Year: 2004

  • Treading fine lines

    iTunes’ party shuffle is playing: Crazy ‘Bout An Automobile (Every Woman I Know) – Ry Cooder – Borderline When you’ve got a face that looks perpetually inebriated, it is wise not to make another friend drive, or worse, drink a little and drive. The eagle-eyed cops can spot a drunk-looking front seat passenger from 45m…

  • Eat to death XVII

    iTunes’ party shuffle is playing: It’s Just Not Cricket – The 12th Man – The 12th Man Have you ever been so full you couldn’t blog if you tried? This comes close. I am now waiting for the second burn. Me, my colleague, my ex-colleague and a friend went to eat at Hajah Maimunah’s on…

  • Visit Pet Shop Year 2004

    iTunes’ party shuffle is playing: What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye – The Very Best of Marvin Gaye Just what is going on? I went to a pet shop today. She went to a pet shop yesterday. She too, went to a pet shop. Apart from a Persian that looked like the movie version of…

  • Clouds in my coffee is not good news with housemates like these

    iTunes’ party shuffle is playing: The Beast in Me – Nick Lowe – The Doings Disc 3 Flatmates can have very disturbing habits. When I lived with two in Sydney, their exploits made up most of my letters and emails to my friends and family. I’m still alive today mostly because my flatties were never…

  • 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,…