Sadpanda gets inspired

Sunday's spent reading the paper and music magazines whilst watching a barrage of bad sitcoms is the best sort of Sunday of all. Until you look back and think 'Did I really just squander 3 hours today glued to a show starring Freddie Prince Jr and that one out of Beverly Hills 90210? Maybe I need a hobby.' But of course that would cut into my 'watching bad sitcom' time and I'm not sure I could give that up.

My brother has moved back to Manchester today. This made me a sadpanda. Especially as he managed to take my Nintendo DS with him. I'm not sure what I'm going to mourn the loss of more... I'm joking of course. It'll be the DS. Although I will also miss his new addiction to making bad puns. All thanks to Dr Kawashima who had the GENIUS tip of puns being a good way to 'train your brain' (TRAIN YOUR BRAIN IN WHAT DR KAWASHIMA?!?! TRAIN. YOUR. BRAIN. IN. WHAT?)

e.g:

Me (to mum): You're hair looks big.

Mum: I shouted for you to come do my hair and you didnt reply.

Me: Well you can use my GHD's even if I'm not there.

Mum: I did use them.

Me: Riiight... [Please Note: I sometimes think my mother and I communicate by having two separate conversations that don't exactly relate to each other but still manage to mean we take turns in talking so that it at least appears we know what the other person is on about]

Brother: I'm glad we got all that straightened out. Sorry, that wasn't very punny.

Me: Jesus wept.

Yes. That sort of high brow humour is going to be sadly missed.

Thankyou for the mixtape suggestions. In particular whoever reccommended that tinymixtape link - it's awesome. Any site that has someone requesting 'Songs for the imaginary life I want to spend on a porch, in the woods, near a lake, off a dirt road, reading and writing and playing music with a boy who is in love with someone else' is the sort of thing that makes me realise why I'm glad the internet exists. (I'm not joking)

So far I've settled on two motifs:

1. The 'Friends Mix' idea from Stephen. Very timely as I'll be moving back to The Ford soon so it'll be nice to have something that I can listen to when I'm homesick. And it means I can include some Neil Diamond, Chaz'n'Dave and Charles Aznavour. That's going to be one freakin sweet mixtape right there

2. The Soundtrack to My Life if I made a Movie that was Loosely Based on my Life. Which would start off with 'Cannonball' by Breeders and have to include Supergrass 'Caught By The Fuzz' and Jane's Addiction 'Been Caught Stealing'. That makes it sound like I've lead the life of some sort of delinquent, which I most definately haven't (unless anyone who's closest brush with the law is the time their friend threw up on a policeman's shoe can ever really be considered a delinquent. Which I don't think they can). Those songs would be more scene setters than the lyrics having anything to do with what was going on in the scenes per se.

I also like Michael's idea of 'Mornings' as that could have a Side A - 'Snoozy'/Side B - 'Up and At 'Em Baby' theme. For the days when I can laze in bed and enjoy being snuggled under my duvet and conversely for the days when I need to be awake and alert and ready and don't neccessarily want to injest three litres of coffee to do it.

Oh man, I love making mixtapes.