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Halfhearted
What are Sunday afternoons for if not mooching around complaining I'm bored, taking photos of the cat looking grumpy, lying on the floor listening to Nick Drake and finally attempting to tidy my room? I've dumped the contents of my cupboard all over the floor but have got distracted by my Big Box Of Paraphernalia. "Inspired" by 'Squash, I thought I'd blog what I found within:
-mobile phone bingo, devised on a train to Coventry. Points are awarded for “I’m on a train”, “I’m outside Milton fucking Keynes” and “Is Dave there?”
- letters from a friend in an eating disorder clinic, with increasingly insistent demands to send train times so she could run away. They stop suddenly;
- a card saying goodbye, a card so devastatingly sad it makes me weep if I even glance at the words. I have blue-tacked it shut;
-rules written on a train on the way to an Elliott Smith gig with a boy, all of them gleefully broken and danced on within the month, all except the last which we both agreed was most important;
-recipes my mum wrote for me before I went to uni, including “Omelette” and “Rice”
-a book of newspaper clippings that amuse me. Among them:
-Quentin Crisp’s film reviews, one of which includes the line “Now we know what Mr Travolta has been up to. Mr Travolta has been eating”;
- a local paper story about a springer spaniel who had 12 large stones removed from his stomach. There is a photo of him looking ashamed, captioned “You could shake him around him and he sounded like a bag of marbles”;
- Lioness Adopts Another Antelope. “Theories to explain the phenomenon include: Kamuniak is colour-blind; Kamuniak wants to be a vegetarian; Kamuniak wants to be loved.”
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Chintzy / Website (10.12.06 17:56) Love it. |
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valentia / Website (10.12.06 18:01) sundays are also for hiding under your duvet and eating anything you dont have to cook. x |
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Amy / Website (10.12.06 18:39) I have a box like that..some things had to be gotten rid of as they make me too sad/too angry/too depressed. They are good boxes though.xx |
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Moobs / Website (11.12.06 09:33) Do you keep the sad things because you want the pain to fade or because you'd really rather it didn't? |
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foxinthesnow / Website (11.12.06 10:44) Blimey Moobs, good question. I suppose it would feel disrespectful to throw them away. If someone's shared their pain and sadness with me, I can't just bin that. |
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foxinthesnow / Website (11.12.06 11:25) And for flip's sake, why do I have to KEEP re-editing the formatting of every entry? Why won't my line spacing behave itself? |
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lilo / Website (11.12.06 11:37) I love your mum's recipies. |
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seb / Website (11.12.06 12:37) I'm not sure who Nick Drake is, but I get the mood for sure. Merry Christmas, FoxInTheSnow. |
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awesomelies / Website (11.12.06 14:13) Nick Drake=English folk singer of rare and prodigious talent. Not, however, very cheerful. |
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pog (12.12.06 10:40) 'Kamuniak wants to be a vegetarian'?? Wonderful. |
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foxinthesnow / Website (12.12.06 10:51) 'Kamuniak wants to be loved' makes me almost tearful, as well as wonder about the loneliness of the journalist writing the piece. I found lots of old diaries too. Now they're a whole other blog entry. |
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gamba / Website (12.12.06 11:23) This kind of thing makes me jealous - all my special boxes are in the attic. They are like time capsules, they become more mysterious the longer you leave them unopened. |
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roach / Website (13.12.06 11:40) what a wonderful post. thank you. |
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sammy (14.12.06 12:12) i have a special box that i can't look at. it makes me cry even though the memories are happy. i like the things in yours, you have fun things too |
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missy / Website (15.12.06 09:26) i have a file that has sentimental things stuffed away in it. i also found a scrapbook the other day i'd kept of my 21st birthday cards, and also our first years xmas cards of me and mr tassles living together 
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Steven Novak / Website (16.12.06 01:46) I discovered long ago that listening to Nick Drake can only add to boredom. 
Steve~ |
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Sketches / Website (16.12.06 05:01) Oh you have some really amusing things in your box. Maybe we all do. I have stupid things, a volunteer batch from an exhibition i helped organize, letters from friends when we were teenagers, Oh they are down right funny. But i can never throw them. |
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toe-bee / Website (19.12.06 12:02) I have no box. What does this say about me? |
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doctortripswitch / Website (19.12.06 19:46) I have a metal chest of letters and boxes of ridiculous tat. That Quentin Crisp quote made me laugh out loud. That's all. |