Its Christma$$ eve. What are you doing online?

00:08 / 31.12.04

Umm.. yeah, that does sound strange, gb. Glad it turned out to be the "nice" option, really.

00:31 / 31.12.04

Was very strange indeed. But as I found out, the guy is a friend of my sisters, and the world is really a rosy place. Ish.

Up to anything interesting tonight, Stoatie, or are you working. Are the two ever interlinked?

00:58 / 31.12.04

Gah, working, I'm afraid. And tomorrow night, too.

01:00 / 31.12.04

Hi all!

GeeBee, what do you mean the photographer didn't try to kill you? He did shoot you, no?

01:24 / 31.12.04

My brother got these amazingly tat drumstick things for christmas. You hit the air, and they go off. If you press a button and wave it, it does a cymbal instead. He says he'll carry one around at all times for bad joke occasions.
I think that would have been a suitable occasion, Keggers.

Working tomorrow night; Pah! That's full of rubbishness. But saying that, I have no plans, and can't see myself getting off my arse far enough to make plans.

01:37 / 31.12.04

I'd just like to point out that my birthday will be on the 3rd March. If anyone wants to get me these auto-drumsticks as a present I'd be eternally grateful.

01:39 / 31.12.04

For some reason that's made me think of the fact that my childhood best mate's birthday is on March 5th. Christ knows why I remember that- I haven't seen the guy in about fifteen years.

01:48 / 31.12.04

I have a photographic birthday-calendar brain. God knows, it's not useful for much else, but I can remember the birthdays of virtually everyone who was in my class in primary school. I have a strange circular calendar in my head with flashing lights at every birthday, and they never go away. So it's now a very shiny head-calendar.

Does anyone else visualise the year like this? (Not the birthday lights, but a circular calender.) I can't remember ever not thinking about it like that. But I think I may be the only one..

01:52 / 31.12.04

Another reason to miss John Peel- you could have started a wicked topic on Home Truths about memorising dates like that, gb.

01:52 / 31.12.04

I think that might say something about how your life goes in cycles gingerbop. I see calendars as big pages mounted on the wall, so maybe my life goes in ... pages? I don't know. Whatever.

Anyway, the important thing is I think it's great that someone other than me remembers birthdays. Of course, I hardly ever send cards anymore but hey, the thought's there! When's yours gb? I could tell you some fantastic celebrities you share it with if you like!

01:57 / 31.12.04

Fantastic! October 12th. Quite a common one, I've found, so there's bound to be a few good celebrities to share cake with. Who do you share yours with?

02:10 / 31.12.04

Well, I share mine with Dennis Nilsen...
That freaks me out a bit sometimes.

02:11 / 31.12.04

Ok gingerbop, you get Marion Jones, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Hugh 'Wolverine' Jackman, Luciano Pavarotti, Aleister Crowley and (if you're British or know about British culture then these names'll mean something to you as well) Robin Askwith, Magnus Magnusson, Angela Rippon and Status Quo's Rick Parfitt (the blonde one. Lovely looking fella).

I get Alexander Graham Bell, Fatima Whitbread, Miranda Richardson, Dermot Morgan and, to my eternal shame, Ronan Keating.

02:16 / 31.12.04

Pavarotti... I'm gonna need a big cake.

I think it's about bedtime. So happy hogmanay, my dears. My sister's birthday, incidentally. The little light is flashing. Goodnight, and party well. xx

02:21 / 31.12.04

Later gingerbop, take it easy.

Stoatie, check this out - you get Boris Karloff, famous movie midget David Rappaport, Bruce Hornsby (but not, as far as I know, The Range), Grease 2's Maxwell Caulfield, saucy newsreader Kirsty Young, tv dimwits Zoe Ball and Kelly Brook, actor Vincent Cassel, screenwriters Robert Towne and Joe Eszterhas (both ends of the scale there, then) and everyone's second favourite Alfred the butler - Michael Gough. Oh, and let's not forget Harpo Marx.

00:25 / 01.01.05

Anyone else (other than myself and DHB) not out celebrating tonight?

Me, I'm having a weird headfuck thing...

just noticed a line I've never noticed before on one of my favourite albums (Firewater's "Get Off The Cross, We Need The Wood For The Fire") which I'm listening to while being paid to read newapapers...

"You're sleeping underneath yesterday's papers
And pretending the tsunami hasn't hit"

What makes it stranger is that I know the rest of the lyrics to the album off by heart.

Ah, fuck it. I'm getting drunk anyway.

00:31 / 01.01.05

I'm sitting here watching Mulholland Drive, and trying to decide what to get drunk on. Eggnog and bourbon? Rum and coke? A mixed squish of sangria and cherry Italian ice? Who can say. Perhaps a green apple soda rum combo?

All of the above would be a sure recipe for disaster.

00:33 / 01.01.05

This is gonna sound weird, but bear with me.

Cough syrp. You know, like Benylin or Nyqil or something like that.

Why?

Mulholland Drive. I noticed about ten years back that David Lynch movies go REALLY well with that melty feeling you only get from being drunk on cough syrup. I've tried most of them on most drugs since (for the purposes of scientific knowledge, obviously), and for some reason, the cough syrup high matches Lynch perfectly.

Anyhoo... Happy New Year!

00:41 / 01.01.05

I have never done the robotripping thing myself. But I could totally see how that would work. Happy new year to you too, chief!

01:02 / 01.01.05

Y'all are maming me want to watch Ninja Bachelor Party now!

Big hugs to Stoatie for giving me The Holy Bible to listen to, things were getting really bad at our work. Somebody (I don't know who, but they may not live much longer) was playing The Girl Is Mine by Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney. Without headphones. Grrrrr ...

01:07 / 01.01.05

Hello... its 10:07 pm here... Im home alone on new years... I think its all over for the Kegmeister.

01:09 / 01.01.05

that should read "New Years Eve"

01:10 / 01.01.05

Keggers! Have virtual New Year's joy with us!
(I'm drinking a shot of good piratey rum for ye now, shipmate!)

01:11 / 01.01.05

Oh, Bless Stoatie! Im on my 4th glass of chianti... the next will be dedicated to you!

01:14 / 01.01.05

So..Can we get a roll-call so I can know who's here?

01:21 / 01.01.05

I'm here... DHBrigade (or whichever lady's brigade he is now) is in the same office) so I know HE's here too...

01:22 / 01.01.05

I'm slightly ashamed to say I am. On new years. And I don't even have the working excuse. But I couldn't face the hell that is the village party, nor can I feel like explaining why I'm not in perfect party mode.

Did anyone do anything exciting at all?

01:25 / 01.01.05

GeeBee!!! (officially now happy!)

I almost tripped on some ice!! (Does that count as exciting? Its the best I could do)

01:32 / 01.01.05

I peddled glasses! Oh, so many spectacles.

01:36 / 01.01.05

Hellooo Sally! ( I hate typing that as my mind starts singing "Hello Dolly!" replacing the 'Do' with a 'Sa')
Glasses to the masses!

01:45 / 01.01.05

[Manic Street Preachers]
The Glasses... Against the Classes!
I'm tired of giving a reason
When the future is what we believe in[/Manic Street preachers]

Ahem.

A friend of mine had the ace idea of holding "Partially Sighted Pride", where those without perfect vision (such as myself) could throw off their oppressive ocular devices and come together for a day spent bumping into things. He didn't want blind people, though. He thought it may encourage extremism.

01:48 / 01.01.05

I ove that idea! We could gather together and play such games as "Pin the tail close-enough to the donkey"

It's a rather grand Idea!!!

02:16 / 01.01.05

Ooh, fun! Just don't put me out of business.

02:22 / 01.01.05

I remember last time I lost my glasses (and yes, as with EVERY time I've ever lost them, it was due to being drunk) I made it to the optician's, did the whole cliche thing of not knowing where the door was and LITERALLY BUMPED INTO THE WINDOW (Christ it was embarrassing). I'm practically blind without my glasses.
Then they gave me a form to fill in. "Could you fill in this form for us?" said the lady. "Umm... no, I couldn't."
She seemed somewhat surprised by this response. I can only assume she must have been new to the job. Either that, or most of their customers weren't quite as stupid as me, and went in to replace glasses that needed replacing through age or whatever, rather than being dumb fucks who'd lost theirs somewhere on a forgotten and blacked-out journey from Soho to Hackney.
Of course, the humour was compounded when I was taken to a glass case and asked "can you see any frames here you like?"