Discontinuation Syndrome... Again!!!

Sunday, October 28, 2007

Bloody hell! Forgot the Venlafaxine yesterday, so the extra hour's kip hasn't really worked for me. Twitchy, nauseous, hot, cold, dizzy, faint, head-achey, eye-strainy... bugger!

My own fault I suppose. Well obviously, as I forgot!

Roll on Monday,

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posted by Andy 14:07

Anal Necrophilia

Friday, October 26, 2007

Now if that doesn't get me a few hits, I don't know what will!

So why did I partially dream about that last night? Well, this morning between 4am and 6am to be exact. Crazy dream containing a revisit to the Hill Street premises of my first job in which I travelled to the top floor in an elevator 'pod' to find a huge multi-layered office with no desks, a bar and various other things. I recall saying that one side looked like Al's in Happy Days. Upon going down I was in a lift with my boss (after being 'on the sick') and she was with the Italian MD talking about going on the boat for the weekend. An enjoyable part of the dream was spent with Paul Chadwick's buttocks before trying to anally penetrate his semi-living body and then the weeks-old corpse of a bloke unkown to me at this point, though possibly in the dream.

Weird things these psychiatric drugs can do to one's nocturnal adventures, I can tell you! Btw, I broke several slats on me futon overnight too!

You really don't need to know all this do you?

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posted by Andy 13:48

Lower living standards now!!!

Curl Up In The Foetal Position and Die for Your Species!

The 'American Dream' seemed/seems to be based on the individualism that is now dividing us. Watching these American Prelinger films on Internet Archive, I can't but note that capitalism, science, industry, commerce, standards of living &c. are assumed to progress ad. infinitum. Surely we're seeing now that isn't the case. As antibiotics will soon be seen as a momentary blip (probably deleterious) in human health so will science, industry and population growth be seen in human history. Other films portray the microcosm of the growth of a civilaisation by suggesting increase in population = increase in market as a cycliclar growth pattern for a nation's prosperity; forgetting that the raw materials and energy are finite and processed/made available at a rate governed by our star, the sun. At some point, therefore, we will have to consume less as a species. Period. The golden age of prosperity via unsustainable consumption of materials and resources will end. A wonderful microcosm of the human predicament is the feature on canning, to be found in the Prelinger Archive section of 'Internet Archive' in which raw materials and production cannot keep pace with demand. That's us humans here and now. Stop it!

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posted by Andy 13:01

American Dream... will always be.

Saturday, October 20, 2007

America Marching On!

Wish Internet Archive would stop giving embed-code for 'FlowPlayer' (whatever that is)

Produce more and the price drops, so we have to produce more or the same more cheaply to catch up. Prosperity through consumption will be seen as a short phase in human history in a couple of decades, much as antibiotics will soon be redundant in medicine less than a century after their introduction. The whole capitalist concept of making cake and making people want to eat it won't and can't last. Look at how we westerners hold our hands up in horror now India and China want to exploit this path to raise their own living standards at our perceived expense. They don't like it up 'em! We have to stop eating and baking cakes. End of story.

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posted by Andy 13:09

Let's Talk Turkey!

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Just in time for a Boun Natale, the question is... Hen or Tom? Tom???? Surely that's a cat! Anyhow, note the KKK style hood for the head... You wouldn't want to look Turkey Lurkey in the eye! And at what point does viscera become giblets?

Afraid you'll have to view in a new window here.

Ah well, 9 and a bit weeks to go... So... 'Stuff that body!'

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posted by Andy 15:37

What my illness makes me miss...

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Oh Jim

Perhaps, no definitely, THE Lou Reed tour of my adult life. I even have two DVDs (2000 and 2004) that I haven't even watched yet! At least I did manage to get to those tours. But oh to see the Berlin recreation with Steve Katz and overseen by Bob Ezrin, almost the whole of the Arezzo show is YouTube'd.

Only quibble would be that a bit more of Lou taking a solo would be appreciated. But what the hell. A fine achievement at 65 years. Lou's vocals are fine too, possibly due to Bob Ezrin and the bolstered band taking a fair bit of the pressure off. Good that just enough slack has been left in the choreography to allow for customary piddling about.

Sweet Jane

As for me? Been struggling with the humidity! Two days running it's defeated me in the morning. Leaving me in a puddle.

Had fun with Scrabulous last week! The gorgeous Principessa Valentazza beat me at it with her knowledge of Latin! Anyhow, if you're stick at home with no-one to play... give it a go. It's free, checks your words for validity, keeps score and puts a time-limit on the game (like in chess tournaments) which I find adds to the enjoyment.

Still battling the unsecured debtors.

Started a reading group last week - therapeutic apparently. Think the material was a little beneath us, being short stories written by Sun readers. I kid you not! All obsessed with death, violence and abuse. Bloody depressing I found it!

How Do You Think It Feels? (Wish that guy wouldn't burble into the digicam like that!)

Ciao for now,

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posted by Andy 10:43

Credit and Quixote

Thursday, October 04, 2007

I've been, and continue to, do battle with the credit card companies. Now all my PP insurance has fizzled out so I'm having to put budgets together and make 'arrangements'. Two down, one to go. Without the DLA I'd be completely buggered and facing collection agencies by now. Roll on late 2008, not that I'll be around then.
Finally finished Don Quixote! Yeehaa! Whizzed through Horace Panter's 'Ska'd For Life' memoir of being bass player in The Specials. Jolly read and full of nostalgia for people and places I've known, if only in passing, for my Coventry was a few years later than his. Various venues, Gosford Street's second hand run and music folk like Rod Byers, Brad and Desmond Brown bring back memories along with the ubiquitous (?) tiny, ganza-hazed, Virgin shop at the top of the Arcade by the birdcage. Now a health-food shop I think. Ah... Coventry of the late 70's and 80's! Beer and sex and chips and rock 'n roll! (To paraphrase The Macc Lads paraphrasing Ian Dury).
Last night was blasted out by some pretty competent 'rock' covers band at the Borough Council Club or Baroque (I think), playing 'Are You Gonna Go My Way?', Black Knight', 'Rhythm Stick', 'Black Betty' etc interfering with my perusal of Gunter Grass's 'Peeling The Onion' autobiography.
The rtecently mended intercom/access system has been trashed by shoulder charging tenants returning after a night on the piss after a matter of days.
Basement is a fetid, rotting, fly-ridden heap of putrid garbage. Hoorah!
Have run out of Sodium Valproate, belived due to Superdrug pharmacy error.
Chatted with the lovely Valentina!!!! After months she has a fast connection back at home. Strange that she's another year younger! 12 years younger than me now... sure it was only 8 years in the early 2000's.
Ah well, enough boring bollocks for now. Suffice to say that according to BabelFish, mumps translated from Italian is 'Large Eared Parrot' disease! Nice!
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posted by Andy 15:11