Prioritising

I have recently scrubbed out an ever extending list of music, films and books I have wanted to absorb, due to the realisation that the list had been only extending. That list included some recognisable words and names, and others not so much. Never the less, here are a few things that was on that list:

• The Grapes of Wrath
• The Other hand
• T.S Eliot
• John Donne
• Carol Anne Duffy
• Poe
• Ted Hughes
• AL Kennedy
• The Average Life of the Average...(either i was rushing this post or the name simply slipped my mind, for it just stops there)
• Haruki Murakami
• Cat Power - Maybe Not
• Donovan - Colours, Fairytale
• On The Road
• Cannibal Ox
• George Forby (apparently, according to the man in The Variety Music Shop in Edinburgh, this bloke was big in ukulele land)

Anytime I was rather interested in something I was introduced to I wanted to know more and find out, but as you may know, time is not friendly all the time. So the list will hopefully, sooner or later, complete itself, without any of my intervention.

I also see something in Fopp and, regardless of its existence on my list, believe in that product as the saviour of my own existence, and the justification of awakening is to consume this thing. It's only £3, it's Stanley Kuberick for god sake and it's BEAUTIFUL.

A new year, a new decade, (The Teenies? Jesus) out with the old, in with the new. yadda yadda. Here's actually a funny article about what trends and lets face it, shite, we can expect in our new decade. I like the bit about the Noughties being the decade we forgot how to spell and this being the one we will undoubtedly forget how to spell. Anyway:

SHITE AND TRENDS

I digress. Apologies. Hey I don't need to know how to spell, I get a red line under my words when i fuck up. Apologies, I digress.

So, I got some cash together over the winter term, with a few work shifts and wrote a practical, rational, achievable list of priorities. I have already, ticked one box, and no it was not Write a Blog Post Blabbing On About A List and Evidently, Wasting People's Time. Hey wait, I've ticked two boxes. This is proof that 2010 is going to be a good year and that this list system works.

• Get boots re-healed ✓
• Get guitar restrung ✓
• Get guitar bag ✓
• Get gig bag for Cajon
• The Drawing Book ✓

And here's the proof.

It's a really exciting book, I'm completely confident it's been the best twenty-five quid I've spent and I'll have lots of fun using it and....ooooohhh yeeaah.

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