Month: July 2004
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The things that give our lives meaning
iTunes is playing: Guide Me, Oh Thou Great Redeemer – Charlotte Church – Charlotte Church Trying to take full advantage of Mooching Month, I called LMD and asked if she was free for drinks this evening, but she wasn’t. So I met up with some uni mates I hadn’t seen for awhile, thinking they might…
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More presents
iTunes is playing: Body And Soul – Benny Goodman – Clarinet a’ la king This must really be some milestone. I received more birthday wishes and gifts than in the last five years put together. Then again, it’s probably because I announced it to the world instead of trying to ignore my birthday, hoping it’d…
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When thirty five candles means you’ll eat more wax than cake
iTunes is playing: Half a Boy and Half a Man – Sleepy LaBeef – Labour Of Love – The Music of Nick Lowe This wife of mine loves cats. And it was no surprise today when at the prata place on River Valley Road that she started telling me about how the cat that hangs…
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The push and pull of coming and going
iTunes is playing: I Miss You – Randy Newman – Bad Love I was thinking about how people come and go, but I couldn’t write anything better than this. I like it when non-English speakers express themselves in unique turns of phrases. It’s not Chinglish. It’s not bad English. It’s just English used in a…
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I can’t blog about it
iTunes is playing: Everytime We Say Goodbye – John Coltrane – On Stage 1962 [UK] There was a moment some time this weekend when I felt a familiar kick in the hollow guts. And it wasn’t when the All Blacks pipped the Wallabies in Wellington (I’m getting used to the Wobblies). I can’t talk about…