last week round this time, i was saddened by the sense & scents of a new england autumn approaching and the knowledge that i was going to miss it. but when i got back to london, where summer has most definitely ended, i realized that perhaps i enjoy autumnal europe even more. in NH, fitts and i were talking about the post-30 hangover and what a shock it was that all the warnings turned out to be correct...

*i am still unclear how it came to be written this way, but it is pronounced "twenty-three and a half pints day". HISTORICAL INFO ON 47 PINTS DAY HERE as well as some of the better slogans here and here . as mr. sarll pointed out, perhaps thursday didn't quite come together in a full celebration because of the lack of slogans. one must ask, 'did this bring about that torrential rain?' so yes...

Hi there, Tube Walk friends, we went to Epping at the weekend: tubewalker would have liked these pylons, I suspect. We met miss_newham off the M25, as she got dropped off by her mum (she didn't, really). barrysarll demanding fealty from the denizens of the field. (Photo by nou .) roz_mcclure actually made friends with the horse...

last night i was just about to watch "the foot fist way" when it became imperative that i remember when i actually read donleavy's "leila". i had finished 'darcy dancer' summer of 2004 & recalled hazy sunday afternoons at the pineapple in kentish town by a march fire with the 3rd book of the series. so, clever man that i am, started checking my old lj entries starting from september 2004. it sort of...

i am MOST IMPRESSED with 'the hangover'. it was unbelievably great. go see it. see it yesterday. for years barrysarll has been pointing out how the romantic aspect of these types of comedies, "old school" etc., take away from them greatly and while in theory i've always agreed with him, i've always felt there was no way hollywood would make a film without a love plot (for whatever misguided...

thanks everyone for coming last night! a lot of people showed up, it was great. one of those rare gigs where you actually enjoy yourself and think it does sound pretty good and the audience seems to think so as well. the first ever full soft close-ups set (comprising all our songs): birthmark the way i don't kiss uneven pavements wonders never cease (mr solo cover) some sick day* fireworks at the...

in the spring of 2004, sadotter was, i believe, the very first to read any of my recently completed "off-license to kill". i hope he does not mind me quoting him here, as i still have the email: Have you read any Robert Anton Wilson? Your style kind of reminds me of some of his late-70s/early-80s work, but I haven't read him in a while so I could be mistaken. You have a similar sense of...

as i told barrysarll last night, if he chooses not to have a list for mini-albums in his yearly charts this year, so that i won't be competing with icecoldinalex , i will be forced to write a song called "AUNTIE Vs. Great Britton".

i got quite gloriously pissed last night. i wasn't expecting it, but perhaps i should've been, making plans to meet barrysarll at the hour of 3.30 to do some afternoon drinking around the portobello road. with the aim of finally, after 3 years of wanting to, going to the pelican, situated as it is next to 'club barry'. increasing the dramatic build-up even further we wandered around in the...

oh man. i was so hoping to finish "someone to sing you to sleep" today. but i've been working on it since 10 a.m. and am shot. in the midst of editing the 11 main vocal takes and then i have 10 backing vocal takes to wade through. i haven't sang in a while. still, getting a lot done. twas a good idea to give up my internet connection at home. and there will hopefully be an AUNTIE mini-album ready by...