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Took Sian to see Damien Rice in a charity concert for Action Burma (Free Aung San Suu Kyi) last night. he played for over 2 hours without a set list largely to the requests of the audience which was pretty cool. Was wasn’t good was his “Marty McFly/Back To The Future/Johnny Be Good”™ moments – during his best songs when he decided to turn his brilliant accountic guitar melodies into a thrash metal painful high-pitched feedback scream. Some of his effects were genius, using a combination of guitar pedals and effect loops to record, loop and combine his own live tracks effectively creating a big-band sound from one man and his guitar but on nearly every occassion he took it 10 or 12 steps too far.

He’s improved a lot since I last saw him a year ago, his confidence and banter are great, his voice can fill the whole theatre even when not on the mic but spoiled it last night by trying to be something he’s not.

Had to transfer my life saving away today – very poor – all in the persuit of buying a house! Just as well I have an inflatable bed cos there ain’t no money left for a cardboard box to sleep in let alone a bed.

Met Rory for lunch – he’s down in London for a couple of days for a course. Heard that everyone had a good old drunken night last Saturday after Sian and I headed back to Largs, have to stick around for that next time.

Just had my 6 month review, great improvement but still a bit of that school report card syndrome – “must try harder”. Yawn.

Gyming it up tonight for the first time in a couple of weeks – gonna be feeling the pain later.

Just exchanged on the new house. Really happy but now have to get all the other cash together by Friday (deposit, mortgage, stamp-tax, fees, legal costs).

Don’t think I can afford food for the rest of the week.

Get the keys for the new place on the 28th (yes in just 8 days time!) – provided all goes well.

WOW!

Been an interesting week and weekend, but feeling way too lazy tonight to write it all down so thought I’d try updating in pictures:

Yes, despite Kev from the flat in Glasgow telling me for years while at uni, I’ve finally admitted to myself that I’m going bald – this photo was proof:

We have a small beach near the flat, well I say a beach but its really a mud strip, imagine our surprise to find a boat washed ashore one morning. Not quite the packing space I’d have chosen on the Thames.

Just in case you didn’t know, Stu has rounded up the cattle and is heading off to Tokyo with his work for a minimum of 2 years, leaving in July. Make the most of him while he’s still here!

Err think I might have been drinking too much wine, but at least my gargoyle impression is improving:

I can think of nothing better than getting up at the crack of dawn on a Bank Holiday Sunday to go to a club – yes a club during the day – only to queue for 2 hours and not get in – still we washed away our sorrows for the next 12 hours with snakebite.

And finally tonight, the tube trains seem to be escaping from the tracks and appearing on the back of lorries near Canary Wharf:

Hmm anything, well nothing with photos anyway. Glasgow trip is still on for this weekend, hope everyone will be around!

Yes, Liverpool won the Champions league in one of the best games I have ever seen but, sometimes you have to wonder about the journalistic quality of the BBC’s reporting: ‘Du the Dudek’, if you really want your own Dudek mask (and remember that he really is useless) then here’s what you need to be Jerzy Dudek for the day.

Just in case you haven’t heard…

Sian and I have booked flights and car hire for a Glasgow/Largs visit from the Friday the 10th of June (AM) to the Monday the 13th (PM).

Would be really good to see everyone to catch up. Looks like Friday afternoon/night and Saturday morning/afternoon/night are the best times for us to arrange something. So are you around in Glasgow that weekend? When are you free? Do you fancy meeting up to reminice?

Drop me an email (james_at_dancingwithloons.com) or leave a note in the guestbook and let me know.