Dag 472: Keep your silence to yourself

I am currently living in a downstairs flat that used to be a house. Therefore there is a bloke living in the upstairs flat above me. His favourate pastime is moving furniture around. I have lived there about 2 and a bit months and every evening that he is in he moves furniture around while I am watching TV. Each morning he must decide that he isn't happy with the places he moved the furniture too the night before because I hear him moving it all back again. There must be something wrong with me, because in all the time I have lived there I haven't moved a single piece of furniture around. I bet I would make a really good upstairs neighbour.

After listing all the concerts I have ever been to on my previous post (and I have thought of some more groups that ar missing, so I will be updating it agin soon) I decided to dig out some of my albums by those groups and go on a bit of a nostalgia trip. I had a copy of Real Life by Magazine that I picked up a couple of years back as I saw it cheap somewhere, but I never got round to playing it because I keep listening to Swedish music all the time. So I put this on and was amazed at how current it still sounded. Once it finished I put it straighth back on for a second airing and decided I needed more magazine stuff as a priority. As well as originally owning this album on LP I also had Secondhand Daylight, whcih I remember also liking very much at the time so I logged on to iTunes to see if I could purchase it there, but they only had Real Life and a couple of compilations, so I looked on amazon instead, but Secondhand Daylight had far too long a lead time so I ordered a 3 cd box set called (Maybe it's right to be nervous now) which is also basically a compilation, but the final cd contains some John Peel sessions that I remember I taped from the radio first time round. I used to be much less blinkered in those days and would listen to John Peel everynight and start recording every song he played. If I didn't like the song by half way through I would press stop and rewind to the end of the previous song and get ready to start recording the next one. I had loads of these tapes and I discovered loads of good bands that way. I wish I still had those tapes now.

I also gave some of my Cocteau Twins cds a replay - I had forgotten just how much I used to like them too. I remember being really impressed that Nicola managed to get the vicar to put on a cocteau twins cd in the church before here wedding. That was the wedding where everyone was seated and the vicar said "Let us pray". Everybody bowed their head apart from Andreas (Catherine's then boyfried - now husband) who stood up. I found that I couldn't stop myself laughing uncontrollably for the whole remainder of the service - but having said that I often get uncontrollable fits of the giggles in church, its probably a guilt thing or something.

I will forget myself......