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(Jan 13, 2004)
Because my log in name is thePontificator, a little button comes up saying 'I'm not thePontificator'. I keep imagining a poor confused soul wandering/wondering into my world and saying in a quiet scared voice 'I'm not the Pontificator'.
If Fraser's reading this, the tone of voice I mean is the tone in which that actor said 'Daddy?' during that production of 'Guards Guards' we went to see in Edinburgh.
Thank you, I merely wished to share something that there is a high chance only I will find funny with you.
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A New Low
(Aug 15, 2003)
Wow, I don't believe it, now the weather is mocking me too. Lovely sunny day today, so when walking through Kelvingrove Park I buy an ice cream. The sun goes behind the clouds. And doesn't come out again til I've finished the ice cream. Add to that another wonderful discovery that is keeping me awake at night. If you add that to the things I'm losing (grip, weight, sanity, friends, the will to live) then I can only conclude that there's a massive conspiracy to make me feel as low as possible before surprising me on my birthday announcing the whole thing was a joke and to compensate you're going to have more fun than you've ever had in your life (not difficult admittedly).
Or life is just really really unfair.
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Oh good grief, Pink Floyd had a point...
(Jul 4, 2003)
After the bassist and main songwriter left Pink Floyd the task of songwriting fell to guitarist Dave Guilmour, who previously had written a decent number of songs but not a whole album's worth on his own. His solo stuff had been okay, but when he got control of Pink Floyd, they went a bit, well, 'world music'-ish. And, if possible, more pretentious. One song on the last studio album Pink Floyd made was called 'Keep Talking' and it featured a vocal from Stephen Hawking and a lot of female backing vocalists who probably ended up working for Destiny's Child. It was kinda crappy. You began to see why punk had to happen, even though the album was released in 1996.
However, it made a very good point, ie. that we should keep talking. Six years on the problem is that in order to keep talking we have to, you know, start talking. Actually talking, not just wittering on about 'boabies, satanic cats and whipped cream'.
I was in a room yesterday with some friends. Two were drunk and having the time of their lives (until they woke up the next morning), two were being as intimate as a room full of friends will allow, and one was sitting at the computer downloading music while talking to the cat and remaining deliberately sober thinking she was alone and that nobody wanted to talk to her.
This is all very unfortunate, and could've been avoided. I didn't have fun either (I got attacked with a pointy stick and some cream when I was trying to get to sleep) but it was okay because I tried to talk to some people and so forth, even though I really wanted to be somewhere and possibly someone else.
It all depends on your mood I suppose. Everyone's been guilty of it at some time.
But that means Pink Floyd are still relevant. And that terrifies me.I mean, 'Yes' have just reformed...
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It's going to be a long summer
(Jun 20, 2003)
Brief summary of the potential situation:
1. I haven't got a job yet and probably won't get one if no-one gets back to me soon.
2. I have plenty of spare time because I haven't got a job.
3. I have no money to spend because I haven't got a job.
4. I can't go on holiday this year because I'm going to TinthePark but if I get a job maybe I could afford another holiday.
5. I can't go on holiday if I have a job.
6. I need a drink.
Well, I could always go back to doing the paper round...
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Optimism.
(Jun 4, 2003)
Optimism is a dangerous thing, especially if you're an average looking and acting cynic with a tendency towards twattish behaviour. However, if you're an Aryan love-god or a fit guy who was met on holiday, you've no worries about being optimistic.
Otherwise there is no point. It'll just upset you as you will never get completely what you want. of course, you can also get about as far from what you want as humanly possible (or inhumanly possible). Oh, and then you'll upset other people. And so on. Til you go home, listen to The Smiths and nearly drown your pillow.
And never, ever, be optimistic about certain things such as death, and the opposite sex. Especially the latter. Don't be pessimistic either. Or apathetic. All of these are bad ideas that won't help anyone or get you anywhere apart from the familiar territory of the self: Self-pity, self-loathing, self-disgust. There is also self-mutilation, but as cries for help go, you'd be better off standing in the rain staring at horizons. This doesn't work either but it hurts less physically.
The problem with not being optimistic, pessimistic or apathetic is that no-one has found an alternative to these three. In theory there could be an overwhelming sense of love. In practice, 'Hey, this is the 21st Century. Things are screwed up big time! Yeah!'
For example, "relationships." Not relationships, but "relationships". As in:
'Do you see this relationship going anywhere?'
What a strange question. Are people too dumb to work out if they're either in or out of love? It is more likely that most people wouldn't know Love if Love went to town, riding on a pony, stuck an arrow up their arse and called it matrimony. It may be a bit awkward to ask but it beats this tedious issue that doesn't even exist. This is the first example of someone creating something out of nothing. 'Someone' was probably a TV soap scriptwriter or a woman who wanted to dump her boyfriend. She had a chat about their "relationship" and concluded with the 'I don't see any future in this, do you?' line that scientists have estimated to be 413% clueless (people look to the future with optimism you see...). The Bloke will either respond 'But...you know...love...and all that?' or 'I'll get me coat.'
Of course, there's always hatred...
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