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Apologies: Often I rant on LJ but I don't usually whinge...

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Yay! : The Dev and Dead & Buried with Bath, Plymouth and Sheffield friends

Yay! : Neubauten and Slime with decent, honest people that actually give a shit about stuff other than their hair, their clothes and their drugs - you know who you all are, mwah!

Boo! : Selfish, pig- ( Read more... )

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To Robyn and Laura (if you are reading this) - Deborah and Jo arrive from Sheffield at about 7 this evening (Friday) and we are meeting up in Camden. I have lost / misplaced your phone numbers so please text me. Thanks.

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Perhaps in celebration of the forthcoming Shaun of the Dead here is a cheap rip off of you-know-what...

Badger Badger Badger

Hmmm, is nothing sacred??
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For anyone out there that might still be interested in industrial music that is well past it's sell-by date, the not-as-good-as-they-used-to-be Skinny Puppy are playing either one, two or three dates* in London this July.

* depending on whether you believe Stargreen, Music Non Stop or their own website.I will probably go and see them because I ( Read more... )

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Just spent half an hour applying for a job as a Transport & Logistics Planner for the London Underground. All very well, except that when I read the small print I discover that the job is actually based in Coventry!!!

Now unless I am missing something, could someone please remind me exactly which Travelcard zone Warwickshire is in...???
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Having already given me a Gold Visa card with an £18,000 spending limit, HSBC have now given me a £2,000 overdraft limit and sent me a letter offering me a personal loan for £10,000.

Damn fools, will these people ever learn?
So if anyone wants me, I'll be on a beach in Barbados, wearing dark glasses and a false beard, answering to the name of ( Read more... )

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Went to see the recording of BBC2’s QI (quite interesting or an anagram of I.Q.) with Stephen Fry, Alan Davies, Rich Hall, the gorgeous Josie Lawrence and the terminally smug and irritating John Sessions last night, courtesy of technohippy (thank you!). That was my intellectual interlude for the week but I have always had this theory that for every new ( Read more... )

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Haven't actually bothered with LJ for a while and so in the absence of anything interesting to say (and never one to miss a bandwagon when i see one):

If you know me as Paul then you are most people in a face-to-face situation. Well done!
If you know me as Pink Paul then you are most people differentiating me from a thousand other Pauls in a ( Read more... )

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Friday: I became token English person honorary South African at a Vetkoek* and Mampoer* party at Emma & Michael's house with Nadia, Nicky, mausch & Gina, among others.

( * with apologies to all South Africans for any spelling mistakes)

Saturday: Must remember to thank the absolute GENIUS who deejayed at Slimes with a full set of late 80's aciiied ( Read more... )

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Damien Hirst. He really is the Jamie Oliver of the art world, isn't he? Enough with the pickling thing already! Hey, I have got a jar of pickled eggs in the kitchen - maybe I could exhibit that at the Tate Modern? Call me a philistine if you will but don't you just hate pseudo art critics who stand around stroking their chins saying "well I think ( Read more... )