Saturday, December 31, 2005

I was looking for a job and then I found a job...

Having been entirely open in my criticism for You, The Public's taste in music over the last year or so, my confidence was dealt a severe knock yesterday when it emerged that VH1 and myself agreed on the top 2 songs of 2005, namely the Kaiser Chief's "I Predict a Riot" and the Futureheads' take on "Hounds of Love". Ashamed, I crawl back into my bedroom with Alan Bennett and Joyce Grenfell (not in person, obviously, particularly given one of them is dead.)

I am now in the process of trying to think of a New Year's Resolution, and I am toying with the idea of writing a diary, though this seems a little silly as I am one of those people who writes such things with a sort of not-vrey-well-hidden secret desire that it will one day be published and everyone will marvel at what a deep and insightful person I am/was, and as a result I know that iot won't be deep at all, but rather cringe-inducingly contrived, and I already have a blog for that. More usefully, I ought to make the most of the various writing programmes that exist before I get to 25, and in that spirit I have renamed "Hell and High Tide" "Ducklings" and sent it off to Soho in time for New Year.

I have, however, worked out how I am going to spend the HMV vouchers I received from most of my family, on the basis that they couldn't think of anything else to get me. It will be something like this:

Genesis
the DVD of "The Belles of St Trinians"
The Dubliners
Joan Baez
Emerson, Lake and Palmer (becuse I promised to lend it to someone then realised my old cassette had broken)
The Darkness

An eclectic assortment, particularly when added to said Kaiser Chiefs, Alan Bennett, Joyce Grenfell and Blondie, all of which my family did manage to dig out for me in their otherwise fruitless search for suitable gifts.

My New Year's Resolution is, I suppose, to get myself a job. This is difficult since at present I not only have a job, but I have the greatest job in the world. Unfortunately this isn't going to last, and I already have an interview for another job. Unfortunately I'm not sure which job it's for: I applied for two, and they haven't specified on the letter which it is, and I can't quite bring myself to call up and ask...

I shall be in Marlowe tomorrow, so Happy New Year in advance.

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

noooooo... Genesis and the Darkness? Even Frank doesn't deserve that combination - it is what the US Armed Forces would have played Iraqi dissidents instead of Metallica and the Barney song if they had really wanted to scare them to death...

11:59 am  
Blogger Natalia said...

Erm...wasn't the whole Darkness thing a cruel British joke??? :) hehehe...but findng a job is a good resolution to make...if that is what you want/need to do. Best of luck.

-N

12:30 am  
Blogger RLS said...

Well my dear Cheeselet, you'll be happy to know I didn't buy The Darkness in the end, although there's a great Genesis song I now own called "Jesus he knows me" which I think you might like.

Actually I seem to recall from Farenheit 9/11 that the troops listened to the Bloodhound Gang going into battle, which I thought I'd mention for old times' sake.

Hello Natalia, nice to meet you! Please visit again!

Px

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