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The Patron Saint of Haggis
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[06 Dec 2009|08:06am] |
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Blow out that cherry bomb... For me. Posted via LiveJournal.app.
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[05 Dec 2009|09:34pm] |
No review tonight, too busy on THE MICK. All being well it's three issues this month, two normal and the Xmas one. Due to the year being so shite, due to reasons not worth going into, I know I'll finally be on track for a proper monthly schedule next year but I want to ensure I manage to interview all the bands whose records I enjoyed most this year, so I wouldn't be surprised if there's two issues in January as well, just to get everything up to date. That's all being dealt with right now, but the XMAS ISSUE needs some fresh inmput. So if any readers of this journal have never contributed to the Xmas issue before, or have new contributions they wish to make for certain questions then please feel free to send me them.
The questions remain the same, or it wouldn't be a tradition. They are:
1) XMAS PAST: What does Christmas mean to you, what do you cherish most about it, what do you look forward to, or want to hide from?
2) XMAS PRESENT: What's the best, worst or weirdest present you have ever received?
3) XMAS FUTURE: This year's plans? (The issue comes out before the great day.)
4) XMAS GHOST STORY: Please share your spookiest experience(s) ever. The more detailed the better as that section always yields some odd surprises.
Please send to my email (behind the cut) making it clear how you wish to be named, and attaching a jpeg of yourself if you have one you like, but a picture isn't essential.
( Read more... )
And in case no-one's said it yet, Happy Christmas.
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| Prepositional Investigations: Apart, Between |
[05 Dec 2009|04:02am] |
I wrote some years
ago a digitized hide
an invisible canvas
of minds extended
out of my closest field of apprehension
onto which
perhaps I could gain a component
of friendship so to gather
up often and in parts
what used to be a human
present.
It is colder than a man
but wider too
and stretches over me
a web to lie beneath
breathing light across
a body difficult to name
in between a place
of wanting to move
and not moving
of not doing what one wants.
Am I just pretending to not know
or is it true
that I cannot sense this thing
that knows the difference
between what I want.
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[04 Dec 2009|08:23pm] |
im really tired of looking like i belong in the Taliban
so im doing something really drastic tonight.
right now im fucking chilling.
im drinking a six pack of red stripe and listening to the buzzcocks live.
AFTER:
i feel and look much sexier. time to go rip some beers on the porch.
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[04 Dec 2009|11:33pm] |
LOS CARNICEROS DEL NORTE
POE IS DEAD EP
Zorch – free download
Neither a hunter nor a gatherer be, my old gran never used to say to me, and yet I gather this free download is available as a limited edition CD too, details of which can be found nestling in the band’s myspace blog. For the rest of us freeloading bastards there’s the download.
‘El Gato Negro’ is as sober as it is sombre Goth with some twilight twinkles. Very steady, very pretty and vocally mysterious, with a swilling rhythm and subtly thrilling guitar.
Sensitively seared ‘El Cuervo’ scuttles around dementedly, a bit like Theatre Of Hate in an asylum (may contain nuts), and you have to love that heartbeat bass. ‘La Mascara de la Muerte Roja’ is less interesting being too relaxed and strolling to little effect, but the lugubrious drowning carnivalesque ‘El Pozo y el Pendulo’ works well, the doomy piano and angry guitar anxious behind the straighter vocal and the end is very strange.
No idea what they’re singing about, but it’s well worth nabbing.
http://www.zorchfactoryrecords.com/loscarnicerosdelnorte
http://www.myspace.com/loscarnicerosdelnorte
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[04 Dec 2009|09:20am] |
Love?
Pull off the sheets
Take off your clothes
Get into bed
I'm so tiredPosted via LiveJournal.app.
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[04 Dec 2009|01:34am] |
i never got to post this in the last questions post so i'll wait til the next one. and post it here.
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| Photo finish |
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Seeing blown-up photos of the blood-drenched stairwell where Jason was murdered is doing VERY LITTLE to ameliorate my drinking problem.
VERY FUCKING LITTLE.
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[02 Dec 2009|08:43pm] |
next paycheck:
i just found a tattoo artist willing to do this. its going to take about a month to do.
oh boy.
heres to my first tattoo!
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| .Dicembre |
[02 Dec 2009|07:07pm] |
What the fuck? Well, it’s december now and I’m nowhere near how I want to be living my life. I had my first real encounter with the police department the other night, and boy let me tell you the excitment and joy it brought. How i didnt end up in handcuffs and sent to jail is way beyond me. I’m at least happy to announce that knowing all your rights during a stop is something you should look into. I played joe fuckin cool and it saved my life. I really dont want to go into detail about this whole saga because it really did open my eyes and scare the shit out of me. I still get really nervous when I replay the night in my head. I haven’t felt that horrible and disappointed in myself since kristi split and I knew right there I needed a change. I need to shake things up and try something new. What I really need to do is clean myself up and get straight, and I’m working really hard on that. I’m trying not to smoke or drink. Simply put, I’ve been escaping reality for a couple of years now and I think it’s time to live life sober.
I have been trying new things, and doing old things I stopped doing because I was too busy getting high. I’m rebuilding my record and music collection, I’m reading more books, I’m finally getting to watch good movies I should have seen when they came out in theathers, and I’m even writing and playing music. It’s nice. I even have more money saved up in my bank accounts. I put on more hours at work this month to save more money for holiday gifts and bills, It also helps keep me clean. I like work, but I don’t want to be a barista forever. I do love what I do, and sure I thought about moving west and expanding my experience/ staying put and opening my own shop, but I would never. Ever I need to go back to school, and I garentee you that I will by spring. I don’t need to be working at Greenberry’s full time anymore. I’m saving up money and figureing out what I want to do. I’m so confused. And I don’t know what I want in life.
My hearts broken and it has been for sometime. I’m not looking for anyone and I haven’t met anyone new. Everyone I know is dull and boring. And things aren’t the same.
I did some stupid things this summer that I will always regret. The false love affair I had is a mind fuck in it’s self. She was alright. Too alright. And not for me. Every moment with her was suffocating to me, and I knew I wasn’t happy. It was time to stop lying to myself and I moved on. I never really openly talked about that until now. Wow.
Here’s to the approaching holidays, the miserable weather, the family arguments at the thanksgiving table, the new year, and you.
I’ll catch you on the flipside. .A
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[02 Dec 2009|06:05pm] |
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Chris Limb has re-designed my website, go see! - http://www.mickmercer.com – where there’s now a total of 29 exclusive books available (to make that perfect unwanted xmas gift), with details of their contents and a direct link to Lulu. I also have a basic Links section to which I will add people who have actual websites (not just a myspace page) who pop me in theirs. That seems fair.
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