See the post downstairs? Yeah, well anyway- I’ll be making the 3 hour bus journey tomorrow to Glasgow to attend el grande Party-o of Mcrae & Sarah’s doing. Quincy left me a message last night at 0103, it read; “EVERYONE”.
Its gunna be a big one, if anyone reads this knows where my spare battery for the Sony has gone, I’d love to know. I can’t be arsed to shoot on film indoors.
UPDATE: I took the train.
I had hoped to catch up on some Coppola (2) template crunching time this morning, but since i’m traveling to work on a bus – I’ve mentioned them here before – its impossible for me to think let alone code anything of substance. It’s costing me ?Ǭ£10, for around 40 miles of travel. The train is cheaper, but I didn’t believe myself that this was the case.
If you ever travel in Scotland, don’t take the busses. Really, don’t waste your day. I say day because the headache traveling in one of these noisy, vibrating, juttering, shells will cause one hell of a bad start to the day (in my case end to the week).
How could I be so stoopid, busses- really suck balls. I think I may sue Stagecoach for breaking the hinges on my last laptop… no wi-fi, no little pull down desk, i bet the air conditioning doesn’t work. [it doesn't] Ah, screw it – I’m in a bad mood now, what a terrible day.
Oh FFS, just as I typed that, the excuse for a driver rounded a corner which cuased my case to go flying on to the floor, my new iBook just got his first scratches too.
Note to self / traveler: DO NOT USE THE BUSSES.
Nature is the real deal. Ten minutes jouney from your computer screen is grass (not the Camden variation), an hour from your sofa is blue sky (unless its snowing), a couple of miles from the moment your mobile signal drops you’ll find a track, down that track you will find reserves of strength you never had access to in the office. Through the wide open miles you’ll discover clarity and open-mindedness that would render any bullshit ?Ǭ£400 a day motivational speaker speechless.
Strip your life from concrete and box-rooms, dispel schedules, the lies of politicians and advertisers… its so simple, its so possible.
The world of TV and High-Streets is here to stay, we call it progress – but it seems to me half-baked. We have books and the internet, we know where paradise is (on earth) we call it “the Florida Keys” or “Phuket” but we’re not there. If this global society has discovered these places and shown us how it is – why haven’t we dropped all the bullshit that we built up to make the discovery and got our asses over there.
If society really worked, surely we’d be up for culling a few billion to live the good life on that little island, or in that penthouse. Oh, y’know what? We don’t need to do any culling – nature will do it for us, via Ice Age, Bird Flu, AIDS or Famine, nature knows its balancing point and the equilibrium will be restored. Hopefully the next round will set off from some de-evolutionary starting block; will could devolve* in terms of our grasp of society – if we had less capacity to think about others we’d probably stop starting wars, creating clans – moving on to the next bit of dirt, island or continent. If we had tails it’d be pretty sweet, smaller heads = smaller hats and all that.
Ach, what shit. Here’s Ewan McGregor reading Anton Chekhov’s “The Bet” (11.4MB MP3). Translated by Ronald Hingley. It is one of the most read files on my hard disk, I now pass it on to you.
…and this is how I ended up on a bus, going to Spain with 50 Animal Activists. I had quite a weird thought; I was probably the only one on this bus who had actually considered running with the bulls (in Pamplona) this year – it suddenly struck me for the first time in my life I was probably the most Right Wing person on this bus with the exception of the driver. Because some things in life remain a constant: the driver is always the most Right Wing person on any bus, no its true… at the beginning of the day when everyone is together whoever is the most Right Wing person on the bus is designated driver, he stays in that seat until someone more Right Wing gets on, expresses an option he finds just too extreme for him, then he gives up his seat. Anyone who remains in that seat to raise sufficient funds is then given a taxicab. No… that is how it works…
I’ve talked about busses before. Maybe I only drafted the post – I can’t find it in “Search”, maybe it’ll show up in “Related Entries” (how sweet is that Plugin?). I’m just posting because I love staring at my pretty blog and, bah…
I don’t have much time for busses; Billy tells my in Nepal (pronounced Nip-hall – for first time visitors, Nip-Al from there on) the busses are a free for all affair (when it comes to seating) people cling dare-devil style to the back or dangle limbs, animals or small children from a luggage rack that doubles as al-fresco seating up top. British busses have a similar al-fresco theme; the seating is fine. Its the humour that is missing… there is only resentment. This ride cost me ?Ǭ£6. But hey, I blogged it and listened to that crazy Richard Herring (when I say crazy, I do mean mentally ill).
Yo! old-school
folks, if your not to busy in Nepal, New York, San Francisco, South Africa,
Guatemala… or at the ‘6th Year’s
camp‘… then you will want to join in
the 3rd year of El Campio!! (that’s right blatant misuse of explanation marks).
Its taking place the first weekend of
June (3rd-5th) at Loch
Morlich, Aviemore and if you didn’t turn up last
year or the year
before then you probably heard what you missed… light rain, buying
coconuts,
sailing,
over preparedness, dog chews, me raising/draping the communist
flag every morning etc.In
all serious-face-ness it’ll be really great to see your happy shiny faces again.
Sadly, Santa-Land closed down – but hey! it’s not all bad news there’s a great
water-sports lodge and Aviemore is a 20p bus ride away, whatsmore its a
mid-blowingly beautiful place (photo, more photos,
my
set) and It’ll be bliss. So, well done in all your exams – please kick
me if I ask you how they went – I’m guessing you all need some R&R.
Please give Louisa, Daniel or me a bell / mail. 10 on the list so
far – we’ll sort out the Train
Times later – if you’ve got a driving license and would like to rent
an APC
people carrier for the week, just and idea…
