Sinister: Life Without Bras, Garbage, Notebooks.

[idleberry]

hiya,

my laptop has been playing up. I have to jiggle it to
make it work. Surely thats not the normal thing for a
good quality laptop? Still, its working today. Its not
feeling quite so tempremental. You can tell its mine.
All my belongings have the same fickle "i'm not
working if I don't feel like it" attitude as me.

Whatsisface said Life Without Buildings were a great
band.
I've seen them about four times now, usually
supporting other bands. All I can ask, is was it the
singers complete lack of boob controlling underwear
that *really* caught your attention? Energetic? I'll
say. A warning to any ladies thinking of living
without a bra, (or indeed, a sports bra, which is also
extremely useful if you're planning on "bouncing"
around) 
THEY'LL BE DOWN TO YER KNEES IN TEN YEARS TIME!
Knockers? more like clackers in a while.
what a lovely thought. :)

Personally, I didn't think much of them- her boobs nor
the music provided by Life Without Buildings.

It was Stuarts pecs I was more taken by. Phwoarr!!!
*licks lips, bounces knee up and down, makes wolf
whistles, and general other cartoon-like behaviour*

I went to a gig last night. My pal called me on
Thursday, and asked me to go. It was to see Garbage at
the Corn Exchange in Edinburgh. I liked their first
two albums, but even then, they weren't the sort of
band I had *such* an interest in to want to see live.
But his pal had pulled out at last minute, so he asked
me to go, and hey, I had nothing better to do.

A few things I'd like to say about the gig:
In comparrison to the fair Belle And Sebastian crowd,
they were *nowhere* as near as sexy and as good
looking as you lot (and me);
Shirley was full of schmaltzyness, saying "thank you
so much" like some sort of Miss World winner,
receiving her tiara and sash, or an Oscar winner with
the speaches, and tears. Stuart does a much better
job- he gets to the point, makes us laugh, and teases
us with coy slaggings ("not bad... for an Edinburgh
crowd" indeed...).  What really grated my cheesy goat,
was when she started with the MOR
"I'm-down-with-the-kids,-I'm-a-political-activist"
political commentary. She was going on about how
brilliant Donald Dewar was. I just cringed. And then
when the idiotic crowd seemed to do that mindless
cheer, becuase they're not clever enough to think for
themselves. And the usual "This is the bestest gig
I've ever played in the whole wide world!" style
scripted thing she spouted. Her bitchy barbed comments
about Blue sent cheers of comradeship from the
mainstream pop-goth audience, most of whom looked
desperate to be noticed and alternative but all looked
the same in the end. Come on, I mean, Blue?? The woman
really needs to find a less easy target. Mind you, if
she went for Placebo, surely that would just be a case
of the pot calling the kettle black. And then it would
be a case of handbags at dawn "we're more goth than
you!" "no you're not, we are!"nonsense.

To add, I'm not see keen on her Bridget Nielssen/
Muriel Gray-goes-teddy-boy look. And she is so
*painfully* skinny too. She said she was having her
period (too much information!) but if so, why did he
silly woman wear white, and secondly, she cannot be
suggering water retention, otherwise when shes
finished she'll disappear.

In defence, she is a good live singer, and the band
were good live. But beyond that, there wasn't much to
them. Oh, but they did a cover version of Kylie's
"Can't Get You Out Of My Head" cos they couldn't
remember one of their own songs they were requested to
play when they came on for an encore.
And actually, she did a very good version of it too.
And then they remembered the song they were meant to
play. But only after they went off stage to check. 

Today I've been busy writing my wee story. Its coming
on quite nicely now. I sat in Costa coffee just off
Hanover Street this morning, writing away, waiting for
my parents to finish their shopping. 
I really enjoy it when I get that feeling of
satisfaction, when I have an idea, when I can chase my
idea and it leads me to a whole pot of ideas. A bit
like a rainbow. Becuase the rainclouds of writers
block are never far away. And they'll dampen your
spirit and smudge your words into a big inky mess, if
you're not careful.

Saw something cool in Paper Tiger today also. Magnetic
poetry? forget it. Magnetic randsom letters is cool
now. And mouse pad-pads- a block of notepaper in the
shape of a mouse pad. Or a sperm mouse pad. Thats cool
too. I'm easily amused.
I love looking at notebooks I can buy. But in shops
like Paper Tiger, they are always so expensive. But so
beautiful as well, there is something very soothing
about a new notebook. Perhaps this will be the
notebook to inspire you as you write in it? I have
about eight blank notebooks all sitting in my
bookshelf, waiting to offer me inspiration.
I've filled one notebook with my story. I'm always
happiest sitting writing in cafe's. I don't know why.
I think its just that the atmosphere is calm, and you
get coffees made for you, and you can smoke, and sit
for ages. Some people sit chatting, others read
magazines and newspapers. I always sit writing. Or
maybe I just like to pose as someone cool and
interesting and arty in public places. Its probably
the latter. :) 

I like to sit outside in parks too, and write. or on
the train. But in parks, you don't get coffees brought
to you. And it gets windy. And if it starts to rain,
as it always does in Scotland at some point, then your
ords get splodged.
And on trains, you get people looking over your
shoulder. And so you sit, and wrap your arm around
it,like you did at school, to stop the other kids
copying your work. Mind you, I'm just as guilty. If
I've got nothing to read, or listen to, or write, I'll
shamelessly steal glimpses of newspaper headlines. Its
funny when you see men in suits on the train, and they
become aware that you're reading over your shoulder,
and the page is open with some page three stunna. They
quickly flick over to look less like perverts.

righto kiddies! I'm off for my dinner.

Love,

Idleberry
xxx



















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