Tear Off My Head and Throw It At The Morons

Watching "Just The Two Of Us" turned me into a wailing shell. If I had been closer to the television, and if my mum hadn't have been so into it, I would have kicked a foot deep into the tube, tearing out circuits and wires and brandishing them like so many electrical guts in a blooded fist. Second only to "Sheila's Wheels" in the "Red Rag To An Albie" stakes (it makes me want to kill everyONE and everyTHING), Team Kay-Daly sent me into a whirlwind of aggression. I became a tornado of abuse, sucking up empty sweet wrappers and copies of The Northern Scot and occasional tables in my journey from couch to Panasonic. I wanted their heads on poles outside the BBC, with a big note from the Director General that just said "SORRY. WE WERE WRONG. SO WRONG."

Took You Two Years to Finish Your Book

There's a select group of people that know I have been working on a novel for the past year and a half or so, and, like most things, it has been shelved to accommodate various life events, like moving away from Edinburgh into the welcoming bosom and home-cooking extravaganza that is life in Elgin. However, since I don't have a job and have been punishing my laptop with new music downloads from mp3 blogs, I have no real excuse besides a crushing laziness and claims of writer's block, there seems no real reason why the fucker isn't finished yet - is nowhere near being finished, in fact.

With that in mind, I propose to publish some of the book on this here blog as an impetus to finishing it, if only to have another answer besides "Yep, working on it" to the question, "How's the book coming along?"

As for mp3 blogs, they have reinvigorated that voracious teenage appetite for new music, with the added bonus that it's all FREE. I remember buying records in Sound and Vision in Elgin, swapping the price stickers on Inspiral Carpets records from "£2.99" to "25p" then feeling the rush seasoned shop-lifters feel when they know they're doing something wrong and - secretly - are hoping they will be caught. I feel something approaching this sensation when downloading new - free - music, even though it's all legal, and free. Did I mention it's free? Yes, yes I did.

Some links:

3 Hive
Moistworks
Bows and Arrows


I've found greatness in these sites, and a commitment to good, honest reviews. Support yr local artists. By the way, Sound and Vision haven't done vinyl for a long time, and there's no way round their barcode system.