foolfillment: the blog

my first random 20 tracks are:

1. Paper Houses - Mull Historical Society
2. The Past That Suits You Best - The Delgados
3. Nightswimming - REM
4. Country - Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci
5. Your mother Should Know - The Beatles
6. Lord Anthony - Belle and Sebastian
7. Scatterbrain (As Dead As Leaves) - Radiohead
8. Asleep On A Sunbeam - Belle and Sebastian
9. Dreaming Of You - The Coral
10. Cut Here - Cure
11. Diary Of Always - Biffy Clyro
12. Pap’s Got A Brand New Bag - James Brown
13. Bigmouth Strikes Again - The Smiths
14. People Are Stange - The Doors
15. River Runs Deep - JJ Cale
16. One Love - The Stone Roses
17. Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
18. Sail Away - Neil Young
19. Lost On You - Echo and the Bunnymen
20. Day Is Done - Nick Drake

When the rest of my group said ‘I’ll see you on Friday’ was I wrong to take that to mean that I’d see them on Friday? With a project to hand in on Tuesday and no sign of anybody else’s work it’s fair to say I’m getting a little anxious.

It’d probaby be best if I wrote in a slightly more coherant way today but I’m not promising anything.

Well thanks to Derek’s comment we now know what it means. I think.

My original post was going to be something based on my understanding of it being about people’s public and pivate feelings; where someone tells people that they hate one thing and would always chose the other when actually they feel differently and only have the ‘public’ opinions they have because they are told that that is the only way you can think by the public. It seems that is kind of right, the girl in Storytelling ‘demonises’ blacks when she actually ‘thinks they’re cool, and exotic.’ I was going to apply it to me, but in the more general sense I described above.

Yesterday in uni the lecturer just out of interest after talking to two folk in my class asked which union we’d all joined*. I was quite pleased to see only two qm members, I’m a guu member you see, but then I started thinking about something, I dislike both places equally. I could give you a long run-down about why I’m a guu member but that’s not my point at the moment. I always enjoy slagging off qm members but equaly despise going to the guu. It’s only because at Glasgow you get it drummed into you that there is only one union worth existing, what that union is depends on who you talk to.

In short I’m more likely to go to the guu for lunch because it’s cheaper, nearer to my building, has more rooms and people so is easier to find someone to talk to or find somewhere to hide and read, but I hate going out to the guu at night, with the exception of the beer bar and only on some nights when they have some good beers.

I don’t like going to the qm except on gig nights and that costs money.

It all comes down to Mandingo Cliche, in classic racist tradition I demonise then run for cover, but then, how could I behave otherswise, I’m just a student of an academic based subject with a ‘they’re all queers and misfits’ complex.

*There are two student unions at the University of Glasgow, the Glasgow University Union (GUU) and the Queen Margaret Union(QMU), there is also the Student’s Representative Committee (SRC) which was borne out of the GUU. The GUU was set up first in 1885 and only allowed males to join until the Uni threatened to remove it’s funding in 1981, the last union in Britain to do so. The QMU was set up for somewhere for female students to join in 1890 and only allowed male members from 1979. There is a kind of mutual hatred between the two unions and their members.

This is one of the things that have been driving me mad slowly tonight, a rendered representation of our final design in the current project at uni - a clock design task, as usual click for a bigger image:

Tablets are great things though and one thing that has kept me from getting too angry at my pc, along with this story : BBC | Polar bears turn green

What is that anyway? It only seems to be referenced on the internet as a lyric in a B&S song from the soundtrack for a Tom Solondz film (indicentally isn’t the new single good? I mean, not the single but the other songs. I mean the single is good but we knew that already. Oh hang on, I have something to say about this, I’ll come back to Mandingo Cliche later. Bracket, what bracket?

I hate stuff, I’m not sure which particular stuff, this isn’t going to be a rant about The Darkness but I suppose it is connected. I hate that people like what I like. This isn’t because I strive to be individual or don’t want to have anything in common with people, that’s not true. I hate that people like what I like because it means they ruin it. The problem is people like listening to a song. Over and over. and then some more. Or at least that’s what the radio stations think and people listen to the radio, for some reason, the only reason I can think of is that they like to listen to songs over and over. and over again.

For me that ruins a song, and often an entire album too. A good current example is Snow Patrol. I remember hearing Snow Patrol when I was in second year, about 6 years ago, I didn’t really listen to them untill about 5th/6th year (When it’s all over we still have to clear up) and just after this Christmas I got the current album, Final Straw. I really like it, (I’m not going to do a review here, you don’t need it, I’m sure Mr Lumby could though if he’s out there?) but now everywhere you go it’s being played, or rather bits of it are which is worse. One bit in particular is the start to ‘Spitting Games’ which is backing any sporting clips collage you see at the moment. It really annoys me because I hear it too much and it’s overkill. One of the more obvious songs to sing along to, it is catchy and it is good but hearing it too much means I can’t listen to the album any more without skipping the song. And it annoys me. And it’s happening to other bands I like too.

Grrr.

I have a point, just not the words.

Oh, yes, that was something, stupid radio listeners only like what they’re told to like by the radio, Dido anyone?

It has a backlash on me. Just because Snow Patrol are popular now, whenever someone like me asks someone else like me what music they like and the someone else like me responds ‘Snow Patrol’ then the first prerson like me thinks that the someone else like me is just a stupid radio listener, when in fact that’s not true and the someone else like me has liked Snow Patrol just as long as the someone like me. If you follow. I hope you do because my fingers are tired from typing and I don’t want to have to explain it again.

Now where was I? Mandingo Cliche! Yes, what does it mean? I’ll write something about it later maybe.

Incidentally, my PC has just chosen to sandwich a Reindeer Section song with two Snow patrol songs. And Microsoft say they aren’t watching what we do!

As I struggled to think of anything to write, I headed for the archives for a year ago for some inspiration. Three things I had written stood out. First up, it’s been a year since google bought blogger, now google are in the news for two things. Something I wrote about the other day comes a year after another rant I had on the same subject. The final thing was it a year ago I first set up a photolog, a few days ago I tried to get back in the habit of posting photos.

And so it seems to me, that I have nothing new to write about, but it’s okay because current events are repeating themselves for my benefit.

Look out for future posts about the (civil?) war in Iraq, the annual Pooh Sticks World Championships and me tweaking with the site code to no avail.

It’s really quite interesting to be a fan of scottish sport at the moment. We are on the cusp of something, in both rugby and football. But the cusp of what?

It is of course far too early to see what successes Matt Williams will have with the rugby team, but what of Berti Vogts? I’ve already said my piece about him, on a few occasions and I don’t want to rant again but, why on earth did we play so badly against Wales tonight?

I know we always play better against big teams in important games but still, to lose so heavily after what we achieved against Holland at home is gutting, especially when you recall the result of the tie in Holland.

I’m not going to call for his head again yet, just hope to myself that we will do ourselves proud against the world beating, AIDS eradicating, crime stopping, peace inspiring, all-round good guys and superheros who visit Murrayfield on Saturday.

Oh, and didn’t Clive Woodward invent a time machine as well? Sorry, I mean Sir Clive Woodward.

Not that I’m cynical about the whole awards thing or anything. Oh no, not me.

OK, it was me but here’s one along now.

And no, I’m not trying to distract myself from this rubbish

And why has my camera suddenly decided to start naming files from zero again?

On Friday, on Dumbarton Road, a barbershop with a sign which says something slightly different from what the owner probably intended : ‘Gent’s Dick’s Hairdresser’. I assume he actually meant it to mean something like : ‘Dick’s. Gents’ Hairdresser’.

Today on Great Western Road. A man running to get on the bus which is going through traffic. Man knocks on door of bus as it’s moving, driver ignores him and carries on to the next bus stop, pulling well ahead or the man. At the next stop, the bus is about 400 yards ahead of the man who starts sprinting to catch up - is it really worth it, there are buses about every two minutes there? - the man finally catches up and boards the bus. After a second to catch his breath the man proudly and clearly declares his pass entitling him to free travel. That’s his disabled pass by the way.

Just finished watching this weeks episode, absolutely brilliant, did you see it? It was from Edinburgh this week, the owner of Alien Rock doing almost everything himself, with his partner, from knocking down the existing interior walls to making an amazing job on the roof. Is it finished now? And where exactly i it, I couldn’t work it out, at first I thought it was right at the bottom of Salisbury Crags but then changed my mind.

Here’s the link: channel4.com - Grand Designs - Edinburgh