Spnak

I have a dream that I will return to blogging and receive a rapturous return from my hundreds of adoring fans. They will await my every word, they will fawn over my every drop letter and drip over my misplaced semi colons (They have to be misplaced I dunno where to use em normally).

I have given those dreams and now blog just for the need to write something down now and again and If anyone reads it then have a blast. My blog will never go away. I have too much there to get rid of it… i just don’t have that much to say anymore. Maybe that will change now that I have more time on my hands. You see dear me.. I lost my job last week. I am now unemployed and for all intenets and purposes unemployable. When you can’t leave the house on your own it makes it a bit difficult to do a days work. I am pretty sure that they don’t allow you to bring your mum to work every day to keep the nasty people from looking at me and talking about me.

Am I downhearted?…. Nah. I knew it was coming I was just suprised it took em so long to do it. The kill was done swiftly enough… about Four weeks from start to finish and that included going to see a works doctor in the middle. If i was looking for another job about now I would be sweating it, but given my health issues work isn’t really a priority at the moment. Getting to a place where i can leave the house unaccompanied is what is on my mind at the moment.

I know I said I wasn’t going to be writing about my Bipolar on here any more but it seemed like the right thing to do and I am not really talking about it it’s just in the background as it always is. I have come to the realisation that no matter what I do I have to take into account the hallucinations, the voices and the paranoia first and then get into the right headspace to do what ever it was I needed to get done in the first place. Some would say it would just be as easy to not do anything and just be strange for the rest of my life…. hey it’s an option I have considered.. but I can’t afford the Tin foil for the hat and windows just yet, but I have a savings plan for it and my design for the tin foil hat is coming along nicely.

I have had an Elvis evening. I downloaded a 10 cd japanese boxset and have just gotten around to listening to some of the tracks of it. It’s the complete singles collection so It has all his well known stuff and stuff that I dug from growing up in a family full of Elvis fans. Looking back to my childhood, Elvis was everywhere. My Uncle Barry did an oil painting that hung on our living room wall for as long as I can care to remember. It was like those pictures of the Mother Mary Catholics have on thier walls, I almost prayed to that damn picture. When I was 7 or 8 I went away on a school camp and we had a talent night, and everyone had to do something … I did my Elvis impression… the kids didn’t get it but the Teachers dug my gyrating hips and snarl. They either got it or they were laughing at me for being a dork… in my present state of mind i think it was the latter HAHAHAHA.

Well that’s it from me for one night.

Until Next Time…

Found this and thought it was quite funny and VERY clever.

Until Next Time…

This past Friday we all went out to see a Bon Jovi tribute band. It was a good night out. The band sounded hot, the singer was not an exact copy but you could definitely give him kudos for trying… if not trying a little to hard at times. The affected American ac cent he insisted on using all night began to grate after a while. I guess he was trying to give the audience a full “Bon Jovi Experience”, but once you have heard the Jon Bon Jovi speak either in an interview or in concert then you know what he sounds like and no amount of trying is going to replicate that.

What I did dig was the use of links between songs that the band had used themselves, it bought back memories of when I had seen them live. It was uncanny at times I knew what he was going to say and, at times, sing before he did.

What pleased me more than anything though was getting to hear a live band (any band) sing Raise Your Hands and Never Say Goodbye live. Those two songs are real stand outs from the Slippery When Wet album that I have never seen or heard performed live by Bon Jovi. So when they kicked in I was clapping my ass off in thanks.

It was a great night out, something we don’t get to often. The next night out will be a Pink Floyd Tribute band Great Gig In The Sky at the end of July.

On Saturday Linda and I went to her works Lu au (I am letting spell check loose on that one). It too was an OK night.. I really don’t like thing like that especially as I knew no one there… mind you having said that.. the lovely ladies of Morrisons seem to like me as I have never been kissed as much by so many different women than I was that night… well at least since i was a cute chubby baby.. but then they just wanted to “… Just eat my cheeks up whole….”
I got to meet Linda good work friend Mary and her husband and her daughter and good friend from London Ryan. I am lousy at names but they seemed like really good people. So that was a good point of the whole eveneing.. I even got to take a snakebite bath towards the end of the night… Snake bite for those not in the know is English Cider and Beer with Blackcurrant juice mixed together and it’s lethal when drunk in large quantities… luckily I saved them a hangover when someone poured a whole pitcher of the stuff over me.

Yesterday was Lindas’ birthday and we got her a DS and a couple of Brain Training games to go with it.. that should keep her quiet and occupied when she is on her own. We had a chinese meal for dinner and we all seemed to enjoy it… even if the Pancake rolls were rank leftovers that shouldn’t be fed to a pig let alone a human being… not bad for a meal from a new takeaway that we hadn’t used before.. you live and learn as they say.

Well that me up to date for now.

Until Next Time…

Def Leppard have a new album out. Songs From The Sparkle Lounge.
It’s a damn fine return to form by the boys from Sheffield. I had a quick listen to the new album and I can whole heartedly say that it really is a great set of tunes.

The stand out though has to be the first single Nine Lives. It’s a collaboration between Def Leppard and Tim McGraw.

If you get a chance check it out.

Here is a story from the BBC Entertainment News Website