In the Bathtub's Jaws

[dotinthesky]

I'm not leaving the flat today.

I spent the morning playing video games (X-Men, mostly because it's like Heroes by proxy) and reading. I started E. M. Forster's Maurice and it looks like I'll be finished with it by tonight. Chocolates, coffee with dollops of Bailey's and a chicken pie also featured. We have run out of milk and I need to think of a way to trick Kevin into going to the cornerstore. He's a Leo so it's all reverse psychology when I want something done.

I took the stereo into the bathroom with The 6ths' "Hyacinths and Thistles", poured some Muji milk bath salts in the hot water, lit a rose and sandalwood candle, turned off the lights, stripped, made sure my half-mug of Bailey's and ice wouldn't tip in the bath, and luxuriantly slid in. I like listening to music in the bathtub. I like the way it echoes and seems played just for myself, recorded in an echoeing chamber. Nothing gets lost, like it so often does in a London living room invaded by the street's constant sounds.

Other great suggestions for the bathtub: Lou Reed's "Transformer", The Raveonette's "Lust Lust Lust", The Moody Bitch Mix and The Magnetic Fields' "69 Love Songs vol.3". Strangelove's "Time For The Rest of Your Life" is too intense for such a small space and will depress you. The second time I read Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" was in the tub (two lie ins); and I've also watched Scream 3 in the tub (this was in Kevin's uni apartment; I moved the TV until it snuggly fit the bathroom's entrance.)

I want to be buried in a bathtub. But I don't want to be drowned in one, or electrocuted (as Kevin seems to think is my fate everytime I sneak the stereo in there.)

X-post to bathtubz, the best community in Livejournal, natch <--- sooo 2003.

Comments

[androktone.livejournal.com]

ah watching tv from the bath is a really good idea! I could perhaps set up a system of mirrors or something.. I like incense and a good book and scented almond oil that floats on the surface of the water and makes you slippery.

I was obscurely gratified when Lillith (my 8 year old daughter) took to reading in the bath with candles :) I think she'll get a lot of pleasure out of that little routine during her life.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I've never tried scented almond oil... that's a good tip! :-)

Anything really is great in a tub, except eating messy food perhaps.

[moveslikegiallo.livejournal.com]

I wish I had a bathtub long enough to lie down in properly. Sometimes it's just no fun being tall.

This was a great post, by the way. :)

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Any posts involving bathtubs cannot help but be great. :-P

Can't you drill a hole in your wall and expand the bathtub? It's an absolute crime you can't enjoy it!

[moveslikegiallo.livejournal.com]

When I'm rich I'm going to get one of those massive sit-down tubs they make for old people. That'd be awesome, I reckon.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

My mom got one of those, including hydrojets and a digital temperature controller. Unfortunatelly, it kept breaking down. :-/

mmmm

[sublimevisions.livejournal.com]

sounds like such a relaxing day.
i used to listen to radiohead's album, the bends in the bath.
i miss days like that.

ooh... london. i'll be arriving at heathrow on 08 Jan at 15:50 if everything goes well.

have a great mental health day

Re: mmmm

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Cheers... have a great mentalist day too. ;-)

Drop me a line or call me when you arrive in London, to let me know when it's good for you to meet. Do you know which part of the city you'll be staying?

[dilvsy.livejournal.com]

I love my bathtub...it's a nice big soaker tub.
I just don't lounge in it until I get all pruney, like I used to.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

You should try it sometime with Nigel.

[dilvsy.livejournal.com]

god, I can just imagine what he'd do if I tossed him in a tub.
Fatty would be meowing like Barry Gibb, flailing his fat cat arms and legs about.

[stormecho.livejournal.com]

This post needs pictures.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

This poster needs a water-friendly camera.

[stormecho.livejournal.com]

I believe they make disposable waterproof ones nowadays - but get a webcam first ;)

[kevyn-kronycles.livejournal.com]

Kevin's a Leo eh? Curtis was a Leo, and my being a Capricorn didn't make us a good match at all. What sign are you?

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I'm a Libra. Apparently, we are a match.

[kevyn-kronycles.livejournal.com]

Apparently Chris and I are a match with Scorpio and Capricorn, although it's an odd one

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

New Year Resolution: lots of bath soaking for you and big FUCK OFFS to anyone that tries to interrupt you. :-)

[sjaal.livejournal.com]

I haven't taken a bath since the summer (it's all showers); anything involving a bathroom suddenly disgusts me. I can't be in and out quick enough.

and caps for emphasis:
I LOVE 69 LOVE SONGS.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

69 Love Songs is a work of unparalleled genius. Did you know they have a new album coming out in February? I can't wait!

[desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com]

I am trying to come up with how you would trick me into going. Probably with a $5 bill and telling me I could get some ice cream. I'd get all excited at the prospect and jump around and also pick up the milk you wanted.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Speaking of ice cream, my brother has finally opened the cafe! He has promised to send me photos, especially because he threw a party recently where over 80 people showed up! It's open during the weekends and he sells coffee, ice cream, that sort of stuff.

[desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com]

Oh yay! Now I really need to get him some music! I'll email him again.

[blu-bear.livejournal.com]

I had a similar night of indulgence last night. I got in to bed about about 8, watched 'The Holiday' followed by 'Shakespeare in Love' and polished off half a box of gorrgeous chocolates. What a hard life we lead hey?

By the way what are your new years plans? Not going to popstarz by any chance are you?

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking of going to button down disco, but nothing is set in stone. It's free before 10pm and they have something like 7 rooms (including a cinema!)

Are you going to popstarz?

[blu-bear.livejournal.com]

I am. Should be pretty good as it's moving from La Scala in Jan so they're pulling out all the stops. There's a snow machine and everything!

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

That sounds really good! I'll see if I can convince my friends to change their plans.

[blu-bear.livejournal.com]

Do, do!

[aeonflux.livejournal.com]

I, too, love 69 Love Songs. I also love baths. I took a long one last night during which I wrote the majority of today's post. I like to listen to Beethoven in the bathtub, especially the Ninth. It's like a Clockwork Orange spa day. It's nice to see someone who enjoys the bath as much as me. I have this bath salt stuff that looks like an innocuous seafoam green powder, but turns the water a deep turquoise that you can't see the bottom of. It's lovely.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

You sound like a perfect member for bathtubz. ;-)

I'll give Beethoven a go; sounds like a great tip.

[rag-and-bone.livejournal.com]

would you prefer a claw-footed bathtub to be buried in?

i love this post. i am only recently beginning to enjoy the idea of baths. i don't really like being submerged in water. but they do have incredible relaxing properties.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

A marble, claw-footed bathtub with taps made of gold, if that's not too hard to find.