05/09/07
The lazyness -
Categories: Now being full time I have made an aim that as I am not at work I've got to spend my days writing and doing other stuff that I gotta do. Today I got that aim off to a roaring start by accidentally waking up at 1.30pm this afternoon. I say accidentally but this was a direct result of my productive action beginning yesterday by going to my friends house and playing xbox until 2am and drinking rum.
By doing this I was a) unproductive and b) drinking which is something else I was aiming not to do. While it was damn good fun, I have some sort of bizarre mental issue that makes me feel guilty if I'm not doing stuff I should be. Saying that, last night I truly felt like the only place I should be was smashing up cars on an xbox. Who says games are damaging and influencing the youth? Bollocks I say, although after playing Burnout revenge for 3 hours, then going out driving today, I kept wondering how many points I'd get for driving into other people and running over innocents. If life were a game it would make long journeys to gigs so much more rewarding. Manchester would seem so much nearer if I could 'takedown' and 'check' passing vehicles. Especially f*ckers in flashy cars. I'd ruin them, then gain points for it, get 'burnout' and zoom straight to the gig. Sometimes I worry how prone I am to being influenced by these things. I find myself unconsciously driving faster if I play the 24 soundtrack in the car, so I should really stop playing 'Burnout'.
I've been booking up for my comedy club too, which is always hellish. I know exactly who I want to book in, but it doesn't stop every email under the sun from swamping me and asking me for gigs. I don't know how proper promoters do it, it would drive me crazy. I remember being a proper open spot and harassing people but I had no idea of the amount of emails and phone calls I would receive. As much as I love hosting my club, I wish I didn't have to run it. I'm an act, not a promoter, but at the same time I don't trust anyone else to run it, so I'm stuck being both. Looks like we've got a grand season coming up though so I cant complain.
Walked past Simon Amstell in the West End yesterday. I was with my friend and my brother and both of them with their high level of humour found it hilarious to goad me and say, 'go on, say hello to your friend, say hello'. I hate these situations as I do know him from gigs and he's a truly lovely man, but he was talking to Miquita Oliver and media looking person and I thought I'd just walk past and ignore him and all would be OK as he would ignore me too. Annoyingly, Simon is such a lovely man, that he said hello and I had to double back and say hello which made me the prick that was going to ignore him. Damn. Still, it shut my friend and brother up. In a comedy type situation I'd have been fine, but in the real world these things are so much harder to deal with.
Also had a phone interview with the Islington Gazette today. Apparently they interview up and coming local celebrities in the area for their paper every week. They must be running extremely low on people. Despite that I feel I must be moving someway up the ladder. Probably not even a 'z' list, but more the numbers that come after z, somewhere between 0-9. Maybe a 4 list. Either way, I had a full 5 minutes of enjoyment at this before I realised how inconsequential it all is. Managed to plug Fat Tuesdays though.
How sh*t is the film the Queen? Very sh*t. However the Bourne Ultimatum is not. I should be a reviewer.
Bestival on Friday! Hooray for great music, the comedy tent gig, dressing up as a pirate and no proper washing or toilet facilities!
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