Nick Greenslade > Emotional Roller Coaster: Because my Mum said so

Tuesday, January 11, 2005 Because my Mum said so

OK, I talked my Mum, Dad and sister to day which was great. All three of them sitting there staring into a little camera, thinking that their boy was taking notice of their gallivanting in front of the camera, and not reading through the 50 page proposal he had to do this morning. And yes, Mum and Dad and Kate - you had my full attention, so don't fret.
Back on track now.....mind wandering.....so they run me over the coals for not keeping this thing up to date. Yeh I know. Motivation is the key here. I watch movies or drink a lot then crash out in bed with a Battlestar Galactica or The Batman cartoon, then read some pop culture magazine, get a cuddle [CUDDLE dirty minds!] and sleep. My mind is far from the keyboard unless I'm searching eBAY for elusive CDs, DVDs and vinyl for my ever growing collection.
So I just thought tonight I'd talk up a bit of today and the last few so you feel that I'm getting back onto the wagon of truth, justice and the London way.... sharing my thoughts with the masses who read this.....hellllllooooooo [echo echo echo]. So I'm going to try and write more shit in here - maybe go a little deeper than my visit here, my pint there and wow how great/cool/shit/downright craptacular this thing was. Time to let the mind wander and as my Mum says I do, dribble more crap.
So we [that's me and my girl next to me SMSing in bed (beep beep beep)], are going to Bruge. That's Belgium for you non-geographical types. Chocolate and beer. And lace. Fucking lace - which in the top ten things in Belgium book that was bought today comes second to chocolate and above beer. This hurt a little. I spent some good [strong?] Aussie dollars in a Belgium Beer Cafe in my last year in Adelaide, and there was no LACE! No doilies under my pint glasses. I am appalled. I will be questioning the motives and the locals on their thoughts come February 25th. But I am excited. Out of London and into a foreign country, with people who don't natively talk English. Or Australian if you live in the part of London I do....... [groan]
Another joy to behold is that London pulls all the cool stuff. The stuff I used to read about and hope for some reason their planes would crash in Adelaide and they'd have to play their concert or visit our part of the world. Well Kevin Smith is coming to London to do a Q + A session in my town! For those who don't know Kevin Smith, I am yet again appalled with your lack of knowledge and I would head to IMDB and check out what movies he has directed and hire them. Or if you know my family, borrow them from the stash they have of mine. So Kevin Smith sells tickets and puts fans in a hall/theatre and gets them to ask him questions about whatever. This is basically stand up comedy from a guy who loves pop culture and directs some of my favourite movies, so tickets are a must-have. Coupled to that is I now have [won off eBAY] a DVD copy of his first Q + A tour he did, have just watched the first half and laughed silly, so I know it'll be a blast. Do I have the guts to ask him something? It'd have to be obscure enough that he'd think it was sort of cool, and it would have to be delivered without a hiccup so the embarrassing fear was not noticeable.... probably a comic book thing, or maybe a Star Wars thing -- something he's interested in and has ties to and would be keen to start some banter about.
So I have huge plans again for this little site. Updating this more often may help me cure my eBAY addiction, redesigning it [I have a new cool pic for the top bar] lets me think I still have artist skills and if everyone person who reads this leaves me a comment below I'll know that I haven't been forgotten already [sends guilt to make them forget who has been slack].
I also think I might still add all those photos and revisit December 2004 and part of January 2005 so I have a decent record of my time here.
Enjoy, and don't forget those comments, yet I still believe I write this to myself [sending more guilt!!]
Cheers.

Posted by Nick @ 11:35 pm 2 comments

2 Comments:

At 1:54 am, Anonymous said...

I still read your ramblings. Makes me jealous for all the music that you'll get to see.
Not that you'd care but you're going to miss Kid Koala at the Space, January 25 :-))))))

Michael V.

At 12:23 am, Anonymous said...

Hey Nick,

Yep, I'm still following your adventures on the blog so keep it going!

Cheers,

GP.