I have been cleaning my flist of a veritable avalanche of HP comms that I no longer read, and made a small friends cut at the same time. It's nothing personal, just a consequence of my limited LJ time. Every day is defriending amnesty day on my journal, so anyone should feel free to defriend me without fear that I'll stalk them all over the interwebs.

This time last week I was planning to be all 'woo, one year since I gave up smoking!' but my triumph was somewhat overshadowed by the icky virus and case of laryngitis I had at the time. And to add insult to injury, at a time when I should be enjoying my best lung-health for years, the virus has left me temporarily asthmatic. Bastards!

I have had a lot of time to read though, and recently finished The Line of Beauty and Boy A which were both awesome and tragic by turns. I only have one of Alan Hollinghurst's oeuvre left to read, so I hope he comes up with another book soon. I can't think of another contemporary writer I have enjoyed so much.

I want this Mix Tape USB set so much it hurts, but paying £20 for a 64mb USB key in cool retro packaging would ultimately be more painful, I think.


Excellent Wikipedia meme, taken from grrliz:

1. Go to the Wikipedia home page and click "random article" (in the menu on the left). That is your band's name.

2. Click random article again; that is your album name.

3. Click random article 15 more times; those are the tracks on your album:

( To spare your flistsCollapse )

I'd had such a long, crappy day today that I didn't think it could possibly improve. Then I went to Staples after work to get some paper and found



Jumbo pushpins! (excuse the crappy phone camera photo)

I'm almost embarassed by how much this cheered me up.

I've never managed to finish a Frankenmix before, but the latest one, to pick out a soundtrack to the perfect romantic comedy, inspired me.

( My mix, complete with tracks and lyrics, is under the cut!Collapse )

Happy New Year!