Sweet Zombie Jesus (or should that be Jesu?) I need to go to this gig in London; an evening of fun and frolics from super happy bands Isis and Jesu.



/I am now doing my happy dance!



Tickets can be purchased from the Mean Fiddler site if anyone cares to join me.

Further evidence that we are getting to the most miserable day of the year:

Honestly, I would have thought that the karaoke sessions, late night gaming sessions and general loud drunkeness would have got to them first.

I'm a bit annoyed by this note that I found pinned to my door this afternoon, surely a quiet word rather than anonymous threats of legal action would have been a more appropriate first step? Anyway, to my next door neighbour (although I'm not sure which one has been moaning) I'd like to say sorry, I will try to be more considerate - although at the same time I'd like to wish them a firm 'fuck you' for not just coming round and saying something to me.

Well this is a new and disturbing experiance, being in on a Friday night with not a hint of alcohol in my system and (it get's worse!) I went to the gym tonight...



I don't like it, in my defence nobody seemed to want to go out (note to world in general: you better not be watching Celebrity Big Brother!), maybe everyone is getting in the mood for this Monday? Scientifically proven to be the most depressing day of the year - apparently.

Went to see Team America: World Police tonight - I'm having trouble getting the "America! Fuck Yeah!" song out of my head...

Phil! this is your website speaking. Here are some rules for today:



Don't get stressed at your work computer, an air of contempt and disgust towards it will be plenty.



No nicotine or caffeine for you today, they just make you edgy - and not in a cool post-rock-indie-hardcore way.



And get to the gym at lunch, you're not getting any thinner sitting there...



/end transmission

If like me you have a bunch of pictures on your PC you may find this program called Picasa from the good people at Google useful. Nice interface, I can't criticise the way it organises things and it has some useful effects which may form some inspiration if I ever finish off this god damn new design!



If I'm being honest it's not just lack of inspiration that's been holding me back, my new found ability to recover really really badly from drinking binges isn't helping and I've been buying tons of stuff (retail therapy I guess...) like this book by Jaime Hernandez :

Honestly, if your the sort of person who normally looks down on comic books you need to read this. It basically tells the tale of two bisexual hispanic punks called Maggie and Hopey, beautifully drawn in solid black and white throughout covering about 20 years worth of Love and Rockets comics - given that amount of material you get character development that most normal books can only dream of. Really nice book, will probably be made into a really horrible film one day.

new year, new CD...



Andrea Parker - Nobody's Perfect

Electro bass-obsessed mix CD that goes thunk in all the right places, nice and cheap too.