Monthly Archives: August 2004

Body Art

iTunes’ party shuf­fle is play­ing: Being With You — Smokey Robin­son — Bill­board Top Hits: 1981 This week, the one true love said, ‘when I get into the money, I’m gonna get a tat­too of a snake, maybe some­where on my ankle’. I have a tat­too on my arm, a tribal-like thingie of a dragon, in black,

Achtung baby!

iTunes’ party shuf­fle is play­ing: Cig­a­rettes Will Kill You — Ben Lee — Breath­ing Tor­na­dos Lieb­schen, dein ist mein ganzes Herz, Wo du nicht bist, kann ich nicht sein! Why is it I keep think­ing of try­ing to get my one true love out of her rut as if I didn’t have enough on my

I have been a-goin’ out

iTunes’ party shuf­fle is play­ing: It Feels Like Rain — Aaron Neville — Warm Your Heart So I’ve been going out nightly even though I’m dog-tired. My brains are fried and I’m sound­ing like what I dis­like. But there’s work to do on the week­end too. And I’m dog-tired. But I have to go out. Go

Paddling the Seven Seas

iTunes’ party shuf­fle is play­ing: Sky and Sea — Cas­san­dra Wil­son — Trav­el­ing Miles I tell peo­ple one of my favourite pas­times is kayak­ing, but I hardly ever get to kayak these days. Back when, then and all that time ago, I didn’t kayak all that often either. So I sup­pose kayak­ing is a favourite in the

Not quite Jamie’s kitchen

iTunes’ party shuf­fle is play­ing: We’ve Got Tonight — Ronan Keat­ing — Des­ti­na­tion Just now I cooked a meal for the first time in almost two years. (Instant noo­dles not counted). Cook­ing for some­one else is always a treat. You take a lit­tle more care in prepar­ing the stuff. If I were to cook for

Paddling the seven seas

I tell peo­ple one of my favourite pas­times is kayak­ing, but I hardly ever get to kayak these days. Back when, then and all that time ago, I didn’t kayak all that often either. So I sup­pose kayak­ing is a favourite in the sense that I remem­ber lik­ing it a lot when I did do it. I

Jesus stole my gal

iTunes’ party shuf­fle is play­ing: Ain’t That Lonely Yet — Dwight Yoakam — Last Chance For A Thou­sands Years — Dwight Yoakam’s Great­est Hits From The 90’s I love you with the love of Christ. My friend Ryan has heard this dec­la­ra­tion sev­eral times in his life. You know enough of the con­text in which this

Scrabble this!

iTunes’ party shuf­fle is play­ing: If We Never Meet Again — KD Lang/Tony Ben­nett — A Won­der­ful World If I weren’t self-employed, I’d be blog­ging about how nasty work is, how I work with idiots, and how my bosses couldn’t tell a mar­ket­ing plan from a block of flats. But I don’t have the priv­i­lege of being

I have been many things and this is one of them

iTunes’ party shuf­fle is play­ing: No Regrets — Tom Rush — Won­der Boys [Sound­track] I was just read­ing Cour Marly’s post about her hav­ing had the expe­ri­ence of work­ing for a non-profit orga­ni­za­tion, and how, despite it hav­ing been an ‘eye­opener’, she didn’t stray from the tried and true cor­po­rate path. Not that I am on

Sveta!

iTunes’ party shuf­fle is play­ing: Sospan Fach — Var­i­ous Artists — All the Best from Wales Olympic Games. Two words. Svet­lana Khork­ina. “You mean you didn’t know I was a Play­boy centrefold?“