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Things I love Thursday III

Journal Entry: Thu May 8, 2008, 6:11 AM
  • Mood: Eager
  • Listening to: Fleetwood Mac
  • Drinking: Tea.
Things I Love Thursday

The weather. OK, this will probably jinx everything and turn Scotland back into its usual cold, rainy and unpleasant self, but... we have having amazing weather right now! & I love it! On Monday my parents drove up to see me, and we went to Cramond, drank tea in a tiny tea-shop, then drove around the Fife/Stirlingshire coast a little... it was sweltering hot and we saw some great scenery (except of course for, er... this). On Tuesday, sadly, I was forced to stay indoors almost all day, because of the small matter of my absolutely last ever exam and all the revision I had to do for it! But I made up for that by spending most of yesterday lying in the Meadows soaking up the sun... Long may this continue!

Being totally done with all the hard bits of my degree. I sat my last exam yesterday, and it was quite a strange and momentous occasion. I wrote my last ever word as an undergraduate (it was "gender", by the way) sitting in a huge, ornate room with a glass roof (which = sweltering in yesterday's heat!), surrounded by Classics students. Leon and I are saving money like mad for our summer trip, but we celebrated with a scandalously cheap bottle of bubbly and a night in on the sofa. Now it's all downhill to the 'catalogue of horrors' ( quote: ~IAmAScientist ) that will be our graduation ceremony. I've got my outfit and my mortar board already... bring it on!

Being incredibly excited 24/7 about my summer trip. Leon and I are heading back to lovely Canada-land for the whole month of July. We've booked our room in Victoria, at the fabulous Ocean Island Hostel (if you're ever going to Vic, don't you dare stay anywhere else!), and our plane-tickets are paid for, too... so it's official! I'm particularly looking forward to the possibility of going on a road-trip to Island Festival (the Wailers - as in, Bob Marley and the Wailers - are playing!!), to eating breakfast in Willie's Bakery, to wandering Commerical Drive in Vancouver, and to spending a full month in the sun with my Leon!
If anyone knows of any good events or activities in the Vancouver/Vancouver Island area... feel free to let me know about 'em!

Fleetwood Mac. I bought 'Rumours,' an album I've wanted on vinyl FOREVER, in the Plum Piano music store in Ambleside a couple of weeks back, when I was in the Lake District. It's. just. totally. awesome. I've been putting it on every morning when I wake up (still early... around 9am usually!) and dancing around. Stevie Nicks is my idol. :heart:

Summer 2008. It's going to be a good one! I'm graduating in June and going to see Eric Clapton in Leeds (train tickets arrived yesterday, woo!) I daresay there'll be heaps of graduation celebrations popping up between now and then, but already lined up are the English Lit finals party next Tuesday (watch this space for drunk-tutors-dancing pics!) and Lucy's garden party the day after the ceremony. I'll also be reading my poems at a heap of places (Great Grog and Forest's Golden Hour, Edinburgh; The London Poetry Festival and a forthcoming book fest... more info on that soon!), and - I hope - writing a whole load more, too. I'll be visiting some old friends and Leon and I will be travelling down to Dorset to see his Mum at some point. RT7, 8, 9 and 10 are all on the horizon and, at the end of it all, I'll start on my MSc course. In short... I am seriously excited!

Honourable mentions: Finding out I'm definitely on the postgrad course I was after... phew! :heart: Guacamole... the love affair continues. :heart: The poetry of *a-random-quigle :heart: The 'eager' emoticon! :heart: Getting all my summer clothes out of the back of the wardrobe! :heart: Writing reports for all my pupils and making them see how much they've achieved. :heart: Funny emails from my Dad :heart: My plants, thriving in the sun! :heart: Going to the seaside for picnics and paddling with my lovely friends. :heart:

Now you lot!!

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  • Current Residence: Edinburgh
  • Interests: Words & pictures
  • Favourite movie: Kate Winslet
  • Favourite band or musician: Tom Waits
  • Favourite artist: Leon
  • Favourite poet or writer: Beat Generation
  • Personal Quote: Withnail & I

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*TheObviousChild:iconTheObviousChild: 4 days 13 hours ago
...OK.

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*TheObviousChild:iconTheObviousChild: 4 days 13 hours ago
I know I know. But where are thr Europe tour dates?! And depressingly... TOTALLY depressingly, like, want-to-kill-myself kind of depressingly, they'll probably be right after the US ones. Which will be - haha, cruel fate! - when I'm in fuckin' CANADA.

*strangles self*

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~critmass:iconcritmass: 5 days 10 hours ago
hey you!!! have a DONUT with me!!!

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~lindindin:iconlindindin: 5 days 13 hours ago
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*TheObviousChild:iconTheObviousChild: Apr 22, 2008, 7:41:57 AM
You say why / and I say I don't know...

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*crowhesghost:iconcrowhesghost: Apr 22, 2008, 4:44:20 AM
You say stop/And I say Go, go, go

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~Wolf-kin:iconWolf-kin: Apr 14, 2008, 3:32:29 PM
Gwee, I been a-snarfled!

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*TheObviousChild:iconTheObviousChild: Apr 14, 2008, 2:50:16 PM
I don'tknowwhy you say goodbye / I say hello.

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*TheObviousChild:iconTheObviousChild: Apr 14, 2008, 2:49:50 PM
*snarfle*
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*TheObviousChild:iconTheObviousChild: Apr 14, 2008, 2:49:34 PM
I love this comment! :heart:

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*TheObviousChild:iconTheObviousChild: Apr 14, 2008, 2:48:56 PM
Aaaaah I am so in love with the song 'Come on up to the house', which is the final track on that album. It will be played at my funeral for sure, I have plagued all my family to ensure it!

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~chubbaloo:iconchubbaloo: Apr 14, 2008, 12:45:06 PM
hi i like ur writing (typing?) style and i enjoyed ur interview aswell :)

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*a-random-quigle:icona-random-quigle: Apr 14, 2008, 11:23:39 AM
I love Mule Variations. For all my Tom Waits listening, somehow I missed out on that album. Just listened to it today for the first time. And yes, as I said, love love it.

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~critmass:iconcritmass: Apr 13, 2008, 6:55:55 PM
it's sunday

and I'm

saying hello not gootbuy

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*b1gfan:iconb1gfan: Apr 13, 2008, 2:35:50 PM Mood: Joy
Break on through to the other side...
We are stoned, Immaculate...
The blue bus is calling us...
...yes, I love The Doors.
~Wolf-kin:iconWolf-kin: Apr 12, 2008, 2:00:14 PM
Thank you for the favorite, dear. :)

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=Keraness:iconKeraness: Apr 12, 2008, 9:17:57 AM
I love your poetry. :heart:
=digitalgrace:icondigitalgrace: Apr 10, 2008, 4:26:30 PM Mood: Love
Hello Claire

Thank you so much for adding Fuck Bush to your :+favlove:



:peace:


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~critmass:iconcritmass: Apr 10, 2008, 10:07:35 AM
rally round the family- pockets full-O-shells...

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*TheObviousChild:iconTheObviousChild: Apr 10, 2008, 9:57:38 AM
Sorry homeboiiii.

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~critmass:iconcritmass: Apr 10, 2008, 9:38:38 AM
yo, dont be goin all randy jackson on me now- that dawg is so yesterday!

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*TheObviousChild:iconTheObviousChild: Apr 6, 2008, 3:13:00 PM
Yo dawg x

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~critmass:iconcritmass: Apr 5, 2008, 5:25:25 AM
dropping by 2 shay hi

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*fllnthblnk:iconfllnthblnk: Mar 29, 2008, 12:01:32 PM
Saved onto my desktop for easy future reference! Thanks! :D

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*TheObviousChild:iconTheObviousChild: Mar 29, 2008, 10:48:17 AM
Wahey!

OK, be aware -- around 2001 his music changes quite dramatically and became rather... odd. His post-01 stuff on the Anti label is quite heavy, industrial and experimental. I love all of it in different ways but I'd recommend the earlier stuff, which is real quality.

Ok, geek-mode... you asked for it:

1973 - 1980, TW was signed to Asylum and made fantastic my-woman-done-me-wrong jazz and blues inspired records. Anything from this period is great... anything. Favourites of mine are 'Small Change' and 'Blue Valentine.'

1980 -- Heartattack and Vine was a transition-record. It's great, but fierce.

1983 - 1987 -- TW was signed to Island and made "the Island trilogy" -- three albums of nautical-sounding, pirate-y music and bluesy ballady loveliness, + some spoken-word. The Island trilogy are 'Swordfishtrombones,' ('83) 'Rain Dogs' ('85) and 'Frank's Wild Years' ('87) -- 'Rain Dogs' is my favourite of the three and was the first TW album I ever heard. I think it's a great one to start on. + it has '9th and Hennepin,' great spoken-word track, on it.

1989 - 2000 -- TW involved in various projects including 'The Black Rider' which is a weird album of dark circus-type music. In 1999 he made 'Mule Variations' which is fan-fucking-tastic and won a shitload of awards.

2001 -- 'Alice' and 'Blood Money' released... 'Alice' is great too.

2002 - present -- Couple more albums out, most recently 'Orphans,' a three-disc set of album tracks that never made albums, mostly from the Mule Variations era.

Albums you might want to avoid -- Bone Machine and Real Gone -- they're pretty weird... as is the Black Rider. They're great, but you might want to wait til you're more familiar with the Waitsian vibe before you stray into his experimental stuff...

Muaha, how was that for a response!

Hint: get Rain Dogs first.

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