Quitting coffee
OK, it was making me irritable, irrascible, ratty, scratchy, agitated, arsey and unstable. It’s hard to tell how crackers you’re going from the inside… but I could tell it wasn’t good.
So I gave up - I’ve been bed-ridden for several days. Holy crap that was rough. I’ve cold-turkeyed on a few things in my time… and most of them are kindof intermingled with hangovers so the bad comes out with the worse… but not coffee. Blinding headaches and about 2 hours sleep a day. They don’t tell you that on the coffee adverts.
Anyway. Done that now. Out the other side - and I feel better than I’ve felt in ages. I don’t think it’s very good for you to be honest - seems to create this general background level of aggravation.
Speaking of which, here’s another one of those videos where someone takes an excellent song and superimposes it over the top of the soppy bits from some totally unconnected soap opera that you’ve never seen and which looks like an arsequakingly banal, humourless, tooth-grindingly annoying dorkfest.
Shriekback being the band… and they actually looked like this:
Which is a craftily constructed link to a Chinese site because those cockweasels from the record company have incomprehensibly blocked their own band’s memes from propagating via youtube. They should be sacked.
Anyway, I saw Shriekback play once when I was young enough not to know better and thought they were the best thing I’d ever seen in my life - then went and saw them again in Australia… and being up for a big night out etc, downed four bottles of cider on St Kilda beach outside the venue before I went in.
And found that I’d turned up about 4 hours early and couldn’t get out again… so there was nothing to do except wander around this vast empty, echoing mausoleum of a nightclub, which seemed to be done up like Ancient Egypt, drinking myself sideways on Scotch which I’d just discovered, and didn’t really understand.
At some point I started to starve of course so tried to feed myself by eating loads of crisps out of some sort of machine… and then I was harrassed by a bouncer for sleeping in the wrong place. I don’t remember much about the gig itself. I don’t think it was as good to be honest.
Anyway. Shreikback. Too clever for their own good, but anyone who can get the word “anacrusis” into a song is ok by me.
