When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.

I'm really rather angry at someone at the moment.

They should know who they are and why.

Rant over.

I want to share something with you. The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number one: Cover for me. Number two: Oh, good idea, boss! Number three: It was like that when I got here!

I could be a millionaire if I had the money
I could own a mansion, no I don't think I'd like that
But I might write a song that makes you laugh, now that would be funny
And you could tell your friends you'd like that
And a line or two on paper wouldn't go amiss
I miss you, I really do.

I've been reading Browning, Keats and William Wordsworth
And they all seem to be saying the same thing for me
Well I like the words they use, and I like the way they use them
You know, Home Thoughts From Abroad is such a beautiful poem
And I know how Robert Browning must have felt
'Cause I'm feeling the same way about you
Wondering what you're doing and if you need some help
Do I still occupy your mind? Am I being so unkind?

Classic Lyrics!!!!

Which is the only song to enter the UK top 40 with the word 'Euphonium' in it?

Missing someone is an awful feeling.

It's the worst feeling I can have anyway. For the reason I can't do anything about it.

Jealousy, I can try harder to achieve what I'm jealous of.

Unrequited love is nearly as bad but you can look around and try to find someone else to like.

Fear, you can face it or learn to live with it.

Angst, you know it will end soon, I'm usually feeling angst on a short-term basis.

Guilt, grief, embarrassment and disappointment can be eventually forgotten.

Missing someone is something I can't forget. I kind of wear it as an invisible badge on my sleeve, I know it's there, try to ignore it, but it's at the back of my mind occasionally jabbing me to remind me there is someone not there.

It can be (obviously not always) my first thought in the morning and last at night.

And yes, I am missing someone an awful lot at the moment.

Plus, I do still like the previously mentioned (unnamed, female!) person.

No idea what to do in that situation, it's a bit of an icky mess as it goes...

'To Start Press Any Key'. Where's the ANY key?

"Stupidity is a lack of intelligence, understanding, reason, wit, or sense."

I'm really not sure which I lack, I think it's probably sense.

Whatever reason we choose to excuse our silly slip ups, we will all make at least one blundering blooper in our lifetime. I will prefer to make mine when no one else is around because I firmly believe what others don’t know won’t hurt me.

I may be daft but not this daft...

"The lawyer of Henry Smith had to admit to the courts that his client was not a very smart person. Moments after Henry arrived home with a stolen stereo, the police were at his door to arrest him. He was easy to track… he had his name tattooed in large letters on his forehead."

See, I knew there was a reason obvious tattoo's are silly.

I've made quite a few blunders in the past, mainly due to the absolute FACT I can't see what it is when someone is hinting at something.

Ah well eh...

Either I'm concussed, or I'm watching Patrick Moore fistfighting with an extraterrestrial.

Everybody has days like this.
I wake up, far too early, my alarm sounds and it gets thrown to the floor. I always forget...
The alarm clock cannot defend itself...

I go to work, occasionally feel a bit forgotten, but try hard.
Try to be positive, practical and profitable.
It works, I have a rather good day. Tell myself to always remember...
The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

Go home, watch tv that is basically chewing gum for the eyes.

Develop a scarily painful migraine, retire to bed.

Words are paper roses and magazine cover skies...

Endure the harrowing feeling something is missing...

It's definately not religion...

Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.

Just my opinion.

Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant

A Conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

When a nation's young men are Conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

A Tory view of Liverpool...

 "the mawkish sentimentality of a society that has become hooked on grief and likes to wallow in a sense of vicarious victimhood"

"A combination of economic misfortune ­ its docks were, fundamentally, on the wrong side of England when Britain entered what is now the European Union ­ and an excessive predilection for welfarism have created a peculiar, and deeply unattractive, psyche among many Liverpudlians. "They ... see themselves, whenever possible as victims, and resent their victim status, yet at the same time they wallow in it.

"Part of this flawed psychological state is that they cannot accept that they might have made any contribution to their misfortunes, but seek rather to blame someone else for it, thereby deepening their sense of shared tribal grievance against the rest of society."

Why Liverpool is great...

"Liverpool oozes culture and heritage. The city has a glorious past as a mercantile hub and gateway to the New World, but today it is also a key destination for art lovers, fans of the theatre and museumgoers.

But the city has numerous permanent art attractions too. Visit the Walker Art Gallery, the national gallery of the North, including works by Hockney, Degas, Turner and Rembrandt, all of which are housed on the first floor."

Music...

• A Flock of Seagulls: 1980s New wave/synthpop band
• Alexis Blue: 2000s indie pop group.
• Amsterdam: Led by singer/songwriter Ian Prowse
• Anathema: formerly Death/Doom Metal(currently alternative rock).
• Apollo 440: 1990s dance act who have had hits with "Ain't talkin 'bout dub" and "Stop the rock".
• Rick Astley singer-songwriter
• Astronaut: 1990s alternative band
• Atomic Kitten: Girl band, formed in 1997 by OMD's Andy McCluskey.
• The Bandits: 2000s blues rock band
• BB Mak: 1990s boyband
• The Beatles: 1960s pop/rock band, one of the most (if not the most) influential band in the history of popular music to date
• Benny Profane: 1985-90 indie pop band.
• Big in Japan: 1970s punk band that launched the careers of Budgie, Ian Broudie, Bill Drummond, David Balfe, Jayne Casey and Holly Johnson.
• Cilla Black: 1960s singer discovered by Brian Epstein, later to become a successful television presenter
• Black: 1980s band best known for the hit Wonderful Life.
• The Boo Radleys: 1980s/90s britpop/indie rock, biggest hit Wake Up Boo!
• Pete Burns: 1980s Dead or Alive lead singer and solo artist, also notable in the 2000s as a television personality
• Carcass: 1990s death metal band and forebears of Melodic Death Metal
• Cast: 1990s pop group
• China Crisis: 1980s electro-pop band
• Melanie Chisholm: singer in The Spice Girls and later successful solo artist
• The Christians: 1980s/90s soul-influenced Sophisti-pop band
• Clinic: 2000s indie-rock band
• The Coral: 2000s indie group inspired by old-fashioned country, 1960s-style psychedelia and folk.
• Elvis Costello: 1970s post-punk singer/songwriter/composer, has since successfully transitioned into other genres
• The Crescent: 2000s indie band influenced by the La's
• Crucial Three: 1980s "supergroup in reverse" which launched the careers of Ian McCulloch, Julian Cope and Pete Wylie.
• The Cryin' Shames: 1960s pop group
• Dalek I Love You: 1970s synthpop precursor to Teardrop Explodes, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark & Big in Japan
• Dead or Alive: 1980s electro-dance band
• The Dead 60s: Current punk/ska/reggae band.
• Deaf School: mid to late 1970s art rock band, home of many successful Merseyside musicians
• Death Kit: early 1970s band mixing free-jazz and proto-punk musical aesthetics and performing multi-media shows in Liverpool and at Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1972 & 1973
• Jegsy Dodd: 1980's performance poet, originally backed by The Sons of Harry Cross and currently The Original Sinners
• Ken Dodd: Comedian and tenor, 1965 UK No. 1 hit with "Tears"
• Echo & the Bunnymen: 1980s post-punk band, one of the most successful and long-lived of the era
• Ellery Bop, 1980s indie band
• Electrafixion: Echo & the Bunnymen side-project
• Engine: 1979 - 1997 boogie-rock trio
• The Escorts, 1962 - 1967 who's members later graced The Swinging Blue Jeans and The Hollies
• The Farm: Pop band, famous for the track All Together Now.
• Farons Flamingos : Merseybeat band whose members later graced The Peddlers and The Mojos^[1]
• Flight: indie rock band, Formed from The Movement mid 1990s. Released albums on Desolation Records.Fiction Romance.
• The Fourmost: 1960s Merseybeat band, managed by Brian Epstein and recorded songs written by Lennon/McCartney
• Frankie Goes to Hollywood: mid-1980s dance-pop band
• Billy Fury: 1960s rock and roll singer and later ballad singer and briefly, actor
• Fergus: Early 1990s indie band released one album on own label. They had a big local following but split in 1994. Ian Clavis Leon De Sylva
• Gerry & the Pacemakers: 1960s beat group, most notable for their version of "You'll Never Walk Alone", which became an anthem for Liverpool F.C.
• Gomez: late-1990s onwards indie rock band and Mercury Prize winners
• Half Man Half Biscuit: 1980s post-punk surrealist pop band from Tranmere, Birkenhead
• Hot Club de Paris: 2000s indie rock band
• The Hideaways, 1960s Merseybeat band in which Ozzie Yue began his career.
• Michael Holliday: late 1950s and early 1960s crooner
• Icicle Works: 80s power pop stalwarts, led by Ian McNabb. Reformed in 2006 for a 25th anniversary tour.
• It's Immaterial
• Holly Johnson: Former lead singer of Frankie Goes to Hollywood, had solo hits in the late 80s.
• Joker - late 1970s band featuring Ozzie Yue on guitar
• Kling Klang : Experimental rock band using lots of monophonic synthesisers, drums and guitars.
• Billy J. Kramer: 1960s singer
• The La's: late 1980s to early 1990s pop group.
• Lightning Seeds: Pop band, whose Ian Broudie wrote the Three Lions music for Euro96.
• The Little Flames: 60s-inspired indie band.
• The Liverbirds
• Ladytron
• The Lotus Eaters: early - mid 1980s pop group. Emerged with another album in 2001 called silentspace.
• Liverpool Express
• The Listening Pool - former members of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
• George Melly: Jazz musician, writer and expert on surrealist art.
• The Merseybeats
• The Mojos
• The Maybes?- 2001–present
• The Mastersounds 1961-1964
• Nutz : 1970s heavy rock band who released four albums and supported Black Sabbath and Budgie on tour.^[2]
• The Nashpool Four - Mal Jefferson, Paul Eker, Sid & Eddie Edwards 1964-66
• Ooberman: Indie-pop band (late 1990s - present)
• Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: (aka OMD) Electronic music band.
• The Open: 5-piece indie band (2003–2006)
• Our Kid 1970s boy band whose hit "You just might see me cry" went to No. 1 in the UK charts.
• Candie Payne: 1960s influenced, sister of Howie, Lead singer with The Stands and Sean who's the drummer with The Zutons.
• The Pale Fountains: Bacharach and Love-influenced early 80s pop group, led by Mick Head. Later metamorphosed into Shack
• Peter Beckett: Lead singer with American band Player who's biggest hit was "Baby Come Back" which is a worldwide hit to this day.
• Pele: Ian Prowse lead 90s Celtic pop outfit. Released 3 albums on Polydor/M&G and had number 1 hit "Megalomania in South Africa". Ian now leads Amsterdam.
• Craig Phillips: Big Brother 1 winner and TV builder, Number 14 xmas charity hit in 2000 with 'At This Time Of Year'. Featured in videos for 2 other xmas hits; Proper Crimbo (2003) & Christmas My Ar*e (2006).
• The Real People: Proto-Britpop band from the early 90s.
• The Real Thing: Band who sang the 1970s classic "You To Me Are Everything".
• Red Flag: Liverpool-born and USA-raised synthpop duo.
• The Reynolds Girls: 80s vocal duo signed to PWL.
• River City People: a folk rock quartet formed in Liverpool, England in 1986, by vocalist Siobhan Maher, guitarist Tim Speed, his drummer brother Paul Speed, and bassist Dave Snell.
• Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
• The Scaffold. 60s group featuring Mike McGear, Roger McGough and John Gorman. Had a Number 1 with "Lily the Pink", and other hits with "Thank You Very Much", "Do You Remember?", and "Gin Gan Goolie" in the 60's and "Liverpool Lou" in the 70s.
• The Seal Cub Clubbing Club: Current post-punk band often compared to the likes of The Fall and Radiohead.
• The Searchers: 60s Merseybeat group. No. 1 Hits include "Sweets For My Sweet", "Needles And Pins" and "Don't Throw Your Love Away".
• Shack: Cult band led by Mick Head, formerly of The Pale Fountains. Highly influential on Britpop bands such as Oasis. Noel Gallagher repaid the debt by signing them to his record label.
• Short Sharp Shock: Crossover thrash band from Liverpool.
• Sonia: Pop singer from the PWL stable. Born in Skem but mostly associated with Liverpool.
• Space: 1990s indie-rock band best known for "Female of the Species" and their 6 other Top 20 hit singles.
• The Stands: 2000s rock'n'roll band led by songwriter Howie Payne. Split in 2006.
• Rory Storm and the Hurricanes: Merseybeat group.
• Supercharge: 1970s funk/rock band, led by Albie Donnelly and featuring Ozzie Yue
• The Swinging Blue Jeans: 60s Merseybeat group. Top 3 Hits include "Hippy Hippy Shake" and "You're No Good".
• The Teardrop Explodes: Julian Cope led an ever changing line-up mixing pop, new wave and psychedelia with surprising commercial success. Split in 1982 after a mere two albums.
• The Troubadours: Liverpool indie band, known for the single "Gimme Love".
• The Undertakers: '60s Merseybeat group, launchpad for the careers of Jackie Lomax and Chris Huston
• Wah!: Pete Wylie vehicle, variously known as Wah! Heat and The Mighty Wah!
• Wave Machines: indie band (2007–present).
• The Wild Swans: Post-punk band.
• Kathryn Williams: Singer-songwriter. Her second album, Little Black Numbers (2000), was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize.
• The Wombats: Pop punk/Powerpop 3 piece consisting of Matthew Murphy, Tord Overland Knudsen and Daniel Haggis from the famed Paul McCartney LIPA academy
• Yachts - Eric's era band featuring future members of The Christians and It's Immaterial.
• The Zutons: 2000s indie group inspired by 60s psychedelia.
• Zombina and the Skeletones: 2000s pop punk band

The World Heritage Site officially stretches from Albert Dock, which alone has the largest collection of Grade I listed buildings in the UK, along The Pier Head and up to Stanley Dock.

And that's the tip of the iceberg.

Another Reason I dislike a Conservative party that tried their hardest to destroy the area I'm from. I can't and won't forget this.

A late night thought...

Who actually knows the real me?

Who have I let?

Who has tried?

Inspirations....



Fortune and love favor the brave.
Ovid

Love is being stupid together.

Paul Valery

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
Al Capp

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Thomas A. Edison

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
John Lennon

Thoughts...

"I want my love, my joy, my laugh, my smile, my needs
Not in the star signs
Or the palm that she reads
I want my sun-drenched, wind-swept Ingrid Bergman kiss
Not in the next life
I want it in this"

Is this an unreal ideal in the society that we live in?

I hope not, this is one of those things in life that I cling to. One day I want to stand on the bridge over the Seine, in the sunshine, watching the world go by with someone that wants to be there with me. I guess I'm not looking for a lover, more a soulmate. Yes, I have the animalistic tendancies that all humans have but, fun, adventure and the 'L' word take precedence for me.

I work hard (although some people may not agree) all week, so why can't I find someone that wants to share the opportunities for fun and adventure those two days off present?

I'm making this sound like I'm desperate aren't I? Well I'm not.

Cola and nicotine...

Not healthy I know but my staple diet...

"Nicotine addiction has historically been one of the hardest addictions to break, while the pharmacological and behavioral characteristics that determine tobacco addiction are similar to those that determine addiction to drugs such as heroin and cocaine."

Would I quit?

The short answer is yes. I just haven't found a suitable reason. I enjoy a cigarette or rarely a cigar. Nobody or anything has actually ever given me a suitable or good enough reason to stop. Yes I know the health implications and the cost. As for the health implications, I look at it thus... It's my body and if I choose to abuse it like that I will. I smoke outside, away from non-smokers so I'm not harming them, why does society treat smokers like second class citizens?

I don't drink alcohol much or often, don't gamble, do work, I'm not violent, a serious politcal activist, detest all forms of terrorism or insurgency, follow no particular religion or teaching, try to be a decent human being (usually failing, but trying) and a part of my local community, so what harm am I doing??

Rant over.

Oh yeah, was told I could go deaf today...

440 miles

How do you miss someone you only saw a few hours ago?

I do, it was worth driving 440 miles just to spend that time with my Best Friend.

See, I can be a softy!

Time for Quotes...

Put all thine eggs in one basket and - watch that basket.

- Mark Twain

 

If you aren't rich, you should always look useful.

- Louis-Ferdinand Celine

 

'Be yourself!' is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

- Tom Masson

 

What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your tongue.

- Jewish proverb

 

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

You know what happened to the real Trigger don't you? Roy Rogers had him stuffed.

- Derek Trotter

 

All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 

This may suprise you...

I have feelings!

Yes, this may come as a complete shock to those that know me because I do tend to hide them quite well in most circumstances.

I also know that being male, we aren't really supposed to express these really. But risking being called "soft", "Poof" or any other vague slight on my masculinity, doesn't really bother me. I can, if the need arises be really quite 'masculine' and a blokey bloke. It's just that I am a bit of a three dimensional character really. 

I try (usually failing) to be a gentleman. I open doors for ladies, walk on the road side of the pavement, pay for meals, pull out chairs and if I used the bus, I'd give up my seat. Just silly little things really. But in today's modern society that does seem to make me a bit of an oddity, stuck in a bygone age. Maybe if I swore at women, blew smoke in their face and made them pay for stuff all the time while insulting their looks, or ignoring them, maybe I wouldn't be single? There is an opinion eh?  

Having feelings isn't just about that dreaded 'L' word (love). Respect, admiration, trust,and on the flip side, egregiousness, dislike and mistrust are just as valid emotions. Not forgetting jealousy and detachment of course to throw into that swirling mix!

I have a friend that I admire. Not in a romantic sense (because it's a man and I don't swing that way). He has overcome adversity that I'm not sure that I could have. Since I've known him the change he has created in himself is remarkable, and this is what sparks admiration and respect from me. Not that me respecting him means anything in the grand old scheme of things it just inspires me to attempt to be a better person. And that is a compliment that I don't throw at many people at all. A hearty "well done mate" and a pint doesn't always express the fact that I seriously admire the effort he has put in and I just hope that in some tiny, minuscule way, I helped him along that journey.

"Sometimes I wonder what you think of me or if you do at all."

As I said in an earlier post, I am (unusually for me) holding a torch for someone at the moment. I wont embarrass this person by naming them or even alluding to who they may be. Suffice to say, I'm pretty sure that they don't know and if they did, would have already said their "thanks but no thanks" piece. Me dating her would be the equivalent of Shane MacGowan asking Hayden Panettiere on a date. "Err, nooo".

I do quite consider myself to be unlucky in the love stakes. Ladies have come and gone (not nearly enough of them if you ask me!) but I've never found THE ONE. I do believe that there is a perfect person out there for everyone. We may not all meet them and in cases settle for "almost perfect" for many reasons and be happy and fulfilled in life. This is no bad thing at all. I once, a couple of years ago, thought that I had met THE ONE but, due to timing and the fact I look a bit like a pink Shrek, chose someone else. Woah, now that is one disappointment that hurt! So, if you are interested, and female, drop me a Line?

My first personal ad, or was that a plea? I'll leave you to decide that one.

"It's not telling you how I feel that scares me, it's what you'll say back."

I hate being ignored. I know you probably feel the same way, but it really does gnaw at me a little when people ignore me. There is someone that is ignoring me at present and it is really irritating me because I had hoped that it was the one person in the world that wouldn't ignore me. They seem to find it easy to make time for other people but not me. This isn't a woe is me tale, it's actually a bit of a rant. As you have probably guessed it has made me rather angry. And what will Kris do about it? Precisely what I always do when this happens, stew in my own anger for a while, and then when this person deigns that I may have a few minutes of their time, I'll run like the daft, devoted, puppy-dog I am. So no sympathy thanks!

"My wish upon this shooting star is that your heart be happy."

To close this post I'll end with the thought that someone, once close to me, shared with me-

"Kris, you are only happy when you are making other people happy, can't you be a bit more selfish? What do YOU want?"

A bad way to live?

I just want the chance to make someone happy.