The Thoughts of Chairman WOW!

And while we're at it, here is some more fluff, which I nicked from heartofdavid.


This kitten is, like, toadally, me, I don't know how they did it.

I'm afraid I didn't win the record player, but I'm not too bothered as the price went up rather high for what it was. The machine had no brand name indicated so I couldn't look for reviews of it on the web, and it was a bit risky, especially at the price they wanted. I will keep looking on eBay - there are quite a few such items there - or maybe just buy some separates from a shop, if I can find some that are compact enough and not too dear.

I was very surprised to be asked by an internet friend to do some modeling today. Stop sniggering at the back! It is for a catwalk display of wearable ceramic corsets for ladies and gentlemen, as part of Alternative London Fashion Week. Here is the website with some pictures of them.

I have never done any modeling in my life (except for hair modeling) and certainly never worn a corset! Fortunately they are not your standard Black Rose-style goth corsets, in fact there are some quite interesting designs and they are aimed at both sexes. I wouldn't have thought I was model material but it is meant to be 'alternative', I suppose. It sounds quite fun so I said yes, although I haven't found out if I can have the night off work yet. I do hope they say yes, or at least let me swap shifts. I have never thrown a sickie in my life and I hope not to start now!

Today I had a day off work to go to collect my prescription. I still have to go all the way to Peckham to get it, which takes up to an hour. I ought to change surgery to somewhere in Islington, but I don't know a good one. I have had quite bad experiences with Acorn Surgery in Peckham and I don't want to go through the hassle of signing up to another one just to receive a bad service again.

Afterwards I had a nice lunch of baguette with Tyrol ham, which is a dry-cured ham smoked over juniper. Then I fell asleep for some hours.

I spent part of the evening with my synthesizer, refining some sounds for use in some songs I have written. I haven't spent much time with my friend electric recently but I am trying to devote more attention to it now. I find it satisfying to create new sounds and enjoy learning to use all the machine's different features. The arpeggiator is one of the more instantly gratifying ones as it allows you to produce a sequence of notes just by holding down one key. It has a built-in vocoder, too, although I spend most of my working day emitting robotic utterances, so I don't really need it ;)