Sunday, September 24, 2006

LIVED IN BARS AND WOKE UP IN ARM CHAIRS

Well hello!

How are you all? Are you having good freakends?

(Tick one with a non permanent marker)

YES

NO

BOTH

Friday has been my favourite so far. I went out to see a band called LMNOP at The Wharf with Aaron and his lovely lady, Anna. I had, as people used to say in the Ye Olde days, a spiffing time. The band was good; all weirdness with added trumpets. There were a lot of songs about spiders and one of the members looked like Steve Irwin (When he was alive obviously)
Aaron and I were invited on stage for the final song and we danced and played whatever we could find. I 'played' a pint glass with all the emotion of a giddy Hendrix. I also cut off one of the guitarists by stepping on an important lead. In the chaos of pint-glass playing, shimmying and high-fiving, no one noticed. The knock on effect of this stage (non) invasion was that the managers pulled the plug after the set went over by a whopping 20 seconds. Some people, huh?

We went outside after and we all had a big chat and a bond by the water. Aaron tried to talk me up to anyone that would listen about the whole writing thing. He used it to try and impress a girl that was with us who looked a hell of a lot like Lilly 'Daughter of Keith' Allen. She misheard and thought he said something else, and thus, my career as a porn star was born.
After a while I didn't know if people were joking or not. I went along with it anyway, inventing a tidy biography and seedy career in 'Awkward Adult' entertainment. It helped to endure me to the huge group of people whose house I was crashing at.
Aaron, Anna, 'Lilly Allen' and the trumpet player went off to look for clubs. We ended up in a dance club, drinking Jeigermiester from a test tube. Sadly, the booze didn't make the music any better so we left to get food and shelter.

Back at the bands house (Which looked like something out of DiG) we had some tea, chatted and shot things with a Nerf gun. I sat with it on my lap (After shooting Aaron in the forehead) to 'ward off any ghosts' (I'm an illogical drunk)

We slept for a few hours and we headed back to Wolverhamton where I met my brother (Are you still with me?) and I went to my favourite trinket shop and brought some bracelets, a skull and cross bones hat and a cool, cheap t-shirt (that ripped when I got home)

We went to Blast Off on the evening. It wasn't all that great but it was nice to see folks again. Girl didn't turn up. *Shrugs*

I'm off to see Clerks 2.

I hope you are all well.

Chris

9 comments:

Gretta James said...

Wow you certainly did have a busy freakend.

The now ripped T-shirt sounds tres cool.

Have a good 1.
Gretta

Christopher D. Bate said...

Shame about the t-shirt because it's really cool. Maybe my Mom will work her Motherly magic on it and fix it. I'd try to sow it up but it would probably burst into flames.

Cathy said...

If you sow it up, you will grow more t-shirts; but if you sew it, you'll only have that one, which might rip again ;) (cheeky me, I know....)

Christopher D. Bate said...

I knew something wasn't right when I wrote that down. My brain isn't working on full 'Yee-Ha' strength at the moment. It's most likely from lack of sleep.
Likely.

Ryan said...

Wolverhamton is a cool name for a town.

DanProject76 said...

I went to work and was sarcastic to foolish people who didn't get it. Then I went home and cooked a lovely dinner and we watched 'Brick.'

I fell so old now!

Christopher D. Bate said...

Ryan--It's a pretty decent town, no matter what people say.

Dan--I watched Clerks 2. Brilliant.

ben said...

Christ, I wish I had friends.

I'm off to watch Clerks 2.

Christopher D. Bate said...

If you're ever in the area you are more than welcome to join our circus

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