I'm on a dodgy youth hostel computer in San Francisco running out of credit so let's see what I can do in fifteen minutes.

The big flight on Wednesday was quite fine; good telly with Flight of the Conchords (it was Air New Zealand) and Billy Connelly going about northern Canada and free beer kept happening.  Merrick and Rich picked me up at LAX and ( Read more... )

On Thursday afternoon I went to London and stayed with Oli at Caledonian Road.  After some time chatting and watching him thoroughly vacuum his spare room for moths we headed out to Angel, where we met Caz and Ely for a couple of drinks at the Camden Head.  We then got the bus up Holloway Road to visit Elin and Will at home, where we enjoyed some ( Read more... )

I have finished my Now Wash Your Hands demo, entitled "Clean Noise For Dirty People", and I'm rather pleased with it.

You can hear most of the tracks on MySpazz (assuming it's worked properly).

Now I need to get some gigs and develop a highly entertaining live show.

My first proper week as an unemployed was ok, although I did go into my old Runcorn work twice to get things finished off which I didn't manage when I was disabled.  (I'm not fully better yet, knee still feels uncomfortable).  I didn't get a call back from the job centre about getting free money but I did find a great job to apply for at Edinburgh ( Read more... )

In case you're not on Facesmash and want to see my amusing and well chosen photos from the Wave Gotik Treffen festival last week.

Nice to have a free day today but this unemployment lark will get tiresome pretty soon.

Last few days in Prague were good and journey home on Friday fine, but after all of May's madness I have decided to stop drinking for ( Read more... )

( Saturday, Sunday and Monday fast times )

( this is just Thursday and Friday )

Luckily the crutches were off so I went to Prague feeling quite hopeful that my holiday would not be hampered by injury nor would further injury arise from the various drunken pastimes about to be enjoyed.

( here is a story about time in Prague )

So my twisted knee improved slightly during last week.  But then on Thursday I became more crippled with a minor operation to remove two lipomas (fat lumps) from my left forearm.  This was a freakish procedure to watch and the wounds made it hard to operate my crutches.  Was very traumatic Saturday peeling the dressings off and finding they were ( Read more... )

The main thing I did at the weekend was on Friday night when I met my old friend Lloyd and took him to the restaurant where my dad is now working since selling up the family shoe shop business last year.

Bem Brasil, just off Deansgate, opened last week and is a rather large Brasilian meat feast eatathon.  As a veg I had plenty of beans and taters ( Read more... )