Sleepless Lake

Maybe I could be really sad and instead of having a proper title for each entry, I could have a name of a song I like. Not that I'm that big a fan of Sleepless Lake (by Grant Lee Phillips in case you're wondering)... but the title just suddenly occurred to me whilst I was thinking about what to name this entry. That was a bit long winded. I'm listening to it now, it's actually better than I appreciated a minute ago. 

So yesterday I said I was going to write an essay for today, but I can't really think of that much to say. I have a really annoying hole in my tights, right on my big toe - it's perhaps the most annoying place you can have a hole in tights. I might take them off in a minute and switch to socks. 

Today I went to work. Still feeling quite ill, but I've been eating cough sweets and ibuprofen to help me feel better - that said, I was within inches of falling asleep, and I probably would've if I'd had somewhere proper to sleep. But I didn't. Work was dull, it was another one of those days where it probably would've been better if I just hadn't gone in at all. 

I bought the Juno soundtrack at the beginning of the week, and I've been listening to this Sonic Youth song, "Superstar" which is really good, and I like them. Lastfm says they are not my normal type of music - the only similar artist I can find that I've listened to a reasonable amount is R.E.M, Interpol are down the bottom as well actually. But I guess that doesn't mean I can't like them.  I'm having a bit of a Feeder revival at the moment, they released a new song last week from their (hopefully coming out soon) new album, which is a bit Echo Park, but very good all the same. So I'm trying to listen to them more again, because somehow...well actually I know how... I've managed to play Nada Surf almost as many times in the last 5 months as I have Feeder in the last year and 5 months... yeah. So I'm trying to keep Feeder at no.1 in my charts, which is going to be tough. I guess I could accept that my music taste is developing and changing seeing as Feeder have been my favourite band since I was 14, but I'm not really ready to accept that, however much I love Nada Surf. 

I used Nada Surf's name in a song I wrote the other week. Well, kind of. I was reading the sleeve of The Proximity Effect and saw written somewhere on it... hold on I'll find it... "thanks to.... basically everyone who's made our name more and more inappropriate, since it means surfing on nothing..." So I used the words "surfing on nothing". I quite like it, it probably is one of my more favourite songs that I've written. 

I almost want to apologise for the pictures today. Whilst they were meant to illustrate spring, and how great it is, instead I ended up with a couple of blurry images taken in my garden without any flash. Hmm. So to make up for it I'm now going to take some more pictures of some completely pointless things. 

What else is there to say? My gig is tomorrow. Oooooh. 6 months it's been. God I'm so tired. I'm not sure whether to tape CSI and just go to sleep, or whether I'll be able to stay awake until 10:30. I might have some tea. Yum. 

I have to keep writing because I need to wait for these other images to upload, so rather than doing something productive like my TMA, I'm going to continue writing pointless stuffs. But I can't think of anything. Oh yeah, I'm happyish, despite illness and various other things - it seems like there'll actually be quite a lot of people there to see me tomorrow, which I'm glad about - I will be properly represented and won't feel bad that other people have brought zillions of people and I've brought no one. Because I won't have. No doubt there'll be other people just randomly standing around and stuff as well. 

Why have I stopped thinking? I went through this really sort of 'profound' phase, where I was always thinking about things, and now I've stopped doing that. So it's kind of boring. I want to write something interesting. 

Oh, I've just remembered something that I really wanted to write. I was going to do a review of Jimmy Eat World, but because I felt so crap I have very little recollection of the gig and can't really comment on how good they were. But what I really wanted to write was that I never thought I'd see someone sweat more than Matthew Caws... until I saw Jimmy Eat World. Their lead singer... Jim Adkins I think is his name, was like the sweatiest person ever. It's a really random thing to say, but so so true. 

I only have 9% power left on my laptop. I have to re-upload the photos again, because apparently it encountered some kind of error. Gaaah. I might just stop writing for a bit and actually think of something to say rather than commenting on levels of sweat. 

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Okay, so I'm just going to forget these photos. I'll post them tomorrow before I go out. That probably means there'll be 2 POSTS tomorrow. How exciting. La dee daa. 

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