Memorize the Friday

[dotinthesky]

I'm in a horrible mood today. I don't know if it's because of the excrutiantingly long play I saw last night (The Royal Hunt of the Sun), the disappearance of the sun, the nightmare I had about being fired, the impending flight to Brasil and all its economic horrors, the tickling cough that just won't go away or the long tedious hours stretching ahead today. Whatever it is, it's making me cranky.

I want to hit HMV after work and buy The Organ's album. I've got their song "Memorize the City" stuck in my head and the newspaper this morning called their debut an effort beyond their Joy Division, The Smiths, The Cure and Blondie influences (i'm paraphrasing). I tried to buy a book during my lunch hour but nothing appealed to me. I'm feeling angsty about passively taking in culture -- books, films, plays, LJ -- and giving nothing back. And maybe I don't even want to give anything back, because there's nothing left to give. Music is the only thing that soothes me.

I've been listening alot to the Pet Shop Boy's "You Are Always on My Mind" ever since that night at Feeling Gloomy. My neighbour must be pissed off because he's fighting back with ska and 70s style punk. Little does he know how happy he makes me.

I want to lie under a South American sun, cuddle my dogs, eat watermelons & eat pastéis, wear shorts & flip flops, fall asleep in front of brasilian soap operas and win the lottery. I want my holiday in Brasil to start tomorrow, and to have those three weeks feel like six months.

Comments

[redcountess]

Soon!

[greenteablack.livejournal.com]

LOL I remember having music wars with the girl who lived in the next room from me in University. She'd play Michael Jackson first thing Saturday morning and it would wake me up so I'd play Metallica even louder and she'd eventually turn her music down. hehe.

[izzybees]

I'm feeling angsty about passively taking in culture -- books, films, plays, LJ -- and giving nothing back. And maybe I don't even want to give anything back

This is exactly how I feel right now.

[damiella.livejournal.com]

You know PSB are touring soon, right? Can you say,

YAY!!!!

[msanthropist.livejournal.com]

Hang in there Ollie...you make me laugh and laugh and laugh. I am mindful of the scene in "Willie Wonka" where Gene Wilder is happily munching away on a chocolate bar (I think?) while Augustus is stuck in the pipe...
"The suspense is terrible," Wonka breathlessly confides, "...I hope it will last!" (Stolen from Oscar Wilde)

These excrutiating moments of anticipation will only add to the intense enjoyment you experience once you actually find yourself on holiday "under a South American sun," cuddling your dogs, eating watermelons & pastéis, wearing shorts & flip flops, falling asleep in front of brasilian soap operas" and remembering for how long you consciously craved these very things. Ah, life, sweet life...

"Anticipation, alternately pleasurable and unnerving, is experienced as a potent emotional, and sometimes visceral, charge. A time-based phenomenon, anticipation involves self-awareness and a feeling of foreboding based on the expectation that something is about to happen. Waiting, unsure and expectant, we experience for some time prickly feelings and a state of heightened consciousness that cross-wires psychological and physical sensation." Museum of Contempory Photography

It's no wonder you're feeling cranky! It's the weekend - go party! Any plans?

[naturalbornkaos.livejournal.com]

Dude, that "Memorise The City" song is SO goth.

You should check out All About Eve or Sunshine Blind if you like that kind of thing...

[scruffulous.livejournal.com]

i can't help but kind of like the organ... i think the singer sounds like pat benatar, i think. they all kind of remind me of "love is a battlefield."