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Grist to the Mill: May 2004
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Grist to the Mill. 13 May, 2004. Like the old jazz standard, I find myself 'in a sentimental mood'. In a mood such as this, it's random acts of kindness that break your heart - more so than cruelty or spitefulness. Here's an anecdote that evoked feelings of full-on pathos for the other woman involved: my mum was walking me in my pram along a canal bank, near the tannery that was quite close to our street in northern England. Is it hanging down? I haven't got time to go back and tack it up! The tremendous...
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Grist to the Mill: August 2004
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Grist to the Mill. 25 August, 2004. A pointless post because I don't feel like writing anything else. Late August not mid June. Bucket and spade not 'sand sculptures'. Valiant effort not not running for buses. Geoffrey Boycott not Ian Botham. Brown sauce not ketchup. Old Labour not New Labour. Tony Benn not Tony Blair. Breakfast radio not breakfast TV. John Coltrane not Miles Davis. Dressing down not dressing up. Leonard Rossiter not Ricky Gervais. Forward thinking not 'getting where I am today'. We are ...
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Grist to the Mill: September 2004
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Grist to the Mill. 28 September, 2004. Following on from the Narcisstic Personality post, the "flatmate" and I sat last night perusing similar websites on the Internet, laughingly deciding which personality disorder we each had. Which reminded me of the following. Taken from. Three Men in a Boat. Which I couldn't get along with on the grounds that it was waaay too twee and silly) you have to admit that the opening pages are kind of funny:. Why this invidious reservation? I had walked into that reading-ro...
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Grist to the Mill: June 2004
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Grist to the Mill. 30 June, 2004. A blind woman spoke on a radio programme this afternoon. The programme (unlike the woman's point that caught my attention) was concerned with making preparations for death. But it wasn't a morbid programme. The woman's voice was full of pleasure when she said, "I don't dream often, but when I do I can see what I'm looking at. It's lovely! Supermarkets are probably more sanitised than the average hospital, and food is supposed to taste. Posted by plymouth rock at 10:44 pm.
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Grist to the Mill: April 2004
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Grist to the Mill. 29 April, 2004. John Fante is one of the great unheralded voices in American fiction" (The Face). Too true, so I'll do a bit of heralding here. I read the "Bandini" books (. Wait Until Spring, Bandini. The Road to Los Angeles. 1933 Was a Bad Year. I've just finished it) is his most. Story Here's a passage about the uselessness of prayer (Catholicism is another strong theme):. Don't', I said, squirming away. Wear the stocking. And keep praying.'. Try her for a month. If she can make...
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Grist to the Mill: March 2004
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Grist to the Mill. 29 March, 2004. SEX ON THE BRAIN. There's a statistic informing us that men think about sex every few minutes during their waking hours. Honestly, I. Think about sex every few minutes (or even every few hours), but when I happened upon the following scene, 'impure thoughts' sprang to mind. I was in a coffee shop and. Or is it just me? Posted by plymouth rock at 11:52 pm. 27 March, 2004. Over the multi-storey car park, while camera crews and journalists from local and national newsrooms...
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Grist to the Mill: November 2004
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Grist to the Mill. 02 November, 2004. Election day in the US today, but, to be truthful, I'm far more interested in the following:. Could the good-man and the good-wife deny to the spirits of their dead the welcome which they gave to the herds? Posted by plymouth rock at 7:35 pm. Stuff that crosses my mind. View my complete profile.
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Grist to the Mill: December 2004
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Grist to the Mill. 21 December, 2004. Walks into his doctor's surgery and says "Doctor, doctor, I've got a cricket ball stuck up my arse". The doctor says, "Howzat? Posted by plymouth rock at 3:26 pm. 19 December, 2004. Says the Economist, "The British are no longer prudish about sex, but we still hate a queue jumper", which seems to capture the matter quite succinctly. Did their principles and convictions desert them over coffee? Posted by plymouth rock at 1:20 pm. Posted by plymouth rock at 11:50 am.
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Grist to the Mill: July 2004
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Grist to the Mill. 28 July, 2004. Wilson revisited the Smile theme and some of the album's significant stylistic devices on "Rio Grande", the closing 8-minute piece from his 1988 solo debut. Track listing (based on a handwritten note that Wilson gave to Capitol Records in 1967). Do You Like Worms. I'm In Great Shape. Child Is Father Of The Man. The Old Master Painter. Other tracks and fragments from the sessions include. Posted by plymouth rock at 2:27 pm. I can't wait for SMiLE to come out! 25 July, 2004.
