Doesn't January drag on? Still, I like a bit of London in the rain, there's nothing quite like it.
Anyway, here are some things cheering me up at the moment:
1. All that pop stuff on BBC4. It's common knowledge that Beeb4 is the best channel on TV. There's not much on there that doesn't appeal to me as it is, so when it's something like old editions of Top Of The Pops in their entirity, Pop Brittainia (though no mention of Dave Dee, Marmalade, Dusty or The Move in the 60s one - boo!), Paul Morley's rather too earnest Pop What Is Good For? doc, etc, then I'm glued.
2. Thinking about holidays
3. Sorting things out at work - hopefully
4. New horizons, of which there is not just one, but many.
5. Downloading record sleeves to my ipod. It's like thumbing through your singles, if you'd been bought up in Holland or Denmark.
And here's some stuff bringing me down, man:
1. Youth. They can't speak, read, eat or behave properly. They can only knife, booze, murder and make lives a misery. Why can't all children be like the ones on Junior Mastermind?
2. Still having this bloody cough. It arrived on December 21st and it's not going anywhere.
3. The cat still pissing on the furniture. Anyone got any tips? Let me tell you this first though: nothing but nothing puts her off.
4. Fly-tippers. Could you just fuck off - and take your fridges, wardrobes, bags of gravel, ironing boards, microwaves etc, with you.
5. No records shops in Camden. But HMV just had a bumper Christmas, I hear. So is the record shop dead or not?
