Saturday evening
Cool week...Had absolutely no work to do and laziness crept in. Went for a live jazz night with some friends earlier in the week and that was great. Having not drunk any alcohol in ages, I was annoyed to discover that I was getting a bit tipsy after three pints. Im turning into a lightwweight! Please God, no!
-Raymond was talking about getting a new phone on his blog and it reminded me of how the benefits of capitalism are passing me by. I still have my old Nokia and I've had it for so long that my battery is serving me notice to quit by cutting me off everytime I get a call. I havent bought a single item of clothing since I came to England except boxers and socks. I buy CD's by the armful, but everytime I wander into anything other than a record store I don't quite know what I'm doing there. I feel a certain kinship with Socrates who-standing infront of a vibrant marketplace back in the day- exclaimed "What a lot of things I don't need!" I'm completely out of my depth in those malls. To para-phrase Emily Dickinson- "Because I could not stop for capitalism/he told me to fuck off"
-All those one pence coins that were piling up on my shelf finally found a home in the food machine. Last night I went down to buy mini-cookies from that magic machine in the middle of 'Rushmore'- it cost 45 pence but almost half of that amount was made up of one pence coins which had been annoying the hell out of me because I couldnt get rid of them. I was standing there putting in 1p coin after another when this drunk couple comes up behind me and stood waiting probably thoroughly amused. I apologized "This is going to take a while" I told them (which was obvious since I had my hands full of those 1p coins) but they took it sportingly. We chatted a bit and they began to cheer me on as each coin went in willing me on to the magic 45p mark. I got there and everyone was happy. That encounter was a lot stranger than it sounds.
-Insomnia persists even though a friend of mine insists it is not insomnia but a 'different sleeping pattern'. Thanks a lot for raining on my parade! But I repeat: my insomnia persists. Last night I was awake till five listening to Lonnie Liston Smith and Sade but otherwise doing nothing that was so important that my brain decided I needed to stay awake to do it. We are going to have a talk later, Mr Brain and I. Strong words might be exchanged and we might say things we don't mean. I'll keep you posted.
-Raymond was talking about getting a new phone on his blog and it reminded me of how the benefits of capitalism are passing me by. I still have my old Nokia and I've had it for so long that my battery is serving me notice to quit by cutting me off everytime I get a call. I havent bought a single item of clothing since I came to England except boxers and socks. I buy CD's by the armful, but everytime I wander into anything other than a record store I don't quite know what I'm doing there. I feel a certain kinship with Socrates who-standing infront of a vibrant marketplace back in the day- exclaimed "What a lot of things I don't need!" I'm completely out of my depth in those malls. To para-phrase Emily Dickinson- "Because I could not stop for capitalism/he told me to fuck off"
-All those one pence coins that were piling up on my shelf finally found a home in the food machine. Last night I went down to buy mini-cookies from that magic machine in the middle of 'Rushmore'- it cost 45 pence but almost half of that amount was made up of one pence coins which had been annoying the hell out of me because I couldnt get rid of them. I was standing there putting in 1p coin after another when this drunk couple comes up behind me and stood waiting probably thoroughly amused. I apologized "This is going to take a while" I told them (which was obvious since I had my hands full of those 1p coins) but they took it sportingly. We chatted a bit and they began to cheer me on as each coin went in willing me on to the magic 45p mark. I got there and everyone was happy. That encounter was a lot stranger than it sounds.
-Insomnia persists even though a friend of mine insists it is not insomnia but a 'different sleeping pattern'. Thanks a lot for raining on my parade! But I repeat: my insomnia persists. Last night I was awake till five listening to Lonnie Liston Smith and Sade but otherwise doing nothing that was so important that my brain decided I needed to stay awake to do it. We are going to have a talk later, Mr Brain and I. Strong words might be exchanged and we might say things we don't mean. I'll keep you posted.
posted by Minzo at 6:39 PM
5 Comments:
Brilliant post Minega,simply brilliant,I am very impressed!!keep up the great writing
wow i admire you, i go into a store and feel i "need" everything.As for cell phones at least you have one, i can not seem to grasp the concept of talking only/ mostly when its free minutes, ariko if they those bad manners of the ku beepa system aka free incoming...it'd be a different story
Minega,i see you are living the life!!goodgood!..as for the consumerism,it makes me question if we are relas cos im such a conspicious consumer(bila shame at that)i blame it on North America.
p/s:you are a FUNNY lad!.
AHHH yes. The late night discussions with the brain. I have exchanged many a nasty word with my wild and errant brain. Good luck with your "sit-down" with yours.
walk into a store and you don't know what you want? that's incredulous! i always want and most importantly NEED everything i see but then again we're separated by this chasm that got a new name recently: Gender.
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