I've been in denial about this one for 35 years.
Sunday 18 March 2012
Saturday 17 March 2012
Guilty Pleasures
So what's the word?
Went on a great walk today. For the third week running we went up the hills of the North York Moors. Not sure there's anything much better, circa March 2012, once you get to the top anyway. Boro got beat
3-0. Hey ho, as long as Chris makes it home safely and Shamila and I played the lottery (desperate measure for desperate times)..
But on the upside I'm off work next week. I told them I might go in the back end of the week (yeah righto as if....). All in all feeling I'm feeling pretty irie.
Although Face**** continues to irritate me . If only it wasn't so interesting and informative. Of course I jest and Rikki Doolan's announcement that he's packing in The Sessions (last one next Thursday) and Bandstand will reduce it's relevance to me further. Hardly a guilty pleasure but I tune in everyday nonetheless.
It did get me thinking about guilty pleasures as a concept though. Over the last few weeks friends and associates have revealed on FB their love for songs by the likes E.L.O., 10CC, Marillion, Yes, Led Zeppelin to name but a few. I'm assuming they are revealing their guilty pleasures. Even so, you'd have thought punk never happened. I'm just waiting for somebody tell me that Status Quo were actually not too bad really.
So.............. if they are their guilty pleasures what are mine?
If it's ok to admit liking the above I certainly feel no shame in admitting my fondness of The Big Bang Theory on E4 or for my following the 35 year old re-runs of Top of the Pops on BBC4 (where watch the likes of E.L.O, Marillion, Yes, Led Zep and the Quo).
So until I get sick I present my guilty pleasures and to kick it all off I did have something else in mind but I did always had a soft spot of his one.
Went on a great walk today. For the third week running we went up the hills of the North York Moors. Not sure there's anything much better, circa March 2012, once you get to the top anyway. Boro got beat
3-0. Hey ho, as long as Chris makes it home safely and Shamila and I played the lottery (desperate measure for desperate times)..
But on the upside I'm off work next week. I told them I might go in the back end of the week (yeah righto as if....). All in all feeling I'm feeling pretty irie.
Although Face**** continues to irritate me . If only it wasn't so interesting and informative. Of course I jest and Rikki Doolan's announcement that he's packing in The Sessions (last one next Thursday) and Bandstand will reduce it's relevance to me further. Hardly a guilty pleasure but I tune in everyday nonetheless.
It did get me thinking about guilty pleasures as a concept though. Over the last few weeks friends and associates have revealed on FB their love for songs by the likes E.L.O., 10CC, Marillion, Yes, Led Zeppelin to name but a few. I'm assuming they are revealing their guilty pleasures. Even so, you'd have thought punk never happened. I'm just waiting for somebody tell me that Status Quo were actually not too bad really.
So.............. if they are their guilty pleasures what are mine?
If it's ok to admit liking the above I certainly feel no shame in admitting my fondness of The Big Bang Theory on E4 or for my following the 35 year old re-runs of Top of the Pops on BBC4 (where watch the likes of E.L.O, Marillion, Yes, Led Zep and the Quo).
So until I get sick I present my guilty pleasures and to kick it all off I did have something else in mind but I did always had a soft spot of his one.
Monday 12 March 2012
An Epiphany
Hello All,
Some of you might have noticed I haven't posted much recently. I've lapsed a number of times over the years (usually down to bone idleness or personal crisees) but this time I actually made the conscious decision but for posting the occasional photograph to go into semi-retirement. So don't call me a lazy bastard this time ok?
I'd never heard the word epiphany (don't feel ashamed if you had to look it up, I wasn't quite sure either) used in every day speak until about 6 weeks ago when our Russ used it but I suppose I've had one today. It hasn't been particularly fun-packed. In fact, after a great walk this morning (9 1/2 miles - Billingham Park Circular 9 1/2 miles) and Boro getting beat 2-0 by Leeds I've done bugger all. Apart from.......................
1. Started getting a bit down. I've' got a tough couple of weeks ahead of me. It will be the 4th anniversary of my father's death on Tuesday and then it will be the 2nd anniversary of my mother's in a couple of weeks time. I know life goes on but it's also ok to be sad.
2. Logged onto F***book and I was faced with a video of The Lurkers - I Don't Want to Tell Her or something like that, posted by one of the groups Iam was a member of. One fucking (no apologies for expletive) depressing shit link too many. Note to self - must weed non-real Facef*** friends out.
3. Received a really nice phone call from my cousin to inform me his daughter had given birth to a baby daughter. I'm sure it was one call of many but it was still nice to hear such great news personally. Congratulations to new grandad Stephen.
4. Decided to sell my minidisc player which I bought a few years ago off eBay when I was a live show trader (bootlegger in old money) which I use to do in my pre-blog life. Anyway this led to me to testing it out.
Fortunately there was a disc in the player and guess what it was? Only a recording of the broadcast I did for Resonance FM for AV08 almost 4 years ago to the day so I thought I'd give it a spin.. Believe it or not it's the first time I've listened to it in it's entirity and I know it's vulgar to boast but for those who heard it at the time how good was it? Definitely a very personal perspective though eh? - ha ha well it was my show.
Anyway, I thought I'd try and find a copy of the show on the Internet so that I could indulge my new readers (about 4). Alas......
However, I found a few interesting (to me) links. It turns out the last day of AV08 was 8 March and they played my show at 8pm. Good to see I went out at prime-time again (up against the National Lottery). I seem to remember the first time they played it was a Monday night up (up against Coronation Street). No wonder nobody listened!
Of course I jest. Anyway my search also led to finding out my show won an award (indirectly anyway) - I never knew that. They probably didn't tell me because they knew I would have expected to go and pick up the award myself.
Needless to say, if there is a link to the show out there I will be very grateful if somebody can direct me.
So.... I guess I'm back.
PS
5 Ironed a shirt andtrousers jeans for work tomorrow. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Some of you might have noticed I haven't posted much recently. I've lapsed a number of times over the years (usually down to bone idleness or personal crisees) but this time I actually made the conscious decision but for posting the occasional photograph to go into semi-retirement. So don't call me a lazy bastard this time ok?
I'd never heard the word epiphany (don't feel ashamed if you had to look it up, I wasn't quite sure either) used in every day speak until about 6 weeks ago when our Russ used it but I suppose I've had one today. It hasn't been particularly fun-packed. In fact, after a great walk this morning (9 1/2 miles - Billingham Park Circular 9 1/2 miles) and Boro getting beat 2-0 by Leeds I've done bugger all. Apart from.......................
1. Started getting a bit down. I've' got a tough couple of weeks ahead of me. It will be the 4th anniversary of my father's death on Tuesday and then it will be the 2nd anniversary of my mother's in a couple of weeks time. I know life goes on but it's also ok to be sad.
2. Logged onto F***book and I was faced with a video of The Lurkers - I Don't Want to Tell Her or something like that, posted by one of the groups I
3. Received a really nice phone call from my cousin to inform me his daughter had given birth to a baby daughter. I'm sure it was one call of many but it was still nice to hear such great news personally. Congratulations to new grandad Stephen.
4. Decided to sell my minidisc player which I bought a few years ago off eBay when I was a live show trader (bootlegger in old money) which I use to do in my pre-blog life. Anyway this led to me to testing it out.
Fortunately there was a disc in the player and guess what it was? Only a recording of the broadcast I did for Resonance FM for AV08 almost 4 years ago to the day so I thought I'd give it a spin.. Believe it or not it's the first time I've listened to it in it's entirity and I know it's vulgar to boast but for those who heard it at the time how good was it? Definitely a very personal perspective though eh? - ha ha well it was my show.
Anyway, I thought I'd try and find a copy of the show on the Internet so that I could indulge my new readers (about 4). Alas......
However, I found a few interesting (to me) links. It turns out the last day of AV08 was 8 March and they played my show at 8pm. Good to see I went out at prime-time again (up against the National Lottery). I seem to remember the first time they played it was a Monday night up (up against Coronation Street). No wonder nobody listened!
Of course I jest. Anyway my search also led to finding out my show won an award (indirectly anyway) - I never knew that. They probably didn't tell me because they knew I would have expected to go and pick up the award myself.
Needless to say, if there is a link to the show out there I will be very grateful if somebody can direct me.
So.... I guess I'm back.
PS
5 Ironed a shirt and
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