cupboard love

Going to have to be a quick one. Today, as you may be aware, is April Fool's day, and after a decade of inaction i decided to actually make an effort this year.

My scheming began in January when i was dossing in Hobbycraft and hit upon an idea. Basically i would buy a bag of stick-on eyes and attach them to inanimate objects, namely my housemate's food in our fridge.



Having left it perilously close to procure the eyes i was left with a very tight schedule this morning - John Lewis opens at 9am, my driving lesson is at 10am, between that i had to locate and purchase the eyes, walk home, do the deed, photograph and get out of my house before my housemate wakes up.

The most fun part was loitering outside John Lewis at 8.55am. Anyway, because many of the things in the fridge are too colourful and cluttered i decided to attack the cupboards as well. I am particularly keen on the shady-looking jar of Lloyd Grossman's Thai Green Curry Sauce, lurking at the back.



So, yes, it's 9.56am now and providing the glue holds i should be home and dry. Better run, but first check out this slightly eerie fridge shot. Never has houmous looked so threatening.

no smoking p_eas_

DRAW NUMBERS FOR FA CUP SEMI-FINALS:

1 Cardiff City
2 Portsmouth
3 West Brom
4 Barnsley

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Wilco Tango Foxtrot!

In other news the bathroom still isn't clean, both Mr and Mrs Tom are officially in love with Michael Cera, i found four Curly Wurlys behind my bed, band 0 played its official "last show evaaah", i discovered 'De Cecco' pasta.

walking clouds in the land

So there i am, waiting for my cake to cool, when my buzzer goes... it was Simon, open mic was cancelled and he'd come round to show me some new songs and share some posh coffee.

Having misplaced my capo, i quickly decided that trying to play guitar would be utterly futile and turned to the often-misused Casio MT-65 keyboard.



(a free-range MT-65)

In the past this piece of synth history has served two purposes; demo-ing unrealistic-sounding cello and trumpet parts, and producing "hilarious" chintzy covers of my own songs. Now that we're going all moody, Casiotone certainly has a place and the combination of fingerpicked acoustic guitar and 'Electric Piano' was certainly a winner.

After Simon left i iced my cake and converted my upbeat, guitar-led pop song into a slow, atmospheric dirge. Bardo Pond would be so proud of me.

so save your prayers

Almost forgot, an integral part of the recording process will be bottle after bottle of chilled ginger beer.

In other news, Simon got a lush new acoustic guitar this week and I am having trouble translating the Adore sound I have in my head into actual songs.

Still flushing the spazzy-ness out of my system.