brings the past back to me

It's nice to finally move into my new flat, I've only been rushing about for a few hours with a break of dinner with some friends (and making another one even if we didn't speak the same Chinese), but the place already feels like home. My words are often cryptic and without any idea of where to start, but I will have to say many thanks to the Landlord, not only is he a brilliant chap, he left me a fridge full of cheese and other food stuffs. An email will be heading his way swiftly to confirm these consumables are for me to consume. Awaiting the first visitors Lily and Baker next week to sample the hard wooden floor.

People keep complaining about getting old. I stopped complaining and my life changed, really loving the adventure of life.

Two months later I was on the train to the coast and I could already smell the sea air and also the bad smells coming from the public toilet on the train. The cassette my father had given me was filled with the most eclectic selection, from Echo and the Bunnymen to some obscure folk duo that lived in the most northern peaks of Scotland. After an hour I got off the train to see my dad waiting by his old and wheezing MG coupé. He was the image of Steve McQueen in the great escape tipping his cowboy hat to Yul Bryner, while the car was a rusty deep red suffering from the mid-life crisis. I remembered it never started up on the first go no matter how hard he gunned the key in the ignition. He was dressed in bright blue denim jeans and a blue flannel shirt smoking a packet of Lucky Strikes, the smoke danced into the air into peaks and troughs. Sometimes I wished he had grown a beard to go with it all, but he would look like an extra from a Tom Selleck programme about policemen and hunting dogs. He made sure I watched the great escape or if he could find it the Dirty Dozen while I was there for the summer. Things never seemed to change much during these times, and even though he had moved the sense of normality was there. I hated the fact he smoked, but I found the stale smell around him that reassuring.

musik

• Deadbolt- Thrice
• Injection- Rise Against
• Drones- Rise Against
• Zero- Smashing Pumpkins
• Bullet with Butterfly Wings- Smashing Pumpkins
• Everyday is the Same- Nine Inch Nails
• Roddy Woomble- As Still As I Watch Your Grave
• Map of the Problematique- Muse
• Starlight- Muse
• Selfhealer- Idlewild

sport

• Portsmouth vs Bristol City (FA Cup 3rd round)

kino

• The Dark Knight

schwarzwiesefernsehen

• American Hustle- Katt Williams
• Never Scared- Chris Rock
• Kill the Messenger- Chris Rock
• What ever it takes- Dave Chappelle
• Gundam 00
• Band of Brothers

videospiele

• Little Big Planet
• GTA IV
• Farcry 2

vershieden

• jousting with Stones, via email, via text, via sitting next to each other, good friend of mine
• dinnering with Geoffrey for a 'final' time, only so many times you can say goodbye,
• Christmas with Mum, Dad, Tim, Lin and Elle. Was a lovely one, that's just what I needed.
• My new flat,
• tricking mum about her Christmas present.
• Ying Ying telling me not 'CHUP' but 'DIM' I feign bad Chinese for my tickets at Marienplatz,
• Roisin and Rachel not replying to some grade A Bright Eyes, utterly offended,
• Chinese talking drunken Channy, was a good new years eve,
• Faye giving me josh for the jousting at Roisin,
• seeing Kinneav in a social context not at Fratton Park,
• Hartle, well I think he deserve a mention somwhere on here for being such a good mate of mine,
• Newman being a lazy berk,
• teaching mum how to use the internets,
• the moment when the new grads didn't know what anyone did when introducing people,
• dim summing my fucking face,
• seeing Fosterball and for him to give me some skillz, ruin it and then pull it back again in the end,
• multiple language dinners, I will learn mando one day,