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But, no leaving is complete without the 'do'. As BigCo's horizons are pretty low this inevitably involved All Bar One/Revolution style drinking. With people vying with themselves to down the vilest concoctions they could lay their hands on - great pitchers of cheap vodka flavoured with liquorice; or sugary fluorescent shots of base alcohol and chemicals. It's drinking for the teletubby generation. Try ordering a Zubrowka in Revolution, you get a blank look. Despite these privations, it was a good evening. My boss, class that she is, dropped a stack of cash behind the bar, stayed for a few, then took her leave. We made good use of her hospitality. I ended up in a frankly dreadful nightclub, but in the company of the three finest young lovelies BigCo could muster; so it was bearable. If cripplingly expensive - these ladies were, in the contemporary vernacular, fly; and felt, quite reasonably I suppose, that buying drink was not their role for the evening. ...
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4.7.06 22:09
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H1 Report
Progress on the New Year's Resolutions: Leave my job: Well, ticked that box good and proper. Now a fully signed up employee of Stuff-u-Like Sign a band: Myself and the label have split, citing 'musical differences', so I'll be drawing a line under this one. I can only concentrate on film or music at one time, I can't do both; so music has got to take a back seat for now. Stop buying dense management strategy textbooks in the hopeless belief that their knowledge can be passed to me via osmosis, rather than actually having to read them: Exceptional circumstances, Stuff-u-Like actually want me to do some strategic planning; and since I didn't get a change to do any for the past 2 years at BigCo, I'm a little rusty. I will definitely read this one..... Understand 'Beyond Good and Evil': Could try harder Complete the screenplay, and get it optioned: Game of two halves - the film is being 'considered' by a network (ie it's under a large pile of other scripts beside the PAs desk). However, a number of other projects are progressing to market. Blog more often: Irredeemably hopeless as usual. But it's not like they've made it easy for us.... Bench 300lb: Since leaving the Average Joe's of BigCo's in house gym, I've spent a small fortune joining the local branch of Globo. This has severely lightened my bank balance, but sufficiently motivated me to go more often. Resulting in a rather credible 270lb. But what I want to know is, when do those lycra-clad amazons in the brochure use the facilities; it's hefty mums and meatheads whenever I turn up....
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6.7.06 22:22
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All in all, not a bad day
Couple of hours in a very dull trade meeting. Which takes me up to almost lunchtime. Once I've had lunch, hardly seems worth it going back to office. So check out the Constable at Tate Britain - well curated exhibition; but that can't hide the inherent dullness of the paintings. Far better is the Tate Modern re-hang, which has really improved the interpretation of the collection. But, forego the Kandinsky, as I have a drinks date with a rather lovely former co-worker from BigCo, who's new job is just across town. The job at Stuff-u-Like is shaping up reasonably well.
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11.7.06 21:26
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Mostly, I have been hating....
MJ Hibbett & the Validators http://mjhibbett.tripod.com/ twee-pop revisionists sniffing round the corpse of I, Ludicrous or the Pooh Sticks. Truly a dark, dark period in music. Fey, bespectacled youths labouring under the mistaken impression that a bit of self-depreciating humour and a jangly guitar was going to get them any closer to seeing women naked. Ban this filth now!
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17.7.06 22:22
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Across the Tracks Festival, Leeds, 29th Jul
So it's doors at 12 noon. So I'm there at 11.45, with a small, but growing crowd. Cue much scurrying and startled looks from inside - anyone would think they weren't expecting us..... 12:15 it occurs to them that they might actually need power to run the tills in the box office - bit more rushing around for ladder, extension cable etc. 12: 45 they finally get their act together to a sufficient extend to actually feel comfortable enough to open the doors. Which means The Chalets get to open the festival to crowd of, effectively, me, and the staff in the beer tent. Things go downhill from here. By about 3, two out of the three catering concessions have run out of food. Leaving Dave's Burgers as the only option. Obviously, despite the fact we're 100 yards from Leeds City Centre, there's no pass-outs, for us to get fed elsewhere - I subsist on wine gums. And limit my fluid intake, as the queue for the gents is stretching out. Queue for the Gents?!?!? Now long lines at the ladies is a universal gripe at all festivals but it takes a special kind of organisational fuckwittage to achieve the same with the bloke's facilities. So, comparatively expensive; chronically disorganised. But, redeemed by a fine location (the arches underneath Leeds station), and some decent performances - The Acutes, The Pigeon Detectives, Black Wire, New Young Pony Club. Hopefully, with a concerted effort over the next 12 months, they may be able to pull their collective heads out of their collective arses and actually organise something properly next year.
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31.7.06 21:32
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