The Lord gives everything and charges ( Read more... )

Today is meme day. impishredhead wants me to talk about these thing...

1. Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with.
2. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.

( And here they are! )

Having seen both Gogol Bordello and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in the space of a month, I've come to the conclusion that a truly spectacular band requires two important elements.

1. A Really Big Moustache


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I haven't written very much here this year. So here's a meme instead.

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I've just had a phone call from my very drunk Mother, who is currently at home in Peebles with my very drunk Father ( Read more... )

My parents divorced sixteen years ago. The only time I've seen both of them together since then was at my graduation, which was strained, to say the least ( Read more... )

A meme from poor, coughing sakirmo, which seems quite appropriate as I'm currently filling in an application for a gallery job, which I probably don't have a hope in hell of getting as it's stretching things a bit to class anatomy as 'an arts-related subject' (even though my engineer ex-flatmate thought that biology wasn't a proper science).

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As the salesman worked through his spiel, a lender woman walked by, carrying twins in a knapsack-like contraption. She was less than beautiful, with shaggy matte brown hair, and a sharp, shrewd little chin. Her eyes - her whole body - looked tired in a profound, almost permanent way, as if no amount of rest would ever quite restore her. Still, she ( Read more... )

Kristin Hersh is doing a show called 'Paradoxical Undressing' at St Cecilia's Hall on the Cowgate until the 23rd. It's a mixture of music, spoken word and film, and it's brilliant, intense stuff to give you the shivers. An amazing venue too - an oval room with chandeliers, and a display of old instruments downstairs to look at before you go in. ( Read more... )

Tomorrow we go to Peru. I think I'm all ready. Our training has gone well, including our triumphant climb of Ben Nevis last Monday. I now have calves of steel! So hopefully I should manage the Inca Trail, though there is that pesky little problem of altitude sickness to worry about... apparently our hotel in Cuzco serves free hot beberages [sic], ( Read more... )