Deep intertwinglings

You know, by now, we should all be eating pills, wearing tinfoil suits, and communicating by telepathy with jet-powered rocket pants to get us to work. But where has the future gone? At one time, it was a familiar place, a somewhat sterile place, admittedly, but one introduced by Judith Hann and Howard Stableford, with CD's smeared with jam and disposable paper clothes. Paper outfits - they scared me. A paper cut is bad enough on my finger, never mind on my old boy. But I digress. I miss the future. The thing is, 'the year 2000' still sounds like the future. New, and exciting. But 2000 was 6 years ago, and from my personal experience, was a bit pants. But for now, I shall resort to experimenting with home made prozac. The actual recipie is a closely guarded secret, but it involves chocolate. Mmmmm.

What sort of foodgroup is the Fray Bentos pie? I submit that it is animal, mineral and vegetable. Animal, from the undoubted meat content. Mineral, from the tough outer hull, and vegetable from the occasional vegetable content. The manky pastry, however, is still an unknown quantity, and remains to be successfully analyed by scientists.

So I'm visiting a friend today, and we go get some shopping (I had the car, no brainer). And on the way out, we pass a trio of...Chavettes. If there was a stereotypical Chavette look, these girls had it. Large, blingin' jewellery? Check. Heavily pregnant and wearing a midriffy-type top? Check. I'm sure had I waited around, I'd have seen them getting the tabs and Sunny D!

But I digress. As I type this, 'Cats and Dogs' is on TV. Not a great movie, but it's on in the background. I think Jeff Goldblum needed the money. But why are cats portrayed as evil?!? It's very, very unfair. Not only evil, but incompetent. Anyone who knows cats knows that they already rule the world, and are benevolent rulers who want only the best for their subjects. I personally welcome their dominion.

I've been wondering about music lately, about the extent to which I can change my own feelings with music. I was listening to Katherine Jenkins' 'Ti amero per sempre' the other day. If you don't know it, think of Whitney singing 'I will always love you' and you'll get the general idea. Anyway, the first time I heard it, something inside just clicked, and this reservoir of emotion seemed to come flooding out! And, I know that when I'm singing, or playing piano, I feel calm...peaceful.

Katherine has a good voice - not hugely powerful, but good to listen to. I've realised I need to spent more time with my music. Work has been so busy lately I've neglected the piano. It's not helped that the running has taken a back seat as well. BUT, now the kitchen is sorted (almost) I feel like I've got another place in the house that is mine, if that makes sense. So now I have somewhere I can sing, play and study.

Oh, and just to get it out of my system....with the recent death of Gene Pitney, apparently Ms Houston and Ms Spears are planning a tribute album. "Whitney and Britney sing the songs of Gene Pitney".