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Lucky Late Shift #7

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22:57 / 25.01.03

Saw the Late Shift Nostalgia thread, saw the length of Late Shift Six, so here goes. Anyone around on this fine Saturday night?

23:06 / 25.01.03

Just visited the Late Shift Nostalgia thread thinking it might be a new avatar of the eternal Barbelith version of the local radio phone-in, but no, it was something else entirely. So welcome, Number Six.

Ganesh is spread on the couch watching the dvd of Ultraviolet which I got in a sale today for him, so I have free reign in cyberland! Hooray!

Was almost a spring day in London today. Marvellous! My SAD may lift (although I gather it won't last beyond the weekend according to those evil meteorologists.)

I should have been at a party in Edinburgh tonight but here I am, languishing in Lambeth, listening to the raucous sounds of the city streets at night and having to punch the cat every now and then to keep her from sitting on the keyboard.

Full of Australian Cabernet Sauvignon and very jolly though.

23:55 / 25.01.03

I hate SAD. My little plant lights aren't doing much for me, but we felt the warm snap here in New York as well. It's kinda freaky when people start walking around in shorts because it's gotten up to twenty.

I'm full of potato and leek soup and just got done watching Sybil about an hour ago. Indeed, the people. So I'm not sure what mood I'm in, but it appears to involve the computer. : )

00:17 / 26.01.03

Did enjoy Sibyl, book and film, but multiple personality disorder seems to be an American thang, so never actually encountered anyone like her in all my years working in mental health.

Wanted to go out to a club but I think Ganesh was ashamed of me because I went to see the Great Star Trek Exhibition instead of getting a haircut. And the club I wanted to go to is definitely a buzz cut or skinhead place, so I'd have looked all wrong. Shame...

Need to wind up and go to bed but have been surfing around very happily and there's still half a (large) glass of wine there to be drunk. And it's Sunday tomorrow! Woohoo! No rush!

Lovely too, sitting here with only a candle and the light from two screens to illumine our darkness. I see this is Late Shift #7, not 6. Hooray, my lucky number! Now I'm off to whizz around the globe on the interwebnet and fill my head with glorious nonsense.

00:21 / 26.01.03

SAD hasn't kicked in for a while for me, but that may be the Cipramil.

After the college bar being unremittingly shit for several hours, and a Saturday night at that... people turned up and it all went good. Talked to people I didn't realise liked me in a way, and sat in someone's room and chatted longer. Oh, and then started watching their Jeeves and Wooster DVD. Had long since lost continuity, and need to be in breakfast tomorrow lest I sacrifice a quid to charity.

I also need to work. Spent the afternoon and early evenign reading Susan Sontag on Photography. Interesting. Not entirely correct, but interesting. So yeah. Hello Late Shift. See you around. Goodnight for now, I need sleeeeeeeep...

The Return Of Rothkoid

00:22 / 26.01.03

Well, I'm here. And I'm in Sweaty Manly Labouring In Yard mode. Fucking lawn. It's pushing the mid-thirties here, I think, and I'm getting blisters from raking.

Christ.

Will be back soonish, when finished. Or dead.

00:38 / 26.01.03

I suppose I should start using celcius. It's disturbing to see people wearing shorts when it's gotten up to -6.

Xoc, honey, you should get a little buzz-cutter of your own for these occasions. (I should talk. I'm too terrified to trim my own bangs.)

Roth, just get a bag of lime, problem solved. I've been trying to talk my parents into replacing their grass with moss for years; I've almost perfected the glazed look for when they start talking about root depth and topsoil.

00:50 / 26.01.03

Mazarine, coiffeur advisor, that would indeed be a good plan - shave out own heads. We have had two of them in the past but both somewhere that's not here with us in London. Dunno where.

I quite like haircuts tho. Go to a barber just off Old Compton Street (commonly known as Queer Street) where they do any style for fiver and a variety of gorgeous boys with talented fingers play with my head for fifteen minutes. I remember an old Professor of Nursing of my acquaintance telling me that every woman in the country has a lesbian experience when she goes to her hairdresser's and has a woman caress her scalp.

But today I went on a spending spree and, as well as the Trek thing, did some shopping. Bought some dvd's for the new machine Santa brought, in the HMV sale. Shadow of the Vampire was great! So camp and silly (well, it has Eddie Izzard in it for a start) and yet much knowledgeable homage to the classics of the vampire genre.

So, Rothkoid, you rugged be-shorted bloke with the mower, got to Canberra and back without incident? Are things under control again there yet?

00:59 / 26.01.03

every woman in the country has a lesbian experience when she goes to her hairdresser's and has a woman caress her scalp

True, but not with my last haircut- I was one of the last for the day and they'd run out of hot water. Bracing, but no caresses for me, just a swift and brutal dunking. I keep considering going to get cheap/free haircuts on training day, but that seems like a better idea near NYC or Boston or any metro more major than mine. What's your hair doing right now, style wise?

01:23 / 26.01.03

It is the definition of style-free at the moment. Subdued by conditioner and clay or it would be a total free-for-all. It's noit really that long, just I've had it shaved or suedehead for so long now, I can't tolerate length.

If I were young and slim, I'd just zhoozh it up with some product and do a Beckham. But, being middle aged and podgy, this option is foreclosed. I appear to be entirely free of the curse of male pattern baldness (which would solve all my problems) but it is getting very grey. That I don't like. People, with the best intentions, are always telling me it looks "distinguished". Fuck that, I want "sexy", not distinguished. *sigh*

As consolation, I bought some expensive Charles Worthington product in Boots this afternoon. Wasn't there a line in Tales of the City about gay men who strive to be ultra butch yet their carefully contrived image is blown as soon as you look at their bathroom shelf? These days, I don't know that would be true. Most of the straight men I know have a vast range of expensive lotions, potions and nosehair strimmers.

Bloody Beckham and his nail varnish! It's all his fault. Have to say I do have him in an Attitude photoshoot on my wallpaper at the moment, pre-nail varnish days though. Mmmm, lovely David, more mmmm...

01:32 / 26.01.03

Well, I don't know about men at large, but most ladies I know (and several men) find grey hair to be hot as hell. I keep willing mine to turn white, but so far all I've managed is one in the right eyebrow and one directly between both eyebrows, which was immediately plucked, because that just isn't allowed, damn it.

01:37 / 26.01.03

10:29 pm.
(Isn't that a dragnetian way to commence?)
Spent the day deeply immersed in the mysteries and majesties of Photoshop. The night so far..the same..but involving home made red wine instead of photoshop.
In a great mood, somewhat somber and reflective, listening to the various 600 mp3 I've d/l since upgrading my modem.(and must say Gary Jules version of Mad World is soo superior to the original by Tears for Fears.

How, you fine folkles doing?

01:38 / 26.01.03

I have to agree here, I find men with grey hair sexy as all get out - time was that my father and his older brother developed grey hair in their early twenties, a fact that I wish wish wish would have been passed onto me, but which, disappointingly, seems not to be the case.

01:43 / 26.01.03

Batteries are flat now. 'Night all.

zzzzzzzzz

01:55 / 26.01.03

I gotta go. Homework. Night!

The Return Of Rothkoid

06:04 / 26.01.03

Hey. I haven't been to Canberra yet. It's this coming weekend. I dunno what the go is as yet. Sigh.

Me, I've been spending this afternoon recovering from heatstroke and watching Catch Me If You Can. And feeling my stress levels go through the roof due to simple promises being broken with no explanation or warning... it's a terrible feeling.

AAAAAAAAGH!

06:23 / 26.01.03

Well, bed was a good plan. Until the alarm went off for work, which of course doesn't happen today. Gah! Wide awake again, for no purpose whatsoever. So I come slouching towards Barbelith...

So what was Catch Me If You Can like? I'm fond of young Leo but his output has been uneven, and definitely have a difficult time with Mr Hanks.

The Return Of Rothkoid

09:32 / 26.01.03

Well, I hate both of them. With a passion. Which makes it doubly hard to take the fact that they were pretty good. DeCaprio was fairly spot-on, I thought - Hanks was a bit more stereotypical g-man. His joke is one of the movie's better bits, too. Hee. It's not brain-surgery, but it is highly enjoyable stuff. Fairly true to the book, too, say people who've read it.

And yes, I'm still grinding teeth. Fuck's sake! How hard can it be?

13:15 / 26.01.03

Blast Therapy?'s Teethgrinder at the neighbours on your speakers then and break things! Don't internalise the angst, spread it around. Time to bay at the moon, Lawnmower Man.

The Return Of Rothkoid

21:24 / 26.01.03

At work. Have Physical Graffiti on, which is too laid-back for angst. PainKiller up next. Not so fraught, but kinda fuh, as per the usual.

Who be here?

Goodness Gracious Meme

21:32 / 26.01.03

me. albeit briefly. on my way home from a nice/boozy but rather fraught dinner with a friend. He's got a lot of difficult stuff going on, but it was lovely to see him, and i got to offload stress nicely...

and eat fab/cheap Italian food.

The Return Of Rothkoid

21:54 / 26.01.03

Fab and cheap Italian is ALL GOOD. I think I might have some of that for lunch, myself. I'm currently working despite the fact that the whole fucking country have today off because it's the Australia Day public holiday - 'cos the real thing was yesterday.

Bah.

Goodness Gracious Meme

22:03 / 26.01.03

That's really tight. Your bosses are obvsiously joyless batardos...

Mmmm, dinner for two, with a half bottle+couple of glasses of wine, two courses - £21

Piccolo's ... place of joy

The Return Of Rothkoid

22:11 / 26.01.03

Ooh. That sounds goodly. I need to find somewhere open for lunch, but there WILL be good food consumed.

And yeah. I'm stuck doing the Three-Page-Layout-From-Hell that has to clear today, so I'm not too happy...

22:21 / 26.01.03

About to go to bed. Good things from today:

absolutely rinsed, from 12pm til 4pm, and then about another hour late, an essay on Sontag On Photography. Wanky in extremis, not sure if it was what's asked for, but damn satisfying to write something and enjoy it. And I got to put pictures in. English degree my arse!

Choir service went well, food afterwards surprisingly good... and then a marvellous free concert by David Le Paige (if you've ever heard of him), performing Bach's Partitias in E Major and D Minor, and Berio's Sequenza VIII. Solo violin. Stunning; remarkable sound, beautiful textures, the Bach in E is almost orgasmic to me, and the Berio a most wonderful, crazy, new modern discovery.

Not bad for once. But off to bed... tomorrow I have about seven hours of lectures, a bit more dissertation to write... and then it's Bez at the Fez! Yup, Bez, formerly of popular beat combo The Happy Mondays... is DJing in town. 1 quid entry before 10. 1 quid a beer, 2 for 1 cocktails. I. Am. So. There.

Goodness Gracious Meme

22:25 / 26.01.03

wow, paleface. that sounds like a thing of absolute joy. do pop in and tell us what he plays at some point, I'm intrigued. and I want to know if he actually does the DJ'ing or as per 'Freaky Dancing', he waves his arms around and his wife does the work.

22:29 / 26.01.03

Heh, will do my best... if it's not packed out with Cambridge indie kids, or if I'm not exhausted after the day. I am doing my absolute best to make it, though.

Goodness Gracious Meme

22:31 / 26.01.03

Oh, and i've just noticed the Berio reference. I'm very jealous, it's amazing. Incredible textures, the structure seems to remake itself over and over... If you liked it, check out the Sequenza VII for oboe, and Debussy Deb-you-do pts 1 & 2.

The Return Of Rothkoid

22:35 / 26.01.03

Big up the Berio, yes indeed: the little clustery/rotting effect that gets working in his stuff is quite phenomenal. It's sort of like... uncut book pages. At least, that's how it sounds to me.

ONLY NICE THINGS

23:01 / 26.01.03

Hello lovelies,

i am trying and failing to install Norton antivirus 2003 again, and pondering whether the apalling carcrash that was last week is going to result in a sudden outbreak of jobseeking, or be resolved in Oompa Loompa smiles and singing. We'll see, I guess...

How is everyone?

23:17 / 26.01.03

We are fine.

A beautiful, bisexual exmodel sends her greetings.

The Return Of Rothkoid

23:18 / 26.01.03

Haus: fuck Norton. Go get some AVG in yer instead. It's free, and I've found it better. And the updates don't cost, either...

ONLY NICE THINGS

23:21 / 26.01.03

Lordy Lou....I am getting dizzy - NAV is my third antivirus this month. I'll check out Grisoft, tho - thanks.

23:42 / 26.01.03

I've never used an anti-virus. Avoid microsoft products and P2P warez, and you don't get viruses in practice.

I've been taunting people watching the Superbowl with the fact that they could have been watching Bride Of Chucky, Leprechaun and now Carrie 2 on the Sci-Fi Channel's "crap horror day". Admittedly even I've turned off Carrie 2 now.

The Return Of Rothkoid

23:44 / 26.01.03

I don't think it's necessarily that easy. Spyware and shite helps contribute, too: getting a copy of AdAware may help, also...

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