Well, I suppose it’s down to me to make the first post of 2003 and wish all our readers a happy new year! Everyone at diskant’s new year resolution is to blog more..ahem! Not that I’ve got anything to post, unless you want to hear the intricacies of postal sorting. You do? Ah, great. Oh, wait, I’m bound by the Official Secrets Act and can’t tell.

Err, right. Well, let’s bring back THINGS I LIKE.

Things I like:
– boingy retro sounding dance music [Yummy Fur, 808 State, Autechre, Pet Shop Boys]
– my new sandwich press. mmm, toasted sandwiches
– my old keyboard which apparently is the same one Low use!
– the enormous pile of books sitting by my bed waiting to be read

Things I don’t like:
– digging out old 7″s and discovering they’re not really that good any more
– not getting anything edible for christmas [unless yellow flower bulbs count]
– waiting for the diskant badges to arrive
– WHY ISN’T THERE ANY SNOW?

1. Home-grown chillies are not good for the stomach.
2. Damien Frost records are great.
3. The tv programme ‘Six Feet Under’ is great.
4. If you ask for a can of Tab Clear in a newsagent’s people will laugh at you.
5. Jimmy Saville was once a professional wrestler.

i’m stealing chris summerlin’s thing of making a mixtape tracklisting. this seems like a good plan since the tape ring ground to a halt, and it will hopefully quench my desire for stupid pointless lists of bands.

side a
mike patton & melt banana: area 877
antioch arrow: chaos vs cosmos
behead the prophet n.l.sl.: in the garden
men’s recovery project: get the fuck out of my office
love lost but not forgotten: means to no end
my lai: twenty/twenty

side b
the eyesores: nausea
neutral milk hotel: oh comely
low: weight of water
johnny cash: i see a darkness
royal trux: money for nothing

there it is. short/sweet/shit. should you want a copy for yourself, please send me no less than £20 cash and 5 blank tapes in case i screw it up. thanks.

it was pretty fun. not tremendously exciting or anything, but entertaining enough. today i’m very, very ill. food poisoning or something. i attempted to watch Akira on dvd but ended up falling asleep for about the 7th time today.

things i like:
ice cream: doesn’t everyone? i want some. but i’d never keep it down.
stephen king: why did i never read anything of his before? great stuff.
signed system of a down stuff: fanboy!

things i don’t like:
vomiting: five times in a day. right on.
days off work when you’re actually ill: i’m so bored it hurts. ouch.

things i like:
ice-cream: i discovered today that an ice-cream van stops in the car park of where i work, and we’re all allowed to go and buy some. treat!
new issue of the diskant zine: good columns and interviews, plus wil forbis mentioned me. woo!
fugazi dvd: inspiring stuff. plus dvd extras!
wolves of greece: as previously mentioned.

things i don’t like:
the daily mail: “free queen mother rose for every reader”.
lenny kravitz: someone please explain how this man has any kind of a career.
pollen: my eyes! etc

i’m also going to see appleseed cast and cursive tomorrow, which should prove to be an education if nothing else. i’ve been reliably informed that this is a rare opportunity to see some ’emo’ bands in an ‘intimate’ venue. with ‘the kids’. i’ll be sure to let you know how it goes.

Got arrested at the Faslane Blockade;
Seen any films I’d bother to see again;
Bought any good records;
Finished reading Moby Dick
Been given the day off because of the train strikes;
Blogged.

Wow. I rock.