Surely the darks of Northest London where you haunt have some sort of Tescos, flowersy? Or are they too civilised?

I'm boiling over here - London swelters in the grippe of a heatwave. so no lovely hot sticky toffee pudding for me. Have just devoured in one sitting Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines, which reads like Philip Pullman fanfic but is no worse for it. And I am trying to cleanse my brain of the knowledge that I was fooled into appearing in a Neil Gaiman project. I feel so dirty.

Kit-Cat Club

22:32 / 14.06.03

I quite liked that one. One of my friends wrote a pantomime with Philip Reeve - I forget what - 'Ralph Royster Doyster'? He is a large bearded man.

I wouldn't mind the heat so much if I didn't have a cold and the chaps across the quad weren't having a loud birthday party (the sweet voices of the gurls raised in a chorus of 'Yellow'...). Also thoroughly thrown by an unexpected email from my first proper ex, who had found my old blog.

I thought North London was in thrall to Sainsbury's...

uncle retrospective

22:32 / 14.06.03

Tim-Tams are supposedly now being sold in Tescos all over the country

Shit, I'm going to put on so much weight. For those who don't know, Tim Tams are like Penguins (leave it!) but really, really nice.
As opposed to tasting like punishment biscuits.

Mazarine

22:38 / 14.06.03

And I am trying to cleanse my brain of the knowledge that I was fooled into appearing in a Neil Gaiman project. I feel so dirty.
Okay, I'll bite, care to elaborate?

ONLY NICE THINGS

22:40 / 14.06.03

Also thoroughly thrown by an unexpected email from my first proper ex, who had found my old blog.

Really? Is that the Nick Cavey one? Do you want to see him?

I have images of the sweet voices of the womanhood in Keble, victims of misreading, singing Yello. Specifically, the Race. Which would be most wrong.

ONLY NICE THINGS

22:45 / 14.06.03

Maz - I was being an extra in a Dave McKean film, and only later did I realise that it was written by the Gaiman. Gah! This is apalling. It's like turning up at a tea party without realising that it's a NAZI tea party. Well, all right, not quite, but still and all.

I should have guessed when a quirky child-woman hopped onto a bus. Quirky child-women and public transport. Twin turbines of Gaiman's imagination.

I bet Brian Bloody Eno will be doing the title music as well. Arsebadgers.

Kit-Cat Club

22:46 / 14.06.03

Wrong, but Wromant... I mean, preferable.

Yeah, the Nick Cavey one. I think the prospects of meeting up again are remote, as he lives in the West Country, is married, has child on the way... but I was really terribly pleased to hear from him. Got quite emotional - was rather surprised, but perhaps some of that wa shock, I don't know. I haven't heard hide nor hair of him for four years, so total bolt from the blue, basically.

I don't know whether that's better or worse than finding yourself in a Nick Gaiman script, but I think probably the former, on the whole.

ONLY NICE THINGS

22:53 / 14.06.03

Far better. It could at least have been Jeff Whedon.

How odd; it's good that it was a happy thing, though; people are so often so much *nicer* to hear from when you aren't emotionally involved with them anymore. I'm always interested by the way that my most functional, albeit not necessarily most sought-out, post-breakup relationships tend to be with people the actual relationship with whom was in some way unreal or farcical.

Of course, this could just be me.

Mazarine

23:01 / 14.06.03

There there dear. Who knows, maybe your scene will get cut.

Kit-Cat Club

23:03 / 14.06.03

I don't think this one was farcical or unreal (certainly from my point of view; may have been the latter from his) - in this case I'm pretty sure that the long period of no contact whatsoever was responsible for making it a pleasure to get the email - certainly before we lost contact, when I was still feeling rather raw about things, I was much more angst-ridden about it. But though I was never particularly fussed about not being in touch it was bloody nice to hear from him. Still... whew, you know?

ONLY NICE THINGS

23:04 / 14.06.03

No. Not a hope. It involves a quirky girl-child and public transport. Jesus God in heaven. I have helped in my own small way the creator of Neverwhere to do it all over the bollocks again. I feel dirty.

Mazarine

23:13 / 14.06.03

Huggles, honey, have some pudding. You can have a refridgerated American one.

ONLY NICE THINGS

23:18 / 14.06.03

K-C C: Oh, yes - I was purely thinkign of myself there, as per. Lengthy absence does also most definitely make the heart grow fonder, and the Internet is actually a very handy liminal thing; in the sense of creating a safe boundary; I'm thinking of somebody I parted on pretty bad terms with, was not expecting to meet again and the reencountered Interwebnetically a couple of years later, which seemed to go far better than if we had met in a pub.

I don't know - ethical exness is something that preoccupies me somewhat. But gosh - the idea that those of our approximate vintage are settling down and having kids is terrifying. I can't imagine such a thing...

Shrug

23:19 / 14.06.03

So what exactly is wrong with Neverwhere? I saw one episode of the tv series and though it was pretty good (baring in mind that I was thirteen). I was even thinking about picking up the book..... so that would be a mistake then?

Mazarine

23:24 / 14.06.03

so that would be a mistake then?
Not in my opinion, it was a fun read.

ONLY NICE THINGS

23:29 / 14.06.03

It's...it's...it's just so bloody *precious*. Admittedly not helped by some truly Children's Television Workshop special effects, but... oh, it's hard to explain. It's all right, in the way that the Sandman is largely all right, but this doesn't alter the basic fact that Noel Gaiman shouldn't be encouraged. Ever.

Peter Capaldi's in it, though. And he rocks. He rocks harder than Rizla caught in a cave-in.

Mazarine

23:32 / 14.06.03

Dave McKean is just the spiffiest though. I'm really tempted to try and get hold of the Neverwhere miniseries just for that pretty intro he did.

Mazarine

23:38 / 14.06.03

Ah, sitting here watching The Perfect Storm, which is reinforcing the notion that I'm almost as glad to not be on a boat as I am to not be on fire.

ONLY NICE THINGS

23:39 / 14.06.03

Yes. For a man with the head of an ibis, wrapped around in parchment, he's very approachable.

Mazarine

23:42 / 14.06.03

I haven't met him, but I haven't met most people, so that's not surprising. Any idea what this film's going to be about? (Aside from a child-woman and public transportation?)

ONLY NICE THINGS

00:05 / 15.06.03

A quirky child-woman and her interaction with public transport, I suppose. It's called "Mirror Mask", and due for release in 2004...

w1rebaby

00:44 / 15.06.03

"Mirror Mask". Oh dear.

Well, this is good, though - if I ever want to impress a Gaiman-fetishist, I can say "I know this bloke who's in that film...".

ONLY NICE THINGS

00:51 / 15.06.03

On a bus, for about a second...

The weird thing is, I knew an absolute shitload of people at college who had been random goths in the market scenes of "Neverwhere". They all had their own "how I met Noel Gaiman" story. Every one essentially went "I was on the stairs/in the canteen/etc, and I met Noel Gaiman. Crazy times." How the wheel turns full circle...

w1rebaby

01:00 / 15.06.03

Oh, a few seconds is enough...

I've just thought - I could just lie anyway. "Oh yeah, I'm from London you know, Neil Gaiman was my best mate. We were chimney-sweeps together." I'm obviously not trying hard enough with the "exploiting the British accent" thing.

Baz Auckland

05:41 / 15.06.03

Hey... what time is it?

Anyone still out there?

Strange Machine Vs The Virus with Shoes

05:46 / 15.06.03

I’m here… I think. Listening to Aladdin Sane, which contains my favourite lyric: “falls wanking to the floor”. Is this the first mention of wanking in contempory pop music

Baz Auckland

05:52 / 15.06.03

Tell me, who is Aladdin Slane?

I just got in from a mini-Barbemeet and it as become a very strange night/morning...

..well, it is 2:52am here. What time zone are you in?

Strange Machine Vs The Virus with Shoes

07:24 / 15.06.03

Tis 9:25 am here Bal. I like that we can always post in the late shift because it is always late somewhere in the world.
Aladdin Sane is an album by David Bowie, not as good as Ziggy Stardust, but still very good

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