Comments on: Friday Had Five Sherries too Many

By: G Bodner

G Bodner — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:35:14 +0000

Hi Matthew…I’ve really enjoyed following your blog over the last year or so. Withered Hand’s Good News is definitely my favourite album of the year…thanks for bringing them (and many other artists) to my attention. My bro does a good version of The Cuckoo as “Uncle Sinner”…have a listen if you like that tune: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOETuswTv9U. The album’s going nowhere fast, but not in an ’80s Canadian metal band (Razor) kinda way. Just in a sad, freezing and struggling in Winnipeg kinda way. Too bad, because even with my bias all-in, I think he’s made a solid record that few will ever hear. He could sure use a push if you deemed it pushworthy. Best wishes in twenty ten. – Glen

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:42:28 +0000

Dylan

To be fair most of our childhoods were spent in the same room. And I’m not sure Toad and I alone in this sentiment. George Lucas just hates happiness.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:05:20 +0000

George Lucas hates my childhood and won’t rest until it’s ruined

Right there with you, brother.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:49:17 +0000

1) I don’t really drink that much over Christmas. The combination of spending it with in laws and spending it in a part of America that is devoid of taxi’s or buses mean I have a strict beery limit.

2) I gave my wife the new Alicia Keys album. It was not for me, but I have to listen to it like it was.

3) Star Wars. But I need to get to non-retouched ones. George Lucas hates my childhood and won’t rest until it’s ruined.

4) Didn’t watch any. I’d love to say it’s because I’m too cultured but actually it’s because I was instructing my brother in law as to the superiority of Canadian hockey on his new Xbox.

5) I am sitting typing this in my office downstairs from the Christmas show I am about to do. So now. Right now is when I get sick of it.

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 01:28:05 +0000

1. No time to be hungover, son. There’s too much lego to be built, food to make & eat, and sledging to be done! Also, this all day drinking malarky has made my booze tolerance fucking ridiculously high – and that’s saying something.

2. I’m actually getting a bit bored of all the booze I’ve been given. Do folks think I’m some sort of lush? (answer: yes, yes they do)

3. Withnail & I is the trad xmas film in our house.

4. Not had the telly on as yet.

5. I’d break my neck on the ice on the way back. Mind that chap who froze to death on his doorstep a few days ago, after a big xmas bender.

Ed
The ‘Spill.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:13:42 +0000

Nice to see a few of us are still fannying about on the internet in amongst all this festive pish. Good work, people!

By: Campfires & Battlefields

Campfires & Battlefields — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:43:26 +0000

1. Yesterday.
2. My father got my wife an exfoliating leg-hair removal pad as a stocking stuffer. The bastard.
3. Rudolph/Frosty/Grinch
4. Charlie Brown
5. Yesterday.

By: adam

adam — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:11:27 +0000

1. As it’s going now it should be tomorrow. I cooked all afternoon and have spent most of the evening cleaning up so that obviously means a lot of sly drinking that even I didn’t notice at the time has been going on.
2. A guide to lost crafts. I am now ready to make a coracle or take up farriering (if that’s what it’s called. Farriery?)
3. Dunno. Somebody’s given me a very nice book about Spirited Away which I’ve been reading on and off today and I really want to watch that again more than anything seasonal.
4. Blackadder’s Christmas Carol is great. I went off Only Fools and Horses when their grandad died. Outnumbered is very good usually, I think, and I’m looking forward to that one most this year.
5.I wish.

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:31:07 +0000

1. As a teetotaller this doesn’t apply, but i’ll probably feel like I overindulged on too much stuff tomorrow (boxing day)and new year’s day anyway.

2. I was once given a Methodist hymn book by the parents of a girl I was going out with (when i was aged, ooh, 24). My parents thought that was messed up, too -and my dad’s a Minister.

3. I would say Back to the Future, Mrs. 17 Seconds would say Lord of the Rings, the boxset of indiana Jones has never worked in current DVD player, so might well be all six Harry Potter DVDs…

4. Have just watched Dr. Who as well. Indeed, I too cannot wait until New Year’s Day.

5. Am going to try and get out of Edinburgh to go to see a friend in the Scottish Borders tomorrow. And Mrs. 17 Seconds is working, so I guess it is ending for us soon.

Merry christmas all (what’s left of it…!)

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:25:22 +0000

Cogstar…that’s a great Kate Bush album. If they really hated you they would have bought you something by Dido. Or Celine Dion.

If they wanted to test how much of a kate Bush fan you really are they might have got you the Dreaming or The Red Shoes!