll Come to You: The Songs of John Hiatt

Max had been miss­ing from the house for more than a day, which wasn’t unusual.

No one told me for fear I’d be in hys­ter­ics (!), and I’ve only just been informed after my nephew’s birthday party.

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Lis­ten­ing to: Rhyfel­gyrch Gwyrharlech (Men Of Harlech) — Welsh Male Voices — Very Best Of The Fes­ti­val Of One Thou­sand Welsh Male Voices [UK]

I didn’t go to the gym yes­ter­day because I was a lit­tle under the weather. And I missed the excite­ment (read: trouble) […]

Lis­ten­ing to: Not Pretty Enough — Kasey Cham­bers — Bar­ri­cades & Brickwalls

Ate to death again ear­lier this evening.

We started the evening (late arvo) watch­ing the rugby:

Lis­ten­ing to: Jesus On The Main­line — Ry Cooder — Par­adise and Lunch

It is a frikkin HOT day. Too hot to be mov­ing heavy equip­ment to clients’ premises, which is what me and my busi­ness asso­ciates did. It is a tor­ture dri­ving in Sin­ga­pore, despite the fab­u­lous road net­work that hasn’t suf­fered a […]

Lis­ten­ing to: Half a Boy and Half a Man — Sleepy LaBeef — Labour Of Love — The Music of Nick Lowe

Thanks to sev­eral things that have hap­pened in the past weeks:

1. That hor­ri­ble inci­dent in broad day­light, even if I wasn’t there phys­i­cally;
2. Read­ing a jour­nal […]