Jesus, I'm getting pretty slack with this. I've been drinking five cups of sugary tea a day since I was about six/knee high to Tony and, with the added problem of heavy confectionery consumption, have the attention span of...let's talk about something else. Perhaps a pros and cons list. Cons first, 1-2-1-2 until all the good things and bad things are paired off in what we used to call a crocodile.
CON: I've just sent my first chapter to my supervisor. There's a huge reliance on Lacan's later ideas in the third section. I've never read the later Lacan. FRAUD. Now I must attempt to locate the correct section in Ecrits- and understand it- in a single week. I might have to check out the ever-reliable "...For Dummies" section in Ottakars.
PRO: I really enjoyed writing the rest of the chapter. Getting up at seven, heading up to campus, grabbing a coffee and reading idly for a couple of hours before going home and getting down to it. My head's been bursting with books.
CON: The bills are mounting up. Loads.
PRO: I've just begun moving my stuff into my new house (1,000,000,000,000 times better than No. 4 Ally Road). There's two sitting rooms.
CON: I've got a hangover (a bit).
PRO: I've allowed myself a couple of "idiot" days because I've been working my arse off. I spent lunch drinking Kronenbourg in the Playhouse garden then went home and listened to Source Tags and Codes by ...Trail of Dead. Album of the week.
CON: I can't go and see ...Trail of Dead (and hang out with Conrad) in Cambridge for the very un-rocking reason that I have a work do that day and I promised to go along.
PRO: But that would be a little bit like running away to join the circus, wouldn't it?
CON: Darlington didn't get in the play-offs, Man Utd won fuck all, Norwich got relegated, Celtic let the league go to Mordor on the last day of the season, Liverpool won the Champions League.
PRO: Hartlepool got dicked in their play-off final.
And maybe a reading and listening list...
LISTENING...
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead- "Source Tags and Codes"
Sleater-Kinney- "Dig me Out"/"S-K"
Neu- "Neu 1"
Black Sabbath- "Paranoid"
Antipop Consortium- "Arrhythmia"
READING...
Henry Green, "Blindness"
Alan Burns- "Europe After the Rain"
Ann Quin- "Berg"
Franz Kafka- "The Castle"
Joseph Conrad- "The Shadow Line"
Stevie Smith- "Over the Border"
HD- "Collected Poems"
Jacques Derrida- "Spectres of Marx"
and other stuff.
PLACES I WANT TO GO BUT CAN'T RIGHT NOW...
The Orkney Islands
Paris
Trieste
Barcelona
Cornwall
bed
the pub
Girl, come back soon....xxxxxxxxxx
Jx
