Ah - it's been TOO LONG.

It's a strange game this blogging - it's quite arrogant to think that ANYONE would be interested in my day to day activities.

Got the Day Today & Look Around you DVDs today which I heartily recomend. The Day Today DVD has 258 minutes of material on it. I really can't wait!

ANYWAY. This is probably the last post of this particular blog. I find it pretty hard to do a blog that has no focus to it. I've decided to do a new blog called CORPORATE ARTHOLE 'the site for eye sores' with photo's of some of the UK's worst corporate art & waste of space. It's going to be IMMENSE! All I have to do is wait for my new camera. Sadly my old one seized up like some diying robot.

Tried to buy a lovely shiny Fender Jaguar last night. My cocking bid was CANCELLED because I have negative feedback! It would have been such a bargain too :(

Been looking browsing around on eBay for some guitarage! Can you believe people AUCTION guitar leads!? What can't they just sell them? "Ohhh - I want it, no *I* do! Oooo you outbid me! What fun we have"

eBay is mainly built on stupidity - and I hate to admit that I am one of those morons. You get all excited because it's an auction - then your animal instincts kick in, and you have to WIN! In the end - you get something totally second hand, that costs as much to ship as it did to buy - you have to wait AGES for it.. and then you see it on sale in Dixons the next day - BRAND new with 8 new features and a 10 year guarantee & life insurance.

Want a guitar signed by these people?

no = I thought not. Notice the "User ID kept private" oh - for shame!

Dali Guitar.


The guitar of my dreams.. ohh baby!

Mind you - I'd probably drool all over it and it wouldn't work - then I'd have to send it back to Japan.

This week has gone extremely quickly. I know it was a bank holiday an'all but SHEEESH. I have this theory thta weeks going quickly isn't really down to the individual but it's some mysterious constant. Maybe air pressure - which isn't really that mysterious anyway. If you think you've had a fast week, ask other people and they will almost always notice the same thing. It works for slow weeks too, being unable to get to sleep & just feeling shit.

The mighty boosh Is coming out on BBC3 very soon - do look out for it it's excellent. I've only seen 3 episodes of it (as some friends of friends wrote & starred in it nyaaa nyaaaar). My mate James from nemo came round last night & we watched it. It's very much like Garth Merengues Darkplace - but set in a zoo instead of a hospital.

London, United Kingdom
Temperature Max: 14 °C Min: 9 °C
Wind Speed	6 ( NW )
Air Pollution	4
Sun Index	2
Sunrise	5:22 BST
Sunset	20:32 BST
Full 5 Day Forecast

Wow - isn't my thingy that displays album covers THE COOLEST!? Although for some records it displays 'the 100 greatest love songs' cover. This is because if it can't find the album cover it does a search based on the song title (but you CAN switch this off)

I just sit and stare at it all day... all... day... I'm transfixed...

You can download the album cover script from me! It's in ASP classic. I can't believe that, asp CLASSIC, ALREADY - I am doomed to be at least 3 years behind everyone :(

This script searches amazon based on an XML input. this XML can come from any MP3 player plugin that outputs XML. You might need to tweak it a bit to fit your particular needs.

My friend Paul popped round on Tuesday night after getting stranded in London. He's writing a sitcom don't you know - I'm hopefully going to help out. No more details on that or you'll THEIVE THEM!

From my notebook:
The rain was like liquid fists punching the ground (very day today I know)
Morrissey should have taken over from Kilroy

Don't you think Google should run a phone in service? I'd be bloody amazing at that. Basically it would be a huge callcenter where everyone's on google & people who can't get to a computer could phone in and say "Who's that actor that looks a bit like Nick Nolte?" (It's Gary Busey by the way) or you could check their mail or anything. Wow, I'd be so good at that. That's my ultimate job - to be a professional internet user... and a musician, and own a cafe.

I wrote a song last night called "Waiting for a death in the family" It's not as depressing as it sounds; basically, I've never had anyone in my family die & it's just about EVERYONE in my family dieing - Gran falling out of a tree, my uncle falling down a well, my dad shooting his brother and them himself etc etc - it's going to be ace!

This blog thing is wierd, I never thing I have anything to write about but when I start it's very hard to stop. I could draw a comparison with exercise, you never FEEL like exercising, but when you actually do - it's really good fun & you feel really great after! Not that I would know, I've only ridden my bike once this week. Well - the rain has been like liquid fists punching the ground

Wow. Nearly started a riot in Nat West. There was about 300 people waiting & I said - very politely "Any chance of you opening another couple of tills, luv?" In retrospect it's a pretty stupid thing to say as of COURSE they had though about it having a seemingly endless queue of tutting people waiting. Anyway, everyone used my suggestion as a green flag to lay into this poor woman who ended up having to write up complaint forms for everyone. I felt to blame.

This one military-type bloke in front of me said he had been banking with Nat west for 10 years! The old lady next to him said she had been with the bank for 30 years - which shut him up for a bit. As he engaged with another customer about how "they don't give a shit about the customer" he had suddenly been with the bank for 15 years. By the time he got to the cashier he had been with the bank for a full 20 years. Come on! The queue isn't that long!

I noticed through the cashiers window they had a white board that said:

Together
Everyone
Acheives
More

surely that should be..

Two oClock
Everyone
Approach
Marks & Spencers

The worst thing is, after an hour in the queue it turned out I hadn't been paid anyway! I made a point of storming out of the bank ripping up a cheque.

Ahhh - after looking for far too long. I managed to get a 'now playing' plugin for iTunes - made by the lovely Brandon Fuller Thing is - it'll cost you $10 to register, but worth it as it saves you having to use nasty winamp AND I get to rival neil's blog which has got to be a good thing.

Winamp is pretty cool I guess but it doesn't have the 'rating' function & iTunes really is amazing at tidying up music & ripping it. I am pleased.

Not much to blog this weekend. I am going to start a new band - hurrah. Have been meaning to for ages. Look out for local girl saves planet some preliminary tunes at this crazy place but will most likely be very different.

Someone's just given me a cheese & feta sandwich on sun-dried tomato pitta. Can you better that? It actually sounds a bit cheesy but it will go to waste otherwise.

I'm starving anyway as the stupid twat at bagelmania gave me marmalade instead of MARMITE.

MARMALADE.

MARMITE.

MARMALADE.

MARMITE.

Do these words sound the same!? Maybe if you are some fucking bored idol bagel-lifter YES.

It's like on the phone:

"Your name please"

"Caroline"

"Catherine?"

"NO - CAROLINE"

"Carol?"

"YES - MY NAME IS CAROL - you're only missing an entire syllable you fucking oik!"